Los Angeles Times: Critic Betsy Sharkey writes: “The Help” is a delicious peppery stew of home-cooked, 1960s Southern-style racism that serves up a soulful dish of what ails us and what heals us. Laughter, which is ladled on thick as gravy, proves to be the secret ingredient — turning what should be a feel-bad movie […]
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Movies | ‘The Help’: Viola Davis elevates film over book | Seattle Times Newspaper Is the movie version of “The Help” better than the book? Yes, it is, primarily for one reason: The book doesn’t have Viola Davis in it. I loved the novel The Help, with its focus on how telling our life story
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Why Do We Care About Literary Awards? Mark O’Connell answers his own question: By and large, awards like the Booker are intended to promote solid, well-written, more or less middlebrow fiction — the kind of books that broadsheet newspapers tend to give coverage to. And that’s surely a good thing for the publishing industry, for
Stephen King’s ‘Bag of Bones’ to be A&E Miniseries, Starring Pierce Brosnan Pierce Brosnan is set to star in the miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s 1998 bestseller, Bag of Bones. The James Bond actor will return to television for the four-hour, two-night Sony Pictures Television event on A&E. Kelly Rowland and Annabeth Gish (as Jo)
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”: casting the new film version Marjorie Kehe is reporting on The Christian Science Monitor‘s book blog that Daniel Craig has signed to portray Mikael Blomkvist, the male protagonist, in the Hollywood version of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Meanwhile, the search continues for
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The books that took the Oscars / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com: They may not have been clutching golden statuettes last night – or anywhere near Hollywood, for that matter – but there is a another set of Oscar winners this morning and they have as much reason to celebrate as do the stars
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After a long courtship, Angelina Jolie will play Kay Scarpetta / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com: In a follow-up matter to my previous post, Christian Science Monitor book blogger Marjorie Kehe is reporting that many people, like me, are not impressed by the choice of Angelina Jolie to play Kay Scarpetta: Not everyone is
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Angelina Jolie to play Kay Scarpetta – latimes.com: Jolie’s desire to play Scarpetta has revived prospects of a movie franchise that could begin shooting as early as next fall. In a surprise, Fox 2000 has decided to jettison the books in favor of an origins story written directly for the screen. Set in the present
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For ‘Shutter Island,’ the wait may be worthwhile – latimes.com: Just six weeks before director Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel about the criminally insane was scheduled to hit theaters last October, Paramount Pictures pulled the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring movie from its year-end lineup. I had started seeing trailers for this movie last fall and
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Books – Sherlock Holmes, Shapeshifter – Robert Downey Jr.’s Version – NYTimes.com: Arthur Conan Doyle grew so to hate his greatest creation, Sherlock Holmes, that in 1893 he tried to kill him off, plunging him over the Reichenbach Falls. He called it ‘justifiable homicide,’ saying, ‘If I had not killed him, he would certainly have
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