Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
LGBT people born today: 1924 – Jeanette Schmid – Czech Whistler – Died 9 th March 2005 1926 – Jackie Forster – UK Presenter / Reporter / Actress / Activist – Died 10 th October 1998 1939 – Arthur Bell – US Journalist / Author / Activist – Died 2 nd June 1984 1949 – Brad Davis – US Actor – Died 8 th September 1991 1950 – Torben...
communicatrix (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Depending on your age, location and/or proclivity toward old shit, you may or may not have some experience with the mid-last-century cultural icon, Auntie Mame. The character, drawn in fiction by author Patrick Dennis from his real-life experiences as ward of his real-life aunt, is a free-wheeling spirit (or maybe a high-spirited free-wheeler) who exhorts her [...]
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
While promoting their new film "I Am Love" at the Venice Film Festival, actress-producer Tilda Swinton and director Luca Guadagnino announced plans to collaborate again on a remake of "Auntie Mame," previously reworked as the musical "Mame," Variety reports. The duo has no legitimate rights to the original novel by Patrick Dennis nor either film [...]
Dallas Observer | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
The title character in Mame is a wild, liberal, rich, eccentric, irresponsible, artistic type who when her brother dies and she becomes guardian to her young nephew. The musical, based on the book by Patrick Dennis, goes from the end of the 1920s to the Great Depression and beyond, as ...
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Ten Books I Want To Read Again The title link takes you to Lexington Green's list, five of which I have (surprisingly) read. But, like you, I have my own list of formative books that I would like to reread. I'll begin listing them, but doubt I'll reach ten. (I did) “ Treasure Island (Unabridged Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson A year after I received this book for Christmas, I got around to...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 04/29/2009
... first there's this, courtesy of Dave Lull: 1000 Words: Patrick Dennis . I think I agree with this completely, but I single this out: John Updike, John Cheever, and Richard Yates may be famous for nailing mid-century America, and especially the upper-middle-class Northeast. But -- though his style is dizzy and satirical where they were solemn and literary -- Patrick Dennis was as acute as any of...
2 Blowhards (Free subscription) | 04/26/2009
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- Another installment in my occasional series of looks at underknown cultural phenomena. Today: Patrick Dennis, an American author of comic novels. For starters, let me pump up that description: Calling Patrick Dennis "an author of comic novels" is like describing "Gone With the Wind" as "a Civil War romance." It may be accurate...
HicktownPress (Free subscription) | 03/30/2009
Evangelist ET just sent me the update on the nonsense going on in Louisiana at Bright Star Baptist Church of Shreveport. Below are the TONS of lawsuits being passed back and forth and you will see an outline of the baseball bat beat down. Keep in mind that this is supposedly God’s house, ya’ll! LINK [...]
HicktownPress (Free subscription) | 03/29/2009
By: Lynn Green One of “Minister” Patrick Dennis’ followers/women—calling herself “JaDiva” came in here trying to defend his actions. Fortunately her comment went straight to moderation, giving me the opportunity to review it prior to it going directly to this blog. The length of her letter was exceptionally long but based on the lies, accusations and content [...]...
HicktownPress (Free subscription) | 03/20/2009
By: Lynn Green “Pastor” Patrick Dennis has put his MySpace page on private now that his church has filed a lawsuit accusing him of hitting someone with a baseball bat and bedding down and impregnating members. However, I noticed when his page was still open that he had a HUGE game ad posted. It’s a game called [...]
HicktownPress (Free subscription) | 03/16/2009
By: Lynn Green Whew! satan is loose again! My husband just emailed me a court document that is almost unbelievable. Bright Star Baptist Church of Louisiana is having a heck of a time getting an alleged womanizing, abusive pastor out of their lives. The so-called “pastor” is Patrick Dennis and he has allegedly been using his church [...]
Homodox (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
I was wondering over dinner what type of contract Patrick Dennis (the pseudonym of Edward Everett Tanner III) had when he sold his book to be made into a play. This brought up the subject of how many books were...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008
Assuring readers it wasn't a memoir, Patrick Dennis nevertheless wrote a character named “Patrick Dennis” into his 1955 novel Auntie Mame , creating a camp archetype out of the flamboyant free spirit charged with raising her orphaned nephew. The smash novel became a play, a 1958...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU's eight seniors have played their last game on their home court, but won't be far away when they seek to earn yet another trip to the Final Four.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Sylvia Fowles scored 16 points and then called it a night as LSU made easy work of Jackson State, winning 66-32 in the first round of the NCAA tournament Saturday night.
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