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Category: Celebrity

Celebrity Look-Alikes

I must have one of those faces, but I get told I look like other people all the time.* It was far worse when I was younger. Clancy blogs that she most look like Hayley Mills, which reminded me of the weirdest and weirdly accurate comparison someone made between me and a celebrity.

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Frivolity

Probably spelled that wrong. But let me just throw it out there that I’m 95% sure I saw Jessica Cutler of Washintonienne fame on 7th between A and B tonight. Walking alone, without a man accompanying her and/or paying her rent. I could be wrong. But like I said… 95%. Woah.

August Wilson Dies at 60

The man who wrote the only play I’ve ever liked (“Fences”) has died at age 60 of liver cancer.

In his work, Mr. Wilson depicted the struggles of black Americans with uncommon lyrical richness, theatrical density and emotional heft, in plays that gave vivid voices to people on the frayed margins of life: cabdrivers and maids, garbagemen and side men and petty criminals. In bringing to the popular American stage the gritty specifics of the lives of his poor, trouble-plagued and sometimes powerfully embittered black characters, Mr. Wilson also described universal truths about the struggle for dignity, love, security and happiness in the face of often overwhelming obstacles.

In dialogue that married the complexity of jazz to the emotional power of the blues, he also argued eloquently for the importance of black Americans’ honoring the pain and passion in their history, not burying it to smooth the road to assimilation. For Mr. Wilson, it was imperative for black Americans to draw upon the moral and spiritual nobility of their ancestors’ struggles to inspire their own ongoing fight against the legacies of white racism.

See video commentary on his life’s work here.

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A Fine Day for Book Nerds

Today in Bryant Park, the New York Times hosted an event featuring several fantastic authors doing readings and book signings. A partial list of the writers: Jonathan Safran Foer, Naomi Wolf, Nicole Krauss, Jill Nelson, Bob Herbert, Pete Hamill, Paul Krugman, Chuck Klosterman… the list goes on and on. I sadly over-slept and missed the 11am spot, which featured some of my favorites (Wolf, Nelson, Foer, Krauss), but made it in time to be first in line for Bob Herbert’s book signing. I love Bob Herbert, and was incredibly excited to meet him:

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Yes, that is Paul Krugman in the background. Awesome.
(It was a Sunday afternoon, and I was hung over, tired, not wearing any make-up and had my wet hair pinned back. Be kind.)

Shannon, my lovely (and from the picture, one would think miniature) roommate bought her parents a copy of A Cook’s Tour for their anniversary, and got it signed by Anthony Bourdain:

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We then went to see Chuck Klosterman, but that little jerk left his tent early and we missed him. Oh well. I still love Bob.

Update: Speaking of books, I most ardently support Ignatious J. Reilly to head FEMA. via Hissy Cat.

For any other book nerd who’s interested in additional readings/signings in New York, below the fold is a list of a couple that I’ll probably be going to at local Barnes and Noble stores.

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