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Daniel Craig, a blond Bond?
Sun Movie CriticNow we know we're hitting the big time: James Bond has been seen on the streets of Baltimore and will be stationed here for at least another few weeks. British actor Daniel Craig, set to be introduced as the next 007 at a London news conference today,...Tags: Movies, Clive Owen, England, Ian Fleming, Timothy Dalton
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Coming this season
September Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star: TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts (David Spade) is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for the role of a "normal" guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything...Tags: Keanu Reeves, Greg Kinnear, Disasters, Gene Hackman, Bernie Mac
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Patt Morrison Asks: The poet, W.S. Merwin
An Idaho resort hotel's verdure is not the wild tumble around W.S. Merwin's beloved Hawaiian home, but disciplined grass and orderly stands of trees. Not, perhaps, the sort of trees Merwin had in mind when he wrote, "On the last day of the world I would...Tags: Movies, Robert Lowell, Science, Google+, File Sharing
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Long-lost Ted Hughes poem focuses on Sylvia Plath's suicide
Jacket CopyPoet Ted Hughes' long-lost poem "Last Letter" will be published Thursday in The New Statesman, BBC4 reported Wednesday afternoon. The poem directly addresses the suicide of his wife, the writer Sylvia Plath. Actor Jonathan Pryce read part of the poem........ -
'The Queen Mother' by William Shawcross
When I asked about reviewing "The Queen Mother: The Official Biography," the response I got was something like: "It's 1,100 pages long!" Yes, I said, in my most imperturbable royal voice. But that works out to only about 11 pages a year.
Queen...Tags: England, Wallis Simpson, Literature, Imperial and Royal Matters, Diana, Princess of Wales
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Paperback Writers: A view from the 'Heights'
Emily Brontë died in 1848, aged 30, leaving only one published book and some poems. That book, of course, is "Wuthering Heights" (recently issued in new editions, by Penguin and HarperCollins), a novel so strange and powerful that it sinks into the...Tags: Poetry, Wetlands, Twilight (book), Natural Resources, Death
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National Theatre goes global with 'Phèdre' broadcast
In his six years as head of the Royal National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner has made a name for himself with his bold moves. He has commissioned large-scale plays and productions dealing with hot-button political issues, he brought in a major sponsor to...Tags: Movies, England, Sarah Bernhardt, Global Expansion, Leonard Cohen
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A call to poets: stay alive
Jacket CopySometimes it seems as though poets, in particular, move in an endangered artistic world. Think Sylvia Plath, above; John Berryman, Anne Sexton. And, last month, Rachel Wetzsteon, an accomplished poet who took her own life at age 42. Writer Jennifer...... -
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath's son, Nicholas Hughes, has killed himself, 46 years after his mother committed suicide and almost 40 years to the day after his stepmother, Assia Wevill, did the same. He was 47. Plath's son, who was not married and had no children,...Tags: Fairbanks, Poetry, Colleges and Universities, Suicide, Death
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Requiem: 2007 passings of note
Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...Tags: CBS Corp., Jane Wyman, Chris Benoit, Government, Celebrities
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Brad Bird, 'Ratatouille's' Pied Piper
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterREMY, c'est moi? It's hard not to think that when meeting Brad Bird, "Ratatouille's" writer-director. He thoroughly identifies with his rat protagonist Remy, who yearns to be a chef in the heretofore unwelcoming kitchen of the legendary French restaurant...Tags: Movies, San Francisco, Steven Spielberg, Walt Disney, Animation (genre)
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Reasons to shiver: New in paperback
"The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III" edited by Philip Gourevitch (Picador) "Have you found any professional criticism of your work illuminating or helpful? Edmund Wilson, for example?" asks Julian Jebb, the guy sent by the Paris Review to interview...Tags: Movies, England, John Cheever, Edmund Wilson, Death
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