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Review: 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' by Lee Israel
tom.beer@newsday.comCAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Memoirs of a Literary Forger, by Lee Israel. Simon & Schuster, 129 pp., $19.95. In the title of this peppery little memoir, convicted forger Lee Israel asks our forgiveness. But is it absolution she's seeking? Or admiration?...Tags: Tallulah Bankhead, Louise Brooks, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Punishment, Dorothy Parker
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Richard Gere and Diane Lane are an enduring screen couple
HOLLYWOOD BRIEFONLY once in her career has Diane Lane ever been asked to meet an actor to ascertain if the pair would have enough onscreen "chemistry" to make the screen sizzle. That was for the 1984 movie "The Cotton Club," and director Francis Ford Coppola wanted Lane...Tags: Tom Hanks, Judd Apatow, Debra Winger, Chemistry, Celebrity
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Novelist Rewarding Obama Contributors With 'Mystery Bag' Of Books
Special To The CourantHas Barack Obama got the election in the bag? Ayelet Waldman hopes so. Waldman, the California novelist whose books include "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits" and the Mommy Track mystery series, is an ardent Obama supporter and is encouraging lovers...Tags: Political Candidates, Charity, Amy Bloom, Amy Tan, Shelton
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Chemistry between Gere, Lane endures
Tribune NewspapersHOLLYWOOD—Only once in her career has Diane Lane ever been asked to meet an actor to ascertain if the pair would have enough on-screen "chemistry" to make the screen sizzle. That was for the 1984 movie "The Cotton Club," and director Francis Ford...Tags: Judd Apatow, Tom Hanks, Debra Winger, Chemistry, Celebrity
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Clearing off my virtual desk for the weekend
Dining@LargeI get a lot of e-mails from regulars with great ideas for posts -- so many it's hard to get to them all in a timely fashion. First of all, thank you. I'm sorry if I've missed some. (This has......Tags: Federal Hill, Washington Post Company, Artscape, Safeway Inc., George Bush
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'The Women': Classic gets a face-lift, to no avail
Special to the Chicago TribuneIn George Cukor's 1939 movie "The Women," the female characters twitter and gabble like a shaken cage full of canaries. In the 1956 MGM musical remake "The Opposite Sex," they declaim their feelings, or belt them out in song. Diane English's new remake...Tags: Eva Mendes, Debi Mazar, Bill Johnson, Candice Bergen, Sex
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Life plan: Fill days then fill pages
Ihave a new career plan, and it involves finding something I can do every day for a year and then finding somebody who will pay me to write a book about what happens when I do. This appears to be a lucrative publishing niche. We can now read about guys...Tags: Jimi Hendrix, Meryl Streep, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Julia Child
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Liz Smith: Overheard at the theater
"I'm trying to schedule an MRI tomorrow. No, no, I don't want to wait until Friday. I could be dead by Friday!" I was at the N.Y. premiere of Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona and the above was part of a conversation overheard, by a man - an actor,...Tags: Diseases, Lincoln Center, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Harvey Weinstein
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Literary forger tells of her success in humorous memoir
Associated Press"She is a bright, talented actress," Noel Coward once wrote of Julie Andrews, "and quite attractive since she dealt with her monstrous English overbite." Pure Coward—except that it isn't. Banged out on an old Olympia typewriter in 1991, this...Tags: Upper West Side, Louise Brooks, Humphrey Bogart, Celebrity, Dorothy Parker
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Lara Vapnyar's 'Broccoli' nourishes the mind
Tribune NewspapersWhen Nora Ephron wrote her bitterly comic novel "Heartburn" and threw in a few recipes to sweeten the effect, she was devising a recipe for other authors to follow. Since then, novelists including Jan Karon, Laura Esquivel and Diane Mott Davidson have... -
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Want a man, or a worm?
As an evolutionary biologist, I look at New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's now-public sexual indiscretions and feel justified in saying, "I told you so." One of the most startling discoveries of the last 15 years has been the extent of sexual infidelity...Tags: Religious Leaders, Natural Science, Family, Newt Gingrich, Larry Craig
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