Entertainment & Arts
The book: ‘The Matarese Circle’ by Robert Ludlum The buyer: MGM
Sept. 16, 2014
Books
Suspense and thriller novelist Robert Ludlum, whose bestsellers drew readers into battles against world takeovers by evil forces, died Monday at age 73.
March 13, 2001
May 1, 2008
It’s a purely unscientific conclusion, but one drawn repeatedly during years of riding commuter trains and lolling on summer beaches: More people are reading Robert Ludlum at any given time than any other writer.
Nov. 7, 1997
Television
You start out believing that “The Bourne Identity” will be wonderful fun, and some of it is: a two-part ABC rendering (9 p.m.
May 7, 1988
Edward Ludlum, veteran stage and television director who helped develop small theaters in the Southland, has died.
Nov. 25, 2000
Within the spy fiction category is a sub-genre called Paranoids--tales of manipulations, conspiracies and plots for world domination or destruction concocted by dark and grandly evil organizations (within and without the United States).
March 23, 1986
Movies
EXCLUSIVE: Zhang Yimou’s “The Parsifal Mosaic” already has one of the more interesting Hollywood pedigrees around, with the Chinese auteur the first director from the Middle Kingdom to helm a major studio film.
June 19, 2014
FICTION TREVAYNE by Robert Ludlum (Bantam: $5.95).
Sept. 10, 1989
Robert Ludlum is dead, but the films must go on.
Aug. 8, 2004