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Title: American Rhapsody by Joe Eszterhas ISBN: 0-375-72554-7 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 13 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.68 (79 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Wicked and Witty Guilty Pleasure
Comment: Just when we thought we were out, they pull us back in!! (With apologies to the Godfather!) So you thought you'd had enough of the Clinton/Lewinsky shenanigans? Nah! Not till you read this wickedly funny account. Joe Eszterhas has written a big nasty hoot of a book. It's a "take no prisioners" account of the sorry and sordid affair that shook the sacred halls of DC and scared the pants back on some of Washington's more notable philanderers. The pace is fast and the book leaps back and forth in time, telling the story in two voices, that of Eszterhas himself, and in boldface type, that of his demented alter ego, the little man who lives inside him. I don't even want to think about WHERE inside him this little guy has taken up residence. Eszterhas slashes and burns indiscriminantly, trashing both LA and DC. He knows where the bodies are buried and does not hesitate to tell us. Over and over he makes the point that Hollywood is the place Clinton really belongs, saying that his kind of behavior is the norm there. The gossip is hot and lowdown and probably at least 75% true. If you like your tell-all books wicked and witty this will definitely be to your taste. I loved it even though I hated myself in the morning!
Rating: 2
Summary: Take this book...please
Comment: Joe Eszterhas certainly suffers from what the hippy/baby boomer generation are accused of suffering from: self-absorption. Good God, does he love his own opinions! He reminds me of Geraldo Rivera here: they both talk about all the women they used to sleep with, pretending to be ashamed and repentant, when the subtext the whole time screams, "Ain't I a stud!" They are pretending to be "confessing," when all they're doing is bragging. He takes Clinton to task, but he also accuses Americans of being too puritannical. (The French think we are too puritannical about Clinton. But then the French said, "In France, Watergate would have been forgotten in three days.") And read NO ONE LEFT TO LIE TO by Christopher Hitchens. You'll see that Linda Tripp saved Monica Lewinsky by taping her and urging her to save the blue dress. The Clinton White House was just starting on a smear campaign accusing Lewinsky of fantasizing it all, and stalking Clinton...when that blue dress appeared, that made the campaign stop before it started. It's absolute sacrilege to say so, But Linda Tripp saved Lewinsky's butt. Not the opinion in this book. Eszterhas reminds me of Norman Mailer. He's a dirty old man who pretends to be preoccupied with sex for intellectual reasons...when in fact he's just a lech. Read Harry Stein's HOW I ACCIDENTALLY JOINED THE RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY AND FOUND INNER PEACE before you read this one. It gives the best take on Clinton I've read yet.
Rating: 3
Summary: ?????
Comment: I tend to vote Republican but refuse to align myself with the Right Wing or Moral Majority. I'm the guy in the middle that the candidates are really after. I say that as any review on this book should be tempered by the politics of the reader. JE is an avowed Democrat with socialist leanings. Read his most recent book "American Animal" to verify this. So it was surprising as I read the first third of this book that after an initial bow to Clinton as the Rock & Roll Prez, one of "us", he then seems to chastise him for his fatal flaws. This part of the book is interesting, engaging, but also somewhat repetitive. I still couldn't wait to read it my allotted hour a night.
But there is only so much you can talk about this subject and JE rambles on and on until he finally manages to really offend me. How? Well, I just finished his most recent book, "American Animal" an autobiography which I immensely enjoyed. Full of Hollywood stories. But reading this, I see that JE has included many of the stories I enjoyed from his autobiography in this political commentary/fantasy. So is he a writer with a message or is he just repeating his few stories to make a buck?
I don't know what to make of this book, thus my title. Did I enjoy some parts? Yes. Are there some interesting stories? Yes. But there is a lot of waste. It's like wandering thru a jungle with a machete looking for your trail. When you find it, it's worth the work. So maybe the only item I can add of interest came from reading this with some years of aging. JE takes on Arianna Huffington who he spends quite a bit of time describing her history to show what a bad person she is and how she climbed to the top while stepping on other people's faces. But would JE have included these chapters in this form if he had known that within a few years she would shift sides and now disavow her right wing leanings? I think not.
This is not a great book. But if you enjoy reading, maybe you will enjoy it.
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Title: Hollywood Animal : A Memoir by JOE ESZTERHAS ISBN: 0375413553 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 27 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon -- The Case Against Celebrity by Andrew Breitbart, Mark Ebner ISBN: 0471450510 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title:An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn ASIN: B00008L3T0 Publisher: Buena Vista Home Vid Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.99 |
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Title: You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips ISBN: 0451205332 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind ISBN: 068486259X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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