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...ghosts that needed exorcising, and it wasn't until 1996, after two earlier failed novels and half of a third, that inspiration finally arrived. She wrote the first 15 pages of The Lovely Bones in a single, unexpected rush that left her shaken. "It was one of those white-heat moments," Sebold remembers. But the struggle wasn't over. Two years into the novel she felt she had to take a break to write Lucky, a searingly unsentimental account of her rape. "I felt like I had a story of my own that was bearing down on me in such...
...instruction to basically force them off the fence, a charge that will now be part of that appeal. "Our purpose was to fight for our honor and dignity. We don't think we committed a crime," said senior Andersen partner C.E. Andrews as he stood in the Texas heat defending the firm, which faces as much as $500,000 in fines and up to five years' probation. While the case may continue, the firm may not. Soon after the verdict, Andersen said it would stop auditing publicly held companies by Aug. 31, essentially closing that business...
Looking for a travel bargain this summer? Like the heat? Follow the trail of the Rat Pack to Palm Springs, Calif. Its posh spas, golf courses, restaurants and casinos are much roomier in the off-season. And starting in June, rates at resorts like the plush Miramonte fall from as much as $350 a night in peak season to just $89 a night. There is a catch: average temperatures hover at 105[degrees] and can go as high as 122[degrees] midday. But locals swear the golf courses are still playable in the morning. Families can spend the heat...
...Cultural Revolution was the setting for Jiang's first film as a director, In the Heat of the Sun, which won the best actor prize at Venice in 1994 for actor Xia Yu. But it was no ordinary tale from that often portrayed time. The movie, based on a short story by Wang, follows five guys and a girl running wild during one summer of Chairman Mao's engineered chaos: no school, no curfew, no authority figures, just a sexy, violent, exhilarating time. "For people my age," says Jiang, "the Cultural Revolution was actually a lot of fun. We were...
...making the film was hell. Jiang's rigid perfectionism prolonged the shooting by months. Some days he wouldn't film because he didn't know what he wanted. Jiang's assistant director for Heat, Fu Jia, now an executive at Columbia Pictures' office in Beijing, was so scarred by the experience she hasn't worked on the set of a movie since. "It was a nightmare," she shudders. As the shooting of the summer idyll ran into winter, Jiang had freezing actors in summer clothes eating ice cream before takes so that their frosted breath wouldn't appear on film...