Kathryn Stockett

The Fiction That Fiction Is Fiction Is Fiction

Joan Marans Dim | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Fiction Writing, Kathryn Stockett, Philip Roth, Novel Writing, Kathryn Stockett the Help, Abilene Cooper, Novelists, Kathryn Stockett Lawsuit, Fiction, Books News
Joan Marans Dim

Must a novelist, whose task often is to mine the jumble of life's experiences, disguise plot and characters so that no one is offended? My answer is an emphatic "no."

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Actress Jessica Chastain Has The Help to Get Her Award Noms

Brad Balfour | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Kathryn Stockett, The Best Supporting Actress Oscar Category, Broadway, Jessica Chastain, White Families, Minny Jackson, The Help, Octavia Spencer, Celia Foote, Take Shelter, African-American Maids, Law & Order, Sugar Ditch, Tennessee, Coriolanus, Michael Shannon, Tate Taylor, The Debt, Tree of Life, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

When actress Jessica Chastain attended the Sundance Film Festival more than a year ago, making the rounds for the film Take Shelter, she spoke on a pa...

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Will The Help's Oscar Revive Interest in The Long Walk Home?

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Academy Awards, Medgar Evers, Sissy Spacek, Kathryn Stockett, Montgomery, Alabama, Jessica Chastain, Sncc, The Long Walk Home, Richard Pearce, Whoopi Goldberg, Ving Rhames, Emma Stone, The Help, Octavia Spencer, Jackson, John Kennedy, Oscars, Viola Davis, Mississippi, Naacp, Tate Taylor, Culture News
Peter Dreier

In contrast to The Help, The Long Walk Home shows African-American maids as active participants in the civil rights struggle -- and remains a much more uplifting and hard-hitting movie about the plight and pluck of black domestic servants confronting racism.

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PHOTOS: Nominees Play Nice Before The Oscars

Posted 02.25.2012

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Thursday night, Academy Award Nominees gathered at the home of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for The Hollywood Reporter's Nominees' Night 2012 -- a celeb...

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Did 'The Help' Cause A 'Social Awakening'? Discussing The Best Picture Nominee With A Jackson, Mississippi Native

The Huffington Post | Katie Calautti | Posted 04.24.2012

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Oscar "for your consideration" campaigns are nothing new, but Disney's take on marketing its Oscar-nominated film, "The Help," might make you pause. W...

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Out to Lunch with The Help

Regina Weinreich | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Mark Ricker Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, The Help, Kathryn Stockett, Rena DeAngelo, Culture News
Regina Weinreich

At a luncheon last week at Desmond's, Montego Glover, Nikki James, Anna Deveare Smith, and Billie Jean King celebrated the film's happy arrival on DVD with two of the stars, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, who got up to answer questions about the film.

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The Help: A Teacher's Guide

Gary Stager | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Social Justice, The Help, African-American History, Social Studies, Civil Rights, Kathryn Stockett, The Help Movie, Mississippi, Education News
Gary Stager

Some of your secondary school students have read The Help and many more will have seen this summer's film adaptation. This creates a critical teachable moment for educators.

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Helped by The Help

Nelson Davis | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Amy Einhorn, The Help Movie, Small Business, Octavia Spencer, Rejections, Kathryn Stockett, Civil Rights, Alabama, Viola Davis, Penguin Group, Small Business America, Business News
Nelson Davis

There is a bonus lesson in how The Help finally got to the marketplace and that is you have to take calculated risks.

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Amy Lee

Is The Number One Movie In America Overrated?

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 11.01.2011

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"The Help," a feel-good tearjerker about the plight of black maids in 1960s Mississippi, is the number one movie in America. Based on a bestsellin...

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Lucas Kavner

How Social Media Has Helped 'The Help'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 10.30.2011

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Summer movies tend to explode onto the scene in their opening weekends and then slowly peter off, giving way to the next weekend's blockbuster sequel ...

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Historians Respond: Who Needs The Help?

Jim Downs | Posted 10.28.2011

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Jim Downs

The Help has stirred up a controversy.

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The Help's Octavia Spencer: "You Have to Know and You Have to Be Educated"

Ellen Sterling | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: The Help, Octavia Spencer, Eyes on the Prize, Kathryn Stockett, Tate Taylor, The Help Movie, The Help Film, Octavia Spence the Help, Entertainment News
Ellen Sterling

Octavia Spencer may be best known to devotees of Ugly Betty as Constance Grady, the IMS agent who stalked Betty's father. Her film resume is varied, but she says, The Help was especially close to her heart.

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Maid Sues 'The Help' Author

AP | By HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 10.10.2011

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JACKSON, Miss. -- Lawyers for Kathryn Stockett want a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses the author of "The Help" of basing a character on a real...

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HuffPost Review: The Help

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.03.2012

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Marshall Fine

Some will say: This is yet another movie about the civil-rights movement moment in our history, in which the white people are the heroes, saving the black characters. But that's far too simplistic a reading of The Help.

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WATCH: A Roundtable On 'The Help' And Race

Posted 10.10.2011

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Kathryn Stockett's novel, "The Help," about the lives of several black domestics in Mississippi and the white children they cared for, was snapped up ...

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A Silence Broken: The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 10.09.2011

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Ilana Teitelbaum

In the world of The Help nothing is what it seems, but there is a kind of innocence to its mysteries. There is just enough suspense to keep the pages turning, and tragedy throughout.

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Hollywood Outdoes Itself On 'The Help'

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 10.08.2011

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A class act such as "The Help" is rare enough in Hollywood. Coming at the tail end of summer blockbuster season, it's almost unheard of. "The Help" i...

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Kathryn Stockett Needs Help

Duchess Harris | Posted 10.04.2011

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Duchess Harris

Our popular culture obsession is with the "largely fictional" book, The Help. Sounds like an opportune moment for second wave feminists to engage in some serious deconstructionist critical analysis. Or maybe not.

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How To Snag Free Or $1 Summer Beach Reads

time.com | Posted 08.17.2011

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If your vacation plans include a little light summer reading, you couldn’t ask for lighter fare this year. ...

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Memoirs of the Segregated South

Helen Davey | Posted 11.17.2011

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Helen Davey

Admittedly, I come from a lily-white family, English on both sides. However, I believe that a person doesn't have to be black to feel the effects of racism -- a point that Kathryn Stockett makes very well in her novel, "The Help."

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The President's 'Inner Circle,' 'World War II' And More: The Week's Hottest Reads

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Inner Circle" by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central Publishing)...

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An African-American Woman Wrote To Me: The Help Makes Us Look Ignorant & One-Dimensional

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jesse Kornbluth

"Concerned" saw what looked like a paradox with The Help. That is, a writer who greatly admires the African-American women who inspired the book created characters she unknowingly mocks.

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Bestsellers: Publishers Weekly

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larsson (Knoph)...

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'The Help' To Be Made Into A Movie

AP | CHRIS TALBOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kathryn Stockett and Tate Taylor have been best friends all their lives. Now they're collaborating on a major motion picture. DreamWorks Studios rece...

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Bestsellers: Publisher's Weekly

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jodi Picoult, The Help, Publishers Weekly, Kathryn Stockett, Chelsea Handler, House Rules, Books, Karl Rove Book, Bestsellers, Books News

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "House Rules: A Novel" by Jodi Picoult (Atria)...

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