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Moses, Man of the Mountain

by Zora Neale Hurston

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Aug 23, 2009 12:43PM

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Orange County: A Personal History

by Gustavo Arellano

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Wendy said: " Gustavo I love you! "

Jun 24, 2009 09:57AM · see review

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All the President’s Men

by Carl Bernstein

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Wendy said: " I guess it's an important book to read. I keep drifting off, though. All those men and their names....

[months later] Still haven't finished the book. Have given up on keeping all those mens (!) memorized. Instead, I keep thinking about Ron Burgundy a I guess it's an important book to read. I keep drifting off, though. All those men and their names....

[months later] Still haven't finished the book. Have given up on keeping all those mens (!) memorized. Instead, I keep thinking about Ron Burgundy and the sense of entitlement only he would have to skip happily over journalistic ethics (thanks for that one, colleague Janna Journalist).

I think the film should be remade with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. Can you see it? The Angel Flight smugness, the dramatic typing scenes? The drinking? The sexist manipulation of women for information? The leisure-suited patriarchy duking it out with the other leisure-suited patriarchy? Like that rumble in Anchorman!

Here are actual quotes from the book that have to go in the film:
"Basic strategy that goes all the way to the top. The phrase unnerved Bernstein. For the first time, he considered the possibility that the President of the United States was the head ratfucker."

[The Dynamically-coiffed Duo on Deep Throat]: "Woodward considered him a wise teacher....The Nixon White House worried him. 'They are all underhanded and unknowable,' he had said numerous times. He also distrusted the press. 'I don't like newspapers,' he had said flatly. He detested inexactitude and shallowness." [Snort! So why speak to a two-headed Ron Burgundy?]

[More top-notch writing] "He told Deep Throat that both of them were playing a chickenshit game--Deep Throat for pretending to himself that he never fed Woodward primary information, and Woodward for chewing up tidbits like a rat under a picnic table that didn't have the guts to go after the main dish." [Tell it like it is, Ken Kesesies!]

"Bradlee asked for a corner table, and began the conversation. 'You'd better bring me up to date becasue...' He turned to order lunch in perfect French, and then turned back to Woodward. '...our cocks are on the chopping block now and I just want to know a little more about this.' [Wow! A peek inside the real men's world of journalism! So gonzo!! Ladies read on at your own risk!]

Of course the film I'm producing would have to include Nora Ephron's line about Bernstein being capable of having an affair with a venetian blind.

I hope the film's gonna be as hilarious as the book.... ...more "

Jul 26, 2008 12:25PM · see review