McMurtry Thanks Booksellers at the Academy Awards:
The Oscar goes to somebody who should have gotten it a couple years ago, but got screwed over in favor of somebody else who got screwed over before him. At the 78th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, several of the Oscar-winning films were based on books -- Brokeback Mountain, Memoirs of a Geisha, Capote, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Constant Gardener, and Tsotsi. While Steve may be happy to see happy hot nipples, I'm pleased that Cold River is attracting a few inquiries from American film makers. Like the law, the Cold River is not designed to make us honorable, only bearable ... It is Vidal that it is not enough to succeed. Others must fail! By the way, in his acceptance speech for Best Adapted Screenplay, Larry McMurtry acknowledged the role of books in film, and he offered a paean to All the booksellers of the world
Why must great literature from Macbeth to Madame Bovary to Anna Karenina have all those sad endings? Time to cheer things up. Rid the world of all the negative consequences that limit us all. Given the freedom, tireless media dragons fail To Cuddle Cold River: Defeat is Victory, Death is Life
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Omen: Licking Your Way to Marriage
Don't worry. It won't last. It never does ... I asked my wife how she feels about this topic, and she answered: "Arrrrmg muuuumm baaaarrrr arrrr muuum."
It's cruel what I've done to my husband. Though, in my defense, I can honestly say I didn't set out to trick him into marriage. It just kind of, er, happened. I mean people age. Responsibilities pile up. I can't very well be doing that morning, noon and night, as I'd led him to believe in our brief courtship. Plus, it's tax season. I'm not exactly in the mood when one part of my brain is adding up mileage between Pittsburgh and Bethlehem.
• It can't cut you slack. LOL! What a bunch of women. Cruel, cruel, cruel... [Gerardo Barranquero is the nervousy person telling nervousy jokes for the nervousy people sitting at the Asteron resting room on 24th floor how sex on the first date is apparently on the rise Great Sex-pectations ; The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, brain surgery. I want to make clear at the outset - I was the first Czech writer who used to have a moustache that made Tom Selleck envious. Making Love in Public-- An Interview with Phyllis Curott, The Love Spell; Plenty of Smelly Fish? First date mistakes: too much neck hair. Rude to wait staff. Lateness. Too many mentions of ex. Saying, “My third marriage wasn’t my fault” Chasing Daylight: Picky, Picky; There is a universal law about growth: everything is either growing or dying. Remember to live with passion! What are you willing to do to create the new relationship you desire? ]
• · Watermark Books in Wichita, Kansas, is nearing the 30-year milestone, but still brimming with youthful enthusiasm. Founded in 1977, the store has relocated twice, once in the early 1990s, and 10 years ago, when it also added a café. The 5,000-square-foot store now anchors the oldest strip mall in Kansas, Lincoln Heights Village, which features many locally owned stores. Hitting the High Watermark in Wichita ; Halos of deceitful, misguiding light, filling people's hearts with both fear and delight Taking Stories to Bed
• · · Czechs Living Abroad - Thousands who fled communist rule remain abroad despite law Few Czech émigrés reapply for citizenship ; Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age - Philip Larkin Bohemian Alex is all about Sweeter sixteen
• · · · Pejman Yousefzadeh tells us why war, coffee, fair trade and show business are all intertwined The coffee wars ; At first blush, it strikes me that most women believe that there is something sexy about being rich, as in me ;-) ... List of my peace brothers who happen to be rich men. Am I not God anymore? Ranking of world's billionaires by Forbes: # 1 Jozef Imrich
• · · · · Everyone who goes to the movies knows how good Cate Blanchett is, which is why the Australian production of “Hedda Gabler” in which she’s currently touring is such a hot ticket. All about Cate ; Philip Larkin - There certainly is a cult of the mad these days: think of all the boys who’ve been in the bin—I don’t understand it. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Hardy—it’s the big, sane boys who get the medals. The object of writing is to show life as it is, and if you don’t see it like that you’re in trouble, not life. A thought that is sweet and sharp abides in my soul, a wearying and a delightful burden ;-) Promise is the capacity for letting people down - Dedicated to Lauren
• · · · · · A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. One of the most moving things about Petrarch’s life was his intense desire to read, along with the precious rarity of good books Rereading the Renaissance ; The cult of the mean girl Minna Monaghan - It happens to the best of women even who celebrate 40 something birthday in March ;-) Naked ambition : How much do women care about other women? ; Septuagenarian sex. When it comes to women’s sexuality, the line between emancipation and oppression is wafer thin Sex and the Seasoned Woman