I’ll be honest with you, aside from Love Song and Brave, my knowledge of Sara Bareilles song catalog is very limited. I did know she wrote the musical Waitress but it hasn’t traveled to my city (and my husband probably wouldn’t attend it with me anyway). Despite my limited exposure her memoir, Sounds Like Me, fit my criteria for “vaguely familiar public persona but perhaps not exactly A or B list” level famous. Those are usually the best surprises so I checked out her memoir. I downloaded […]
Celebrity encounters and other tales
I loved Alan Cumming’s autobiography, Not My Father’s Son. It was raw and honest and heartbreaking. He tries to show some of that same emotion in You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams, but this one just did not do it for me. Cumming apparently really enjoys photography, and even has a traveling show. He’s a very talented man, no doubt — his acting, his singing, his general wonderfulness. But his photography seems very amateurish. I say this with absolutely no ability to take artistic photographs on my own, so take my criticism […]
Matilda all grown up!
I’ve always felt very attached to little Mara Wilson — the version from Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda. Mrs. Doubtfire is by far one of my favorite movies (Robin Williams’s public persona has always reminded me of my dad, and sadly my parents’ marriage shares a lot with the one portrayed in the movie). And Mara’s little lisping girl was one of the best parts of the movie. She’s got some great lines. And then there’s Matilda. God I love Matilda — the book, the movie, the character — and Mara brought her to life perfectly. […]
Your mom would like this one
So I’ve been listening to the audio version of Wolf Hall for approximately one billion years (okay, three weeks — and I finished it this morning!) and it’s a very long book. A very…I don’t want to say dull book, but it’s hardly a thriller. So, since I spend about 2-4 hours a day either driving or running and listening to audio books, I’ve been breaking Wolf Hall up with a couple other books. Ellen’s Seriously… I’m Kidding was one, which worked out perfectly since it’s pretty much the exact […]
The central truth of their lives was the past….
Empire of the Summer Moon is not for everyone. It’s an elegiac paean to frontier America and the doomed struggle of Comanche Indians to maintain their way of life in the face of an unrelenting onslaught of white encroachment. It broadly encompasses the rugged bravado of American pioneers trying to fulfill their Manifest Destiny and the individual horrors of trying to eek out a life in a hostile world. It walks the delicate line between explaining how these disparate and dichotomous worlds clashed and parsing […]
“She loves music,” he said. ‘If she loves music, why does she do this?’ I asked.”
Florence Foster Jenkins was a wealthy heiress who parlayed her financial means into a singing career despite her colossal lack of talent. She was philanthropic and had a large social presence resulting in minor celebrity and sold out concerts regardless of her skill. “The difference between Madame Jenkins and other artists is simple. Other artists occasionally hit a wrong note. Madame Jenkins occasionally hits a right note,” said George Marek. Madame Jenkins life has been turned into a biopic staring Meryl Streep; since my husband takes […]
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