TORONTO (AP) — If you want to see an exhausted Chris Pine, meet him after he’s spent a day answering questions about his penis. Following the September premiere of David Mackenzie’s “Outlaw King,” in which Pine stars as the Scottish hero Robert the Bruce, conversation at the Toronto ...
The stress of getting your words on a page whether a computer or real paper is behind you, and now the next stage begins — revising. But you probably thought that you didn’t have to write any more words. You are partly correct. The revising portion of the writing process sometimes is mixed in with the editing portion, but we are going to separate revising from editing because you will understand if both parts treated as their own and not together. So you scratch your head and probably wonder what is revising. You are not alone. I’m right there with you. Until some ...
“Nine Perfect Strangers” (Flatiron Books), by Liane Moriarty Life is good for Liane Moriarty. The “Big Little Lies” novelist who partnered with actress Nicole Kidman to turn that book into a hit HBO series, sold the rights to her new novel, “Nine Perfect Strangers,” to her Australian friend before the rest of us could even read it. So let’s help them out and do some casting. Kidman, with a little extra padding and lots of red lipstick, can star as Frances Welty, the romance novelist with a broken heart who is the emotional center of “Nine Perfect Strangers.” Eight ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Elton John said he stood by the stage and sobbed at his foundation’s gala last year as Aretha Franklin made her final public performance. “I was shocked to see how thin she was, and she just smiled her sweet smile at me and said, ‘I didn’t want to let you down,’” he told The Associated Press on the red carpet Monday night at this year’s party. John said Franklin “gave us one of the greatest performances of our lifetime.” She died in August at age 76. From the podium, John also acknowledged Tony Bennett, who was in the audience, as another ...
TORONTO (AP) — Julia Roberts and Sissy Spacek, two big-smiling big-screen legends, were remembering the first time they met. It was when Roberts, then 13, took a trip to New York to visit her older brother, the actor Eric Roberts, who was making 1981’s “Raggedy Man” with Spacek and her husband, the production designer Jack Fisk. “I always claimed her,” Spacek said in her bright Texas accent in an interview in September alongside Roberts. “I knew her when she was 13! She was part mine! Lo and behold you are!” That their reunion, many decades later, comes on the small ...
CORONA, Calif. (AP) — Jimmy Page once painted a dragon, and used it to slay. The guitar guru was so bursting with creative inspiration 50 years ago that he felt compelled to pick up a brush and use his skills from art school to take poster paints to his favorite instrument, a 1959 Fender ...
