Rachel Dratch’s memoir, Girl Walks into a Bar . . ., follows its subtitle exactly: she splits her book into the three sections of Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle. Comedy Calamities: most of us probably know Dratch from Saturday Night Live, and the occasional “ugly girl” role in a movie. She starts with a hyperbolized call from her agent, in which she’s asked to audition for someone monstrously ugly (and likely a lesbian). She explains that she’s pretty much offered only these roles post-SNL (with a hat […]
Not So Legend-waitforit-dary
As I started this book I told my husband, a Neil Patrick Harris fan as well, I wasn’t sure how this idea would play out. As a kid I’d ruin ‘choose your own adventure’ books my bookmarking parts I wasn’t sure about so I could return to them if I was disappointed in my outcome. So perhaps I wasn’t the target audience here. The first night I read through what I could gather was an incredibly condensed, mostly true account of NPH’s life so far. […]
I’d change my title, too, if I got Judi Dench for my movie
Like Caitlin_D noted when she reviewed Philomena last year, the book should really have been called Michael Hess, as Philomena only has about 10% of the work devoted to her. Still, it’s easy to see how Steve Coogan changed his focus when adapting the book for his movie, and the publisher’s decided to cash in on that by rereleasing the book (which was originally titled, Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search) In Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee’s family forced her into a convent to have her illegitimate. […]
Escape from Shangri-la
I was so bummed when I read badkittyuno’s review last year and realized that, since it was an audiobook, I couldn’t immediately borrow Lost in Shangri-La. “At two o’clock in the afternoon it was time to go. As the passengers lined up outside the Gremlin Special, Prossen told them to expect the tour to last three hours.” In May of 1945 a morale-boosting plane ride crashed over an unexplored Dutch New Guinea valley servicemen called Shangri-la. Three survivors emerged from the crash: a lieutenant whose […]
But I wanted to see him go to jail!
Jordan Belfort — what an asshole. Such an asshole, in fact, that he ends his book right before anything truly terrible happens to him. Therefore the reader must wait until he releases his next book to find out how exactly the law punishes him for his asshole-ness (my guess–barely, if at all). “They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.” — everyone in this book In case you’ve somehow missed the commercials for the Leonardo DiCaprio movie (which I haven’t seen, and don’t […]
The Whole Story Behind “Into the Wild”
For whatever reason, I have been incredibly moved and impressed by everything regarding the story of the life of Chris McCandless. It started with Into The Wild (1997) by Jon Krakauer. I am a huge fan of Krakauer and how he digs so far into the details to get a fair and honest picture of his subject without losing the emotional empathy that makes us connect in the first place. I will read anything by him. When I heard they were making a movie, I […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 480
- 481
- 482
- 483
- 484
- …
- 515
- Next Page »