I liked the notebook's spacious, comfy keyboard and ample touchpad, which includes a handy pressure-sensitive scroll strip.
He had taken a liking to the notebook I used during our conversation, and I told him that I would have one waiting for him, along with a copy of the interview, when he arrived.
Like The Notebook and Titanic, the film is a lush period-melodrama that revolves around a youthful romance, as recounted decades later by one of the lovers.
One who still looked like The Notebook dreamboat, but was also a deep thinker familiar with the industry, and a risk-taker eager to embrace the arthouse.
Over the past four years, the company has flourished by combining lots of small- and mid-budget movies — including DVD hits like "The Notebook," and "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" — with one big "tent-pole" investment ("The Lord of the Rings").
Just like the notebook-graffiti writer I had once been, I was a b-boy wallflower, though my anxiety was much less acute than it had been in 1982.
Besides its internal read-and-write DVD drive, the TXN15 includes Sony's Instant Mode, which enables quick access to features like the notebook's music and movie playback without running its operating system, Microsoft's Windows Vista.
The best-selling author of Hollywood-friendly love stories like "The Notebook" and "Message in a Bottle," Sparks is so reliable a tear-jerker that one Irish newspaper reviewed his latest book under the evergreen headline "A New Weepie From Captain Kleenex".
The sessions for "Darkness," recently chronicled in the HBO documentary "The Promise," are now the subject of "The Promise: The Darkness On the Edge of Town Story," a deluxe box set designed like the notebook in which Springsteen jotted down his gripping tales of alienated youth and deferred American dreams.
The director, Nick Cassavetes, has in the past, in movies like "The Notebook" and "John Q," attempted a kind of honest manipulation, wringing outsize waves of emotion out of more or less ordinary situations, and trying to hold on to some notion of realism in the process.
