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Depending on how one counts, it was a meeting either six months or almost 20 years in the making. The major participants? Two pop-culture luminaries. One was Angelina Jolie, the Oscar winner who launched 1,000 paparazzi and carried off with swagger such action flicks as "Wanted" and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." The other was Patricia Cornwell, one of the world's most commercial authors. The topic was Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell's signature character, the medical examiner in 17 mystery novels.

Patricia Cornwell won a judgment of $50.9 million against her former financial managers in federal court in Boston on Tuesday. Cornwell is the author of the bestselling Kay Scarpetta mystery novels. Cornwell accused her former money management firm Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP and its former principal, Evan H. Snapper, for negligence in the handling of her ­finances. According to Cornwell, not only had the firm improperly invested $89 million of her money, it had also made illegal campaign contributions that drew the attention of the FBI, undermined her work and even traumatized her dog . The money management firm was paid about $40,000 per month to handle Cornwell's finances, which included the renovation of her Massachusetts estate and leasing a lavish apartment for her. The managers claimed that it was Cornwell's own extravagance , including leasing expensive private jets, that was to blame.

Bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell has filed a libel lawsuit in Richmond, Va., against another author and is asking a federal judge to bar him from posting defamatory messages about her on the Internet. Cornwell wants the court to enforce an injunction issued in 2000 against Leslie R. Sachs and seeks a broader ban to prevent Sachs from further writing negatively about Cornwell on websites or allowing such statements to remain on those sites.

Behind the action of Simon Armitage's marvelous translation of the Middle English epic "The Death of King Arthur" (W.W. Norton: 306 pp., $26.95), there's an unmistakable mood of bitterness. It has nothing to do with Arthur's fate -- yes, there's plenty of bitter sorrow after Arthur's last battle against Mordred, but that's not what I'm talking about. There's another, different bitterness here that belongs to the anonymous maker of this poem, which appeared long before Thomas Malory ever celebrated the legendary warrior-king in his prose "Le Morte D'Arthur.

A federal judge has ordered a self-published author to cease an Internet vendetta in which he has accused bestselling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell of plagiarism, bribery, anti-Semitism and even plotting to have him murdered. Those claims are among 45 specific lies that Leslie R. Sachs has spread about Cornwell, Judge Norman K. Moon said in this week's order granting Cornwell's motion for a permanent injunction.

The Los Angeles Lazers have reached agreements with three players for the 1985-86 season, the Major Indoor Soccer League club announced Monday. Defender Lee Cornwell, goalkeeper Mike Mahoney and forward Juan Cardenas will all return to the team for the upcoming season. Cornwell, who became a free agent after last season, signed a two-year contract that also contains an option year.

Novelist Patricia Cornwell is donating $1 million to a top criminal justice college for a new academy to teach CSI techniques, saying she's appalled by what she's seen at crime scene investigations. "I've seen cops walk through blood. I've seen them leave their own fingerprints on a window," Cornwell said in an interview Friday. "I've seen bloody clothing put in a plastic bag, instead of a paper bag, so it decomposes." Her funding will help start the Crime Scene Academy at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, set to open this fall with training in DNA typing, fingerprint enhancement techniques, ballistics and forensic psychology.

Football was never like this for Fred Cornwell. Cornwell still plays tight end, but the Dallas Cowboys figured out right away that he's an eligible receiver. During his school days at Canyon High and USC he felt like an extra tackle. "I've always been primarily a blocker," Cornwell said while relaxing in his dormitory at the Cowboys' training camp at Cal Lutheran College in Thousand Oaks.

Patricia Cornwell won a judgment of $50.9 million against her former financial managers in federal court in Boston on Tuesday. Cornwell is the author of the bestselling Kay Scarpetta mystery novels. Cornwell accused her former money management firm Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP and its former principal, Evan H. Snapper, for negligence in the handling of her ­finances. According to Cornwell, not only had the firm improperly invested $89 million of her money, it had also made illegal campaign contributions that drew the attention of the FBI, undermined her work and even traumatized her dog . The money management firm was paid about $40,000 per month to handle Cornwell's finances, which included the renovation of her Massachusetts estate and leasing a lavish apartment for her. The managers claimed that it was Cornwell's own extravagance , including leasing expensive private jets, that was to blame.

Screen credits on movies have reached ridiculous proportions--everyone from assistant parking coordinator to the star's personal trainer--but a credit on Madonna's upcoming movie "Body of Evidence" is a new one on us. In tiny type at the bottom of advertisements for "Body of Evidence, " after credits for the actors, director, producers, screenwriter and musical scorer, is a cryptic disclaimer: "Not based on the novel by Patricia Cornwell."

Depending on how one counts, it was a meeting either six months or almost 20 years in the making. The major participants? Two pop-culture luminaries. One was Angelina Jolie, the Oscar winner who launched 1,000 paparazzi and carried off with swagger such action flicks as "Wanted" and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." The other was Patricia Cornwell, one of the world's most commercial authors. The topic was Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell's signature character, the medical examiner in 17 mystery novels.

Patricia Cornwell's name comes with more than a whiff of myth and expectation. Almost every woman writing thrillers with extreme violence gets compared to Cornwell's bestselling work featuring forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta. Interviews focus less on the books and more on Cornwell's Armani suits, personal security concerns or her obsession with solving the Jack the Ripper murders.

You can't listen to what people tell you. Years ago I was asked by an agent to read a series of articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer by a young journalist named Mark Bowden. I read them and thought they were absolutely stunning. They became the book "Black Hawk Down." It was the first real explanation I had ever read of modern warfare. But Bowden was not a well-known writer, and this was a subject not a lot of people were interested in. I knew it would be hard to sell it. I took it out to a list of producers.

Novelist Patricia Cornwell is donating $1 million to a top criminal justice college for a new academy to teach CSI techniques, saying she's appalled by what she's seen at crime scene investigations. "I've seen cops walk through blood. I've seen them leave their own fingerprints on a window," Cornwell said in an interview Friday. "I've seen bloody clothing put in a plastic bag, instead of a paper bag, so it decomposes." Her funding will help start the Crime Scene Academy at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, set to open this fall with training in DNA typing, fingerprint enhancement techniques, ballistics and forensic psychology.

A federal judge has ordered a self-published author to cease an Internet vendetta in which he has accused bestselling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell of plagiarism, bribery, anti-Semitism and even plotting to have him murdered. Those claims are among 45 specific lies that Leslie R. Sachs has spread about Cornwell, Judge Norman K. Moon said in this week's order granting Cornwell's motion for a permanent injunction.

Bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell has filed a libel lawsuit in Richmond, Va., against another author and is asking a federal judge to bar him from posting defamatory messages about her on the Internet. Cornwell wants the court to enforce an injunction issued in 2000 against Leslie R. Sachs and seeks a broader ban to prevent Sachs from further writing negatively about Cornwell on websites or allowing such statements to remain on those sites.

Edgar Allan Poe, from whom all mystery fiction is thought to flow, made scientific deduction one of its ingredients. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, inventing Sherlock Holmes' celebrated monograph on cigar ashes, made the great detective a kind of one-man amateur crime lab (although he also occasionally used science as a bluff to induce miscreants to confess).

All right, so nobody will mistake her for Cicely Tyson. And her trophies simply aren't the golden image of Oscar. But Ursula Lovely, Kennedy High School's top high-jumper and basketball player, can act and sing just as well as she leaps and dribbles. Lovely played three roles in Kennedy's recent performance of "Fame." The parts called for a few solos. Where did she find all the time? "There were some conflicts," said director Mark Till. "We had to make a couple sacrifices.

Sharpe's Escape Portugal, 1810 Bernard Cornwell HarperCollins: 358 pp., $25.95 * BERNARD CORNWELL'S 19 novels about Richard Sharpe, an infantry officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, have been popular in Britain and Canada. The last one, "Sharpe's Havoc," also did well in the United States. With his latest, "Sharpe's Escape," the publisher is obviously hoping to duplicate the American success of C.S.