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...Theatre Guild interested Rodgers in a musical version of the rural drama "Green Grow the Lilacs." Offered the chance to write that would become "Oklahoma!", Hart sensibly said no thanks. (It's hard to imagine a less Hart-y show.) Did he think Rodgers would drop the project rather than commit professional adultery and go off for a Hammerstein fling? If so, he thought wrong. After the opening-night performance, Hart walked into Sardi's and told Rodgers, "This is one of the greatest shows I've ever seen in my life, and it'll be playing 20 years from...
...reality was more dramatic than even a histrionic Rooney could have made it - or at least played it, while Rodgers was around and his brother-in-law Ben Feiner Jr. was helping to write the movie's screenplay. (Another scenarist, by the way, was Guy Bolton - the book writer 30 years earlier of the Princess Theatre shows that had inspired Rodgers and Hart to try musical comedy.) Just before the opening, Hart had been on one of his suicidal toots, and when he arrived at the theater an exasperated Rodgers forbade him entrance. Two days later, ill with pneumonia...
...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 a way that it would infuse and therefore ruin Susie's story," says Sebold, who is 39 and lives near Los Angeles with her husband...
...Helder: "We just try to do what we do better and better - more refinement, not only in the kitchen but with the total image." Rewarding as honors may be, these guys didn't go into the business to pursue stars or to please a bunch of anonymous critics who write for a tire company. "People have forgotten that cooking is above all about enjoying yourself," says Savoy. "It's the art of transforming ingredients, which each have their own story, into joy." I'll have some of that, please...
...include slashing Canal Plus' funding of French cinema - thus ending its central role in preserving the cultural exception he had declared dead. Messier certainly had reason to economize. In March Vivendi revealed 2001 losses of €13.6 - the largest in French history - mostly due to a €15.7 billion write-down of companies purchased before the high-tech bubble burst. And the financial news just kept getting worse. Despite asset sales and desperate accounting ploys, concerns over the servicing and payment of Vivendi's €30 billion group debt last week led Moody's to rate Vivendi Universal bonds...