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	The Popkorn Junkie :: Ali
		I was expecting a biography of Muhammad Ali's entire life, from youth to old age, but instead received a fraction of his life, beginning with the fight in which he first won the heavyweight championship, and ending with the famous 'Rumble in the Jungle'.
		Smith, Voight, Foxx, and Peebles do a fantastic job of keeping us interested for a majority of the film, but the rest is so bogged down with senseless scenes and interludes that we find our eyes slowly beginning to show signs of tiredness.
		"Ali" is a good film for people who enjoy sitting through lengthy amounts of time in a movie theater, and "Ali" is good for anyone who wants a brief and fractionated history of the great fighter, but anyone looking for a great biography or an in-depth psychological examination into his mind will be highly disappointed.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/ali.html (1088 words)

	Smith, Ali \| Authors \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Ali Smith learned to read at the age of three from the labels on her elder siblings' singles collection.
		Smith's work has been the subject of critical acclaim from the publication of her first Saltire award-winning collection of stories, Free Love and Other Stories, in 1995.
		This semi-experimental work showcases Smith's ability to play around with formal narrative structure but also demonstrates that the powerful way in which she captured the mind of a younger narrator in her earlier novel, Hotel World, was not a one-off.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,,1761762,00.html (396 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hotel World: Books: Ali Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Smith's narrative style varies with each character and is generally exciting and quite successful, although some readers will find the acrobatics tiring.
		I was simply stunned with how effortlessly Ali Smith seemed to do this, even tying things, in her own strange way, together in the end as you seem to witness the circle of life and it's seasons.
		Ali Smith's voice (to borrow a phrase from her companion in Internet search engine results) will rumble in the jungle for a very long time.
	www.amazon.ca /Hotel-World-Ali-Smith/dp/0140296794 (1881 words)

	Splendid: Departments: Pointless Questions: Ali Smith
		Ali Smith: I would choose to live in a $4 million loft in NYC and to summer in Italy, but I'm not sure it would choose me.
		Ali Smith: "Another One Bites the Dust", heralding the ousting of one George Bush as president.
		Ali Smith: Babette Holland, my art teacher, because I could do the strangest, most disturbing piece of art and she'd run through the school celebrating it and telling all the teachers they had to see it.
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/pq/alismith2.html (868 words)

	Ali Smith: The Accidental - Palimpsest
		Smith plays dizzying games with her story and language; she bends and buckles her prose, breathes fire into it, lets it cool, swirls it up in unimaginable shapes.
		Smith has a good command of interior monologue, which she showed in Hotel World, though where that book was all first-person narratives, The Accidental is mostly third-person, but from different points of view.
		Ali Smith's novel The Accidental follows a 12-year-old girl spending her summer in Norfolk with her family.
	www.palimpsest.org.uk /forum/showthread.php?t=1301 (1364 words)

	Ali Smith
		Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962.
		To say that Smith plans her writings conscientiously gives the impression that she might be an over-deliberate, uninspiring writer, and this is very far from the truth.
		Smith's stories are peppered with irrelevant information, which she delivers with a tongue-in-cheek delight worthy of Michael Caine.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth91 (1650 words)

	Parasol Records : Labels : Parasol : Steve Almaas and Ali Smith : Self Titled
		Ali Smith's musical background is steeped in punk, rockabilly and most notably, the blues stomp of Speedball Baby.
		Ali's first incarnation was as a dancer at the School of American Ballet, until she shaved her head (which made it hard to perform in the Nutcracker).
		Ali liked the delta influenced, psychotic preacher style music, but the philosophy behind the lyrical content never suited her, so last year, coinciding with getting her first book deal, Ali left the band on good terms to pursue her own musical aspirations and her photography.
	www.parasol.com /labels/parasol/parcd084.asp (1132 words)

	Ali Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge.
		Her fondness for the grandscale and her employment of shifting perspectives, formal risk-taking and rich language all mark Smith out as a "literary" writer, but her confident, inventive tales also display a humour which lightens the ambitious themes she covers.
		Ali Smith's books are imbued with a perceptiveness that is acute and probing for all that it is gentle and compassionate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ali_Smith (331 words)

	BookerPrize: Ali Smith Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		We are talking in Smith’s bijou, a book-insulated terraced house in a secluded Cambridge lane which she shares with Sarah Wood, her long-term partner.
		Ali hopes her fans will enjoy "A good read, a strong sense of love, a willingness to connect...A keenness to live fully".
		She is a shy woman who avoids the celebrity side of publishing, the 'myth of Smith' as she calls it.
	andamu.org /Booker/archives/authors/ali_smith (1298 words)

	The Accidental by Ali Smith: Reviews
		Smith is a dazzling talent, fearlessly lassoing different styles and ideas and playfully manipulating them.
		Smith is a wizard at observing and memorializing the ebb and flow of the everyday mind
		Smith renders acrobatic prose that seems in a perpetual state of acceleration.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/smithali/accidental (694 words)

	Amazon.ca: Accidental: Books: Ali Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		However, sensitivity and a sense of responsibility are present in both characters, and Smith's women are just as captivated as her men when a mysterious woman arrives to live with the family.
		At times Smith's talent seems to betray its own magic: we might not see how it's done but are made aware of it being done; the spell is broken as it is cast.
		As in life, nothing is ever too clear, even for the very smart Smarts, and Smith smartly refuses to shed too much light, choosing instead to leave her readers, as Dr. Chekhov once described his own readers to a friend, the jury.
	www.amazon.ca /Accidental-Ali-Smith/dp/0241141907 (1102 words)

	Amazon.com: The Accidental: A novel: Books: Ali Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ali Smith is able to incorporate myth and philosophy into her wry look at ordinary modern life in a way that produces an entirely fresh way of seeing.
		Ali Smith bravely experiments with language and the form of the novel to re-view life.
		Smith was trying to be clever with her rambling list of web sites, use of etc. every few lines and endless droning on about cliches.
	www.amazon.com /Accidental-novel-Ali-Smith/dp/0375422250 (2400 words)

	Jeanette Winterson - Journalism - The Times - Ali Smith
		Ali Smith is not media-shy, but she won't compromise what she is. At a time when authors are expected to sell their books the way evangelists sell God - the tour, the TV, the newspaper column, Smith has no ambition to be known outside of her work.
		Ali Smith doesn't experiment by refusing us our stories; she tells them vividly, beautifully, but without letting us fool ourselves that the shape made is complete.
		Ali Smith finds the short story form particularly seductive because it has to be so tight.
	www.jeanettewinterson.com /pages/content/index.asp?PageID=171 (1421 words)

	The Accidental - Ali Smith
		Smith is a wizard at observing and memorializing the ebb and flow of the everyday mind (.....) The close-up is Smith's forte.
		(...) Ali Smith makes a strength of her insecurity as a novelist -- which is, in fact, an insecurity about the power of the novel.
		Smith's presentation of this family-tale is remarkable: often compelling, occasionally frustrating.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/popgb/smitha3.htm (1996 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Ali Smith's split world
		Scottish author Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962, and now lives in Cambridge.
		Smith studied for her first degree in Aberdeen, but moved to Cambridge to do a PhD in American and Irish modernism.
		Her memorable protagonist is the ghost of a young woman who dies in a hotel dumb waiter at the beginning of the novel.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1551211.stm (452 words)

	Ali - Movie Preview
		When the Ali company was filming nights on 79th Street in Chicago in the dead of winter, thousands came out.
		And the young who were there to see Will Smith were outnumbered by the older men who remembered the days when Muhammad Ali and his pals used to hang out there.
		In his heyday, which lasted from 1964 to 1978 (with a lot of time off in the middle when the WBA stripped him of his title), Ali was the best fighter in the world.
	www.preview-online.com /jan-feb02/feature_articles/ali/index.html (514 words)

	The Sideshow: Ali Smith's"The Whole Story and Other Stories"
		Ali Smith made a wonderful debut in America with her novel, Hotel World.
		It is not by accident that Smith declines to include a story entitled “The Whole Story” either, for the underlying theme of this collection is the partiality of stories, how no story, no relationship, no person even, can be completely whole.
		Smith’s genius is in the quiet details that accumulate and take on layers of meaning in a meandering fashion.
	www.themodernword.com /sideshow/asmith.html (614 words)

	Amazon.com: Ali: DVD: Will Smith,Jon Voight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Smith will, in my opinion, never again be seen merely as an actor for "popcorn" flicks: in Ali we see the triumphant breakthrough performance of a dramatic leading man. Voight's total transformation into Cosell is amazing; if I didn't know beforehand that he was playing the role, I don't think I would have recognized him.
		Ali as womanizer, a confused young man who could be cruel at times, a man driven largely by unconscious impulses, all the unpleasant aspects of this enigmatic figure are here for everyone to see.
		And the reason why is that this theatrical tragedy portrayed the real Ali who possessed a for-the-most-part soft-spoken and somewhat shy demeanor and was adoreed by the ladies on a sex symbol scale with a loud-mouthed, vainglorious person who reminded me of some of the negro punks who I attended an integrated school with.
	www.amazon.com /Ali-Will-Smith/dp/B00005JKMQ (3025 words)

	Powell's Books - The Accidental: A Novel by Ali Smith
		Smith's story is bewitching, her characters empathetic, and her craft impeccable.
		Smith is a wonderful ventriloquist, adept at throwing her voice into an astonishing array of characters....
		Ali Smith is the author of six works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World, which was short?listed for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-0375422250-0 (776 words)

	“Ali Smith: She Fell and Missed the Ground” Exhibit Opens at Local Gallery
		WHITTIER, CA (January 12, 2005)—“Ali Smith: She Fell and Missed the Ground,” a large-scale installation exhibit by artist Ali Smith, opens January 16 and runs through February 25 in Greenleaf Gallery, located in Mendenhall on the Whittier College campus.
		Smith uses a variety of media including puffy paint, glitter, sequins and frosting-like paint to portray a topsy-turvy world inhabited by fanciful, Baroque-inspired characters.
		Ali Smith earned a B.S. in studio art from Skidmore College in 1998 and an M.F.A. at California State University, Long Beach in 2003.
	www.whittier.edu /pr/rls.Ali_Smith.html (338 words)

	Hotel World - Ali Smith
		"Smith's sidelong approach to plot produces an overall effect of a pebble dropped into water, echoed in recurrent images of fallings both physical and emotional.
		Smith does much of this section exceptionally well: the book is worthwhile for this alone.
		In different styles Smith presents their take on the events (which none of them fully comprehend).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/popgb/smitha.htm (956 words)

	Amazon.fr : Like: Livres en anglais: Ali Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Smith's writing, at its strongest, is unhurried, perceptive, tender and graceful.
		Just what that cataclysm might have been isn't even hinted at until halfway through the book, but when the vibrant Aisling McCarthy is mentioned by a snoopy reporter, you known she somehow figured in Amy's current confusion.
		It hardly matters how, though, for the real treat here is Scottish first novelist Smith's mellifluous prose and wonderful rendering of the relationship between mother and daughter.
	www.amazon.fr /Like-Ali-Smith/dp/1860493173 (572 words)

	Ali Smith - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge.
		Short-listed for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2001, Ali Smith’s Hotel World is the kind of novel that is as rare as good room service – giving a passionate, funny, serious and captivating glimpse into the lives of five people connected to one branch of the ubiquitous Global Hotel chain.
		And from Joyce Carol Oates: ‘Ali, when you are sixty, and a young admiring good-looking man in his twenties comes to your door carrying copies of all your books and professing admiration - whatever you do, don't let him in.’ I am not sure yet whether I'll follow this or not.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000049781,00.html (782 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Hotel World" by Ali Smith
		Although Smith stays resolutely within the separate consciousness of each character, she traces the ways they cross each other's paths, even if those chance meetings only accentuate their individual isolation.
		Smith is so deft with language that it's easy, at first, to mistake "Hotel World" for an exercise in style.
		Smith may be a tricky writer, but her summoning powers are no stunt.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2002/02/21/smith/index.html (693 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Hotel World by Ali Smith
		despite all the tricks, all the tweaks of language and literature, what you remember about HOTEL WORLD is Smith's evocation of the anguish that results when a life ends, her rendering of the sadness at separating from the living world and the loneliness of staying behind.
		in Smith's hands, this slender plot serves as an excuse for a delightfully inventive, exuberant, fierce novel of which the real star is not the dead Sara, or any of the living characters, but the author's vivid, fluent, highly readable prose.
		Ali Smith’s first collection of stories won the Saltire First Book Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385722100 (653 words)

	altpick*com :: Artist spotlight - Ali Smith
		A lifelong musician and photographer, Ali's awareness of the spirit and often the duality within every performer, affords her a rare insight and connection to the inner life of her subjects while her images also acknowledge and enjoy the superficial aspects inherent in a photograph.
		Some years ago, at the height of the grunge music scene, weary of photographing four boys in plaid shirts whenever she got a music assignment, Ali decided it was time to concentrate on work that was very dear to her heart.
		Currently, Ali works as a freelance photographer for various magazines, record labels and publishing houses, and as an art director and designer at a major publishing house in her home town of New York City.
	altpick.com /spot/ali_smith/index.php (1485 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Accidental: Books: Ali Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Smith constructs unconvincing sexual and exploitative stereotypes so she can torment them, for whose pleasure it's hard to say.
		I take my hat off to Ali Smith for being able to move between prose and poerty in that way, but for anyone who doesn't like poetry, you can read it just as prose.
		Maybe Ali Smith was trying to be too clever or maybe i just missed the point.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Accidental-Ali-Smith/dp/0241141907 (969 words)

	Ali (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ali is a 2001 biographical film which tells the story of boxer Muhammad Ali.
		Ali holds a 67 percent "fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes and a 6.3 rating at the Internet Movie Database with 13,514 votes.
		Smith has said that his portrayal of Ali is his proudest work to date.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ali_(film) (682 words)

	Like - Ali Smith - Penguin Group (New Zealand)
		Ali Smith evokes the twin spirits of time and place in an extraordinarily powerful first novel, which teases out the connections between people, the attractions, the ghostly repercussions.
		By turns funny, haunting and disconcertingly moving, LIKE soars across hidden borders between cultures, countries, families, friends and lovers.
		'I've thoroughly enjoyed the book, I love Ali Smith's prose - clear and lucid and at the same time full of little quirks and subtleties that make hers an individual voice.
	www.penguin.co.nz /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781860493171,00.html (160 words)

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