From Houston Public Radio: Sundance-winner Thirteen may offer the most realistic view yet of tweenie girls' lives (realistic enough to earn it an "R" rating). And that has everything to do with the extraordinary collaboration that spawned it, between director Catherine Hardwicke and the film's 13-year-old writer, Nikki.

Monday, August 25, 2003

 

From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: His long-ago stint as a speechwriter for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson prepared Richard Goodwin well to write his first play, Hinge of the World, about the political battle of wills between Galileo and Pope Urban VIII. But it prepared him even better to write his next one, about the bitter rivalry between Kennedy and LBJ.