"Fleur de Lys, the five-acre estate in Holmby Hills, is listed at $125 million. The palatial 15-bedroom mansion was built by Texan billionaire David Saperstein. According to Luxist, the 41,000-square-foot French limestone mansion features Italian marble walls, French limestone floors, gold-embossed leather wall coverings, gold-leaf crown moldings, a ballroom with ceiling frescoes, a library complete with rare books..."
"All my money goes on...rare books. I have quite an extensive collection, including some fantastic novels that many people have not heard of."
"What's in that warehouse? Beside Copperfield's Lingerie collection how about one of the largest and most important collections of rare books and related material on conjuring and the allied arts! The warehouse is actually named the International Museum & Library of the Conjuring Arts."
"Stewart was given a tour of the Elisabeth C. Miller Library and its rare-book collection by library manager Karen Preuss and Botanic Garden director David Mabberley."
"An authority on rare books is drawn into a confrontation with the forces of darkness in this thriller directed by Roman Polanski. Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) is a rare book broker who makes his living tracking down valuable items for rich bibliophiles."
"Has Elvis been sighted in Utah County? And did that Book of Mormon archived on the second floor of the LDS Church Office Building once belong to the king of rock 'n' roll?"
"Book of Mormon reportedly owned by Elvis resides in the LDS Church Office Building. Report spawned a movie. A Book of Mormon — possibly Elvis Presley's personal copy, reputed to have been in his room when he died — is indeed in the archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
"...Castro is unashamedly a literary author in the old-school, stylistically risky, challenging way of, say, Faulkner or Ondaatje."
"And The Garden Book has the tell-tale signs of literary writing, including shifting narrative voices, bold use of symbols, occasionally purple language and themes on the grand scale."
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"George Clooney collects motorcycles. Harry Connick, Jr. collects cuff links. Johnny Depp: insects and rare books; Whoopi Goldberg collects Bakelite jewelry and Maxfield Parrish prints; Angelina Jolie: knives; Dolly Parton: butterflies; John Travolta: aviation memorabilia, and on and on. All this is a beautiful coffee table book titled 'What Celebrities Collect!' by Michele Karl (Pelican Press), with color pictures of all."
"George Clooney collects motorcycles. Harry Connick, Jr. collects cuff links. Johnny Depp: insects and rare books; Whoopi Goldberg collects Bakelite jewelry and Maxfield Parrish prints; Angelina Jolie: knives; Dolly Parton: butterflies; John Travolta: aviation memorabilia, and on and on. All this is a beautiful coffee table book titled 'What Celebrities Collect!' by Michele Karl (Pelican Press), with color pictures of all."
"And I met some guy when I was a comic book collector, who was like, 'You know, it's all the same guys.' And it is; they're going back and forth. Some of them work for the two companies at once. Half the good writers went from Marvel to DC. And Dead Man, he's a spirit. He inhabits other people's bodies. But Man-Thing's better than Swamp Thing."
The Gin Blossoms: "Bill Leen, who had opened a rare-books store, had begun writing songs with Wilson. Johnson soon joined them."
‘'‘We got together every Tuesday for six weeks,' Johnson says, ‘and it went so well that we decided it was time to call Jesse.'”
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"This new Cliff Janeway thriller, "The Bookwoman's Last Fling," focuses more on horses than on books, and this development turns out to be something of a mixed blessing. Janeway, author John Dunning's ex-cop turned rare book dealer and private detective, is called to an Idaho horse farm to examine a valuable collection of children's books, some of which may have been pilfered. Is the suspected theft linked to the suspicious death of the family matriarch years ago? Janeway goes undercover at the racetrack to find out."
"Based on Redfield’s worldwide best-selling novel, The Celestine Prophecy is a spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a worldwide awakening, arising within all religious traditions, that move humanity toward a deeper experience of spirituality. The film features an international ensemble cast including Matthew Settle, Thomas Kretschmann, Sarah Wayne Callies, Annabeth Gish, Hector Elizondo, Joaquim de Almeida and Jurgen Prochnow. "
"So you think your JRR Tolkien classic placed carefully in your bookcase is worth money? Think again."
"You could get more for a copy of Madonna's controversial Sex book or an old telephone directory, according to a new book guide."
"It lists ten modern 'classics' for which collectors would fork out thousands of pounds - if they were first editions in pristine condition."
" When the name of Heath Ledger's baby daughter was revealed as Matilda Rose, we rejoiced."
"Our newest Oscar-hyped sensation had chosen a fair dinkum name that reminded him of home instead of a piece of fruit like the rest of Hollywood. But it was in fact his American actor fiance Michelle Williams who chose the name. An avid literary buff – she apparently collects rare books and owns a first edition of The Great Gatsby – Williams told Strewth "it just popped into my head one day on the subway and I didn't realise that it was such an iconic Australian name". The three-month old babe is named after Matilda, the Roald Dahl book of the same name."
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"Daniel Craig, who recently screentested for the James Bond role, was spotted on August 5th in London's Cecil Court, a well-known enclave of antiquarian books, inquiring about a first edition of Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale."
The bookseller obviously knew who he was talking to and quoted him £25,000 ($46,000) for a mint-condition copy of the first James Bond novel, which Sony and producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson are prepping for the bigscreen under helmer Martin Campbell."
"The idea of going back after all this ultra contemporary stuff and all of these issues in the real world I really have, you know, I have a big first-edition book collection of western exploration and, ah, ah, I have Captain Cook's diaries and the logs. It's just - to me the idea that these people who went out into the unknown and what happened when they met other cultures is just really fascinating..."
"Cage: Well, I had a bad experience, which, you know; I was-- what's the right thing to say? I was robbed. And they took my best ones. They took Action 1 and Detective 27 and Detective 1. And now today they're worth who knows what. But I thought to myself, because I'm not the kind of person that wants to take comics and leave them in a safe somewhere. I'd rather put them on the wall and really enjoy them and look at them. But after that happened I thought maybe it's better not to own them, just to enjoy them from afar, and I sold them."
"That guest book, which will be one of the highlights of the Antiquarian Book Fair in London this week, records them all from the 1960s through to 1987, about the time the restaurant was sold to new owners. David Hockney drew the plate, the coffee cup and glass at his dinner table while another artist, Felix Topolski, a Polish émigré and friend of George Bernard Shaw, did a charcoal sketch of a wine bottle."
"A book which escapologist Harry Houdini gave to a shopkeeper after the man hid him from a mob of fans is to be sold."
"I was a big comic-book collector for about 15 years and then they became so pricey it was like collecting original art. As a kid, I loved the old black-and-white Superman but I wasn't really encouraged to have them in the house. My parents thought they were for people that couldn't read real books."
"Thousands of people lined the cobblestone streets of fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen’s birth town today to welcome royals and celebrities marking the 200th birthday of Denmark’s most beloved and famous author."
"Pamela Anderson, the former Baywatch actress whose enthusiasm for cosmetic surgery has given a whole new meaning to "silicon valley", is to star in an American sitcom set in a bookshop. She plays a woman who always falls for the wrong sort of guy. The title of the comedy? Stacked."
"Lock of Queen Victoria’s hair stuck in an album of keepsakes have triggered an extraordinary bidding war between would-be members of the Royal Family who want to conduct a DNA analysis of the monarch’s follicles."
"I am something of a bookworm. I do enjoy killing time in the bunk on the tour bus reading all kinds of material. I’ve got a pretty broad taste when it comes to reading – anything that can take my mind."
"Starring the current darling of Hollywood - and well-deserved at that - Johnny Depp as a rare books dealer and the marvelous Frank Langella as a client who is looking to verify the authenticity of a particularly unusual volume."
"Of the eccentrics who frequent the shop, the most appealing is a dark-haired waif named Alice (Shirley Henderson, the journalist in TV's immortal Hamish Macbeth). A single mother to wise preteen Mary (Lisa McKinlay), Alice brings in books left in the hospital where she cleans floors on the graveyard shift"
"Asked if he felt insulted by critics who argue it is dumbing down to choose celebrity judges for big literary awards, he told Reuters at Tuesday's awards ceremony: 'It is not insulting to me. I am very dumb as everyone knows.'"
"The book's lead author is Terry Jones, best known as a member of Monty Python, but also a keen medievalist whose books include Crusades and Chaucer's Knight."
"There was almost a knightly feel to the [Milan fashion] show, with its setting of stag heads among antique books, the clothes studded like the leather library chairs and the colors dark and rich as the animal-print chocolates for the guests."
(Bookstores should sell stag heads?)
"America's book club tries to recapture glory days" (They discovered JD Salinger.)
"He collects prints of movies, first editions of novels, he has an impressive back catalogue of ex-wives and girlfriends; when he was taking drugs, he seems to have tried to take all the drugs."
The late Ted Hughes lived here until he was seven. (Americans also remembered him as the husband of American poet Sylvia Plath.)
"...three top mystery writers are slated for a book-signing appearance at Samantha's shop. But one of the writers seems marked for death.
Best-Selling Author has Bookstore in Texas
"Archer City, Texas: It's OK to be a book nerd here. In fact, it's cool."
Hemingway's Son Had a Sex-Change Operation
Greg Hemingway became Gloria Hemingway.
Bruce Lee: Antiquarian Book Collector
"We used to go and look for an old book on fighting it was one of his hobbies and he loved to collect and read. "
Ashlie Atkinson plays a Fat "Funny, Smart, Sexy" Librarian off Broadway
Show title: "Fat Pig" ...as in: confront your misconceptions about Fat People.
Ralph Nader's New Job: Cookbook Salesman
(Chefs are in. Politicians are out. Emeril Lagasse for President.)
Jefferey Kissoon plays "a Passionate Bibliophile" on London Stage
He "would rather spend money he doesn't have on 24 volumes of slave history than a meal."
Michael Feinstein: In Search of Lost Music Manuscripts
"...a man on the prowl for original musical scores, recordings and sheet music at garage sales and auctions, in secondhand stores and the libraries of film and record studios."
Martha Stewart Says Chatterjee is a Good Thing
Martha Stewart Living recommends BookFinder.com for book collectors.
Get Married in a French Chateau Library...with the Brazilian Soccer Player
"The wedding will be held on Feb 14 in the 17th century chateau... which contains nearly 1,000 paintings and a library with old books and manuscripts, that are part of the cultural heritage of France."
I Didn't Know Hugh Grant was a Bibliophile.
"Grant, who studied English at Oxford University, cited Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory and The Blessing by Nancy Mitford as his favorite books.
Eliot Spitzer: He's Bookish, so does he Collect Rare Books?
"...there is a slightly bookish, not to say geeky, air about Mr Spitzer...which helped him make New York magazine's list of the "50 sexiest New Yorkers".
Karl Lagerfeld Collects Rare Books
"He is fabulously wealthy already, with three houses to his name at the last count and the kind of insatiable shopping habit - furniture, art, rare books - which makes auction houses very happy."
Johnny Depp Plays a Bookseller in a Roman Polanski Movie
The Ninth Gate, directed by Roman Polanski, is a supernatural thriller in which an unscrupulous rare-book dealer (Johnny Depp) is hired by a mysterious, wealthy book collector who is obsessed with the authenticity of his copy of the demonic text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows
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