The movie For Colored Girls, starring Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise, and Omari Hardwick, opens today. It is based on the play For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange (Scribner, ISBN 978-1451624205). Also opening today is Fair Game, starring Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, and Noah Emmerich. It is based on Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government by Valerie Plame Wilson (Pocket Star, ISBN 978-1451624045).
HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher tonight takes a look at Pinheads and Patriots by Bill O'Reilly (Morrow, ISBN 9780061950711).
Morning Joe features Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown, ISBN 978-0316001922).
Cornel West, whose Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud is just out in paperback (Smiley Books, ISBN 978-1401921903), is on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Stefanie Powers, author of One from the Hart (Gallery, ISBN 978-1439172100), is on The Early Show.
Also on The Early Show is Mary McCartney, talking about her new book, Mary McCartney: From Where I Standby Mary McCartney (Abrams, ISBN 978-0810996540).
The Today Show features Gary Dell'Abate, author of They Call Me Baba Booey (Spiegel & Grau, ISBN 978-1400069552) and Adam Carolla, author of In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks (Crown Archetype, ISBN 978-0307717375).
Scott Atran, author of Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists (Ecco, ISBN 978-0061344909); Antonia Fraser, author of Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter (Nan A. Talese, ISBN 978-0385532501); and Lynda Barry, whose latest is Picture This: The Near-sighted Monkey Book (Drawn and Quarterly, ISBN 978-1897299647) are on The Leonard Lopate Show.
Due to the nature of live programming, scheduling is subject to change.
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