When you have been around Hollywood as long as acclaimed screenwriter David Mamet has, you develop a sixth sense for BS, as Mamet explains in his new memoir “Everywhere An Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood” (Simon and Schuster). “In Hollywood,” he writes, “everyone is flogging nonsense.” But even though Mamet’s enjoyed a … Read more
From the very start Preciado expresses love and admiration for Woolf and her novel, but he also critiques some of her choices; he’s enraged, for one, that Orlando is an aristocratic colonialist. Even so, for the most part he expresses palpable tenderness toward Woolf, a quality that suffuses “My Political Biography” as he loosely re-creates … Read more
While writing his controversial biography of Princess Diana, author Andrew Morton was constantly worried about being murdered. “I was looking for danger in the shadows. I was looking for people following me,” Morton told Entertainment Tonight. “It was like a different world and I remember vividly going back home on the subway and standing well … Read more