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Master craftsman Raymond Carver was one of America's greatest writers. But was his razor-sharp style created by his editor?At 8am on 8 July 1980, Raymond Carver sat down to write a letter to his editor, Gordon Lish. He'd been up all night worrying about the book they were working on together, and by the time Carver had finished writing there were more words in the letter than there were in many of the short stories for which he was known.'Dearest Gordon,' it began, 'I've got to pull out of this one. Please hear me. I've looked at it from every side, I've compared both versions of the manuscripts. until my eyes are nearly to fall out of my head.' The trouble was, Lish's version was so far from what Carver had sent him that Carver felt it was unrecognisable.The pair had worked together for years - Lish, a dashing, influential literary figure once known as Captain Fiction, had published Carver's first stories in Esquire magazine. (They had met in Palo Alto, when Carver was, as his wife later put it, a 'p GuardianTerry Gilliam: `Parnassus was star Heath Ledger`s film even after he died` Terry Gilliam was devastated by the death of his friend Heath Ledger before they finished shooting his latest movie, but it was the actor's spirit that drove him to complete itThe first time we see Heath Ledger, the star of Terry Gilliam's forthcoming film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, he is hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London with a noose around his neck; he is subsequently brought, coughing and choking, back to life. Given that, in January 2008, Ledger himself died during the making of Parnassus, from a probably accidental combination of sleeping tablets, it is an unnervingly shocking moment.It is also a pointed reminder that film routinely deals in immortality: Ledger, who won a posthumous Oscar last year for his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight, has never looked as alive as he does in what follows.When he first heard of Ledger's death, Gilliam didn't know how he could go on with the film. Ledger, who had worked with him on The Brothers Grimm in 2005, had be GuardianNew York Film Festival gets makeover Weekly: Event looks to draw indie-loving locals over wealthy auds -- 'In a way, the New York Film Festival was a victim of its own success,' says fest programmer Richard Pena. VarietyJordan takes family for a day outBreakingNews `Aftermath` Illuminates Lives Of Uprooted Iraqis Composed almost entirely of interview transcripts, the off-Broadway play focuses on ordinary citizens whose lives have been upended by the conflict in their home country. It's a powerful look at conflict from the inside. NPR |
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Feedzilla is a news aggregator which categorizes news stories by topic. It is a platform where webmasters and bloggers can find an unmatched selection of easy to use, automatically updating and professional news widgets for their sites. Feedzilla supports the building of widgets in various formats, as well as allowing the addition of news widgets to different blogging platforms and social networks.
Feedzilla manually aggregates news summaries found in RSS feeds, and redistributes them in either RSS format or as a news widget. Content is collected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from an ever-growing list of providers.
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9th of September 2009 - Interview of Feedzilla's founder at the IFA in Berlin. [More]