Film producer Dino De Laurentiis (1919-2010) brought Jane Fonda into the future, King Kong into New York, and Arnold Schwarzenegger into Cimmeria...
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JABberwocky Literary Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Peter V. Brett, Jack Campbell, David Louis Edelman, Jim C. Hines, Tanya Huff, and Brandon Sanderson in France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, and Spain...
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JABberwocky Literary Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Peter V. Brett, Simon R. Green, Tanya Huff, and Brandon Sanderson, in Brazil, Czech, Germany, Italy, Russia, and the UK...
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Italian screenwriter Ennio De Concini (1923-2008) wrote more than 150 films, and shared an Academy Award for best screenplay in 1963...
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Therapist and author Laura Archera Huxley died 13 December 2007 of cancer. Born in Turin, Italy, in 1911, she was first a concert violinist, but may be best remembered for being Aldous Huxley's widow. She came to the US in the 1940s to debut at Carnegie Hall, and then played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for several years.
She met Huxley in 1948, 16 years after his Brave New World made him famous. They married in 1956, a year after the death of his first wife, and for the next seven years (until Read more [...]
Robert J. Sawyer sold Italian rights to his "Neanderthal Parallax" trilogy—the Hugo-winning Hominids and its sequels, Humans and Hybrids—to Urania. Agent on the deal was Ralph Vicinanza.
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