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California Literary Review
California Literary Review
NEW MOON, the latest film in the TWILIGHT series is breaking box office records. Julia Rhodes writes that "when the kids at the front of the theater start chatting amongst
themselves during the “tense” final scenes, something’s not right." Read more of her review...
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Bella Swan – Kristen StewartEdward Cullen – Robert PattinsonJacob Black – Taylor LautnerAlice Cullen – Ashley GreeneVictoria – Rachelle LefevreCharlie Swan – Billy BurkeDr. Carlisle Cullen – Peter FacinelliRosalie Hale – Nikki Reed
California Literary Review Mark Fitzgerald has a review of LOVE AND SUMMER by William Trevor -- a novel set in 1950s rural Ireland. Read the review...
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Why is it that summer can never last forever, especially when we want it to? The once long and amorous days wane too soon in circumscription. A small chill creeps down from the hills. Something is about to end. Then someone leaves town. Someone always leaves town.
California Literary Review PRECIOUS is a raw, compelling film with outstanding performances. Zorianna Kit thinks the Academy should just hand the Oscar to Mo'Nique right now. Read more...
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Claireece “Precious” Jones – Gabourey “Gabby” SidibeMary – Mo’NiqueMs. Rain – Paula PattonNurse John – Lenny KravitzMs. Weiss – Mariah CareyCornrows – Sherri Shepherd
California Literary Review Barbara Kingsolver's latest book, THE LACUNA, is a historical novel about the intersecting lives of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky. John Guthrie writes that Kingsolver is a "masterful artist at the height of her creative powers." Read more...
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Frida Kahlo was petite, birdlike, with a permanent limp due to severe injuries suffered in a bus accident as a teen. The accident damaged internal organs, as well as her right leg. Her injuries ultimately required some three dozen surgeries. ...
California Literary Review Irish artist John Gerrard has a show at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. Alix McKenna tells us his landscapes "...fill us with anxiety, hopelessness and a sense of imminent disaster. And we can't look away." Read more...
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A landscape is never just about the land. It is filtered through the eyes of the artist and ends up saying more about us than about our geography. American landscapes have traditionally depicted a paradise that embodies the nation’s self-image and ideals. ...
California Literary Review PIRATE RADIO, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman is out in theaters this weekend. Julia Rhodes finds it worth seeing largely because of its "brilliant comedic cast"...
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The Count – Philip Seymour HoffmanQuentin – Bill NighyGavin – Rhys IfansDave – Nick FrostMinister Dormandy – Kenneth Branagh
California Literary Review MY PRISON, MY HOME is the story of Haleh Esfandiari, a sixty-seven-year-old American woman who was incarcerated in Iran after being accused of spying. David Lida has a review...
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When Haleh Esfandiari was sent to the notorious Evin prison in Tehran in 2007, she was a sixty-seven-year-old grandmother. But she wasn’t any old sixty-seven-year-old grandmother. She was a sixty-seven-year-old ...
California Literary Review Ryan Van Cleave has a review of MESSENGER, the inspiring story of Mattie Stepanek whose wisdom and joie de vivre were an inspiration for so many people during his brief 13 years of life...
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Why? The constant specter of death looms over every page beginning with Mattie Stepanek’s three siblings all dying as infants from Dysautonomic Mitochondrial Myopathy—a very rare neuromuscular disease where cells don’t produce enough energy to work properly. ...
California Literary Review Stephen King's latest, UNDER THE DOME, comes out today and Katherine Tomlinson tells us "The King is Back"...
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It’s an ordinary October day when something extraordinary happens in a small Maine town—an event that becomes known as “Dome Day”; an event that becomes a line of demarcation. There is “before” and there ...
California Literary Review The blockbuster art exhibit of the season is the Arshile Gorky retrospective curently in Philadelphia through January before heading to London and finally Los Angeles. Ed Voves has a review of this fascinating show...
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Arshile Gorky, American (born Armenia), 1904 – 1948, The Artist and His Mother, c.1926-36, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 inchesWhitney Museum of American Art, New York, Gift of Julien Levy for Maro and Natasha ...
California Literary Review George Clooney stars in the new film THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS. Julia Rhodes finds it a winner...
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Lyn Cassady – George ClooneyBill Django – Jeff BridgesBob Wilton – Ewan McGregorLarry Hooper – Kevin SpaceyTodd Nixon – Robert PatrickGen. Hopgood – Stephen LangGus Lacey – Stephen Root
California Literary Review Christopher Welles, Orson Welles daughter (yes, daughter), has a new book out about life with her famous father, titled IN MY FATHER'S SHADOW. Rochelle Jewel Shipiro has a review...
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In My Father’s Shadow is a memoir by Orson Welles’ eldest daughter, Christopher Welles. Yes, his daughter, Christopher, with his first wife, Virginia Nicholoson. As a little girl, when Christopher demanded ...
California Literary Review THE SCARPETTA FACTOR is the latest in Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta series and Jem Bloomfield has a review...
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The title of Patricia Cornwell’s new novel, The Scarpetta Factor, is rather telling, and highlights the direction its author has been moving in for some time. The early Scarpetta novels which made her famous had titles like Postmortem, Body of Evidence, Cruel and Unusual and Cause of Death. ...
California Literary Review Alix McKenna joins CLR as an art critic covering museum shows in Washington D.C. Her first review is of the Brian Jungen exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian...
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Prototype for New Understanding #23, 2005Nike Air Jordans, 18½ x 20½ x 5 7/8”Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl, Miami Beach, Florida.Courtesy of Debra and Dennis Scholl. ©Brian Jungen.
California Literary Review "Ted Williams’s body was mistakenly decapitated and incompetently frozen by employees of Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, after which a technician hit it accidentally with a monkey wrench in trying to dislodge it from a tuna fish can on which it was balanced and to which it had stuck." From David Loftus' review of Cranioklepty...
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The clunky, oddball title is both intriguing and off-putting, the subtitle quaint and risible — evoking images of Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman excavating a plot in a downpour (“Young Frankenstein”) or possibly Oliver Hardy whacking Stan Laurel’s toe in the graveyard dirt (“Habeas Corpus”).
