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	Questions & Answers: Potboiler
		It was a stone heated in a fire and dropped into a pot of liquid in order to warm it.
		An artistic potboiler served the not wholly unrelated function of bringing in some quick money to keep the home fires burning and the cooking pots boiling.
		So it was a work produced for strictly commercial reasons rather than from any artistic impulse.
	www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-pot1.htm (433 words)

	Potboiler Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography @ Local Color Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A potboiler is an artistic work (usually written) created for the sole purpose of making money quickly or to maintain a steady income for the artist, thus implying that artistic values were subordinate to saleability.
		The word was derived from "to boil the pot": in other words, the author wrote the book to keep a pot of food boiling.
		One of the most famous potboilers is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
	www.greatartworks.com /encyclopedia/Potboiler (330 words)

	Potboiler
		pot·boil·er: a usually inferior work (as of art or literature) produced chiefly for profit.
		The potboiler is an expedient device of the for-profit writerly crowd.
		But I’m not writing my potboiler with the expectation of grabbing a few quick greenbacks since nobody is paying me to write.
	www.freecannon.com /potboiler.htm (655 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A rather unusual release, Potboiler by Robotheart takes EMB and industrial sound structures and twists them around to create something totally different.
		The beats are the more danceable, and gave you a full feeling that you might not get in the other tracks.
		"Potboiler" is the most danceable song as well, and my personal favorite on the album.
	www.angelfire.com /ny2/graveconcerns/robotheart.html (291 words)

	Sense of Soot: 03/06/2005 - 03/12/2005
		From context, I'd always thought a potboiler was the kind of work that ratcheted up suspense, at the expense of plausibility, for maximum page-turning, popcorn-crunching excitement.
		Now I can't consider even my own pulp fiction as a potboiler, even though it's of dubious quality and intended to broadly entertain, I haven't recognized even the rumor of income from it.
		With this corrected definition, columns for hiking magazines, resumes, credit card marketing letters, and dishwasher instruction manuals might all be potboilers, reflecting the current range of inferior arenas and results to which writers devolve for sustenance.
	senseofsoot.blogspot.com /2005_03_06_senseofsoot_archive.html (1200 words)

	Stone Junction: An Alchemical Potboiler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Aptly subtitled "an alchemical potboiler," and smartly crafted, Dodge's ( Not Fade Away) third novel may be his first cult classic.
		The story takes a mother, her son, and a group of diverse characters all over the US on an outrageous scheme.
		It is described as an alchemical potboiler, which it clearly is, so expect magical and inexplicable events.
	www.rollingfelony.com /car-books-reviewed/0802135854.html (2304 words)

	Bookreporter.com - 2ND CHANCE by James Patterson with Andrew Gross
		"Potboiler" is a descriptive and occasionally derogatory term in literary circles.
		It normally applies to books that don't begin with the words "Call me Ishmael," books that are short on memorable prose and long on explosions, karate, and/or heaving bosoms.
		However, writing a potboiler isn't easy; things have to keep moving, there has to be something happening every third page or so.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0446612790.asp (621 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: potboiler
		Through it O'Neill latched on to a perennial source of income, but the promise of his youth was essentially squandered on a potboiler.
		If reading and travel are two of life's most rewarding experiences, to combine them is heavenly.
		I don't mean sitting on a beach reading the latest potboiler, a fine form of relaxation but not exactly mind-expanding.
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2005/03/12.html (109 words)

	Native American Stories -- Books and Etexts
		He wrote dime novel type westerns, potboiler stories -- and one more sensitive Western novel ( Three Brothrs), in which the Indian themes are very muted, but often the downfall of mixed-blood, acculturatd characters comes about from forgetting that respect for the land is their heritage.
		He wrote potboiler dime novels and stories like this for his living..
		A little less of a potboiler (but still typical pulp).
	www.kstrom.net /isk/stories/ebooks.html (1394 words)

	I'd love to do that one potboiler: Konkona Sensharma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mumbai, Jan 12 (IANS): She has starred in "Mr & Mrs Iyer" and now "Amu", both sensitive films that deal with communal riots, but Konkona Sensharma says quite candidly that she can't do a film "just for its message".
		Let me tell you, I get all kinds of films, though not much potboilers.
		But I'd love to do that one potboiler.
	www.nowrunning.com /news/news.asp?id=2315 (688 words)

	Saudi-based Pakistani singer to lend voice to Bollywood potboiler
		BOMBAY, Oct 7 (AFP) - Pakistani singer Amir Jamal will soon be heard across rival India as he lends his voice to a Bollywood potboiler.
		Jamal, who lives in Saudi Arabia's western city of Jeddah, will pitch in at least two songs for the crime mystery thriller "Murder", produced by Mukesh Bhatt who has a string of hits to his credit from over the past couple of decades.
		It also stars newcomers such as Imran Hashmi, Ashmit Patel and Malika Sherawat, while the director's cap will be worn by Anurag Basu.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/du/Qlifestyle-india-pakistan.RYQV_DO7.html (600 words)

	the Potboiler
		So we felt it was the perfect name for the “news” department of Hockey Attitude.
		The ironic twist is that we’ve never seen a profit...
		Below is a list of the Potboiler’s contributors.
	www.hockeyattitude.com /html/the_potboiler.html (115 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the origin of "potluck"?
		Meal leftovers would be put into a pot and kept warm, and could be used to feed people on short notice.
		Another related term, in a way, is "potboiler." A potboiler is a specimen of hack literature, generally produced quickly using recycled situations and characters to bring in some cash and keep the author's pot boiling.
		Like the potluck, a potboiler is a bit of a mishmash, not without its tasty aspects, but hardly something you'd mistake for gourmet.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mpotluck.html (323 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Robot Heart: PotBoiler
		The mutating synths find inspiration in such diverse genres as hard-hitting industrial and electronic synth pop, creating a tantalizing array of melodious sounds.
		There are even traces of Aphex Twin's remarkable genius coursing through a few of PotBoiler 's tracks.
		However, the vocals need to be completely overhauled -- or replaced with looped samples, or something else less detracting from the music.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=10827650311185789 (346 words)

	The Potboiler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, this issue of The Potboiler, I think, is an improvement on the last issue..
		I would like to keep the "semi-formal" atmosphere that is apparent in my article descriptions (a suggestion from a reader out there somewhere), and will continue to accept article submissions from everyone around the globe.
		With this being the first issue of the Potboiler in 1997, it seemed like a good time to look back one last time on some of the top volleyball stories of the past year before they slip into memories.
	www.volleyball.org /rolly/potboiler.html (4587 words)

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		Burning the Flag by David A. Garrett Jr.
		A potboiler, by definition, requires no research) that Charles Dickens cranked out A Christmas Carol strictly for the pounds sterling opportunity.
		It seems to have stood up pretty well over the years.
	www.elibertarian.com /display2.php?id=128 (723 words)

	The New York Times > Books > Revisiting a Potboiler You Can't Improve?
		So it should come as no surprise that his new book, "The Godfather Returns," has seemed to some critics to be fairly lackluster.
		Winegardner shies away from the potboiler element, his descriptions more dutiful than richly imagined.
		The sex scenes are not as good as the original's, and his dialogue seldom equals the operatic grandeur of, say, the great aria the Don delivers to the heads of the Five Families when he's seeking peace: " What manner of men are we then, if we do not have our reason?"
	www.nytimes.com /2004/11/16/books/16godf.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=412424c50d081493&ex=1258347600&partner=rssnyt (700 words)

	Ottenhiemer Potboiler: mp3 downloads, sheet music and mp3s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ottenhiemer Potboiler MP3 Downloads (mp3s, WMA and AAC also)
		Search for Ottenhiemer Potboiler on Amazon free download center.
		Search for Ottenhiemer Potboiler sheet music at Amazon.
	www.hitsquick.com /music/Artist/Potboiler,Ottenhiemer (186 words)

	Sex and the Ville
		Molière’s steamy potboiler Don Juan gets a crude revival; the RSC’s epic treatment of Midnight’s Children is no more comprehensible than the Salman Rushdie novel.
		olière’s Don Juan (“DOM JUAN” in the author’s spelling) was a potboiler contrived hastily to fill a gap between the banned Tartuffe and the unfinished Misanthrope.
		Except for a couple of powerful scenes and speeches, the play is mostly routine rhetoric or slapstick, though not without an underlying seriousness totally lacking from Bartlett Sher’s crude production.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/theater/reviews/n_8539 (1147 words)

	Potboiler
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		Potboiler: An Amateur's Affair with La Cuisine (Robert Canzoneri)
		A middle-aged English professor takes it into his head to learn to cook.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/cookbooks/60522 (311 words)

	Dolakia brothers’ murder: A potboiler from real life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dolakia brothers’ murder: A potboiler from real life
		THE Dolakia brothers’ story is the stuff Bollywood potboilers are made of.
		The Gujarati duo began life as sons of a small-time cloth merchant in Null Bazaar.
	cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=42079 (490 words)

	Oh!pinion»Blog Archive » Jet full of money at core of Iraq potboiler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		Jet full of money at core of Iraq potboiler
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	wpblog.ohpinion.com /?p=126 (668 words)

	New York Daily News - Movies - Jack Mathews: Clint a ticker picker-upper who gets justice for donor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Like the fine old shoe that he is, Clint Eastwood is all wrinkles and comfort in the role of retired FBI agent Terry McCaleb in his and Oscarwinning screenwriter ("L.A. Confidential") Brian Helgeland's adaptation of the Michael Connelly best seller "Blood Work."
		Connelly's better-than-routine potboiler has a high-concept premise built for the movies, and it's the first of the former L.A. Times reporter's 11 crime novels to make the journey from bookshelf to big screen.
		The story's intricate design involves a retired cop with a heart problem, a serial killer who craves the limelight and the sister of a woman who was both the killer's last victim and the donor of the cop's new heart.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/movies/story/9444p-8895c.html (745 words)

	Baltimore Afro-American: Cold War classic updated as Gulf War potboiler@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cold War classic updated as Gulf War potboiler
		In 1959, when Richard Condon wrote The Manchurian Candidate, the world was
		political potboiler readily resonated with a country already vigilant about
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:104727488&refid=ip_almanac_hf (153 words)

	L.A. wiretap flap's become a potboiler of the first order / Scandal's widening scope rivals Tinseltown's filmed ...
		L.A. wiretap flap's become a potboiler of the first order / Scandal's widening scope rivals Tinseltown's filmed whodunits
		L.A. wiretap flap's become a potboiler of the first order
		Los Angeles -- When the news broke last year that the celebrity private investigator Anthony Pellicano was himself under police investigation, many here saw it as a delicious dollop of Tinseltown scandal to enliven dinner party gossip.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/16/MNGFI33BUN1.DTL (978 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Delia Smith beaten to top spot in potboiler challenge
		Delia Smith beaten to top spot in potboiler challenge
		Critical eye: The long and the short of tall stories
		Delia Smith has been beaten to the top spot in the search to find the most useful recipe book ever written.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,1537366,00.html (592 words)

	Andrew Fox : Andrew Fox
		Having never lost my love for SF, fantasy, and horror, I thought it would be a lark (a possibly lucrative, pay-the-rent lark) to write a quick, really pulpy book.
		Naïve little neophyte that I was, I figured, “Selling a horror potboiler’s got to be a whole lot easier and faster than selling a literary novel!”
		Anyway, the afternoon I thought I might get canned (I didn’t end up being on the layoff list after all), I went to lunch at the food court at New Orleans Center and had this nutty vision of Civil War river ironclads battling enormous fire demons.
	www.andrewfoxbooks.com /af.htm (2609 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Hale: Old potboiler of a tale has a modern message
		Hale: Old potboiler of a tale has a modern message
		Old potboiler of a tale has a modern message
		A couple of the customers fussed at me because I admitted the other day that I'd never read the folk story about the porridge pot that wouldn't stop boiling.
	www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/hale/3001858 (1181 words)

	New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Lloyd Grove's Lowdown: Presidential plotboiler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Kerry for 20 months in the early 1990s - former Harvard graduate student Lee Whitnum - tells me she has written a novel in which a Kerry-like character tries to become President.
		The fortysomething Whitnum - who received her master's in education from Harvard and uses the pen name Lee Roystone - describes "The Hedge Fund Mistress" as part financial potboiler, part political thriller and part romance.
		Kerry, she revealed to the Daily News this week, liked to cook seafood dinners for them in his Beacon Hill apartment and whisper sweet nothings in her ear - in French - during moments of passion.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/gossip/story/223477p-192002c.html (936 words)

	Quick Reviews: Red Corner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In addition, the CGI backgrounds that transport the film to China are an impressive use of the technology (Gere, because of his pro-Tibet politics, cannot enter the PRC).
		However, a lot of this story could have been cut out, and the conclusion seems ripped from a potboiler paperback.
		Good picture and 5.1, informative commentary track with director John Avnet.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/redcorner.q.html (115 words)

	William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) -- King of the Historical Potboiler: A Brief Biography
		William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) -- King of the Historical Potboiler: A Brief Biography
		, William Harrison Ainsworth turned out so many historical romances over his sixty-year career as a writer that to his contemporaries he was the king of the historical potboiler.
		Today, Ainsworth, whose narrative style reminds one of Sir Walter Scott's, is chiefly remembered for popularizing the story of the highwayman Dick Turpin in Rookwood (1834) and the legend of Herne the Hunter in Windsor Castle (1843).
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/ainsworth/bio.html (2346 words)

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