According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Ang Lee has replaced Tobey Maguire, who was to play the role of “The Writer” in Life of Pi, with Rafe Spall, recently seen in Prometheus. Apparently, Lee decided that Maguire was too recognizable in a cast of unknowns. I guess he didn’t want the tiger upstaged by a spider(man)!
Casting change for Life of Pi
September 6th, 2012 by Julie · Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies
Featured Audio Giveaway – Sept 2012 The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
August 27th, 2012 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
by Jonathan Evison; read by Jeff Woodman
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Benjamin Benjamin has lost virtually everything—his wife, his family, his home, his livelihood. With few options, Ben enrolls in a night class called The Fundamentals of Caregiving taught in the basement of a local church. There Ben is instructed in the art of inserting catheters and avoiding liability, about professionalism, and how to keep physical and emotional distance between client and provider. But when Ben is assigned to nineteen-year-old Trev, who is in the advanced stages of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, he discovers that the endless mnemonics and service plan checklists have done little to prepare him for the reality of caring for a fiercely stubborn, sexually frustrated adolescent. As they embark on a wild road trip across the American West to visit Trev’s ailing father, a new camaraderie replaces the traditional boundary between patient and caregiver.
Bursting with energy, this big-hearted, soulful, and inspired novel ponders life’s terrible surprises and the heart’s uncanny capacity to mend and become whole again.
“Woodman skillfully navigates between the humor and sadness of the story and neatly telegraphs Ben and Trev’s complex feelings of resignation mixed with hope for something better. Listeners will be captivated by Woodman’s performance of this wonderful novel about finding one’s way in an unfair world.”
—AudioFile [Earphones Award Winner]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – August 2012 Grandad, There’s a Head on the Beach
August 2nd, 2012 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways
Grandad, There’s a Head on the Beach
by Colin Cotterill; read by Kim Mai Guest
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In the sequel to Killed at the Whim of a Hat, crime reporter Jimm Juree discovers that life in rural Thailand with her eccentric family is anything but dull—in fact, it’s downright deadly. How do you respond when you wake up to find a severed head on your resort-front beach in the morning? If you’re frustrated ex-crime reporter Jimm Juree, you take action. With her former cop grandfather as back up, she sets out to discover how the poor fellow ended up where he did—and why. On their journey, with the rest of their disjointed family in tow, they uncover gruesome tales of piracy and slavery, violence and murder in the Gulf of Thailand.
Wait—you haven’t heard Killed at the Whim of a Hat yet? Well, then we’ll have to send you both. So your winning entry will get you both the first and the second story in the Jimm Juree series, written by the creator of award-winning Dr. Siri series.
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Congratulations to DENISE MUNRO the winner of the last giveaway, Heading Out to Wonderful. Thanks to all who participated.
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Hobbit finishes shooting
July 26th, 2012 by Julie · Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies
Peter Jackson’s eighth Hobbit production diary video has been posted! It includes some footage of the director and cast at Comic-Con, plus the video they showed there. We get a few more peeks at the sets and characters, and a look at the last few days of principal photography in New Zealand.
Now they’re working on post-production while we anxiously wait for December 14!
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Old Jews on the Radio
July 25th, 2012 by Julie · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
The off-Broadway adaptation of Old Jews Telling Jokes is going strong since opening in May of this year. The show’s producer, Daniel Okrent, recently visited the WNYC’s Leonard Lopate, along with two of the performers from the show, Todd Susman and Audrey Lynn Weston. Listen here.
Until you can make New York to see the show, you can listen to our audios of Old Jews Telling Jokes and The Joke-Off. You’ll laugh your tuchus off!
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Yet Another Reason to Wish You Were Going to ComicCon
July 6th, 2012 by Kay Weiss · HighBridge at the Movies
Or, why I went there and back again to the grocery store to pick up a copy of Entertainment Weekly—because the cover story has interviews and pretty much the inside scoop on what’s going down Hobbit-wise at ComicCon.
The interesting (albeit not particularly surprising, given some casting information) news is that director Peter Jackson has incorporated storylines from elsewhere in the Tolkien canon into his film versions of The Hobbit. At least, most of the extra appears in the Tolkien canon. Per EW, Jackson put it this way: “Almost everything we’re doing is from Tolkien somewhere, whether it’s in the book or the subsequent development that wasn’t published in The Hobbit itself.”
As a Tolkien fan (I’ll claim that much. Not perhaps a fanatic, but if you are almost out of fingers and toes to count the number of times you’ve read from Silmarillion through to the very back pages of The Return of the King, I think you can fairly call yourself a fan)—anyway, as a Tolkien fan, I’ll be curious to see what storylines might be there that both are and are not to be found in Tolkien’s writing.
But Jackson has done a trustworthy job thus far, so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Although I am still trying to forgive him for having Legolas “skateboard” down the side of Helm’s Deep.
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Featured Audio Giveaway – July 2012 Heading Out to Wonderful
July 2nd, 2012 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways
Heading Out to Wonderful
by Robert Goolrick; read by Norman Dietz
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The wait for A Reliable Wife author Robert Goolrick’s next novel is over. And critics are finding Heading Out to Wonderful wonderous: “Goolrick’s tale of doomed love resonates like a folk ballad.” (Publishers Weekly). “Goolrick effortlessly creates a timeless, erotically charged tale. . . . Finely crafted fiction from a captivating writer.” (Booklist HC starred review). “Deliciously dark and dangerous.” (O, The Oprah Magazine)
And narrator Norman Dietz does justice to every lyrical word: “Dietz’s calm style adds to the sensuous descriptions. . . . The listener, lulled by Dietz’s tender voice, will feel the horror of the plot’s climax as strongly as young Sam and the people of Brownsburg.” (AudioFile)
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Congratulations to KIMBERLY HARDEE the winner of the last giveaway, The Stonecutter. Thanks to all who participated.
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First Pi scene online!
June 15th, 2012 by Julie · Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies
The first clip from the upcoming Life of Pi movie has appeared online, and it’s pretty awesome. All 10 seconds of it!
If we weren’t excited for November 21 before, we sure are now. See the clip, plus a few new images from the movie, at the official Life of Pi movie site.
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Featured Audio Giveaway – June 2012: The Stonecutter
May 31st, 2012 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways
The Stonecutter
by Camilla Läckberg; read by David Thorn
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Like to head to Sweden on vacation? We don’t recommend visiting the town of Fjällbacka—at least not in person. There’s too much murder going on, as evidenced by this third volume in.
But we definitely recommend the Fjällbacka series for vacation listening—in or outside of Sweden.
And now you can get a taste of Fjällbacka for free. Just enter to win this CD. And that’s a deal that can’t be matched by even the best travel booking site out there.
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Congratulations to JIM HUNT the winner of the last giveaway, Black Mask 6. Thanks to all who participated.
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The Search for Hector is successful
May 21st, 2012 by Julie · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies
News out of the Cannes film festival: The movie version of Hector and the Search for Happiness, by François Lelord, has found its leading man. British actor Simon Pegg, known for roles in Shaun of the Dead and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, will play the title role of a psychiatrist who travels the globe trying to find the secrets of happiness. Peter Chelsom will direct, with filming to start after shooting wraps on The World’s End, Pegg’s followup to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
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