Mamet on the Movies
David Mamet’s snappy, stacatto prose isn’t entirely missing from his collection of essays about the movie business, Bambi Vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business. But...
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Another Disney book, with a different spin
I was a little, ok a LOT reluctant to open Michael Barrier’s new Walt Disney Biography, The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney. Neal Gabler’s definitive, exhaustively-researched Disney bio, The...
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Don’t You Forget About Me…John Hughes remembered in new book
Here’s what I wanted/expected when I heard there was a new collection of essays on the 80s teen films of John Hughes coming out. Pieces by the then-young stars of the films Pretty in Pink, The...
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Michael Moore: Book’em!
That Michael Moore is big business. Not just for himself, either. He’s red-meat for anybody wanting attention for their movie, website, and now book. Earlier this month, we heard about the buzzable...
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Tales of Jack…Nicholson explained in new Bio
All Jack Nicholson biographies dwell on his uncertain paternity, the femme-centric childhood that led him to become "The Great Seducer." And they focus on what a lonely old coot the cinematic satyr...
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The Annotated Godfather, the last WORD on the Don
I can’t remember any book on The Godfather telling me as much as I wanted to know about the greatest American gangster movie of them all. Until now. Jenny M. Jones’ The Annotated Godfather is the...
View ArticleThe Tom Cruise bio…Florida connections, etc.
Tom Cruise never wanted to be a movie star. He wanted to attend Embry Riddle up in Daytona Beach, learn to fly, become a pilot. With his best girl (in high school) as a stewardess. That’s one of the...
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The Big Book on Pixar: The Pixar Touch
I was more than a little skeptical when I picked up David A. Price’s The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. The guy wrote Love & Hate in Jamestown, so he’s a legitimate...
View ArticleWhy China hates MGM, and how that may impact the studio’s selling price
The Chinese government hasn’t liked MGM ever since it released Red Corner. You know, the Dalai Lama-loving Richard Gere’s take on “Chinese justice.” And with Red Dawn remake coming out this fall, with...
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