Dec 30, 2011 | TheStreet.com
Entertainment Copycats Can Be Overachievers
Buck Henry earnestly pitches The Graduate 2 , and others with the power to greenlight projects are inclined to do so for one described as being like " Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman ." Everything old is new again in all corners of the media world.
The three-time Oscar nominee is 95. He was born Issur Danielovitch Demsky. NewMexiKen's favorite Douglas performance is in Lonely Are the Brave .
Milos Forman, the most gifted film-maker of the 1960s Czech New Wave, was in Paris when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 and he stayed abroad.
Friends reminisce about the Joseph Heller they knew
Author Joseph Heller visited Coney island in 1998, a year before his death. His old neighborhood in Brooklyn was the subject of the memoir he wrote in later life, "Now and Then." NEW YORK - Fifty years after the publication of "Catch-22," author Joseph Heller is long dead, and his editor has finally gotten around to re-reading it.
Friends remember Joseph Heller and 'Catch-22' 32 mins ago
Fifty years after the publication of "Catch-22," author Joseph Heller is long dead and his editor has finally gotten around to re-reading it.
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