Word: pullmans
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...Parts 1 through 6 constitute an entire novel? In the sense that there's a beginning, a middle and a resolution, yes. Readers will be as satisfied as they would be with, say, the first volume of a trilogy like Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (not that I am claiming the same literary quality; never think that). Right now I'm returning to print publishing because I love it and because I have a contract to fulfill--two books remaining...
...smart people to feel superior to it, while the dummies search fruitlessly for its heart and brain. A financially strapped TV weatherman (John Travolta) tries to rip off the state lottery while basking smugly in his local celebrity. Lisa Kudrow is hilarious as his permanently irate accomplice, and Bill Pullman is divinely clueless as the dopey cop pursuing them. It is all, again like our politics, occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling...
...business of "asset-backed" securities had begun getting creative long before the deal with Bowie. Britain's Punch taverns managed to float bonds collateralized by future beer sales. But no one had aced the intangible realm of intellectual property. Pullman foresees the securitization of everything from patents to screenplays...
...potential cloud over his hit parade is the Napster phenomenon. If people can get copyrighted material for free off the Internet, the bonds will be less valuable. But Pullman, 39, is confident that the entertainment and publishing industries will find some way to keep collecting money for their artists' work. His bigger problem may be maintaining his lead in selling Bowie-style bonds. He's in a legal battle with Prudential Securities and a company run by music-industry veteran Charles Koppleman, whom Pullman charges with trying to steal his ideas...
...York City native, captain of his high school cross-country team and still a runner, intends to stay in his new business for the long haul--and keep moving it into new fields of artistic endeavor. "I would be bored doing something that's cookie cutter," Pullman says. To which the Isley Brothers might respond, "It's your thing. Do what you gotta do." Do you hear the music, Mr. King...