Good grief, it's Olivia Colman – drop everything and run, you fools! Wonderful actress she may be, but as a harbinger of doom, Colman is right up there with two-headed frogs and yolkless scotch eggs. Her appearance in a serious drama usually means death, mayhem and much rending of garments. So it proved in *Run*, the quartet of linked dramas on Channel 4 last week. Colman, mistress of despair, was only in the first one, playing Carol, downtrodden single mum to two louts. But she made her hour count, misery swirling around her like a turd in a blender. Her boys beat a stranger to death, her ex takes decisive action by punching her in the stomach, and she drinks herself to sleep every night after a bit of quality swearing.
Reported by Independent 5 days ago.
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TV review: Run - Abandon all hope – here comes Olivia Colman
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Olivia Munn Defends Her Female ‘Newsroom’ Costars Against Critics
Since it’s debut last summer, Aaron Sorkin‘s HBO drama The Newsroom has left critics with a common complaint: the so-called “women problem,” a term many use to describe what they think is Sorkin’s disparaging writing of the women. But cast member Olivia Munn, who stars as the brilliant-but-beautiful financial whiz Sloan Sabbith, does not see...Read more»
Reported by Celebuzz 4 days ago.
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Olivia Palermo says accessories are key
Olivia Palermo believes accessories are the most important part of an outfit. The American socialite never tries to dress for anyone other than...
Reported by ContactMusic 4 days ago.
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Olivia Munn reveals eyelash-pulling disorder
Washington, July 21 : Olivia Munn has revealed that she suffers from a severe anxiety disorder that causes her to pull out her own eyelashes.
Reported by newKerala.com 4 days ago.
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Family ties for helpful Olivia
This is Plymouth --OLIVIA Boulting has been working for the Connells Mutley office for four months and "always enjoyed working with people and had an interest in property for a long time so it just seemed to work".
Though Olivia was born in Essex, her parents moved around a lot as they were both in the police force. They eventually settled in Plymouth and Olivia attended Plymstock School and Ivybridge Community College.
She later studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Plymouth College of Art.
She loves living in Plymouth: "It's close to the sea and to the moors! I love the outdoors and there's so much to do. Plymouth has a great nightlife, too."
Olivia loves Victorian terrace houses and Georgian architecture and has a great passion for property.
"I'm a big people person and I enjoy matching people to their perfect property. As I deal with a lot of first-time buyers, I know it can be extremely daunting buying your first property, so I'm glad I can be here to give advice and make the process so much smoother!
"First-time buyer activity is improving with the help of government schemes like the Help to Buy and Shared Ownership. We've also got a continued strong buy to let activity in the market which is great as that's our two core buying groups.
"We have great confidence in the market but we are also seeing a shortage of new stock which is becoming a concern as there is such a great activity in selling. In general properties are selling quicker and closer to asking price."
On a Friday evening, after a week of selling properties, Olivia likes nothing better than taking her dogs for a walk on the beach or having a catch up with friends.
If she had a dream date it would be going paintballing with Johnny Knoxville and for a dinner party the choice of guests would be "Jake Gyllenhaal (because he is a gorgeous man!), Dawn French (she is just a genuinely nice person and I think she would make great dinner conversation) and Karl Pilkington (he would have me in stitches for the whole meal!)".
Olivia has three brothers and two sisters and another recent addition to the Connells office was one of her brothers, Cole Lockley. "We're really close. We're only 11 months and three weeks apart and it's good having the same interests."
Her tip for house seekers is to "buy sooner rather than later as property prices are starting to rise, also view a good selection before making an informed decision.
"Bit obvious I know but make sure you have good value for money!" Reported by This is 20 hours ago.
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Dancing trio keep it strictly in the family
This is Hull and East Riding --THREE generations of ballroom dancers are keeping the tradition "strictly" in the family.
"Glam-mother" Lynn Bailey, her daughter Vicky D'Arcy, and Vicky's son James are all ballroom dancers.
The trio attend the Batten- Bettison School of Dance in east Hull and already have several medals under their belts.
For grandmother Lynn, 53, the appeal is mainly in the fashion.
"I love dancing, I like it for exercise and my third reason for doing it is the shoes," she said.
"I have rather a lot of dance shoes now in all different colours.
"I must admit, though, the 3in heels are a little bit high for me now and I've had to go down to 2.5in."
Lynn was a dancer when she was a young girl but, when she became a teenager, other things got in the way and the hobby was stopped.
But then, last year, she took part in Dove House Hospice's Strictly Learn To Dance and her love for all things Latin, cha-cha and samba was rekindled.
"I took it up where I'd left off and loved it," said Lynn.
"In Dove House's Strictly, a gentleman had to drop out, so my daughter's husband stepped in.
"I got chatting to one of the tutors, Yvonne, and it turned out she'd taught me before.
"After the competition, I said to my daughter, 'Why don't you come and have a go?' and it went from there."
The dance classes involve a range of ballroom dance styles, from fox trot to samba.
Vicky, 32, said: "I initially went along to give mum support.
"We started doing the social classes together and I quite enjoyed it, so I decided to get more involved and started doing the exams for medals."
Almost 18 months on, the three dancers have racked up about ten medals.
Griffin Primary pupil James, five, has two medals. He said: "I like the music. When we go to class, we sit down and then we warm-up, then we do some routines. I like all the routines.
"I like grandma and mum going, too."
So, is it nice having someone older to show you what to do, or does James end up teaching his grandma and mum?
"It's a bit of both," he said.
Even younger members of the family are now starting to catch the dancing bug.
James's sister Olivia, three, has started watching the classes and sometimes joins in for a few steps.
Vicky said: "James enjoys it and looks forward to going.
"He has two medals, the same as me, so there is a little bit of friendly competition between us.
"I think he would like to start doing competitions. At the dance school, a little girl's mother asked if James would be her partner and he seems quite excited about the idea.
"Olivia comes with us now, too, and she joins in the warm-up to the Jelly On A Plate song."
Vicky says she thinks the fact there are three generations is quite unique.
She said: "I think it is unusual we all have medals, as not many adults do those – you usually get the children doing them.
"Most people think you only dance when you're a kid, and I must admit that learning as an adult is a bit harder, but it is really enjoyable and good fun."
When they are twirling round the dance floor, not only are the family having "good fun" they are burning off a few calories too.
Lynn, who works as a quality manager in Greencore's cakes and desserts team, said: "We're starting work on the Christmas cakes range at work, so I need the dancing to burn them off." Reported by This is 18 hours ago.
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Strictly Come Dancing fever grips three generations of Hull family
This is Hull and East Riding --
THREE generations of ballroom dancers are keeping the tradition "strictly" in the family.
"Glam-mother" Lynn Bailey, her daughter Vicky D'Arcy, and Vicky's son James are all ballroom dancers.
The trio attend the Batten- Bettison School of Dance in east Hull and already have several medals under their belts.
For grandmother Lynn, 53, the appeal is mainly in the fashion.
"I love dancing, I like it for exercise and my third reason for doing it is the shoes," she said.
"I have rather a lot of dance shoes now in all different colours.
"I must admit, though, the 3in heels are a little bit high for me now and I've had to go down to 2.5in."
Lynn was a dancer when she was a young girl but, when she became a teenager, other things got in the way and the hobby was stopped.
But then, last year, she took part in Dove House Hospice's Strictly Learn To Dance and her love for all things Latin, cha-cha and samba was rekindled.
"I took it up where I'd left off and loved it," said Lynn.
"In Dove House's Strictly, a gentleman had to drop out, so my daughter's husband stepped in.
"I got chatting to one of the tutors, Yvonne, and it turned out she'd taught me before.
"After the competition, I said to my daughter, 'Why don't you come and have a go?' and it went from there."
The dance classes involve a range of ballroom dance styles, from fox trot to samba.
Vicky, 32, said: "I initially went along to give mum support.
"We started doing the social classes together and I quite enjoyed it, so I decided to get more involved and started doing the exams for medals."
Almost 18 months on, the three dancers have racked up about ten medals.
Griffin Primary pupil James, five, has two medals. He said: "I like the music. When we go to class, we sit down and then we warm-up, then we do some routines. I like all the routines.
"I like grandma and mum going, too."
So, is it nice having someone older to show you what to do, or does James end up teaching his grandma and mum?
"It's a bit of both," he said.
Even younger members of the family are now starting to catch the dancing bug.
James's sister Olivia, three, has started watching the classes and sometimes joins in for a few steps.
Vicky said: "James enjoys it and looks forward to going.
"He has two medals, the same as me, so there is a little bit of friendly competition between us.
"I think he would like to start doing competitions. At the dance school, a little girl's mother asked if James would be her partner and he seems quite excited about the idea.
"Olivia comes with us now, too, and she joins in the warm-up to the Jelly On A Plate song."
Vicky says she thinks the fact there are three generations is quite unique.
She said: "I think it is unusual we all have medals, as not many adults do those – you usually get the children doing them.
"Most people think you only dance when you're a kid, and I must admit that learning as an adult is a bit harder, but it is really enjoyable and good fun."
When they are twirling round the dance floor, not only are the family having "good fun" they are burning off a few calories too.
Lynn, who works as a quality manager in Greencore's cakes and desserts team, said: "We're starting work on the Christmas cakes range at work, so I need the dancing to burn them off." Reported by This is 16 hours ago.
THREE generations of ballroom dancers are keeping the tradition "strictly" in the family.
"Glam-mother" Lynn Bailey, her daughter Vicky D'Arcy, and Vicky's son James are all ballroom dancers.
The trio attend the Batten- Bettison School of Dance in east Hull and already have several medals under their belts.
For grandmother Lynn, 53, the appeal is mainly in the fashion.
"I love dancing, I like it for exercise and my third reason for doing it is the shoes," she said.
"I have rather a lot of dance shoes now in all different colours.
"I must admit, though, the 3in heels are a little bit high for me now and I've had to go down to 2.5in."
Lynn was a dancer when she was a young girl but, when she became a teenager, other things got in the way and the hobby was stopped.
But then, last year, she took part in Dove House Hospice's Strictly Learn To Dance and her love for all things Latin, cha-cha and samba was rekindled.
"I took it up where I'd left off and loved it," said Lynn.
"In Dove House's Strictly, a gentleman had to drop out, so my daughter's husband stepped in.
"I got chatting to one of the tutors, Yvonne, and it turned out she'd taught me before.
"After the competition, I said to my daughter, 'Why don't you come and have a go?' and it went from there."
The dance classes involve a range of ballroom dance styles, from fox trot to samba.
Vicky, 32, said: "I initially went along to give mum support.
"We started doing the social classes together and I quite enjoyed it, so I decided to get more involved and started doing the exams for medals."
Almost 18 months on, the three dancers have racked up about ten medals.
Griffin Primary pupil James, five, has two medals. He said: "I like the music. When we go to class, we sit down and then we warm-up, then we do some routines. I like all the routines.
"I like grandma and mum going, too."
So, is it nice having someone older to show you what to do, or does James end up teaching his grandma and mum?
"It's a bit of both," he said.
Even younger members of the family are now starting to catch the dancing bug.
James's sister Olivia, three, has started watching the classes and sometimes joins in for a few steps.
Vicky said: "James enjoys it and looks forward to going.
"He has two medals, the same as me, so there is a little bit of friendly competition between us.
"I think he would like to start doing competitions. At the dance school, a little girl's mother asked if James would be her partner and he seems quite excited about the idea.
"Olivia comes with us now, too, and she joins in the warm-up to the Jelly On A Plate song."
Vicky says she thinks the fact there are three generations is quite unique.
She said: "I think it is unusual we all have medals, as not many adults do those – you usually get the children doing them.
"Most people think you only dance when you're a kid, and I must admit that learning as an adult is a bit harder, but it is really enjoyable and good fun."
When they are twirling round the dance floor, not only are the family having "good fun" they are burning off a few calories too.
Lynn, who works as a quality manager in Greencore's cakes and desserts team, said: "We're starting work on the Christmas cakes range at work, so I need the dancing to burn them off." Reported by This is 16 hours ago.
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Worth School Student Wins Place at English National Ballet
Worth School student, Olivia Wilson, wins summer school place with the world renowned dance company, The English National Ballet.
(PRWEB UK) 25 July 2013
Current Worth School student, Olivia Wilson, is all set to join the prestigious http://www.ballet.org.uk/ English National Ballet for the summer period. The English National Ballet is one of the four major ballet companies in the UK which considers itself a “bold company of ambitious dancers, choreographers, costumiers, musicians and designers”. The dance company was set up in 1950 by Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, and its current patron is HRH The Duke of York. Notable dancers from the school include Elena Glurdjidze, Dmitri Gruzdyev and Fernanda Oliveira.
Led by their artistic director, international ballerina Tamara Rojo, the company aims to bring innovative collaborations, creative excellence and bold ways of honouring, but adding to, traditional ballet. Current productions from the company include A Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev, La Corsaire and The Nutcracker.
Olivia was invited to join the company in the upcoming weeks to further develop her dancing ability, through the company’s summer school scheme. The English National Ballet offers 2 courses which run over the summer; one for 11-14 year olds which Olivia is attending and the other is for whose aged 15-19 years old. The courses culminate with a performance for friends and family on the final day of the course.
On accepting the place at the English National Ballet, Olivia said, “I will be at the school in Kensington working on classic ballet, pointe work, character work and contemporary ballet. I am thrilled at being accepted.”
Olivia is not the only person who is excited at the prospect of her going to the English National Ballet - her mother Deborah is delighted and “very proud of what she has achieved,” especially as this was Olivia's first attempt at serious competition in relation to dance.
Worth School has a history of alumni who have contributed to the dramatic arts. From Sir Peter Jonas (CBE, FRCM, FRNCM, FRSA), Managing Director of the English National Opera and the Bavarian State Opera, to Downton Abbey actor Robert Bathurst.
For more information on Worth School, please visit the http://www.worthschool.co.uk/ Worth School website or email information(at)worth(dot)org(dot)uk. Reported by PRWeb 19 hours ago.
(PRWEB UK) 25 July 2013
Current Worth School student, Olivia Wilson, is all set to join the prestigious http://www.ballet.org.uk/ English National Ballet for the summer period. The English National Ballet is one of the four major ballet companies in the UK which considers itself a “bold company of ambitious dancers, choreographers, costumiers, musicians and designers”. The dance company was set up in 1950 by Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, and its current patron is HRH The Duke of York. Notable dancers from the school include Elena Glurdjidze, Dmitri Gruzdyev and Fernanda Oliveira.
Led by their artistic director, international ballerina Tamara Rojo, the company aims to bring innovative collaborations, creative excellence and bold ways of honouring, but adding to, traditional ballet. Current productions from the company include A Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev, La Corsaire and The Nutcracker.
Olivia was invited to join the company in the upcoming weeks to further develop her dancing ability, through the company’s summer school scheme. The English National Ballet offers 2 courses which run over the summer; one for 11-14 year olds which Olivia is attending and the other is for whose aged 15-19 years old. The courses culminate with a performance for friends and family on the final day of the course.
On accepting the place at the English National Ballet, Olivia said, “I will be at the school in Kensington working on classic ballet, pointe work, character work and contemporary ballet. I am thrilled at being accepted.”
Olivia is not the only person who is excited at the prospect of her going to the English National Ballet - her mother Deborah is delighted and “very proud of what she has achieved,” especially as this was Olivia's first attempt at serious competition in relation to dance.
Worth School has a history of alumni who have contributed to the dramatic arts. From Sir Peter Jonas (CBE, FRCM, FRNCM, FRSA), Managing Director of the English National Opera and the Bavarian State Opera, to Downton Abbey actor Robert Bathurst.
For more information on Worth School, please visit the http://www.worthschool.co.uk/ Worth School website or email information(at)worth(dot)org(dot)uk. Reported by PRWeb 19 hours ago.
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The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing: On the need of hyperarticulate people to get raving drunk
The lives of six writers, and the reasons why they drank so much, are explored in this nuanced portrait which give pleasure in every sentence and offers bright collisions with the past.
*The Trip to Echo Spring*
Olivia Laing
Canongate, 284pp, £20
Olivia Laing’s second book takes its title from a line in Tennessee Williams’s play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. It’s an apt phrase for a book about writers and alcoholism, with its combined dose of the sublime and the helplessly mortal. But “Echo Spring” is only the liquor cabinet, named after a brand of whiskey.
Laing’s ear was apparently made to catch such notes of melancholia; the book’s subtitle, Why Writers Drink, undersells her achievement. She has produced not an answer to a glib question, but a nuanced portrait – via biography, memoir, analysis –of the urge of the hyperarcticulate to get raving drunk.
The biographical focus is on the lives of six writers – Williams among them – and Laing visits the places in America where they variously lived, drank and dried out. The journey imposes a stagey narrative that the book could have done without, but Laing’s experiences give line-by-line pleasure and make for bright collisions with the past. A pastrami sandwich from Katz’s Deli in New York in hand, she walks to the Queensboro Bridge and remembers that this is where “John Cheever once saw two hookers playing hopscotch with a hotel room key”.
When the narrative device recedes, Laing is free to use quotation and analysis. The alcoholic writer’s sense of mortality is key. F Scott Fitzgerald, an insomniac, had an annihilating vision before sleep; he imagined he was “only one of the dark millions riding forward in black buses toward the unknown”. In his autobiography, Williams recounts a teenage realisation that he was “a member of multiple humanity . . . not a unique creature but only one among the multitude of its fellows”. Yet it is tough to embody epiphanies; at the height of his drinking, Williams’s diary shows him in the opposite mode: “ ‘Me’ – that would be an adequate one-word, twoletter entry for every day.”
Laing comes from a family affected by alcohol and her hyper-vigilance to inconsistency makes her a good match for her muddled subjects. As she says, writing about writers poses various challenges – they use autobiographical material in unpredictable ways. But, she writes, “when the writer is also an alcoholic . . . this migration of lived experience becomes entangled with another process: the habit of denial”. When Ernest Hemingway refers to his own insomnia in a letter to Fitzgerald, for instance, he makes the imperious claim that “since I have stopped giving a good goddamn about anything in the past it doesn’t bother me much”. But, during a period of moderate drinking, this same exemplar of self-mastery wrote in a quite different tone – abject, self-abasing – to another friend, “In about ten hours from now I will have a nice good lovely glass of Marqués de Riscal with supper.”
Self-ironising is another muddling habit. A plastered Fitzgerald might, in the words of his friend H L Mencken, have shocked a Baltimore dinner party “by arising at the dinner table and taking down his pantaloons, exposing his gospel pipe”, but, as Laing writes, “you can yank down your pants . . . and still be a man in mortal terror of exposing who you are”. And you can show that you have a naked body just like every other man’s and still be in mortal terror of accepting it, which is also to say that it is possible to be in mortal terror of mortality – at which point drunkenness might seem like a solution.
The book achieves its greatest force through Laing’s mix of intellect and intuition, which often recalls the New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm. Of a childhood scene involving her mother’s alcoholic girlfriend and the police, Laing notes that her strongest memory is “my conviction that if only I were allowed to speak to her I could calm her down – a piece of absurdly unrealistic co-dependence that’s had long-reaching consequences in the relationships of my adult life”.
By the final chapters, Laing maintains this psychoanalytic style; though neuroscience and biochemistry feature earlier on, their offerings seem as poignant as Laing hoping for insights on the Tennessee Williams Walking Tour. She notes that submersion in water is a prevalent image in the work of alcoholic writers. Fitzgerald’s story “The Swimmers” implies that it is the cure for the hero’s unhappy marriage; Cheever’s story “The Swimmer” describes it as “the resumption of a natural condition”. There is, as Laing writes, “some hint of regression” in all this.
There is also an expression of longing. As John Berryman put it in an autobiographical poem: “Hunger was constitutional with him,/wine, cigarettes, liquor and need need need.” In a letter written in 1962 to Bill Wilson, who later founded Alcoholics Anonymous, Carl Jung described the alcoholic’s “need” as “the equivalent . . . of the spiritual thirst of our being for wholeness . . . You see, alcohol in Latin is ‘spiritus’ . . . The helpful formula therefore is: spiritus contra spiritum.”
Talitha Stevenson is an author and psychotherapist
Reported by New Statesman 19 hours ago.
*The Trip to Echo Spring*
Olivia Laing
Canongate, 284pp, £20
Olivia Laing’s second book takes its title from a line in Tennessee Williams’s play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. It’s an apt phrase for a book about writers and alcoholism, with its combined dose of the sublime and the helplessly mortal. But “Echo Spring” is only the liquor cabinet, named after a brand of whiskey.
Laing’s ear was apparently made to catch such notes of melancholia; the book’s subtitle, Why Writers Drink, undersells her achievement. She has produced not an answer to a glib question, but a nuanced portrait – via biography, memoir, analysis –of the urge of the hyperarcticulate to get raving drunk.
The biographical focus is on the lives of six writers – Williams among them – and Laing visits the places in America where they variously lived, drank and dried out. The journey imposes a stagey narrative that the book could have done without, but Laing’s experiences give line-by-line pleasure and make for bright collisions with the past. A pastrami sandwich from Katz’s Deli in New York in hand, she walks to the Queensboro Bridge and remembers that this is where “John Cheever once saw two hookers playing hopscotch with a hotel room key”.
When the narrative device recedes, Laing is free to use quotation and analysis. The alcoholic writer’s sense of mortality is key. F Scott Fitzgerald, an insomniac, had an annihilating vision before sleep; he imagined he was “only one of the dark millions riding forward in black buses toward the unknown”. In his autobiography, Williams recounts a teenage realisation that he was “a member of multiple humanity . . . not a unique creature but only one among the multitude of its fellows”. Yet it is tough to embody epiphanies; at the height of his drinking, Williams’s diary shows him in the opposite mode: “ ‘Me’ – that would be an adequate one-word, twoletter entry for every day.”
Laing comes from a family affected by alcohol and her hyper-vigilance to inconsistency makes her a good match for her muddled subjects. As she says, writing about writers poses various challenges – they use autobiographical material in unpredictable ways. But, she writes, “when the writer is also an alcoholic . . . this migration of lived experience becomes entangled with another process: the habit of denial”. When Ernest Hemingway refers to his own insomnia in a letter to Fitzgerald, for instance, he makes the imperious claim that “since I have stopped giving a good goddamn about anything in the past it doesn’t bother me much”. But, during a period of moderate drinking, this same exemplar of self-mastery wrote in a quite different tone – abject, self-abasing – to another friend, “In about ten hours from now I will have a nice good lovely glass of Marqués de Riscal with supper.”
Self-ironising is another muddling habit. A plastered Fitzgerald might, in the words of his friend H L Mencken, have shocked a Baltimore dinner party “by arising at the dinner table and taking down his pantaloons, exposing his gospel pipe”, but, as Laing writes, “you can yank down your pants . . . and still be a man in mortal terror of exposing who you are”. And you can show that you have a naked body just like every other man’s and still be in mortal terror of accepting it, which is also to say that it is possible to be in mortal terror of mortality – at which point drunkenness might seem like a solution.
The book achieves its greatest force through Laing’s mix of intellect and intuition, which often recalls the New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm. Of a childhood scene involving her mother’s alcoholic girlfriend and the police, Laing notes that her strongest memory is “my conviction that if only I were allowed to speak to her I could calm her down – a piece of absurdly unrealistic co-dependence that’s had long-reaching consequences in the relationships of my adult life”.
By the final chapters, Laing maintains this psychoanalytic style; though neuroscience and biochemistry feature earlier on, their offerings seem as poignant as Laing hoping for insights on the Tennessee Williams Walking Tour. She notes that submersion in water is a prevalent image in the work of alcoholic writers. Fitzgerald’s story “The Swimmers” implies that it is the cure for the hero’s unhappy marriage; Cheever’s story “The Swimmer” describes it as “the resumption of a natural condition”. There is, as Laing writes, “some hint of regression” in all this.
There is also an expression of longing. As John Berryman put it in an autobiographical poem: “Hunger was constitutional with him,/wine, cigarettes, liquor and need need need.” In a letter written in 1962 to Bill Wilson, who later founded Alcoholics Anonymous, Carl Jung described the alcoholic’s “need” as “the equivalent . . . of the spiritual thirst of our being for wholeness . . . You see, alcohol in Latin is ‘spiritus’ . . . The helpful formula therefore is: spiritus contra spiritum.”
Talitha Stevenson is an author and psychotherapist
Reported by New Statesman 19 hours ago.
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Jason Sudeikis Confirms He's Leaving 'Saturday Night Live' On 'Letterman'
It's been rumored for months now, but Jason Sudeikis finally confirmed that he will not be returning for the upcoming season of "Saturday Night Live" after 10 years with the show.
The 37-year-old comedian made the announcement while appearing on last night's "Late Night" with David Letterman, saying "I'm definitely done."
Sudeikis, who worked as a writer for two years on the show before appearing on camera for eight, wants to start focusing on his film career. And his sex life with fiancé Olivia Wilde.
"It's not weird now," he admitted of leaving the NBC sketch comedy show, "but you start to get that itch in August when all these sketch ideas will show up and I'll be like, 'Can I make this sketch last 90 minutes and turn it into a movie?'"
Watch the official announcement below:
*SEE ALSO: Jason Sudeikis Credits His Recent Weight Loss To Sex With Fiancé Olivia Wilde *
Join the conversation about this story »
Reported by Business Insider 10 hours ago.
The 37-year-old comedian made the announcement while appearing on last night's "Late Night" with David Letterman, saying "I'm definitely done."
Sudeikis, who worked as a writer for two years on the show before appearing on camera for eight, wants to start focusing on his film career. And his sex life with fiancé Olivia Wilde.
"It's not weird now," he admitted of leaving the NBC sketch comedy show, "but you start to get that itch in August when all these sketch ideas will show up and I'll be like, 'Can I make this sketch last 90 minutes and turn it into a movie?'"
Watch the official announcement below:
*SEE ALSO: Jason Sudeikis Credits His Recent Weight Loss To Sex With Fiancé Olivia Wilde *
Join the conversation about this story »
Reported by Business Insider 10 hours ago.
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Olivia Munn fears she'll ever land 'Wonder Woman' role
Washington, July 25 : Olivia Munn is concerned about her Chinese background, which may keep her from playing the role of 'Wonder Woman'.
Reported by newKerala.com 10 hours ago.
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Tackling issues of labour together
Olivia Olarte-Uherr speaks with Philippine Ambassador Grace Relucio-Princesa about her life-long mission to help her compatriots abroad and how labour
issues like model contract, legal recruitment channels and dispute settlement
mechanism are being addressed by her team and UAE officials
Reported by Khaleej Times 5 days ago.
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Keith Peterman: Climate Justice for Our Grandchildren: Why I Plan to Walk From Harper's Ferry to the White House
Last week, most of us in the lower 48 states endured brutal, sweltering 90+ degree weather. Factoring in humidity, the heat index pushed it to 105 degrees in my hometown. I'm relieved that temperatures will drop to a comparatively balmy mid-80's for my walk from Harpers Ferry, W. Va. to the White House this week.
I will be joining a cohort of like-minded elders in a Walk for Our Grandchildren from Monday thru Saturday, July 22-27. Our goal is to take the climate change issue straight to the president's door step. I am prompted to action as a matter of climate justice for my grandchildren, and yours.
In 1991, my daughter-in-law Regan constructed the "SAVE OUR HOME; fight global warming" button shown below when she was a ten-year-old middle school student in Corpus Christi, Texas. She gave it to me several years ago. This button is a simple but powerful statement about the hope of our children and grandchildren, and the failure of us -- their parents and grandparents.
When I was a child, a young researcher named Dave Keeling began documenting high precision, high accuracy concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere. In 1958, the CO2 concentration in our atmosphere was 313 parts per million (ppm). By the time Regan constructed her "fight global warming" button as a child in 1991, CO2 had risen to 355 ppm. Regan's two children, Sam and Zady, now live in world with a global atmospheric CO2 concentration at 398 ppm.
The CO2 concentration in our atmosphere has increased by more than 27 percent from the time I was a child to today. This increase has produced an enhanced greenhouse effect leading to the climate disruption we are now experiencing.
I have 7 grandchildren -- Ally (7), Sam (5), Zady (3), Colton (3), Finn (2), Olivia (1), and Aubrey (1). Grandchild number 8 is due to arrive in November. I am walking for their future.
In 1988, presidential candidate George H. W. Bush stumped, "Those who think we are powerless to do anything about the 'greenhouse gas effect' are forgetting the 'White House effect.' As president, I intend to do something about it." Although Bush signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 (a year after Regan constructed her button), we are no closer to curbing our annual multi-gigaton emissions of CO2. Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama and our elected legislators in the Senate and House have all failed to act.
President Obama gets it. He affirmed his commitment to tackle the issue of climate change in his 2013 State of the Union Address, "If Congress won't act soon to protect future generations, I will." He stated in his climate change speech at Georgetown University, "our children, and our children's children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem." At a rally and ceremony on Saturday, July 27th at the White House, we will ask our President to act and "deal with this problem."
It is time for us to expose the environment molesters -- those who prey on the trust and innocence of our grandchildren, consuming their resources and defiling their future home. Our grandchildren and as-yet-unborn generations deserve climate justice today!
Please join me and other grandparent activists who demand action from our policymakers. Walk with me to the White House this week. I will be the guy wearing a green Tully hat with Regan's button pinned to it. Reported by Huffington Post 5 days ago.
I will be joining a cohort of like-minded elders in a Walk for Our Grandchildren from Monday thru Saturday, July 22-27. Our goal is to take the climate change issue straight to the president's door step. I am prompted to action as a matter of climate justice for my grandchildren, and yours.
In 1991, my daughter-in-law Regan constructed the "SAVE OUR HOME; fight global warming" button shown below when she was a ten-year-old middle school student in Corpus Christi, Texas. She gave it to me several years ago. This button is a simple but powerful statement about the hope of our children and grandchildren, and the failure of us -- their parents and grandparents.
When I was a child, a young researcher named Dave Keeling began documenting high precision, high accuracy concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere. In 1958, the CO2 concentration in our atmosphere was 313 parts per million (ppm). By the time Regan constructed her "fight global warming" button as a child in 1991, CO2 had risen to 355 ppm. Regan's two children, Sam and Zady, now live in world with a global atmospheric CO2 concentration at 398 ppm.
The CO2 concentration in our atmosphere has increased by more than 27 percent from the time I was a child to today. This increase has produced an enhanced greenhouse effect leading to the climate disruption we are now experiencing.
I have 7 grandchildren -- Ally (7), Sam (5), Zady (3), Colton (3), Finn (2), Olivia (1), and Aubrey (1). Grandchild number 8 is due to arrive in November. I am walking for their future.
In 1988, presidential candidate George H. W. Bush stumped, "Those who think we are powerless to do anything about the 'greenhouse gas effect' are forgetting the 'White House effect.' As president, I intend to do something about it." Although Bush signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 (a year after Regan constructed her button), we are no closer to curbing our annual multi-gigaton emissions of CO2. Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama and our elected legislators in the Senate and House have all failed to act.
President Obama gets it. He affirmed his commitment to tackle the issue of climate change in his 2013 State of the Union Address, "If Congress won't act soon to protect future generations, I will." He stated in his climate change speech at Georgetown University, "our children, and our children's children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem." At a rally and ceremony on Saturday, July 27th at the White House, we will ask our President to act and "deal with this problem."
It is time for us to expose the environment molesters -- those who prey on the trust and innocence of our grandchildren, consuming their resources and defiling their future home. Our grandchildren and as-yet-unborn generations deserve climate justice today!
Please join me and other grandparent activists who demand action from our policymakers. Walk with me to the White House this week. I will be the guy wearing a green Tully hat with Regan's button pinned to it. Reported by Huffington Post 5 days ago.
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German Shepherds Puppies For Sale At Discount Prices
Reserve German Shepherd Puppies for Sale at WustenbergerLand now, German Shepherds breeder at Agua Dulce, Los Angles, California. At WustenbergerLand, three female German shepherd puppies and one large male German shepherd puppy for sale now.
Reserve your desired German Shepherds Puppies for Sale at WustenBergerLand. WustenBerger-Land is delighted to announce about its three female German shepherds puppies and one large male German shepherd puppy for sale at Agua Dulce, CA. As you know this award winning, Californian German Shepherds breeder trains Schutzhund titled German Shepherds, female protection dogs since last 40-years also provides options to buy your much loved German Shepherd Puppies for sale locally or by shipping. German Shepherd Dogs, German Shepherd Puppies are always available with us for Sale. WustenBerger-Land is popular in providing excellent training to German Shepherd Dogs and German Shepherds import Puppies.
Top litters from outstanding all German VA world Sieger Pedigrees.
Sire is Landes Gruppen, Regional Sieger:
V Hugo vom Wustenberger Land, IPO 1, KKl, HD ED Normal (Excellent Hip and Elbow rating)
V1 Kalidas vom Wustenberger-Land IPO 2, kkl1, 2 x USCA sieger
Dam: VA Ximone vom Wustenberger-Land, SchH.3,
KKl1, HD ED Normal (Excellent Hip and Elbow rating).
V Catarina vom Wustenberger-Land SchH.2 kkl1
Top daughter of VA Quartz
Top female German Shepherds puppies are available now with priced on average $5000.00 Dam is VA rated, puppies are absolute top show/work prospects.
Shipping cost, delivery to airport, required health certificate and flight box charges are NOT included in the price of your puppy. All puppies have had required scheduled shots and worming done. All puppies come with a full written hip guarantee.
Email us directly for up to date pictures of our German shepherd puppies.
Visit us on YouTube to see our German Shepherd Puppies for Sale.
German shepherd puppies are breed to the highest possible German SV World standard. They are super healthy, strong Large boned and have been loved and well socialized with other German shepherds, people and children.
Call Michael and Jan at 661-268-1486 if your interested in reserving what is sure to be an outstanding litter.
This will make an outstanding addition to any family show or work, breeding prospect.
Young Dog Sieger Kalidas vom Wustenberger-Land V Catarina vom Wustenberger-Land (IPO 1, kkl, HD fast normal ED Normal) (IPO1, kkl, HD nomral ED normal)
Presenting a litter of outstanding ALL German VA - World sieger West German bloodlines, a quality not normally found in the USA.
Direct lines come over VA1 world siegers, Zamp von Thermados, Parkros d’Ulmental, Ursus von Batu, Xaro d”Ulmental and Bax von der Luisenstrasse.
(Sire, Kalidas vom Wustenberger-Land is the top son of German World young dog sieger and German World vice sieger VA Quattro von der Partnachklum) and Kalidas Dam, is the popular VA2 Jazmin vom Wustenberger-Land (SG19 world show Germany).
Dam to this outstanding large litter is V Catarina vom Wustenberger-Land, (Dam, V Xambia vom Wustenberger-Land, famous mother line producing many VA German Shepherds), (Sire, Multiple VA Quartz vom Wustenberger-Land).
Wustenberger-Land has not had such an outstanding high quality large litter like this since a long time. This litter is nine very large red and black super dark German shepherd puppies. Those include four males and five females German shepherd puppies. Those are ready to go to their new homes in coming months. Early reservations are advised.
First pick German shepherd puppy is still available, price $5000.00. These German shepherd puppies are priced from $3,500.00 at Wustenberger-Land Dog Store with shipping and handling facility.
German shepherd puppies are breed to the highest possible German SV- World standard. They are super healthy, strong Large boned and have been loved and well socialized with other German shepherds, people and children. Up to date with vaccine and worming.
Latest German Shepherd litters at Wustenberger-Land:
Olivia x Kalidas, DOB: May 8, 2013
One very nice super Black and Red Male German shepherd puppy is available.
Kashmira x Hugo, DOB: May 24, 2013
One very nice super Black and Red Male and two Females German shepherd puppies are available.
Repeat Breeding:
Catarina X Kalidas, DOB: June 6, 2013
A very uniform litter, Four Male German Shepherd puppies and Five Female German shepherd puppies for sale.
Wustenberger-Land is very excited to Announce the
Breeding of VA Ximone v. WustenBerger-Land to the German World Vice Sieger, Figo vom Nordteich. Puppies expected mid July.
WustenbergerLand has an Outstanding USCA SIEGER SHOW 2013:
Exi vom Wustenberger-Land VP3
Florio vom Wustenberger-Land VP3
Cosmo vom Wustenberger-Land VP4
V Hugo vom Wustenberger-Land Outstanding in all phases of protection.
Not forget to take part in the outstanding USCA SIEGER SHOW 2013, organized by WustenbergerLand - the leading German shepherd puppies Breeder California, USA.
Company Contact Information
WustenbergerLand.Com
Michael and Jeannette Kempkes
9450 Yucca Hills Rd. Agua Dulce
Los Angeles
91390
+1-661-268-1486
News and Press Release Distribution From I-Newswire.com Reported by i-Newswire.com 5 days ago.
Reserve your desired German Shepherds Puppies for Sale at WustenBergerLand. WustenBerger-Land is delighted to announce about its three female German shepherds puppies and one large male German shepherd puppy for sale at Agua Dulce, CA. As you know this award winning, Californian German Shepherds breeder trains Schutzhund titled German Shepherds, female protection dogs since last 40-years also provides options to buy your much loved German Shepherd Puppies for sale locally or by shipping. German Shepherd Dogs, German Shepherd Puppies are always available with us for Sale. WustenBerger-Land is popular in providing excellent training to German Shepherd Dogs and German Shepherds import Puppies.
Top litters from outstanding all German VA world Sieger Pedigrees.
Sire is Landes Gruppen, Regional Sieger:
V Hugo vom Wustenberger Land, IPO 1, KKl, HD ED Normal (Excellent Hip and Elbow rating)
V1 Kalidas vom Wustenberger-Land IPO 2, kkl1, 2 x USCA sieger
Dam: VA Ximone vom Wustenberger-Land, SchH.3,
KKl1, HD ED Normal (Excellent Hip and Elbow rating).
V Catarina vom Wustenberger-Land SchH.2 kkl1
Top daughter of VA Quartz
Top female German Shepherds puppies are available now with priced on average $5000.00 Dam is VA rated, puppies are absolute top show/work prospects.
Shipping cost, delivery to airport, required health certificate and flight box charges are NOT included in the price of your puppy. All puppies have had required scheduled shots and worming done. All puppies come with a full written hip guarantee.
Email us directly for up to date pictures of our German shepherd puppies.
Visit us on YouTube to see our German Shepherd Puppies for Sale.
German shepherd puppies are breed to the highest possible German SV World standard. They are super healthy, strong Large boned and have been loved and well socialized with other German shepherds, people and children.
Call Michael and Jan at 661-268-1486 if your interested in reserving what is sure to be an outstanding litter.
This will make an outstanding addition to any family show or work, breeding prospect.
Young Dog Sieger Kalidas vom Wustenberger-Land V Catarina vom Wustenberger-Land (IPO 1, kkl, HD fast normal ED Normal) (IPO1, kkl, HD nomral ED normal)
Presenting a litter of outstanding ALL German VA - World sieger West German bloodlines, a quality not normally found in the USA.
Direct lines come over VA1 world siegers, Zamp von Thermados, Parkros d’Ulmental, Ursus von Batu, Xaro d”Ulmental and Bax von der Luisenstrasse.
(Sire, Kalidas vom Wustenberger-Land is the top son of German World young dog sieger and German World vice sieger VA Quattro von der Partnachklum) and Kalidas Dam, is the popular VA2 Jazmin vom Wustenberger-Land (SG19 world show Germany).
Dam to this outstanding large litter is V Catarina vom Wustenberger-Land, (Dam, V Xambia vom Wustenberger-Land, famous mother line producing many VA German Shepherds), (Sire, Multiple VA Quartz vom Wustenberger-Land).
Wustenberger-Land has not had such an outstanding high quality large litter like this since a long time. This litter is nine very large red and black super dark German shepherd puppies. Those include four males and five females German shepherd puppies. Those are ready to go to their new homes in coming months. Early reservations are advised.
First pick German shepherd puppy is still available, price $5000.00. These German shepherd puppies are priced from $3,500.00 at Wustenberger-Land Dog Store with shipping and handling facility.
German shepherd puppies are breed to the highest possible German SV- World standard. They are super healthy, strong Large boned and have been loved and well socialized with other German shepherds, people and children. Up to date with vaccine and worming.
Latest German Shepherd litters at Wustenberger-Land:
Olivia x Kalidas, DOB: May 8, 2013
One very nice super Black and Red Male German shepherd puppy is available.
Kashmira x Hugo, DOB: May 24, 2013
One very nice super Black and Red Male and two Females German shepherd puppies are available.
Repeat Breeding:
Catarina X Kalidas, DOB: June 6, 2013
A very uniform litter, Four Male German Shepherd puppies and Five Female German shepherd puppies for sale.
Wustenberger-Land is very excited to Announce the
Breeding of VA Ximone v. WustenBerger-Land to the German World Vice Sieger, Figo vom Nordteich. Puppies expected mid July.
WustenbergerLand has an Outstanding USCA SIEGER SHOW 2013:
Exi vom Wustenberger-Land VP3
Florio vom Wustenberger-Land VP3
Cosmo vom Wustenberger-Land VP4
V Hugo vom Wustenberger-Land Outstanding in all phases of protection.
Not forget to take part in the outstanding USCA SIEGER SHOW 2013, organized by WustenbergerLand - the leading German shepherd puppies Breeder California, USA.
Company Contact Information
WustenbergerLand.Com
Michael and Jeannette Kempkes
9450 Yucca Hills Rd. Agua Dulce
Los Angeles
91390
+1-661-268-1486
News and Press Release Distribution From I-Newswire.com Reported by i-Newswire.com 5 days ago.
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Kerry Washington Kept Her Wedding ‘Simple and Sweet’
On her hit show, Olivia Pope may have a complicated relationship, but in reality, Kerry Washington’s love life is anything but. The Scandal star’s wedding to San Francisco 49ers cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, ... MORE
The post Kerry Washington Kept Her Wedding ‘Simple and Sweet’ appeared first on Celebrity News | Style | Red Carpets | Movies | Couples | CelebTV. Reported by CelebTV.com 4 days ago.
The post Kerry Washington Kept Her Wedding ‘Simple and Sweet’ appeared first on Celebrity News | Style | Red Carpets | Movies | Couples | CelebTV. Reported by CelebTV.com 4 days ago.
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Why Female Founders Are Good For Big Businesses
"You guys wanna see me beatbox?" Olivia Munn asks the audience from the stage at the second annual L'Oreal USA Women in Digital Awards.
Reported by Forbes.com 4 days ago.
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VIDEO: Olivia Munn on financial reporting
Actor Olivia Munn on how playing financial news reporter, Sloan Sabbith, on the award winning TV programme "The Newsroom" takes double the usual study.
Reported by BBC News 23 hours ago.
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Book reviews roundup: The Trip to Echo Spring, Under Another Sky and The Cuckoo's Calling
What the critics thought of Olivia Laing's The Trip to Echo Spring, Charlotte Higgins's Under Another Sky and Robert Galbraith's The Cuckoo's Calling
"Olivia Laing's To the River was a quiet masterpiece," wrote the Sunday Times's *John Carey*, although "thoughts while walking along the river Ouse might not seem the most thrilling subject for a first book". Her follow-up, The Trip to Echo Spring, shares some of the same preoccupations [but] leaves the Ouse far behind and massively broadens its canvas … Essentially it is a meditation on the lives of six great American literary drunks ... What gives her book its brilliance and originality is the quality of its writing." In the New Statesman, *Talitha Stevenson* applauded the book's "nuanced portrait – via biography, memoir, analyis – of the urge of the hyperarticulate to get raving drunk", comparing Laing's "mix of intellect and intuition" to Janet Malcolm; but she was less enamoured of her visits to "the places where the writers lived, drank and dried out. The journey imposes a stagey narrative that the book could have done without." The Independent's *Gordon Bowker* hinted at reservations too, displaying less enthusiasm (like Carey) for Laing's "occasional plunges into the science of addiction"– the resulting outbreaks of "jargon" disrupt "the poetry of her prose". No caveats were voiced by the Scotsman's *David Stenhouse*, who liked the author's "rare sensitivity and literary insight" in a book that is "a triumphant exercise in creative reading".
Also structured by an authorial odyssey is Charlotte Higgins's Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, researched (wrote the London Evening Standard's *Richard Hobbs*) via "a journey of discovery with partner Matthew, a battered VW campervan and a seemingly bottomless hamper for picnicking among Roman ruins". Hobbs's verdict – that the book was "special"– was echoed by the Daily Telegraph's *Harry Mount*, who admired the "gentle, fine prose" of a book that "nails down how Roman Roman Britain was" and "suggests convincingly that … modern Britain is still built on a Roman skeleton". The Sunday Times's *Christopher Hart* was still more enthusiastic about "an utterly originally history, lyrically alive to the haunting presence of the past and our strange and familiar ancestors".
No reviewer of Robert Galbraith's The Cuckoo's Calling – now reissued following the revelations that it is not by a man, not by someone with a military background (except in the Wizarding Wars) and not a debut – found it flawless, but the consensus was very favourable. In the Mail on Sunday, *Max Davidson* tut-tutted that "many of the individual scenes are too slow for the book to become a real page-turner", but approved of its hero, heroine, portrayal of London, phrase-making and "well-made plot". For *David Sexton* in the Evening Standard, the drawback was the "clunky, over-descriptive style"; but he liked the story ("much better than [her] bad-tempered social conscience saga A Casual Vacancy") and pronounced her detective Cormoran Strike "a really good series character". In the Sunday Times, *John Dugdale* pounced on "some thumping genre cliches", but similarly overcame such qualms in writing that Rowling's crime novel shows (as The Casual Vacancy failed to do) that "she can renounce magic and yet be magical". Most captivated was the Daily Telegraph's *Jake Kerridge**, *who argued the novel was so clearly "the work of a master story-teller", with other tell-tale signs, that it should have been spotted as her work when originally published. "It is wonderfully fresh and funny," he concluded, and hopefully inaugurates a series "that lasts long enough to make Harry Potter look like a flash in the pan". Reported by guardian.co.uk 8 hours ago.
"Olivia Laing's To the River was a quiet masterpiece," wrote the Sunday Times's *John Carey*, although "thoughts while walking along the river Ouse might not seem the most thrilling subject for a first book". Her follow-up, The Trip to Echo Spring, shares some of the same preoccupations [but] leaves the Ouse far behind and massively broadens its canvas … Essentially it is a meditation on the lives of six great American literary drunks ... What gives her book its brilliance and originality is the quality of its writing." In the New Statesman, *Talitha Stevenson* applauded the book's "nuanced portrait – via biography, memoir, analyis – of the urge of the hyperarticulate to get raving drunk", comparing Laing's "mix of intellect and intuition" to Janet Malcolm; but she was less enamoured of her visits to "the places where the writers lived, drank and dried out. The journey imposes a stagey narrative that the book could have done without." The Independent's *Gordon Bowker* hinted at reservations too, displaying less enthusiasm (like Carey) for Laing's "occasional plunges into the science of addiction"– the resulting outbreaks of "jargon" disrupt "the poetry of her prose". No caveats were voiced by the Scotsman's *David Stenhouse*, who liked the author's "rare sensitivity and literary insight" in a book that is "a triumphant exercise in creative reading".
Also structured by an authorial odyssey is Charlotte Higgins's Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, researched (wrote the London Evening Standard's *Richard Hobbs*) via "a journey of discovery with partner Matthew, a battered VW campervan and a seemingly bottomless hamper for picnicking among Roman ruins". Hobbs's verdict – that the book was "special"– was echoed by the Daily Telegraph's *Harry Mount*, who admired the "gentle, fine prose" of a book that "nails down how Roman Roman Britain was" and "suggests convincingly that … modern Britain is still built on a Roman skeleton". The Sunday Times's *Christopher Hart* was still more enthusiastic about "an utterly originally history, lyrically alive to the haunting presence of the past and our strange and familiar ancestors".
No reviewer of Robert Galbraith's The Cuckoo's Calling – now reissued following the revelations that it is not by a man, not by someone with a military background (except in the Wizarding Wars) and not a debut – found it flawless, but the consensus was very favourable. In the Mail on Sunday, *Max Davidson* tut-tutted that "many of the individual scenes are too slow for the book to become a real page-turner", but approved of its hero, heroine, portrayal of London, phrase-making and "well-made plot". For *David Sexton* in the Evening Standard, the drawback was the "clunky, over-descriptive style"; but he liked the story ("much better than [her] bad-tempered social conscience saga A Casual Vacancy") and pronounced her detective Cormoran Strike "a really good series character". In the Sunday Times, *John Dugdale* pounced on "some thumping genre cliches", but similarly overcame such qualms in writing that Rowling's crime novel shows (as The Casual Vacancy failed to do) that "she can renounce magic and yet be magical". Most captivated was the Daily Telegraph's *Jake Kerridge**, *who argued the novel was so clearly "the work of a master story-teller", with other tell-tale signs, that it should have been spotted as her work when originally published. "It is wonderfully fresh and funny," he concluded, and hopefully inaugurates a series "that lasts long enough to make Harry Potter look like a flash in the pan". Reported by guardian.co.uk 8 hours ago.
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Celebs, Media - Tell the Truth About the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Time magazine recently claimed it got a "scoop," when it had reporter Olivia B. Waxman (no relation to TheWrap's Sharon Waxman) do a blog post titled, "How to Get a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame" with the subhead: "Pay a $30,000 sponsorship fee, for starters."
read more Reported by The Wrap 4 days ago.
read more Reported by The Wrap 4 days ago.
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Heather Graham, Ellen Burstyn Starring in Lifetime's 'Flowers in the Attic'
Lifetime is officially moving forward on its movie adaptation of the dark V.C. Andrews novel, "Flowers in the Attic," TheWrap has learned.
Heather Graham ("Boogie Nights,""Drugstore Cowboy") is set to play Corrine, the mother who abandons her four young children, leaving them with their truly messed up grandmother, Olivia, who, wait for it, will be played by Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn ("Political Animals,""Requiem for a Dream").
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read more Reported by The Wrap 4 days ago.
Heather Graham ("Boogie Nights,""Drugstore Cowboy") is set to play Corrine, the mother who abandons her four young children, leaving them with their truly messed up grandmother, Olivia, who, wait for it, will be played by Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn ("Political Animals,""Requiem for a Dream").
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read more Reported by The Wrap 4 days ago.
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