Gwyneth Paltrow says she loves Jane Austen---because she delved into it so much for the movie, her favorite was Emma. When she reads it she thinks it is brilliant, funny and sweet. Among contemporary novelists, she loves Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, and Joh Krakaur's Into the Wild. Alec Baldwin loves To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. In some important ways, characters that we have grown to love in this story are worse off at its end---but they are wiser and the family still has each other. This is a great story about facing life's difficulties and moving on, no matter what. Anjelica Huston has read Edith Wharton's short stories, but never her novels, until The House of Mirth and Age of Innocence. Wharton is an extraordinary storyteller with an amazing gift for detail, whether it be the innermost workings of the human heart or the rigors of social life in New York in the 1870s. She's as great as Henry James!
Lynn Redgrave loves Map of the World, by Jane Hamilton. It is a haunting sudy of a modern-day witch hunt. A family is torn apart forever when a child dies and a woman is worongfully accused of child abuse. Told by both the husband and wife, this noved grabs you by the stomach.
MUSIC, BARBRA, CHER, BETTE, DIANA, VALERIE AND FRIENDS
BARBRA THE CONCERT
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