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Handsome to Look At, but Sloppily Edited
As an Academy Awards fan, I was pleased to receive this book as a birthday present. My version goes through 2001 and "A Beautiful Mind." It's a handsome book -- big, heavy, but nicely designed. For each year presented, brief bios of winners and photos of each are accompanied by facts and figures, as well as a short overview of that year.

Unfortunately, it's filled with errors from beginning to end. Perhaps these were caught in later editions, but it was embarassing. As I was reading it, I kept a running list of mistakes ... and they ranged from small to large. For example, in the write-up for Katharine Hepburn's first Oscar, it claims that she "went on to win eight Academy Awards by the end of her career." While she is the all-time acting champ in terms of wins, she won four, not eight. Marie Dressler's birth date is listed as 1838 in her bio ... which would mean she was 92 when she made "Min and Bill"! The correct date, I believe, is 1868. The description for Melvyn...

a very poor effort

This book is not only poorly edited and proofread, as a previous reviewer said, it is INCREDIBLY poorly edited and proofread. Also, it is not well written. Some entries are very sparase--it seems that the writers know nothing of the movie being honored, or the actor or actress winning the trophy, or the role for which they are winning. Did these writers even bother to see "A Passage to India"? You wouldn't know it from their discussion of Peggy Ashcroft's best supporting actress win. They wonder at Dianne Wiest forgetting to thank Woody Allen when she won her first Oscar for "Hannah and Her Sisters" remarking that Wiest was a frequent star of Allen's movies--but "Hannah" was her first movie with Allen. A lot of similar nonsense throughout the book, but it seems to get worse as we get closer to the present, and the carelessness becomes more and more enfuritating.

Quite a book for film fans
I checked for the errors in the 2006 update of this book that BGK noted in his previous review. Most of the errors are corrected. I don't think the write-up on Melvyn Douglas constitutes an error. A number of people won multiple Oscars, and some duplication of copy is inevitable. The only error I've found in this edition so far is that Michael Caine's name is put in bold for ALFIE in 1966, which indicates he won best actor. As the page before it notes, Paul Scofield won for A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. But with this much factual info, it's almost impossible for something not to be wrong, and at least the authors and publisher have been willing to correct errors. The book has great pix, many in color. It doesn't replace Damien Bona's INSIDE OSCAR and INSIDE OSCAR 2 for sheer wealth of info, but it's an easily browsed reference that almost any Oscar fan would enjoy. By the way, it covers the Oscars all the way to the 2006 ceremony, when CRASH trumped BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN for best...

This richly illustrated and glorious celebration of 76 years of Oscar® includes every juicy detail and lots of photos of the films honored at the 2004 ceremony, as well as complete coverage of the festivities. As before, every Oscar year from the very beginning (1927!) is fully covered--every nominee and winner plus lots of facts, gossip, and commentary. And the text is embellished with more than 500 dramatic photographs of the winning films and artists.





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John David Ebert's Great Refusal
What makes this book different than any other that deals with the subjects of fame, celebrities and mass-media? I will tell you. John David Ebert actually cares about the mystical dimensions of the human Soul. He knows the fundamental tragedies of our time as well as Nietzsche knew his, and is all but ignored because of it.

In the land of the new tribalism, when literature continues to lose its meaning and function in civilization Ebert comes along as a visionary to show us a long lost tradition: the text as weapon of self-defense. It is not that we don't read these days, but, as Neil Postman has suggested in the past -- when we do read we should like to only be entertained and amused. Make no mistake, this book is blast to read. The prose is effortless and it flows like pure poetry. But Ebert means business and he is no academic. His text refuses to cater to the "all verbs no content" method that so many writers of elite academia like to employ today. It is for the general...

Ghosts in the Machine
Mr. Ebert picks up where Marshall McLuhan, Camile Paglia and others left off, with a sort of Freudian neo-Platonism for the digital age.

The basic premise is that psychological creations, both by individuals and Western culture as a whole, have more tangible reality than reality itself.

The celebrities profiled did not achieve mythic status by dying; rather they were killed by their own creations, by the mythic doppel-gangers who haunted and hunted them until the flesh-and-blood people behind the masks simply could not coexist.

How did the celebrities create these personae when others failed? Did they have unique insights into the media? Were they born with special access to spiritual and psychological realms? It's not clear.

But it is clear that what distinguished these icons was the degree to which they were willing to sell themselves for fame. Where others stepped back from the abyss, they stepped forward. The steps leading up to their...

Parallel Lives and Parallel Ports

By examining the lives and deaths of fourteen celebrities, John David Ebert weaves a fascinating tapestry of pop culture commentary. Working with the, now too often discarded, general tools of religion, myth and philosophy, the author distills iconic biographies into crystalline character portraits. Unlike Plutarch, however, Ebert is not excavating graves in search of utilitarian maxims, rather the author is searching for shared traits between men like Michael Jackson and Walt Disney to better understand a new religion, he argues, created by electronic technology in which Heath Ledger has been recently canonized.

We know their likes and dislikes, admire their talents, envy them for daring to be what we can't or what we won't. When they are snatched from us, we feel a personal loss and an unwillingness to let go. And so we transform these mere human beings into icons whose stars often shine in death even more brilliantly than in life.

Dead Celebrities, Living Icons: Tragedy and Fame in the Age of the Multimedia Superstar explores this phenomenon through a series of essays on 14 men and women who are, arguably, the most famous people of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The book covers the epoch of the celebrity beginning in the 1930s with Howard Hughes and Walt Disney and continues to the present day with the life and death of Michael Jackson. Far more than just a collection of biographies, Dead Celebrities, Living IconS≪/i> documents the philosophical importance and significance of the contemporary cult of the celebrity and analyzes the tragic consequences of a human life lived in the glare of the media spotlight.

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