![]() ![]() Yet Wright - whose 2017 war drama Darkest Hour landed leading man Gary Oldman a truckload of awards including an Oscar - has created something at once visually beautiful and palpably heartbreaking. That Dinklage is married to Schmidt in real-life, and that he and co-star Haley Bennett are reprising their roles as Cyrano and Roxanne from Schmidt’s theatre production only ups the stakes. Yet Wright’s Cyrano, based on a screenplay by Erica Schmidt adapting her own 2018 stage musical, is superb by almost any measure even though I found myself wondering, “Who on Earth will queue to see this oddball, square-peg musical period piece starring Peter Dinklage… who sings.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s not even count the previous film adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac, the play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand, set in 17th century Paris and based around a poet-soldier certain he is too ugly to claim the woman he adores, who then pours his love into letters sent to his beloved Roxanne by her handsome but otherwise ordinary paramour, Christian (here played by Kelvin Harrison, Jr.), who passes the missives off as his own. ![]()
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![]() Annabel reminds her that she broke her arm when she was eleven (after all, that was in Kristen's film). It's a year-by-year history and Whitney is having a hard time with remembering everything.This is a big deal because it's the first time that Annabel's heard Whitney admit to her eating disorder. ![]() Instead she says that she's writing two histories-one of her life, and one of her eating disorder. She's been more social lately with Moira Bell's group, and when Annabel asks her what she's doing, she doesn't snap or get angry. ![]() Annabel comes downstairs to find Whitney working at the kitchen table.Annabel has watched the film and liked it, although she doesn't really get it. ![]() ![]() Being with Jack-talking, walking, making out-is a game changer for Simon. That the help comes in the form of the most beautiful man he's ever seen is a complicated, glorious surprise. But when a bad fall leaves him with a broken leg, Jack is forced to admit he needs help. ![]() Jack's pack of rescue pets is the only company he needs. Meeting a grumpy children's book illustrator who needs a dog walker isn't easy for the man whose persistent anxiety has colored his whole life, but Jack Matheson's menagerie is just what Simon needs. When the countdown to adopting his own dog is unexpectedly put on hold, Simon turns to the PetShare app to find the fluffy TLC he's been missing. Language eng Summary "Simon Burke has always preferred animals to people. ![]() ![]() Label Better than people Title Better than people Statement of responsibility Roan Parrish Creator ![]() ![]() Yet beneath the suave and commanding star persona, there was an insecure, deeply conflicted, and all too vulnerable human being. The icon worshipped by moviegoers and beloved by his colleagues appeared to have it all. In the '70s and '80s, Hudson successfully transitioned to television his long-running series McMillan & Wife and a recurring role on Dynasty introduced him to a whole new generation of fans. The embodiment of romantic masculinity in American film throughout the '50s and '60s, Hudson reigned supreme as the king of Hollywood.Īs an Oscar-nominated leading man, Hudson won acclaim for his performances in glossy melodramas (Magnificent Obsession), western epics (Giant) and blockbuster bedroom farces (Pillow Talk). The definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of Hollywood's Golden Age.ĭevastatingly handsome, broad-shouldered and clean-cut, Rock Hudson was the ultimate movie star. ![]() ![]() Before the first Serafina book was published in 2016 - "Serafina and the Black Cloack" - Beatty started working on Willa. Willa came to be years agoīeatty tells me that Willa has been wandering around his head for years now. I checked in with Beatty, who lives in Asheville with his wife and three daughters, to learn more about Willa, what's next for Serafina and whether rumors of a movie are true. July 22, 2-4 pm, Quail Ridge Books, 4209-100 Lassiter Mill Rd, Raleigh, NC 27609.July 10, 6-8 pm, Barnes & Noble, The Streets at Southpoint, 8030 Renaissance Pkwy, Durham, NC 27713.To celebrate the launch, Beatty will be at two events in the Triangle that will include a Q&A, book signing, free food and drink and lots of Willa and Serafina giveaways. "Through a series of frightening encounters and an unexpected kindness, Willa soon realizes that the 'day-folk' and her own people are not as she's always thought, setting in motion a quest for a new home and sense of belonging in a changing world," according to the synopsis of the book, which is published by Disney-Hyperion just like the Serafina series is. Set again in North Carolina - this time in the Great Smoky Mountains in 1900 - "Willa of the Wood" is the story of an orphaned 12-year-old forest girl who spends her nights scavenging from the woods and homes of the “day-folk” to support her clan. "Willa of the Wood" will come out July 10. ![]() But right now, Beatty is focused on a new character - Willa, the star of his newest book and series. ![]() ![]() ![]() A spinoff fourth novel, Giant, was published by Carolrhoda in 2016. After Egmont dissolved in 2015, Lerner Publishing Group acquired the books and reissued them under its Carolrhoda Lab imprint: The Loners (book one), The Saints (book two), and The Burnouts (book three). ![]() It's for writers and cosplayers and athletes and mathletes and anyone who wants to have a unique experience visiting the world of a great book.”Īs for how Camp Quarantine came about, King-Cargile said she first became aware of the series when the third book, The Burnouts, was released by its original publisher, Egmont USA, in 2014. It’s for kids who are avid readers and for kids who have never finished a book. "It's also for kids who have never ever thought about being scientists and engineers. "This camp is for kids who love science and engineering," King-Cargile said. ![]() To date, 10 campers are registered for the camp, which has a cap of 20 participants. Quarantine: The Summer Camp, which will be headquartered in an NIU dormitory, will run from July 21–26. ![]() A YA novel that Gillian King-Cargile, the STEM Read director at Northern Illinois University, picked up by chance several years ago, Quarantine by Lex Hrabe and Thomas Voorhies, writing under the pen name Lex Thomas, inspired her so much that she has designed a residential summer camp for high school students entering grades 9–12 based upon the dystopian series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a top predator and a keystone species, gray wolves play an essential role in maintaining the health of their ecosystems. The consequences of such a wide-scale eradication, of course, go beyond one species. ![]() A government-sanctioned extermination plan-fueled by a broader push to domesticate the landscape and expand grazing ranges-was largely to blame. Gray wolves went from roaming nearly all of the contiguous United States in the 19th century to being hunted to the edge of extinction by the middle of the 20th century. The Unfortunate History of Wolves in America The victory represents a critical moment for conservation and is the most recent in a series of important steps meant to ensure the gray wolf truly recovers. Department of the Interior to court and, this past February, a judge restored protections for gray wolves across 44 states. In response to the delisting, NRDC and its partners took the USFWS and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) finalized a rule that stripped the species of federal ESA protections, citing its “successful recovery.” In actuality, these animals remain absent from much of their historic range across the country. ![]() But that’s not how it has gone for the gray wolf. Typically, a species remains on the Endangered Species Act list until the population is no longer in danger of going extinct. When the iconic gray wolf first appeared under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) nearly 50 years ago, it had all but disappeared from the nation’s landscape, due to aggressive hunting, trapping, and habitat loss. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ten years ago, the Order had declared the line of House Vanth dead. ![]() Séverin, last of the Montagnet-Alarie line and heir to House Vanth, whispered its name anyway. The long scar down his palm silvered beneath the chandelier light, a reminder of the inheritance he had been denied. Séverin raised his hands, but refused to clap. Once more, we give thanks and honor to the two Houses of France who agreed to host this spring’s auction. As you know, the objects of this evening’s auction have been rescued from far-flung locales like the deserts of North Africa and dazzling palaces of Indo-Chine. “Thank you for bearing witness to this extraordinary exchange. “Ladies and gentlemen of the Order, our spring auction is at its close,” announced the auctioneer. The other two symbols had been carefully lifted out of the design. The symbols of the remaining two Houses of the French faction hemmed him on all sides. ![]() He fought not to look at the walls, but failed. On the frescoed ceiling, dead gods fixed the crowd with flat stares. Séverin glanced at the clock: two minutes left.Īround him, the masked members of the Order of Babel whipped out white fans, murmuring to themselves as they eagerly awaited the final auction bidding. ![]() ![]() ![]() They kick off the brunch with some warm and delicious cinnamon knots for the table. There is a preset menu with a couple of different options for both Mom and Daughter. ![]() My favorite are the napkin rings, which are actually hair ties with a pink bow for your daughter. They even supply a cup, plate and place-mat for each doll at the table. They escort you to your table where they attach doll chairs to the table for each and every doll. (Note, if you forget your doll they have loner dolls for you to borrow.) The hostess provided “Happy Birthday” party hats for both the girls and their dolls. Our day at the store began with a lovely brunch for us and the dolls we brought. This year my daughter choose an excursion with her bestie to the American Girl doll store. ![]() Every year I give my children the option to either have a birthday party or a birthday excursion with a bestie. The American Girl store in Los Angeles at The Grove, is the best location to celebrate a birthday excursion outside the OC bubble. It may not be close to South Orange County, but it is certainly worth the drive. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I came back in, I found the email from my agent. “I’d had a hard day,” she says, “and I’d woken up at three in the morning in a state of panic, so went outside to smoke a cigarette – and I don’t smoke very much. ![]() I meet Moshfegh at her home in East Hollywood, Los Angeles, the day after she has learned of the Man Booker shortlisting. More significant is that this intense, singular novel – both playful and fierce – is not exactly what it seems. The coming together of a hip young “writer’s writer” with genre fiction has contributed to the buzz that has surrounded Eileen since its appearance in the US in 2015. Her prizewinning novella McGlue (2014) is literary and experimental, and her short stories have been published in such distinguished magazines as the Paris Review and the New Yorker. For some years she has been touted as a “crucial” new voice in American literature. Yet Moshfegh, 35, is not usually a writer of Hitchcockian page-turners. ![]() |