I’m compiling birthdays for a new findingDulcinea feature called “Happy Birthday.” I already have dibs on the “Happy Birthday Henry James” entry on April 15th. But I just don’t know how I’m going to stick to the 500-word limit. Anyway, in my findings, I discovered this. Across the Web, poor Eric Roberts, brother of Julia, [...]
Archive for the ‘Celebrities’ Category
Ah, Celebrity
March 12, 2008
I Love Football
February 13, 2008
How strange: I spent most of my life in a world of drizzle, a perpetual blanket of slate-colored cloud, where pints of cider reign and football meant David Beckham and Michael Owen, slogging down a massive field in the mud. There is no cheer like the cheer of 30,000 British men; it is monophonic, cool, [...]
The Cutting Room Floor
January 10, 2008
RIP these two paragraphs from my feature! Good riddance. A Career is Worth a Thousand Pictures The birth of the word “celebrity” is essentially “to honor.” Not much has changed from the days of Latin’s preeminence, after all. Awards shows like the Oscars and the Grammys “honor” the talented, sending the “value” of a movie [...]
