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Coen brothers bring Pitt-Clooney crime comedy to Venice: VENICE, Italy AFP — A black comedy starring Hollywood icons George Clooney and Brad Pitt, the latest quirky offering by the 2008 Oscar-winning Coen brothers, headlined the Venice film festival on Wednesday. The world premiere of "Burn After Reading," shown out of competition and also starring John Malkovich and...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, director, manuscript, memoir; Research articles 2008-08-27
Downey postpones plans to pen memoir: NEW YORK AP -- The "Iron Man" will not be wielding a pen: Robert Downey Jr. has postponed plans to write a memoir and has returned his advance to publisher HarperCollins, a spokeswoman for the actor told The Associated Press. Britney Ross of Rogers & Cowan declined to...; Tags: Associated Press, CAREER, memoir; Research articles 2008-07-27
Heavyweight cast set for ghostly Polanski thriller: LOS ANGELES AFP — Roman Polanski has lined up an all-star cast for his next film "The Ghost," an adaptation of British author Robert Harris's political thriller of the same name, it was reported Thursday. Oscar-winning actors Nicolas Cage and Tilda Swinton as well as former 007 Pierce Brosnan...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, memoir; Research articles 2008-06-26
Perspectives: “He is a rock star. It’s fantastic.” News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch, on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, predicting a victory for the Illinois senator in November ’ s general election “There are several kinds of Washington memoirs:...; Tags: E-mail, memoir, New York Times Co., News Corp.; Research articles 2008-06-09
What Happened? How Should I Know?: The memoirs of ex-Bush figures tend to follow a loose formula: take a slap at the old boss—gently or not so gently—then balance the tough love with some tender words. But former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s new memoir? It’s more like a right hook to the jaw. A...; Tags: Bush, Iraq, memoir, president, secretary, White House; Research articles 2008-06-09

Welcome to the United States of Amnesia: To kill time, as I wait for Gore Vidal by the reception desk in Claridge's, I leaf through the pages of his memoirs, looking at the photographs. One in particular takes my fancy: Gore aged three, in the garden of his grandfather's house in Washington DC -- a dapper little...; Tags: America, Gore, memoir, novel, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, U.S. Congress, voice; Research articles 2008-05-24
Boiling it down: BOILING IT DOWN: Taking its cue from a six-word story by Ernest Hemingway ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn"), the online magazine Smith has published a book of six-word memoirs that were originally submitted for a contest. A chef wrote, "Brought it to a boil, often." A female singer: "Couldn't...; Tags: Christian Science Monitor, ezine, memoir, train; Research articles 2008-05-20
She Thought She Could Do Better: Deborah Jeane Palfrey saw a business opportunity and took it. But her success was also her downfall. She was never your typical madam. Discretion was definitely not one of her virtues. After Deborah Jeane Palfrey was charged with running a prostitution ring in the spring of 2007, she released...; Tags: memoir, Newsweek, phone; Research articles 2008-05-12
'Hannah Montana' ready to write her memoirs at age 15: LOS ANGELES AFP — She's only 15, but teen idol Miley Cyrus is ready to tell her life story in a memoir for the legion of fans of her hit television show "Hannah Montana." The publishing branch of Disney's media empire, which launched the singer-actress's career, announced Tuesday that...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Disney Corp., memoir, TVs; Research articles 2008-04-22
Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: The Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW: Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: The Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW by Lt Col Alexander Jefferson, USAF, retired. Fordham University Press (http://www.fordhampress.com), University Box L, Bronx, New York 10458, 2005, 133 pages, $29.95 hardcover. There tends to be something special about memoirs and the recollections of...; Tags: Fordham University, Manufacturing, memoir, photograph; Research articles 2008-03-22
'Che' Guevara's widow unveils memoir: HAVANA AFP — The widow of legendary Cuban-Argentinian Ernesto "Che" Guevara unveiled her memoir, "Evocation," here Thursday, in which she narrates her six years with Cuba's hero before he left her to spread revolution in Africa. Aleida March, 71, dedicated her book to "my children, my greatest source of...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Cuba, inspiration, memoir; Research articles 2008-03-20
Obama's Empty Rhetoric Will Fail Him in Office: That CINC-ing Feeling Barack Obama's tent-revival rhetoric stirs his followers' emotions. But in them there is a disturbing lack of the usual tools of leadership that may indicate a disqualification to serve as Commander-in-Chief. Great leaders have to be great communicators, not just orators. Throughout history, they have...; Tags: Air Force, CAREER, China, Government, memoir, Obama, president, SOFTWARE; Research articles 2008-03-10
How did a Valley Girl convince Times she was a ghetto chick? A literary fraudster takes the newspaper of record for a ride-and our columnist suffers flashbacks.(MediaWorks): Byline: Simon Dumenco On feb. 28, my journalist friend Matt Haber e-mailed me a link to an article titled "A Refugee From Gangland'' from that day's New York Times, along with a note that read, "OK, maybe I'm a cynic, but doesn't this woman's...; Tags: essay, Litigation, memoir, New York Times Co.; Research articles 2008-03-10
Faked books follow long tradition of literary swindles: PARIS AFP — Two much touted books exposed as fakes in recent weeks -- a searing US memoir on life with gangs and drugs and a best-seller-turned-movie on the Holocaust-- have rocked the publishing world but are only the latest in an ignominious literary tradition of bogus tales and trumped-up...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, memoir; Research articles 2008-03-06
Holocaust Memoir Author Admits Fake.: By Israel Faxx News Services The author of a best-selling Holocaust memoir admitted she made up the story. Misha Defonseca, a Belgian writer living in Massachusetts, also acknowledged in a statement given by her lawyers to The Associated Press that she is not Jewish....; Tags: Associated Press, Massachusetts, memoir; Research articles 2008-03-04
French literati put brave face on faked Belgian book: PARIS AFP — The duped French book-editor and film-producer of a faked Belgian Holocaust memoir scrambled Friday to put a brave face on the deception, which saw the best-selling book made into the movie "Surviving With Wolves." The book of the same name recounted the incredible tale of a...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Brussels, deception, memoir, movie; Research articles 2008-02-29
War on Two Fronts: An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon: War on Two Fronts: An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon. Col. Christopher P. Hughes. casemate. 306 pages; color photographs; index; $32.95. Col. Christopher Hughes' War on Two Fronts: An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon is both a memoir of his combat experience and an...; Tags: Iraq, Leadership, memoir, Pentagon, soldier; Research articles 2008-02-01
Canseco plans sequel to tell-all doping book: reports: NEW YORK AFP — Retired slugger Jose Canseco, who unveiled steroid doping by Major League Baseball stars in a 2005 book, plans a sequel to his tell-all memoir "Juiced" that promises to add names to the sport's shame. The New York Daily News and New York Post reported Sunday...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, memoir, New York Post; Research articles 2007-12-30
2007 offered great reads in fiction, nonfiction: In no particular order, here, in my opinion, are the best books of 2007: Fiction Richard Russo's "Bridge of Sighs" is an expansive and intriguing story about ordinary people in a small New York town, Thomaston -- encompassing their entire lives, told with flashbacks and different...; Tags: CIA, memoir, women; Research articles 2007-12-28
Bankrolling Ali’s Asylum: Ayaan Hirsi Ali stands at the nexus of forces shaping the 21st century—and it’s a very dangerous place to be. The Somali-born author, who repudiated traditional Islam in her best-selling memoir, “Infidel,” fled her adopted Netherlands for America this year in the face of threats from radical Muslims, thereby becoming,...; Tags: atheist, Los Angeles Times, memoir, Newsweek, nexus; Research articles 2007-12-03