It doesn’t take long before tragedy strikes. Childhood in the 19th century was never without the shadow of death, after all, and the Booths were not spared: “Sixteen years pass. The family grows, shrinks, grows. In 1838, the children are nine in number, counting the one who is about toRead More →
Die Hard screenwriter Jeb Stuart revealed there was a reason Eastwood didn’t want to take on the role. No one will deny that Clint Eastwood has had a fantastic career in the film industry as an actor and director, but in a world of assumptions, the question has always beenRead More →
MONIQUE HOOPER [email protected] Editor’s note: This performance has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. on November 29 due to inclement weather. Tickets already purchased will then be honoured. Fran Lebowitz has done billions of interviews, by her count. So when she sat down to talk to What’s Up!, our firstRead More →
Brandon Murphy, co-writer of Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, died at the age of 43. Friends of the writer and director told Deadline that he died on January 9. No cause of death has been disclosed. Murphy co-wrote the blockbuster Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard with his brother Philip and Tom O’Connor. It wasRead More →
[ad_1] To print Thursday 23 December 2021ABC News Radio Respected journalist and author Jeanne Didion died Thursday at her New York home from complications from Parkinson’s disease, her longtime editor confirmed to ABC News. She was 87 years old. Didion was known as one of the most incisive writers ofRead More →
[ad_1] Joan Didion, the journalist, novelist and screenwriter of films like 1976’s “A Star Is Born” died Thursday at her Manhattan home at the age of 87. The New York Times reported that the cause was Parkinson’s disease. Didion was born in Sacramento in 1934. The fifth generation Californian foundRead More →
[ad_1] Warning: this article contains spoilers. I was 15 when I finished my first novel. A set of crude words wrapped up in a Word document and a draft that summed up “cringe†as a concept, but a novel nonetheless. That’s when ambition crept into my head for the firstRead More →
[ad_1] Noah Gordon, an American author who was virtually unknown at home but whose novels on Jewish history, medicine and identity turned him into a literary luminary abroad, died Monday at his home in Dedham, Mass. He was 95 years old. His death was confirmed by his wife, Lorraine Gordon.Read More →
[ad_1] As a teenage novelist I read and re-read Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man, stunned by his depiction of a human on the fringes looking inward, while desperately trying to milk an ounce of his genius for my own drab drafts. Some three decades later, I found myself, a failedRead More →
[ad_1] Mort Sahl makes a joke at a press conference in London in 1961 (Photo: Keystone / Hulton Archive / Getty Images) Mort Sahl wasn’t just a stand-up comedian. You could say he was the man who invented stand-up comedy as we know it today – or at least yesterday.Read More →
[ad_1] The alluring and captivating world of modern burlesque is not often taken in the same frame as Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s classic Regency romance. With his first novel A certain attractionColorado author Vanessa King is changing that. The story tells Pride and Prejudice through the prism of theRead More →
[ad_1] Winifred Dunn was born in May 1898. Many sources claim that she was born in Vilas County, but her birthplace was Chicago. Her Oxford-educated father, an English immigrant and former secretary to British Prime Minister William Gladstone, moved the family to a secluded cabin on an island in SquirrelRead More →
[ad_1] The Situation of Poe by Phil Thomas I thought about the concept for a long time before deciding to write the novel, but I thought it was a story worth telling. BRANDON, Miss (PRWEB) 07 October 2021 It’s October, the scariest month of the year, and the perfect timeRead More →
[ad_1] Following the success of his Netflix documentary series Pretend it’s a town Legendary American satirist and author Fran Lebowitz has announced a European tour, which includes a date at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Thursday, July 7, 2022. Famous for her ruthless and ruthless spirit, Lebowitz roseRead More →
[ad_1] Renée Rosen is the bestselling author of “Windy City Blues” and “Park Avenue Summer”. She grew up in “a very traditional Jewish family” in the Midwest. It took her seventeen years to write her first novel, “Every Crooked Pot,” a semi-autobiographical story about the coming of age of aRead More →
[ad_1] “From the moment I saw him,” said Hendra, “I knew he was amazing.” Lemmings was adoringly examined in New York City, and then toured the United States. Belushi was not a moderating influence. Hendra, 3,500 miles from Quarr Abbey, neglected his Bible for more secular pastimes, including cocaine, infidelity,Read More →
[ad_1] Wallace Thurman, born Wallace Henry Thurman, was a novelist, essayist, editor, and playwright who played an important role in the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was the development of New York’s Harlem neighborhood into a center of excellence. This took place at the turn of the 20th century, andRead More →