Essays
| Unqueering the Deal by Allison Burnett Rainbownetwork.com, October, 2006 |
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| I
was Stalked on Amazon.com by Allison Burnett Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 18, 2004 |
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| Coming Out by Allison Burnett Media Bistro, June, 2004 |
Books Reviewed
| On the Border by Michel Warchawsky | 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 | 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 |
If
you are one of those who can't get enough of Orson Welles ... |
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| Caesar's Hours: My Life in Comedy, With Love and Laughter by Sid Caesar (with Eddy Friedfeld) | New memoir by TV-legend Sid Caesar... | |
| Marilyn By Andre De Dienes and Steve Crist |
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 | 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 | 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 |
...A.J. Benza's chronicle of his rise from working-class obscurity to nightlife celebrity... | |
| Alec Guinness: A Life by Garry O'Connor |
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 |
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 |
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' |
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