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...happened to the precious parchments? Georgia simply can't find its copy. North Carolina thinks a Yankee yegg grabbed its historic document during the Civil War when General William Tecumseh Sherman tramped through Raleigh. And some New Yorkers speculate that Governor George Clinton walked off with the state's manuscript when he left the statehouse...
...boozy Barley Blair (Sean Connery), a fringe English publisher. With the help of a Soviet citizen named Katya (Michelle Pfeiffer), he is supposed to spirit out of the U.S.S.R. a manuscript by a dissident scientist that supposedly has large strategic implications for the West -- or at least the portion of it that is loath to give up the cold war habit of mind. The two operatives naturally fall in love, and since old Barley's interest in geopolitics is minimal at best, his primary goal switches from smuggling documents to protecting his lady...
This consists of flattery, flirtatiousness and rigorously enforced literary standards. Discovering that the manuscript Paul is carrying is not about Misery and contains cusswords besides, she forces him to burn it. Learning that his latest Misery novel will be the last (he has killed her off), Annie forces Paul to write a new one, rescuing her beloved character from the grave. Finding that Paul has tried to escape this task, she sweetly explains she is obliged to rebreak his legs and does so as calmly as if she were administering aspirin...
George Corsillo, the New York City artist who designed the jackets for Ellis' previous novels, refused the assignment for American Psycho. "I had to draw the line," said Corsillo. "I felt disgusted with myself for reading it." Many Simon & Schuster employees were disturbed by the manuscript, copies of which have circulated around town. Some women staffers are especially outraged by Ellis' descriptions of atrocities against females. But no one wants to say so on the record. Here is a hot property that may be too hot to handle or, says a staffer who requests anonymity, "too hot to even talk...
...Prize in 1965. He was allowed to go to Stockholm and deposit his check in a bank there. But in 1974 the exiled Solzhenitsyn accused Sholokhov of plagiarism. He claimed Sholokhov had based portions of his epic of the Russian Revolution and civil war, The Quiet Don, on a manuscript written just after World War I by a Cossack, Fyodor Kryukov...