Free Showing of the Movie Greetings From the Shore August 12
The New Jersey State Library, in conjunction with the Atlantic Highlands Public Library and Hudson Mermaid Productions, will host a free outdoor screening of the award-winning movie Greetings from the Shore on Thursday, August 12, at 8:30 p.m. at the Atlantic Highlands Municipal Harbor Gazebo, 2 Simon Lake Dr., Atlantic Highlands.
'Dinner for Schmucks' not totally appetizing
Groucho Marx famously declined to join any club that would accept him as a member, a shining example that would have scuppered this supper club farce long before Steve Carell and Paul Rudd signed on. Which would have been a mixed blessing: "Schmucks" ain't pretty, but you'll probably laugh anyway.
The Conversation: HBO's Home Movie Hit
'The Neistat Brothers' is an autobiographical show on HBO that follows Van and Casey Neistat on adventures in their life. On the Conversation, Van and Casey Neistat talk with ABC's John Berman about their show and why they think people enjoy watching stories about their lives. HBO - Neistat Brothers - American Broadcasting Company - Casey Neistat - Arts
'Crazy ex-girlfriend' Lambert taking the stage in Santa Rosa
Considering the former "Nashville Star" finalist and country No. 1 artist has a penchant for writing semi-autobiographical songs, if I were Miranda Lambert's current boyfriend/fiance (Blake Shelton, also a country music star), I might take notice. For the rest of us, she will be one of the many acts to grace the stage at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa this weekend (and beyond).
Play takes sympathetic look at Toronto 18
Homegrown is an autobiographical play about the playwright's relationship with one of the Toronto 18. It opens Wednesday, Aug. 5, at Theatre Passe Muraille as part of SummerWorks.
East Winds, West Winds, By Mahdi Issa Al-Saqr, trans. Paul Starkey
Mahdi Issa Al-Saqr, one of Iraq's most pioneering and prominent authors in the second half of the 20th century, was a prolific writer who published six collections of stories, five novels and a memoir between 1954 and his death in 2006. East Winds, West Winds, published in Cairo in 1998, is a strongly autobiographical novel about an aspiring writer working as a translator for a British company ...
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Doig adds to Butte's long literary history by Brad Tyer Kurt Vonnegut, in his "autobiographical collage" Palm Sunday, recounts his argument with a Russian novelist who felt American writers had failed to produce a truly great novel on par with, say, War and Peace. Maybe so, Vonnegut concedes (though the point's debatable). But American writers, he counters, have produced something collectively ...
Carrie Fisher: A conversation with Princess Leia before Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando
Carrie Fisher's life is an open book. Actually four, plus an autobiographical stage show. From growing up Hollywood royalty as the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher , to nearly burning out in a post- Star Wars blaze of drugs and depression, Fisher tells it like it was even when changing names to protect the guilty; candidly and very, very funny. <!--break-- Fisher will be doing the ...