Director Callie Khouri’s interpretation of “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” is a remarkable experience to remember. This movie portrays sisterhood as something that is not only achieved with ...
Good friends will stick with you through good times and bad. So Vivian Walker learns in her lifelong story of humor, drama and friendship Southern style. Based on Rebecca Wells’ 1996 New York Times ...
Friendships are sometimes glass shattered by rocks of unsavory deeds, broken promises, and misplaced words. Yet, there are moments when we make special bonds that only death can break. These ...
Local poet Ciona Rouse is cooking up something different for this month’s “Lyrical Brew” event at Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt University. The once-a-month poetry night hosted by Rouse, usually held ...
WASHINGTON, June 11 -- There is a pivotal scene in "Gone With the Wind" when Scarlett O'Hara, desperate for money and weary from overwork, yanks her mother's curtains from their fixture and drapes her ...
When that dart kissed the Hawaiian coast, CBS cameraman Les Rose kissed the dart thrower. The dart throw meant CBS News Correspondent Steve Hartman and Rose were headed to Hawaii for their next ...
The girls yack and yack and yack some more in "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," a gabfest in which an estranged Southern mother and daughter sling the hash, egged on by an eccentric circle of ...
Updating Steel Magnolias for the Oprah empire, Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood epitomizes the sort of book-club twaddle that scared off Jonathan Franzen, a thin tale of female bonding and ...
What worked wonderfully in Rebecca Wells' book is trickier on film. While Ya-Ya has its poignant, tear-inducing moments, the flashback framework holds it back. But at its core is a moving story of a ...
He’s toured with Dylan, sat behind the console for everyone from Los Lobos to Counting Crows, and intermittently made his own albums, on which his pinched voice and off-center songwriting forever ...