Saturday, June 7, 2008

New Interview by The Entertainment Critic: Lois M. Ramondetta, MD, Co-Author of The Light Within





NEW INTERVIEW FROM THE ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC: LOIS M. RAMONDETTA, MD, CO- AUTHOR OF THE LIGHT WITHIN

Please check out the new interview by James Myers, The Entertainment Critic, of Co-Author Lois Ramondetta, M.D., About Her New Top Selling Book, The Light Within. Lois M. Ramondetta, M.D., is an attending physician and associate professor of gynecologic oncology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She has published and lectured extensively on the care of gynecologic cancers as well as written reflective articles for academic journals. This is a special book about the friendship that developed between patient and doctor. The result is this soaring memoir.

From The Publisher: When young gynecologic oncology fellow Lois Ramondetta was first summoned to the room of a new patient, neither she nor the forty-nine-year-old professor of religion she encountered named Deborah Sills thought they had much in common. They certainly had no idea that they were about to embark on a transcendent odyssey that would become a soul-deep friendship. Now their heartfelt story, The Light Within, follows these two women through a decade of friendship and "big lives"—husbands, children, friends, and careers—ultimately crossing the country and traveling to foreign lands, where they spoke and wrote together about the intersection of doctors, patients, and spirituality. Both women searched together and openly for answers with honesty and intimacy until Deborah passed away in the spring of 2006.

This interview is available exclusively on The Entertainment Critic Magazine, found at http://www.theentertainmentcriticmagazine.com/.
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This sleeper deserves to be on your book shelf!











NEW INTERVIEW FROM THE ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC: KAREN ROSE AUTHOR OF SCREAM FOR ME

Please check out the new interview by James Myers, The Entertainment Critic, of NY Times Best Selling and Rita Award Winner Author, Karen Rose, About Her New Top Selling Book, Scream for Me. This interview is available exclusively on The Entertainment Critic Magazine, found at http://www.theentertainmentcriticmagazine.com/.
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Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU1MywM853w



New Interview By The Entertainment Critic: Emily Griffin on Love The One You're With







NEW INTERVIEW FROM THE ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC: EMILY GIFFIN THE AUTHOR OF LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH

Please check out the new interview by James Myers, The Entertainment Critic, of NY Times Best Selling Award Winning Author, Emily Giffin, About Her New Top Selling Book, Love The One You’re With. This interview is available exclusively on The Entertainment Critic Magazine, found at http://www.theentertainmentcriticmagazine.com/. The book is also for sale on the site at the discount price of $16.97. The List Price of this item is $24.95

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New Book Review From The Entertainment Critic: Love The One You're With by Emily Griffin


Love The One You’re With

THE ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC BOOK REVIEW, BY JAMES MYERS
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LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH
By Emily Giffin
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Publication Date: May 2008
Price: $24.95
352 Pages
ISBN-13: 9780312348670
Four Star Rating ****

BESTSELLING AMERICAN AUTHOR OF SEVERAL NOVELS COMMONLY CATEGORIZED AS "CHICK LIT".
GIFFIN WRITES STORIES ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS AND THE FULL ARRAY OF EMOTIONS EXPERIENCED WITHIN THEM

2002: SHE MARRIED, FOUND AN AGENT, AND SIGNED A TWO-BOOK DEAL WITH ST. MARTIN'S PRESS. WHILE DOING REVISIONS ON SOMETHING BORROWED, SHE FOUND THE INSPIRATION FOR A SEQUEL, SOMETHING BLUE.

2003: GIFFIN AND HER HUSBAND LEFT ENGLAND FOR ATLANTA, GEORGIA. A FEW MONTHS LATER, ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, SHE GAVE BIRTH TO IDENTICAL TWIN BOYS, EDWARD AND GEORGE. SOMETHING BORROWED WAS RELEASED SPRING 2004. IT RECEIVED UNANIMOUSLY POSITIVE REVIEWS AND MADE THE EXTENDED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS LIST. SOMETHING BLUE FOLLOWED IN 2005, AND IN 2006, HER THIRD, BABY PROOF, MADE ITS DEBUT.

ALL THREE NOVELS WERE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERS, AND APPEARED ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LIST AMONG MANY OTHERS. THE THREE APPEARED SIMULTANEOUSLY ON USA TODAY'S TOP 150 LIST, A RARE FEAT. SOMETHING BORROWED AND SOMETHING BLUE HAVE BEEN OPTIONED FOR FILM

LOVE THE ONE YOU'RE WITH, WAS RELEASED ON MAY 13, 2008. HER FOURTH BOOK

“And that’s when my cell phone rang and I heard his voice. A voice I hadn’t heard in eight years and sixteen days.

Was that really you? he asked me. His voice was even deeper that I remembered, but otherwise it was like stepping back in time. Like finishing a conversation only hours old.
Yes, I said.

So, he said, You still have the same cell number.

Then after a considerable silence, one I stubbornly refused to fill, he added, I guess some things don’t change.

Yes, I said again.

Because as much as I didn’t want to admit it, he was sure right about that.”



The New York Times bestselling author, Emily Giffin, has given us yet another novel examining complex relationships, and ordinary people placed in uncomfortable moral situations. She follows her first three brilliant relationship novels, Something Borrowed (One night stand with best friend’s fiancĂ©), Something Blue (Plain Jane steals fiancĂ© from pregnant friend) and Baby Proof (Settled couple’s issues over having a baby) with another soul searching book, Love The One You’re With. After all three of her first novels appeared simultaneously on USA Today's Top 150 list, a feat rarely accomplished, her fourth novel follows up with yet another ethical question that has occurred to all of us at one time or another: How can I love the one I’m with, when I can’t forget the one that got away?

Ellen and Andy seem to have the perfect marriage. It is their first year of marriage. They are deeply in love and devoted to one another. They do what all good partners do; they make each other better people. Unexpectedly, one afternoon, Ellen runs into an old flame, Leo for the first time in eight years. Leo makes Ellen feel like a bad girl; he brings out the ‘worst’ in her. Their experience was all about sensational sex, followed by Leo’s disappearance. Leo left Ellen heartbroken with no explanation; he is the one that got away; the one she cannot quite forget. Giffin let’s us play spy and gives us a birds eye view of what life could have been like if the one the got away had stayed or you rediscovered him later in life. Ellen tries to deal with her long dormant feelings and longing for Leo. The dilemma raises the question: Is the life you’re living the one you were meant to live? How my life would have turned out if I was with someone else, doing something different? Ellen at her cross roads make certain fascinating choices that make the book a must read for this summer.

Giffin is known for her tightly woven, unpredictable plot lines and off-beat and quirky character development. Love The One You’re With had plenty of both in spades. I found myself rooting for Ellen and pleading with her at times to make the right decisions. The book is a quick, page turner of a read that unfolds with the precision of film. The storyline is spellbinding; but the writing and the prose make this book. America’s favorite chick lit writer is back with a winner. You are watching the development of the finest author of her genre. Love the One You’re With left me wanting more. This one should be in your beach bag this summer.

New Book Review From The Entertainment Critic: Audition


Audition: A Memoir

THE ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC BOOK REVIEW, BY JAMES MYERS
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AUDITION: A MEMOIR
By Barbara Walters
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Pub. Date: May 2008
Price: $27.95
448 Pages
ISBN-13: 9780307266460
Four Star Rating ****

BARBARA JILL WALTERS (BORN SEPTEMBER 25, 1929) IS AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST, WRITER, AND MEDIA PERSONALITY WHO HAS BEEN A REGULAR FIXTURE ON MORNING TELEVISION SHOWS (TODAY AND THE VIEW), AN EVENING NEWS MAGAZINE (20/20), AND ON THE ABC EVENING NEWS AS THE FIRST FEMALE EVENING NEWS ANCHOR. WALTERS WAS FIRST KNOWN AS A POPULAR TV MORNING NEWS ANCHOR FOR OVER 10 YEARS ON NBC'S TODAY, WHERE SHE WORKED WITH HUGH DOWNS AND LATER HOSTS FRANK MCGEE AND JIM HARTZ. WALTERS LATER SPENT 25 YEARS AS CO-HOST OF ABC'S NEWSMAGAZINE 20/20. SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO CO-ANCHOR THE NETWORK EVENING NEWS, WORKING WITH HARRY REASONER ON THE ABC EVENING NEWS.

ON JUNE 14, 2007 WALTERS RECEIVED A STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME. SHE HAS WON DAYTIME AND PRIME TIME EMMY AWARDS, A WOMAN IN FILM LUCY AWARD, AND A GLAAD EXCELLENCE IN MEDIA AWARD. HER IMPACT ON THE POPULAR CULTURE IS ILLUSTRATED BY GILDA RADNER'S "BABA WAWA" IMPERSONATION OF HER ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, FEATURING HER IDIOSYNCRATIC SPEECH WITH ITS ROUNDED "R."

WALTERS CO-HOSTS THE SOMETIMES CONTROVERSIAL DAYTIME TALK SHOW THE VIEW, OF WHICH SHE IS ALSO CO-CREATOR AND CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER. WALTERS DESCRIBED THE SHOW IN ITS ORIGINAL OPENING CREDITS AS A FORUM FOR WOMEN OF "DIFFERENT GENERATIONS, BACKGROUNDS, AND VIEWS". THE SHOW INCLUDES WHOOPI GOLDBERG, JOY BEHAR, ELISABETH HASSELBECK AND SHERRI SHEPHERD. CURRENT-TODAY SHOW CO-HOST MEREDITH VIEIRA (AS MODERATOR), JOURNALIST LISA LING (AS THE "YOUNG" VIEW), COMEDIAN ROSIE O'DONNELL (AS MODERATOR) AND TELEVISION PERSONALITY STAR JONES (A LAWYER, BUT PERHAPS ALSO SELECTED BECAUSE OF HER CHRISTIAN VIEWS), AND E! NEWS CO-HOST DEBBIE MATENOPOULOS (THE "YOUNG" VIEW, SHE WAS REPLACED BY LISA LING) HAVE ALL SAT ON THE SHOW'S PANEL. AS OF 2008 WALTERS AND BEHAR ARE THE ONLY TWO ORIGINAL PANELISTS STILL APPEARING ON THE SHOW.


WALTERS PUBLISHED HER MEMOIRS, AUDITION: A MEMOIR, IN 2008.



“Back in the sixties, when I was appearing daily on NBC’s Today show, I was living on Seventh Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street. My apartment was across from Carnegie Hall and on the corner of a very busy street. It was also near several large hotels that catered to businessmen. Perhaps because of this, the corner was the gathering place for some of the most attractive “ladies of the evening.” Each morning at five o’clock I would emerge from my building wearing dark glasses, as I hadn’t yet had my makeup done, and I was usually carrying a garment bag. It seemed obvious to the “ladies” that there was some big “number” I had just left. Now, bear in mind that, even then, I wasn’t exactly a spring chicken. But I would emerge and look at the young ladies, some of whom were still teenagers. “Good morning,” I would say. “Good morning,” they would answer. And then I would get into this long black limousine with its uniformed driver, and we would glide off into the early morning light. And you know what effect all this had on the ladies?

I gave them hope.
Perhaps this book may do that for you.
So here it is, the whole package, from the beginning.”


Barbara Walters has written “a long awaited memoir from the most important woman in the history of broadcast journalism.” Over 45 years on television, Barbara has become the friend in your living who talks to all the important people for you. This translates into the book, where she gives an entertaining account of all of her various experiences, recounted with humor and honesty. She is also surprisingly honest about her personal life; her older retardate sister, her father’s suicide, her midlife affairs, her daughters troubled years, and her battles with co-anchors Frank McGee and Harry Reasoner. Leaving NBC’s Today Show after 14 years to become the first female nightly news co-anchor was surrounded by controversy and she vividly describes the criticism that came with accepting the position and the multi-million dollar salary.

There is the litany of historical events that are included in the book, from the Bay of Pigs to the present, and of course there is the showbiz material like her dish on what goes on backstage at the View. But even more interesting are the insights that she gives us into her personal life. There was difficulty and challenges that are discussed here that were not known before. The book is a breezy, well-written, interesting view into the personal and professional life of a maven who was there during the golden age of television and still comes into our living rooms everyday.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQyxeSUMfr8

What Obama's Victory Means to America

Just a small example of what Sen. Obama's victory means to America

I Throw My Full Support Behind Barack Obama

An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton and Her Supporters

....Thank you for such a beautiful moving speech, and the endorsement of Barack Obama. I can only hope that we bring our party and our country together now with this speech as a springboard. I will do my best to help to get Barack elected. I hope that you, your daughter, Pres. Clinton, and your supporters will be inspired to unite with us and work to make the hopes and dreams of the American people a reality. I hope to see you and yours working as hard for Barack as you did for yourself. Please accept my extended hand in freindship. Welcome to our fight. A fight none of us can afford to lose.

Peace

Obama '08

James W. Myers, III
The Entertainment Critic