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Chapters: Colleen Dewhurst, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Catherine O'hara, Jackie Burroughs, Geneviève Bujold, Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kate Nelligan, Helen Shaver, Molly Parker, Marie-Josée Croze, Linda Sorenson, Martha Henry, Kristin Booth, Kate Reid, Martha Burns, Kristen Thomson, Nicola Cavendish, Paule Baillargeon, Monique Mercure, Denise Filiatrault, Danielle Proulx, Seana Mckenna, Louise Portal, Pascale Montpetit, Robyn Stevan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Colleen Rose Dewhurst (June 3, 1924 August 22, 1991) was a Canadian-American actress known for a while as "the Queen of Off-Broadway". Admired for her casual beauty, wide-armed emotional frankness and a voice as deep as a foghorn, Dewhurst was a renowned interpreter of the works of |Eugene ONeill] on the stage, and her career also encompassed work in film, the early dramas of live television, and a professional relationship with Joseph Papp that went back to the beginnings of his dream of a New York Shakespeare Festival. She married George C. Scott twice, and their personal and professional partnership was known for its fire. Their son, actor Campbell Scott, is respected for his work on the stage and in films. Dewhurst won two Tony Awards and four Emmy Awards. Dewhurst was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the only child of a hockey player turned businessman and his homemaker wife. Her mother was a practitioner of Christian Science. Dewhurst was raised in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, where she attended Whitefish Bay High School, Shorewood High School and eventually graduated from Riverside High School in Milwaukee, in 1942, and the Milwaukee-Downer College. Her crowning achievement came in 1974 after 27 year...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=673359 ... Read more

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The Misfits interview about Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh, also: Ultimate Fighting, Music's latest craze: A Pack of Wolves and one Stray Cat, Javier Bardem. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine), published by Thomson Gale on November 20, 2007. The length of the article is 1280 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Jennifer Jason Leigh.(BIG GAY FOLLOWING)(Interview)
Author: Brandon Voss
Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 20, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 997Page: 24(1)

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Josie Tyrell, art model, teen runaway, and denizen of LA's 1980 punk rock scene, finds a chance at real love with art student Michael Faraday. A Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist, Michael introduces her to his spiritual quest and a world of sophistication she had never dreamed existed. But when she receives a call from the Los Angeles County Coroner, asking her to identify her lover?s dead body, her bright dreams all turn to black.


As Josie searches for the key to understanding his death, she finds herself both repelled and attracted to Michael's pianist mother, Meredith, who holds Josie responsible for her son's torment. Soon, the two women find themselves drawn into a twisted relationship reflecting equal parts distrust and blind need.
Passionate, wounded, fiercely alive, Josie Tyrell walks the brink of her own destruction as she fights to discover the meaning of Michael's death. With the luxurious prose and emotional intensity that are her hallmarks, Janet Fitch has written a spellbinding new novel about love, betrayal, and the possibility of transcendence.Amazon.com Review
Following the huge success of White Oleander, where Janet Fitch portrayed the coming-of-age of Astrid, a young girl placed in foster care after her mother murders a former lover and goes to prison for life, she has once again created an indelible portrait of a young woman in Paint it Black. Josie Tyrell is a teenage runaway, an artist's model, and an habitué of the '80s LA punk rock scene.She is a white trash escapee from Bakersfield, having left a going nowhere life there.Now, sex, drugs and rock n' roll inform her days and nights.Paint it Black is the perfect title choice because Josie's lover is never coming back, as the song says.

Josie meets Michael Faraday, son of concert pianist Meredith Loewy and writer Calvin Faraday, long divorced.He is everything that she is not: refined, wealthy, well-traveled, brilliant by fits and starts.He is also a Harvard dropout, leaving school so he can paint; his new obsession.He refuses help from his mother, who is furious about his decision to leave school,but it doesn't bother him to have Josie working three jobs to support them.He is given to black moods, frozen in amber by his perfectionism, contemptuous of those who do not agree with him about art and life.Josie adores him.One day much like any other, he leaves their house, saying that he is going to his mother's so that he can paint in solitude.Instead, he goes to a motel in 29 Palms and shoots himself in the head.

What follows is days of watching Josie in a near fugue state from grief, drugs, booze, and going over and over her love for Michael, trying to grasp how he could do what he did.After all, didn't they share the "true world," Michael's characterization of their cocoon of love and exclusivity?

Meredith calls her and says, "Why are you alive?What is the excuse for Josie Tyrell?I ask you."Ultimately, they form a tenuous relationship, because all that is left of Michael lives in the two women.Josie even lives with Meredith for a while.When Meredith is ready to go on tour again, she asks Josie to go to Europe with her.Before she can do that, she must go to 29 Palms and try to understand, finally, why Michael's depression pushed him over the edge.That puzzle is not solved, nor can it be, but the end of the story is a hopeful, upbeat, new beginning.Janet Fitch has beaten the curse of the sophomore slump with this dynamite second novel.--Valerie Ryan ... Read more

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Paint It Black Mesmerizes the Reader
Paint It Black by Janet Fitch is a gripping examination of the depths of grief, the hopeful moments in life that are lost, and the path self-destructive tendencies tend to take.Josie Tyrell struggles to come to terms with her grief over teh death of her lover, Michael Faraday, leading to an unhealthy relationship based on need and suspicion with Michael's mother, Meredith.Filled with artistic, talented, and tormented characters, Paint It Black engrosses the reader to the last page with a superb use of language and intense storytelling.

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arrived as described but I was disappointed with the book as compared to other ones by this author

Kept thinking "Is this going anywhere?" and "I don't care!"
I thought White Oleander was a great book. In fact, I thought it almost had too much going on and was amazed at how much story was packed into one book. Paint it Black is complete opposite. I never fully understood what the point of the story was. It felt like it was never really going anywhere. I'll admit that I didn't finish the last 100 pages because I just didn't care anymore.

Ummmm...
I read White Oleander after I saw the film and fell in love with it. I adored Janet Fitch's ability to turn the English language into something more fluid. She made it an art of taking simple words and making them flow together. Not only that, but she had a great story to tell, something that had never been done before. I expected the same thing to happen in Paint It Black. I was somewhat disappointed. Her writing style remains the same,however, where White Oleander had action, dialogue, and great interactions between the characters, Paint It Black focused on a woman's depression. I lost interest towards the end, and it was mainly for one reason: I had no connection to the dead boyfriend. It's really difficult to write a novel based on a character's feelings for someone who has passed. Novels such as these consist mostly of flash backs, or begin the story while that character is still alive. The reader did not know Michael, the reader did not care about Michael. In fact, I disliked him. Most of the flashbacks showed that he was cruel to Josie and ignored her for periods of time. A key factor in telling a good story is to show not tell. Yes, the reader knew that Josie loved Michael, but why? All Fitch showed the reader were flashbacks of Michael giving Josie the cold shoulder. The only time the romance between Josie and Michael were mentioned were in Josie's musings which is TELLING the reader what happened. FItch would have been better off if she simply cut out the meredith and josie bonding time and began the story earlier. Had she shown Michael and Josie together, happy, and then showed his slow descent into depression, then the suicide, and then the aftermath, without the horridly boring dribble on Jeremy's film and Meredith's crankiness, this would have been an amazing novel. But you cannot write a novel on the aftermath of a death, when the reader has no connection, and does not care, about the deceased character.

Sophmore Slump
"Paint it Black" sadly falls into the sophmore novel slump. It appears Fitch was trying to out-do "The White Oleander," and while her prose are still beautiful, the work itself is repetitive (and the themes repetitive of "Oleander"), and the main character is so annoying that it is hard to find any sympathy for her. This was an issue in "Oleander" as well, but the rest of the story was strong enough to support it. "Paint it Black" is not. Hopefully Fitch will get back on track with her next novel. ... Read more

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Title: Final Fantasy: heading into the Oscar season, three films arrive with performances--and worlds--that are truly magical.(Margot at the Wedding)(Enchanted)(Movie review)
Author: Kyle Buchanan
Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) (Magazine/Journal)
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Title: Cine: La matriz de Cronenberg.(David Cronenberg, director)(TT: movies: Cronenberg's matrix.)(TA: David Cronenberg, filmmaker)(Reseña)
Author: Javier Betancourt
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Author: Javier Betancourt
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