The Lost Daughter

03/06/22 • 15 min

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This week Donny and Maura talk about the Italian novel “The Lost Daughter” by Elena Ferrante and the 2021 Netflix movie directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. The film is nominated for many Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay, Olivia Colman for Best Actress, and Jesse Buckley for Best Supporting Actress. The book and movie introduced us to a new term “maternal ambivalence”, and Donny and I confess we were about lost ourselves this week. https://www.areelpageturner.com/
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Away from Her/The Bear Came Over the Mountain

It's our birthday week! Today Donny and Maura talk about the Alice Munro short story, "A Bear Came Over the Mountain" and the Sarah Polley adaptation, "Away From Her." A man comes to grips with wife's Alzheimer's diagnosis and her friendship with another man in the assisted facility where she lives.
Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013.
Sarah Polley was nominated or Best Adapted Screenplay for the film and Julie Christie was nominated for Best Actress.
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The Aviator and Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

Donny and I welcome our friend and author, Ora Smith, as we talk about the life of Howard Hughes. We discuss the Martin Scorsese film, “The Aviator,” and the book “Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness” by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. In addition, Ora shares her in-depth knowledge and research of Hughes and her book, “Unacknowledged: The Possible Biological Mother of Howard Hughes.”

More about Ora Smith:

As a genealogist, Ora Smith has spent thirty-plus years researching her family histories. With her historical “Heritage Fiction” novels, she’s made a niche in writing about ancestors, creating fascinating stories based on true events. She loves nothing better than to be whisked off to past eras to meet those whose lives are worth sharing.

Ora’s one of those people who always has a project she’s excited about. Besides being a genealogist and author, she’s an artist, seamstress, lover of a good book, traveler, antiquer, upcycler, and history buff. Although she’s lived in Arizona since 1986, she spent her early life in Lake Tahoe, California, where her passion to write blossomed on a tranquil riverbank with a beautiful backdrop of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

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