03 Saturday Jan 2009
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe
Mister Lonely (2007) is a film by Harmony Korine, who penned the controversial Kids before writing and directing the cult movies Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy. Korine’s work has divided both critics and audiences. Continue reading
14 Sunday Dec 2008
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates
“In ‘The Mmm Girl’, Tara Hanks resists the temptation to make Monroe into a strong woman as we today would understand the term, and thereby gives us a far more believable and affecting heroine…no mean feat when time and legend have transformed her into a goddess made of celluloid and rhinestones…“
Faye L. Booth is the author of two lively, unusual historical novels,Cover The Mirrors and the forthcoming Trades Of The Flesh. She has also published a review of The Mmm Girl – read more
05 Friday Dec 2008
Posted in Books, Interviews, The Mmm Girl, Updates, Wicked Baby
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January Magazine was established in 1997 by Linda L. Richards, author of mystery novels including Death Was The Other Woman, and has become one of the most respected literary journals online. A sister publication, The Rap Sheet, is devoted to crime fiction.
Authors such as Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie have all been interviewed at January Magazine, but there is also a strong emphasis on new writing and in this spirit, an interview with me has now been added to the site.
01 Monday Dec 2008
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James Foley, Jean Baptiste Mondino, La Isla Bonita, Live to Tell, Madonna, Mary Lambert, Open Your Heart, Papa Don't Preach, Patrick Leonard, Sean Penn, Stephen Bray, True Blue
Released in early summer of 1986, Madonna’s third album, True Blue, reflects major changes in her star status since its predecessor, Like A Virgin. She was now a world-class celebrity, married to actor Sean Penn and living in a Beverly Hills mansion. Indeed, True Blue was dedicated ‘to my husband, the coolest guy in the universe’. Continue reading
01 Monday Dec 2008
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates
≈ Comments Off on A Note Of Thanks
Today marks a year’s passing since publication of my novel, The Mmm Girl: Marilyn Monroe, By Herself. Now I would like to remember here all the people who helped me during the writing of this book. Continue reading
Tara Hanks 
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