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Feb.04.2012
Book Review
“Stay The Course,” by E. D. Arrington
Review by Cynthia Brian
5 STARS *****
Hate is Learned. Love is Color Blind.
“Education is Freedom!” is the title of the mesmerizing poem that comprises the final chapter, and, is the theme that runs throughout E. D....
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Jan.04.2012
Yesterday, I received a newsletter from Powell's Books to choose the best of 2011. There's a lot of that going around -- choosing the best of the previous year now that we are firmly ensconced in the new year. I decided to play along. After all, $250 in books is going to save me at least $250 in...
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Nov.01.2011
(c) 2011 Jeanne Powell"Helping Us See What Was"all rights reserved
Last Sunday afternoon I was shopping at Whole Foods, taking advantage of its quite reasonably priced "house label" to get maximum value, and I overheard two women talking about a variety of reactions among friends who had...
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Sep.27.2011
I feel a bit like an interloper wading into this topic, but I saw The Help this weekend (as my friend Pamela would say, catch thy knee), and my reaction to it is, well… complicated.
First off, a disclaimer: I saw the movie, but I haven’t read the book by Kathryn Stockett. So I can only...
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Sep.10.2011
THE HELP
Reflections by Roy E. Haney
It was the Labor Day weekend and my son’s godmother was spending the weekend visiting. My wife had finished reading THE HELP and was anxious to see the movie. I had seen promotions advertising the film and it looked like it was going to be a...
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Sep.06.2011
A few months ago, I was having lunch with a friend who is an avid reader. She is always telling me about the latest book she has read and sometimes I am envious of the fact that she reads so many books in such a short period. On this particular day she was wound up about a book she had just...
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Aug.31.2011
So I went to see The Help a few weeks ago. You know that movie based on the book of the same name – which by the way has been on the New York Times bestsellers list for two years.
Now, for the record, I did not (could not bring myself) to read the book. And not because it was written by a...
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Aug.30.2011
Her name was Emily and she was The Help.
When I was a child in the 50's, Emily worked in our Alabama home five days a week. She did some cooking, some cleaning, and some baby-minding. I was the baby who nestled in Emily's lap, smelling her perfume of sweat and furniture polish, falling asleep to...
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Aug.12.2011
The Help
Starring: Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sissy Spacek, Jessica Chastain, Ahna o'Reilly, Allison Janney, and more.
Directed by: Tate Taylor Screenplay by: Tate Taylor Based on the Novel by: Kathryn Stockett Original Music by:...
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Aug.12.2011
THE HELP a film review by Jeanne Powell
Tate Taylor is another actor turned director, in the tradition of Warren Beatty and Robert Redford, and he gets it right in his first major film, “The Help,” starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, with special appearances by Sissy Spacek...
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