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CNN/HLN’s Dr. Drew interviewed Dorri Olds about her New York Times essay about teen trauma and seeing the boys (now men) on Facebook. Facebook suggested she friend one of the boys who ganged up on her when she was 13. She didn’t report it for fear of school bullying.
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My Mom wrote: Dorri’s powerful and heartbreaking essay “Defriending My Rapist” published in The New York Times Opinionator: Townies. She was 13 when junior high school classmates gang attacked her.”
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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 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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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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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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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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Set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War that tore the Balkan region apart in the 1990s, In the Land of Blood and Honey is the directorial debut of Angelina Jolie. She did a great job as both writer and director.
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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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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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