'Saving Mr Banks' a spoonful of sugar
Wednesday, 1 January 2014, 14:34
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
For most scribes who have toiled in the movie industry, portraying Hollywood as a healing paradise is roughly equivalent to regaling a lobster of the soothing properties of a boiling pot of...
Coloring book featuring Sen. Ted Cruz selling fast
Wednesday, 1 January 2014, 14:22
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
A coloring book featuring tea party darling Sen. Ted Cruz has become a hot-selling item in the U.S. this holiday season. The cover features the beaming senator, a Texan who...
At 65, Kenny Loggins sings on with Blue Sky Riders
Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 15:17
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Logic, it turns out, isn't always the way to go, at least not for Kenny Loggins. Had he listened to that particular little voice in his head, the two-time Grammy winner with 12...
Reeves comes off bogus in 'Ronin'
Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 14:33
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
In Japan, the story of the 47 ronin is so central to the country's national identity that a special word exists for the act of retelling it: Chushingura. But despite this long tradition of...
Book on Roosevelt, Taft offers lessons, wild tales
Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 14:21
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
"The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism" (Simon & Schuster), by Doris Kearns Goodwin In her beautiful new account of the...
The dramatic in spiritual ecstasy
Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 09:15
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Although published research in Maltese has increased significantly, there is still a dearth of academic material where theatre studies are concerned. A recently published book by Horizons, the...
AP music writers' top 10 albums of the year
Monday, 30 December 2013, 15:14
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Associated Press Music Writers Mesfin Fekadu and Chris Talbott pick their top 10 albums of the year. Mesfin Fekadu's picks (twitter.com/MusicMesfin): 1. Ariana...
Pomp, amoral 'Wolf of Wall Street' is rich
Monday, 30 December 2013, 14:30
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Digging into deep-pocket gluttony, Martin Scorsese's dark comedy "The Wolf of Wall Street" highlights a world rich in drugs, fast cars and private jets. The American dream is amplified,...
AP Interview: Obama's brother writes about abuse
Monday, 30 December 2013, 14:15
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
President Barack Obama's half brother is publishing an autobiography that details the domestic abuse that served as the theme for his earlier semiautobiographical novel, which featured an abusive...