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George v Higgins

Author's Widow Sues Film Professor

The Boston Globe | Posted 07.17.2011 | Books
Read More: Boston University, Copyright Infringement, Robert Patton-Spruill, The Rat on Fire, Loretta Cubberly, Book Adaptations, George v. Higgins, Jan Egleson, Film Adaptations, Books News

Not surprisingly, a dispute over film rights to the late George V. Higgins’s novel “The Rat on Fire’’ has ended up in court. Loretta Cubberley...

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Boehner-McConnell: The Movie

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Jim Carrey, Robert Mitchum, Mitch McConnell, Jerry Lewis, John Boehner, John Sherman Cooper, James Traficant, Napoleon, Robert A. Taft, George v. Higgins, Barack Obama, Clint Eastwood, Charlie McCarthy, Henry Clay, Edgar Bergen, Walter Brennan, Franklin Pangborn, Frank Luntz, W.C. Fields, Politics News
Martin Nolan

Both Boehner and McConnell have deluded themselves into believing they have already triumphed. Health care was to be Obama's Waterloo, but he won that battle. Those he defeated have become Napoleons.

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Father's Day Gift Ideas: 10 Father's Day Books He'd Never Get For Himself (But He'll Love) (PHOTOS, POLL)

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Le Mans, Peter Temple, Alan Furst, James Salter, John McPhee, George v. Higgins, John Cheever, Slidepollajax, James Patterson, Scott Turow, Dads, Father's Day, Father's Day Gift Ideas, Andre Agassi, Books for Father's Day, Books, Father's Day Books, Fathers Day Gifts, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

Let's give Dad a book that no one else in his crowd is getting. A book that will put ideas in his head, delight his senses and provide him with something fascinating to say. Like these...

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Boston's Criminal Underworld: 'The Friends Of Eddie Coyle' Gets Lavish Praise

The New Yorker | Posted by Ian Crouch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Book Reviews, Elmore Leonard, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Boston, Boston Crime, Crime, Books, Norman Mailer, George v. Higgins, Books News

When an overlooked novel gets a sudden spate of attention, its admirers get in line to lavish praise. And so it is with Picador's fortieth-anniversary...

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