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...page 12, is the Brangelina of the tattle trade. For gossipists, journalistic ethics can be an oxymoron. Many have accepted meals, jewelry and plane trips from folks hoping for a kind word. And the items they run are not always the truth, not even truthiness. More like speculative fiction--Proust for the prurient...
...kids of this inner-city institute, good manners are medieval, and not in the Pulp Fiction way. And Pierre is nothing if not an anachronism. For a start, the movies haven't dabbled in the image of the suave, kindly Frenchman since Charles Boyer and Louis Jourdan hung up their spats. (For a startle: Malaga's own Antonio as the real-life Pierre? He explains, lamely but gamely, that his mother was Spanish, and that he speaks five languages, "all with a Spanish accent." Anyway, he has the savoir-faire, or unforced machismo, to bring...
...alumni in June.” Jim Lehrer was born in Wichita, Kan., in 1934. He graduated from Victoria College in Texas and the University of Missouri and spent three years in the Marine Corps before starting work as a newspaper journalist, initially in order to fund his fiction writing. He switched to television journalism after a decade in newspapers and moved to Washington with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 1972. He began his collaboration with Robert MacNeil—a partnership that led to the 20-year run of the “MacNeil/Lehrer Report?...
...Vinci Code” is eminently intriguing not because of the color-by-numbers plot or the clichéd characters, but because of the haunting specter of truth that Brown skillfully creates by melding fiction and nonfiction into an indeterminate alloy...
Brown also shrewdly focuses on religion, which is mysterious enough already without him putting ideas into people’s heads. No one gets excited anymore about thrillers featuring the big bad government and its science fiction technology. Guns that fire icicles? James Bond was already evading those things back when he was Roger Moore. But God? Start questioning the foundations of faith and we all cannot help but wonder...