"Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante" by Lily Tuck: A review by Robert Boyers
Thirty years ago, it seemed that Elsa Morante had established herself as a major literary figure. History: A Novel (1974), which was a best-selling book in Italy, was widely reviewed in the United States when it was published here in 1977; such critics as Alfred Kazin and Stephen Spender debated her merits, and even those who wrote of her with misgiving acknowledged that, at her best, she was a gifted and compelling novelist.
Marian the Teacher was first, and correct, with:
Bosom Buddies
mj replied:
Because of this show
Spousal unit still can't stand Tom Hanks,. I wonder if he made that beach ball his Bosom Buddy too.
Alan J answered:
Bosom Buddies
Charlie wrote:
Bosom Buddies. Never having been a fan of Billy Joel, I'll suppress further comments on this one.
Adam in NoHo responded:
Tom Hanks' big break 'Bosom Buddies'.
Jim from CA, retired to ID answered:
Bosom Buddies
Sally said:
I've parked my guest in front of the TV, watching the nightly news, and am sneaking off to do the Trivia Question dejour - like a thief in the night...
Okay, down the business: "My Life" by Billy Joel, was the theme for the absurd, old TV show, "Bosom Buddies," which I never watched (not that you asked)!
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by the SEASON PREMIERE'Amazing Race 15', then the SEASON PREMIERE'Cold Case'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'NFL Football' (Colts visit the Cardinals), then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Monk' and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with the SEASON PREMIERE'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', followed by the SEASON PREMIERE'Desperate Housewives', then the SEASON PREMIERE'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers 'Smash Cuts', followed by another 'Smash Cuts', then the movie 'Legally Blonde'.
Faux has a RERUN'Brothers', followed by the SEASON PREMIERE'Simpsons', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'The Cleveland Show', then the SEASON PREMIERE'Family Guy', followed by the SEASON PREMIERE'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'Raymond', followed by an old 'House', then another old 'House'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', and still another 'Criminal Minds'.
AMC offers the movie 'GoodFellas', followed by a FRESH'Mad Men'.
BBC -
[11:00 AM] Moonraker
[2:00 PM] For Your Eyes Only
[5:00 PM] The Man With the Golden Gun
[8:00 PM] The Spy Who Loved Me
[11:00 PM] Moonraker
[2:00 AM] For Your Eyes Only
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Employee Of The Month', followed by the movie 'The Ex'.
FX has the movie 'S.W.A.T.', followed by the movie 'Next'.
IFC -
[7:35 AM] United We Stand
[7:45 AM] The Legend of 1900
[10:00 AM] Johnny Gaddaar
[12:15 PM] May Fools
[2:05 PM] Moulin Rouge
[4:15 PM] A Slipping-Down Life
[6:15 PM] The Prime Gig
[8:00 PM] Fargo
[9:45 PM] Drugstore Cowboy
[11:30 PM] Ripley's Game
[1:30 AM] Fargo
[3:15 AM] Drugstore Cowboy
[5:00 AM] A Slipping-Down Life (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Ultraviolet', followed by the movie 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse'.
Sundance -
[05:45 AM] Old Joy
[07:00 AM] Swimmers
[08:30 AM] The Dead
[10:00 AM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 3: Music
[10:30 AM] The Lazy Environmentalist: Episode 2
[11:00 AM] Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars
[11:45 AM] Old Joy
[01:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 1: Renee Zellweger on Christiane Amanpour
[02:00 PM] The Day Before: The Day Before: Sonia Rykiel
[03:00 PM] The Dead
[04:25 PM] Old Joy
[07:15 PM] This is England
[09:00 PM] Brick City: Episode 1
[10:00 PM] That Obscure Object Of Desire
[11:50 PM] Jeu
[12:00 AM] Dorm
[02:00 AM] Goliath
[03:30 AM] Good Morning Heartache
[05:10 AM] That Obscure Object Of Desire (ALL TIMES EDT)
Chinese director Lu Chuan (L) and actress Qin Lan receive the Concha de Oro for Best Film for the feature film "City of Life and Death" on the final day of the 57th San Sebastian Film Festival September 26, 2009.
Photo by Vincent West
Scholars from around the world are dissecting the Springsteen legend this weekend in New Jersey.
"Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium" continues through Sunday at Monmouth University. The no-holds-barred intellectual romp, coinciding with Springsteen's 60th birthday, was organized by Virginia Tech and Penn State Altoona.
And yes, the scholars do get the comedic irony of studying a man who "learned more from a three-minute record than he ever learned from school."
The festivities include several pilgrimages to the landmark Stone Pony nightclub, down the road in Asbury Park, N.J.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor laughs with New York Yankee catcher Jorge Posada before throwing out the first pitch before the start of the MLB American League baseball game between the Yankees and Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York September 26, 2009
Photo by Shannon Stapleton
The CW network's "The Beautiful Life: TBL" has become the first television series from the new fall crop to be canceled.
The drama starred Mischa Barton and Sara Paxton and was executive produced by Ashton Kutcher. It was set in the glamorous modeling world of New York City.
It premiered Sept. 16 to just 1.5 million viewers. The audience dropped for this week's episode.
In its place on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern the CW will repeat episodes of its promising new "Melrose Place" revival, one day after their original airing.
A small pond at the west end of Rancho San Rafael Park reflects the hot air balloons preparing for launch, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, during the final day of racing at the Great Reno Balloon Race in Reno, Nev.
Photo by Marilyn Newton
It's shake-up time for "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
Sources from the "L&O" galaxy say that stars Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe and Eric Bogosian are expected to be phased out at various points during the series' upcoming ninth season.
Julianne Nicholson already has departed because she is having a baby. Executive producer Dick Wolf is turning to Jeff Goldblum, who joined the cast last season, to remain as lead detective in the series, along with Saffron Burrows, who was recently cast to replace Nicholson as Goldblum's partner.
Details about D'Onofrio, Erbe and Bogosian's exits are still unclear as the actors' deals are being worked out. It's possible that D'Onofrio will reprise his character in guest stints.
Endangered Ugandan mountain gorillas are appearing online as part of a fundraising program the Ugandan Wildlife Authority launched Saturday to help save the species.
Despite their size - a male silverback can reach over 7 feet (2.1 meters) and weigh 400 pounds (180 kilogram) - the gorillas are threatened by poachers who kill them for meat, farmers and charcoal-burners who encroach on their habitat, and the indiscriminate bullets of rebels on the run. They must be protected by rangers with automatic rifles.
The Wildlife Authority is hoping that fans will befriend a gorilla on Facebook or MySpace or follow it on Twitter in return for a minimum donation of $1. The money will be used to hire extra rangers to protect the gorillas and safeguard their habitat.
In return, gorilla friends will receive regular updates about their chosen gorilla, have their gorilla's picture on their home page and receive gorilla trivia - like the fact that the name is derived from a Greek word, gorillai, meaning "hairy women."
Tellaks, attendants who massage and bathe the customers taking a Turkish bath, wait for them at the historical Galatasaray hamam in Istanbul September 16, 2009. Old Istanbul's bath houses once hosted scheming Pashas and shapely concubines before modern cleansing rituals sent them into decline, but their appeal to tourists and the growth of the spa industry promises a revival.
Photo by Murad Sezer
Major breakthroughs in astronomy aren't only reserved for professional scientists, as proven by a high school student who recently helped discover a new astronomical object.
In March 2009, West Virginia student Lucas Bolyard came across the signature of the object while working on a project that trains students to help analyze astronomical data. He passed the interesting signal on to supervising astronomers, who determined it was probably a rare object known as a rotating radio transient.
These strange neutron stars (extremely dense stars made up almost entirely of the subatomic particles neutrons) emit sporadic bursts of radio waves. There are only about 30 rotating radio transients known.
At the time of the discovery, Bolyard, a sophomore at South Harrison High School in Clarksburg, W. Va., had already waded through more than 2,000 data plots and found nothing. He was sorting through images from the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in Green Bank as part of the Pulsar Search Collaboratory, a joint project of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and West Virginia University, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Cypress Gardens, which reigned as Florida's grandest theme park in the days before Disney, has shut down while its owners try to sell the attraction.
The 73-year-old park, known for water-skiing shows, lush flower gardens and Southern belles in hoop dresses, was shuttered Wednesday after years of sagging attendance and ownership changes.
The current owner, Land South Adventures, said the park was no longer financially viable. The company said in a statement it "has explored numerous management frameworks and exhausted every possible approach to keep the park running in its traditional form."
Cypress Gardens, once a must-see for Florida visitors, was opened in 1936 by Dick and Julie Pope, and the family sold it in 1985. The property has been bought and sold several times since.
Works by painter Edward Hopper and several early 20th century American contemporaries like Georgia O'Keeffe and Man Ray were put on display at a Dutch museum in Rotterdam on Saturday, in what organisers said was the biggest display ever in Europe of early 20th century American art.
"We chose to exhibit Edward Hopper with his contemporaries so that his work can be shown in better context," said Mariette Maaskant, spokeswoman of the Kunsthal museum.
"Some of the artists were also his friends."
The exhibition will display more than 90 paintings, sketches, sculptures and photographs -- including eight Hopper paintings.
A baby gibbon is held by its mother in Vienna's Schoenbrunn zoo September 25, 2009. The gibbon, born on Wednesday weighing between 300 - 400g, has yet to be sexed and named.
Photo by Daniel Zupanc
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