Get-Da-Goss (Free subscription) | yesterday
Written by Team - Which book was the basis for Francis Ford Coppolas epic Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now from 1979? A The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. B War and Peace by Leo Tolst
Africabeat (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Arrived in Beijing last night, jetlagged. Woke up at about 3:30am. Took this photo at 6:30, about an hour and a half after dawn. (Read Ernest Hemingway while flying over Siberia, and strange things begin to happen to the number...
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
You might think this is a group of old-time banjo players. But it's not. The photo shows contestants in an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest . A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival that ended Sunday honoring the late Nobel Prize-winning author. Tom Grizzard, 69, of Leesburg bested 141 other contenders in the competition at Sloppy Joe's Bar,...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival that ended Sunday honoring ...
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By Jefferson Flanders Both American presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, named Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls when asked recently by journalists to cite their favorite novel. McCain has said that during his captivity in North Vietnam as a POW he recited portions of the book to himself. It’s intriguing that both McCain and [...]
The Scientific Indian (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. --Ernest Hemingway Read the comments on this post...
YesButNoButYes (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I thought some of our literary fans might enjoy this Ballantine Ale ad featuring Ernest Hemingway from days long ago. This one was part of a famous Ballantine campaign that included many popular iconic writers (John Steinbeck was also...
This Book Is For You (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Were he still alive, Ernest Hemingway would be 109 today. Wrap your mind around that one. Also, check out these photos from the 28th Annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest , held at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West. Why my father-in-law has not ever entered this, I do not know. He'd walk away with the title. I celebrated Hemingway's birthday by reading some Dawn Powell, his "favorite living writer," and going...
Fark.com (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
lukelightning: For look-alike contests, is there a set age of the celebrity you are trying to copy? Does it have to be them as adults? Can I enter a fetus in a look-alike contest and say "see, he looks exactly like Ernest Hemingway in utero!"I look like Ernest Hemingway...only below the belt though.
U.S. News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
1861—The first Battle of Bull Run is fought outside Manassas, Va.
ziomal.biz (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
1861—The first Battle of Bull Run is fought outside Manassas, Va.
City Pages - The Blotter (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
In honor of Ernest Hemingway's birthday, a quick anecdote. And three new weekend slideshows!
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
AP - A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival that ended Sunday honoring the late Nobel Prize-winning author. Read the full story
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival that ended Sunday honoring the late Nobel Prize-winning author.
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival that ended Sunday honoring the late Nobel Prize-winning author.
