BOOK-MOVIE-REVIEWS

MY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS;

Fiction

Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

The Red Dragon.-

Replay - Ken Grimwood

Andromeda Strain - Chrichton.

Dead Souls - Gogol (A knee-slapper for literary snobs).

Alaska - Michener

Nonfiction:

Charley Wilson's War - Crile

Lincoln - The Prairie Years, The War Years - Carl Sandburg

The Making of the Prefident 1789 - Marvin Kitman

American Buffalo - Rinella

In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Cunningham.

Godless - Coulter

The Island of Lost Maps - Miles Harvey

Common Sense - Beck

The French - Sanche de Gramont

The Federalist - Madison, Hamilton, Jay (John, not Leno)

Unholy Alliance - Horowitz (The skinny on American lefties)

State of Fear - Michael Chrichton

Yes, but is it true? - Aaron Wildavsky's

REBA'S RECOMMENDATIONS

The Death of Right and Wrong - Tammy Bruce

The Discoverers - Boorstin

Black Dahlia Avenger - Hodel

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn

WORST BOOKS EVER

The DaVinci Code - Brown (Is research out of the question?)

Way of the World - Wiliam Congreve (yes I know , it's a play)

Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe (Chloroform in print).

Atlas Shrugged - Rand (Sorry, Reba - maybe ahead of its time, but the most obvious prose since Congreve's " Way of the World ")

Waiting for Godot - Beckett (We're still waiting).

My Life in the Mafia (When the author starts off by telling you he pushed someone to his death from a cliff in Miami, you put the book down).

Anything by Al Gore.

MOVIE RECOMMENDATIONS

Chariots of Fire

The Godfather

Fargo

Slingblade

Nikita

Groundhog Day

Leon (Unabridged "The Professional")

Carrie

Immortal Beloved

Dave

Pursuit of Happyness

Juno

Stealing Home

Freeway

The Devil Wears Prada

Charlie Wilson's War

The Black Swan

Movies with Meryl Streep (Except Mama Mia), Phillip Seymour Hoffmann, Gary Oldman, Javier Bardem, Tom Hanks (Exc Joe v Volcano, those dreadful Browne movies), J.K. Simmons, Clint Eastwood, Tracy Walker, Julia Roberts (most), Jean Reno. Emily Blunt, Greg Kinnear, Stan Tucci, and especially Jodi Foster who never has given a bad performance. Nevvvvverrr.

Movies directed by Coen Brothers (even with George Clooney), Clint Eastwood, Luc Besson (Ican't wait to see what he's done with Travolta).

All Time Best Acting Performances:

1. Marlon Brando: The Godfather

2. Billy Bob Thorton: Slingblade

3. Patty McCormick: The Bad Seed

4. Frances McDormand: Fargo

5. Anne Pouillard: Nikita

6.Ted Levine - Silence of the Lambs

ALL TIME MOVIE BABES (Who could act)

1. Maureen O'Sullivan (before censorship)

2. Marilyn Monroe

3. Helen Mirren (No? Check out "Age of Consent" and get back with me).

4. Angie Dickinson ("Big, Bad Mama", and "Pretty Maids all in a Row.")

New and Good

Blind Side (Excellent)

She's Just Not That Into You (Really).

Inglorious Basterds (Can't Tarentino Spell?)

Julia and Julie (Meryl battles Sandra for Oscar)

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Lovely Bones: (Soiarise Ronan puts Dakota

Fanning on unemployment).

A Serious Man (You can order the Yiddish Handbook to understand it, but not to enjoy it)

Up In The Air (Even George Clooney is good, as is Vera Fermiga [and body double] but geez she's homely).

Extraordinary Measures.

Boardwalk Empire - TV can produce good stuff when it wants to: (See also "Sopranos", "Rome", "Deadwood." "Borgia Stick."

Leaves of Grass

The Black Swan

The King's Speech

The Lincoln Lawyer

Source Code - Jake Gyllenhaal's best in a long time.

Unknown -

New and Not So Good

Amelia (The island is more exciting).

Hurt Locker (Best Picture? Best Director? James Cameron, call Morgan & Morgan).

Inception Incomprehensible does not = intelligent.

Bad Teacher

New and Awful

2012 (Every cliche from every disaster movie).

Paranormal Activity (They're kidding right?)

Whoops - Paranormal Activity 2, 3 (They're NOT Kidding)

All Time Worst Movies

1. Reflections in a Golden Eye

2. The Fog (And critics gave it a 4).

3. D.E.B.S. (But then, it wasn't supposed to be good).