Sidney Sheldon

...such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980) that he became most famous. Sheldon was born Sidney Schechtel in Chicago, Illinois, to parents of Russian Jewish ancestry, Ascher "Otto"...

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...in 1963 for her haunting performance as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker." Created and written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Sidney Sheldon ("The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer"), who would go on to create "I Dream of Jeannie" and write...

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...tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see Jaws and Star Wars. In the book library you'd see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it's like children's food -- chips, milk shakes, yogurt." In fact,...

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...under the pseudonym "Danielle Brown. " But his real breakthrough came two years earlier, on a vacation in Tahiti, when he read Sidney Sheldon's "The Doomsday Conspiracy. " "It held my attention, kept me turning pages, and reminded me how...

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...College, but became a novelist almost by accident. In 1994, he was on vacation in Tahiti, where he read a discarded copy of Sidney Sheldon's The Doomsday Conspiracy. "As a student I had read the classics, but I didn't know there were...

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...ever written". Bestselling chick-lit author Tilly Bagshawe knows how he feels. Picked to write a follow-up to king of the blockbuster Sidney Sheldon's million-selling 1980s family saga, Master of the Game, she "did not want to be the person...

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...who bought an adjacent tomb. Other neighbours in the cemetery include actresses Natalie Wood and Donna Reed, musicians Buddy Rich and Frank Zappa, filmmakers Billy Wilder and Darryl F Zanuck, and writers Sidney Sheldon and Truman Capote.

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...actresses Natalie Wood and Donna Reed, musicians Buddy Rich and Frank Zappa, filmmakers Billy Wilder and Darryl F Zanuck, and writers Sidney Sheldon and Truman Capote. Copyright, respective author or news agency Name EarthTimes.org...

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...where the heroine had lived. Though he won a Tony, an Oscar and an Emmy (for "I Dream of Jeannie") during his career, Sheldon said he derived the most satisfaction from writing his novels. "I love writing books," he said. "When you do a...

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...and television seemed no less eventful and dramatic than the plots of his best-selling novels, died Jan. 30 in California. Mr. Sheldon, who was born in Chicago, contemplated suicide as a teenager, was forced out of college by the...

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