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- Sean Connery on being a Scot and Scotland's influence on Hollywood - Times Online
Scotland provided the subject for America’s first feature film, The Execution of Mary Stuart, with Mary played by a man, at least up until the final cut. This created a far greater shock on its first screening in 1895 than Lumière’s train ...
- Column: Read the day away - U-Wire.com
Long before there were summer blockbusters or huge concerts in Chicago, there was summer reading. The rich and titled sat - no, reclined - on their estates, scanning John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and trying to look like they weren't checking out the ...
- Solzhenitsyn in Search of the Russia That Always Eluded Him - New York Times
Solzhenitsyn in Search of the Russia That Always Eluded HimNew York Times, United States - 9 minutes agoJoseph Brodsky, another great literary exile, once told me that writing poetry in Russian became difficult for him in America after the language ceased to ...
- Music Reviews for July 17 - Carroll County Online
In this image released courtesy of Elaine Mellencamp, musician John Mellencamp is shown. Mellencamp's latest CD is titled, "Life Death Love and Freedom." John Mellencamp, 'Life Death Love and Freedom' Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...
- Shandon Cường Phan, Lý Vương, Khánh Loan, Phạm Thông - Vietnam Review
Shandon Cường Phan, Lý Vương, Khánh Loan, Phạm ThôngVietnam Review - Aug 13, 2008The son of Ho Diep, one of Vietnam's most famous singers of classic poetry, Nguyen fell in love with Ngo in 1989 after reading a poem she wrote called ...
- Play sparks protest (Red Deer Advocate)
Members of a Kansas church known for protests at the funerals of those who have died of AIDS and of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq say they will be in Red Deer next week.
- Library to host “Poetry Open Mic” - Hannibal Courier-Post
The Hannibal Free Public Library will host its monthly “Poetry Open Mic” at 6 p.m. on June 26. Intended to encourage young poets to share their works, the program also provides an audience for more experienced poets. It is a no-cost, family ...
- Everyone has something to say - Austin Daily Herald
I’m not sure we are convinced of this while we are in school unless one works with the school newspaper if the school puts one out. I don’t think students are encouraged to write or to read for their own enjoyment or to write their own poetry. It ...
- My week: Derek Addyman - Daily Telegraph
Hay Festival opened today. It's our busiest fortnight of the year. My wife Anne and I have three shops to prepare: Addyman Books, Murder and Mayhem and The Addyman Annexe. We rethink layouts, replenish the shelves and buy in extra work by authors ...
- Robert Lewis Shayon, 95, Is Dead; Elevated Radio (New York Times)
Mr. Shayon wrote and produced groundbreaking radio programs in the 1940s and later became a longtime television critic for The Saturday Review.
- Admiring bog? - New Times SLO
Admiring bog?New Times SLO, CA - 7 hours agoFor Persoff, celebrating Dickinson’s poetry—and life—is a way of counterbalancing the vulgarity of modern culture. “If you feel, as I, that idealism of ...
- Volunteer marks 75 years of service - East Valley Tribune
Bob Nolte was just 16 when he was commissioned a minister in Volunteers of America in Rockford, Ill. Seventy-five years later, at the age of 91, Nolte can still be found ministering at a Volunteers of America facility in Tempe. Each Wednesday, he ...
- Boyd Tonkin: The Week In Books - Independent
Boyd Tonkin: The Week In BooksIndependent, UK - 8 hours agoIf Her Majesty felt the need for a soothing topic of conversation with the embattled Archbishop of Canterbury, she might have chatted about poetry. ...
- Ford marks 100th birthday of the Model T - The Associated Press
Ford marks 100th birthday of the Model TThe Associated Press - Jul 21, 2008RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — Ford Motor Co. is marking the 100th anniversary of the Model T, the first low-priced car that introduced motoring to the masses, ...
- BOOK NOTES: Tribute to the late Jonathan Williams planned (Asheville Citizen-Times)
ASHEVILLE - A tribute to recently deceased poet, photographer, publisher and Black Mountain College alumnus Jonathan Williams will be at 8 p.m. July 19 at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville.
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