Word: rainer
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...publishing deal and follow in the footsteps of someone like Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt, you'll have to ask some hard questions about your book first. "Publishers decide on the basis that no one reads anymore. So they ask, 'Can we promote this?'" cautions Tristine Rainer, founder of the Center for Autobiographic Studies in Pasadena, Calif. Your memoir is marketable, according to Rainer, if it provides a glimpse into a unique world, reflects the social issues of a larger group or is just great writing. Even if you meet these criteria, convincing a publisher means sending out scores...
...first marriage--to actor Kirk Douglas. Darrid eventually found the right fit with Barricade Books, a small New York press that publishes theater and film biographies. Lots of specialty and regional publishers are seeking books on everything from Navy stories to tales of Kentucky history. In the fall, Rainer plans to launch First Person Press, which will be strictly devoted to memoir publishing...
...represents a realignment of America's cultural aesthetics. Rap songs deliver the message, again and again, to keep it real. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote that "a work of art is good if it has sprung from necessity." Rap is the music of necessity, of finding poetry in the colloquial, beauty in anger, and lyricism even in violence. Hip-hop, much as the blues and jazz did in past eras, has compelled young people of all races to search for excitement, artistic fulfillment and even a sense of identity by exploring the black underclass. "And I know because...
This movie aims to be artful entertainment, and so to debate it as a manifesto about the media leads one down the road to nonsense. In his review in New York magazine, Peter Rainer writes that "Maybe people soaked in pop culture are increasingly looking for an all-purpose pop culture explanation for why everything has turned out so lousily. As explanations go, this sort of thing makes a superficial kind of sense, and it's more fun to play around with than Marxism or Freudianism or just about any other ism." Ick. Somebody, please, turn off the critics...
...Cecil B. Demille made movies featuring wild pagan bacchanals with partly nude women. It was not immoral to show them, he explained, because he was only telling stories from the Bible. For titillating his audience while piously claiming a higher motive, ole Cecil B. had nothing on Starr. LARRY RAINER Burlington...