Word: munro
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...like his book. "Say something nice about it or I'll hunt you down and kill you," he said, and then giggled nervously. The 51-year-old rock musician and frontman for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds was referring to his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, a sordid tale about a sex-crazed, drug-addled, adulterous traveling salesman and the 9-year-old son with whose care he suddenly finds himself charged. Cave discussed his music, the gold statue he wanted to erect in his hometown and, of course, his new novel - which is very interesting...
...named the book The Death of Bunny Munro, which sort of gives away the ending. Why remove the element of surprise? It does take the element of surprise out but it ramps up the tension quite a lot. We know he's going to die, but we don't know how he's going to do it. He's constantly in life-threatening situations, so when he does die it's kind of a shock...
...something like seven CDs and we scored it and put music to the whole thing. If you listen to it on headphones it's extraordinary, like a hallucination or something. It's psychedelic. It's an audio book like nothing you've ever heard. There's also a Bunny Munro app for the iPhone but I haven't worked out how to download...
Calling the shots on her first feature, the Canadian actress from The Sweet Hereafter and Go tackles an unlikely project for a 28-year-old: Alice Munro's short story about a long-married couple (Julie Christie, above left, and Gordon Pinsent) coping with an Alzheimer's diagnosis...
...many traditional animators lament the decline of hand-drawn animation with each computer-generated box office hit, the gap between classic and cutting edge has never been wider. But by picking up a new technology, Sert Practitioner in the Arts at the Carpenter Center Munro Ferguson uses elements of each medium to put the artist back in animation. Using a device known as SANDDE (Stereoscopic Animation Drawing Device), Ferguson is able to create three-dimensional “hand-drawn” images in real time. Developed by cousin and partner Paul Kroiter, the technology allows animators to do what...