AP
8 August 2013
Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos’s $250 million takeover of the Washington Post could spell good news for Booker Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro.
Bezos likes to start his product launches for Kindle and the like with an account of how The Remains of the Day is his favourite book, I’m told. The shtick on Stevens the butler is a neat gateway to his message of disruptive innovation.
Ishiguro being an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post seems an unlikely prospect but stranger things have happened. Twenty years ago The Remains of the Day was filmed by Columbia Pictures, following years of frustration, thanks to the failure of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s blockbuster The Last Action Hero, resulting in the studio temporarily going upmarket.
