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BlogAsheville (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Photography by Good Night Asheville Once again it is time to welcome folks: Asheville Seasons Bed & Breakfast "A peak inside the window of our Seasonal Asheville Bed and Breakfast." Mountain Mama "Nothing else will ever make you as happy, or as sad, or as proud, or as tired, as motherhood."--Elia Parsons Blue Ridge Dreams "You could look out across that folded landscape and every sense you had told...
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The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
The Virginia Ramblers are, without wanting to seem unkind, in three parts the residue from the Alvin Breeden-led Virginia Cutups. Guitarist Charles Frazier, Donnie Shifflett (upright bass) and Jeff Vogelsang (mandolin) are well-steeped in playing bluegrass in the fashion of the pioneers having spent 13 years with Breeden. When Breeden retired from the riguers [...]
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mellart (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Directed by Anthony Minghella, this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship and the ravages of war. Based on the Charles Frazier novel, this is a tale of hope and redemption. Cold Mountain captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it and for those left behind. It tells the story of a wounded Confederate soldier named Inman (Jude Law) who struggles on a perilous journey to get back home...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
LONDON -- Film director Anthony Minghella, who made literary works such as "The English Patient," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain" into acclaimed movies, died Tuesday of a hemorrhage following surgery. He was 54.
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella, who turned such literary works as "The English Patient,'' "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain" into acclaimed movies, has died. He was 54.
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Celebrity Mound (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella, who turned such literary works as “The English Patient,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “Cold Mountain” into acclaimed movies, has died. He was 54. Minghella’s death was confirmed Tuesday by his agent, Judy Daish. No other details were immediately available. “The English Patient,” the 1996 World War II drama, won nine Academy Awards, [...]
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KOMO - News - Entertainment (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella, who turned such literary works as "The English Patient," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain" into acclaimed movies, has died. He was 54.
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Memphis Reads (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
Fiction/ Historical Robert Cruthirds reviews THIRTEEN MOONS by Charles Frazier (Random House, 2006) This is the second novel by North Carolina native Charles Frazier, who won the National Book Award in 1997 for Cold Mountain . Most of the story takes place in the hills of western North Carolina. We now know this area as the Great Smoky Mountains, but in the 1820s it was the frontier between the Cherokee...
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NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
Memoir of racial killing attracts Hollywood A-list.
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
The Wall Street Journal is the latest media outlet to wonder whatever happened to The Solomon Key, the Da Vinci Code sequel Dan Brown was supposed to have delivered ages ago. (See, for example, this item from May 2007 or...
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vere loqui (Free subscription) | 12/27/2007
Novels: Shadows on the Hudson, Isaac Bashevis Singer Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier Beowulf, trans., Joseph Spaeth The Return of Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse Emma, Jane Austen The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers Hard Times, Charles Dickens (in progress) Satan in Goray, Isaac Bashevis Singer (in progress) That Hideous Strength, C. S. Lewis (in progress) Short Stories*: "The Whirligig
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Gallery of the Absurd (Free subscription) | 11/26/2007
Today's guest artist is a comic book illustrator who recently launched a new blog featuring some of his celebrity-inspired caricatures. Kim Kardashian ought to seriously consider the tricks profit she could turn if she started renting her butt out to...
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NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 11/04/2007
Today is the birthday of a bunch of characters. Character-actors, that is. Doris Roberts is 77. She was Raymond's mom. Loretta Swit is 70. She was Major Houlihan. Art Carney was born on this date in 1918. He’s most famous for playing Ed Norton opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden but he won the Oscar [...]
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Tennessee Text Wrestling (Free subscription) | 10/04/2007
Thirteen Books I've Read Recently 1. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb . I haven't finished this one yet -- I'm roughly one-third the way through, coming up on the half-way point. So far, I highly recommend it. It's superbly written, and the voice of the protagonist, Dolores Price, is masterfully-rendered and convincing. You root for Dolores even when you want to throttle her. Life doesn't treat her...
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Lynne's Little Corner of the World (Free subscription) | 09/30/2007
I can't believe September is just about over. Where does the time go? Here's a list of the books that I read this month. I spent a week or so trying to read COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier, but I just couldn't get into the story. I've now read 82 books this year, one behind where I was last year at this time. IRELAND by Frank Delaney (Armchair Traveler Reading Challenge) LOSING THE MOON by Patti Callahan...
