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Jewish Thugs and Presidents: An Evening with Albert Brooks

Albert Brooks talks about playing a thug in the movie, Drive; about his book “2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America” which features a half-Jewish president. Other career highlights too.

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An Excerpt from my Personal Essay “Defriending My Rapist” Appears in Today’s Print Copy of The NY Times

An excerpt from the personal essay “Defriending My Rapist” by Dorri Olds appears in today’s paper copy of The New York Times. The full essay can be viewed online at: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/defriending-my-rapist

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My Essay in this Sunday’s New York Times

Look for my essay in this Sunday New York Times Review section! There will be an excerpt in print and the full essay online in the Opinionator’s Townies column. This is very nice news. Wooooot.

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La Ciudad de Mexico

Mexico City from New York City for multi-day Mexican celebration similar to Halloween in U.S. Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Also Xochimilco, Zócalo, Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo art, Dolores Olmedo Museum, Museo de Arte Popular and more!

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Movie Review: “The Adventures of Tintin” by Dorri Olds

The Adventures of Tintin is Steven Spielberg’s first foray into motion capture 3D animation. It’s the tale of Tintin, a cartoon journalist created by Belgian artist Hergé and his wire haired terrier Snowy

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Q&A: Steven Spielberg Talks Tintin for The Daily Jewish Forward

Steven Spielberg’s 3D film, based on 3 Hergé stories, premiered on December 11, 2011 at New York City’s Ziegfeld Theatre. Read the interview about The Adventures of Tintin and his dog Snowy on The Daily Jewish Forward.

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Steven Spielberg Speaks of His New Movie, “The Adventures of Tintin”

Dorri Olds interviewed Steven Spielberg at the New York City premiere of The Adventures of Tintin. Others in attendance at the Ziegfeld Theatre red carpet were George Lucas, Jamie Bell (Tintin), Enn Reitel (Nestor, Mr. Crabtree), Joe Starr (Barnaby) and Nick Frost (Thomson). Also there were Producer Kathleen Kennedy, SNL actor Bill Hader and Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito.

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Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

Interviewed Steven Spielberg at the New York City premiere of The Adventures of Tintin. Others in attendance at the Ziegfeld Theatre red carpet were George Lucas, Jamie Bell (Tintin), Enn Reitel (Nestor, Mr. Crabtree), Joe Starr (Barnaby) and Nick Frost (Thomson). Also there were Producer Kathleen Kennedy, SNL actor Bill Hader and Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito.

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Unhooked: How to Quit Anything

When chain-smoking Manhattanite Susan Shapiro went to Dr. Frederick Woolverton, a Greenwich Village addiction specialist in 2001, she had little hope she’d be able to quit her 27-year two-pack-a-day smoking habit. But Woolverton, a psychologist and founder of the Village Institute in New York and Arkansas, and a former smoker himself, immediately helped her nix her nicotine addiction. Within nine months, he helped her quit alcohol, pot, gum and bread.

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A New New York Novel

Todd Hill spent 20 years as a New York City journalist and movie critic. He has interviewed almost every A-List star you can think of including Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie. He recently took a 360-degree detour and wrote his first novel, Dutchess County. It’s about courtship, marriage and a slew of mistakes.

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