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4 November 2011 9:51 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

"Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir" (Crown Archetype), by Piper Laurie: Rosetta Jacobs was a bright and thoughtful child but struggled to express herself. Only after she was a teenager and theater marquees began carrying her new name – Piper Laurie – did the quiet girl from Detroit begin to find the strength to speak up.

It would take time and heartache for her to reach a full-throated freedom.

"Learning to Live Out Loud" is Laurie's absorbing memoir about that personal transition as well as her professional development from a popular star of grade B entertainments to an Oscar-nominated actress ("The Hustler," "Carrie" and "Children of a Lesser God") who also had memorable roles on television and the stage.

She was born in 1932 to first-generation American Jews – her mother's parents had emigrated from Russia, her father's from Poland. They accepted their youngest daughter's relative silence – she now believes she suffered »

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23 February 2011 8:34 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

Richard Williams' The Thief and the Cobbler is, in many ways the animation equivalent of Welles' Don Quixote. Williams, a successful animator making a lot of money in title sequences (Tony Richardson's The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the original Casino Royale) and commercials, decided to make the world's greatest animated feature film, funding it himself. "The golden rule in film-making is Opm, Other People's Money. But I never had Opm. I only had Dm: Dick's Money."

For somewhere between twenty and thirty years, Williams worked on his masterpiece, employing many of the great animators who had worked at Disney in the studio's golden age. Then, he got the job of directing the animation in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? The film's success made Williams suddenly bankable, and The Thief and the Cobbler acquired a studio deal. Williams carried on making it at the leisurely »

2 items from 2011