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To: sylvester80 who wrote (49791)	6/25/2004 6:25:03 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

"The film broke single-day box-office records at both the New York City theaters where it opened on Wednesday, grossing a stellar $84,000 combined in sellout shows. It reportedly played on three screens in each." Looks like a big week for politically related media; maybe Shrub should publish his coloring book on Mon. BREAKING SALES RECORDS A love affair with Clinton BY AILEEN JACOBSON STAFF WRITER; This story was supplemented with a report from The Associated Press. June 24, 2004 Bill Clinton's "My Life" broke first-day sales records for a nonfiction book and for an adult audiobook, Sonny Mehta, president of Knopf Publishing Group, said yesterday. The 957-page book sold more than 400,000 copies in the United States Tuesday, and the abridged audiobook, read by Clinton, sold more than 35,000 copies, nearly 10 times the typical audio bestseller, the publishing house said. Knopf printed an additional 725,000 copies beyond the initial 1.5 million run and is planning more printings. More than 315,000 audiobooks were distributed, also a record for an adult book, and 100,000 copies of the 1,664-page large-print version were sent to stores, a record for any kind of large-type book. The book is No. 1 at Amazon.com in the United States, England, France and Japan, according to Knopf. It is also No. 1 at Barnesandnoble.com, which also reported increased interest in Hillary Rodham Clinton's paperback "Living History," at No. 5 yesterday. As his book set sales records, Clinton was shown on television Tuesday night getting angry at BBC interviewer David Dimbleby, who repeatedly questioned Clinton about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. "You like to hurt people and talk about how bad people are," Clinton said to Dimbleby, according to The Associated Press, also suggesting that reporters often do that to increase viewers' interest. During the show, "Panorama," recorded before the book's Tuesday release in Britain and Ireland, Clinton also defended Tony Blair's decision to send British troops to Iraq, even though many British citizens - and other Europeans - opposed the war. "In the end, I believe he thought that there was still some risk that Saddam [Hussein] had the weapons" of mass destruction, Clinton said. Of Lewinsky, he said, "It happened at a time when I was angry, I was under stress, I was afraid I was going to lose my fight with the Republican Congress. ... So I won the public fight and lost the private one." This story was supplemented with a report from The Associated Press. newsday.com