Monday, May 02, 2005



When Jackie Collins finally got around t updating her early- eighties classic, “Hollywood Wives,” in 2001, she took care t insure that “Hollywood Wives: The Ne Generation” would reflect certain significan shifts in the culture of Los Angele No writing wife is an island

Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: The Fictions of Hindsight: Breeding Myths
In 1964 Bob Dylan issued an invitation to his literary exegetes that roared out a warning. "Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen," Dylan famously urged in "The Times They Are A-Changin'."
Many authors toil to get out a few sentences in an hour. Other damnable types can pen 3000 words in a sitting. What kind of people are they?


“Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen,” urged Bob Dylan in Times They Are A-Changin’. They came, and keep coming
Automated Storyteller [ Money, money, money, money . . . MONey! ; Hans Christian Andersen created a world that had no inanimate objects. Every pebble and weed, every scab on a stone fence was alive, writes Harold Bloom Hans Christian Andersen wrote dark, timeless fairytales--for children and grown-ups ; “Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine / There’s always laughter and good red wine.” Or maybe a stein of Bavarian beer. The Pope and a Rabbi Walk Into a Bar ...]
• · Remember: it's quantification, not quality, that counts 13 Reasons For List Lust ; Lewis Jones reviews The Turning by Tim Winton. And so a web is crookedly spun. "Time doesn't click on and on at the stroke," reflects the witness in the drowning story. "It comes and goes in waves and folds like water; it flutters and sifts like dust, rises, billows, falls back on itself." Broken legs and broken lives
• · · Cambodian refugee tells her amazing story of survival in her second book, Lucky Child I was spared to tell my story ; As Aristotle might say, sex should be pursued with the right person, for the right reason, at the right time, in the right way, and to the right degree. Can this be lust? The "Virtue" of Lust? ; It hurt her feelings, says Jane Fonda, sharing her feelings, that one of her husbands liked them to have sexual threesomes. "It reinforced my feeling I wasn't good enough." Everyone wants to be important
• · · · The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in England is the only place you are likely to find an Ethernet port that looks like a book. Technology and libraries of the future; competing or complementary interests? ; Appointment in Samarra was a big hit for John O’Hara. But as his fame and wealth grew, so did the quality of his fiction decline Tragedy Of Manners
• · · · · Olympic superfish and international sporting superstar Ian Thorpe splashed out in style on Saturday, launching his signature fragrance in Melbourne First water now fragrances for Thorpey ; Bec Cartwright Australia's sexiest woman
• · · · · · Comparing screen fantasy with bedroom reality is creating heat in all the wrong places Perfectly Normal ; Finding Your Voice - Control + F Still haven't found what I'm looking for