House of Destiny 1995, Mira Books. 544 pages (paperback only). $5.99 Janet Leigh Janet Leigh’s first novel covers familiar territory for her: it concerns a resident of Sun Valley, Idaho, who finds his way to Hollywood and gradually rises […]
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Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller (1995)
Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller 1995, Harmony Books. 208 pages. $22.00 1995, Pavilion Books (UK). 208 pages. £12.99 Janet Leigh with Christopher Nickens. Having received her only Academy Award nomination for Psycho, which was Alfred Hitchcock’s […]
Continue reading »There Really Was a Hollywood (1984)
There Really Was a Hollywood 1984, Doubleday & Company. 324 pages. $15.95 Janet Leigh Janet Leigh’s autobiography mainly covers her first sixteen years in Tinseltown, 1947 – 1962. The early part of her life is also discussed, somewhat uncomfortably, […]
Continue reading »Edge of Tomorrow (2014) ☆ ☆ 1/2
While he hasn’t made a lot of science-fiction films, I’ve liked the ones that Tom Cruise has made; I gave both Minority Report and Oblivion four stars apiece. Now he’s got another one, Edge of Tomorrow, a kind of Groundhog Day-alien invasion […]
Continue reading »A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) ☆ 1/2
Seth MacFarlane is a talented satirist who loves to riff on traditional entertainment elements. That’s fine, but he does so with the perspective of a young teenage boy who thinks profanity and scatological humor represent the highest order of humor. […]
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