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Hollywood has finally realized that Tobey Maguire has grown up. The actor who gained fame as a teenager in the "Spider-Man" movies has embraced fatherhood and a new role as a soldier whose family is torn apart by war.

In the movie Brothers , Natalie Portman is faced with a tough choice -- Jake Gyllenhaal or Tobey Maguire? Maguire plays her husband, a soldier who is believed killed in the war in the Middle East, and Gyllenhaal plays Maguire's brother, who comforts his sibling's wife and daughters.

Another art-house food film: an agnostic chocolate-maker opens her Little Shop of Temptations during the Lenten fast.

Michael Caine has been confirmed as the recipient of the Variety Award at this year's British Independent Film Awards, which takes place Dec.

John Irving aficionados, and there are many, could easily write a list of everything they would look for in a classic Irving novel.

On John Irving's Wikipedia page, there is a colourful chart dedicated to matching his novels with his recurring themes.

Sir Michael Caine, the 76-year-old star a ' who has previously received Best Supporting Actor Academy Awards for 1986 film 'Hannah and Her Sisters' and 1999's 'The Cider House Rules' a ' thinks his only hope of being honoured again is in a year of low standards.

John Irving has always called himself an underdog, and he still talks like one even at 67, even wildly famous as one of Americas great storytellers, even at the release of his 12th novel, certain to be a best-seller.Maybe he feels goaded.

Sir Michael Caine is a veteran of more than 100 films spanning more than 50 years, but his latest outing, in the grimy, hard-hitting "urban western" Harry Brown is one of his most personal projects yet.

Can we sponsor a career day for literary novelists? Not to force them to abandon their IBM Selectrics or bound notebooks and become executive assistants, drill sergeants, or firemen.

John Irving packs a lot - too much at times - into his 12th novel. But if you like sprawling family stories with sexual complications, memorable characters and reflections on writing, "Last Night in Twisted River" is for you.

John Irving's appearance is part of the California Lectures series. In John Irving's latest novel, the main character shares the author's profession, but that's not the most important similarity.

We're more than halfway through Seattle's fall literary season, and it's been as rich as any in recent memory.

John Irving packs a lot - too much at times - into his 12th novel. But if you like sprawling family stories with sexual complications, memorable characters and reflections on writing, then 'Last Night in Twisted River' is for you.

Last Night in Twisted River. John Irving. Random. 553 pages. $28. The bear makes its first appearance on Page 28.

Just as the nights turn long and cold, a new John Irving saga arrives to carry us away.

When "The World According to Garp" was published more than 30 years ago, John Irving found himself on bestseller lists for the first time.

In his latest, John Irving serves up a meditation, with abundant plot twists, on why novelists do what they do John Irving's career as a novelist began in 1968, with the publication of "Setting Free the Bears.'' The career of novelist Danny Angel, the main character in Irving's new novel, "Last Night in Twisted River,'' spans the same 41 years.

IFOA XXX John Irving on John Irving on John Irving John Irving AFP/Getty Images The author's new book, Last Night in Twisted River, features a hero who's a lot like Irving himself and who even finds redemption through writing a novel From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Oct.

Danny Baciagalupo, the protagonist in your new novel, is a writer. You've written about writers before, haven't you? No.