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		<title>Why The Hurt Locker Deserved to Win</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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I am one of those who would have been shouting in an undignified manner at the TV tonight if Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker had not won.
For the record, I can&#8217;t tell you how bored I am with the complaints that the film doesn&#8217;t get all its details right. Art is not always about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J. D. Salinger:   January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The work of J.D. Salinger has mattered enormously to a large number of people.  (If you are one of those people,  I&#8217;d love to know how and why he has mattered to you.)
Last fall, when The Catcher in the Rye came up in the course of a discussion in my UC Irvine workshop, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not a Christmas Song, Per Se, But&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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&#8230;.it is sacred music by any sensible measure.  Enjoy.





And, then,  of course&#8230;this indelible, impossibly beautiful, utterly heartbreaking version. 

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		<title>The Wire &amp; the Decade When TV Became Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The Best of the Decade lists are everywhere.  
Newsweek has some interesting ones like 10 History Altering Decisions. and 10 Most Overblown Fears.
Paste Magazine has a pleasing list of the 50 best albums.
And at the flimsier end of the spectrum, Vogue magazine was suddenly  overtaken by a giddy moment of populism and decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music 4 Babies Behind Bars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Sunday, December 20, a very interesting benefit performance is taking place at the Roxy Theater. 
 It starts at 8 p.m. and is titled BABIES BEHIND BARS-&#8211;because the $15 a person proceeds will benefit a group of organizations that work to keep kids out of the juvenile justice system: A Place Called Home, Tia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tod Goldberg Tells Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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My friend Tod Goldberg is a very funny man who has popularized the term&#8230;.well, you can find it on his blog. (Hint:  It has two syllables, begins with F and ends something that rhymes with petard.)
Tod also is also the director of the UC Riverside MFA program in Creative Writing and Writing for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Travers 1936-2009:  In the Wind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Yes, theirs was the safer version of Blowing in the Wind.
But the melodic harmonies that Mary Travers sang with Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, in the group Peter, Paul and Mary,  were, for many newly-minted music lovers of the era, the gateway drug that led inexorably and happily  to a deeper and edgier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Gelbart:  1928-2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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He was wonderfully, deliciously funny, prodigiously gifted and had a heart the size of Wyoming.  
I only knew Larry Gelbert a tiny bit.  He hosted several events for PEN USA when I was on the board and helped us out at other times whenever we asked and he was able. 
I&#8217;m glad I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POST GRAD:  My Brilliant Niece&#8217;s First Movie Opening</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Permit me to brag obnoxiously for a moment.    (Is this pure nepotism?  You betcha!  But well-deserved nepotism, I promise.)
Friday night was opening night for POST GRAD, the first movie to reach release that was written by my brilliant and beautiful screenwriter niece, Kelly Fremon.  (She has other movies in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the Words to Talk About the Death of a Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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 Wednesday&#8217;s Fresh Air, featured a poet named Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno who has recently released her first collection of poetry called Slamming Open the Door that is getting a great deal of well- deserved attention.
In 2003, the lives of Kathleen Bonanno and her husband plunged into a life-shattering tragedy that  was very similar to [...]]]></description>
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