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...their timing is improving. Yorkin has directed, and Lear has partly written, a new movie due out early next year. It stars Ryan O'Neal as a burglar whose passion, as luck would have it, is chess. The original title was "The Thief Who Came to Dinner." Now, their eyes aglow at the thought of the mania sweeping the country after the Fischer-Spassky match in Iceland, Yorkin and Lear are eagerly dreaming up a good chess title...
...rejoiced at seeing birding referred to as "hotter than ever" on your cover, and I agree that a passion for birds leads to a concern for their habitat. Last September I testified before Congress as part of an effort to catalog private conservation success stories, including Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania, the Natural Bridge of Virginia, Cypress Bay Plantation in South Carolina and the Roney Land and Cattle Company in California...
...shocks to his system as a lifetime of immutable values changed around him minute by minute. He put the "lump" in "lumpenproletariat." "All in the Family," the boundary-shattering comedy about what folks used to call "the generation gap," would have been a classic regardless, because of the passion of producer Norman Lear's ideas and the strength of his writing. But the show would not have had the resonance it did, and Archie Bunker would not be one of the three or four most important characters in TV history, without Carroll O'Connor...
...William Hague dramatically and unexpectedly announced his resignation, leaving a stunned party to find itself a new head. Hours earlier, he had conceded his party's defeat after a night of results he found "deeply disappointing." Labour's second successive landslide victory was a bitter blow to Hague, whose passion for politics began in his early teens and whose dazzling career in the party - he was an M.P. at 27, a cabinet minister at 34 - suggested he might one day move into 10 Downing St. Back in 1997, after the Tories' first shattering defeat of the post-Thatcher era, Hague...
Redstone nicely illuminates some of his overlooked early accomplishments, including breaking a key Japanese code in World War II and his role in some important court cases. His amazing story includes a hotel fire that nearly took his life. At 78, Redstone still has a passion to win, and his book will make you think twice about trying to win with anything less...