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SOMETHING OLD. . .SOMETHING NEW
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written by emily mayer
OLD
NEW
WATCH SEVEN BRIDES FOR MAMMA MIA!
SEVEN BROTHERS TO BE RELEASED 2008
RELEASED 1954
Celebrate the return of summer
Watch Seven Brides for Seven
with a good old-fashioned musical.
Brothers, a madcap frenzy of dancing,
Even if you’’ve had a chance to see
brawling, and class-A felonies. That’s
the Broadway version, the silver
right: felonies, which can lead to
screen rendition, with its sure-fire
several years in prison. This musical
cast, featuring Meryl Streep, Pierce
is set, however, in the early pioneering
Brosnan, Colin Firth, and the lovely
days, where a few shotguns will bring
Amanda Seyfried (Big Love), gives
justice to one man, his wife, and his
ABBA’s hit songs a boost of star power,
six-yokel brothers. The light-hearted
a real delight for those of us who never
take on woodland life, not to mention
knew James Bond could sing. Opens
the awesome log-mill acrobatics (even
everywhere July 18.
guys like this musical!), will delight you
this summer. Available on DVD from
Warner Home Video.
READ THE LITTLE MOOSE
DISTURBANCES BY STEPHANIE KLEIN, 2008
OF MAN
BY GRACE PALEY, 1966 Popular blogger Stephanie Klein has
released her second memoir, Moose,
Grace Paley’s collection of short chronicling the typical awkwardness of
stories details the little sagas played adolescence, plus a few extra pounds.
WEAR IT!
out by working men and women in Klein recounts the biting remarks of
New York City. Originally published her schoolmates, the embarrassments
in the 1950s, these tales still ring at school, and the most excruciating
true in Paley’s simple, clear style and period of her life: fat camp. Whether
resonate with the hearts of readers. you were on the receiving end or the
The Little Disturbances of Man tells giving end of the childhood taunts, you
of frustration and loneliness within will be laughing and cringing at Klein’s
the lives of couples, job-seekers, anecdotes, peppered with her famous
suburbanites, and children with moving touches of candid insight and humor.
humor and poignancy. Available from Released May 27.
Penguin Books on Amazon.com.
LISTEN BALLADS FROM HER ADELE
APPALACHIAN FAMILY 19, 2008
TRADITION
JEAN RITCHIE, 1961 One-name wonder Adele has been
dubbed “the new Amy Winehouse”
This female singer of old-time music by the Times in London after hitting
hails from the Appalachian Mountains, number one on the UK charts in
where old English ballads remained so February. With a sultry alto voice,
pure, a ballad collector from England the 20-year-old tackles Winehouse’s
traveled there to find original versions signature Motown sound with her own
of the songs. In the pioneering days, signature twist. Her hot debut album,
women were not allowed to touch 19, will be released stateside on June
instruments such as the fiddle, so they 10, in the midst of her U.S. tour in late
used their voices instead. With Irish May and June. You can also listen
and Scottish influences, Jean Ritchie’s to “Chasing Pavements,” Adele’s hit
high clear voice, often unaccompanied, single, on MySpace.com.
will touch your soul with the simplicity
of the melodies and the ancient lyrics
that feature lords and ladies of yore.
Available on Amazon.com.
ELIZA / 42 ELIZA / 43
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