Books
Written by Steven Dougherty
Friday, 24 June 2005 07:16
After writing my review for the upcoming Colin Farrell film The New World, I was invited to read David A. Price’s book on the film’s subjects: John Smith, Pocahontas, and Jamestown. We don’t normally do book reviews here, that I’m aware of, but we do have an impromptu book club in the site forums. That’s reason enough to justify this review.
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Last Updated on Friday, 24 June 2005 07:17
Books
Written by Drew Morton
Wednesday, 18 February 2004 14:53
Last winter, Pulitzer prize winner Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller threw together a riveting best seller entitled “Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live”. In their detailed biography, the pair conducted interviews with almost every member of the production still alive (with the exception of Eddie Murphy) and readers could not but help themselves to keep reading up on the dirt and scandal that occurred both on and off their television screen. This winter brought similar scandal and dirt in the form of a biography, only the focus has changed from SNL to the independent film movement. Written by Peter Biskind (who also wrote “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls”), “Down and Dirty Pictures” is in many ways like its predecessor: scathing, candid, mesmerizing, and impossible to put down.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 February 2004 21:23
Books
Written by John Shea
Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:24
If you ask me who were the major influences in my life that led to my becoming an entertainment writer, I would say there were two. The first was Star Wars, a movie that lit up my six year old mind and irrevocably changed the way I looked at the world. The other was Siskel & Ebert. Not long after Star Wars made me a movie fan, these two showed me the full width of the movie world.
Last Updated on Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:29
