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Staff Q&A: If you could read only one book for the rest of your life, what would it be?
The Baltimore Book Festival is coming up this weekend, so we asked our staff about their worn and dog-eared favorites.
•••• The King James Bible. Four hundred years later, it’s still the most beautiful thing ever written in...Tags: Vladimir Nabokov, Barbra Streisand, William Shakespeare, Apple iPhone, Baltimore Book Festival
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From The Baltimore Sun archives: Andy Griffith -- Not just a face in the crowd
Baltimore Sun reporterNOTE: This is a 2007 story from The Baltimore Sun's archives. Andy Griffith, 81 a week from tomorrow, confides that "when my wife, Cindy, and I go someplace, and I don't want to be recognized, she says, 'Don't talk!'" Hearing him boom across the phone...Tags: Ceremonies, Pies and Tarts, Elia Kazan, The New York Times, Andy Griffith
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Remarkable people, remarkable meetings in 'Hello Goodbye Hello'
Liz Smith"When Arthur Miller shook my hand I could only think that this was the hand that once cupped the breasts of Marilyn Monroe," says Barry Humphries, the comic Dame Edna. SIT BACK, reader, especially if you're a curiosity seeker, minor historian, and...Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Wayne, Prada, Noel Coward, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Paris glitters with romance, history and possibility
PARIS — Paris is a city where possibilities are endless, expectations are high, and no one doubts that magic can happen.
Anyone who saw Woody Allen's recent homage to the City of Lights, "Midnight in Paris," knows what I'm talking about. Allen's...Tags: Museums, Artists, Noel Coward, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Dining and Drinking
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Word power
Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...
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Anna Quindlen talks with Printers Row Live
With Mother’s Day on the horizon, it was an early gift for many of author Anna Quindlen’s fans as she communed with her Chicago peeps in these early days of a national book tour for her newly published memoir, “Lots of Candles, Plenty of...
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'Snow White's' Kristen Stewart still wants new 'East of Eden' pic
24 Frames"Snow White and the Huntsman" star Kristen Stewart, who has long said she loves "East of Eden," wants a new film version of the John Steinbeck classic. KStew made the comments in an interview with Garrett Hedlund, her costar in "On the Road."... -
The poetry of discussion
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Our Sulzer Regional Library Great Books Discussion Group has been meeting for more than 30 years. Annually, we pick a theme to guide our book selections and discussions. This year's theme is morality. Last year we read books dealing with...Tags: Poetry, Literature, Seamus Heaney, Anthony Powell, Clubs and Associations
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Book review: 'Karaoke Culture' by Dubravka Ugreši
Los Angeles TimesKaraoke Culture Dubravka Ugresic Open Letter: 324 pp., $15.95 paper Dubravka Ugresic does not like karaoke. That doesn't stop her from trying it, just as her resistance to celebrity doesn't stop her from putting her head through a cutout on a Hollywood...Tags: Clark Gable, YouTube, Croatia, Television, Los Angeles Times
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The Siren's Call: Apocalyptic world? Forget about it!
Los Angeles TimesMarcel Proust, the great author of memory, gets a swift kick in the pants in Dan Simmons' latest novel of an apocalyptic future, "Flashback" (Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown: 560 pp., $27.99). Remember all that stuff Proust wrote about memories returning to...Tags: Murder, Mexico, Behavioral Conditions, Civil Unrest, Los Angeles Times
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PASSINGS: Raul Ruiz
Raul Ruiz, 70, a Chilean-born filmmaker who made more than 100 films in his teeming, international career and worked to put cinema on an artistic par with literature, died Friday at a Paris hospital following complications from a pulmonary infection, said...Tags: John Malkovich, Marcello Mastroianni, Gustav Klimt, Catherine Deneuve, Drama (genre)
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They'll always have Paris
"Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light" Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $15.95
In the introduction, editor Penelope Rowlands recalls when she and her then-boyfriend first arrived in Paris. It took a while for the then-20-year-...Tags: Eugene Atget, Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris (movie), Benjamin Franklin, Tourism and Leisure
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