Michael Korie – författare

Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden defined beauty standards for the first half of the twentieth century. Brilliant innovators with humble roots both were masters of self-invention who sacrificed everything to become the country's first major female entrepreneurs. They were also fierce competitors whose fifty-year tug-of-war would give birth to an industry. From Fifth Avenue society to the halls of Congress their rivalry was relentless and legendary pushing both women to build international empires in a world dominated by men.

Doctor Zhivago is a heartbreaking epic romance set during the final daysof Czarist Russia. Raised as an aristocrat Zhivago is a political idealist physician and poet whose life is tossed by the tides of history as he is tornbetween a life with his close childhood friend and wife and the passionateand mysterious Lara. Zhivago however is not alone in his yearnings for Lara and must compete with both revolutionaries and aristocracy alike to win theheart of the woman he cannot live without.

Happiness tells the stories of a dozen harried New Yorkers stuck in the morning rush hour on a stalled subway car where they are required by the spectral trainman to recall and reenact the happiest moment in their lives before they can continue their travels... and travails. Happiness celebrates those fleeting moments in everyday lives - typically unanticipated largely overlooked always ephemeral - that upon reflection become people's fondest memories.