Mitch Albom News

CHICAGO?Best-selling "Tuesdays with Morrie" author Mitch Albom will speak at the opening banquet of Religion Communication Congress 2010 next April 7-10 at the Chicago Marriott.

Mitch Albom's small novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, is about a character named Eddie who dies and enters into the afterlife where five people he meets there explain his life to him.

When journalist Mitch Albom reconnected with college professor Morrie Schwartz, he found a new career writing books and plays about the meaning of life.

The first plays offered by Paradise Community Theatre in the 2010 season have begun rehearsals under the direction of Palmer Huff.

The play "Tuesdays with Morrie" opens on Thursday, January 21, at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts in West Price Hill in a production directed by Dennis Murphy, starring Bill Hartnett as Morrie Schwartz and Jay Woffington as Mitch Albom.

And the director said, "Great. One more." And I went, "Oomph." "Great. Let's try again." This was in Los Angeles, months ago, en route to my biggest moment of fame on the planet Earth and that is, of course, a cameo on "The Simpsons." "Oooggrrrph." "Great. Again, please." My "motivation" was being tossed out of a building and landing splat on the ...

How do you say thanks to someone who by profession and lifestyle has consistently put a smile on your face? You do it by staying true to the laughter.

You can always count on The Simpsons for a timely reference. Why it was only back in 1997 that Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie book came out, so it's high time we riff on it.

Mitch Albom played himself in last night's episode of 'The Simpsons.' Detroit Free Press columnist and author Mitch Albom made a guest appearance on last night's episode of "The Simpsons." Albom voiced himself in an episode entitled "Thursdays with Abie." In the episode, Grandpa Abe Simpson gets his old stories picked up by a local newspaper ...

Is it the last roundup for Ty on "Heartland"? SUPPLIED FILE PICTURE War stories: Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays With Morrie , guest voices as himself on The Simpsons as Grampa as he tells his tales of glory and more from the Second World War.

B ooknet's bestsellers of the last five years RANK // TITLE /AUTHOR/PUBLISHER FICTION 1 The Memory Keeper's Daughter , by Kim Edwards .

Borders is coming to the holiday shopping rescue of consumers impacted by this past weekend's snow storms.

Sometimes holiday shopping for your mother is one of the most difficult tasks. You've known her your whole life, but figuring out what to give her as a gift seems almost impossible.

Parents' names: Veronica and Rollen Reyes. Favorite class: Yearbook. "I really enjoy doing the layouts, setting up pages and making memories." Activities in school: Cheer, National Honor Society, Student Council, yearbook and Upward Bound.

If you're looking for a good read to pass onto your homeschooled students, family and/or friends this Christmas season; here's three great books worth the read: Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom.

Published: Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 10:46 p.m. Two subjects guaranteed to cause an argument are religion and politics.

I am currently reading two books which share some sentiment; "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff .

Jon Whitfield, left, plays the part of Mitch Albom, and Bob Moore the part of Professor Morrie Schwartz, in this weekend's stage production of "Tuesdays with Morrie," at the Church at Carbondale.

Tickets are now on sale for a local stage production of the best-selling book "Tuesdays with Morrie," Nov.

Dyersburg State Community College will present 'Tuesdays with Morrie' at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov.