Journalism

Essays

Unqueering the Deal
by Allison Burnett
Rainbownetwork.com, October, 2006
I was Stalked on Amazon.com
by Allison Burnett
Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 18, 2004
Coming Out
by Allison Burnett
Media Bistro, June, 2004
Media Bistro

Books Reviewed

On the Border by Michel Warchawsky

Review

Michel Warschawski's book On The Border could not have come at a better time for the American reader, because its bold and honest examination of the dangerous schisms that the Palestinian question has opened in Israeli society warns us of the similar schisms that the war on terror is opening in ours. ...
Sontag & Kael, Opposites Attract Me by Craig Seligman

Review

What drives this remarkable work is the author's relationship to his two subjects. Seligman's feelings for the late Pauline Kael are proudly affectionate ...

Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life by Peter Conrad


Review
If you are one of those who can't get enough of Orson Welles ...
Caesar's Hours: My Life in Comedy, With Love and Laughter by Sid Caesar (with Eddy Friedfeld)

Review
New memoir by TV-legend Sid Caesar...
Marilyn
By Andre De Dienes and Steve Crist

Review

This stupendous creation is as much coffee table as coffee table book...
Writing with Hitchcock: A Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes By Steven Derosa


Review

Writing With Hitchcock focuses entirely on Hitchcock's collaboration with the talented John Michael Hayes...
My First Movie: Twenty Celebrated Directors Talk About Their First Film By Stephen Lowenstein

Review

To Lowenstein's credit, the 20 directors he chose as his subjects reflect a wide range of backgrounds and sensibilities, from Mira Nair to Bertrand Tavernier, P.J. Hogan to Oliver Stone and Ken Loach to Pedro Almodovar...
Fame! Ain't It a Bitch: Confessions of a Reformed Gossip Columnist
by A.J. Benza

Review
...A.J. Benza's chronicle of his rise from working-class obscurity to nightlife celebrity...
Alec Guinness: A Life
by Garry O'Connor

Review
If great actors can be defined by anything, it is their lack of definition. It is this lack of a distinct self, of course, that enables them to slip in and out of character...
Holler if You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur
by Micheal Eric Dyson
 

Review
Tupac Shakur deeply touched the lives of all who knew him and millions of other who knew him only through his work.
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
John Lahr, Editor


Review

When Kenneth Tynan died of emphysema in Los Angeles in 1980, the world lost not only the finest drama critic of the age, but one of its greatest wits.

Billy Wilder's 'Some Like It Hot'
Edited by Alison Castle, interviews by Dan Auiler

Review


Anyone who purchases this book will no doubt be faced with an immediate quandary: Do I read it, eat it or make love to it