guardian.co.uk Film:
No. 75: Shirley Temple 1928-The daughter of a bank clerk, she was born in Santa Monica, a bus ride from Hollywood, and thrust into the movies at the age of three by a fanatically ambitious mother. In her sixth year, she went from supporting to starring roles, had two hit songs ("Baby Take a Bow", "The Good Ship Lollipop"), (Read More)
The Guardian:
Hollywood figures quit 'rip-off' church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activitiesThe security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the John Joseph Moakley courthouse on Boston's waterfront was unusually tight. Anybody who was not a member of the city's bar association was swe (Read More)
The Guardian:
After heart surgery and seven years away from the stage, comedian Robin Williams is ready to storm Broadway with his one-man showIt takes some confidence to extend the Broadway run of your one-man show before opening night, especially a few months after undergoing heart surgery. But then Robin Williams has never been short (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
World ATP Tour Finals come to the former Millennium Dome and its owners are planning for more to comeSave for a brief burst of popularity for ice hockey in the years that followed the second world war, British sports fans have never taken to watching their heroes perform indoors. Despite, or perhaps because of, our obsessio (Read More)
The Guardian:
In a desperate attempt to secure its electoral base, the government is shamefully wooing religious extremistsAs every middlebrow with a newspaper column or Radio 4 slot to fill agrees, a vulgar "new atheism" is sweeping Britain. The readers of Richard Dawkins, Philip Pullman and Christopher Hitchens are, they tell us, crass (Read More)
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www.guardian.co.uk:
Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people…Peter Carey – novelistKamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition and an author equal to the task. Travelling from Nagasaki to Guantánamo, this very beautiful novel se (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
When Maj Sjöwall and her partner Per Wahlöö started writing the Martin Beck detective series in Sweden in the 60s, they little realised that it would change the way we think about policemen for everIt might count as one of the most remarkable writing collaborations in the history of publishing. A man and a woman, a couple, (Read More)
Reuters Video: Top News:
Nov. 21 - NASA astronauts completed a spacewalk on Saturday (November 21) at the International Space Station that had been delayed after a false alarm woke the crews of the station and the visiting space shuttle Atlantis.
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observer.guardian.co.uk:
A new film bringing the life of John Keats to the big screen prompts a personal Romantic pilgrimage to RomeThe rose-seller is stalking me. It is a brilliant blue-skied November morning in Rome and I am standing on the Spanish Steps silently contemplating the beauty of Bernini's fountain when he sees me. He rushes towards me (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
This 1825 account of one man's passionate relationship with food remains an appetising read, says Mary FitzgeraldSince its completion in 1825, this handbook has appeared in so many different guises – from 1889's Gastronomy as a Fine Art to The Philosopher in the Kitchen in 1970 – that much of its wisdom has become idiomatic (Read More)
Rugby RSS feed:
THE manager and the main man stood exchanging a quiet word as England’s soggy series of autumn performances came to a weary conclusion. Martin Johnson and Jonny Wilkinson, perhaps the two most famous names in the history of the English game; men whose feats have made them legends but who have now become the major obstacles (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Jonny Wilkinson's return serves as a reminder that he is not the man to guide England on his ownNovember is more often devoted to the funereal rather than the celebratory. The playing surfaces are treacherous and a load of players are crocked even before they start sliding around on international duty.During these short day (Read More)
CNET News.com:
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who plays an astronaut in the new movie "Planet 51," is NASA's latest endorser, reminding people just how useful space travel really is. The Rock? Really?. (Read More)