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- Brazilian director swaps Saramago for Shakespeare - Reuters UK
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - After more than a year poring over Jose Saramago's book "Blindness" for the upcoming movie of the same name, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is embarking on a new literary journey with William Shakespeare. Meirelles this ...
- Will Obama's Speech Have Legs? - Boston Phoenix
The introductory movie was great. The speech? Wonderful setting, it turned out, but workmanlike. Obama tried to tie his life to the lives of ordinary Americans but the speech surprisingly lacked poetry, great lines, or a compelling narrative. There ...
- Letter: Allan Rodway - Guardian Unlimited
Brian Lee's suitably affectionate memories of academic and writer Allan Rodway (Other lives, 3 July) caught his personality beautifully. As a history student at Nottingham University in the 1960s, I can confirm that Allan's inspirational qualities ...
- How Would You Grade Barack Obama’s Speech? - Wall Street Journal
Same old, same old. These soaring speeches won’t pay down our national debt, fix our economy, or help bring down the price of gas. Nobama is simply unrealistic and lacks any leadership abilities. These soaring speeches clearing show this to be the ...
- Poet Laureate Andrew Motion Says Writing For Britain's Royal Family A ... - All Headline News
London, England (BANG) - Poet Laureate Andrew Motion says writing for the British royal family is a "thankless" task which is "incredibly difficult." Andrew won the prestigious post - which sees him write poems to celebrate major state and government ...
- Blue Devils Renew Iroquois Rivalry with Second Cross Town Cup Game Friday (East Aurora Advertiser)
It's hard to believe that it's been almost half-a-century since the Blue Devils first faced off against the Iroquois Chiefs in football. According to Geoff Vosseller, who played in that inaugural 1959 game at Latimer Field on Girdle Road, "It was a mud bowl. Neither team could get anything going." That encounter ended with the teams tied at zero, having produced no scores but lots of very dirty ...
- Akrita Reyar - Zee News
Through his words, he scripted his own immortality. Sculptors of thoughts do not die, just as their dreams never perish. Ahmed Faraz, a giant of contemporary Urdu poetry, may have breathed his last in Islamabad on August 25, 2008, but his ...
- Nothing but vile verse? Do your worst - Daily News
Dreadful verse keeping you down? Need to share a few deplorable stanza's with loved ones? Suppress the poor prose no more - today you're free to write all the bad poetry you, and others, can stand. You can even rhyme if you want. Bad Poetry Day ...
- Families of Missing Persons Try to Cope - Eyewitness News Memphis
Families of Missing Persons Try to CopeEyewitness News Memphis, USA - 28 minutes agoInvestigators say it's an African-American woman whose body was badly decomposed. The body was found near Frayser High School. Right now in Memphis, ...
- New poet laureate built a career far from the literary mainstream - San Jose Mercury News
New poet laureate built a career far from the literary mainstreamSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 2 hours ago"So I had to start dealing with these abstractions like love, death, the wheel of fortune." It took eight years to get a poem accepted at a serious poetry ...
- What are Kampala’s posh hotels selling? - New Vision
New VisionWhat are Kampala’s posh hotels selling?New Vision, Uganda - 4 hours agoIt makes many would-be tourists uneasy and, therefore, eager to find alternative peaceful destinations like Tanzania, Madagascar, and the southern African ...
- Prime Time Calendar the week Oct. 1, 2008 (Independent Press)
A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, is performed by The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, through Sunday, Oct. 5, in the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, Drew University, 36 Madison Ave., Madison. Call 973-408-5600 or visit www.ShakespeareNJ. org. Facing Sculpture,...
- 'Billy Elliot,' 'Shrek' head list of fall musicals - FOX News
NEW YORK — Not since the heyday of the '80s British musical invasion _ which brought "Cats," "The Phantom of Opera" and "Les Miserables" _ has Broadway anticipated such a big, critically lauded musical from across the Atlantic as "Billy Elliot." It ...
- In Havana: Homage to Naborà on his 86th Birthday Anniversary - Cuba Headlines
Cuba HeadlinesIn Havana: Homage to Naborà on his 86th Birthday AnniversaryCuba Headlines, Cuba - 2 hours ago... sonnets and free verses. A poet committed to the cause of his people and the Revolution, Naborà wrote several patriotic poems. His poetry books include, ...
- Updated: Young couple killed in car crash described as funny and ... - Tallahassee Democrat
Friends and family remembered Steven Taylor Riles, 18, and Christina Mellen, 20, as an inseparable couple Monday. The two were together right up to the point of their deaths. Mellen and Riles died Friday night after a car crash at Mahan Drive and ...
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