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New Biography Series People Profiles Rosie O'Donnell
Alex Prud'homme, 2000

Biography Series of Rosie O'Donnell

1 review
Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme

Books on Tape, 2006

Handles French with grace???!
This is a review of the audiobook. I'll say up front that I love Julia Child and that I lived in France for five years. The book is a lot of fun, and doesn't claim to be more than it is -- a series of remembrances of a treasured time in her life. If you like cooking, eating, wine and/or France, you will likely find it enjoyable. HOWEVER, contrary to the publisher's blurb, the reader murdered ...

Cell Game, The

HarperCollins e-books, 2007

"It began with a promising cancer drug, the brainchild of a gifted researcher, and grew into an insider trading scandal that ensnared one of America's most successful women. The story of ImClone Systems and its ""miracle"" cancer drug, Erbitux, is the quintessential business saga of the late 1990s. It's the story of big money and cutting-edgescience, celebrity, greed, and slipshod business practices; the story of biotech hype and hope and every ...

The Cell Game: Sam Waksal's Fast Money and False Promises--and the Fate of ImClone's Cancer Drug

5 reviews
Alex Prud'homme

Collins, 2004

Compelling tale about greed and how the system works
This is about the Cancer Game, which might be seen as a part of the Cancer Industry, a kind of bizarre and ghoulish phenomenon of modern times that exists precisely because there is no cure for cancer. Indeed, Alex Prud'homme, who is a gifted researcher and prose stylist, whose work has appeared in such prestigious journals as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, etc., might very ...

My Life in France

112 reviews
Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme

Anchor, 2007

As Satisfying as a Hand Made Bowl of Julia's Potage Veloute au Champignons
It all began with a new bride wanting to learn to cook and progressed to owning a share in a cooking school, writing classic cookbooks that will be in print for many years, and becoming a television celebrity. During her last years, Julia Child and her husband's grandnephew, Alex Prud'homme, met frequently to record her memories. The heart of the narrative is her first years in France, where ...