robert schnakenberg – Cannonball Read 17

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Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers by Robert Schnakenberg

March 23, 2019 by octothorp 1 Comment

So I knew this book would be trashy, but I didn’t expect it to be actual trash. I’m gonna finish it, but I hated this book enough that I couldn’t wait to be done to start my review. (Edit: I finished it. It also states that Jack Nicholson got his break playing the crazed dental patient in Little Shop of Horrors – he was masochistic, but it was the dentist who was crazed – and credits Yeardley Smith as the voice of Bart Simpson when she’s actually […]

If you only read one book about Bill Murray this year…I wouldn’t really recommend this one

February 3, 2017 by badkittyuno 2 Comments

I borrowed The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray from Caitlin_D because who doesn’t love Bill Murray? Unfortunately, I found the book a little lacking. It’s the second book about this man that I’ve read the last few months, and the other one was definitely better. Although I don’t normally have a problem with narratives skipping around, I second Caitlin’s opinion that the author’s choice to alphabetize Bill’s movies instead of presenting them chronologically (which does makes sense, as this is supposed to be encyclopedia), makes it […]

About Last Night to Zombieland

January 24, 2017 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

I bought The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray for our annual White Elephant gift exchange this past Christmas but when someone who lived out of town opened it I panicked that I wouldn’t be able to borrow it and stole it on my turn. While that may not be the intended spirit of a gift exchange it was probably in the spirit of Bill Murray. Robert Schnakenberg is clearly a Bill Murray super-fan; his resulting encyclopedia is colorful and entertaining but its format limits […]

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