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offers 'fast path to good life'NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump has more advice on how to get rich. To coincide with the debut this fall of the second season of his hit reality TV series The Apprentice, Random House is releasing Think Like a Billionaire, an advice book Trump describes as a fast path to the good life. "I'm an ambitious guy," he said in a statement Monday. "I want to give readers everything they need to be successful in life in fewer than 300 pages." Trump's current book, How to Get Rich, came out just as the first Apprentice was wrapping up, and has more than 500,000 copies in print. He said Think Like a Billionaire, co-written with How To Get Rich collaborator Meredith McIver, offers detailed advice on the real estate market. "I've written a lot about my real estate deals, but people keep asking me for advice about how to invest in real estate," Trump said in his statement. "This is the first time I've written at length about it, and I hope it will help more readers become billionaires. I welcome the company."
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hundreds of pieces of memorabilia from Barbra Streisand's career will be auctioned off June 5, with proceeds going to charities that the Streisand Foundation supports. More than 400 items will make up the auction at Astra West in the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, with simultaneous bids taken online, auction co-ordinator Darren Julien said Monday. The auction, dubbed Her Name Is Barbra, will feature famous items that trace the career of the singer and actress from the early 1960s to today, Julien said. It will include costumes from Funny Girl, A Star Is Born, The Way We Were and The Main Event, album cover proofs, vintage costume jewelry and stage props from Streisand's tours, he said. The auction items will go on display May 10 at Takashimaya in New York City; at Planet Hollywood in London; and starting May 31, at Astra West
Film buffs take in classic East of Eden
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of people crammed into a school auditorium on the weekend to watch director Martin Scorsese's personal print of East of Eden, the film that solidified James Dean's status as a Hollywood star. The 1955 film had a big influence on Scorsese, director of hit movies including Gangs of New York and Taxi Driver. Scorsese, who grew up in a tenement on Manhattan's Lower East Side, said the movie's portrayal of working class people was the most authentic he'd seen. "It was as if the film understood me. . . . It was articulating things I could never articulate, I wasn't allowed to articulate," he said before the film was shown Saturday as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. Dean starred as troubled Cal Trask in director Elia Kazan's adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel. The young "rebel" actor, who made only three films but remains a film icon, died in a car accident the same year East of Eden came out. He became the first person to earn a posthumous Oscar nomination for his role in the film.
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