Charles Dickens News

KIMBROUGH: Not exactly Charles Dickens: But now a tale of two fourths (The Lufkin Daily News)
I was an English teacher in a former life, but this week's title has nothing to do with Dickens. Part of this week's column contains great recipe shares perfect for kids' cooking this Fourth of July weekend (or anytime), and the other part is great recipe shares perfect for a Fourth of July dinner. Get it? A Tale of Two Fourths. I know I shouldn't quit my day job to be a comedian, but I hope you ...

Kill Me, Deadly! (Backstage.com)
Playwright Bill Robens, who previously focused his satiric lens on classic Charles Dickens ( A Mulholland Christmas Carol ) and Irwin Allen disaster flicks ( The Poseidon Adventure : The Musical and The Towering Inferno : The Musical ) now goes after film-noir private-eye melodramas, with rib-tickling results.

Lake run a FHSfest (Daily Inter Lake)
The Daily Inter Lake WHITEFISH — For Flathead High School cross country coach Paul Jorgensen, it must have felt like he was watching Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

It may be the decade of Del Toro (San Jose Mercury News)
Film director Guillermo Del Toro is on a roll.

Neverland just a shell without Jackson (AP via Yahoo! News)
The gates to Michael Jackson's fabled Neverland Ranch swung open Thursday to reveal a shell of the fantasyland the boy-man had created in his heyday.

‘A Tale of 2 Buildings’ (The Oneida Daily Dispatch)
With apologies to Charles Dickens, I would like to update the residents of the City of Oneida with respect to two buildings, the former Herb Philipson’s building, and the former high school building on Elizabeth Street.

Hard Times 2009 Part 6: Escaping the recession (Independent)
Expats dreamed of a better life in New Zealand, Spain and France, while Poles flocked to the UK for work. Then the downturn hit. In the final part of a series that compares modern Britain to Charles Dickens' 'Hard Times', Paul Vallely meets the migrants who are heading home

Neverland a ghost town, no-show Bubbles (Daily Telegraph)
THE gates to Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch have swung open to reveal a shell of his fantasyland as his chimp Bubbles has surfaced and won't be going to his funeral.

The jilted bride who retreated to a cave in heartbreak (Sydney Morning Herald)
SHE was the Miss Havisham of Sydney. Like the jilted bride-to-be in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, Audrey Mountford was rejected by a man she was to marry.

Neverland without Jackson (Herald Sun)
THE gates to Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch swung open to reveal a shell of the fantasy land the boy-man had created in his heyday.