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First-time novelist Stef Penney won Britain's Costa Book of the Year award this month for The Tenderness of Wolves, a vivid portrait of life in snowswept Canada. The book's realism is particularly impressive since Penney has never visited the country. Suffering from agoraphobia, she could only make it as far as London's British Library to do her research. But fictional fudging is an illustrious tradition (Shakespeare almost certainly never left England, either) - and other acclaimed modern authors have gotten by with less meticulous research...
...short film, not a minute is wasted. Thanks to tight writing, shorts are often wittier than features. And because they don't have to make back a massive amount of money for investors, they're often grittier. It's hard to imagine this year's darkly original Sundance Jury Award winner, Everything Will Be OK, in which cult animator Don Hertzfeldt's signature stick-figure character, Bill, faces an existential crisis, coming out of the studios that deliver a new twist on celebrity-voiced animals every three months...
...Grammy Awards served as more than a shiny gold attaboy! from the music industry for some artists this year. Shunned by Nashville since 2003, when lead singer Natalie Maines told a London crowd, "We're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas," the DIXIE CHICKS collected five Grammys for their unrepentant single Not Ready to Make Nice and their album Taking the Long Way. While accepting the Best Country Album award, a vindicated Maines said, "To quote the great Simpsons: Hah-hah!" LUDACRIS, meanwhile, wryly thanked two VIP hip-hop critics when he won Best Rap Album...
...Olympics and three World Championships. After missing last season to participate in the Winter Games, Chu is enjoying a prolific senior campaign, ranking as the national leader in assists and points per game and emerging as one of the front-runners for the 10th anniversary Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the top player in women’s college hockey. “I think returning from the Olympics there’s always going to be this notion of how is the transition going to be to the college atmosphere and college hockey,” Chu said...
...fourth and final strand of Shanley’s dramatic web, the violated student’s mother (Caroline Steffanie Clay), crosses the other characters only once, in a ten-minute scene that also earned original star Adriane Lennox a Tony Award. Unlike Lennox’s acting, Clay’s is weak, and despite the high emotion written into the role, her performance is neither shocking nor compelling. However, her scene is isolated enough from the rest of the play not to affect the story arc too detrimentally, and she is by no means incompetent...