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...notion of Folman making a feature-length cartoon starring himself isn't as self-indulgent as it sounds. Waltz with Bashir isn't a whimsical WALL-E?style adventure or a cutesy Disney cartoon. Part documentary and part memoir, it details Folman's odyssey to retrieve the lost memories of his youth as a bewildered soldier under fire in Beirut during the 1982 Lebanon war. Through flashbacks, visits to a psychiatrist and stories told by old war buddies, Folman's animated self follows his real-life quest to remember what happened. (See pictures from the best anime movies...
...every and any historical event or human endeavor - battles, expeditions, feats of endurance, or plain old human evolution as we move from crouched primates to upright homo sapiens. And while Nicholson commits that all-too-common sin of conflating his subject with his life - the book is as much memoir as history - he does so with the kind of wit capable of charming readers into glossing over his missteps...
Bill O'Reilly Host of The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News anchor and author of the memoir A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity...
...Tuesday, that book will arrive on store shelves, and in terms of payback, it will not disappoint. At once a memoir of his campaign, a treatise on the ills of the Republican Party and a blueprint for his own political future, Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America is filled with sharp words for his fellow Republicans who frustrated his bid for the party's nomination...
...state was so sparsely populated at the time that only two people died. The Santa Cruz Mountains and surrounding areas - San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz - took a 6.5-magnitude shock on Oct. 8, 1865. Mark Twain witnessed the event and wrote about it in his memoir, Roughing It: "[T]he ground seemed to roll under me in waves, interrupted by a violent joggling up and down, and there was a heavy grinding noise as of brick houses rubbing together. Never was solemn solitude turned into teeming life quicker...