Magic triumphs over realism for Garcia Mrquez May 8, 2008
Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, pictured in Guadalajara in 2007. Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AP. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Incest: Age-old taboo May 5, 2008
VLADIMIR Nabokov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez have written about it in their novels, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle and One Hundred Years of Solitude respectively. So did A.S. Byatt in Morpho Eugenia, which was later made into a shockingly explicit film called Angels and Insects. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
A premier's challenge May 3, 2008
But there is also plenty of fiction, from his favourite Shakespeare plays and performances to Dickens (a late discovery, and he promises to read more), James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Don DeLillo and John Le Carre. There are stories about time spent with authors such as Vidal, Mailer and Patrick White. (Sydney Morning Herald)
One Hundred Years of Solitude May 2, 2008
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Love your library: Hear Fenway stories May 2, 2008
Garcia Marquez classic talked A group will meet Thursday, May 8, at 7 p.m. at the Central Library to discuss Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This book discussion group is free, and new members are welcome. (Somerville Journal, MA)
In a political fix? Call Shakira! Apr 23, 2008
One rather unexpected admirer is Colombia's foremost literary talent, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Nobel laureate was deeply enamoured with the young singer and was in no doubt she was a gift to mankind. (Independent)
Battling Over A Master Of Filth Apr 14, 2008
" Past authors who've faced the "moral turpitude" clause include Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Doris Lessing and Dario Fo. Horsley - who was infamously crucified on a cross in the Philippines six years ago as part of an art project and whose advice column in London's Observer was yanked for its graphic descriptions of oral and anal sex - told us: "Hopefully, the PEN is mightier than the sword. " > > > --> ||||||||||| ||||||||| --> NEW YORK POST is a registered trademark of NYP Holdings, Inc.... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist Apr 13, 2008
Brief biography of Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, famous for his book One Hundred Years of Solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of South America's most respected and famous writers ... Works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (Suite101.com)
Words about ‘Dogs' Apr 11, 2008
As part of the program at Irvine, Viramontes received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to attend a workshop with Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982. The visiting novelist program, which is made possible by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, invites eight to 10 poets, fiction and nonfiction writers a year to present readings from their work. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
HILL & LOBBYISTS: MORE THE MERRIER Apr 9, 2008
Bill Clinton met with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on March 26, 2007, at the 80th birthday party for Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Ten days later, on April 5, ColombiaProExport signed a 40,000 a month contract with the Glover Park Group - a lobbying firm often called "the Clinton White House in exile.". (New York Post -- Opinions)
'Earth has reached the tipping point' Apr 8, 2008
The awards are provided by a trust of the late Ralph Hayes, a former director of Coca Cola and Bank of Delaware, now PNC. In 29 years, 165 former honorees in seven fields have included former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, former US newsman Walter Cronkite, French marine biologist Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Howard, who would not sign the Kyoto protocol when he was in office, told AFP: "I thought it was the right policy at the time because the major... (iAfrica.com)
The Spiderwick Chronicles Mar 24, 2008
After his dodgy mop top in No Country, the Spanish actor selects a ridiculous handlebar moustache and ever-receding central parting in the adaptation of Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez s Love In The Time Of Cholera. But without Bardem s comedy hair, mischievous grin and Carry On-style lovemaking, director Mike Newell s film would have been unbearably serious. (The Sun)
Letters: Ecuador Leader Got Rebel Funds Mar 15, 2008
The letters also describe rebel ties to drug traffickers, meetings with senior Venezuelan police officials and an apparent effort by U.S. Democrats to have celebrated Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez mediate talks with the insurgents _ possibly with the involvement of former President Clinton. The letters signed by rebel leaders including Raul Reyes, the public face of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, were published Sunday by the news magazine Semana. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Colombia: Rebel Docs Discuss Donations to Ecuador... Mar 10, 2008
They describe, additionally, rebel ties to drug traffickers, meetings with senior Venezuelan police officials and an effort by Democrats in the U.S. Congress to employ Colombian Nobel laureate novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez in negotiations with the insurgents. The documents, published in the Colombian magazine Semana, do not specify how much the rebels allegedly paid Ecuador's leftist president, Rafael Correa, or who might have received the money. (Fox News)
Mexico takes in persecuted writers Feb 24, 2008
They're part of a long tradition of writers who have found refuge in Mexico City, from Colombian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez to American Beat writer William S. Burroughs, a fugitive from U.S. drug charges. "We have a history of taking in these kinds of people, and they have enriched us as a city," said Isabel Molina, director of cultural relations for Mayor Marcelo Ebrard. (AZCentral)
Hasta la vista, comrade Feb 22, 2008
Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote: "It is impossible to find anyone more addicted than he to the habit of conversation. Three hours, for him, is a good average for an ordinary conversation.". The disappearance of subsidies after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 could have finished Cuba's economy, but it has proved surprisingly resilient in the face of the US blockade. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Cuba too big a prize for meddling US to resist Feb 21, 2008
The Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez once related how, at the very start of the ground-breaking visit to Cuba by Pope John Paul II in 1998, Castro reacted to the news that the three top US television networks were pulling out their anchors because of breaking news about a White House intern by the name of Monica Lewinsky. "Those damned Yanquis always f--- up everything," Castro declared. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Readers vote on top books Feb 20, 2008
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 65. My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell 66. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
IN MY LIBRARY: HARVEY FIERSTEIN Feb 17, 2008
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It] arrived next to my bed for reasons best kept to myself. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Top 150 Books Jan 29, 2008
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vintage. Aging man and woman renew their youthful romance; Oprah's Book Club; movie (F) (P) $14. (USA Today -- Life)
Grace Dent's world of lather Jan 28, 2008
You could almost imagine her on BBC2's The Late Review, taking out her chuddy and saving it for keeps on John Harris's forehead, before wiping the floor with him on the merits of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Tina is also highly sexually confident, laying the good stuff out on a plate for David within about 47 minutes of meeting him with the pared-down gambit, "So d'ywanna go upstairs then and, y'know, do it?". (Guardian Unlimited -- Media)
FULL STORY > Jan 25, 2008
Glover is getting almost 20 million from Chavez to make two films, one about an 18th-century slave uprising in Haiti, the other based on a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. . (New York Post -- Gossip)
Read on... Jan 16, 2008
Three that mean a lot: The Sound and the Fury by Wiliiam FaulknerThe Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews EdwardsLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. What book would you like to see brought to the bigscreen and what book do you hope never gets adapted. (Variety)
Reading into the facts on prisoners, literacy Jan 7, 2008
The program's library of about 5,000 books includes titles like Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jayne Eyre by Charlotte Bront and 1984 by George Orwell. The most requested books are dictionaries. (Northeastern News, MA)
From student rag to literary riches Dec 30, 2007
The next issue, with John Berger and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was hailed by the Guardian as 'a cause for congratulation,' and another cause followed a few months later - the first issue devoted to travel writing. This featured almost all the names we now regard as the masters of the genre, most of them in some absurd and compelling situation of their own making: Redmond O'Hanlon, Bruce Chatwin, James Fenton, Jonathan Raban, Martha Gellhorn, Paul Theroux and Norman Lewis. (Guardian Unlimited)
Hollywood lines up Euro feast Dec 22, 2007
But negative writeups La Repubblica called it a multinational mess arent expected to yield lovely returns for the Mike Newell-helmed Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation. Hollywood stars play prominently in Italys Christmas arthouse offerings. (Variety)
Delightful duos Dec 17, 2007
Oprah Winfrey gave her book-club blessing to the star-crossed lovers' novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. While the movie didn't strike gold at the box office, the novel is still a hot-selling item. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
Death squads, disappearances and torture Dec 13, 2007
The expression was already well known in Latin America when, on accepting his 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature in Sweden, Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez reported that the region's "disappeared number nearly 120,000, which is as if suddenly no one could account for all the inhabitants of Uppsala". When Latin Americans used the word as a verb, they usually did so in a way considered grammatically incorrect - in the transitive form and often in the passive voice, as in "she was... (Asia Times Online)
Bestselling books Dec 2, 2007
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Vintage). 4. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Hollywood's tragicomic adaptations of literary classics Dec 2, 2007
Unlike writers of screenplays, pulp fiction or the ubiquitous made-for-film books nowadays, literary giants like Christopher Marlow, John Donne, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, JD Coetzee, Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Pramodeya Ananta Toer, to name a few, cannot be simply slotted, stereotyped or distilled into populist themes. The depth and multiple facets of Milton's Satan, Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, Eliot's J Alfred Prufrock or Steinbeck's Adam Trask offer readers the matchless appeal... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
GREGORY RODRIGUEZ: School T-shirts jog students' vocabulary Nov 29, 2007
And even though schools like Wilmington enjoy healthy levels of parental involvement, it's not reasonable to think that all the moms and dads will start reading Norman Mailer or Gabriel Garcia Marquez any time soon. But that doesn't mean that nothing can be done to change these children's educational environment. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
At the movies Nov 23, 2007
Love in the Time of Cholera from the novel written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is a beautiful love story and lavish cinematic treat. Directed by Mike Newell it stars Javier Bardem, who was Oscar-nominated for Before Night Falls in 2000. (Woburn Advocate, MA)
Javier Bardem a lover and a fighter Nov 19, 2007
" It's a question that's also asked in his new film based on the best-selling book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and directed by Mike Newell. Set in the city of Cartagena, Colombia, the sweeping historical romance tells the story of poet and telegraph clerk Florentino Ariza (Bardem) who as a young man meets his true love Fermina Daza (Giovanna Mezzogiorno). After writing her love letters and professing his love through her bedroom window, poor Florentino incurs the wrath of her father (John... (Chicago Sun-Times)
Author's footstepsOn the trail of Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez Nov 19, 2007
Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the best-known writers in the world and his 1967 masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, has sold millions of copies ... I alight in the humid town of Cienaga some 35km (21 miles) from Santa Marta, former home to the United Fruit Company in Colombia and scene of a massacre of banana workers that Gabriel Garcia Marquez details in One Hundred Years of Solitude ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Oprah picks Follett for book club Nov 17, 2007
Her other picks this year were Sidney Poitier's memoir Measure of a Man, Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and Love in the Time of Cholera by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Follett's latest novel, World Without End, is a sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, set two centuries later. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Lost in translation - Garcia Marquez novel angers Iran's censors Nov 17, 2007
The latest novel by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been banned in Iran - but only after censors noticed its title had been sanitised ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1982, is popular in Iran, which has published many of his books, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
'Beowulf' enters box office battle Nov 16, 2007
Based on the acclaimed book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and adapted by Ronald Harwood, film toplines Javier Bardem. Forecasters say "Beowulf," which cost $150 million to produce, has a strong shot at the weekend crown, placing the box office haul at $20 million-$25 million. (Variety)
TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE COHASSET / Start living from the heart Nov 16, 2007
Soon after, he gave me a copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez s Life in the Time of Cholera. He told me to read it and in a week we would meet up with some friends to linger over a meal, some wine and lively conversation about the book. (Cohasset Mariner, MA)
'cholera' In Need Of Doctoring Nov 16, 2007
Director Mike Newell ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire") turns the 1985 Gabriel Garcia Marquez classic into a telenovela. At the outset we learn that two oldsters finally unite after one of them, Fermina Daza, loses her husband. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Love in the Time of Cholera Nov 13, 2007
Screenplay, Ronald Harwood, based on the novel "El amor en los tiempos del colera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Florentino Ariza - Javier Bardem Fermina Daza Urbino - Giovanna Mezzogiorno Dr. Juvenal Urbino - Benjamin Bratt Hildebranda - Catalina Sandino Moreno Don Leo - Hector Elizondo Lotario Thugut - Liev Schreiber Olimpia Zuleta - Ana Claudia Talancon Transito Ariza - Fernanda Montenegro Florentino (teen) - Unax Ugalde Lorenzo Daza - John Leguizamo. (Variety)
Cholera doesnt have the impact of the novel Nov 13, 2007
Director Mike Newell just cant capture Gabriel Garcia Marquez voice ... Much of the great joy of reading an author like Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the fact that youre reading him that youre allowing yourself to become engrossed in his florid phrasing and vivid descriptions, that hes taking you to a fully realized place, and that youre succumbing, gladly. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Cartagena's close-up Nov 10, 2007
Like the hero of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, who waits half a century for his true love, this historic Colombian port has had to bide its time ... The film version of Love in the Time of Cholera, the much-read tale of unrequited love by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, will be out in theatres next week. (Globe and Mail)
The cinematic stretch run is upon us Nov 9, 2007
There could be breathy critical quibbling about Gabriel Garcia Marquez being siphoned for erotic screen fantasy ... Javier Bardem anchors the Gabriel Garcia Marquez story that Ronald Harwood scripted, as a lovesick man trying to balm his youthful love failure by way of 622 affairs. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
'The ebullient romance' Nov 7, 2007
That's why he sees Las Vegas as the perfect place for tonight's premier e of "Love in the Time of Cholera," his film based on the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Nobel Prize winner from Colombia. It's probably the first Hollywood film with the buzz of Oscar nominations to premier e in Las Vegas, according to Francisco Menendez, chairman of the UNLV film department. (Las Vegas Sun)
Bratt loved challenge of 'Love' Nov 6, 2007
- Benjamin Bratt, one of the stars of "Love in the Time of Cholera," says filming a work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a challenge of a lifetime. The movie, directed by Mike Newell, is the first major English-language adaptation of a Garcia Marquez novel. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Red carpets in the time of 'Cholera' Nov 3, 2007
By Laura Wides-Munoz, Associated Press MIAMI BEACH Benjamin Bratt, one of the stars of Love in the Time of Cholera, says filming a work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a challenge of a lifetime. The movie, directed by Mike Newell, is the first major English-language adaptation of a Garcia Marquez novel. (USA Today -- Life)
Sing, bird, sing Nov 2, 2007
"And when the three officers who carried out the crime came to attention before him with the news general sir that his order had been carried out, he promoted them two grades and decorated them with the medal of loyalty, but then had them shot without honors as common criminals because there were orders that can be given but which cannot be carried out," Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "The Autumn of the Patriarch". And that we have responsibility for the power we're given. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Screenwriters follow different paths Nov 2, 2007
Having started his career in 1960, filmmakers bring him the trickiest of literary adaptations, like "Diving Bell," which Harwood adapted from the late Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby's 1996 memoir, and "Love in the Time of Cholera," based on the sprawling Gabriel Garcia Marquez romantic novel. Coming up in 2008 is Baz Luhrmann's period epic "Australia," which just wrapped principal photography Down Under. (Variety)
Hollywood's holidays Oct 31, 2007
Javier Bardem, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Benjamin Bratt star in "Love in the Time of Cholera," an adaptation of the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that traces the half-century wait of a man to win his true love. "Atonement" features Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in a chronicle of the repercussions that follow a teenage girl's false accusations against her sister's lover. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Bestseller List Oct 31, 2007
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vintage, $14. 95, 9780307389732 Luminous turn-of-the-century chronicle of a unique love triangle. (Scranton Times, PA)
Dick Morris, Eileen McGann: Hillary and... Oct 23, 2007
In late March, Bill Clinton traveled to Cartagena for the 80th birthday tribute to Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, where he spoke to Colombian president Alvaro Uribe about the difficulties in passing the agreement. Eager to help, Bill himself called several Democratic Congressmen. (Fox News)
Conflict of Interest: Buson-Marsteller and Hillary Clinton's Alliance Oct 23, 2007
In late March, Bill Clinton traveled to Cartagena for the 80th birthday tribute to Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, where he spoke to Colombian president Alvaro Uribe about the difficulties in passing the agreement ... In late March, Bill Clinton traveled to Cartagena for the 80th birthday tribute to Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, where he spoke to Colombian president Alvaro Uribe about the difficulties in passing the agreement. (Townhall.com)
* New York Times bestsellers Oct 21, 2007
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Vintage International. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Swank, Pfeiffer offer a little winter romance Oct 20, 2007
Love in the Time of CholeraStarring: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Hector Elizondo, Liev Schreiber, Laura Harring, John LeguizamoDirector: Mike NewellStory: Based on the award-winning novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Bardem stars as Florentino Ariza. As a boy, he falls in love with Fermina Daza (Mezzogiorno), but when she rejects him in favor of a wealthy doctor (Bratt), he spends the next five decades having affairs in an attempt to cure his... (MSNBC -- Movies)
Oprah Reads Marquez Oct 18, 2007
Oprah Picks "Love In The Time Of Cholera", Talk Show Queen Chooses Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Classic - The ShowBuzz ... Talk Show Queen Chooses Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Classic ... One of the biggest names in television, Oprah Winfrey, is teaming up with one of the biggest names in literature, author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Bestsellers list Oct 17, 2007
Love in the Time of Cholera - Debut Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vintage, $14. 95, 9780307389732 Luminous turn-of-the-century chronicle of a unique love triangle. (Scranton Times, PA)
Doris Lessing: 'I have an impressive list' Oct 13, 2007
The best, she says with unconcealed glee, was a call from her hero Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "I've been terribly touched by the range of people who are pleased for me.". (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
New book club is an Open Book for enthusiasts Oct 11, 2007
January: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. February: Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure by Emma Campbell. (Rolla Daily News, MO)
Bardem is no fan of own work Oct 10, 2007
The 38-year-old Spanish actor also has the lead role in "Love in the Time of Cholera," a screen adaptation of the epic love story by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Even so, Bardem, said it's nearly impossible for great fiction to become great film. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Gossip law is a juicy topic in Colombia Oct 9, 2007
Local gossip at times has morphed into literature resembling the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez novels, said Hugo Bolivar Hinojosa, a historian at Central Cauca Valley University. He said the most famous case was that of a bandit named Joaquin Martinez. (Los Angeles Times)
Rogelio Salmona, 78; architect redefined Colombia's cityscapes Oct 8, 2007
Brick was a defining element of his work, figuring in projects as varied as a home he built for Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Cartagena, with a stunning view of the Caribbean from the writer's studio, and the Archivo General, Colombia's national archive, a linchpin for renewal in a gritty area. Mr. Salmona was a force behind Bogot rebirth in this decade as a livable place after years of degradation and fear of guerrilla attacks in the city's heart. (Boston Globe)
LAPD writer smudges thin blue line with debut novel 'L.A. Rex' Oct 7, 2007
"But how could I write a tiger into Simi Valley without sounding like Gabriel Garcia Marquez on angel dust?" he wrote in the essay. Offbeat stories about life on the force are typically reserved for fellow officers exposed to the same depravity and absurdity, said retired LAPD Lt. Raymond Foster, who runs the Web site www. (North County Times)
A&E Notes: BBC official quits over queen footage Oct 6, 2007
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Oprah makes latest book club pick Oct 6, 2007
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera" Oprah's pick ... CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Oprah Winfrey has picked "Love in the Time of Cholera," the epic love story by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as her next book club selection ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Minds Running in Idle Oct 5, 2007
Nobel Prize winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his wife Mercedes leave after the inauguration of the Universal Forum of the Cultures in Monterrey September 20, 2007. The official aims of the Forum includes support for peace, sustainable development, human rights and respect for cultural diversity. (Townhall.com)
