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Apr.08.2013 THE PASSING PARADE INCLUDES A MOUSEKETEER... This is indeed a sad day in Hollywood and world history. I'm sure, others will note the death of The Iron Lady, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Her story was chronicled last year in a movie starring Meryl Streep. Her characterization earned the actress a third Oscar. Thatcher's...	Jul.22.2012 KEN BURNS TO STUDY ROOSEVELT CLAN... PBS and Ken Burns have announced that a documentary will air about the lives of the Roosevelt family in 2014. The Roosevelts: An Intimate History is a seven-part series that follows their story for more than a century, from Theodore’s birth in 1858 to Eleanor’s death in 1962. In...
Jun.26.2012 WOMEN LOSE AN IMPORTANT VOICE... Nora Ephron was an insightful scribe of articles, and producer / director of smart cinema emphasizing wonderfully comedic romantic analysis and stories. Her early influence was her parents, who were both screenwriters. Phoebe and Henry Ephron wrote...	Jan.26.2012 The True Blue Iron Lady Needless to say, it’s been an exciting couple of days since my ebook came out (Which you can get here) I’ve sold several copies, people have been sending lovely notes, it’s been going well. But I’ve become one of those people I swore I’d never become: checking my sales statistics. I’m...
Jan.20.2012 Golden and Tarnished Oldies: Enduring and Temporary Film Masterpieces Critics and scholars have ranked 1939's La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game), the third greatest film of all time. Everyone has two jobs, Roger Ebert told me years ago – film critic and what they do for a living. I don't fit Ebert's arrogant claim because I was the second-string film...	Jan.16.2012 The Iron Lady THE IRON LADY a film review by Jeanne Powell British prime minister Margaret Thatcher portrayed by Meryl Streep, yes – who else? Another bravura performance by one of the four greatest living film actresses in the western world. Compelling performances also are delivered by Jim...
Feb.02.2011 Meryl Streep Would Like Mother Memoir “It’s so gratifying because it’s the audience that nobody really gives a shit about,” quipped Meryl Streep in an interview with Vanity Fair about her success in movies at the age of 60. Women will buy tickets and books that actually interest them, but we all knew that, didn’t we? This same...	Aug.22.2010 Following the leader Every few months writing magazines and web sites put out a list of no-nos for writers, what not to do when writing a book. 1. Never start a book with the main character waking up. It's boring and banal. Then there's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, which is...
Aug.11.2009 Julie and Julia: Bittersweet When people stay in their seats to watch the credits of a movie, they generally do so in silence, feeling slightly embarrassed about their need to know which stately home stood in for the heroine’s abode, or who sang that vaguely familiar song at the end. And when the relevant information is...	Jul.14.2009 On Michael Jackson, Celebrities, and becoming Famous All the recent hype about Michael Jackson has caused me to think more about my attitude towards celebrities and the question of fame. I should say at once that I have never really been interested in celebrities for their own sake. I have never screamed at a rock concert and the most I would ever...