LOS ANGELES -- Hours before the Hollywood premiere of "Dear John" last week, best-selling author Nicholas Sparks was sitting in the expensive hotel room he'd been put up in, continually glancing at his iPhone as it lighted up with calls and text messages. "That's my literary agent," he said. "And...

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Hours before the Hollywood premiere of ''Dear John'' earlier this week, best-selling author Nicholas Sparks was sitting in the expensive hotel room he'd been put up in, glimpsing at his iPhone as it lighted up with phone calls and text messages.

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His stories about lovers and their wondrous deeds are hard to resist. Hollywood knows it -- so does he. Hours before the Hollywood premiere of "Dear John" earlier this week, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks was sitting in the expensive hotel room he'd been put up in, continually glimpsing at his iPhone as it lighted up with phone calls and text messages.

LOS ANGELES - Hours before the Hollywood premiere of "Dear John" earlier this week, best-selling author Nicholas Sparks was sitting in the expensive hotel room he'd been put up in, continually glimpsing at his iPhone as it lighted up with phone calls and text messages.

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