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| Britain |
| Nobel Laureate Pinter Dead |
| 2008-12-26 |
| LONDON - British playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter has died aged 78, his wife Lady Antonia Fraser and his agent said on Thursday. Pinter, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, had been suffering from cancer. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 Got nothing. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-12-26 17:10 |
| #8 Thanks, Besoeker! The more people know about the Trilogy, the better! A friend who reviewed it said that it might do for the Hill Country what "Gone With the Wind" did for the Old South. There's hardly anything out in fiction about the Civil War in Texas - and that's pretty much what "The Sowing" is about. Just as a side note, the villain of the book, J.P. Waldrip was eventually buried in an unmarked grave on private property in Fredericksburg! When I was there last week for a signing, a local historian took me to see the approximate place where they planted him, after being gunned down on a public street by an unknown assailant. Ostensibly, it was to prevent the grave being desecrated... Say... where are they going to plant this Pinter chap? Will his marker be large... ostentatious? Easy to find? |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2008-12-26 11:14 |
| #7 Antonia Fraser was married to that worthless shit of a human being? Some of her books were worth reading... |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-12-26 10:58 |
| #6 ...Definitely missing Miss Eartha already. Occasionally disagreed with her politics, but man, that voice.... Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2008-12-26 10:36 |
| #5 Enjoying 'The Sowing' Celia. Sent a copy to an Austin fellow currently in Iraq and an old colleague in Arlington, VA. No reports from them yet. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-12-26 09:04 |
| #4 Yeah, my mom said the same thing. Pinter and Eartha Kitt on the same day, though. Frankly, I think the loss of Ms Kitt will be much more felt... |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2008-12-26 08:55 |
| #3 Another traitor has escaped justice. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-12-26 08:25 |
| #2 History's Scoreboard: Christmas-2008 Pinter-0 |
| Posted by: regular joe 2008-12-26 07:35 |
| #1 Mama said if I didn't have anything nice to say, I shouldn't say anything at all. So I'll shut up. Buh-bye, you worthless useful idiot. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-12-26 00:14 |