Sagan Lewis, who played Dr. Jacqueline Wade on NBC’s St. Elsewhere, died Sunday of cancer, our sister site Variety reports. She was 63.
Lewis had been sick for several years. She passed away at her home in New York.
Lewis played St. Elsewhere‘s Dr. Wade, who started as a naive surgical resident and remained on the series for seven seasons. Her other TV credits include M*A*S*H, Moonlighting and Homicide: Life on the Street.
She is survived by her husband, St. Elsewhere producer Tom Fontana, whom she divorced in 1993 but remarried in July 2015; son Jade Scott Lewis,...
Lewis had been sick for several years. She passed away at her home in New York.
Lewis played St. Elsewhere‘s Dr. Wade, who started as a naive surgical resident and remained on the series for seven seasons. Her other TV credits include M*A*S*H, Moonlighting and Homicide: Life on the Street.
She is survived by her husband, St. Elsewhere producer Tom Fontana, whom she divorced in 1993 but remarried in July 2015; son Jade Scott Lewis,...
- 8/9/2016
- TVLine.com
One day after Rolling Stone published his clandestine interview with Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, Sean Penn has received social media backlash from many journalists - and is reportedly under investigation by the Mexican government. Penn's piece on Guzmán was published Saturday night, one day after the Sinaloa cartel head's recapture by authorities. But Penn said his contact with Guzmán was last year, when the cartel head was then a fugitive after his escape from federal prison in July. The Rolling Stone piece - already the No. 1 most-read item on its website - is additionally prefaced with...
- 1/10/2016
- by Adam Carlson, @acarlson91
- PEOPLE.com
From Bananaman to Grange Hill, join us in a spot of TV nostalgia as we celebrate 50 great 1980s kids' TV theme songs...
There comes a time to turn away from the horrors of the world and retreat underneath the soft, comforting duvet of nostalgia. That time is Friday. That metaphorical duvet is below.
Here are fifty of the best kids’ TV theme songs (spread over two pages and in arbitrary order) of the 1980s. Some, like Alan Hawkshaw’s distinctive Grange Hill intro, are unarguable classics of the era, while others, like Mike Harding's Count Duckula, only started in the late-eighties and spent the rest of their run in the next decade.
Obviously, there being only 50 on this list, we may have missed out your favourite (deliberately or otherwise). Let us know if so, but remember that links may take a while to appear in the comments thread because...
There comes a time to turn away from the horrors of the world and retreat underneath the soft, comforting duvet of nostalgia. That time is Friday. That metaphorical duvet is below.
Here are fifty of the best kids’ TV theme songs (spread over two pages and in arbitrary order) of the 1980s. Some, like Alan Hawkshaw’s distinctive Grange Hill intro, are unarguable classics of the era, while others, like Mike Harding's Count Duckula, only started in the late-eighties and spent the rest of their run in the next decade.
Obviously, there being only 50 on this list, we may have missed out your favourite (deliberately or otherwise). Let us know if so, but remember that links may take a while to appear in the comments thread because...
- 7/29/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
This month, Boston is paying tribute to its native son: the Master of Macabre. A new statue of Edgar Allan Poe was recently revealed in Poe Square, a bronze bust of Poe will be unveiled on October 30th, one evening before Jeffrey Combs performs in Nevermore: An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe at the Somerville Theatre, and now a poster adds to the celebration with a depiction of Combs as Poe.
Illustrated by Phantom City Creative artist Justin Erickson, the 18” x 24” Nevermore prints are limited to 100 and are priced at $50 apiece. We have the official details on the prints, the bronze bust, and Nevermore: An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe:
Boston (October 1, 2014) — “On October 31, fans of the darker literary persuasion will find a very special treat at the Somerville Theatre. At 8pm, the house lights will go down, and Edgar Allan Poe will return. In “Nevermore:...
Illustrated by Phantom City Creative artist Justin Erickson, the 18” x 24” Nevermore prints are limited to 100 and are priced at $50 apiece. We have the official details on the prints, the bronze bust, and Nevermore: An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe:
Boston (October 1, 2014) — “On October 31, fans of the darker literary persuasion will find a very special treat at the Somerville Theatre. At 8pm, the house lights will go down, and Edgar Allan Poe will return. In “Nevermore:...
- 10/10/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Set in Newfoundland (even though some of the accents veer towards bad Irish at times), The Grand Seduction, based on the 2003 French/Canadian film La Grande Séduction, sees a small fishing village of lovable, unemployed rogues, led by Murray French (Brendan Gleeson), desperately wooing an oil company looking for a place to build their new 'repurposing' factory. To seal the deal they need a doctor, and when plastic surgeon Dr. Paul Lewis (Taylor Kitsch) is sent to the village, Tickle Head, for a month, in exchange for the dropping of a drug possession charge, where the residents attempt to tailor the small community to his needs, and thus convince him to stay. The Grand Seduction is a charming farce when you get down to it. The gentle humour is perfectly pitched, providing plenty of chuckles and laughs as the residents of Tickle Head set their plan into the motion, be it quickly learning,...
- 8/30/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Director: Don McKellar; Screenwriter: Michael Dowse, Ken Scott; Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Taylor Kitsch, Liane Balaban, Gordon Pinsent, Rhonda Rodgers; Running time: 113 mins; Certificate: 12A
Brendan Gleeson is perfectly cast in The Grand Seduction, a comedy drama that aims to send up the postcard image of rural life. Unfortunately, Canadian director Don McKellar falls into his own trap with a storytelling style that wavers between wry cynicism and twee romanticism.
American muscle-head Taylor Kitsch (Battleship, John Carter) loses some of that action hero bulk to play Dr Paul Lewis, but he still looks out of place in a small fishing village where he is forced to act as Gp after getting caught with cocaine at customs. Just the name, Tickle Cove, is enough to conjure a picture of seaside tranquillity, but on the contrary, the fishing business has dried up and its residents need to find an alternative source of revenue...
Brendan Gleeson is perfectly cast in The Grand Seduction, a comedy drama that aims to send up the postcard image of rural life. Unfortunately, Canadian director Don McKellar falls into his own trap with a storytelling style that wavers between wry cynicism and twee romanticism.
American muscle-head Taylor Kitsch (Battleship, John Carter) loses some of that action hero bulk to play Dr Paul Lewis, but he still looks out of place in a small fishing village where he is forced to act as Gp after getting caught with cocaine at customs. Just the name, Tickle Cove, is enough to conjure a picture of seaside tranquillity, but on the contrary, the fishing business has dried up and its residents need to find an alternative source of revenue...
- 8/26/2014
- Digital Spy
Returning behind the camera for the first time in almost a decade, Don McKellar took The Grand Seduction to Tiff last year, where it was received with warm reviews.
Led by Brendan Gleeson and Taylor Kitsch, the comedy will be released in the UK and Ireland at the tail-end of the summer, and eOne has now launched the trailer for our shores, along with the UK quad poster.
Brendan Gleeson is Murray, a once proud fisherman who now, along with his former colleagues in the harbour of Tickle Head are out of work and forced to live off welfare. Prohibited from fishing enough to make a living and the community spirit having faded a long time ago, the Mayor comes up with a dazzling plan – a giant corporation need a location to build a factory and Tickle Head could be just the right place. But there’s just one problem – in order to qualify,...
Led by Brendan Gleeson and Taylor Kitsch, the comedy will be released in the UK and Ireland at the tail-end of the summer, and eOne has now launched the trailer for our shores, along with the UK quad poster.
Brendan Gleeson is Murray, a once proud fisherman who now, along with his former colleagues in the harbour of Tickle Head are out of work and forced to live off welfare. Prohibited from fishing enough to make a living and the community spirit having faded a long time ago, the Mayor comes up with a dazzling plan – a giant corporation need a location to build a factory and Tickle Head could be just the right place. But there’s just one problem – in order to qualify,...
- 6/13/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
What do you do if you’re the mayor of a small town in the grip of an economic downturn and you need to attract new investment? Why, you concoct a big, good-natured scam, of course! That, at least, seems to be the lesson in Don McKellar’s new film, The Grand Seduction, which has posted its first trailer online. Brendan Gleeson stars as Murray, a fisherman from the small harbour town of Tickle Head who is forced to live on welfare when resources dry up. Prohibited from fishing enough to make a living and with the community spirit having faded a long time ago, the Mayor comes up with a dazzling plan: a giant corporation need a location to build a factory and he thinks that Tickle Head could be just the place.But there’s just one problem: in order to qualify, they must have a doctor in residence.
- 6/12/2014
- EmpireOnline
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 75 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new comedy “The Grand Seduction” starring Taylor Kitsch and Brendan Gleeson!
“The Grand Seduction,” which is rated “PG-13” and opens in Chicago on June 13, 2014, also stars Liane Balaban, Gordon Pinsent, Anna Hopkins, Rhonda Rodgers, Carly Boone, Mark Critch, Steve O’Connell and Matt Watts from director Don McKellar and writers Michael Dowse and Ken Scott.
To win your free “The Grand Seduction” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, June 9, 2014 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of winning; this doesn’t intensify your competition!
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“The Grand Seduction,” which is rated “PG-13” and opens in Chicago on June 13, 2014, also stars Liane Balaban, Gordon Pinsent, Anna Hopkins, Rhonda Rodgers, Carly Boone, Mark Critch, Steve O’Connell and Matt Watts from director Don McKellar and writers Michael Dowse and Ken Scott.
To win your free “The Grand Seduction” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, June 9, 2014 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of winning; this doesn’t intensify your competition!
Preferably, use your computer to enter rather than your smartphone.
- 6/3/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In "The Grand Seduction," Taylor Kitsch's character Dr. Paul Lewis is a big-city doctor ultimately charmed by the quaint lifestyle that a tiny Newfoundland fishing community offers. And as it turns out, Kitsch felt much the same way about shooting director Don McKellar's relatively small Canadian production; on the heels of two high-profile Hollywood action movies in "Battleship" and "John Carter," "The Grand Seduction" allowed him to leave 15-hour days and green screen behind for a few weeks by the water and (of course) daily fly fishing.
The fact that he'd be starring alongside Brendan Gleeson in the English-language remake of Jean-Francois Pouliot's 2003 Quebecois hit "Seducing Dr. Lewis" didn't hurt either, according to the B.C. native. So there were no elaborate tricks required to get Kitsch to sign on, unlike the little white lies the town uses to keep Lewis around, like faking a love of cricket...
The fact that he'd be starring alongside Brendan Gleeson in the English-language remake of Jean-Francois Pouliot's 2003 Quebecois hit "Seducing Dr. Lewis" didn't hurt either, according to the B.C. native. So there were no elaborate tricks required to get Kitsch to sign on, unlike the little white lies the town uses to keep Lewis around, like faking a love of cricket...
- 5/29/2014
- by Rick Mele
- Moviefone
Indiewire has an exclusive first look at the poster for the upcoming indie "The Grand Seduction," which stars Taylor Kitsch and Brendan Gleeson. Directed by Don McKellar and written by Michael Dowse and Ken Scott, "The Grand Seduction's" tagline states: "A lie this big only works if everyone pitches in." Sounds like trouble. Synopsis: A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction. Distributed by Entertainment One Films, "The Grand Seduction" will be released May 30th.
- 5/1/2014
- by Emerson Gordon
- Indiewire
Taylor Kitsch’s film career did not get off to the best of starts in 2012, when John Carter, Battleship and Savages all disappointed at the North American box office. However, the actor, who shot to fame with his role as Tim Riggins on Friday Night Lights, chose wisely to try his hand at some smaller projects with more refined stories. He has two films set for May, the HBO drama The Normal Heart with Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo, and the film festival favourite The Grand Seduction, a Canadian comedy from director Don McKellar (Last Night).
The Grand Seduction feels like a modest, charming crowd-pleaser that will hopefully not get trampled over by blockbuster behemoths when it comes out on May 30th. In the remake of a 2003 French-Canadian film, Kitsch plays Dr. Paul Lewis, employed by the small Newfoundland town of Tickle Bay. Since the tiny, beleaguered population wants to...
The Grand Seduction feels like a modest, charming crowd-pleaser that will hopefully not get trampled over by blockbuster behemoths when it comes out on May 30th. In the remake of a 2003 French-Canadian film, Kitsch plays Dr. Paul Lewis, employed by the small Newfoundland town of Tickle Bay. Since the tiny, beleaguered population wants to...
- 4/24/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Today we have the first trailer for the upcoming "The Grand Seduction," starring Taylor Kitsch (John Carter, Battleship), Brendan Gleeson, and Liane Balaban. Check it out below. Plot: A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor's time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction. The new movie is directed by Don McKellar and is set to get a limited theatrical release on May 30th. Trailer:...
- 4/22/2014
- WorstPreviews.com
"Jimmy Kimmel Live's" Clip of the Year 2013 honoree has been announced.
The Top 6 best video clips included Rob Ford walking into a camera, a woman who was very passionate about rhubarb, one anchor's accidental flute flub, a boss with the best terrified reaction face, A.J. Clemente's infamous on-air flub and a monkey in a snow suit. But there can only be one winner, and that is ...
Scared Boss!
Paul Lewis, the boss man who was featured in the video, appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" to accept his award, and was adorably excited about the whole thing. "I thought that little monkey was cute," he admits.
But this wouldn't be a Kimmel sketch if there wasn't a surprise ending. Watch the above clip to see what lies in store for unsuspecting Lewis.
The Top 6 best video clips included Rob Ford walking into a camera, a woman who was very passionate about rhubarb, one anchor's accidental flute flub, a boss with the best terrified reaction face, A.J. Clemente's infamous on-air flub and a monkey in a snow suit. But there can only be one winner, and that is ...
Scared Boss!
Paul Lewis, the boss man who was featured in the video, appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" to accept his award, and was adorably excited about the whole thing. "I thought that little monkey was cute," he admits.
But this wouldn't be a Kimmel sketch if there wasn't a surprise ending. Watch the above clip to see what lies in store for unsuspecting Lewis.
- 12/19/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
New film is good Hollywood fun about a spy infiltrating a group of green activists, but the truth is very different
How many people have ever been hurt by "eco-terrorism"? There is a long history of environmental campaigners being killed by government and corporate agents, but to my knowledge no one has ever murdered or even maimed anyone who has damaged nature. Terrible threats have been made, yes, trees have been spiked, ski resorts burned down, cars bombed, crops dug up and boats sabotaged, but a line has been pretty clearly drawn – in Britain, the Us and Europe at least – between hurting people and property in the name of defending nature.
So the first problem with the film The East, which opened at the Sundance festival this year and comes to Britain on Friday, is that we are asked to believe that a collective of messed-up young Us runaways, living off-grid in the woods,...
How many people have ever been hurt by "eco-terrorism"? There is a long history of environmental campaigners being killed by government and corporate agents, but to my knowledge no one has ever murdered or even maimed anyone who has damaged nature. Terrible threats have been made, yes, trees have been spiked, ski resorts burned down, cars bombed, crops dug up and boats sabotaged, but a line has been pretty clearly drawn – in Britain, the Us and Europe at least – between hurting people and property in the name of defending nature.
So the first problem with the film The East, which opened at the Sundance festival this year and comes to Britain on Friday, is that we are asked to believe that a collective of messed-up young Us runaways, living off-grid in the woods,...
- 6/26/2013
- by John Vidal
- The Guardian - Film News
There were no black ties and no fawning, but an impressive number of entries that have changed the world for the better
The Oscars pull you up short. "Does anyone else find the wall-to-wall coverage repellent? Vapid fawning over celebrities masquerading as news," tweeted the Guardian's fulminator-in-chief, George Monbiot. Quite right. Too many designer dresses; too much hollow harrumphing over this year's presenter and off-colour jokes; too little honesty in an ocean of puff stuff. Plus a feeling, yet again, that Hollywood has made us all bit players in a media world where power – and markets and money – homogenise lives.
How did British actors get so good at American accents, even at playing iconic American presidents? Because that's where the paycheques are. Watch our TV stars beat the path to Beverly Hills. Why do some of the most dynamic on- and offline newspapers cross the Atlantic at a bound, so...
The Oscars pull you up short. "Does anyone else find the wall-to-wall coverage repellent? Vapid fawning over celebrities masquerading as news," tweeted the Guardian's fulminator-in-chief, George Monbiot. Quite right. Too many designer dresses; too much hollow harrumphing over this year's presenter and off-colour jokes; too little honesty in an ocean of puff stuff. Plus a feeling, yet again, that Hollywood has made us all bit players in a media world where power – and markets and money – homogenise lives.
How did British actors get so good at American accents, even at playing iconic American presidents? Because that's where the paycheques are. Watch our TV stars beat the path to Beverly Hills. Why do some of the most dynamic on- and offline newspapers cross the Atlantic at a bound, so...
- 3/3/2013
- by Peter Preston
- The Guardian - Film News
Ottawa-based director and Dop John Driftmier was killed in a plane crash in Kenya on Sunday, production company Pixcom has confirmed. He was 30. Driftmier was in Kenya shooting aerial sequences for the second season of Dangerous Flights, which airs on Discovery Channel Canada. The action adventure series follows six American pilots “who risk their lives in the high-danger, no-holds-barred, high-stress business of aircraft delivery,” according to the show’s website. Pixcom said the plane in which Driftmier was flying crashed Sunday morning, killing both him and the pilot. Driftmier’s other credits included Discovery series Highway Thru Hell and License To Drill. Paul Lewis, president of Discovery Canada, said: “This is a day of great sadness for us all. The Canadian production community has lost a brilliant young man who had the promise of a big future. We will miss his many talents.” Driftmier is survived by his wife and his parents.
- 2/25/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
A shocking ruling (let's call it the 007 standard) gives undercover police licence to break hearts. It's the hacking of people's lives
Behold a new legal threshold: let's call it the 007 standard. Apparently the law now allows secret agents to get up to all manner of mayhem, just so long as it's something James Bond might have done. Threatening to strangle a woman with her own bikini top? Powering a speedboat, both on and besides the Thames, destroying everything in your wake? Forcing a shark-gun pellet into a man's mouth, so he blows up like a balloon. All fully lawful, m'lud: can I refer the court to Diamonds Are Forever, The World Is Not Enough and Live and Let Die?
This new principle of jurisprudence was unveiled at the high court this week by Mr Justice Tugendhat, as he ruled on whether a case brought by 10 women and one man duped...
Behold a new legal threshold: let's call it the 007 standard. Apparently the law now allows secret agents to get up to all manner of mayhem, just so long as it's something James Bond might have done. Threatening to strangle a woman with her own bikini top? Powering a speedboat, both on and besides the Thames, destroying everything in your wake? Forcing a shark-gun pellet into a man's mouth, so he blows up like a balloon. All fully lawful, m'lud: can I refer the court to Diamonds Are Forever, The World Is Not Enough and Live and Let Die?
This new principle of jurisprudence was unveiled at the high court this week by Mr Justice Tugendhat, as he ruled on whether a case brought by 10 women and one man duped...
- 1/19/2013
- by Jonathan Freedland
- The Guardian - Film News
There's still hope for Taylor Kitsch, despite the failures of "John Carter," "Battleship" and "Savages." He is set to join the ensemble cast of Brendan Gleeson, Mary Walsh, Cathy Jones and Gordon Pinsent for "The Grand Seduction," which begins shooting today in Newfoundland, Canada. The film, to be directed by Candian filmmaker Don McKellar, is a remake of 2003 Quebecois film "Le Grand Seduction" (aka "Seducing Doctor Lewis"). The story "centers on the small harbour of Tickle Cove which is in need of a doctor so the town can land a contract to secure a factory that will save the town from financial ruin. Village resident Murray French (Gleeson) searches to find a doctor, and when he finds Dr. Paul Lewis (Kitsch) he employs – along with the whole town – tactics to seduce the doctor to stay permanently." The original (which played Cannes 2003) was scripted by Ken Scott, who adapted it into.
- 7/30/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
Brendan Gleeson and Taylor Kitsch will star in The Grand Seduction, which Don McKellar is directing from a screenplay by Michael Dowse and Ken Scott. Scott scripted the 2003 French original Le Grande Seduction. Cast will also include Gorden Pinsent, Mary Walsh, Cathy Jones and Liane Balaban. Casting is by Heidi Leivitt and Lucie Robitaille. Roger Frappier produced the original and is back for the remake, producing with Barbara Doran. Shooting is just getting underway in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada and in various outport communities around Trinity Bay, Red Cliff, New Bonaventure and Port Rexton. The film centers on the small harbor of Tickle Cove, which is in dire need of a doctor so the town can land a contract to secure a factory that will save the town from financial ruin. Village resident Murray French (Gleeson) leads the search, and when he finds Dr. Paul Lewis (Kitsch) he employs...
- 7/30/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this week
Theatre
Red Light Winter
The UK premiere of Adam Rapp's Obie Award-winning play about two successful New Yorkers, once college room mates, whose trip to the Red Light district of Amsterdam comes back to haunt them. Part of an ambitious season of contemporary American work.
Ustinov, Bath (01225 448844), to 31 March.
Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs
In 2003, Francesca Millican Slater bought an old postcard of Lincoln Cathedral that had been posted to a Miss Gibbs at a London address in 1910. The message said: Be careful tomorrow. What did Miss Gibbs have to fear? Brilliant solo show about identity and obsession.
Drill Hall, Lincoln (01522 873894), Thursday to 9 March.
Sprint
Brilliant festival of emerging and experimental work. Highlights...
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this week
Theatre
Red Light Winter
The UK premiere of Adam Rapp's Obie Award-winning play about two successful New Yorkers, once college room mates, whose trip to the Red Light district of Amsterdam comes back to haunt them. Part of an ambitious season of contemporary American work.
Ustinov, Bath (01225 448844), to 31 March.
Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs
In 2003, Francesca Millican Slater bought an old postcard of Lincoln Cathedral that had been posted to a Miss Gibbs at a London address in 1910. The message said: Be careful tomorrow. What did Miss Gibbs have to fear? Brilliant solo show about identity and obsession.
Drill Hall, Lincoln (01522 873894), Thursday to 9 March.
Sprint
Brilliant festival of emerging and experimental work. Highlights...
- 3/4/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Full text of the Guardian editor's Orwell lecture on journalism and the phone-hacking scandal, given at University College, London
Thank you for asking me to give this lecture.
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have become a journalist were it not for George Orwell. His collected Essays, Journalism and Letters appeared in a four volume Penguin edition in 1968, when I was about 15. I bought them one at a time with my saved pocket money … and read every word. And, with each essay and article, I learned more about politics; about observation; and about how to write. I doubt that I have ever managed to match his clarity of thought and prose – but he was certainly a model of both, and so it's a great honour to be here speaking in his name.
The invitation to speak tonight came just after the extraordinary events of the summer. I know you wanted the...
Thank you for asking me to give this lecture.
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have become a journalist were it not for George Orwell. His collected Essays, Journalism and Letters appeared in a four volume Penguin edition in 1968, when I was about 15. I bought them one at a time with my saved pocket money … and read every word. And, with each essay and article, I learned more about politics; about observation; and about how to write. I doubt that I have ever managed to match his clarity of thought and prose – but he was certainly a model of both, and so it's a great honour to be here speaking in his name.
The invitation to speak tonight came just after the extraordinary events of the summer. I know you wanted the...
- 11/11/2011
- by Alan Rusbridger
- The Guardian - Film News
UK celebrity Twitter users including Stephen Fry and Jimmy Carr had dinner with the social networking website's chief executive officer Dick Costolo on Monday night. Phillip Schofield, Davina McCall, Sarah Brown, Charlie Brooker, Richard Bacon, Graham Linehan and Guardian journalist Paul Lewis were also among the guests at the #TwitterDinner for the 'top Tweeters'. Schofield said of the evening: "It was like all your perfect dinner guests in one room. Fascinating conversation and phones allowed at the table!" McCall added: "It was fun going to dinner where having a phone (more)...
- 11/9/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Sword And Sorcery is casting a powerful spell on popular culture again.
That's largely due to the Camelot and Game of Thrones series, as well as the BBC's Merlin (which returns for a fourth run later this year) and a number of King Arthur projects circulating in Hollywood.
Abaddon Books is promising we can now find out why they call it The Dark Ages.
Tomorrow it publishes Malory's Knights of Albion: The Savage Knight, by Paul Lewis.
It's the second book in the Malory's Knights of Albion 'shared world' series, billed as "a new take on the well-known sub-genre, filled with savagery and knights who live and die by their bloodied swords."
In this new novel, Sir Dodinal the Savage is burdened with a terrible rage and turns his back on Camelot to find peace in a quiet Welsh village. But even here there is none.
When his new home...
That's largely due to the Camelot and Game of Thrones series, as well as the BBC's Merlin (which returns for a fourth run later this year) and a number of King Arthur projects circulating in Hollywood.
Abaddon Books is promising we can now find out why they call it The Dark Ages.
Tomorrow it publishes Malory's Knights of Albion: The Savage Knight, by Paul Lewis.
It's the second book in the Malory's Knights of Albion 'shared world' series, billed as "a new take on the well-known sub-genre, filled with savagery and knights who live and die by their bloodied swords."
In this new novel, Sir Dodinal the Savage is burdened with a terrible rage and turns his back on Camelot to find peace in a quiet Welsh village. But even here there is none.
When his new home...
- 9/14/2011
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
The museum is sponsoring a workshop aiming for new solutions for sheltering the city's threatened waterfront.
New York's Museum of Modern Art is lending a hand, hoping to solve some of the city's environmental headaches.
Starting on November 16, they're gathering a select group of architects, engineers, and landscape designers, and then more or less locking them in a room for eight weeks. The assignment: Figure out how to save New York's waterfronts, which are sorely threatened by rising water levels caused by global warming.
The results of that caffeine fueled idea-jam will then be exhibited in a show called "Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront," running through January 8, 2010.
According to the press release, here's the participants:
Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David Lewis of Ltl Architects and team will work on the Northwest Palisade Bay/Hudson River area, which includes parts of New Jersey, Liberty Park/Ellis Island, and...
New York's Museum of Modern Art is lending a hand, hoping to solve some of the city's environmental headaches.
Starting on November 16, they're gathering a select group of architects, engineers, and landscape designers, and then more or less locking them in a room for eight weeks. The assignment: Figure out how to save New York's waterfronts, which are sorely threatened by rising water levels caused by global warming.
The results of that caffeine fueled idea-jam will then be exhibited in a show called "Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront," running through January 8, 2010.
According to the press release, here's the participants:
Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David Lewis of Ltl Architects and team will work on the Northwest Palisade Bay/Hudson River area, which includes parts of New Jersey, Liberty Park/Ellis Island, and...
- 11/3/2009
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
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