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and your special someone in the right mood.
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Hollywood in love.
Bollywood - India
produces more films than any other country. Hollywood USA is
second. Japan comes in third.
Two of our Bollywood favorites are Bride
and Prejudice, which costars Naveen Andrews of Lost (Who
knew he could dance?), and the excellent but darker, Monsoon
Wedding.
HISTORY:There are several "greatest" movie books available, but I like Gail Kinn and Jim Piazza's The Greatest Movies Ever because they've chosen 101 "best" films, and I might actually be able to watch all of them! Plus, it contains lots of photos and background material. Nancy
HISTORY: Hollywood
studio glamour is a thing of the past, but we can't get enough
of the stars of yesterday. Hollywood Moments,
by Murray Garrett, is a photographic journey into history by a
professional photographer who not only took the pictures, but
also knew the people who became legends. Nancy
BOOK
DVD
1961
HISTORY: I have always loved Rocky
and Bullwinkle. The first and only - now I think of it
- stuffed animal Cary, our DF,
bought me was a giant Bullwinkle I still treasure.
The Moose That Roared by Keith
Scott supplies all those background details about
the show that fanatics will enjoy. Did you know there never
was a Ponsonby Britt? They made him up to fill the executive
producer spot, a fact I was telling my secretary, Al Reddy
Didit, just the other day. Nancy
MYSTERIES: Loren D. Estleman's series that beings with Frames features Valentino, a film archivist who buys a decrepit movie palace from the glory days of Hollywood. It's a good read stuffed with bits of trivia that I can only hope are real (though this doesn't matter to the entertaining plot). Nancy
Everyone, except the thousands of would be actors who think their big break is just around the corner, knows the Hollywood machine eats up nice people and destroys them on a regular basis. If you want a novel that reveals the worst of the process, you will enjoy Hollywood Car Wash by Lori Culwell. I did. Nancy
Hollywood movie studios control a great amount of money, power and hearts and minds. Marshall Karp's The Rabbit Factory is a bizarre what-if mystery about crime in and around a Disney-esque studio. I loved it, but Walt's successors might not. Nancy
Celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli has crafted a 99.9% readable tale of the life of Elizabeth Taylor in Elizabeth.
While the author is clearly a fan of his subject, he does impart some strange facts such as "Elizabeth was born with residual hypertrichosis, an excessive body hair condition." The knowledge that a gloriously beautiful woman not only was born looking like a monkey but also most likely had a nose job is just what the rest of us need when a glance in our own mirrors is cause for depression.
Furious Love is a take on the love story of Elizabeth and Richard Burton. It contains no hairy pictures. Nancy
I stumbled upon an interesting series of
movie reviews with a focus on "cinematherapy." The authors,
Nancy Peske and Beverly West,
chose moods or goals or life making moment any of us might have and
suggested films to guide us through. While there is an
emphasis on romance (gee, I wonder why), lots of other topics are covered in this
multi-book series. Nancy
Buffalo Hunt
click on the photo of the trail
buffalo to enlarge it
summer - fall 2004 Nature Conservancy's Spirit of the Buffalo public art project in OKC
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