Writer Jeanette Walls talks about the new book “Hanging on the Moon”

        JANNET Walls’ best-selling 2005 memoir, The Glass Castle – living in a basement, using a bucket as a toilet, rummaging through the trash, eating cat food and becoming a journalist I know well – was made into a movie in 2017 with Woody in main role. Harrelson and Naomi Watts.
        “Now it’s Hanging Moon.” Fiction. roar. A story about a tough girl who became a rum merchant during hard times. My grandmother and my rampant alcoholic father were moonshine makers. As a botanical researcher, I have read court records that directly involved law enforcement officials. Everyone breaks the law. Everyone ignored the ban. “Hang the Moon” was filmed in Virginia, the rainiest county in the world at the time.
        “It took me eight years to write this work. That day, I even learned the curse words. For realism, my writer husband would act out with me while I was writing. He read the lines and said: “React.” We”. play roles. Look, I have the right to write about someone who lived 100 years ago because I grew up without electricity or running water.”
        “I live on a farm in Virginia and I love it here. My husband wanted to be close to his father during his golden years, so he dragged me in there, kicking and screaming. Now I like it. I have trees, horses, dogs, deer, goats, and our neighbor is the sheriff.”
       There was no pink on the catwalk, although producer Steven Schwartzman’s wife Kristen wore a pink top, pink skirt, pink shoes and a pink bag.
        Andrew was not present at the opening of the B’way Empire Theatre, he stayed at the bedside of his beloved son in the London hospice. After Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Evita, School of Rock, Sunset Boulevard, Joseph and the Amazing Colored Dream Suit, this time ALW has little power to lead Cinderella in any crystal shoes or box office gold .
        What they do: The Jonas Brothers search a Brooklyn Times Square diner for convenience food. Fans do not want to eat bland soup with balls and take pictures through the window. In 1974, Yoko Ono took the EST, Human Fury course, and drove her assistants home in her always-running limousine. Calm down, she’s 90 years old. . . James Cameron munching on a 35-story bowl of spaghetti on the 35th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel. He must take the elevator down to the trattoria dell’arte.
        Note on CBS-TV’s “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan. The hair is simple, not flashy blonde, and falls down to the navel. Dress appropriately. Shoes are not boots. Professionally, she does A-1 work.
        April Fool’s Day is just around the corner, when politicians are to vote. According to polls, only a handful of career criminals will be crucified this year. The rest are eligible for re-election.


Post time: Jun-02-2023