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March 25, 2005 HER BODY, MY SELF : What's In It for Michael Schiavo? -added font A SHORT NOTE CONCERNING the financial benefits to Michael Schiavo that will accrue from the death of his wife. AmericanDigest.org -added website source Posted by Vanderleun -added author (EXCERPT) What I do have some sense of is how much money Michael Schiavo stands to make if, and only if, his wife dies. It is, for a man, with a fresh new wife and two children, substantial. Having worked as an editor for Houghton Mifflin and as a literary agent, I have some the price...

The bestseller at the center of a national debate on America's security, "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror," may soon be hitting the silver screen. Sony Pictures has optioned the film rights to former counterterrorism official Richard Clarke's book, which questions the country's readiness to address potential terrorist threats before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The project will be produced by John Calley, a veteran Hollywood executive who stepped down as the studio's chief executive and chairman last year. Clarke last month testified at the commission investigating the Sept.11 attacks and said the...

Briefly diverting their attention from remakes, sequels and comic book movies, Hollywood has found a new obsession: this country's unfortunate proclivity for agitating and attracting threats from other nations. It's only been on shelves a couple weeks, but Sony has already snapped up the rights to Richard Clarke's book Against All Enemies, a compelling behind-the-scenes account of how the presidential administrations have dealt (or not dealt) with the growing menace of terrorism, and the political maze that needed to be navigated to stress the importance. Producer John Calley (Catch 22, Fat Man and Little Boy) is on board the adaptation....

    Sony Pictures has optioned film rights to Richard Clarke's nonfiction best seller "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror" for producer John Calley. "Enemies" -- which was published last month by the Free Press, a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster -- has been at the center of the current national debate about America's readiness to respond to terrorist threats before Sept. 11. Clarke, who was a counterterrorism expert in the administrations of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, appeared before the 9/11 Commission the week the book was published. During that hearing, he testified that...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke's best-selling book may soon be a movie. Sony Pictures Entertainment has purchased the film rights to Against All Enemies, Sony vice chairwoman Amy Pascal told The New York Times for its Saturday editions. In the best-selling book, Clarke, a counterterrorism adviser to the past three presidents, charges that the Bush administration prioritized Iraq above threats from al-Qaeda before and after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The movie version is to be produced by John Calley, the entertainment group's former chairman, who worked on the 1976 Watergate drama All the President's Men...

Sony Pictures has optioned film rights to Richard Clarke's nonfiction best seller "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror" for producer John Calley. "Enemies" -- which was published last month by the Free Press, a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster -- has been at the center of the current national debate about America's readiness to respond to terrorist threats before Sept. 11. Clarke, who was a counterterrorism expert in the administrations of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, appeared before the 9/11 Commission the week the book was published. During that hearing, he testified that the Bush White...

Sony Pictures has optioned film rights to Richard Clarke's nonfiction best seller "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror" for producer John Calley. "Enemies" -- which was published last month by the Free Press, a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster -- has been at the center of the current national debate about America's readiness to respond to terrorist threats before Sept. 11. Clarke, who was a counterterrorism expert in the administrations of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, appeared before the 9/11 Commission the week the book was published. During that hearing, he testified that the Bush White...

The man pushing accusations that White House political guru Karl Rove outed his CIA agent wife said Tuesday that he had talked to her about the possibility that the scandal could lead to a movie deal. "We were just discussing today who would play her in the movie," former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Joseph Wilson told the Washington Post. If the paper's description of Mrs. Wilson is accurate, perhaps she could even play herself. "She is 40, slim, blonde," said the Post, adding that "the photos in his office [reveal] she has the looks of a film star." Given...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Former prisoner of war Pfc. Jessica Lynch will tell her story in a book, a family spokesman said Thursday. "The Lynch family has received many offers from people interested in bringing Jessica's story to life," spokesman Randy Coleman said. "Jessica and her family have concluded that the most appropriate and complete telling of this story will be in a book, which they will have more to say about soon." Coleman would not discuss specifics of the book deal. He said that Lynch was not granting interviews. Lynch, a 20-year-old Army supply clerk from Palestine, W.Va., was...

Private Lynch Pulls Out of Proposed Movie Deal With NBC By BILL CARTER and JIM RUTENBERG Representatives for Pfc. Jessica Lynch have pulled out of a proposed deal with NBC that would have added Private Lynch's cooperation to a television movie that the network is producing about her ordeal in the war in Iraq. The decision came only a day after executives at the network and representatives for Private Lynch agreed a deal was close in which NBC would have paid her an undisclosed fee for her participation in the movie, which is due to start production in two weeks....

<p>Jayson Blair, the disgraced reporter who triggered the recent upheaval at the New York Times and whose deception caused the demise of the paper's two top editors, has finally finished his proposal for a book and movie deal.</p> <p>And he might begin getting it out to publishers this week.</p>