The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Don't you love the off-the-charts contrast? I do. While we have tent cities going up around the U.S., the offerings of Neiman Marcus' 2009 Christmas Book were unveiled last week.
A CUP OF JO (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Happy Thanksgiving, my lovelies! Where will you be spending the holiday? Alex and I will be going to our friends' house in Brooklyn, where we plan to eat lots of cheese, sit by the fire and play gin rummy. Alex has been working such long hours recently that I can't wait to have him in my clutches! Enjoy the long weekend, and, in the meantime, here are a few great posts from around the web... The style...
Across the Great Divide (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I saw this link to Nora Ephron's "Top 10 Thanksgiving Recipes You Didn't Cook Last Year That You're Cooking This Year" post at HuffPo, and figured it would be a parody of the GOP's Top 10 Things That Didn't Win...
Sanctuary for the Abused (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
THE MYTHS OF INFIDELITY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE running from bed to bed creating disasters for themselves and everyone else don‘t seem to know what they are doing. They just don‘t get it . But why should they? There is a mythology about infidelity that shows up in the popular press and even in the mental health literature that is guaranteed to mislead people and make dangerous situations even...
MRod says: (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
One of the gifts in this year’s Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog is the “Algonquin Round Table Experience” which is a private dinner party for the buyer and their guest with the following distinguished VIPs. Christopher Buckley Roz Chast Delia Ephron Nora Ephron Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Malcolm Gladwell Adam Gopnik Lewis H. Lapham John Lithgow Anna Deavere Smith George Stephanopoulos...
God's Politics (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
In the first year of Gail Collins ’s survey of “the amazing journey of American women from 1960 to the present,” I turned 12. Not long after that, I told my father I was thinking of becoming a lawyer. “That’s not…
kottke (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
For her latest GOOP newsletter, Gwynyth Paltrow asks a few friends -- Ferran Adria, Nora Ephron, Mario Batali -- to recount their most memorable meals . Tags: food gwynethpaltrow
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The extravagant offerings in Neiman Marcus' 83rd annual catalog do not disappoint. Restrictions and exclusions apply to Goldman Sachs employees and anyone named Madoff.
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Theyre the unsung heroes of any film shoot. Heading into awards season, The Hollywood Reporters Carolyn Giardina and Matthew Belloni gathered six of the top cinematographers in the business Dion Beebe...
Stale Popcorn (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Julia Dir. Erick Zonca Year: 2008/9 Aus Rating: N/A Running Time: 144mins A quick search on IMDb for the title "Julia" brings up roughly ten or so other projects with the exact same name, not to mention some called Julia Julia and Being Julia . That one of the Julia s stars the likes of Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards is like giving any movie there after with that title a push...
Devil Beside Me (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
I watched a film today called: 'Julie and Julia' (2009) Directed and written by Nora Ephron. It made me come to my senses (god knows how many times), on the strings of my life, half of which have been damaged and torn, which need to be sewn back together. I've been abused hard, and realised I'm falling behind in this fast-growing society. I've learnt the hard way, as I always have, that in reality,...
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Rob Marshall (Memoirs of a Geisha, Chicago) confirmed that he’ll be working for Disney / Bruckheimer to bring us Pirates of the Caribbean 4 which is entitled “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides“ After a recent screening of Marshall’s upcoming musical “Nine“, remake of Federico Fellini’s classic 8 1/2, host Nora Ephron asked him about [...]
Bay Area Bites (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
So, I'm reading Nora Ephron's 1983 novel Heartburn -- I think I'm the last person in America to realize that Ephron was a foodie long before Julie & Julia , Ephron was a foodie -- and the book is filled with love and longing and heartbreak and food. Lots of food.
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Our hip Madam Speaker was spotted on First Avenue this week, enjoying herself at corner coffee shop Tarallucci e Vino, while Senator Schumer stocked up on groceries at the Brooklyn Costco. Meanwhile, Luke Wilson took a date to Nello, and Da Silvano’s heated sidewalk seating drew the week’s biggest bold-faced crowd: A-Rod, Sean Lennon, and Wolfgang Puck. Elsewhere, Ramona Singer cried over...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
This morning, mediabistro.com's senior editor Donya Blaze spoke with New Yorker columnist and author of "Googled: The End of the World as we Know It," Ken Auletta for our upcoming video series Media Beat. In addition to discussing the book ( Nora Ephron helped him out with the title), we asked Auletta about the Letterman extortion plot: • We'll be launching MediaBeat soon, on mediabistro.com,...
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