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John Updike, prize-winning writer of 'Rabbit' novels, dead at age 76
AP National WriterJohn Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76. Updike, a resident of Beverly Farms, Mass., died of...Tags: Fiction, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Health, Awards and Prizes, Sports
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Pilots: ABC Conjures Up 'Eastwick'
Zap2It.com"The Witches of Eastwick" has gone from novel to movie to stage musical, and now ABC is hoping the story will translate to television. The network has given a pilot order to a drama called "Eastwick" that's based on John Updike's book. NBC also got...Tags: Television, Health, Entertainment, Health and Medical Professionals, Eastwick (tv program)
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'Eastwick' Casts Spell on Lindsay Price
Zap2It.comABC's drama pilot "Eastwick" has found its second witch in Lindsay Price, which could be a bad omen for Price's current show, "Lipstick Jungle." Price joins Jaime Ray Newman in a lead role on "Eastwick," which is a loose adaptation of the John Updike...Tags: Television, Beverly Hills, 90210 (tv program), Entertainment, Lipstick Jungle (tv program), Eastwick (tv program)
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Pilots: NBC Courts 'Mogulettes'
Zap2It.comNBC already has one show about powerful New York women in "Lipstick Jungle." It's now developing another. The network is working with "Bergdorf Blondes" author Plum Sykes and former "Sex and the City" writer Amy Harris on a show called "Mogulettes,"...Tags: Television, Lost (tv program), Entertainment, Lipstick Jungle (tv program), ABC (tv network)
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A poison pen
Bloomberg NewsReading "The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal" is like watching a cobra devour forest vermin. Even if you don't have much feeling for the prey, you may pause at the thought of what might happen if the monster turned its attention on you. Not that Vidal...Tags: Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, George W. Bush, Italo Calvino, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
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Mark Sarvas' "Harry, Revised"
ere it not for the fact that Mark Sarvas' "Harry, Revised" is being promoted as a debut novel by the author of a highly regarded literary blog (The Elegant Variation), the uninformed reader of this work might be forgiven for assuming he had stumbled...Tags: Comedy (genre), Philip Roth, Radiology, Herbert Ross, Stockard Channing
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John Updike, Pulitzer-winning Author, Dies
NEW YORK -- John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America, died Tuesday. He was 76. Updike's death from lung cancer...Tags: Toni Morrison, Fiction, Harold Bloom, Book, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Drawing light from concrete and smoke
Sun ReporterNow every time I try to sleep I'm haunted by the sound Of firemen pounding up the stairs While we were running down. ... - from "The Bravest" by Tom Paxton Tom Paxton wrote "The Bravest" on Sept. 24, 2001 - a mere 13 days after the Twin Towers fell....Tags: Television, Air and Space Accidents, Bill Murray, Disasters and Accidents, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Readers of quality sportswriting bid John Updike adieu
WatchdogI know I'm two weeks late on this, but in memory of John Updike's death, I should post his most famous contribution to sportswriting. It's about Ted Williams, here....... -
ABC: The Line-Up
The TV Zone(Getty) Herewith the line-up, gang. And go to the jump for show description. Quickie (quickie) analysis: Courteney Cox! Rebecca Romijn! Reiko Aylesworth! Sonya Walger! Elizabeth Mitchell! And Patricia Heaton! You go, girls. Oh, and Kelsey Grammer too. DAY...Tags: New York City Police Department, Scott Wolf, 20 (tv program), Education, David Arquette
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The Ice Storm
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 17, 1997 More aptly named than it's prepared to acknowledge, "The Ice Storm's" glacial saga of New England WASPs behaving badly is as frigid as its name. Burdened with a story of some of the world's least interesting people going...Tags: New Canaan, Ted Hope, Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Tobey Maguire
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College Lit. 101
Special to SunSpotThere are certain staples of college literature classes. Profound novels by Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens and other titans of British and American literature, for example. Books that provide a perspective on class and racial...Tags: Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, Teaching and Learning, Christmas, Minority Groups
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