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On June 9, Google honoured America’s glittery-eyed child star Shirley Temple with a special animated doodle. Temple won an Academy Award when she was just 6.
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On June 9, Google honoured America’s glittery-eyed child star Shirley Temple with a special animated doodle. Temple won an Academy Award when she was just 6, became the country’s biggest stars at 10 before evolving into a successful diplomat. Meanwhile, it was on this particular day in 2015 that Love, Shirley Temple exhibition was opened in the Santa Monica Museum of Historical Past, a set of her uncommon memorabilia.
Daily Times
May 21, 2021
It takes patience, practice and persistence to create a fictional character, add life to it, and elevate its status to that of a national figure. Farooq Qaiser was able to achieve all this and more during his lifetime. A creative genius by birth – and a passionate learner – Farooq Qaiser advanced the thoughts of the youth as well as the intellectual capacity of adults through his well-scripted puppet shows. Indeed, his television show, Kaliyan, was a novel concept when it was first aired in 1976. While puppetry may have been an art form in villages and suburban areas, it was not promoted as a television show with a theme, story, and message. Through Kaliyan and Uncle Sargam, the masses across Pakistan were introduced to a puppet-based show akin to the American educational children’s television series, ‘Sesame Street’. The man who magically brought puppets to life passed away on May 14, 2021. Farooq Qaiser was 75. His popular TV programmes included
Today Claire Eddy, Executive Editor at Tor/Forge Books announced a newly acquired short story collection from the late Gene Wolfe via Vaughne Hansen of The Virginia Kidd Agency Inc in a major book deal for World English Rights.
This new collection showcases the amazing breadth of Wolfe’s imagination, with fanciful tales ranging from science fiction, fantasy, and horror. “It’s like a window into Gene’s inner playground,” says Claire Eddy. “As Gene Wolfe’s last editor, I am so pleased to be able to bring out a new collection of Gene’s short stories, most of which have been unavailable to anyone who doesn’t happen to have access to archive copies of old magazines or limited print-run special editions. To have a new collection of brilliant tales from one of the true greats of not only SFF but American literature is a great privilege indeed.”