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...delight of the packed house, Smith--a two-time Grammy winner and an accomplished comedian and actor-- showcased his many talents during the cultural show, part of an annual celebration of Harvard's cultural diversity...
Dame Iris Murdoch's like will not be seen again. A beautiful woman with a brilliant mind, a divine innocent, philosopher and Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, winner of the 1978 Booker Prize for her novel The Sea, the Sea, living closely and in famous squalor with her husband, the eminent critic John Bayley, she was unmoved by the claims of publishers and fans upon her privacy and person. To the impudent question in a bookstore's Visitor's Book "What are you famous for?" she wrote, "For nothing. I am just famous." And she would have believed...
...claim literary prestige, but an author who wins the Imus American Book Award can claim a big pot of cash, along with an influential endorsement. DON IMUS, radio's most popular curmudgeon, created the awards to counter the "elitist" selections of those other book honors. Of the four winners announced last week, two were selected by Imus and two by listeners, who voted for their favorites online. Imus' top pick was Freedomland by novelist Richard Price, who will take home $100,000. The other three winners (Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch, King of the World by David Remnick...
...mind--behind that transformative wear is Sandy Powell, perhaps the movies' most celebrated costume designer since the heyday of postwar grande dame Edith Head, a 35-time Oscar winner. Come the Academy Awards next month, Powell, a 38-year-old Londoner with 25 pictures and two previous Oscar nominations to her name, will be up again for a statuette--and the competition will include herself. Last week the designer received two Oscar nominations--one for her work on Velvet Goldmine and the other for the hit romance Shakespeare in Love...
DIED. IRIS MURDOCH, 79, erudite and macabre British writer, philosopher and Booker Prize winner; after a battle with Alzheimer's disease; in Oxford, England. In her 26 novels, including A Severed Head and An Accidental Man, Murdoch described in intricate detail middle-class characters in the throes of what she called "erotic mysteries and deep, dark struggles between good and evil" (see Eulogy...