I simply cannot resist

This weekend, TNT is airing the Lord of the Rings trilogy across three nights, and so help me I cannot resist. Sure, I’ve seen the films again and again; I own the extended box sets and have had more than one 12-hour viewing marathon of just the movies. And TNT’s versions are simply the theatrical [...]

FACTORY GIRL

DVD rental
     
He was my greatest surprise. In all of my reading about Factory Girl I completely forgot Hayden Christensen’s involvement. I was further surprised to see him work an obvious representation of Bob Dylan. And in the end, Hayden is all I take away from the film.
I know very little about Andy Warhol, even less [...]

unapologetically a fan

I have many long-standing passions in my personal pop culture history, and I stopped apologizing for them many years ago. I have no shame in admitting my devotion to 70s top 40, 80s New Wave, and a certain member of a 90s boy band who now appears in tv and movies with great (albeit [...]

THERE AND BACK AGAIN: AN ACTOR’S TALE by Sean Astin

Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 0312331460
Acquired:Bookcrossing.com
Reading Began:July 26, 2007
Completed:August 8, 2007
Overall Rating:seven out of ten
 
You don’t have to know me very long to discover my great love for Lord of the Rings, both book and films. I never tire of hearing the stories surrounding the history-making production of the movies, and I seek out all behind-the-scenes information that [...]