Pearl S. Buck

Wednesday's TV Highlights 'Human Target' on Fox

2011-01-11 21:34:32

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Nobel laureates in literature: the good, the bad and the Nazi

2009-10-25 16:33:26

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Understanding China begins with a look at Mao

2008-04-13 00:00:00

Shaoshan, China Like visitors at George Washington's estate in Mount Vernon, Va., people come to Shaoshan village deep in the heart of China to remember and teach their children about their national hero. He launched the Long March, an estimated 3,750-...

To a South Korean farmer, this cow was sacred

2009-03-27 00:00:00

The stampede to see South Korea's most reluctant celebrities starts early, often before they're out of bed. On many weekends, hundreds of tourists appear at the tumbledown homestead to meet 82-year-old farmer Choi Won-kyun and his loving but nagging...

Valerie Harper tackles Tallulah

2008-07-06 00:00:00

THESE days, the actress formerly known as Rhoda sports personas vastly different from the straight-talking New Yorker she created for television's classic sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff, "Rhoda." Three decades later, Valerie Harper...

Le Clezio -- who's he?

2008-10-10 00:00:00

If the selection of French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as the 2008 Nobel literature laureate has anything to tell us, it's that Horace Engdahl means what he says. Last week, Engdahl, the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, called American...

Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82; Sister of John F. Kennedy and Wife of Actor Peter Lawford

2006-09-18 00:00:00

SEE CORRECTION APPENDED Patricia Kennedy Lawford, a sister of President John F. Kennedy whose wedding to actor Peter Lawford in the 1950s was one of the first marriages of politics and Hollywood and provided her brother with many of his closest...

A Talk With Valerie Harper, Living 'Here And Now'

2013-03-10 00:00:00

In our first interview in the 1990s, Valerie Harper described the character of Rhoda Morgenstern —sidekick on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and star of the spinoff "Rhoda" — as "the brash New Yorker who says the unsayable." The same can be...

Columbian Literary Society

2013-01-11 15:27:00

One thing to know about our book club We are the Columbian Literary Society. In 1893, a group of women in Sycamore founded our club and named it in honor of the World's Columbian Exposition. The book club afforded educated women the opportunity to...

Paper Weight: R.J. Julia Hosts Long Wharf Theater's January Joiner team, and Other Weighty Writers

2012-12-29 10:16:00

R.J. Julia Booksellers, one of the premiere independent bookstores in the state, is hosting a discussion of January Joiner, the new Laura Jacqmin play which begins performances that same week at the Long Wharf Theater. Jacqmin and the show’s...

3 Classics in One Year Book Club

2012-10-16 08:51:00

Our book club is a Facebook book club. We chat on our Facebook page throughout the year and meet three times a year for the grand finale at one of our homes. We started with 45 people who resolved to read "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy and finish it...

Valerie Harper To Star In Launch of National Tour of "Looped" In Hartford

2012-07-11 10:45:00

Tallulah is back and the Bushnell has got her. Valerie Harper, who received a Tony Award nomination playing legendary actress Tallulah Bankhead, returns to the role for the launch of the national tour of “Looped” at the Belding Theater at the...

Harper began rehearsals in Hartford for her one woman show, "The Dragon and the Pearl." The play was based on the life of novelist Pearl S. Buck.

1997-07-11 00:00:00