Writing
Movie: The Assault is a heart-pumping, terrifying ride based on a 48-hour hijacking by Islamic terrorists. Stars French actor Vincent Elbaz. Writers Simon Moutairou and Julien Leclercq.
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An Interview with Willem Dafoe, star of ‘The Hunter’ about a hunt for the last Tasmanian Tiger. Film opens Friday, April 6. Directed by Daniel Nettheim and based on the book by Julia Leigh. It also stars Sam Neill and Frances O’Connor.
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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.
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Dorri Olds will be a panelist at Wielding the Power of Wordpress at the annual conference of the American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA). This is 2012’s bootcamp for writers. Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project will be this year’s luncheon speaker.
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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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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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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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