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Antonio Gaudi (SF Weekly)
This brief (72-minute) tribute to the visionary Spanish architect Gaudi (1852-1926) by Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) is a beautifully oblique cinematic biography that focuses more on the creations than the creator. Utilizing subtitles without dialogue, ethereal electronic sounds by Toru T...
Tammy Wynette: Redeeming a country queen (Salon.com)
She may not be worshiped like Dolly and Loretta, but the author of a new biography explains why she should be
Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal, By Lydie Salvayre (Independent)
Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal, as in the French writer Lydie Salvayre's other novels, treats us to a meditative work of fiction narrated by someone trying to find their foothold in the void. This time, Salvayre's void is high finance and the "free market". An unnamed female narrator has agreed to write the authorised biography of the richest man in the world, a fast-food ...
Biography (MI6)
His first work on a film set was onboard Orson Wells' "The Third Man" (1949), where he was an assistant to the sound department on location. Almost 40 years later Glen would relive the memories on this production as his crew for " The Living Daylights " would shoot at the Prater Ferris wheel in Vienna - a location synonymous with "The Third Man".
Franken comic book biography coming soon (5 Eyewitness News St. Paul)
Al Franken's life story -- from comedian to senator -- will be told through pictures. A comic book about Franken's life is coming out in...
SAILOR BIOGRAPHY (International Sailing Federation)
First event won Auckland Secondary Schools Regatta. (Opti)
Labour's lost loves: art and poetry (Guardian Unlimited)
Michael Foot was a name I knew long before I was old enough to vote Labour . My dad's fading paperback copy of the first volume of Foot's biography of Aneurin Bevan was one of the familiar volumes on the bookshelves at home. I don't think I knew he was a politician, but I did know he was a writer.
'JihadJane' recruited in US, Europe, Asia:prosecutors (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A US woman operating online under the name "JihadJane" recruited jihadist fighters in the United States, Europe and Asia in a bid to carry out terror plots "or die trying," prosecutors said.
'JihadJane' arrested for terror recruiting (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A US woman operating online under the name "JihadJane" recruited jihadist fighters in the United States, Europe and Asia in a bid to carry out terror plots "or die trying," prosecutors said Tuesday.
Katharine Hepburn from her new biography: 'I've had a long and fine life' (Erie Times-News)
The latest biography of Katharine Hepburn -- "I Know Where I'm Going: Katharine Hepburn" (Simon Schuster, $26) by Charlotte Chandler -- is very close to an autobiography, since much of the book comes from a series of interviews that Chandler recorded with the actress during the 1970s and '80s.
