Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
I Am Legend is the product of an anxious artistic mind working in an anxious cultural climate. However, it is also a playful take on an old archetype, the vampire (the reader is even treated to Neville's reading and put-down of Bram Stoker's Dracula). Matheson goes to great lengths to rationalize or naturalize the vampire myth, transplanting ...
Maxwell has performed this play steadily since its world premiere at Jackson's New Stage Theatre in 1981. It appeared as a film, directed by Jimbo Barnett, in 2006, and was released on DVD in 2008. Maxwell spoke at the May 1, 2005, rededication of Rowan Oak , William Faulkner's home in Oxford, Mississippi , which is operated as a museum by the ...
John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926 – March 30, 1988) was an American author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel Go. Considered the first "Beat" novel, Go depicted events in his life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. He was often referred to as the "quiet Beat" and was one of Kerouac's closest friends.
John Alfred Williams (December 5, 1925 – July 3, 2015) was an African American author, journalist, and academic. His novel The Man Who Cried I Am was a bestseller in 1967. [ 1 ] Also a poet, he won an American Book Award for his 1998 collection Safari West .
Thomas Glavinic: Night Work; Martin Gregor-Dellin: Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century; Lothar Günther Buchheim: The Boat; Hans Hellmut Kirst: The Night of the Generals; Bodo Kirchhoff: Infanta (Schlegel-Tieck Prize) Georg Klein: Libidissi; Walter Moers: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (2000) Walter Moers: A Wild Ride Through ...
In this new documentary from R.J. Cutler and John’s husband, David Furnish, John looks back on his meteoric rise and opens up about his mortality. [The Hollywood Reporter/Yahoo Entertainment ...
So, at night and whenever he has the chance, John begins teaching Sarny the letters of the English alphabet. After teaching her 8 letters (A to H), Walter catches Sarny writing in the dirt and punishes John for teaching her by cutting off the toes from each of his feet. But then after three days of recuperating, John runs and makes it to freedom.
Light Sleeper is a 1992 American crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, and Dana Delany.Set in New York City during a sanitation strike, the gritty neo-noir film stars Dafoe as a high-class drug dealer battling a midlife crisis before becoming embroiled in tragic events following the chance encounter with a former girlfriend. [2]