'RULING' COSTS RANDOM HOUSE MORE FOR COLLINS STORY.Byline: Samuel Maull Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Random House doesn't get its $1.3 million back for two Joan Collins Joan Henrietta Collins OBE (born May 23 1933) is a Golden Globe Award winning British actress and bestselling author. Early Life Collins was born in London to Joseph William "Will" Collins (a South African Jewish talent agent, 1902-88) and Elsie (later Elsa) Bessant (a manuscripts it called unreadable trash; it will have to shell out more instead. A jury on Tuesday found that the 62-year-old actress had finished one steamy novel promised to Random House, "The Ruling Passion," but failed to deliver the second, "Hell Hath No Fury," in complete shape as required. The split decision means the former "Dynasty An application development system for enterprise client/server environments from Dynasty Technologies, Inc., Houston, TX (www.dynasty.com). Introduced in 1993, it is a repository-driven system that supports Windows, Mac and Motif clients and NT, OS/2 and major Unix servers and databases. " star can keep the advance and should receive more money from the two-book, $4 million deal she signed in 1990. The contract was divided equally between the books. "I'm happy. It ended two years of absolute hell," Collins said outside the courtroom as she pumped her fist in the air. Random House had rejected both manuscripts and sued for return of the advance. Collins had countersued for the rest of the $4 million. Tuesday's verdict addressed both suits. The two sides now will negotiate how much more Collins will get. Her lawyer, Kenneth Borrows, said Random House should owe Collins hundreds of thousands of dollars on top of the $1.3 million she received in advance. Random House lawyer Robert Callagy agreed that the publisher would have to pay Collins more money, but did not know how much. The weeklong week·long adj. Continuing through the week: a weeklong conference. Adj. 1. weeklong - lasting through a week; "her weeklong vacation" seven-day trial focused mostly on whether "The Ruling Passion" and "Hell Hath No Fury" were sexy potboilers or unreadable trash. Random House argued they were unpublishable un·pub·lish·a·ble adj. Unfit for publication: an unpublishable manuscript. Adj. 1. unpublishable - not suitable for publication publishable - suitable for publication . Collins insisted her contract - done by the late, legendary agent Irving "Swifty
Swifty is a lightweight, free, and open source HTML editor created by Jacob Sheehy. " Lazar - guaranteed payment on delivery, regardless of quality. "Nobody held a gun to Random House's head to pay me $4 million," said Collins, who wore high-heeled leather boots to court. "They were begging for me." During three days of testimony, Collins described herself as the "queen of the adjectives and adverbs," but admitted needing lots of editing. On her previous best-selling best·sell·er also best seller n. A product, such as a book, that is among those sold in the largest numbers. best novel, "Prime Time," her editor spent a week working with her, Collins testified. This time, Random House was trying to avoid paying off the balance of her contract and provided no such help, her lawyers maintained. Collins, whose sister Jackie is a writer of popular potboilers, had one other best seller - her autobiography, "Past Imperfect Past Imperfect is a 2001 anthology of science fiction short-stories revolving around time travel. Its editors are Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff. Contents Title Author Blood Trail Kristine Kathryn Rusch ." The sequel will conclude with a chapter on the trial. CAPTION(S): PHOTO Photo Joan Collins waves to jury members who decided the former "Dynasty" star can keep Random House's $1.3 million advance plus an additional, undisclosed sum for a finished manuscript. Associated Press |
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