Barkers Books

Book Banter is the literary component of my culture blog devoted to reviewing literature and sharing stories with avid readers everywhere. The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain Published by Bond Street Books, an imprint of Doubleday Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Ltd. (314 pages) Its 1920 Chicago. Little does naive 28-year-old Hadley [...]

The Bollywood industry has its endless gossips and gossipmongers. Similarly 2011 has been marked with several Bollywoods much-talked about and rumoured couples. This year has seen several famous link-ups of stars like Deepika Padukone-Siddharth Mallya, Ranveer Singh-Anushka, Ranbir-Katrina, Vidya-Siddharth Roy and many more. Deepika Padukone-Siddharth Mallya – The Dippy-Sid chapter started this year after Deepika [...]

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is a theme that has been done to death in Bollywood and Mollywood but evokes a renewed interested in us if the protagonists of the movie are real. Add to this the fact they are the persons behind the camera. Four students of Mar Ivanios College in the city have come up with [...]

The Orlando Magic are insisting that there is hope that their star center, Dwight Howard, has more of a chance of remaining in Orlando than a snowball. Perhaps they need to consult Kris Humphries on the matter of how one-sided love affairs work out in the long run. Otis Smith toldNBATVlast night, When we get [...]

Hemingway and Gellhorn, a HBO movie about one of the 20th centurys most famous love affairs, will be filmed in our Valley thanks to the work of the Livermore Valley Film Commission. The film will be produced by James Gandolfini and will star Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn and Clive Owen as Ernest Hemingway. Shooting [...]

Philadelphia’s infatuation with beer hasn’t rubbed off on students. I cannot say I have been at Temple long. I transferred here in Fall 2010, and since then, I have been catching up with the culture and life of Temple and the Philadelphia area. I have become privy to a few things since my arrival: Temple [...]

Mergers and Acquisitions That Shaped Tech From Microsoft and Hotmail to AOL and Time Warner, the tech industry is full of colorful and sometimes disastrous corporate love affairs. article source

THE fights, the intense love affairs, the bizarre behaviour, the riotous secrets. As Hollywood mourns we reveal what you never knew about Elizabeth Taylor, article source

The Reef writer/director opens up about maintaining tension, inter-species love affairs and the Australian film distribution system with DREW TURNEY. 2007 saw one of the best animal attacks movie ever made in Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich’s Black Water. Damsels in distress Maeve Dermody and Diana Glenn weren’t cardboard hotties we just knew would take [...]

Dear The Chicago Code, I love you. More than I ever expected to. You came along at just the right time – when I needed something to get me excited about TV again after the season (series?) finale of Human Target – and you made me fall for you. Now Im to the point where [...]