Wednesday, December 31, 2014
New Year’s Eve Netflix Streaming Guide
Flavorwire: Flavorwire’s Guide to (Expiring) Movies to Stream This New Year’s Eve
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Christine Cavanaugh, R. I. P.
AOL.com: The actress, who voiced the original "Babe" the pig in the 1995 film and Chuckie from "Rugrats," died on December 22.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
The Campaign to Prove Shakespeare Didn't Exist
The Campaign to Prove Shakespeare Didn't Exist: The greatest ongoing investigation in literary history has been caused entirely by William Shakespeare’s thoughtlessness.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
The Job -- Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg
Kate O'Hare and Nick Fox are back, which is good news for anybody who wants to read a light-hearted, fast-moving caper novel. I'm one of those people. I can always use a good laugh, particularly now, and this book provided some fine escape reading.As you'll recall if you've read previous books, Fox is the world's greatest conman and thief, while O'Hare is the FBI agent who finally managed to catch him. Now Fox is secretly working for the FBI, and he and O'Hare are unofficially teamed up to bring down the world's biggest criminals.
The book opens with Fox being accused of a series of art thefts. The evidence that he's guilty seems overwhelming, but O'Hare doesn't believe it for a second. She's right, of course, but I won't give any details except to say that the thefts lead them to devise an elaborate con game to capture a zillionaire drug dealer. Setting up the con with their usual team is a large and enjoyable part of the book. Along the way there are some fights, some escapes, and some romance. Not to mention a lot of laughs. The Job is another fine job (couldn't resist) by a top-notch writing team. Check it out.
Luise Rainer, R. I. P.
Flavorwire: Luise Rainer, the first-ever performer to win back-to-back Oscars, passed today. Over a century old, the German-born Rainer retired from major motion pictures in 1943. In a career spanning just eight years—she made her Hollywood debut at MGM in 1935—Rainer won Best Actress for her roles in The Great Ziegfeld, in 1936, and an adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth, in 1937.
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