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...physician-assisted fake suicide attempt to get excused from school forever; a pedophile living in the barn; Lithium, Valium, and Halcyon eaten like candy, and much more." The therapist was later arrested for fraud. Former TIME writer Kurt Andersen blurbs the book enthusiastically. "I was reminded of Roald Dahl's 'Boy' and 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'...Burroughs has produced a memoir that's funny and sharp but also humane, as charming as it is revealing." The publicist for this book optimistically predicts that this will be the next 'Nanny Diaries': "People are already talking about...
Composer and Stravinsky pupil Ingolf Dahl once said about this music, “Stravinsky thinks of his music in terms of its speaking quality, as if it were giving voice to the inflection of the protagonists and their story.” This quality of Stravinsky was perfectly conveyed by the BSO’s performance...
...witty, brisk dialogue? Her tongue-in-cheek humor? Her vivid descriptions? Her fantastical names and whimsical jargon? Or, more likely, have kids simply exhausted the worlds of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia Chronicles and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Ring Fellowship and even that staple of childhood fantasy, Roald Dahl, welcoming J.K. Rowling’s more approachable—and more marketable—Hogwarts...
...resembles an English “public school” in its grammar—but has an enchanting meter all its own. These works follow in the tradition of youth-skewed authors like Susan Cooper, John Bellairs, Phillip Pullman, C.S. Lewis and the maestro of macabre gentility, Roald Dahl...
...director, John Dahl has said of her, “I was impressed with what a thoughtful, articulate, beautiful young lady she was. And I believe my jaw hit the ground when I found that at the time of our first meeting she was 16. Leelee is potentially a very good dramatic actress and given the right opportunities she will have a long career ahead of her.” But one with her ambition, intelligence and level-headedness will most likely have a long career ahead of her regardless of her success in Hollywood...