08 Wednesday Apr 2009
Madonna’s fourth studio album was released in 1989, a turning point for her. After four stormy years, she had split from husband Sean Penn. Since her previous album, True Blue, dedicated to ‘the coolest guy in the universe’, Madonna had completed a triumphant world tour; appeared in two best-forgotten movies; and released a remix album. Continue reading
06 Monday Apr 2009
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Nabbed from Faye L. Booth, a few questions on reading:
What time do you find the best time to read? During the day I combine my writing with research, mainly non-fiction. Or else a book I’m reviewing. I try to set aside time each evening to read something unrelated to work, generally a novel or biography. Becoming a writer has changed the way I read, I’d say that I’m less spontaneous now and I think a lot about the way it was written rather than just experiencing it. But it’s important for me to remember the pleasure of losing myself in words, because that’s what inspired me to write in the first place. Continue reading
27 Friday Mar 2009
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction
The Abrams Discoveries series is a range of small paperbacks covering notable subjects in history, art, music and science. It provides a detailed but succinct look at individual topics, and a reference point for further study. Marilyn Monroe would doubtless have been amused to find herself scrutinised alongside King Arthur, Salvador Dali and the ancient Greeks. However, its title, The Last Goddess, is an appropriate one. The front cover uses that familiar image of Marilyn in a gold dress, cut to the navel, her spirit as elusive as a modern Mona Lisa. The back jacket includes a smaller still from her most successful film, Some Like It Hot. Continue reading
24 Tuesday Mar 2009
Posted in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe
Photographer Joseph Jasgur has died aged 89. Jasgur worked with Marilyn Monroe in 1946. She was then a 19 year-old aspiring model, still known as Norma Jeane Dougherty. Jasgur remembered her as ‘a shy girl, nothing like a typical model…with two sets of clothes – one she had on, and one in the laundry.’ Continue reading
21 Saturday Mar 2009
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Hi everyone,
I’ve recently merged my main website with this blog. You can now find everything right here, and my domain name has been changed to tarahanks.com. The older, .org address remains open until July, and will redirect all visitors to here. (So if you’re currently linking to my old website, please update – thanks in advance!)
Coming soon is the next in my series of Madonna album reviews, Like A Prayer. And after many months of research, I started writing my third novel last November – so that is keeping me very busy.
Hope you like the new-look site and, as always, thanks for reading!
Tara Hanks
Tara Hanks 
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