Mike's review
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
by Peter Biskind
Great review. I'm often interested in the subject matter of books about Hollywood history, but after reading the first chapter in the bookstore I usually just put them back on the shelf for precisely the reasons you've outlined above. A few juicy tidbits aren't worth page after page of sly winks and mind-numbing incoherence.
Nah, Donald--I think if I hadn't read the Harris so recently, I'd have been more open to Biskind. But it really pales in comparison.
You may be a wanker, but I don't have enough to go on to make that claim. (How was that Marshall?) Your appreciation for this isn't enough evidence, especially given your good taste in so many matters....
Fuckin' Marshall. Far and away the most passive/agressive action i've seen you do...
Yee bastard, you.
fair enough and I agree. Also, tardy kudos on your own avatar. Sponge Bob is one of the Boddhisvattas of the age. a total spiritual genius of light and joy.
Marshall, thanks for the link!
Simon--okay, you've stumped me. I googled it and found out that Bruno Maglis are shoes, and that's as far as I got. What? Help a goy out...
Mike,
I feel silly now. It was just meant as a quick throwaway line, the beginning of a good shoe-pisser story. (I thought everyone knew that Bruno Magli was a type of shoe because of their starring role in the OJ trial.)
Nah, it was funny. I enjoyed the google search.
Never assume anything about my knowledge of shoes, or most any element of clothing or fashion. When you assume you make an ass out of you and ... well, actually, you mostly just make an ass out of me here, exposing my astonishing ignorance. I only just learned what a hoodie was, having gotten confused with those old spam messages about hoodia.
thought he was cuttting the sponge cheese.
Dude, you are not telling me that this is an anti-sponge picture, are you?
Mike's review
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind
Mike's review
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recommended for: gossip hounds
Here's where I gave up, where the tasty gossip turned from alluring to absurd:
"Timothy Bottoms, a rising young star who would years after distinguish himself by peeing on Dino DeLaurentiis's shoes during the production of 'Hurricane,' had a crush on Cybill, and couldn't understand why Peter, who already had a wife and children, was hitting on her. They fought throughout the production, and eventually, Bottoms got his revenge: he gave Cybill a novel by Henry James called 'Daisy Miller.'"
Those two sentences are tangled up syntactically and semantically, a thicket of clauses. The winks and nudges about events not yet narrated by the book illustrate two key problems for me: a) bad behavior (with business info a close second) interests Biskind far more than any real insights into filmmaking, and b) the flash-forward to Daisy Miller illustrates his assumptions about audience, and he thinks--perhaps rightly in my own case--that we all already know the history, that what we...more
"Timothy Bottoms, a rising young star who would years after distinguish himself by peeing on Dino DeLaurentiis's shoes during the production of 'Hurricane,' had a crush on Cybill, and couldn't understand why Peter, who already had a wife and children, was hitting on her. They fought throughout the production, and eventually, Bottoms got his revenge: he gave Cybill a novel by Henry James called 'Daisy Miller.'"
Those two sentences are tangled up syntactically and semantically, a thicket of clauses. The winks and nudges about events not yet narrated by the book illustrate two key problems for me: a) bad behavior (with business info a close second) interests Biskind far more than any real insights into filmmaking, and b) the flash-forward to Daisy Miller illustrates his assumptions about audience, and he thinks--perhaps rightly in my own case--that we all already know the history, that what we...more
Great review. I'm often interested in the subject matter of books about Hollywood history, but after reading the first chapter in the bookstore I usually just put them back on the shelf for precisely the reasons you've outlined above. A few juicy tidbits aren't worth page after page of sly winks and mind-numbing incoherence.
Nah, Donald--I think if I hadn't read the Harris so recently, I'd have been more open to Biskind. But it really pales in comparison.
You may be a wanker, but I don't have enough to go on to make that claim. (How was that Marshall?) Your appreciation for this isn't enough evidence, especially given your good taste in so many matters....
Fuckin' Marshall. Far and away the most passive/agressive action i've seen you do...
Yee bastard, you.
fair enough and I agree. Also, tardy kudos on your own avatar. Sponge Bob is one of the Boddhisvattas of the age. a total spiritual genius of light and joy.
Marshall, thanks for the link!
Simon--okay, you've stumped me. I googled it and found out that Bruno Maglis are shoes, and that's as far as I got. What? Help a goy out...
Mike,I feel silly now. It was just meant as a quick throwaway line, the beginning of a good shoe-pisser story. (I thought everyone knew that Bruno Magli was a type of shoe because of their starring role in the OJ trial.)
Nah, it was funny. I enjoyed the google search.Never assume anything about my knowledge of shoes, or most any element of clothing or fashion. When you assume you make an ass out of you and ... well, actually, you mostly just make an ass out of me here, exposing my astonishing ignorance. I only just learned what a hoodie was, having gotten confused with those old spam messages about hoodia.
thought he was cuttting the sponge cheese.
Dude, you are not telling me that this is an anti-sponge picture, are you?
