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Emanuel Levy’s book “Oscar Fever” traces the awards back to their inception. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, founded in 1927, was the brainchild of MGM’s eponymous Louis B. Mayer. Its first awards ceremony took place in 1929—the operative logic being that the best way to legitimize the fledging industry might be to host a highly publicized event in its honor...
This is when I mentioned to Kudrow that I've met one family member who is into genealogy: my cousin Carol. It was at my mom's second wedding, and Carol wanted birthplaces and dates for this giant book she'd brought. Let's just say that you shouldn't ask someone to fill out a survey when they're at their mom's second wedding unless it's about how many vodka sodas they want...
...doing, and I felt just a little connected to her. Then she asked me to e-mail his birthplace and -date, as well as my wife's and her parents'. And I was happy to do it. Because even though I may never look at Carol's giant book, whoever does should get to see the most interesting page...
When author and journalist Judith Warner set out to write a book about children and psychiatric drugs, she too accepted the conventional wisdom that American children are being medicated into numbness. But after extensive interviews with parents, therapists and academics, she made a 180-degree turn. In this impassioned book, the author argues that childhood mental illness is real, widespread and painful to families caught in its grip. Warner believes that statistics about Ritalin's being overprescribed are exaggerated. "Almost no parent takes the issue of psychiatric diagnosis lightly or rushes to 'drug' his or her child," she writes. "Responsible...
...prominent author VS Naipaul wrote in his book of travels to India in 1990 that, “The liberation of spirit that has come to India could not come as release alone. In India, with its layer below layer of distress and cruelty, it had to come as disturbance...India was now a country of a million little mutinies.” There are big questions to answer for a country that, while proudly trumpeting seven-to-eight percent growth rates each year, also ranked 134th in the Human Development Index in 2009 report. A breathless?...