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By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON (Dec. 30) – There's an especially starry knight in Britain's latest round of royal honors. Patrick Stewart – "Star Trek: The Next Generation's" Capt. Jean-Luc Picard – becomes Sir Patrick in Queen Elizabeth II's New Year honors list, which also includes a knighthood for theater and film director Nicholas Hytner. "This is an honor that embraces those actors, directors and creative teams who have in these recent years helped fill my life with inspiration, companionship and sheer fun," said 69-year-old Stewart, who recently returned to the British stage following a long ...
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By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics Daily"The Lovely Bones" is a lovely book. Alice Sebold's 2002 novel, narrated by a murdered 14-year-old named Susie Salmon as she watches over her family from heaven, was praised by critics, discussed by book groups, and sold over a million copies. The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani extolled Sebold's ability "to capture both the ordinary and the extraordinary . . . in lyrical, unsentimental prose" that displayed her "gift for making palpable the dreams, regrets and unstilled hopes of one girl and one family." As inevitably happens with successful books, the elegiac story has been rendered into ...
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