‘Entertainment’ Archives
Turn of Mind
BOOK REMARKS Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: Alice LaPlante. Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press 2011. If you are a regular reader of Book Remarks you probably have noticed that you often don’t know what the book I am reviewing is about until close to the end of the column. I tend to chat a bit about various [...]
TATTOOED — ZOO STORY
By Monte Lazarus Bengoshi@comcast.net The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Rooney Mara is mesmerizing as Lisbeth Salander, the tiny birdlike product of the Digital Age. She’s tattooed, pierced in all the wrong places, fierce, anti-social, abused, and sheathed in black leather and even wearing “Oliver Twist” gloves with the fingers cut [...]
EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN
BOOK REMARKS Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: Janet Evanovich. Publisher: Bantam Books 2011. If you haven’t read a Janet Evanovich book you have missed a reading experience like no other. However, I must warn you, don’t even pick up the book if you aren’t prepared for some funky, quirky humor. If you are [...]
Killing Lincoln: The shocking assassination that changed America forever
BOOK REMARKS Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. 2011. While reading this book I was entranced and when I finished, all I could say was, “Wow.” Back in the ‘50s when I was taking American History in Fort Myers High School, it was all I could do to stay [...]
UN-SHERLOCK
REEL REVIEWS By Monte Lazarus Bengoshi@comcast.net The latest movie version of “Sherlock Holmes” (“A Game of Shadows”) is decidedly not the Holmes we know and love from the much beloved A. Conan Doyle stories, or even the old Basil Rathbone films. The new Holmes is a macho gunslinger and hand-to-hand fighter. He’s just not very [...]
THE LONG SONG
Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: Andrea Levy Publisher: Picador (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 2010. Available in Hard cover, soft cover, audio and Kindle. I know that some of you would rather be shot in the foot than read anything considered a “Historical Novel.” (Yes, I know, some of you think I should say [...]
Hugo: a blend of fact and fiction
By Monte Lazarus Bengoshi@comcast.net “Hugo” is a charming mixture of the real Georges Melies, a French film pioneer, and Hugo Cabret, a 12 year old boy who lives in the Gare Montparnesse in Paris, and is a combination orphan, station clock minder, and part-time petty thief. The film is based on Brian Selznick’s 526 page book “The [...]
THE LITIGATORS
By Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: John Grisham Publisher: Doubleday 2011. When we think of John Grisham, our minds go automatically to courtroom drama. However, this man is no one note wonder. Although the majority of his twenty-five books have indeed been about lawyers, law firms and the courtroom, he has also branched off [...]
TROUBLE IN HAWAII
By Monte Lazarus Bengoshi@comcast.net At the very beginning of this engrossing film, “The Descendants” Matt King (George Clooney) cautions us that Hawaii is not the total paradise we mainliners think it is. Matt is neither poor nor deprived. On the contrary, he is a hugely successful real estate lawyer, a descendant of generations of [...]
Robert B. Parkers’s – Killing the Blues
Diane Bostick A Jesse Stone Novel Author: Michael Brandman Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2011. What do V.C. Andrew and Robert B. Parker have in common? The obvious answer is that both are well loved authors who have written for years and still have new books being published as recently as this year. The less [...]
