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...There Will Be Blood in L.A. George Clooney won two best actor awards for playing a lawyer at crisis point in Michael Clayton; Daniel Day-Lewis a pair for his oil mogul in There Will Be Blood; and, in Boston, Frank Langella won the prize for playing an aged novelist in Starting Out in the Evening. Three groups selected Julie Christie as best actress - she's an Alzheimer's patient in the Canadian film Away From Her - and two liked Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en rose...
Boris, a scholarship boy and avid sportsman at the exclusive boarding school Eton, is academically gifted. But his reports there worried that he might squander his huge potential by spreading himself too thin. It's a habit he's maintained in overlapping careers as a journalist, novelist, poet, classical historian, media personality and politician. "My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it," says Johnson, who became editor of the venerable U.K. political magazine the Spectator in 1999 and swiftly reneged on a promise to Conrad Black, its proprietor at the time, not to seek a parliamentary...
...criticism of the U.S., it's revealing that the Flemish world's hottest novelist tends to refer to Americans as "we." While Verhaeghen remains a Belgian citizen, the pull of America is strong. "I've reached two points of no return. I've been here 10 years, and I'm married to an American," says Verhaeghen, whose wife is also a psychologist. "I don't equate the country with what is happening now. I believe America's heart is in the right place...
...Brave Companions,” is hands-down one of the best books to pass time riding on the T.) Yale also boasts several playwrights who’ve won Pulitzers, including Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, and Doug Wright. Harvard winners include autobiographer Henry Adams class of 1858, novelist James R. Agee ’32, and poets ranging from Conrad P. Aiken ’12 to former U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz ’26. Harvard’s golden age of poetry has been lauded in numerous publications, and its early years were in part defined...
...Does anyone ever confuse you with novelist James Patterson...