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Arts & Entertainment News |
Maren is Waiting, Her Mother is Watching |
While her daughter waits to see if her debut
album, "Waiting," becomes popular, her mother, Kathy Ord, is carefully
watching everything, worried that her daughter will be chewe up in the
cut-throat music industry or devastated if success never comes. An
experienced musician in her own right, Kathy Ord has served as a source of
stability and strength as Maren works her career and waits. |
Labute in London: Controversial Mormon Playwright & Director Has New Play |
Mormonism's most controversial playwright and director,
Neil LaBute, is in London directing his new play, "The Shape of Things," a
look at the darker side of human nature, like the previous films and plays
he has written. In Sunday's London Observer Sean O'Hagan interviewed LaBute
and wrote about what makes him so controversial and so contradictory. |
Guess Who Can't Release Album |
In a recent interview from his BC music studio, Randy
Bachman told Jam! Showbiz reporter Paul Cantin that the recently
reunited Guess Who are having troubles producing a new studio album.
Actually, the problem stems from some politics with their new record
label. |
Bestsellers: Behind the Smile Expands, Standing for Something Drops |
While Marie Osmond's "Behind the Smile dropped
off the Barnes &Noble 100, it joined four other lists, including
Amazon.com's and the New York Times' Hardcover Non-fiction titles ,
as well as the Wall Street Journal's Nonfiction titles. Meanwhile,
President Gordon B. Hinckley's Standing for Something dropped out of
first place on the LDS bestseller list to number three, while the
lower end of the list changed dramatically. |
New Products: Mormon History and Doctrine |
Several books on Mormon history and doctrine
are among the new products this week. Morris Shirts' account of the
Iron mission, Brigham Young's attempt to process iron ore in Southern
Utah, is being released by BYU in both hardcover and paperback
editions and the University of Illinois Press has released a new
paperback edition of Edwin Firmage's classic legal history of the
early LDS Church, "Zion in the Courts." Meanwhile, Griffin Books, the
paperback imprint of national publisher St. Martins Press, has
released Coke Newell's "Latter Days" in paperback. |
Recipes for Roughing It Easy |
Dian Thomas,national TV personality,
best-selling author and well-known professional speaker introduces
Recipes for Roughing It Easy, her most unique and timely book ever,
just in time for outdoor fun for the summer of 2001. This new volume
presents more than 240 recipes and 150 photos and illustrations for
outdoor cooks of all ages. |
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