NEW YORK (AP) — Isabel Wilkerson s “Caste,” an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X and fiction by Martin Amis and the late Randall Kenan are among this year s finalists for National
NEW YORK (AP) — Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, among the last survivors of Hollywood’s anti-Communist blacklist whose Oscar-nominated script for “The Front” drew upon his years of being unable to work
Board members elected their new chairman during a meeting this week.
Tom Adamson, who joined the board in August 2019, was elected as chairman.
Larry Jirsak, who served on the board for 25 years, resigned in December as board chairman, citing a desire to allow for new members with fresh ideas and youthful energy. Longtime member Earl Underwood also did not return after his term concluded.
Board member Sheri Kment of Fremont was elected as the new board secretary, assuming Adamsonâs previous role.
New board members, appointed by Fremont Mayor Joey Spellerberg, include former city councilmember Linda McClain and LeeAnn Rathke.
This month the momentous novel âThe Great Gatsbyâ went into public domain, so there is no better time to bring up a film that sheds new light on this old classic.
Directed by Robert Steven Williams in his first full-length documentary, âGatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story,â presented by Vision Films and Against the Grain Productions in 2020, began as a 2013 project to document the Fitzgeraldsâ time in Westport, Connecticut. He worked with the brilliant author Richard Webb Jr., whose companion book to the film, âBoats Against the Current,â stipulates the extensive study done on this eminent subject. Their subsequent research and creative output was inspired by an article published in The New Yorker by âThe woman who really started us on this journey,â the late Barbara Probst Solomon. Her work was left mostly dormant for years.
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Coolmic Launches “Coolmic Unlimited”, a Monthly Subscription Membership Program to Maximize the Fun of Online Comic Reading Experience
January 18, 2021 GMT
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TOKYO, Jan. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ “Coolmic”, a multilingual online comic distribution site from Japan, has launched its subscription membership program on January 18th, 2021.
Coolmic is a service that started in 2018, distributing popular manga (Japanese comics) and anime to English and French-speaking audiences. Until now, the site required prepaid tickets to view most of the contents. Now, in addition to the prepaid ticket system, Coolmic has launched Coolmic Unlimited, a subscription membership program, allowing users to read contents under the Unlimited catalog as much as they want for a monthly fixed fee. The titles included in the subscription catalog are mangas published by WWWave Corporation. The