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New releases: 'Hemingway & Gellhorn' glimpses literary icons
Hemingway & Gellhorn HBO, $19.97; Blu-ray, $24.99 The cartoonish excesses of writer Ernest Hemingway get blown up to the size of a Roy Lichtenstein painting in this very strange HBO movie. Nicole Kidman plays war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, who...
Tags: Ray Winstone, Damian Lewis, Epic (movie), Clive Owen, Cy Young Award
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Buy a Moleskine notebook, build an empire
The Moleskine notebook is a ubiquitous tool of the trade in writing and art circles. I’ve purchased a few dozen over the last few years. From the little tiny ones that are not much bigger than a credit card and fit in my shirt pocket; to the big...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, LEGO Group
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John F. Kerry embraces Europe
WASHINGTON -- When John Kerry’s political foes complained in 2004 that he “looked French” and ordered Swiss cheese on his Philadelphia cheese steaks, the Democratic presidential nominee began keeping his affinities for Europe bien...
Tags: Berlin (Germany), Mitt Romney, Arts and Culture, Literature, France
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Barnaby Conrad Jr. dies at 90; bullfighter, artist, saloonkeeper founded Santa Barbara Writers Conference
When Barnaby Conrad was nearly killed in a 1958 bullfight, his celebrity pals were buzzing about it at Sardi's in New York. "Did you hear about poor Barnaby?" Eva Gabor asked Noel Coward in her thick Hungarian accent. "He was terribly gored in Spain."...
Tags: Eva Gabor, Bars and Clubs, Authors, Frank Sinatra, Literature
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Jeanine Basinger examines movie marriage in 'I Do and I Don't'
Jeanine Basinger's "I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies" (Alfred A. Knopf: 432 pp., $30) is a breezy, fun excursion into Hollywood's presentation of matrimony, from the earliest days of cinema through the modern era. But rather than...
Tags: Katharine Hepburn, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Laws, Paul Weitz
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SAG Awards 2013: The complete winners and nominees list
Ben Affleck's "Argo," a drama about the Iranian hostage crisis, won the highest acting honor Sunday night at the 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards. The CIA thriller, which won best ensemble cast, also won the directing honor at the Golden Globe Awards two...
Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Golden Globe Awards, Bryan Cranston, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Jennifer Lawrence
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Letters: Sex abuse scandal's broken lives
Re "Charges unlikely for Mahony," "Mahony lacks atonement," Column, and "Mahony's moral obligations," Letters, Jan. 23 I got sick reading the front-page article detailing the unlikelihood that Cardinal Roger M. Mahony will face charges for concealing...
Tags: Roger M. Mahony, Roman Catholicism, Social Services, Religion and Belief, Christianity
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The Twitter Fiction Festival: Making the most of 140 characters
There's still time to read Twitter's first-ever Fiction Festival in real time; it began Wednesday afternoon and will continue around the clock until Sunday. It's the company's first official effort to organize and present a creative event that uses the...
Tags: Sociology, Authors, Festive Events, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Golden Globe nominations 2013: Nicole Kidman scores dual nods
Nicole Kidman scored a pair of Golden Globe nominations Thursday for two divergent performances that showcase the Oscar winner’s versatility and willingness to tackle challenging – even potentially degrading – roles in the name of drama....
Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Entertainment, Literature, Film Festivals, Clive Owen
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Hemingway's famous cats still under government control, court says
The federal government is the ultimate master of the roughly 40 cats, many with six toes, that lounge around the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Fla. A federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has the power...
Tags: Key West, Museums, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Arts and Culture, Statue of Liberty
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A dance with Castro's Cuba
HAVANA — "It's been 51 years since the event you Americans call the Bay of Pigs, but now Playa GirĂ³n is a popular beach destination for foreigners," the guide tells me. It is hard to imagine that the words "Bay of Pigs" could do anything but fill...
Tags: Havana (Cuba), Entertainment, Religion and Belief, Dance, Trinidad and Tobago
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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....
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