The Invisible Woman, movies, Charles Dickens, Life After Harry Potter: So Charles Dickens had a mistress …
While many know actor Ralph Fiennes for playing Harry Potter‘s nemesis Lord Voldemort, he has also started directing. One of his post-Harry Potter film projects includes directing an adaptation of The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin.
The nonfiction book tells the story of an affair between Great Expectations author Charles Dickens (pictured, via) and actress Nelly Ternan. According to The Guardian, Abi Morgan wrote the script. The release is set for late 2012, coinciding with Dickens’ 200th birthday.
Here’s more from the article: “Dickens was 45 when he met Ternan, then 18, in 1857. Their relationship remained secret from the public, even after Dickens’s separation from his wife the following year. Ternan travelled with the author for the rest of his life; after his death, she married a man 12 years her junior, having disguised her own age as 23, rather than 37.”
NCAA, college sports, change: We can hope …
I think they mean it this time.
Mark Emmert plans to enact major change in the upcoming weeks and months.
I believe the NCAA is serious about substantive change. I believe the governing body of college sports is tired of being mocked for the heft of its rulebook, ridiculed for its byzantine enforcement process and jeered for its oft-oxymoronic term, “student-athlete.” I believe the NCAA is truly motivated to disassociate itself from government, lawyers, the media and reality TV on the list of Most Criticized American Institutions.
I believe all that after listening to NCAA president Mark Emmert, several university presidents and a couple of conference commissioners describe their two-day retreat here. The language was strong.
via Presidential summit could spark major NCAA change – ESPN.
2012 Presidential Election, race issues, politics: I think the Latinos are no different from the rest of the voters. We are all in a bind.
Latinos are in a bind, said Pilar Marrero, a political writer and columnist for the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion. “It doesn’t really benefit Latinos to have one party that takes you for granted and another party that basically attacks you,” she said. “But that’s what we have right now. We don’t have many good options.”
It’s unclear how this frustration could affect the outcome of the upcoming election. Noting that it was too soon to make such predications with any accuracy, Marrero said she thought it was unlikely that many Latinos would vote for a Republican candidate. Yet she’d heard “talk about the potential of people not going to vote,” she said. And if that happens, the President could find it hard to gather all the votes he’ll need to win, especially in heavily Latino battleground states like New Mexico and Colorado.
For years, Latinos have overwhelmingly supported Democrat candidates. In 2004, President Bush won 44 percent of the Hispanic vote, more than any Republican presidential nominee before, but whatever gains the Republicans made appeared to dissipate in 2008, when 67 percent of Latinos voted for President Obama and only 31 percent voted for Senator John McCain.
“The Latino vote came back to the Democratic Party after a brief flirtation with the Republicans,” said New Mexico’s then-governor Bill Richardson at the time.
via Looking Ahead, Latino Voters See A Choice Between Disappointment And Menace.
graffiti, art exhibits, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, France: After spending a week in France, my perspective on graffiti has changed … art, sometimes … but more often it is merely vandalism.
An exhibition that explored the history of graffiti and street art brought record-setting crowds into the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the museum said. The show, “Art in the Streets,” drew 201,352 visitors from April 17 through Aug. 8, the highest exhibition attendance in the museum’s history.
The Help, movies, food – Southern: “About 20 minutes into the movie, you’re craving fried chicken,” 🙂
“About 20 minutes into the movie, you’re craving fried chicken,” says director Tate Taylor. That movie is The Help, the new film based on Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel; it stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer and costars platter after platter of incredibly delicious-looking Southern food. The Help examines the complicated relationships between African-American maids and their white employers in 1960s Mississippi, and since the story crosses race and class lines, the cooking does too. There are scenes of ladies’ luncheons with tomato aspic and cocktail meatballs, and scenes calling for soul food like collard greens, black-eyed peas and, of course, that craveable fried chicken. “Food is just everywhere,” says Taylor.
What’s unusual is that almost all the food in the movie was made by real Southern cooks—including teachers, a journalist and a cafeteria manager—recruited in Greenwood, Mississippi. Hollywood filmmakers typically work with caterers and food stylists, but Taylor, a Jackson native, wanted authenticity. “There’s a way we cook in the South; vegetables get a certain color to them,” he says. “That gets lost a lot of times, unless the right people make the food.”
NYC, Statue of Liberty, icons:
See you in a year, Statue of Liberty—the historical landmark will be closed for repairs. on.life.com/jFDAZj | pic.twitter.com/ZjMdDsc
Michelle Bachmann, 2012 Presidential Election, quotes: hmmm
But Bachmann’s detractors, including Laidig, don’t buy it.
“Michele Bachmann is the most dishonest, most deceitful person I’ve ever met in my life,” Laidig told Roll Call. “She truly is a girl scout with a switchblade knife.”
via Tenure as State Senator Primed Bachmann for National Role : Roll Call Politics.
Katie Couric, tweets, vocabulary: I enjoy Katie Couric’s vocabulary related tweets … but often I think her use of her choosen word is awkward.
Katie Couric (@katiecouric)
8/11/11 10:15 AM
#WOTD Fecundity, noun. The intellectual productivity of a creative imaginationKatie Couric (@katiecouric)
8/11/11 10:17 AM
I’ve found @ABC is an environment that promotes a fecundity of creativity. #WOTD
Great Recession, real estate crisis: I don’t think Bo will have any trouble finding folks for his article.
AJC (@ajc)
8/11/11 11:01 AM
AJC writer looking for Atlantans ready to retire but trapped by tanking home values. Email Bo at bemerson@ajc.com
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