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...love it,” she announced when I complimented the cookies. “I can’t wait to be a stay-at-home mom—a glamorous and highly refined stay-at-home mom, naturally. I’m going to read Somerset Maugham all day, and when my kids come home from school I’ll make them brownies...
...somewhere along the way, the writer got lost. "When we came to the scene, the memory of Tusitala was becoming almost mythical," says RLS Preservation Foundation president James Winegar, a former Mormon missionary from the U.S. who helped set up the Vailima museum with aloe vera millionaire Rex Maugham in 1994. Not only the memory of the writing had faded - Vailima, too, had seen better days. After a 1990 cyclone all but destroyed what had become the official residence of Samoa's head of state, the foundation assumed responsibility for Vailima's restoration. Its mission: "to make this guy come...
...Cambridge and now resident in London. "I didn't set out to incorporate any particularly Malaysian themes," Aw said from New York City, where he was on a promotional tour. "My intention was to demolish the Malaysian historical novel of the 1930s and '40s, as influenced by Somerset Maugham. You know, the idea that there are only two versions of Malaysia in literature?a place where white men sit around drinking pink gin, and a place full of colorful people doing quaint things. I wanted to write a book that didn't depend on settings...
...grownup, he rushes home to eat Popsicles and play video games. It works for him, but for most IP sufferers Clance and Harvey would prescribe more standard measures: therapy, self-help groups and understanding friends. Clance also suggests that her patients remember a useful observation of W. Somerset Maugham's: "Only a mediocre person is always at his best." --By Janice Castro. Reported by Leslie Cauley/Atlanta and Marcia Gauger/New York
...film clips from the 30s trip to China, called Bold Journey. She did guest spots on The Barbara Stanwyck Show and Adventures in Paradise. In 1956 she got a long-deferred chance to play a role she lost out on in Hollywood: as the Asian blackmailer in Somerset Maugham's The Letter. The director of the TV show was William Wyler, the man who had said no when he made the film version in 1940. She was set to return to Hollywood, with the large role of Auntie Liang in Hunter's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum...