There is an article on CNN called The Screening Room’s Top 10 Romantic Moments. Sure, those are interesting. Even more interesting is the short list of most cringe-worthy moments. Here are a few of my favorites from the second list:
The English Patient (Anthony Mingella, 1996)
“I’ve watched you - on verandahs, at garden [...]

I’m over at Access Romance talking about a recent article by Dalton Ross in Entertainment Weekly called Tough Gals Take Over TV.
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While watching the season finale of Lost last evening I realized why I love books - no commercials. During the last hour, there were points with only four-minute breaks between commercials. Come on now. That’s insane. I’m all for Hollywood making money and charging obscene amounts for advertising time. But, [...]

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Clive Cussler. Where, oh where, to start on this issue…? Let’s try this:
Historical data: Cussler sold the rights to his book Raise The Titanic years ago. It was a 1980 movie. It flopped, so don’t be surprised if you never saw it. Apparently no one did. Cussler blamed [...]

Court TV has a new series called Murder By The Book . In this series, bestselling mystery authors James Ellroy, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, Michael Connelly and Lisa Scottoline recount true-life crimes that impacted them in some way. Kind of a fiction meets nonfiction sort of thing.
Now you can get in on the [...]

The title of this entry has absolutely nothing to do with me or my writing career. Nothing. This one is about Janet Evanovich and Stephen J. Cannell. According to Publishers Weekly, these two have teamed up and snagged this book deal:
Bestsellers Janet Evanovich and Stephen J. Cannell have inked a deal with [...]

In the nothing-in-particular category, saw this today:
J.R.R. Tolkien’s THE CHILDREN OF HURIN, one of his three Great Tales, reconstructed from its “unfinished state” by Christopher Tolkien, edited together from multiple drafts, to Harper UK, by the Tolkien Estate, for publication in April 2007 (world). US rights to Houghton Mifflin, for simultaneous publication with Harper.
Can another [...]

Saw this book deal in PW:
Mary Higgins Clark’s first children’s book GHOST SHIP: A Cape Cod Story, illustrated by Wendell Minor, about a friendship between two boys, one visiting his grandmother on summer vacation in Cape Cod and another a cabin boy for a sea captain with stories to tell of his adventures on the [...]

According to Publishers Marketplace:
Barbara Walters’ memoir, resold to Knopf, for less money than Miramax had paid, though “in the same league” (the original figure was never established, and was guessed to range anywhere from $4 million to $6 million), by Mort Janklow at Janklow & Nesbit.
Yeah, you know, this is what I was offered for [...]