French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has become the 14th French writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.On Thursday the Swedish Academy announced that Le Clézio had been awarded the $1.43 million...
Writer Ernest Hemingway's cats, all 50 descendants of his beloved pet 'Snowball', will be able to remain at the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum and freely roam the one-acre property in the Florida Keys. They had...
The National Union of Journalists in the UK has intervened after multiple complaints against Twice Magazine, a free independent lifestyle and entertainment publication headed by EiC Graham Gartside-Bernier and publisher Gary Greenwood."The main concern is a lack of payment...
"By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about...
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Wow...this is unbelievable...who cares. Maybe Chris Rock should play her...."Tina Fey was "likely" to play Gov. Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live," said a person close to NBC's sketch comedy show. ...
Negative and erroneous news were reportedly coming out the past weeks in the Philippines against a religious leader who is a staunch critic of the influential Philippine-based Iglesia ni Cristo. Citizen...
Contrary to widely held perception author of the novel The Enchantress of Florence Sir Salman Rushdie has missed the bus for this year's booker nomination. He has already won this award in 1981...
As NowPublic reported earlier this year, author JK Rowling filed a lawsuit against Steven Vander Ark for his attempt to publish a fan-created, but unauthorized, Harry Potter encyclopedia.Today it was announced that...
Tarzan's loyal and playful chimp Cheeta has his autobiography out in October and although not officially published yet has made the shortlist for the new Guardian book award. Now no one really believes that Cheeta...
* A critics interview with the making of the history making film Love & Suicide cast and crew, on their accomplishment in filming a feature length film in Havana, Cuba without the expressed consent of either government. LOVE & SUICIDEA Film by Lisa France A...
Mark Twain once lobbied the Associated Press to use phonetic spelling: "The heart of our trouble is with our foolish alphabet. It doesn't know how to spell, and can't be taught."Maybe since so many people are spelling poorly (I know most of my fellow university students had...
" Music icon, legendary soul singer/songwriter (who wrote the theme song for "Shaft"), producer, and actor, Isaac Hayes, 65, who began his music career in the early 1960s as a session player for numerous acts for...
UPDATE, August 5th, 2008: Russians are paying their final respects to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died on Sunday. A day-long vigil for the dissident Soviet writer is taking place at the Russian Academy of Science in...
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A few years ago I wrote a series of columns for AbsoluteWrite.com about How to Sell Your TV Show based on my own experiences as a television writer. I still get e-mail, questions and even some job offers from those columns. To my great shock, my articles rank on the first...
" When children's author Harry Horse and his terminally ill wife were found dead in each other's arms, the world accepted that they had taken their lives with painkillers in a suicide pact. But it has now been revealed that the writer and artist stabbed his...