Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos has died, his agent said Sunday. He was 62. CNN reports that Hijuelos' stories resonated with American Hispanics, and he was the first Latino to win the prestigious award for fiction for his 1989 novel, "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love." The book told the story of two Cuban brothers who emigrated to New York to try to make it as musicians in the 1950s. The book was also made into the 1992 film, "The Mambo Kings," starring Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song. Hijuelos cause of death was a sudden heart attack, according to his literary agent, Jennifer Lyons. "I never even...
- 10/14/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Pulitzer prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos died on Saturday when he had a heart attack while playing tennis, his agent confirmed to the Associated Press. Hijuelos, a Cuban-American who was born and raised in New York, won his fiction Pulitzer for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, which followed a pair of musician brothers from Havana to New York. He was the first Hispanic writer to win the Pulitzer fiction prize, and the book was turned into a movie and almost became a musical. It remains Hijuelos's most well-known work, though he wrote several other novels plus a memoir, Thoughts Without Cigarettes. Hijuelos is survived by his wife, Lori Marie Carlson.
- 10/14/2013
- by Adam Martin
- Vulture
New York — Oscar Hijuelos, a Cuban-American novelist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1989 novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and whose work often captured the loss and triumphs of the Cuban immigrant experience, has died. He was 62. Hijuelos died of a heart attack in Manhattan on Saturday while playing tennis, according to his agent, Jennifer Lyons. Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2013 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love became a best seller and earned him international acclaim. He won the Pulitzer for fiction in 1990, making him the first Hispanic writer to
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- 10/14/2013
- by The Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One of the doctors I’ve worked with once asked me “What’s it like to be a writer?”
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I guarantee that every single one of the columnists here at ComicMix has been asked that question, or a form of it, quadrillions of times.
The mother of one of my daughter’s friends: “Where do you get your ideas?”
A co-worker at my day job: “So what do you do? They give you the comic and you put the words in those balloons?”
An old boyfriend: “You get paid for that?”
My mother on the phone, back when I was a full-time freelancer: “What do you do all day? How can you sit in your pajamas until 3:00 in the afternoon?
Mom on the phone again: “I’m sorry to bother you. Are you typing?”
The answers:
“What’s it like to be a doctor?” (Cracking wise.)
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- 12/5/2011
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Pedro Almodóvar made him a star. But then Hollywood beckoned and actor abandoned mentor. Twenty years on, they're back together – and boy does it feel good...
Three decades ago, an impoverished young actor named Antonio Banderas was sitting with friends outside Madrid's National theatre when a curious figure happened by. The new arrival sported a backcombed goth bouffant and brandished a bright red briefcase that could only contain documents of national importance. He ordered a drink, cracked some jokes then turned abruptly towards Banderas. "You have a very romantic face," he said. "You should do movies. Bye-bye!" And with that he was off, swinging his briefcase through the crowds on the Calle del Principe.
Nonplussed, Banderas turned to his friends. "Oh, that's Pedro Almodóvar," they told him. "He made a movie once. But he won't make any more."
Banderas and Almodóvar went on to make five films together. These were wild,...
Three decades ago, an impoverished young actor named Antonio Banderas was sitting with friends outside Madrid's National theatre when a curious figure happened by. The new arrival sported a backcombed goth bouffant and brandished a bright red briefcase that could only contain documents of national importance. He ordered a drink, cracked some jokes then turned abruptly towards Banderas. "You have a very romantic face," he said. "You should do movies. Bye-bye!" And with that he was off, swinging his briefcase through the crowds on the Calle del Principe.
Nonplussed, Banderas turned to his friends. "Oh, that's Pedro Almodóvar," they told him. "He made a movie once. But he won't make any more."
Banderas and Almodóvar went on to make five films together. These were wild,...
- 7/29/2011
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Before he’d published a single book, Pulitzer Prize-winner Oscar Hijuelos sometimes spent his lunch hour away from a Manhattan ad agency pawing through the stacks of the opulent Pierpont Morgan Library. There, he would gaze at a display featuring a sliver of wood and a bit of nail—remnants, purportedly, of the True Cross. The exercise made him feel as though he was “somehow communing with the past, like a Borges character.” That’s always been Hijuelos’ prevailing perspective. In his memoir, Thoughts Without Cigarettes, he communes with his own past, ambling from his awkward coming of age as ...
- 7/6/2011
- avclub.com
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