An eight-episode series available Friday on Apple TV+ The astonishingly prolific King adapts his 2006 novel “Lisey’s Story” into an eight-part Apple TV+ series, and that’s great but also a little troublesome, as the author might have been too close to his own work (one of his most personal stories) to trim the excess exposition off the bone. “Lisey’s Story” feels overstuffed at times and might have been even sharper and more terrifying if it had clocked in with five or six total episodes, but this is still an elegantly haunting journey with memorably raw and real performances from three of the best actresses in the world Julianne Moore, Joan Allen and Jennifer Jason Leigh as sisters whose bond has to stay strong enough to withstand the relentless onslaught of a crazed stalker, not to mention the dangers lurking in a world just outside the borders of reality. Clive Owen is also a standout as a Stephen King-esque author who has achieved enormous success, weal
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What a glorious time it is to be an American woman novelist! Oprah Winfrey has only to say a writer’s name so far, most of her book-club choices have been novels by women and hundreds of thousands stampede the bookstores in search of the lucky author’s work. Most books are bought by women, who tend to read novels by female authors. One of our two living Nobel laureate novelists is an African-American woman. Women edit major magazines
The New Yorker,
The Nation,
The New York Review of Books aimed at readers of both sexes. Women are top decision makers at America’s ten biggest commercial publishing houses. And male editors, writers, and academics will be the first to tell you that they read and publish and teach writings by women as well as by men.
ABC / Richard Cartwright
After a long run and 7 seasons, the Peabody and NAACP image awarding-winning show, ‘Black-ish’ will come to an end after its 8th season.
On May 14, the creator and producer for the show Kenya Barris, took to Instagram to share a trailer and heartfelt announcement about the ending of the popular family sitcom. In part of the post Barris wrote, “To ALL the people in the world I love, honor, respect, and care for it is both exciting and bittersweet to share that black-ish has been RENEWED by ABC for its EIGHTH… and FINAL SEASON”.
‘Black-ish originally aired back in 2014 and has been following the lives of Andre Johnson (Anthony Anderson), Rainbow Johnson (Tracee Ellis Ross), Zoey Johnson (Yara Shahidi), Diane Johnson (Marsai Martin), Andre Johnson Jr (Marcus Scribner), Jack Johnson (Miles Brown), Ruby Johnson (Jennifer Lewis), and “Pops” (Laurence Fishburne), and the culture surrounding black families in America. From topics as simple as fit
A look at the past from the pages of the Pine River Journal weekly newspaper 10:00 am, May 19, 2021 ×
(Headline) Ground breaking ceremonies observed Sun. at Good Samaritan Home
50 years ago, May 20, 1971
Herman Weiss, incumbent, and Archie Shamp won posts on the board of Independent School District 117, in the election held Tuesday at the Pine River School.
DFL State Representative Bill Walker, of Pine River, today expressed reservation about zoo proposals now before the legislature.
25 years ago, May 16, 1996
(Headline) Good Sam looks to buy part of park
Whispering Pines Good Samaritan Center is again looking to get bigger. There is one major problem, however - there s no place to go.