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列奥纳多 (2021) 豆瓣
Leonardo
8.1 (15 个评分)
导演:
丹尼尔·珀西瓦尔
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亚力克西斯·卡希尔
演员:
艾丹·特纳
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马蒂尔达·德·安杰利斯
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艾丹·特纳(《霍比特人》《波尔达克》)要演大画家&科学家达芬奇了。他将主演新剧《列奥纳多》(工作标题,尚未正式定名),聚焦列奥纳多·达·芬奇在意大利文艺复兴时期的生活和作品。
这是一部英语剧,Frank Spotnitz(《X档案》)任运作人,Steve Thompson(《神探夏洛克》)编剧,Daniel Percival(《高堡奇人》)执导,Lux Vide和Big Light Productions等是出品方,意大利国家电视台(RAI)等也参与。共8集,今年内开拍。
这是一部英语剧,Frank Spotnitz(《X档案》)任运作人,Steve Thompson(《神探夏洛克》)编剧,Daniel Percival(《高堡奇人》)执导,Lux Vide和Big Light Productions等是出品方,意大利国家电视台(RAI)等也参与。共8集,今年内开拍。
王者理查德 (2021) 豆瓣 Eggplant.place TMDB
King Richard
6.6 (122 个评分)
导演:
雷纳尔多·马库斯·格林
演员:
威尔·史密斯
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萨尼雅·西德尼
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其它标题:
King Richard
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王者理查
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威尔·史密斯主演的网球题材新片《国王理查德》定下导演:雷纳尔多·马库斯·格林(《怪物与人》《停下》),并定档2020年11月25日北美上映。
该片剧本排2018年好莱坞“剧本黑名单”第二,讲述理查德·威廉姆斯的真实故事,这位精明务实、不屈不挠、没有任何网球背景的父亲培养出了两个网球天才,她们后来成了超级巨星——维纳斯·威廉姆斯和塞雷娜·威廉姆斯(大威小威)。
理查德·威廉姆斯为女儿们的职业网球生涯起草了一份78页的计划,女孩们在康普顿破旧、杂草丛生的公共球场上学会了这项运动。据报道,在那之前,她们的父亲与一些不喜欢这项运动、不肯让位的年轻硬汉发生了争执。威廉姆斯姐妹后来成为了网球史上最伟大的女选手之二。
该片剧本排2018年好莱坞“剧本黑名单”第二,讲述理查德·威廉姆斯的真实故事,这位精明务实、不屈不挠、没有任何网球背景的父亲培养出了两个网球天才,她们后来成了超级巨星——维纳斯·威廉姆斯和塞雷娜·威廉姆斯(大威小威)。
理查德·威廉姆斯为女儿们的职业网球生涯起草了一份78页的计划,女孩们在康普顿破旧、杂草丛生的公共球场上学会了这项运动。据报道,在那之前,她们的父亲与一些不喜欢这项运动、不肯让位的年轻硬汉发生了争执。威廉姆斯姐妹后来成为了网球史上最伟大的女选手之二。
弗里达 (2002) TMDB 豆瓣 Eggplant.place IMDb
Frida
8.4 (294 个评分)
导演:
朱丽·泰莫
演员:
萨尔玛·海耶克
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阿尔弗雷德·莫里纳
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其它标题:
Frida
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笔姬别恋(港)
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弗里达(salma hayek 饰)是墨西哥著名的女画家,18岁之前她是一个快乐活泼的少女,跟其他人一样,享受着爱情的甜蜜。然而18岁的车祸让她遭遇重创,死里逃生的她从此跟病痛伴随一生。原来的小情人也离她而去。躺在病床18个月的她整日与画为伴,她的画充满了不可思议的活力与激情。那时候她也真正开始考虑卖画养活自己,她前去请求画家里维拉指导自己的画,对方激赏她的天分。他们也从师生转变成一生的伴侣,他们结婚了。婚后他们经历了墨西哥最动荡的革命时期,他们狂热地追随着共产主义的脚步,甚至当托洛斯基被斯大林逐出苏联后,他们不畏风险地予以热情接待。弗里达与托洛斯基朦胧的爱恋,以及她的女同性恋情结让她的感情史一样绚烂。
1954年,弗里达离开了这个充满了病痛的世界,但愿离去是幸。
1954年,弗里达离开了这个充满了病痛的世界,但愿离去是幸。
寻找梦幻岛 (2004) TMDB 豆瓣
Finding Neverland
7.8 (160 个评分)
导演:
马克·福斯特
演员:
约翰尼·德普
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凯特·温丝莱特
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其它标题:
Finding Neverland
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不老的传说
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作家巴里(约翰尼·德普 Johnny Depp饰)正处于灵感枯竭期。他每天经过公园的时候,都会看见里面有一帮小孩在嬉戏。他停下脚步来观察,原来孩子在玩海盗游戏,孩子们还热情邀请他加入海盗队伍。巴里成了一个大孩子,在队伍中虽然高出一个头,却玩得不亦乐乎——道具、角色、各色 情节、公园变成一个快乐的幻想世界。这段经历,成了巴里创作《小飞侠》的灵感源泉。
孩子的母亲(凯特·温丝莱特 Kate Winslet 饰)是一个寡妇,她也受到了这里快乐的气氛感染。巴里和他们相处就像一家人一样,享受着单纯的快乐,然而也难免招人闲话。而巴里的妻子,也终究只属于现实世界,走不进巴里的内心。
《小飞侠》的完稿上演,遭到了众人的质疑。然而演出后当地的反响,证明了巴里的坚持是正确的。但这时,巴里和孩子们正面临着一场来自现实世界的巨大打击,他们善良的母亲,正在离他们远去……
孩子的母亲(凯特·温丝莱特 Kate Winslet 饰)是一个寡妇,她也受到了这里快乐的气氛感染。巴里和他们相处就像一家人一样,享受着单纯的快乐,然而也难免招人闲话。而巴里的妻子,也终究只属于现实世界,走不进巴里的内心。
《小飞侠》的完稿上演,遭到了众人的质疑。然而演出后当地的反响,证明了巴里的坚持是正确的。但这时,巴里和孩子们正面临着一场来自现实世界的巨大打击,他们善良的母亲,正在离他们远去……
林肯 (2012) 豆瓣 TMDB Min reol
Lincoln
8.0 (234 个评分)
导演:
史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格
演员:
丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯
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莎莉·菲尔德
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其它标题:
Lincoln
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Lincoln
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1865年,持续四年的美国内战进入了尾声,亚伯拉罕·林肯总统(丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯 Daniel Day-Lewis 饰)也迎来了他的第二个任期。在生命和任期的最后四个月,林肯一直在致力于一场比内战还艰苦的战役:推动宪法第13修正案在国会的通过。该法案将从法理上永久废除奴隶制在美国的存在。然而修正案提出的时机异常糟糕:废奴思想缺少人民的响应;国会为保守势力把持;支持废奴的激进派也不满林肯的作风。当分裂出去的南部州表达了重回谈判桌和终结内战的意愿后,林肯发现他面临一个两难的痛苦决定:是获得妥协的和平,还是坚守内心的道德?是结束奴隶制,还是结束战争?
When Breath Becomes Air 豆瓣 Goodreads
8.7 (30 个评分)
作者:
Paul Kalanithi
Random House
2016
- 1
For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
Permanent Record 豆瓣
8.9 (75 个评分)
作者:
Edward Snowden
Macmillan
2019
- 9
dward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.
Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online—a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.
Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online—a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
我心归处是敦煌 豆瓣 Goodreads
7.2 (20 个评分)
作者:
樊锦诗 口述
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顾春芳 撰写
译林出版社
2019
- 10
她是备受宠爱的江南闺秀,
她是风华正茂的北大高材生,
却奉献了大半辈子的光阴,
守护着荒野大漠的七百三十五座洞窟。
人们亲切地喊她“敦煌的女儿”,
她却说,我其实也想过离开。
然而,在每一个荆天棘地的人生路口,
她都选择了——坚守。
“敦煌的女儿”樊锦诗首度直面读者,亲述自己不平凡的人生:在北京大学考古系师从宿白、苏秉琦等考古名家的青春求学往事,与终身伴侣、武汉大学考古系创始人彭金章先生相濡以沫的爱情诗篇,五十多年坚守大漠、守护敦煌、向世界展现中国传统艺术之美的动人故事……
本书独家收录了一批从未公开过的资料,展现这位传奇女性的志业与爱情、困境与坚守,解读敦煌艺术崇高之美,历数百年敦煌学研究的筚路蓝缕,披露莫高窟“申遗”及“数字敦煌”背后的故事。
她是风华正茂的北大高材生,
却奉献了大半辈子的光阴,
守护着荒野大漠的七百三十五座洞窟。
人们亲切地喊她“敦煌的女儿”,
她却说,我其实也想过离开。
然而,在每一个荆天棘地的人生路口,
她都选择了——坚守。
“敦煌的女儿”樊锦诗首度直面读者,亲述自己不平凡的人生:在北京大学考古系师从宿白、苏秉琦等考古名家的青春求学往事,与终身伴侣、武汉大学考古系创始人彭金章先生相濡以沫的爱情诗篇,五十多年坚守大漠、守护敦煌、向世界展现中国传统艺术之美的动人故事……
本书独家收录了一批从未公开过的资料,展现这位传奇女性的志业与爱情、困境与坚守,解读敦煌艺术崇高之美,历数百年敦煌学研究的筚路蓝缕,披露莫高窟“申遗”及“数字敦煌”背后的故事。
Greenlights 豆瓣
8.6 (7 个评分)
作者:
Matthew McConaughey
Headline
2020
- 10
From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.
I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call 'catching greenlights.'
So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.
Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.
It's a love letter. To life.
It's also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
Good luck.
I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call 'catching greenlights.'
So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.
Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.
It's a love letter. To life.
It's also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
Good luck.
Becoming 豆瓣
8.2 (24 个评分)
作者:
Michelle Obama
Crown
2018
- 11
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare.
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare.
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.
The Code Breaker 豆瓣 Goodreads
7.6 (5 个评分)
作者:
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster
2021
- 3
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.
Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.
The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.
Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?
After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.
Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.
The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.
Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?
After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.
Dear Girls 豆瓣 Goodreads
7.2 (20 个评分)
作者:
Ali Wong
Random House
2019
- 10
Ali Wong’s heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped their dad.
In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly that she even became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads.
The sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this completely original collection. She shares the wisdom she’s learned from a life in comedy and reveals stories from her life off stage, including the brutal single life in New York (i.e. the inevitable confrontation with erectile dysfunction), reconnecting with her roots (and drinking snake blood) in Vietnam, tales of being a wild child growing up in San Francisco, and parenting war stories. Though addressed to her daughters, Ali Wong’s letters are absurdly funny, surprisingly moving, and enlightening (and gross) for all.
In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly that she even became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads.
The sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this completely original collection. She shares the wisdom she’s learned from a life in comedy and reveals stories from her life off stage, including the brutal single life in New York (i.e. the inevitable confrontation with erectile dysfunction), reconnecting with her roots (and drinking snake blood) in Vietnam, tales of being a wild child growing up in San Francisco, and parenting war stories. Though addressed to her daughters, Ali Wong’s letters are absurdly funny, surprisingly moving, and enlightening (and gross) for all.
昨日的世界 豆瓣 Goodreads
Die Welt von Gestern
9.3 (117 个评分)
作者:
[奥]茨威格
译者:
徐友敬等
上海译文出版社
2018
- 7
《昨日的世界》是奥地利作家斯特凡•茨威格创作的自传体文学作品,写于1939年至1941年间,是茨威格在临终前被迫流亡的日子里完成的。在茨威格离世以后,于1942年在斯德哥尔摩出版。
在这部作品里,茨威格把个人命运与时代融为一体,通过自己所经历的人与事,展示了他生活过的城市和国家的文化生活风貌,记录了从第一次世界大战前夜到第二次世界大战时动荡的欧洲社会,描述了他与一些世界闻名的诗人、作家、雕塑家、音乐家交往的情景,批露了世界文化名人鲜为人知的生活轶事,同时穿插了作者各种细腻的心迹。茨威格从出生的城市维也纳和自己的犹太家庭写起,一直写到1939年9月已满60岁的时候,时值第二次世界大战爆发,他认为,这是“我们这些六十岁人的时代彻底结束”。
在这部作品里,茨威格把个人命运与时代融为一体,通过自己所经历的人与事,展示了他生活过的城市和国家的文化生活风貌,记录了从第一次世界大战前夜到第二次世界大战时动荡的欧洲社会,描述了他与一些世界闻名的诗人、作家、雕塑家、音乐家交往的情景,批露了世界文化名人鲜为人知的生活轶事,同时穿插了作者各种细腻的心迹。茨威格从出生的城市维也纳和自己的犹太家庭写起,一直写到1939年9月已满60岁的时候,时值第二次世界大战爆发,他认为,这是“我们这些六十岁人的时代彻底结束”。