Word: fictions
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Rosenthal says his alleged homophobia is a fiction that has persisted as a rumor for decades. "It's a lie, it's been a lie, it's been a lie all along. It's been around for years and years," Rosenthal says. "My friends know it is not true...
...begrudge the year and a half she spent on Joan of Arc. "I had never really written about anybody whose life was a life of action," she said. "I thought that it would give me a chance to describe things that probably wouldn't have naturally come onto my fiction radar screen...
DIED. DAME BARBARA CARTLAND, 98, best-selling romance novelist whose 723 books sold more than 1 billion copies worldwide; in Hertfordshire, England. Cartland published her first novel in 1925, was dubbed the queen of romance fiction and became beloved for creating virginal heroines in rococo plotlines. Her ability to write a novel a week, dictating to secretaries while reclining on a sofa, earned her a glamorous, bejeweled lifestyle, a host of pink gowns and a bit part in a real-life rococo drama: step-grandmother to Princess Diana...
...third book of tales, is of the latter, grab-bag variety, offering 22 pieces, almost all of them culled from previous publications. And yet the result is not as random or eclectic as might be anticipated. Shields, whose novel The Stone Diaries won a 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, displays in all her writing, long or short, a consistently whimsical ruefulness toward her characters and the dilemmas they face, some of which, in this collection, are engagingly bizarre...
Beverly Hills, 90210 airs for the final time this Wednesday after 10 seasons. Many players have come and gone, but Jennie Garth's once golden ingenue, Kelly Taylor, has remained throughout, enduring all manner of improbably salacious plot twists. Is fiction any stranger than truth? Compare the Kelly Taylor decade with that of Bill Clinton...