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May 2012 ASJA Monthly cover article Writer’s Voice with quotes from writers Gina Wendkos, Sally Wendkos Olds, Steve Geng, Bruce Frankel, Dani Shapiro, Susan Shapiro, Janine Latus, Harvey Shapiro, Howard Fast, Robert Gottlieb, Blaise Pascal and agent Ryan Fischer-Harbage
Daniel Nettheim directed the movie “The Hunter” about a mercenary (Willem Dafoe) sent to Australia to hunt for the extinct Tasmanian Tiger.
Two-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe stars in the new movie ‘The Hunter’ about the hunt for the Tasmanian Tiger.
Beware the Ides of March! The importance of the ides of March for Caesar is that it is the day he will be assassinated by a group of conspirators, including Brutus and Cassius. Despite numerous and improbable portents—the soothsayer’s warning, some fearsome thundering, his wife’s dreams of his murder, and so on—Caesar ventures forth on the ides to meet his doom.
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.
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.
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.
An interview with Prince Lorenzo Borghese, 39, best known for starring in ABC’s The Bachelor and for his volunteer efforts for animals. He created a special organic dog shampoo line that contain the proper ph levels for dogs.
Chicken Soup for the Chocolate Lover’s Soul. An essay about Skinny Dotty and Her Chocolates in a Chelsea, NYC co-op apartment building.
New York City author and psychoanalyst, Alma H. Bond, dove inside the head of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier “Jackie” Kennedy Onassis in her new book, Jackie O: On the Couch. After years of meticulous research, Bond combined her skills as writer and shrink to create a character so believable you feel as though Jackie O is in your living room.