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With just 12 (!) days until the Oscars, many nominees are likely considering whom they will thank at the podium if their name is called on February 24. Fortunately for them, the Academy has furnished a database full of previous acceptance-speech
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Reilly as John, a divorced clumsy guy, whose ex-wife (Catherine Keener) brings him to a party to meet new women. After cringe-worthy failures at pick-ups, he meets Molly (Marisa Tomei), who finds him awkwardly charming. A very sweet relationship
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Murdo Macleod When you are starting out, each great writer gives you specific forms of permission. Michael Ondaatje 's work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books
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O'Donnell/The New York Times As Mr. Ondaatje , the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient, explains, in a particularly beautiful passage: There is a story, always ahead of you...You discover the carapace that will contain and test your
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The author has created a beautiful and poetic study of what it means to be 'all at sea' As a young boy in 1954, Michael Ondaatje left Sri Lanka which was then Ceylon for England. After schooling at Dulwich College, he continued on to Canada, where as
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In reading Gandhi's letters to Adolf Hitler now that we are in the 21st century, some of us may suffer from what historians call 'present-ism' when judging Gandhi. In the second decade of this century, looking back 72 years, we know
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The Cat's Table," a new novel from acclaimed author Michael Ondaatje, is set to go on sale at the end of August. McClelland & Stewart Publisher says the book will hit shelves Aug. 30. It'll be published in the fall in the U.S. by Knopf and in the U.K.
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October 28, 2010 The English Patient Anthony Minghella Michael Ondaatje's Booker prize-winning novel The English Patient is a delight to read, the lyrical quality of its prose mesmerising. Anthony Minghella has succeeded in translating the poetry of
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A highly inflammable love drama with a French twist, Leaving has been released in Russia. The star of The English Patient, Oscar-nominated British actress Kristin Scott Thomas spoke about the family drama in an exclusive interview with RT, saying her
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The sexy French star who said 'Non merci' when Bill Clinton and Francois Mitterand tried to woo her Juliette Binoche is the most glamorous, the highest paid and the best-loved actress in France. She is so revered that newspapers now simply refer to
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