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Labour's lost loves: art and poetry (Guardian Unlimited)
Michael Foot was a name I knew long before I was old enough to vote Labour . My dad's fading paperback copy of the first volume of Foot's biography of Aneurin Bevan was one of the familiar volumes on the bookshelves at home. I don't think I knew he was a politician, but I did know he was a writer.
Franken comic book biography coming soon (KAAL Austin)
Al Franken's life story -- from comedian to senator -- will be told through pictures. A comic book about Franken's life is coming out in May. Franken is the latest in a line of comic biographies by Bluewater Productions.
Cherie Blair is right – technology sets us women free (Evening Standard)
A poignant passage in Andrew Rawnsley 's Labour biography concerns Cherie Blair 's rinsing by Alastair Campbell and his partner Fiona Millar for not coming clean over her property deals with Peter Foster, the conman boyfriend of her stylist, Carole Caplin.
Franken comic book biography coming soon (5 Eyewitness News St. Paul)
Al Franken's life story -- from comedian to senator -- will be told through pictures. A comic book about Franken's life is coming out in...
La-La's Public Health Maestro Buys N.Y.C. Condo for $2.62 M. (The New York Observer)
Who knew public health could be so lucrative? Jonathan Fielding is the director of public health for Los Angeles County, where, according to his UCLA faculty biography, "he is responsible for the full range of public health activities for ten million county residents." He is also the new owner, according to city records, of a swanky $2.625 million condo at glossy 260 Park Avenue South. A former ...
Intriguing people for March 9, 2010 (CNN)
Eric Massa: "Effective at 5 p.m. on Monday the 8th of March, I will resign my position as the Federal Representative of New York's 29th Congressional District in the 111th Congress. I do so with a profound sense of failure and a deep apology to all those whom, for the past year, I tried to represent as our Nation struggles with problems far greater than anyone can possibly imagine."
Biography (MI6)
His first work on a film set was onboard Orson Wells' "The Third Man" (1949), where he was an assistant to the sound department on location. Almost 40 years later Glen would relive the memories on this production as his crew for " The Living Daylights " would shoot at the Prater Ferris wheel in Vienna - a location synonymous with "The Third Man".
"Funny Girl" to Open at Regional High School (Cape May County Herald)
ERMA — The students of Lower Cape May Regional High School will present the Julie Styne and Bob Merrill musical biography of Vaudeville and Broadway comedienne Fanny Brice, "Funny Girl," March 18, 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. and Sunday March 21 at 2 p.m. at the Paul W. Schmidtchen Theatre at the high school.
'Country Driving' takes readers on a journey through China (USA Today)
In contemporary China, the business of the country is business, and no Western writer captures the atmosphere quite like Peter Hessler.
Katharine Hepburn from her new biography: 'I've had a long and fine life' (Erie Times-News)
The latest biography of Katharine Hepburn -- "I Know Where I'm Going: Katharine Hepburn" (Simon Schuster, $26) by Charlotte Chandler -- is very close to an autobiography, since much of the book comes from a series of interviews that Chandler recorded with the actress during the 1970s and '80s.
