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The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) has announced their three track chairs for the annual New York City Writers Conference. • Carolyn Crist Beginning Track Manager, and Detailed Overseer • Nancy Dunham Mid-Career Track Manager and Volunteer Coordinator. She’s also ASJA’s new volunteer coordinator. • Dorri Olds Advanced Career Manager and nicknamed the “Social Media Guru” for the entire … Read more
Charles Manson dead at 83 but there’s a brand new memoir by the Manson Family’s youngest member, Dianne Lake. Like so many young girls before her, she was mesmerized by Manson. Her hippie parents gave her permission to become one of “Charlie’s girls.” Co-written by Deborah Herman for HarperCollins, this disturbing and fascinating memoir tells of rape, survival and recovery.
At 3am, July 10, 1973 in Rome’s Piazza Farnese, John Paul Getty, III was pistol-whipped in the head, forced into a car and taken to a cave in Calabria. The kidnappers sent a ransom note demanding $17 million that the infamously wealthy oil business family refused to pay.
Artist and activist AleXsandro Palombois creates art series that raise awareness on social and political issues. He takes a special interest in women’s causes including breast cancer, domestic violence, anorexia, disability and asks us to rethink and redefine our notions of beauty. Palombo refers to his cartoony artworks as “humor chic,” and he has a blog of the same name.
Hollywood has convinced so many women to fix their “imperfections.” Not Kirsten Dunst. When the actress showed up on the set of her first Spider-Man movie, she was told to get her crooked teeth straightened. Dunst refused. “I was like, ‘No, my teeth are cool!’” Now, at age 35, Dunst has once again delivered a fi rm “No” to a filmmaker’s request. She was asked to drop some pounds for her role as Miss Edwina in the new Southern gothic thriller, The Beguiled, but Dunst said (I’m paraphrasing here), “Nope, not gonna happen.”
Women Who Kill is a love triangle between two ex-girlfriends, Morgan (Ingrid Jungermann) and Jean (Ann Carr), who still live and work together. They’re true crime podcasters with a show about female serial killers. The heat turns way up when Morgan meets beautiful new love interest, Simone (Sheila Vand).
Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter (The Piano) continues to hit it big. With a career spanning 35 years, she remains an electrifying force. In our sadly still-patriarchal society, it is impressive to see any actress who is past 40, still landing the high-quality and sought-after parts. At the age of 59, Hunter is holding her own in an industry that hands over much longer shelf-life to male counterparts. Hunter’s voice still has that sweet-Georgia-peach twang, even though she has long been a New York City resident. But her Big Apple attitude gets her to where she’s going.
It was a thrill to meet her recently at Manhattan’s Four Seasons hotel. She was there to talk about ‘The
Big Sick,’ the runaway hit she stars in.
Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), Anna Camp (True Blood, Pitch Perfect) and Alysia Reiner (Orange Is the New Black), will star in Egg, an unflinching comedy about why we choose motherhood, why we revere it, fear it, or delegate it, and why some of us choose to forgo it.
Empty the Shelters (ETS) recently had its fifth pet adoption event in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A whopping 2,631 pets were rescued! That number includes adoptions that took place in the week leading up to the event plus one glorious day when 1571 pets were adopted—726 dogs, 827 cats, and 18 other animals.
Call it a romcom or a dramedy but I confess, what really drew me to this movie was hearing that Holly Hunter and Ray Romano were in it. I had a vague notion of what to expect from the star—comedian Kumail Nanjiani—based on his role in HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” So, I knew what he looked like and that … Read more