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Acclaimed Chilean-American novelist Isabel Allende touched on everything from homosexuality to ballroom dancing to her crush on Antonio Banderas in a book reading at the First Parish Church in Harvard Square yesterday night. Her new book, “The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir,” discusses the dynamics of her family relationships following the death of her daughter, an event described in her previous memoir “Paula.” Allende warned the audience beforehand that the book had “nothing spiritual or profound in it. It’s just...
...directed by white Frenchmen. The result was sentimental and, to some modern eyes, patronizing. Years later Obama saw the film with his mother and thought about walking out. But looking at her in the theater, he glimpsed her 16-year-old self. "I suddenly realized," he wrote in his memoir, Dreams from My Father, "that the depiction of childlike blacks I was now seeing on the screen ... was what my mother had carried with her to Hawaii all those years before, a reflection of the simple fantasies that had been forbidden to a white middle-class girl from Kansas...
...Before her death, Ann read a draft of her son's memoir, which is almost entirely about his father. Some of her friends were surprised at the focus, but she didn't seem obviously bothered. "She never complained about it," says Peluso. "She just said it was something he had to work out." Neither Ann nor her son knew how little time they had left...
After playing royals ancient and modern, a hard-nosed cop and all manner of fantasy females, the Oscar winner has written a memoir, In the Frame. Helen Mirren will now take your questions...
...with many other Senators, some of McCain's biggest corporate donors were invariably the companies that sought his favor - firms like FedEx, AT&T and Qwest Communications. At one point, he even allowed Fred Smith, a friend who ran FedEx, to sponsor a book party for McCain's memoir Worth the Fighting...