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| Film critic Barry Norman reveals white-knuckle star encounters Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:14 PM PDT Writing for UK listings magazine Radio Times, Norman, who presented the BBC's weekly Film program for a quarter of a century, offered a preview of events discussed in See You in the Morning, due for publication on September 26. After antagonizing Robert De Niro, inflammatory Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, with an uncomfortable question, the pair ended up "nose to nose snarling at each other". Another verbal tussle with John Wayne, this time over the rights and wrongs of the Vietnam War, resulted in the prominent Republican and True Grit star calling Norman a goddamn pinko liberal" before pitching up from his seat "with the obvious intention of thumping me. His prickly brush with Mel Gibson came during a shared dinner when the two disagreed over who was taller. Standing back to back on the suggestion of a fellow dinner guest, Norman said he could feel him going up on tiptoe behind me so that the top of his head would reach the same level as mine, whereupon the diplomatic soul pronounced us of equal height and Gibson said: "See? I told you so." But though his upcoming memoir covers Norman's time as a show business journalist and prominent film entertainment broadcaster, See You in the Morning is centered around his relationship with Diana, his wife of 53 years, who herself was an accomplished reporter, a novelist, and mother of their two children. — AFP Relaxnews, September 26, 2013. |
| Pulitzer nominee, novelist chosen for MacArthur Fellowship Posted: 25 Sep 2013 08:55 PM PDT Antrim, whose work can be found in The New Yorker, is known for three works of fiction: Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, published 1993, The Hundred Brothers in 1998, and The Verificationist in 2000, the middle of which was recognized by the PEN/Faulkner Award panel. He currently teaches at Columbia University as an associate professor. New York resident Russell achieved fame with Swamplandia! which drew on her knowledge of home county Florida, and led to her presence on that year's Orange Prize for Fiction longlist and won her a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Her debut novel was St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, while her latest publication, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, is a collection of short stories released in February of this year. At 32 years of age, Russell joins Steppenwolf Theatre playwright Tarell McCraney as this year's youngest MacArthur Fellows. The MacArthur Fellows Program, colloquially known as the Genius Grant, awards $625,000 (RM2.02 million) to each recipient over five years, given to US citizens that show "exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future". — AFP Relaxnews, September 26, 2012. |
Novelist and professor Donald Antrim (pic) and Pulitzer nominee Karen Russell are among the 24 MacArthur Fellows elected for 2013.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider : Books To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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