I see the average review for this book is not even at a three. I loved reading this book. I liked Joe Eszterhas's voice. He seems like a really cool guy. Love's his wife. Love's his 4 boys. I love the way the book was formatted. Simple quotes, short lead in questions or statements. Name dro...
Hmmm. I'd say five brilliant stars for all the parts that displayed truth and raw emotional honesty -- meaning all the chapters that showed him in Cleveland as a boy and teenager. The authenticity of his dear mother getting dressed up in cocktail attire just to eat a simple meal at a diner, or hi...
Monica said. “I can understand that there’s the issue of truth, you know. We’re all God’s children, God is synonymous with good, truth and kindness and happiness and all sorts of good things.”“I don’t care about all that right now,” Linda Tripp said. A week before he and M...
Go outside the box. Screenwriter/director Jean-Luc Godard: “A film should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.” Violate everyone’s privacy. To write the way real people talk, listen to th...
My tongue. I can’t get it right. MAGIC Put a rubber band on it. KARCHY I never thought of that. Telling Lies in America THE FIRST BOOK I read was Jules Verne’s Michael Strogoff, set in the world of czarist Cossack horsemen. It had been a Christmas gift from my father’s friend, the novelist and po...
THE PASSIONOF THE CHRIST II. BRAVEHEART III. APOCALYPTO IV. BERSERKER I am Hungarian-born and I have discovered that these three things said about Hungarians are true: 1) If a Hungarian walks into a room filled with a hundred people… and if one of those people has a badly ingrown toenail… then th...