Word: memoirize
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...which chronicled Rusesabagina’s actions during the genocide. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Don Cheadle’s portrayal of Rusesabagina. Last night’s event, sponsored by Harvard Book Store, marked the release of Rusesabagina’s memoir, “An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography,” earlier this month by Viking Press. The greatly-anticipated event sold out late Saturday afternoon, according to a Harvard Book Store employee, and a line stretched from the church to the corner of Garden Street and Mass...
...accommodations after you’ve made a little piece of urban space your new home. You’re jobless, destitute, and living outside, but you can bring your TV, right? Further, there’s always an opportunity for a little freelance—a best-selling memoir about your seedy life on the streets, perhaps with some James Frey-ian embellishments...
...When you look back at the firing of General [Douglas] MacArthur, President Truman writes in his memoir that civilian control of the military "is one of the strongest foundations of our system of free government. Many of our people are descended from men and women who fled their native countries to escape the oppression of militarism." The importance of it really comes from the founding of our nation, [similar to] the separation of church and state...
...passing wonders of Mitchell's memoir-like time capsule is the photographic fidelity with which it captures Britain at a turning point. Here are the Asteroids games, the Connors-McEnroe matches on TV, the Jean Michel Jarre LPs and screenings of Chariots of Fire. Teenagers canoodle to Three Times a Lady and weep over Kramer vs. Kramer. Yet those familiar details are lit up with a sense of magic that makes Middle England seem more wondrous than Middle-earth. "Birdsong's the thoughts of a wood. Beautiful, it was, but boys aren't allowed to say 'beautiful' 'cause...
...gaping Twin Towers site. Greengrass's film is the first of a few big-studio projects dealing with 9/11. World Trade Center, the account of two Port Authority policemen trapped beneath the towers' charnel rubble, follows in August. James Vanderbilt's screenplay of Against All Enemies, Clarke's contentious memoir of his career tracking terrorists, which begins with frenetic scenes in the White House on 9/11, is floating around Hollywood. Paul Haggis, fresh from his Oscar upset with Crash, has expressed interest in directing...