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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' heading to Broadway, cross your fingers
A new stage version of Truman Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is aiming for Broadway, with "Game of Thrones" actress Emilia Clarke expected to play Holly Golightly. The last attempt to bring "Breakfast" to Broadway, more than 40 years ago, became the...
Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), Theater, Mary Tyler Moore, Rebecca (movie)
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Will 'The Master' command an Oscar for Joaquin Phoenix?
Liz Smith"WHY NOT go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" -- Frank Scully, the late Variety scribe IN DIRECTOR Paul Thomas Anderson's latest full-length film, "The Master" (his sixth) not only does he go out on a limb, but he allows two of our finest...Tags: Cults and Sects, Joaquin Phoenix, Academy Awards, The Master (movie), World War II (1939-1945)
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Gore Vidal dies at 86; iconoclastic author
Gore Vidal was impossible to categorize, which was exactly the way he liked it. The reading public knew him as a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels —from the historical "Lincoln" to the satirical "Myra Breckinridge" — and volumes of...
Tags: Melvyn Douglas, Washington, DC, U.S. House of Representatives, Fiction, World War II (1939-1945)
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Vanity Fair tackles significant issues
Liz Smith"THE GOVERNMENT'S attitude toward different professions is striking. With sports scandals, it zeros in on individuals. But when it comes to banks, federal authorities go after the institutions -- when they go after anything at all. The people at the...Tags: Karl Rove, Planned Parenthood, NASA, The New York Times, Liz Smith
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Book review: 'People Who Eat Darkness' is a masterful true crime tale
People Who Eat Darkness The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets of Tokyo — and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up Richard Lloyd Parry FSG Originals: 464 pp., $16 paper Americans have an advantage in reading "People Who Eat...
Tags: Book, British Airways Plc, England, Justice System, Japan
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Pithy posters for writers
Jacket CopyQuotes by authors are brought to life in a witty poster series by artist Evan Robertson, currently for sale on Etsy.... -
A Documentary About Singer/Songwriter Paul Williams Showing at Hartford's Real Art Ways
Paul Williams: Still Alive July 27, Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, (860) 232-1006, realartways.org Most viewers will spend about 75 percent of Paul Williams: Still Alive hating Stephen Kessler. The film is a documentary about Williams, the...
Tags: Frank Sinatra, David Bowie, Real Art Ways, The Carpenters (music group), Elvis Presley
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Author Gore Vidal dies: Was knows for best-selling novels 'Burr,' 'Myra,' more
VarietyThe prolific, and often controversial, writer Gore Vidal, who contributed to the theater, TV and film with such notable Broadway dramas as "The Best Man" and "Visit to a Small Planet" (both adapted from his original teleplays) and screen adaptations of...Tags: Fiction, Michael Panes, Talk Shows (genre), Pneumonia, William F. Buckley
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The enthralling, enlightening and infuriating Gore Vidal -- gone, but not resting, I bet!
Liz Smith"IT IS not enough to succeed. Others must fail," said Gore Vidal. Maybe he meant this. Maybe he didn't. Maybe he just meant it for some of those listed below. IT IS with a sigh of sadness that I bid farewell to my longtime friend and sometimes adversary,...Tags: Prescription Drugs, Snoop Dogg, Elizabeth Taylor, Alcohol Addiction, Gore Vidal
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Friends of the Libraries: Don't miss upcoming book sale
Everybody loves a book sale, and there will be one at the Costa Mesa Donald Dungan Library on July 14 and 15. On July 14, the action will go from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with most books priced from 50 cents to $1. On July 15, the sale will continue from noon...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Books, Verde (music group), Music Industry, Libraries
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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
Ray Bradbury dies at 91; author lifted fantasy to literary heights
Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered space-scapes have provided the world with one of the most enduring speculative blueprints for the future, has died. He was 91. Bradbury died Tuesday night, his daughter,...
Tags: William Shakespeare, Fiction, Big Black (music group), O. Henry, Jules Verne
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