Posted on 08/30/2010 9:12:45 AM PDT by kristinn
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What did you do?
What a guy!
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BOOK ON WTC HERO STIRS RAGE
New York Post (NY) - Friday, September 28, 2001
Author: Keith J. Kelly
FIREFIGHTERS seem to have finally eclipsed police officers in the literary world in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks - but not all the attention is welcomed by New York’s Bravest.
“Holding Fire, A Love Story,” a racy new novel about firefighters, has stirred up a firestorm of controversy because the author says the main character in the book is based on Captain Patrick Brown - a decorated firemen who perished in the World Trade Center attack.
Members of Brown’s family say they are angry and upset and want author Elissa Wald to stop what they feel is shameless capitalization on Capt. Brown’s death to sell books.
“There are no firefighters or family members who are happy about this,” says Dr. Michael Brown, brother of the late firefighter. “The book really does some pretty bad things to good people.’
Wald, a stripper at Flash Dancers-turned-writer, has been on the “Today Show” on NBC and was featured in a USA Today interview over the last week once it was learned that the main character in her book, Jonah Malone, is modeled closely on Captain Brown. She said she was romantically involved with Brown in 1994 and remained friends even after their affair ended.
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The publisher and editor for the book, Beau Friedlander of Context Press, said he has no intention of recalling the book and says it is “absolutely untrue” that he sped up production of the book to capitalize on the tragedy.
“The book was on its way to stores before the attack,” said Friedlander . “And Elissa is donating 10 percent of her profits to charities,” he noted.
Capt. Brown’s brother says he is exploring his legal options. In the meantime, he says of the book, “Just dump it in the garbage. Hopefully, in a few days it will go away, and nobody will get hurt.”
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Chapel Hill gunman’s book tells of voices that drove him to kill - Publishers don’t want his book and state officials say they’ll confiscate any profits from the work
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC) - Sunday, April 22, 2001
Author: DOUG JOHNSON Associated Press
CHAPEL HILL - It happened late one night after Wendell Williamson’s band finished a raucous gig on the University of North Carolina campus. His head was pounding and he felt dizzy from the music. That’s when the voices started.
People were talking to him, but their lips weren’t moving. Williamson was sure he had received a wonderful telepathic gift.
Later, Williamson writes, he realized it was not a gift. It was the start of his descent into mental illness that reached its nadir on the day he staged a shooting rampage in Chapel Hill with a military rifle and 600 rounds of ammunition.
For the first time since that day, when he shot two people to death and wounded a police officer, the former UNC law student is trying to explain the paranoid schizophrenia he says held him hostage and drove him to kill.
“Nightmare: A Schizophrenic Narrative” is the latest in a line of books written by notorious figures, from Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski to white separatist Randy Weaver, who want to set the record - as they see it - straight.
But like Kaczynski, whose “Truths Versus Lies” was yanked at the last minute by his publisher, Williamson is having a hard time finding someone willing to help him tell his story.
“Mine was a very notorious case that is more complicated than it first appears,” Williamson said in a recent telephone interview from the state mental hospital in Raleigh. “I think if people knew more about it, they might not have such a low opinion of me.”
Williamson was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity in the Jan. 26, 1995, shootings of UNC lacrosse player Kevin Reichardt, 20, and restaurant worker Ralph Walker, 42.
In March, a month after advertising Williamson’s book and selling several copies, publisher iUniverse.com terminated its contract with the author over liability concerns. Officials at iUniverse would not elaborate.
Beyond liability, there’s disagreement over what would have happened to any money the book made.
When the deal with iUniverse was still active, Williamson had said profits would be donated to the Treatment Advocacy Center in Arlington, Va., a nonprofit group that provides legal counsel for people with severe brain disorders. But North Carolina officials have a lien against Williamson’s assets, and said they would confiscate book profits to pay for his treatment.
Context Books publisher Beau Friedlander , who spiked Kaczynski’s book over legal issues, says dealing with such manuscripts can be a sticky business.
“With a notorious criminal like Theodore Kaczynski, or Timothy McVeigh or the guy from Chapel Hill, it’s open season when they decide to write a book. Anyone can step forward with a lawsuit, and the burden is on the publisher,” Friedlander said.
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I guess I was digging a little too deep on Arianna Huffington and her associations? They blocked me!
I see Google has now corrected the address to the Lincoln Memorial.
nicely done.
these are the types of people running our government
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/fashion/08BEAU.html?pagewanted=all
Enlisting the Stars to Tilt at the Right
By WARREN ST. JOHN
Published: June 8, 2003
The one-room office of Beau Friedlander’s Context Books in Lower Manhattan is a wreck. Piles of dusty, dog-eared manuscripts climb to the ceiling like stalagmites. Scraps of Scotch tape and paper curl off the wall like plane-tree bark. The paint on the wooden floor is badly chipped, and the tin ceilings are furry with grime. Sitting at his littered desk, Mr. Friedlander, 34, unshaven and in a loose-fitting black button-down, peers out of the clutter a bit like a groundhog poking its head out of a hole.
“Someone said today, `You’ll be out of business when Bush is out of office,’ “ Mr. Friedlander said. “I don’t think I will. We’ll just move on to globalization. If we do our jobs right, we’re going to sway the election and remove him from power.”
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Then last summer, Mr. Friedlander said, as the Bush administration began to build its case for war against Iraq, his political instincts kicked in. He read an interview by William Rivers Pitt, a left-leaning journalist, with Mr. Ritter, the former arms inspector, on the liberal Web site TruthOut.com, and had an idea to turn around an extended version of the interview, supplemented with some additional reporting by Mr. Pitt.
Mr. Friedlander said his motivation was political, not economic, but when the book came out a month later, in September, it began to sell. He gave away 3,000 copies at antiwar rallies, offered deep discounts to advocacy groups and leaned on politically active celebrities like Mike Farrell, the “M*A*S*H” star, which spread the word and drove sales.
The book made several best-seller lists — it reached No. 4 on The San Francisco Chronicle list in April — and provided Mr. Friedlander with something he hadn’t had much of in the past: revenue. The experience inspired him to publish “Target Iraq” in late January, with an endorsement by Mr. Penn. He gave Mr. Ritter three weeks to crank out his next quickie book. And Mr. Bonifaz, the lawyer, has about a month.
Mr. Friedlander said more political tracts are on the way.
“This is just the opening war whoop,” he said. “Political books have reinvigorated me financially. Partisanship is where it’s at in this market.”
EAGLES UP !!! Waaaaaaaaaaaay up! Is JimRob the coolest or what???
LOL, the loser didn’t even have the money. Man, these guys are frothing at the mouth, I love it, wait till we slaughter them in November.
Excellent work! When I think the left can not sink any lower they always prove me wrong.
I hate to blow the idiot out of the water, but conservatives know the last perfect person - one who walked on water - died on a cross a few thousand years ago
As for Beck?
He's a real man - a sinner like the rest of us.
The difference between liberal trash ( have you seen the picture comparisons between how conservatives treated their rally with how dems treated theirs? What a difference) and conservatives is we strive to do what's right.
Conservatives ARE NOT perfect, but unlike liberals we don't wallow in the gutter. Mr. Beau Friedlander needs to put down his strawman silliness and get real. What a putz.
I hate to blow the idiot out of the water, but conservatives know the last perfect person - one who walked on water - died on a cross a few thousand years ago
As for Beck?
He's a real man - a sinner like the rest of us.
The difference between liberal trash ( have you seen the picture comparisons between how conservatives treated their rally with how dems treated theirs? What a difference) and conservatives is we strive to do what's right.
Conservatives ARE NOT perfect, but unlike liberals we don't wallow in the gutter. Mr. Beau Friedlander needs to put down his strawman silliness and get real. What a putz.
Dayum, maggief girl, that Beau Friedlander is nothing but a scumbag with a trail a mile long.
Late getting here but yes, I did hear the caller. Threatend "we" know where you live, you're going down..." etc. etc. she spelled it right out and the police are investigating. Hope we'll find out who she is...
they seriously are demented.
Anti black president movement, HUH.
It seems facts and the kook left honestly do not go hand in hand.
I think Al Franken would like to see one.....or maybe Bawney Fwank would....
or how the leaked classified story went off the radar as soon as they found out it was a homosexual soldier who had a baby tantrum.
Al has already outed himself, he likes to dirty his diaper.
EEEWWWWWWW!
Thank you and kudos sir. This is exactly why we need to monitor other sites like HuffPo, DU and Kos to prevent this type of outrageous chicanery.
“hope Beck saved this and shows it tonight.”
I heard his website was asking for a screen capture?? Anyone, anyone?
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