• • The book that changed my life 
Ela Dutt, The Indian American The Fountainhead  Decades after reading Ayn Rand’s ‘Fountainhead’ as a teenager, I am now realizing the many ways it conditioned my mind, that it was probably the reason I chose when presented with the opportunity, to come to America rather than go elsewhere. That it lived in my mind and spirit clouded over but not killed off by other thinking. It has, over the last few days, led me to re-examine my life, the choices I made; to see those choices through a different prism – not as random acts but as definite decisions; and to understand why I love my country of choice, warts and all.     Share on Facebook

• • LACMA opening Resnick Pavilion! 
Jay Weston, Huffington Post The Fountainhead  I have been increasingly fascinated of late by the contemporary architectural scene, since my ex, Annabelle, and her partner Marci are working on a film remake of the legendary Ayn Rand book and movie, The Fountainhead, and I have been preoccupied on how to take the dynamic story of architect Howard Ruark and update it.     Share on Facebook

• Amber Heard heats up The Joneses and pursues The Rum Diary 
Monsters and Critics The Fountainhead  [In The Joneses] twenty three year old Amber Heard, a rising star in Hollywood’s youth brigade, plays the sex obsessed fashionista daughter who beds men twice her age. Heard told Monsters & Critics that she immediately related to Jenn Jones. “The first act of the film you start to notice that something is really off. My character is desperately seeking affection. She realizes she’s just looking to understand love. She’s a vulnerable character that’s cheeky and tough on the outside. There were some layers there and I thought it was a real character that made sense not just to me but to a lot of girls.” Heard has ways of dealing with life’s ups and downs and she approached the role armed with things that inspire her. Amber Heard in The Joneses “My religion is philosophers, poets, artists, and thinkers, especially Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. I don’t need anything else.     Share on Facebook

• • First Impressions owner wants focus on industry 
Ocala Business Journal (FL) The Fountainhead  Profile of Frank Spontelli, president of First Impressions Printing.Q: What is your favorite business book? A: “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand, an amazing statement (made over 60 years ago) of where we may be headed as a nation.     Share on Facebook

• • The independent: Jeffrey Lichtenberg roars back with big deals for big names 
Jotham Sederstrom, New York Observer Atlas Shrugged  The Fountainhead  It wasn’t until the summer between his sophomore and junior years at Hobart College in upstate New York that Mr. Lichtenberg, until then a left-leaning English major, turned his gaze on the real estate industry. After reading The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, two peons to architecture and individualism by Ayn Rand, Mr. Lichtenberg began to apply the writer’s thoughts to his own life, much as Alan Greenspan and Warren Buffet famously did many years before him. “I came back a different person,” said Mr. Lichtenberg, who named his company “Fountainhead Enterprises” after the 1943 best seller. “I came back from wanting to live on a commune to wanting to build something.”     Share on Facebook

• • • Atlas Shrugged filming wraps up 
David Kelley, Atlas Society Atlas Shrugged movie  Atlas Shrugged  The Fountainhead  Image  I spoke with Dagny Taggart the other night. “It’s a huge honor to be part of this film,” said Taylor Schilling, who plays the heroine in John Aglialoro’s independent production of Atlas Shrugged. Tuesday evening, July 20, marked the completion of filming. We caught up with Aglialoro and his team in a weary but ebullient mood as shooting wrapped after an intense five-week schedule.     Share on Facebook

• • • LFM visits the set of Atlas Shrugged- Part I 
Govindini Murty, Libertas Film Magazine Atlas Shrugged movie  Anthem  Atlas Shrugged  The Fountainhead  The Virtue of Selfishness  We The Living  Image  Interview with Director Paul Johansson.[Q:] What is your approach to adapting “Atlas Shrugged” as a movie? [A:] You’re talking about an art form, a living breathing art form … “What is a sculpture?” … it’s everything you’ve taken away from it, and what’s left is the sculpture – that’s what a film is. We took some of the densest material available in literature … and we’ve decided that there are certain parts of that story that cannot be told with the amount of time that we have. We’re taking one third of the book – because this is going to be part one of three parts – or perhaps four parts depending on how they’re going to shoot it all – and we’ve taken what we think is the essential part of Part One – which is 127 pages to Wyatt’s Torch. That’s what we’re up to.     Share on Facebook

• Colorado GOP politics: From high heels to plagiarism 
Robert Weller, allvoices The Fountainhead  Though not nearly as comical [as the Republican CO US Senate nomination race], the race for the GOP nomination to succeed Democrat Bill Ritter, is even more likely to split party regulars and the Howard Roark crowd. Apologies to Ayn Rand.     Share on Facebook

• Tom Cruise 
David Thomson, The Guardian (London) The Fountainhead  Tom Cruise is 48. At that age, Gary Cooper had just made The Fountainhead, Bogart had done The Big Sleep and Montgomery Clift … well, he was dead.     Share on Facebook

• • Somalia/Uganda: Profiteers of terrorism other than those labeled “terrorists” 
Kiflu Hussain, Garowe Online The Fountainhead  Ayn Rand author of ‘The Fountainhead’ observed “The trouble with you, my dear and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless—You have no chance if it’s your enemy.”     Share on Facebook

• • • Haters go after the ‘Ground Zero mosque’ 
Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com Ayn Rand Institute  Atlas Shrugged  The Fountainhead  We The Living  Capitalism  Leonard Peikoff  Inaccurate  How does a mosque, or, more accurately, a Muslim community center, “objectively entail a threat to the rights of others”? According to Peikoff, all manifestations of Islam – the very idea of Islam – is “objectively” a threat to the United States. Therefore, by his “logic,” it’s okay to violate the property rights of Muslims – any and all Muslims. Indeed, killing them all would be a good thing, according to his sick perversion of Objectivism.     Share on Facebook

• Tucker Carlson will keep releasing, misrepresenting Journolist emails 
Alex Pareene, Salon - War Room The Fountainhead  Jonah Goldberg just thinks this is all funny, because lol liberals. “So much of it reads like dorm room b.s. from the student-government crowd,” he writes. Unlike his published work on THE Corner, which reads more like dorm room b.s. from the crowd that kept babbling about “The Fountainhead” every time they got high.     Share on Facebook

• • Against the grain: Greek Orthodox priest finds God in adventures 
Tonyaa Weathersbee, Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL) Atheism  The Fountainhead  After reading Ayn Rand’s book “The Fountainhead,” [Martin Ritsi] declared himself an atheist. “I believed that religion was being used to control you, and if you use your mind, you’d understand that religion is about controlling your mind,” Ritsi said. “As a young man searching for truth, I bought into that.” However, Ritsi said, he began to change once he entered college. He decided that, to be respectful to his mind, he had to allow for the possibility of God’s existence.     Share on Facebook

• • • Atlas Shrugged, the movie: The story behind the camera 
Bruce Watson, Daily Finance Atlas Shrugged movie  Atlas Shrugged  The Fountainhead  For actors and producers, Atlas Shrugged is a rich, attractive property with plenty of room for visual flair. For any director or cinematographer with a distinctive vision, it offers the opportunity to do battle with the corpse of a particularly strong-willed iconoclast and her legions of rabid fans.     Share on Facebook

• What to do, what to do 
Sean Scallon, The American Conservative The Fountainhead  There needs to be more work done by think thanks, university economics departments, or new institutions of some sort that can organize [...] ideas into policy proposals to give conservatives and libertarians more constructive things to do than read passages from the Fountainhead into the minutes of city council meetings.     Share on Facebook

• Readers’ picks on nation’s novel include a case for ‘Huck Finn’ 
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Fountainhead  Many readers responded to our query on July 4 to select what should be considered “America’s novel.” [....] Among the books that readers suggested were “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck, “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville, “Rabbit, Run” by John Updike, “The Fountainhead,” by Ayn Rand and “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne.     Share on Facebook

• • Modern, minimalist design showcases art 
Kara G. Morrison, Arizona Republic (Phoenix) The Fountainhead  Five years ago, Treg Bradley started interviewing local architects. He needed a home to showcase his growing modern-art collection and to provide a peaceful retreat surrounded by nature. When he met Cave Creek architect Michael P. Johnson, he knew he’d found the man who would create it. [....] He was this rugged individualist - very raw and authentic.” Johnson reminded him of Howard Roark, the fictional architect in Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” who refuses to compromise his artistic vision. “He hates it when I say that,” Bradley added. It’s an understatement to say Johnson is no fan of Ayn Rand, but he admits “rugged individualist” might fit.     Share on Facebook

• • Eva Mendes: More than just a sexy face 
CNN - The Marquee The Fountainhead  Allure points out that Mendes isn’t lacking for intellect: she name drops photographer William Eggleston and author Ayn Rand in the interview, calling “The Fountainhead” one of her favorite books.     Share on Facebook

• • Drink your tea 
Matt Kibbe, Reason The Fountainhead  Part of a debate: “Where do libertarians belong?”I for one hope we maintain our difference from Europe in continuing to live by the radical principles of individual rights and limits on collective government power. Is that trite? If so, I got my triteness from a guy named Howard Roark: “Our country, the noblest country in the history of men, was based on the principle of individualism, the principle of man’s ‘inalienable rights.’ It was a country where a man was free to seek his own happiness, to gain and produce, not to give up and renounce; to prosper, not to starve; to achieve, not to plunder; to hold as his highest possession a sense of his personal value, and as his highest virtue his self-respect.” Call me provincial, but I always loved that speech. I suppose fictional characters are not serious intellectual leaders, though.     Share on Facebook

• • Drunk Hulk unmasked 
Jason Boog, mediabistro.com - GalleyCat The Fountainhead  [Dumais says:] “Some of the jokes have offended people, which is something I find funny only because those same jokes were also aimed at me. For instance, months ago I made an Ayn Rand joke (‘DRUNK HULK FEEL PROUD! AND SELF RIGHTEOUS! LIKE TEENAGER WHO FINISH READING AYN RAND BOOK!’) that had quite a few people upset. As I was reading their reactions, I’m thinking, I was that teenager too! I’m confident if I re-read The Fountainhead today, I’d be walking around for a week with that Rand High, the one where you feel like you can take on the world. It’s what makes her books so great, whether you dig the philosophy or not. She writes the way Nigella cooks. You’re in the kitchen saying, ‘Yeah! I can cook like that! With ten pounds of butter! And I’m going to look sexy doing it too!.’”     Share on Facebook