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Newsweek to Cease Print Publication at End of Year

Posted on: October 18th, 2012 by Jason Bruce No Comments

Newsweek, the weekly magazine that for decades summarized the news for households across the United States but struggled to maintain relevance in the Internet era, announced on Thursday that it would cease print publication at the end of the year.

Tina Brown, founder of the Daily Beast Web site and the driving force behind its merger with Newsweek, announced the move on Thursday in a message on the Daily Beast.

“We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will be our Dec. 31 issue,” Ms. Brown said in a message co-written with Baba Shetty, the recently hired chief executive.

The all-digital version of the magazine will be called Newsweek Global and operate on a paid subscription model.

The Master… Really?

Posted on: September 25th, 2012 by Warren Adler No Comments

It would have been far more convincing if Phoenix’s character was portrayed as less aberrational…someone who had been inveigled into the cult by Lancaster Dodd’s cynical methods, more of a cautionary tale than this hodgepodge of missed signals and distorted and faux profound story-telling.

Decoding the Self-Published Author

Posted on: September 13th, 2012 by Warren Adler 3 Comments

The author, too, must adjust to the new reality. The term “self” in “self publishing” will eventually disappear as more and more authors will have to take the marketing and selling plunge on their own. Even if one is published in the traditional way by known publishers, one will have to market one’s books on one’s own hook, in imaginary and often costly ways. The self-published author will, in effect, be forced to become his own entrepreneur.

Spanked by an Insider

Posted on: September 4th, 2012 by Warren Adler 1 Comment

I would prefer [the Old Gray Lady] to… present in news columns, a more balanced, more deferential and civilized, less vitriolic and cocksure journalistic presentation; a stance she had once maintained and guarded with great courage and commitment.

Meet Best Selling Author Warren Adler

Posted on: August 29th, 2012 by Jason Bruce 1 Comment

By Norm Goldman
(Article originally published on BookPleasures.com, August 27, 2012)

Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest Warren Adler who has written thirty-three novels including The War of The Roses that was made into a movie with Michael Douglas and Random Heartsthat was likewise made into a movie with Harrison Ford.

Warren started an unprecedented bidding war in a Hollywood commission for his unpublished book Private Lies which according to the New York Post “Tri-State Pictures outbid Warner Bros and Columbia, and purchased the film rights to Private Lies for $1.2 million… the highest sums yet paid in Hollywood for an unpublished manuscript.”

He has also written short story collections and in stories from his collection The Sunset Gang became an American Playhouse three-hour television production in 1991 and 1992 and an off Broadway Play. His most recent novel, The Serpent’s Bite will be released in the fall of 2012 (has been released and is available in hardback and e-book formats on Amazon).…

Counting the Bodies

Posted on: August 25th, 2012 by Jason Bruce 1 Comment

Never before in a lifetime spent as a media hound and news junkie have I noted, with dismay, the amount of ink and digital bytes spent on documenting and numerically recording body counts.

Coming Solo

Posted on: August 10th, 2012 by gargi No Comments

…sexual pleasure, of course, has its own cohesive attributes in a relationship. But it is not the only bonding mechanism between people, and the degree of sensation is arguably not necessarily the grand prize of such a relationship. Like in the Olympics, sometimes people are quite satisfied getting a silver or a bronze medal. Not everyone can win gold, and sometimes just being there is reward enough.

The Author as Entrepreneur: A Q&A with Warren Adler

Posted on: August 3rd, 2012 by Jason Bruce No Comments

by Matthew Cavnar on August 2, 2012
(Article originally published on Vook.com)

Author of 32 novels, numerous screen plays, short stories and plays, at 84 Warren Adler could be content to enjoy his success—but there’s no retirement for artists, especially not artist-entrepreneurs. And especially not in the digital era.

We’re pleased to offer 28 of Adler’s eBooks through our Vook Store (you can see them here). They’re available via our Vook reader on any mobile device or computer. Familiar to many as the author of The War of the Roses, Adler’s insight into his career, particularly his constant innovation, is an encouraging example and an absolutely realistic appraisal of the challenges and opportunities facing any author trying to connect with an audience today.

To celebrate Adler’s debut on our store, we conducted a Q&A with him over the phone.

Vook: You’re one of the few big name authors I’ve seen walking the floors at DBW.

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No Escape From the Huckster

Posted on: July 31st, 2012 by gargi No Comments

Nowadays, in America and probably many parts of the world, going to the movies before the feature comes on has become an annoying and aggressive assault on your nerves, eyeballs, hearing and intelligence; of course, the bottom line of all this hullabaloo is aimed straight at your pocketbook.

The Enemy Within

Posted on: July 26th, 2012 by gargi No Comments

The recent horrific incident in Aurora and the mass killing sprees that have taken place in our country and others since the Unruh killings indicate that, however we explain and analyze them after the fact, however modern science and technology has tried to predict such behavior in advance, we have been unable to protect society from the dangers of such a sudden violent and destructive aberration.

So How Do I Get My Book Made Into a Movie?

Posted on: July 5th, 2012 by Warren Adler 2 Comments

For years I have been getting queries from writers, published and unpublished, who inquire how they can get their books made into movies. Most of them are unrepresented by agents or are self-published aspiring and hopeful writers new to the game.

The Newsroom, The Show

Posted on: June 27th, 2012 by Warren Adler No Comments

I saw the first episode of The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s take on the so-called inner workings of television news and in the very first scene I got the message. The anchor Will McAvoy, played by Jeff Daniels, excoriates a young female student who asks the question: Why are we the greatest nation in the world?

The Greying of America

Posted on: June 4th, 2012 by Warren Adler 1 Comment

The success of the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel may yet prove to be the watershed moment when the movie industry gets the message that ignoring people over 60 is a profound marketing mistake, not only for the film business but for “everything.”

Oscars and the War Against the Aging

Posted on: March 2nd, 2012 by Warren Adler No Comments

One can always find things to criticize at the Academy Awards television shows. Its blatant over-the-top orgy of self-congratulation and fawning, its contrived red carpet fiesta of excess, its simpering announcers whose nauseating flattery and butt-kissing is a shameless embarrassment, the contrived grandstanding of movie star worshipers, the general atmosphere of faux glamour and hype and the often stupid scripting and the corny jokes.

Despite all these hollow trappings of celebrity worship, beneath the surface lies the talent, artistry and imagination of people who create the illusions, insights and joy that have created the movies and television which have had such enormous and, yes, mostly positive impact on our lives.

Hugo, I Went

Posted on: February 17th, 2012 by Warren Adler No Comments

I have been trying to figure out how a movie reportedly costing close to two hundred million dollars has failed to find a paying audience. The reviews have been either glowing or certainly respectful.

The enormously talented Martin Scorsese directed the movie based upon a successful children’s book by Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which deals with the adventures of a 12-year-old boy who literally lives within the cavernous confines of a massive Parisian train station in 1931, whose principal chore is to keep the numerous clocks in the station in working order after the death of his drunken uncle, who had been charged with that operation.

The Movies: A Fading Flame

Posted on: February 3rd, 2012 by Warren Adler No Comments

At the outset, let me state unequivocally that I have had a lifetime love affair with the movies. The affair spans the golden age of Hollywood films and as evidence of this heartfelt attachment, I can name most of the actors in black and white films, B movies included.

I inherited this addiction from my mother who would take me with her whenever the movies changed their bill, even in the middle of the week when I should have been doing my homework. Her lure was not only the movie itself but the collection of dishes the theaters would give away free to corral their patrons during the dark days of the depression.

The Iron Lady

Posted on: January 25th, 2012 by Warren Adler 1 Comment

The Iron Lady is an interesting example of the limits of movie biography and the manner in which contemporary political and social trends leak into motion picture storytelling.

Starring the incomparable Meryl Streep, whose unique talent allows her to create and mimic the persona of the most challenging of female characters plucked from real life or fiction, The Iron Lady purports to tell the intimate story of Margaret Thatcher, one of the most powerful British prime ministers of recent vintage.

Doing Carnage to Carnage

Posted on: January 19th, 2012 by Warren Adler No Comments

Some, but not all live theatrical productions transfer well into movies. The movie Carnage is one of those most unfortunate cases. When I saw the award winning play, written by Yasmina Reza on Broadway, I found myself howling with uncontrollable laughter. The movie was somewhat somber and alarmingly unfunny.

Briefly, the plot goes something like this. Two eleven year old boys get into a fight resulting in one of them being injured. The parents of the injured boy invite the parents of the alleged perpetrator to their apartment to discuss how best to reconcile the boys.

The Artist, the Pinnacle of the Movie Maker’s Art

Posted on: January 13th, 2012 by Warren Adler No Comments

There is a subtle subtext in the movie, The Artist, which powerfully grabs your imagination in ways that define the essence of storytelling and the manner in which movies can reach into the emotional truth of the human condition.

Something stunningly clever is at work in the minds of the French filmmakers who have created this exquisite original that not only grabs your total attention but also encompasses the many reasons why movies have had such an enormous impact on our lives.

Leaving Well Enough Alone: A Review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Posted on: January 10th, 2012 by Warren Adler 2 Comments

I have always enjoyed the books of John le Carré and greatly admired the elegant prose, the subtle nuanced plot constructions and robust characterizations of people engaged in conspiratorial endeavors.

He was clearly a master of the narrative of the behind-the-scenes battles between the intelligence bureaucracies of the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, the latter under whose aegis he was gainfully employed for a time before being bitten by the novelist’s bug.

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