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Which included Keith Olbermann. That was my idea. I'm friends with Keith. I like him quite a bit. And as he says in the blurb, we disagree about things, but we have very interesting, good, educated conversations about stuff. And we're in a fantasy-baseball league together...
...site proclaims, beside a photo of the Expos office, an aging townhouse painted an unappealing yellow cream color. “Since 1872, when the program was founded, a course in expository writing has been the one academic experience required of every Harvard student.” Dramatically, the blurb concludes, “We welcome you to ‘Expos,’ a Harvard tradition...
...book of the same name, Powell's account of the year she spent cooking her way through Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and blogging about her experiences. By turns amusing, profane and whiny, Julie & Julia was a best seller. It did not include a blurb from Child, who reportedly found Powell's project disrespectful and unserious. Thankfully, in writing her screenplay, Ephron drew on a second source, Child's memoir My Life in France (published after Child's death in 2004 and written with Alex Prud'homme). The Child who is only imagined in Powell's book...
...auditioned to be a guest host on Ebert and Roeper, and although I failed miserably, I sent him an e-mail saying I wrote this book, and you're featured prominently. And Ebert, God bless him, wrote a blurb for the book. I think his blurb is actually longer than the book itself...
...certainly got star quality: Jet Li, Kaneshiro and Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau (who had the Matt Damon role in the film that was remade as The Departed). It's a little long and a lot of fun, even if it doesn't quite live up to the NYAFF blurb: "As big, meaty and satisfying as a flame-roasted leg of wild boar, Warlords is the kind of movie you tear into with relish, wiping its bloody juices off your chin with the back of your hand as you sit on a throne made of the bones of your enemies...