Alexandre Dumas
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it." - Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas
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2010 Book Blogger Recommendation Challenge
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Eragon - Christopher Paolini The Book Thief - Markus Zusak A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle The Host - Stephenie Meyer The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling...
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Book Blogger Recommendations: The List 2009
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Eragon - Christopher Paolini The Book Thief - Markus Zusak A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle The Host - Stephenie Meyer The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling...
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Vidar's latest review
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... came with audio description meant that I was able to get so much more out of it. Based on Alexandre Dumas’ 19th century novel, The Lady of the Camelias, La Traviata is the story of the consumptive courtesan, Violetta Valery and her love for the young Alfredo – in this production brilliantly sung by the best selling tenor, Alfie Boe, in his WNO debut. Accompanied by WNO’s...
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Daily Thoughts 11/16/2009
Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Alexandre Dumas in his Library. Daily Thoughts 11/16/2009 Today has been a quiet steady day. I checked on the displays and made sure more new books were put out. I also checked on the progress of the shifting projects. This morning I did some ordering of books and read Library Journal online. While I was ordering I noticed Bryan Talbot has a new graphic novel called Grantville. It got...
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Sarkozy rebuffed in plan to bury Camus in latest rebuff for president from artistic community
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
France maintains a time-honored tradition of placing its heroes in ther Parisian monument. Jacques Chirac, Mr Sarkozy's predecessor, had the remains of Alexandre Dumas and André Malraux, the Gaullist hero and writer, moved to the Republic's secular temple, which houses Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola and other giants. Camus, who died in a car crash on January 1960 just south...
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Paul W.S. Anderson Talks The Three Musketeers In 3D
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
is reporting in from the Resident Evil set with details on the 3D adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel straight from Anderson himself. Anderson said he’ll reteam with Resident Evil producer Jeremy Bolt and be working with an $80 million budget. That might sound like a lot, but it’s not enough to shoot the entire film in 3D. They might have to resort to 2D when it comes to capturing...
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Black List Screenplay Once Upon a Time in Hell Bought by Phoenix Pictures
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... a movie not already been made with this title? The story is based on the classic revenge story by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of ...
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Black List Screenplay Once Upon a Time in Hell Bought by Phoenix Pictures
/Film (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... a movie not already been made with this title? The story is based on the classic revenge story by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of ...
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INTERVIEW: Aliette de Bodard
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... ), but without making much of a difference between those books and, say, an Agatha Christie or an Alexandre Dumas. It wasn't until I got London (when I was 16) that I became aware that all those books were all in the same genre--and that I could find the books those had been inspired by or that they had inspired by looking along the same row of library shelves. That was when I started...
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What is the ELO rating of Frankenstein?
Andart (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... be tougher, individually and as a team:In our last “world cup,” a five-novel French team (led by Alexandre Dumas) trounced the competition, defeating the second-place English team by a 20% margin (the UK was hurt by poor performance from Disraeli’s The Infernal Marriage of 1834), and leaving the also-ran Italians looking rather like novices.As to why Constant’s thinly veiled exposé...
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Shipman and McGreevy's Hell Lands at Phoenix
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy's original script Once Upon a Time in Hell has sold to Phoenix Pictures, says The Hollywood Reporter . Based on Alexandre Dumas' classic revenge tale "The Count of Monte Cristo," the project updates the story to modern London's organized crime underworld. David Thwaites and Mike Medavoy of Phoenix are producing along with Michael Connolly of Mad...
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How books got their titles (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A clickable index of titles covered so far... 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke A Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol l All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara Arden of Faversham, possibly by William Shakespeare Around the World in Eighty...
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Phoenix Pictures Picks Up Once Upon a Time in Hell
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Phoenix Pictures has picked up the script Once Upon a Time in Hell from writers Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy, which landed on the Black List of most liked screenplays last year.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the story is based on Alexandre Dumas' classic revenge tale "The Count of Monte Cristo," but updates the story to modern London's organized crime underworld."We want to do...
- Shipman and McGreevy's Hell Lands at Phoenix - ComingSoon.net
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Roche-Bobois Wins Readers' Choice Award for Best in Furniture
Luxist (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Roche-Bobois is the winner of a Readers' Choice Award for best in furniture. The company's roots is a tale of two families. In 1950 Jacques Roche bought the old Alexandre Dumas theater on rue de Lyon and built two stores. His sons, Philippe and Francois, joined him and together established the company's developmental strategy. They began to distribute the very best contemporary furniture,...
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