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Addicted to LivingAddicted to Living: Midlife at its Best - by Geraldine
Addicted to Living -Welcome to the latest edition of Addicted to Living. I hope you will enjoy seeing our best picks from the Cannes Film Festival 2010, as well as my favourite Winter Lentil Soup and an easy peasy Apple Cake which my sister-in-law recently brought to a family dinner. It was devoured in an instant by the men in the family, who admitted it was better than anything their mothers had served up! And so easy to make with canned apples and bought pastry! She had me fooled. You might enjoy the article on The Pill turns 50, how to wear those comfortable long cardigans or even watch the Best of Ted.com showing the only talk ever recorded by Victor Frankl. Then for a little light reading Joanna Trollop's latest book, The Other Family, is reviewed.The Best of Cannes Juliette Binoche won best actress for her role in the romantic drama Certified Copy. Uncle Boonmee can recall his past lives, is a llittle obscure for me but will appeal to cinophiles, while Russell Crowe makes an interesting Robin Hood. Michael Douglas is back in Money Never Sleeps, the sequel to Wall Street. Of Gods and Men looks interesting, as does The Tree with Charlotte Gainsbourg and of course the Stones documentary The Stones in Exile. Mick Jagger admitted in an interview they were "stupid" in 1971. More.....The Pill: woman's best friend?The contraceptive pill is 50 years old – but as controversial as ever. Julia Llewellyn Smith charts its devastating impact on sex and family life. Raquel Welch, the actress who played a bikini-clad cave woman and had three husbands, last week blamed the contraceptive pill for the decline of marriage. On the Pill’s 50th birthday, Welch, 69, declared that the widespread use of oral contraception had led to epidemic promiscuity. Read about how The Pill changed our lives more....How to wear a long cardigan The humble cardigan has come a long way since it was named after the seventh Earl of Cardigan, General James Thomas Brudenell in the mid-1800s. Now more high-end than hand-me-down, the long cardigan even masquerades as a coat.Why you need it now. Cosy up in a long cardigan to combat the oncoming winter chills without looking lazy or sloppy. This season's long cardis come with a finish that elevates their status from strictly casual to super-stylish. more..... This week on Ted.comViktor Frankl - Why to believe in othersIn this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD1512_XJEw Julia Sweeney has "the Talk" Despite her best efforts, comedian Julia Sweeney is forced to tell a little white lie when her 8-year-old begins learning about frog reproduction -- and starts to ask some very smart questions. http://www.ted.com/talks/julia_sweeney_has_the_talk.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2010-05-18&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email Eating InI love this Winter Lentil Soup recipe. It's so easy to make and is a wholesome meal on cold winter nights. more.....The men in your life will love you to bake this easy Apple Cake for them. Serve warm with lashings of cream or yoghurt if you prefer. more.... A good read Joanna Trollop's novels are easy to read and her characters are very real. I particularly love the way her characters tear each other apart emotionally while being very polite and very English. This latest novel, The Other Family, is about Chrissie who always believed that Richie loved her, had loved her for all the 23 years they had been together, loved their three daughters and their happy existence, but what about Margaret, his first wife and her son Scott who never saw Richie? more...
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What is it about hearty, heartless Henry VIII that, five centuries on, scriptwriters and novelists still buzz about him like wasps around jam? The fascination is not confined to Anne Boleyn's heaving bosom, whatever Philippa Gregory might have you think. Nor is it simply the glittering dramatic possibilities of period betrayal and bloodshed: those starched ruffs, that retinue of doomed wives.
A best seller in France and several other countries, this wonderful book belongs to a distinct subgenre: the accessible book that flatters readers with its intellectual veneer. The novel’s two narrators alternate chapters, but the book is dominated by Renée, a widowed concierge in her 50s who calls herself “short, ugly and plump,” a self-consciously stereotypical working-class nobody. She is also an autodidact - 
The face of grief that the actor Colin Firth wears in “A Single Man” is crumpled and gray. There is little movement in the face initially: it’s a beautiful and gently furrowed mask, not yet old, despite the small brushstrokes of white at the temples. You might think that gravity alone was tugging at its mouth. But George, the middle-aged professor and single man of the title whom Mr. Firth plays with a magnificent depth of feeling, has had his heart broken, and the pieces are still falling. 
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It seems as though we’ve heard everything before, especially when it comes to down-on-their-luck athletes defying the odds. Well, Michael Oher’s story is pretty much just that, so the success of The Blind Side will rest in your hands. Shun it and you’ll be wishing there was a defensive end ready to take advantage of your blind side and put you out of your misery. But put your skepticism aside, embrace The Blind Side and you’ll be in for a feel-good time. 
Italian Meatballs with Tagliatelli 
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and relish the time freed up by not peeling onions or swabbing kitchen benches. But what if dinner for one is a regular thing? 
