Truemors
Ingmar Bergman's Possessions Auctioned Off
Film icon Ingmar Bergman's personal belongings are fetching much higher prices than expected at a public auction in Sweden. Bergman's eight children of six different mothers inherited all his real estate,... 
created by Annina Bergman | 12 wks ago | updated 11 wks ago
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Author William Golding tried to rape teenager, have you?
"The Nobel laureate Sir William Golding, whose novel Lord of the Flies turned notions of childhood innocence on their head, admitted in private papers that he had tried to rape a 15-year-old girl during his... 
Frank McCourt Passes: A Tribute
What a father can learn from Angela's AshesBy Ethan Snyder, 16 July, The Examiner –" Frank McCourt, best selling author of Angela’s Ashes, is reportedly very ill and unlikely to survive his current bout with meningitis. McCourt’s brother, Malachy who is also an author...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 22 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago
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Author Frank McCourt dies
Frank McCourt was an Irish-American raconteur and memoirist whose abilities gained a world-wide audience only after entering retirement. Prior to springing to international acclaim, Frank had been a public school teacher for 30 years and was fondly regarded as a jovial and... 
Inquirer is now party to harassment of Ang Dating Daan preacher
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... 
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Uruguayan Writer Mario Benedetti Dies At 88
Famous Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti passed away from liver failure at the age of 88 on Sunday. Benedetti was know as one of Latin America’s most influential writers, having had authored numerous novels, poems, short stories and plays, among them “The Truce”, “Left... 
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 32 wks ago | updated 32 wks ago
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'Won't Write Any More Books'
Acclaimed Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose internationally-celebrated works of Nobel Prize-winning magic realist fiction have made him "one of the most significant authors of the 20th century", will... 
created by Jarrett Martineau | 38 wks ago | updated 38 wks ago
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Caught on film: India ‘not shining’
Arundhati Roy, India's celebrated writer of the novel 'The God of Small Things', that received a Booker Prize in 1997, is also India's very vocal social activist. Below is her piece on Slumdog Millionaire, which... 
created by rumana husain | 43 wks ago | updated 43 wks ago
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Thailand frees Australian writer
Thai authority have released the Australian writer, who was facing charges for the defamatory writing about the monarchy. " Harry Nicolaides, an Australian writer jailed in Thailand for defaming its monarch, has... 
India's Newest Motivation Guru
Can you sell ice to Eskimos? If your answer is negative, you must meet Jaswin Jassi, rising India's newest motivation expert. But then he’d ask you: "Why sell ice to Eskimos when you can sell life jackets to... 
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MICHAEL JACKSON has become a Muslim, is now Mikaeel.
"After a producer and song writer takled to him about their beliefs, and how they have become better people after they converted into muslim, Michael also like the idea of changing. His new name Mikaeel is the name of Allah's angels. " No oxygen in the IMF ventilator
"By Mosharraf ZaidiThe News InternationalBeing of Pakistani origin qualifies an IMF employee to be as much of a Pakistani economy expert, as being of Pakistani origin qualifies a child that eats a lot of Krispy Kreme doughnuts to be an expert in Pakistani child nutrition....
Hemingway's Cats Keep Purrfect Home
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...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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1189 views | 17 recommendations | 12 comments
How to Sell Your TV Show Idea
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...
created by TheCameraObscura | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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