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If You Can’t Write, Steal
Kaavya Viswanathan’s allegedly plagiarized book, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life is being pulled from shelves and won’t get a revision, according to chagrined publisher Little, Brown & Co. Apparently Viswanathan loved the work of authors Megan McCafferty, Meg Cabot and Sophie Kinsella so much, she decided to pay homage by copying passages almost word for word. According to Hillel Italie, AP National writer:
“In Cabot’s The Princess Diaries, published by HarperCollins, the following passage appears: ‘There isn’t a single inch of me that hasn’t been pinched, cut, filed, painted, sloughed, blown dry, or moisturized. ... Because I don’t look a thing like Mia Thermopolis. Mia Thermopolis never had fingernails. Mia Thermopolis never had blond highlights.’
“In Viswanathan’s book, page 59 reads: ‘Every inch of me had been cut, filed, steamed, exfoliated, polished, painted, or moisturized. I didn't look a thing like Opal Mehta. Opal Mehta didn’t own five pairs of shoes so expensive they could have been traded in for a small sailboat.’ ”
Little, Brown also cancelled Viswanathan’s two-book deal but hasn’t commented on whether the Harvard sophomore must return the 6-figure advance.
Well, Kaavya… better luck next life.
Bound for Mexico
Mexican President Vicente Fox will sign a law decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin & other drugs for personal use.
Time to make a run for the border…
Closet Case
A Webster, NY mother was charged with hosting an underage drinking party after someone called the police to break up a huge fight that spilled out into the streets. Cops scattered more than 100 kids from the drunken brawl and found Mom hiding in a closet.
Looks like her “7 Minutes in Heaven” are over...
Spitting Mad
According to researchers at Penn State, an enzyme called alpha amylase found in saliva may offer clues regarding children’s anxieties. Higher levels of the enzyme indicate social problems such as aggression and cognitive/academic problems.
So next time your kid hawks a loogie at you, don’t get mad, get it analyzed...
Kaavya Viswanathan’s allegedly plagiarized book, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life is being pulled from shelves and won’t get a revision, according to chagrined publisher Little, Brown & Co. Apparently Viswanathan loved the work of authors Megan McCafferty, Meg Cabot and Sophie Kinsella so much, she decided to pay homage by copying passages almost word for word. According to Hillel Italie, AP National writer:
“In Cabot’s The Princess Diaries, published by HarperCollins, the following passage appears: ‘There isn’t a single inch of me that hasn’t been pinched, cut, filed, painted, sloughed, blown dry, or moisturized. ... Because I don’t look a thing like Mia Thermopolis. Mia Thermopolis never had fingernails. Mia Thermopolis never had blond highlights.’
“In Viswanathan’s book, page 59 reads: ‘Every inch of me had been cut, filed, steamed, exfoliated, polished, painted, or moisturized. I didn't look a thing like Opal Mehta. Opal Mehta didn’t own five pairs of shoes so expensive they could have been traded in for a small sailboat.’ ”
Little, Brown also cancelled Viswanathan’s two-book deal but hasn’t commented on whether the Harvard sophomore must return the 6-figure advance.
Well, Kaavya… better luck next life.
Bound for Mexico
Mexican President Vicente Fox will sign a law decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin & other drugs for personal use.
Time to make a run for the border…
Closet Case
A Webster, NY mother was charged with hosting an underage drinking party after someone called the police to break up a huge fight that spilled out into the streets. Cops scattered more than 100 kids from the drunken brawl and found Mom hiding in a closet.
Looks like her “7 Minutes in Heaven” are over...
Spitting Mad
According to researchers at Penn State, an enzyme called alpha amylase found in saliva may offer clues regarding children’s anxieties. Higher levels of the enzyme indicate social problems such as aggression and cognitive/academic problems.
So next time your kid hawks a loogie at you, don’t get mad, get it analyzed...
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