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Jackie Bouchard has done it again. Her second novel, “Rescue Me, Maybe,” is just as impossible to put down as her first. It begins with main character Jane Bailey trying to keep it together after a devastating loss. Her husband died. That was a relief. What ruined her was losing her dog. With her husband … Read more
What the Dog Ate is the first novel by Jackie Bouchard. The story kicks off when the main character, Maggie, is at the vet’s office with her big lovable Lab named Kona. The vet had extracted what had made Kona sick. It was a pair of purple thong undies… that weren’t hers. This is how Maggie discovers her husband is having an affair. The title of the book caught my eye because my own dog, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Buddy has, more than once, swallowed peculiar inedible objects and had to be whisked off to the vet. Bouchard’s book is part hilarity, part heartbreak and I was sorry to say goodbye to the characters at the end. The novel made my Best of 2012 list of dog books.
Ralph Fiennes spoke at the New York Film Festival NYFF
ASJA Celebrity Journalism Panel: Dorri Olds is an award-winning writer who has published hundreds of articles for web and print markets including The New York Times and The Forward. Olds is also a featured writer for The Fix. Olds interviews A-list stars and writes movie and book reviews. In addition, her site’s three blogs: Movies, Dogs, and OldsNews have a large audience. Her YouTube channel boasts nearly 200,000 views. She’s a whiz with web design, branding, marketing and social media.
Top 10 Disgusting foods includes fertilized duck embryo or Balut, stinking toe fruit, edible bugs, pig fat, roasted guinea pigs, dill pickle mints, water holding frog, jellied moose nose, sheep’s head with eyeballs, cod fish sperm.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and His Numbers: $1 Salary Bloomberg earns yearly as mayor of New York City, $370,000,000 Amount of money Bloomberg Philanthropies distributed in 2012 for Bloomberg’s charitable activities in public health, environment, government innovation, initiative, arts and education, $7.5 billion Amount of money allotted to Bloomberg’s municipal affordable housing plan, the largest since the Koch administration, $108,371,685 Amount Bloomberg spent on his campaign for a third term as mayor, $27 billion Networth, in dollars, making Bloomberg the 7th richest man in the U.S.
“Valentine Road” is a documentary telling the story of 15-year-old Larry King, who was shot twice in the back of the head by classmate Brandon McInerney in Oxnard, CA, in 2008. It aired on HBO on Oct. 7. Filmmaker Marta Cunningham did a thorough job of depicting the details of the tragedy in a reporting mode rather than editorializing. The audience is left to come to their own conclusions.
Written for TheBlot Yesterday in midtown Manhattan, Paul Giamatti sat down with TheBlot to talk about his upcoming movies, not reading scripts when he doesn’t want to, and how a character’s hairdo helps him decide on a role. Dorri Olds: What do you look for in a project? Paul Giamatti: Facial hair. What kind of facial hair will … Read more
Written for TheBlot Yesterday TheBlot caught up with director Stu Zicherman and actor Adam Scott to talk about their Indie, “A.C.O.D,” which opened in theaters today. A.C.O.D. stands for Adult Children of Divorce and this is a darkish comedy about Carter (Adam Scott), a self-diagnosed, well-adjusted restaurateur in a stable relationship with a beautiful girlfriend (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). Carter … Read more
Sexy Chris Hemsworth stars as race car driver James Hunt in Ron Howard’s movie ‘Rush.