Stephen Whitty Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Stephen Whitty

@thehighsign @szacharek Dodie Smith’s “I Capture the Castle” is completely different, of course, and still lovely. Made into a decent film, too.

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Was reading a book about “Star Wars” today, and came across this Lucas quote: “The films of the ‘70s weren’t that great. I grew up in that era and it’s a complete myth. There were four or five movies that were really interesting… most of the others weren’t about anything.” (1/6)

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Would like to remind the litterateurs who sneer at “genre fiction,” yet mourn Cormac McCarthy, that “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country For Old Men” and “The Road” comprise a Western, a crime thriller, and sci-fi. Don’t reduce everything to “genre.” Just celebrate “fiction.”

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Would like to remind the litterateurs who sneer at “genre fiction,” yet mourn Cormac McCarthy, that “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country For Old Men” and “The Road” comprise a Western, a crime thriller, and sci-fi. Don’t reduce everything to “genre.” Just celebrate “fiction.”

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If people think that New Yorker profile was a takedown, they really need to rediscover Rex Reed’s “Do You Sleep in the Nude?” Or Joe Queenan’s “If You’re Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble.” Or Capote on Brando, or Ephron on Helen Gurley Brown or...

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Looking forward to Michael Mann’s before-and-after “Heat 2” novel and film, but can’t deny I’d love to see it split into two parts, “Preheat” and “Reheat.”

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Would like to remind the litterateurs who sneer at “genre fiction,” yet mourn Cormac McCarthy, that “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country For Old Men” and “The Road” comprise a Western, a crime thriller, and sci-fi. Don’t reduce everything to “genre.” Just celebrate “fiction.”

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@RayPride “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” debuted there — I saw it as a kid — and probably made a few dollars for Charles M Schulz in the years that followed. Be nice if his estate acknowledged that now.

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@jasondashbailey Remember devouring (then, as he reached the final years, dreading) Lee Server's Mitchum bio, "Baby, I Don't Care."

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Kenneth Anger is remarkably untrustworthy, at least as far as his ‘Hollywood Babylon’ books go. But I do hope that his story of Carmen hiding her coke stash in her seven-inch wedgies is true. It’s the kind of gossip that, if it’s not true, it should be. https://t.co/WsDWs0pZ0X

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