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I Know Where I'm Going: Katharine Hepburn, A Personal Biography (2010)

I Know Where I’m Going: Katharine Hepburn, A Personal Biography (2010)

I Know Where I’m Going is allegedly based on a series of recordings made over many years.  It is self-proclaimed as “the most intimate and personal biography ever published...

Samantha
Topgun Days: Dogfighting, Cheating Death, and Hollywood Glory as One of America's Best Fighter Jocks (2011)

Topgun Days: Dogfighting, Cheating Death, and Hollywood Glory as One of America’s Best Fighter Jocks (2011)

I’ve always insisted that Top Gun is a character-driven movie, or perhaps even a soundtrack-driven movie, but that may have a lot to do with the fact that, after...

Jennifer
Something Startling Happens: The 120 Story Beats Every Writer Needs to Know (2011)

Something Startling Happens: The 120 Story Beats Every Writer Needs to Know (2011)

If you go to write a screenplay these days, there’s no shortage of books to tell you exactly how it’s done.  Formula seems to be the key to success,...

Jennifer
Sell Your Own Damn Movie! (2011)

Sell Your Own Damn Movie! (2011)

You might not think of Troma films as the classiest fare on the market, but the reality is that this studio and its motley crew of films (think The...

Jennifer
Screenwriting Tips, You Hack (2011)

Screenwriting Tips, You Hack (2011)

According to Xander Bennett, we’re all hacks when it comes to screenwriting.  This theory is intended to be comforting, not insulting, and the sooner we embrace the fact that...

Jennifer
Lucille Ball FAQ: Everything Left to Know About America's Favorite Redhead (2011)

Lucille Ball FAQ: Everything Left to Know About America’s Favorite Redhead (2011)

Lucille Ball is such a fixture in pop culture that it’s hard to believe she’d be 100 years old if she were still alive.  One hundred?  How the heck...

Jennifer
Hire Me, Hollywood! (2011)

Hire Me, Hollywood! (2011)

Probably just about everyone who loves television or movies has toyed with the idea of working in Hollywood.  For the most part, those dreams tend to be of the...

Jennifer
Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas (2010)

Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas (2010)

There probably isn’t a movie-lover among us who doesn’t have a host of Christmas movies he or she revisits every year, and Alonso Duralde’s Have Yourself A Movie Little...

Jennifer
A Dangerous Woman: The Life, Loves, and Scandals of Adah Isaacs Menken, 1835-1868, America's Original Superstar (2011)

A Dangerous Woman: The Life, Loves, and Scandals of Adah Isaacs Menken, 1835-1868, America’s Original Superstar (2011)

You’ve probably never heard of Adah Isaacs Menken, but this pioneering free spirit could be considered America’s first true Superstar (with a capital “S”).  By fearlessly defying convention, Menken...

Jennifer
The Man Who Created Halloween (2012)

The Man Who Created Halloween (2012)

To say that Irwin Yablans created Halloween is a bit of an overstatement. As producer, he may have made the entire franchise possible, but movie-making is always a collaborative...

Jennifer
Ronald Reagan's Wisdom for the Twenty-First Century (2012)
  • September 20, 2012
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Ronald Reagan’s Wisdom for the Twenty-First Century (2012)

With a presidential election upon us and the Republican National Convention just behind us, Ronald Reagan’s Wisdom for the Twenty-First Century seems like a timely and relevant book. Regardless...

Jennifer
The Boy Who Loved Batman (2011)

The Boy Who Loved Batman (2011)

Everyone remembers having that one childhood obsession that took on a life of its own and developed the power to shape everything in its path. Whether it was a...

Jennifer