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<i>Fools Rush In</i> by Nina Munk
Fools Rush In by Nina Munk

The Real Deal

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Shortly after the AOL-Time Warner merger deal closed, many of the new company’s top executives sold off huge chunks of their stock – not much in the way of a vote of confidence! Vanity Fair’s Nina Munk gives her perspective on the merger’s spectacular failure. Then a discussion with Shashi Tharoor on India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and why his ideals of an secular, democratic state are endangered in today’s culturally and religiously divided India. Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas shares his memoir. And poet, playwright, and editor Joseph Coulson, talks about his debut novel, The Vanishing Moon.


Nink Munk

On January 10, 2000, America Online announced that it was buying Time Warner for $163 billion. It didn’t take long for the merger to unravel. Nink Munk’s book is Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner.

» Visit Nina Munk’s website

» Music: Fools Rush In – Talk Radio Soundtrack, Track 4 “Tick: We Feel Too Much”
Talk Radio Soundtrack, Track 5 “Trend: We Have Heart”


Shashi Tharoor

In Nehru: A Biography, senior U.N. official Shashi Tharoor writes that Nehru is remembered today as "curiously dated, a relic of another era," despite (or perhaps because of) all he did for the cause of an independent India.

» Visit Shashi Tharoor’s website


» Music: Nehru: The Invention of India – Heat and Dust Original Film Soundtrack, Track 5 “In the Purdah Quarters
Track 3 “Durbar/ God Save the King/ Khatm National Anthem


Joseph Coulson

Joseph Coulson’s debut novel is The Vanishing Moon. It’s about a destitute family during the Great Depression who has to resort to living in a tent outside of Cleveland.

» Read more about Joseph Coulson and The Vanishing Moon

» Music: Hollywood Animal – Basic Instinct, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Track 1 “Main Title (Theme From Basic Instinct”


Joe Eszterhas

Joe Eszterhas’ new memoir, Hollywood Animal, is an inside look into his own challenges and achievements, as well as the wretched excess of the world of showbiz. Eszterhas was screenwriter for Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, and Flashdance, among others.

» Music: The Vanishing Moon – The Cider House Rules, Music From the Miramax Motion Picture, Track 1 “Main Titles”



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