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What Oprah Winfrey did for talkshow TV

20 November 2009 9:33 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Oprah Winfrey's talkshow is scheduled to finish in 2011. But the legacy may last slightly longer

Will you miss Oprah?

She is a cultural phenomenon. But today Oprah Winfrey will announce that she is to bring her television show to an end in 2011, 25 years after its first national broadcast. We have much to thank (perhaps) Winfrey for: her programme led the way for a new kind of daytime talkshow, and, of course, talkshow host. So what else exactly has Oprah done for us? You may well ask...

Misery lit

The misery memoir might have been launched by Dave Pelzer with A Child Called It - a book to make you re-evaluate the relationship with your mother – but personal tales of emotional turmoil have always been a winner with Oprah, who for all her entrepreunerial savvy has surely missed a trick by not launching her own range of tissues. Among those »

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Protesters Shut Down Marquez Movie

7 October 2009 9:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Campaigners are protesting against the movie adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book Memories Of My Melancholy Whores - insisting the project condones child prostitution.

The Nobel-prize winning writer's tale of a 90 year old bachelor who enjoys a night of "wild love with an adolescent virgin" on his birthday was set to be transformed for the big screen in Mexico later this month.

But campaigners from the Regional Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean have successfully managed to close down the shoot - after filing a criminal complaint at Mexico's Attorney General's office on Monday.

The Mexican state of Puebla's government has since confirmed it has pulled funding for the project, therefore shutting down filming in the area.

Campaigner Teresa Ulloa insists the book's topic would promote the child sex trade if it made it to cinemas: "As a book, it does not have access to the most vulnerable people in society. Once they make the movie, it will be in movie theatres and later it will surely be on television."

But the film's co-director and producer Ricardo del Rio insists a 21 year old actress had been cast in the film, and the storyline did not even touch upon the character's age.

He says, "They are censoring a film before it's been made, without knowing either the script or the vision of the director. Here they have simply killed our adaptation. They have dealt us a fatal blow because we can't film without all the resources."

The book was released in 2004, and was a hit with critics in Mexico. »

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Marquez Tops Book List

29 September 2009 1:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's beloved One Hundred Years Of Solitude has been named the best book of the past 25 years in a new poll.

Top authors and experts weighed in on the best books of the last quarter-century for international literary magazine Wasafiri.

Three writers picked Marquez's book, while Salman Rushdie and Michael Ondaatje appeared on the list twice for two different books. »

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Books: Review:The Invisible Mountain

9 September 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Stop if you’ve heard this one. There’s this family, and they live in South America. As a century rolls by, they have a variety of incidents that add up to a grander scheme, some which are barely explicable and seem like myths, and others which roil with political intrigue. At all times, the strength of family bonds comes through. With all that lying at its core, readers could be forgiven for thinking Carolina De Robertis’ terrific debut novel, The Invisible Mountain, was just another Gabriel García Márquez-alike. But Mountain overcomes its similarities to seemingly every other »

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'Eclipse' joined by Catalina Sandino Moreno

12 August 2009 7:23 PM, PDT | Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news »

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Catalina Sandino Moreno has joined the cast of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse as Maria (a character you might recall from Jasper (Jackson Rathbone)'s past). When the announcement came last night that Royce King had been cast with Jack Huston, many speculated as to whether flashback sequences from Jasper's past would be included as well (since those of Rosalie' ... Catalina Sandino Moreno is a twenty-eight year old Oscar-nominee who you might've seen in Fast Food Nation, Che: Part One, and Che: Part Two. Moreno has also played in Love In The Time Of Cholera, based on the classic book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, so she has experience in book-to-film translations of a mystical sort. According to THR, The Colombian-born Sandino Moreno most notably starred in "Grace," in which she played a pregnant teacher who becomes a drug mule, as well as Steven Soderbergh's »

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Music: Review: Regina Spektor

29 June 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Regina Spektor has been dogged by the q-word—“quirky”—since she first started to attract national attention with the 2004 album Soviet Kitsch. It’s not like the tag doesn’t fit. In concert, Spektor’s been known to take drumsticks to her piano, and she fills her songs with imagery that’s one part Lou Reed New York grit to four parts Gabriel Garcia Marquez magical realism. On Far, Spektor’s latest, there’s even a song that devolves into dolphin noises. But it doesn’t take a high tolerance for preciousness to appreciate Spektor. Her piano-based melodies pop »

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2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2002

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