Wishful Drinking (Carrie Fisher) Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:30:16 -0500 Book Reviews: Carrie Fisher can't stop writing or talking about her life, but who can really blame her? With stories like these, there's no need for her to hide behind fiction any more. Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film and Fashion From the Bohemian Surf Boom Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:27:09 -0500 Book Reviews: In 1963, Variety wrote about a new musical fad called "surfing music" and predicted it would "take hold of the teenage market on a national scale." The Man Who Owns the News (Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch) Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:24:57 -0500 Book Reviews: You do realize how fabulously plugged in Michael Wolff is, don't you? The media chronicler has so much in common with Rupert Murdoch that he can't help sharing it in "The Man Who Owns the News." Call Me Ted (Ted Turner with Bill Burke) Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:23:01 -0500 Book Reviews: Anecdotes gathered by co-author Bill Burke provide expected color and emotional shadings, but the overall portrait can't help but disappoint those expecting more a lively discourse from Turner himself. Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:14:49 -0500 Book Reviews: There's no doubt as to who forever changed Broadway in Ethan Mordden's biography "Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business." Among the many questions that follow are how -- and with whom -- Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. did it. The Naked Truth
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:10:54 -0500 Book Reviews: You don't have to be a perve to wish Kevin Sandler could flash a little more skin in his thought-provoking but doggedly academic treatment of the movie ratings system, "The Naked Truth."
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