It takes a great team to make a successful movie ... Catherine Hardwicke’s first film, Thirteen, which she also co-wrote with Nikki Reed, won her the 2003 directing award at Sundance. But her “overnight success” was actually 15 years in the making. Appetite for Self Destruction
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Love Fest: First Sydney and Now Prague
Prague Writers' Festival invokes the spirit of Casanova. Touch, according to Casanova who is the best known Bohemian librarian in the world, is such a basic instinct that some animals will go hunry rather than do without it.
The 15th Prague Writers' Festival convenes this weekend, once again bringing a small United Nations of literary luminaries to the Golden City. Representing 10 countries, this year's 15 attendees will participate in discussions, readings and book signings — along with a single film screening — at Divadlo Minor
• The festival is 15 years old and Casanova loves you [Mysteriously silent musician sparks interest worldwide Czechs rush to claim 'Piano Man' ; Days after the election, a feisty Lebanese journalist is murdered. Why? Samir Kassir, R.I.P. ; China's arbiters of taste are fighting a losing battle. Their prudish attempts to purge sexually explicit and politically sensitive works from bookshops in the mainland have backfired -- by transforming banned writings into underground hits Big Brother's book ban blues ]
• · BEA Photo blog ; I spent the morning acting like a deer in headlights at BEA and then went to the blogging panel with Michael Cader, Mad Max Perkins (bedecked like Dumbledore on crack -- or maybe it was Gandalf) M.J. Rose and Robert Gray, as moderated by Mark Dressler. Dateline BEA: Openings and constant cab rides
• · · Reader’s Digest published Australia’s most trusted professions the bartender wins out, beating journalists, real-estate agents, and at the bottom of the list, politicians. Mother come in behind firefighters and ambulance officers A Reader's Digest most trusted survey ; Politics is not a dirty word. Trying to avoid office politics is like trying to avoid the weather ... My email inbox is bigger than yours Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office ; Peter Breen is sponsoring the Classification Amendment Porn free: Sydneyrella's off the leash
• · · · Senior Circuit Judge James C. Hill's opinion, dissenting from the Eleventh Circuit's resolution of an insurance coverage issue in a case involving live-in lovers, is somewhat amusing. You can access the complete ruling in PDF version: They undertake to 'litigate by day and copulate by night ; I mean, sex is now something that can kill you. I didn't grow up with that idea Peaches: Society's changed, you know, and young women are proactive and they do know what they want, a lot of them ; Graham Kennedy's personal assistant and live-in partner, Rob Astbury, has broken his silence on their 20-year relationship Kennedy's lover breaks silence
• · · · · Rejection is part of the writer's life - The Resilient Writer: Tales of Rejection and Triumph from 23 Top Author ; The Resilient Quiz ; Includes constructive interview with Bill Henderson of Pushcart Press The Rejection Collection
• · · · · · He started out splicing tape with a razor blade. Tonight, in a dingy downstairs room in his Coogee unit, Tom Compagnoni is mixing music with more sophisticated equipment Homemade music ; Literary agents and publishers ... I am Alive and You are Dead ; Getting the word out Literary Blogs