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...master documentarian as well as a prime picturemaker, Scorsese uses interviews with dozens of important figures from the New York City folk, poetry and blues scene--Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Dave Van Ronk, Allen Ginsberg, Al Kooper--to recreate the impact when Bobby Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minn., hit town in January 1961 on a pilgrimage to visit the ailing Guthrie. Dylan went right to work, sponging up all manner of folk influences, spending days in the library reading U.S. history, ingesting every book of poetry he found in the apartments of friends who let him sleep over...
...true story of how his Indian granduncle Shanti fell in love with and married a Jewish-German woman after World War II. The book will weave together history, race and love, mixing poignant family biography with personal memoir, all with the author's inimitable style. Expect Seth to master yet another method...
With a working knowledge of the superego, oral fixations and daddy complexes, MONICA LEWINSKY seems well equipped for her next endeavor. The world's most infamous intern will begin a master's program in social psychology at the London School of Economics next month. Since her affair with President Bill Clinton modified both their career arcs, Lewinsky has busied herself designing a line of handbags, serving as a Jenny Craig spokeswoman and offering dating advice on a reality show. Maybe she can do her thesis on the damaging effect fame has on the ability to find a vocation...
...untested brews of oil, water and varnish bases, which began to come off almost as soon as they were put on. Though Michelangelo grouched about his immense Sistine task, there is no question of his mastery of pure fresco, which he had learned in Florence in 1488 from his master Ghirlandaio...
ASPEN, COLO. Name: Food & Wine Classic Dates: June 16-18, '06 Registration begins in November for three days of seminars, tastings, cooking classes and reserve-wine sippings with master sommelier Andrea Immer Robinson, cheese expert Laura Werlin and chefs José Andrés, Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, Wolfgang Puck, Jacques...