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• Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize
NEW YORK - Judges for the National Book Award honored a comeback, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's “Shadow Country,” a thorough revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s. The 81-year-old author last won a National Book Award ...
• Mother sues her author daughter over abuse claims
LONDON - Another best-selling memoir, another battle over the line between truth and fiction. A British lawyer who wrote a popular book recounting a childhood of emotional and physical abuse is being sued for libel by her mother, who says the claims ...
• Germany drops attempt to ban Scientology
Scientology was founded in 1954 by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. It first set up in Germany in 1970 and officials estimate it counts some 5,000 to 6,000 members here. According to the 2007 annual report of the German agency that ...
• Cool cat’ Travolta is a dog in ‘Bolt’
If you think of my roles in ‘Pulp Fiction’ or ‘Saturday Night Fever’ or ‘Grease’ — he’s more of cat. But in life, I’m more of a cuddler.” When audiences meet Bolt, he is a an adorable little dog with superpowers and is the star of ...
• DVD reviews: ‘Hancock,’ ‘24: Redemption’
Eddie Murphy’s seesaw career swings back to bomb mode with this dud of a science-fiction comedy about tiny alien visitors who come to Earth inside a human-shaped vessel on a mission to save their own world. Murphy stars as both the alien captain ...