Fans aglow aboutNew Moon Nov 21, 2009
Honorable mentions go to Billy Burke (Charlie), Christopher Heyerdahl (Marcus), Justin Chon (Eric), Graham Greene (Harry Clearwater), Edi Gathegi (Laurent), and Chaske Spencer (Sam). Their performances were so outstanding that even though their time on screen was limited, they supported the starring cast perfectly. (MSNBC -- News)
Conflicting health reports sow consumer distrust Nov 15, 2009
I m reminded of the great line of a Graham Greene character in The Quiet American : God save us always, I said, from the innocent and the good. These findings mean I could be consuming a scrumptious diet of Doritos and Twizzlers without increasing my risk of colon cancer. (Boston Globe)
Tales of Trotsky Nov 5, 2009
His three-volume Trotsky, probably not now much read, was greatly admired by Graham Greene, who wrote, surely this must be counted among the greatest biographies in the English language ... The Trotsky story closes in the Mexico of Graham Greene s Power and the Glory. (The American Conservative)
Great (Overlooked) Books -- A Symposium Nov 5, 2009
To get my attention, it s usually got to be heavy-duty reporting by world-famous writers such as Graham Greene or Ryszard Kapuscinski. There s one exception. (The American Conservative)
Lionel Davidson, 87; wrote popular thrillers in Britain Nov 2, 2009
Often likened to the work of Graham Greene and H. Rider Haggard, Mr. Davidson s novels defy easy genre classification. Though usually labeled thrillers, they range over espionage, mystery, history, and adventure. (Boston Globe)
Playwright’s questions about Rwandan genocide result in ‘The Overwhelming’ Nov 1, 2009
The play is a thriller about an American family in over its head in Africa, inspired in part by Graham Greene s The Third Man. But it arose from Rogers s basic questions about the genocide, filled out by talking to Rwandans here and eventually an emotional trip to that deeply scarred country. (Boston Globe)
The Third Man lives on in Vienna tours Oct 22, 2009
Based on a screenplay by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed, the film is set to haunting Viennese zither music that's instantly familiar yet also unsettling the perfect accompaniment for a noir film ... "Graham Greene, as a former spy, was a very accurate observer, which makes the film an excellent documentation of the time," said the author of an extensive book titled "The Third Man's Vienna: Celebrating a Film Classic.". (MSNBC -- Travel)
as quoted by the New Yorker Oct 15, 2009
Phillips might have been the prototype for Graham Greene s quiet American, except that through the lens of Greene s Catholic-and-Communist loathing for liberalism, Phillips would have been caricatured, his idealism turned to dangerous arrogance, his kindness to na. vete. (Harper's Magazine)
Senior Neighbors: Sept. 24 Sep 24, 2009
This witty Graham Greene classic, originally released in 1959, is now on DVD. Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop, but being unsuccessful, he accepts an offer from the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
The here and now could fill a book Sep 12, 2009
And yet I recently re-read two Graham Greene novels: The Quiet American (1955) and Our Man in Havana (1958) ... Modern literature endures and Graham Greene lives on ... Modern literature endures and Graham Greene lives on. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Bay Area is hosting 3 film noir series Aug 29, 2009
Among the series' main attractions are a restored 35mm print of John Boulton's "Brighton Rock," based on the Graham Greene novel and starring Richard Attenborough; Michael Powell's celebrated "Peeping Tom"; and Carol Reed's "The Third Man," starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. (Details at Castrotheatre. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Dancing with the devil in Africa Aug 5, 2009
In 1935, the writer Graham Greene set off on a journey through Sierra Leone and Liberia ... Humphrey Hawksley has been there to retrace Graham Greene's journey ... Dash is an old word for gift that the writer Graham Greene handed out to village chiefs when he walked through Liberia in 1935. (BBC News -- Africa)
The Road to Hell Jul 15, 2009
revisits Graham Greene's classic ... For a less comic approach that stands beyond the confines of the American tradition, there is Graham Greene s prophetic novel The Quiet American. (The American Conservative)
Stealthy things happening at train stations Jun 29, 2009
"Stamboul Train," by Graham Greene, depicts death and espionage aboard the Orient Express. In Alfred Hitchcock's film version of John Buchan's "The 39 Steps," the hero - framed for murder by foreign agents - dodges police on a train in Scotland. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Starting Point: Online privacy and voting age changes Jun 23, 2009
Actor Graham Greene, 57. Actress Meryl Streep, 60. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Today in History Jun 22, 2009
Actor Graham Greene is 57. Pop singer Cyndi Lauper is 56. (Yahoo News)
Aerialist's stunt links tales of characters struggling to make their way Jun 21, 2009
McCann s portrait of a tormented priest has echoes of Georges Bernanos and Graham Greene, but there is something too facile, even kitschy in its depiction of the edge on which he teeters. Tillie, a middle-aged streetwalker, gives an enthrallingly lively account of her life, first as a high-priced young prostitute in posh East Side hotels, and later, as her looks go, among the truck drivers in the South Bronx. (Boston Globe)
Last of the Catholic Novels Jun 20, 2009
Twelve years ago the author Piers Paul Read, giving a lecture in Poland, predicted that the future "will almost certainly mean the end of the Catholic novel that flourished in Britain from Cardinal Newman to Graham Greene". It can't have been too enjoyable an experience for the Catholic novelist and historian's prediction to be borne out in relation to his own work. (The American Conservative)
Summer Reading 2009 Jun 19, 2009
READING FOR PLEASURE: Child of God by Cormac McCarthy; Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arndt, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene and Gallatin Canyon: Stories by Thomas McGuane. UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY: While researching Savages and Scoundrels The Lousiana Purchase wasn t a purchase at all. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Hooked on self-help books against her will Jun 17, 2009
Later, reading Dostoyevsky, Naipaul, Flaubert, Balzac, Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Anne Tyler, John Irving, and ... Childhood is the writer's bank balance, Graham Greene had written. (CNN)
David Denby: “Brighton Rock,” at Film Forum. Jun 16, 2009
Few good writers have been adapted with greater frequency or distinction than Graham Greene, and the 1947 version of his novel Brighton Rock (screening at Film Forum June 19-25) is one of the strongest of these films. The picture, set amid the forced gaiety and furtive carnality of the British sea resort, is dominated by the young Richard Attenborough, who plays Pinky, a teen-age gangster in a suit and rakish hat. (New Yorker)
Writer list for WOW is notable May 29, 2009
Among the many movies Harrigan has written for television are HBO s award-winning The Last of His Tribe, starring Jon Voight and Graham Greene, and King of Texas, a western retelling of Shakespeare s King Lear for TNT, which starred Patrick Stewart, Marcia Gay Harden and Roy Scheider. His most recent television production was The Colt, an adaptation of a short story by the Nobel Prize-winning author Mikhail Sholokhov, which aired on the Hallmark Channel. (Alpine Avalanche, TX)
Photo Release -- Empire Film Group Joins With Easter Seals and United Cerebral Palsy for War Eagle Premiere & Promotions May 26, 2009
Top-selling DVD releases for Empire include ``Hounddog'' starring Dakota Fanning, ``Come Away Home'' starring Lea Thompson, ``Grand Champion'' starring Bruce Willis and Emma Roberts, and ``Savage Land'' starring Vivian Schilling and Graham Greene. In addition to the company's theatrical and video market releasing activities, Empire also operates Hannover House, a successful and well-established book publishing label, founded in 1993. (Primezone Releases)
Casualties of Waugh May 25, 2009
To most of his co-religionists Waugh much preferred on both personal and literary grounds Orwell the stoic, Nancy Mitford the deist, Anthony Powell the tepid Anglican, and Graham Greene the sordid pagan who raided Catholicism s dress-up box ... (Graham Greene treated this subject in The Power and the Glory, where alone among his novels he approached Waugh s stature. (The American Conservative)
Ian M. Banks May 3, 2009
They re not all literary, but: Brian Aldiss, Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett (Watt and Murphy in particular), Saul Bellow, Alfred Bester (especially Tiger, Tiger), Enid Blyton, Jorge Luis Borges, John Brunner (especially Stand On Zanzibar), Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Leonard Cohen (Beautiful Losers and The Favourite Game), Ivor Cutler (Life in a Scotch Sitting Room), Samuel Delaney, T. S. Eliot (especially The Waste Land), Gunter Grass (the early works, especially The Tin Drum), Robert Graves,... (Suite101.com)
Lolo crime novelist shares award with Grafton May 3, 2009
"It's quite a distinction when you see the names on the Grand Masters list, writers like Graham Greene and John le Carre," Burke says. "James M. Cain (the 1970 Grand Master) who wrote things like Double Indemnity' and The Postman Always Rings Twice' has no peer as far as I'm concerned. I feel extremely grateful and humbled." And, like many writers, it's something he never would have imagined at one point in his career. (Montana Standard, MT)
Galgut expands on South Africa's ironies Apr 19, 2009
The character at the center of Damon Galgut's "The Impostor" would be equally at home in a Graham Greene novel. Adam Napier is a creatively stalled poet who moves to a ramshackle house in the barren Karoo region of South Africa to write again. (Boston Globe)
Hilton Als: How Katherine Anne Porter perfected herself. Apr 14, 2009
Enameled Lady: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker (New Yorker)
Carter Long steps into new role as MFA's curator of film Apr 12, 2009
(He has an affinity for all things British; even as a kid he preferred British authors, from Roald Dahl to Graham Greene, said Long, whose affection comes through in his pin-striped pants, argyle socks, and shiny wingtip shoes. . (Boston Globe)
JIM DODSON: My Spring Break in Havan Mar 29, 2009
We were met in Havana by a character straight out of a Graham Greene novel I'll call Henry Blue, a bearded American who operated in the shadowy realms that exist between ideologically retarded governments. By means I never quite ascertained, Henry had gained the confidence of the Cuban government and was routinely ferrying top executives from American hotel chains and hospitality industry types into Cuba to see what a bounty awaited them once Brother Fidel departed the scene and relations began... (The Pilot Newspaper)
Favorite Quotes About Journalism an... Mar 19, 2009
"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction." Graham Greene. "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." Gandhi. (Suite101.com)
Alan Furst's Spies in Old-World Eu... Mar 14, 2009
Furst s predecessors include, of course, Graham Greene and Eric Ambler, the two earliest writers of historically precise literary espionage. Other influences are Charles McCarry s Christopher series and John LeCarre s early works. (Suite101.com)
Understanding The Canal Mar 4, 2009
In 1976, Gen. Omar Torrijos invited Graham Greene to Panama, hoping that the famed novelist would come to understand his nation's struggles against the rabiblancos, the white elite ... The Canal Builders,' by Julie Greene Articles The Canal Builders Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal By Julie Greene (Penguin Press; 496 pages; $30) In 1976, Gen. Omar Torrijos invited Graham Greene to Panama, hoping that the famed novelist would come to. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Subway Boys: A brush with death and a bond for life Feb 17, 2009
If, as the late English novelist Graham Greene wrote once, there is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in, these six boys now have had a glimpse of theirs and of the sterling men they are well on the way to becoming. They are the Subway Boys. (Globe and Mail)
New on DVD: Streisand's deluxe 'Yentl'; 'Zack and Miri' Feb 8, 2009
The film reunited scripter Graham Greene and once equally formidable director Carol Reed, a decade after 1950's all-timer The Third Man. In Havana, Alec Guinness, as a vacuum cleaner salesman recruited by the British Secret Service, is supported by a spectacular cast: Ralph Richardson, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward and even ing. (USA Today -- Life)
