Nobody Asked Me But....

Books I'd like to recommend. A little something for everyone!

 

Soitanly!....NOT!

I recently read a piece of trash called BEYOND THE LAUGHTER: A DAUGHTER'S STORY OF CURLY'S POST THREE STOOGES YEARS written by a crazy person named Grace Garland. Really she must be crazy if she thinks people are going to believe this garbage fiction disguised as a real biography. 


Where can I start? Why did she pick Curly Howard, the lovable stooge as the target of her wackadoo fantasy? Except for providing fans with tons of laughs what did he ever do do to anyone to deserve such treatment. Ok, I'm sure he wasn't perfect. Who is? I can't imagine what Curly's living relatives think of this nonsense. 


Why does it suck? 


Here's some examples all according to Ms. Garland: Curly was not Jewish, he was Italian-Catholic and heavily involved with "the mob" who we later learn killed JFK. Even J. Edgar Hoover was his pal. Although he did work in the film industry he had no brothers and his real name was Larry Fine! Poor Larry! Even Mr. "Stooge In The Middle" Larry is dragged into this thing! It also turns out that Curly didn't die in 1952.  He lived into the '60's and knew who killed JFK. In fact on the day of his assassination the soon to be ex-president was looking for the ex-Stooge! (????) Oh yeah, Curly also wrote the book "The Godfather"! Mario Puzo's name was just a front! 


All of this is suppose to have been documented by Curly's daughter who's mom was married to Curly at one time but his family had their marriage annulled because she wasn't  Catholic. (Actually this is one point that is almost factually true. I have read that Curly's first marriage did end in an annulment...). Believe me, if you read one book this year BEYOND THE LAUGHTER: A DAUGHTER'S STORY OF CURLY'S POST THREE STOOGES YEARS isn't it!!

Official site:

http://www.threestooges.com/

Thanks for reading!

  

The Ninth Gate

THE NINTH GATE-1999- Johnny Depp stars as Jack Curso an unscrupulous book dealer who agrees to authenticate a book, The Ninth Gate, which is said to have been co-written by the Devil, for a famous book collector (Frank Langella). Legend says the book can open up a gate to hell. He has sex with Lena Olin and then visits two other book collectors who also have a copy of the book. It was cool to see Jack Taylor, an American expatriate who played in many Euro-productions like HORROR OF THE ZOMBIES and NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS, as one of the collectors. The other is played by Shakespearean stage actress Barbara Jefford (who’s also in LUST FOR A VAMPIRE). They die and their collections are burned and Curso realizes he’s bitten off more than he can chew. Emmanuelle Seigner (also in FRANTIC with Harrison Ford) is “ The Girl” and James Russo is a book dealer who meets a grisly death. Allen Garfield has a cameo role.

Director Roman Polanski (married to Seigner in real life) made this a year before his much more critically acclaimed THE PIANIST. Seigner also starred in her husband’s BITTER MOON in 1992.

Thanks for reading!