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  • July 2008

    • Bro Dishes Dirt on Madonna in Tell-All

      newser  |  Sun (UK)  |  Jul 6, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      Bro Dishes Dirt on Madonna in Tell-All

      Amid rumors of a crumbling marriage and an A-Rod affair, Madonna’s juicy past is now bubbling to the surface in a new biography written by her brother. At a boozy Hollywood party, the mega-star was dancing on a table when she pulled a surprised Gwyneth Paltrow up onto the table and kissed her full on the mouth, writes estranged bro Christopher Ciconne in Life With My Sister Madonna. More »

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      music  • drugs  • Madonna  • lesbians  • biography  • celebrity tell-alls

  • June 2008

    • Hef Had Family Foursome, Gay Tryst

      newser  |  New York Post  |  Jun 23, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      Hef Had Family Foursome, Gay Tryst

      Hugh Hefner has signed off on a new biography that delves into the Playboy kingpin's sexual liberation, the New York Post reports. In "Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream," Steven Watts writes how the skin-mag magnate had a foursome with his first wife, his brother Keith and his sister-in-law, starred in a porno, and received oral sex from a man. More »

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      sex  • homosexuality  • pornography  • biography  • oral sex  • Hugh Hefner

    • Nixonland Gets 'Excellent' Prez Utterly Wrong

      newser  |  New York Sun  |  Jun 19, 08 4:46 PM CDT

      Nixonland Gets 'Excellent' Prez Utterly Wrong

      The biography Nixonland is a hatchet job on an “excellent president,” media mogul Conrad Black (from behind bars) writes in the New York Sun , picking apart author Rick Perlstein’s slights—and reminding of the profound accomplishments of the 37th president. Beyond crediting Nixon with coarsening the political discourse permanently, Perlstein revels in his “manic, corrupt, rat cunning,” plus, Black notes, “cynicism, opportunism and chicanery.” More »

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      Conrad Black  • Richard Nixon  • book reviews  • biography  • EPA  • welfare  • race riot

  • May 2008

    • Spielberg to Shoot Lincoln Picture Next

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  May 10, 08 5:21 PM CDT

      Spielberg to Shoot Lincoln Picture Next

      Once he wraps up Tintin , Steven Spielberg will make a long-awaited biopic about Abraham Lincoln, the Los Angeles Times reports. The director spilled the beans while promoting Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , and said he wants to shoot the flick next year, Lincon's 200th anniversary—but did not confirm rumors that Liam Neeson will play the 16th US president. More »

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      movie  • film  • Steven Spielberg  • Abraham Lincoln  • biography  • Liam Neeson

    • Magic of 'This American Life' Returns to Small Screen

      newser  |  Salon  |  May 4, 08 11:57 AM CDT

      Magic of 'This American Life' Returns to Small Screen

      The stories on the small-screen version of “This American Life” start out small—a husband’s protest over the oppressive American trend of lawn-mowing, a young man living with spinal muscular atrophy—and become something universal, both dark and light, even a little magical, writes Heather Havrilesky on Salon.com. On the second season, which premieres tonight on Showtime, everyday snapshots of people’s lives become art. More »

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      television  • art  • radio  • biography  • Showtime  • Ira Glass  • This American Life

  • April 2008

    • Robocop Director Pens Shocking Jesus Bio

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 24, 08 5:42 AM CDT

      Robocop Director Pens Shocking Jesus Bio

      Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, best known for directing films like Robocop , Basic Instinct , and Total Recall , is releasing a biography of Jesus which is bound to spark an angry response, reports AP. The book, which Verhoeven has been working on for 20 years, suggests that Jesus' father was a Roman soldier who raped Mary. The director hopes the book will lead to a film. More »

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      religion  • biography  • film director  • Jesus Christ

    • Cracking the Steve Jobs Code

      newser  |  USA Today  |  Apr 21, 08 6:39 AM CDT

      Cracking the Steve Jobs Code

      Though it’s near impossible to get an interview with Steve Jobs, author Leander Kahney’s book Inside Steve’s Brain gives a “fresh, noble perspective” on the Apple icon’s impenetrable mind, Jon Swartz writes in USA Today . Like most who try, Kahney couldn’t score facetime, but his book illustrates the opposing traits that make his subject—equal parts Disney and Barnum—who he is. More »

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      Apple  • book  • iPod  • Steve Jobs  • book reviews  • biography  • Pixar

    • New Site Wants Your Wikipedia Rejected Bio

      newser  |  Ars Technica  |  Apr 2, 08 9:45 PM CDT

      New Site Wants Your Wikipedia Rejected Bio

      While Wikipedia may promote itself as an encyclopedia of, for, and by the people, anybody who's had his stint as autobiographer cut short by the infamous "notability" requirement knows the site to be otherwise. Or so hope the creators of startup Biographicon, a website that invites the nobodies of the world to publish their life stories, writes Ars Technica. More »

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      Internet  • Facebook  • Wikipedia  • biography  • autobiography  • online encyclopedia

  • February 2008
  • December 2007

    • Dewey Cox Rocks!

      newser  |  Rotten Tomatoes  |  Dec 21, 07 4:35 PM CST

      Dewey Cox Rocks!

      Judd Apatow's Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story "is less thoughtful satire and ... more the distant cousin of Airplane! ," writes Brian Orndorf of OhMyNews.com. Starring John C. Reilly as a blues prodigy who ultimately experiences success, failure, and redemption, it plays like "an extended riff on the likes of severely mediocre Oscar-bait" such as Walk the Line and Ray , Orndorf says. More »

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      movie review  • comedy  • biography  • Judd Apatow  • parody  • Johnny Cash  • John C. Reilly

  • November 2007

    • Wharton Letter Bolsters Suicide Theory

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Nov 21, 07 5:47 PM CST

      Wharton Letter Bolsters Suicide Theory

      A recently-discovered letter by Edith Wharton provides new evidence in The House of Mirth's lingering literary mystery , suggesting that heroine Lily Bart does, in fact, intend to kill herself at the book's end, the New York Times reports. Though the ambiguous text has led many to believe she died of an accidental overdose, Wharton's letter states that a fictional "friend of mine has made up her mind to commit suicide." More »

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      book  • suicide  • literature  • letters  • biography  • Edith Wharton

  • October 2007

    • Young Stalin Follows His Rise From Street Thug

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Oct 27, 07 9:02 AM CDT

      Young Stalin Follows His Rise From Street Thug

      Drawing on previously classified material, Simon Sebag Montefiore's new biography, Young Stalin , follows the despot through his formative years, from Georgian street tough to the Bolshevik revolution. In a "morbidly fascinating" account, he describes how the young Josef Djugashvili dropped out of a seminary, assumed 160 aliases, robbed stagecoaches, wrote poetry, and learned to thirst for revenge, Newsweek writes. More »

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      biography  • Bolshevik Revolution  • Stalin

    • Good Grief! Peanuts Writer Was Depressive

      newser  |  Salon  |  Oct 13, 07 8:23 PM CDT

      Good Grief! Peanuts Writer Was Depressive

      Charles Shulz hid his dark side amid tales of Charlie, Lucy, Linus and Snoopy, according to a new biography. Snoopy's romance was secretly Shulz's extramarital affair, and Charlie Brown was victim to the very buried rage that Shulz took out on others. An old pal confirmed this dark portrayal, writing that Shulz had a “mean streak” that led to “not so humorous practical jokes.” More »

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      depression  • Vietnam  • Coca Cola  • biography  • cartoonist  • Peanuts  • Eisenhower

  • August 2007

    • Kahlo Letters Reveal Anguish Over Miscarriage

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Aug 12, 07 8:06 PM CDT

      Kahlo Letters Reveal Anguish Over Miscarriage

      Mexican artist Frida Kahlo reveals one of her long-held secrets in a new collection of letters published for the centenary of her birth, the Guardian reports. Titled “My Beloved Doctor,” they express her anguish over being unable to bear Diego Rivera’s child after injuries she suffered in a tram crash. “I cried a lot, but it's over, there is nothing else that can be done,” Kahlo writes. More »

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      Mexico  • book  • letters  • biography  • artist  • painter  • Frida Kahlo

  • July 2007

    • Cheney Book Offers Rare Bits of Candor

      newser  |  Raw Story  |  Jul 23, 07 5:23 PM CDT

      Cheney Book Offers Rare Bits of Candor

      Dick Cheney makes jokes about his own penchant for secrecy in a new biography due out tomorrow by journalist Stephen Hayes, Raw Story reports. The veep makes a rare admission of error, confessing to Hayes that the appointment of the Coalition Provisional Authority in the early stages of the war, rather than a provisional government of Iraqis, might have been a mistake. More »

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      torture  • Dick Cheney  • vice president  • biography

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