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Disaster Artist, The: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

What a Story, Mark! Author: Greg Sestero Ten years after its cinematic debut, The Room is popularly considered one of the worst movies ever made; it was famously dubbed “the Citizen Kane of bad movies” by Entertainment Weekly. Now, Greg Sestero (the actor who played Mark) has penned a tell-all about the making of a $6 million train wreck, and his curious, complex, vampiric friendship with the enigmatic man behind the movie, Tommy Wiseau. Note: If you haven’t seen the movie, I STRONGLY recommend that you do so before reading this book. Many of the infamously cringe-worthy scenes and shots [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:48-07:00November 8th, 2013|Tags: , , , , |

Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

A Pretty Good Tour of Tokyo Author: Matthew Amster-Burton In theory, I want to go to Japan. It’s always seemed like an exotic and interesting destination, and I have a personal connection: my mom is Japanese and was born there. But the double linguistic whammy of a foreign language and a foreign alphabet, plus a national diet of all the scariest, most unidentifiable brown stringy things in my grandma’s fridge, was… intimidating, to say the least. If nothing else, I owe food writer and fellow Seattleite Matthew Amster-Burton a great debt for making Japan sound navigable, friendly, and downright tasty [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:50-07:00October 29th, 2013|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Joy of Liberace: Retro Recipes from America’s Kitschiest Kitchen

Rhinestones and Recipes Authors: Michael Feder and Karan Feder Not too long ago, I had a Liberace-themed costume party, as you do, and naturally I wanted the refreshments to be as authentically Liberacean as possible. Liberace did publish his own cookbook in 1970, Liberace Cooks!, but it’s out of print and hard to find these days. Luckily, Michael and Karan Feder have revived some of its retro-est recipes in a new cookbook, Joy of Liberace: Retro Recipes from America’s Kitschiest Kitchen. At first glance, this seems to be mostly a novelty coffee-table book. From the garish, eye-popping artwork to the [...]

2023-05-29T23:51:40-07:00October 12th, 2013|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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