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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Trivia calamity.,
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This review is from: I Was a Fugitive from a Hollywood Trivia Factory: A Book of Hollywood Trivia Lists (Paperback)
I'm so ashamed of myself. I yield to temptation and bought a horrible, terrible book "I was a fugitive from a Hollywood trivia factory"(A book of Hollywood lists) by Aubrey Dillon Malone. After reading it I felt in the same league of celebrities biographies readers, whose favorites books are the bios of Monica Lewinski, Princess Di and the Royal family of Monaco. Why did I spent 16 hard earned dollars in this kind of trash? Because the title and the cover fooled me, and I thougth that I was buying a book written in a similar pulp style of my beloved film directors: Tim Burton and John Waters. Boy, was I wrong! What I found was a book superficial, unimaginative and full of errors. The author is like a grandmother who likes to repeat the same stories over and over again: How Woody Allen left poor Mia for her adoptive daughter; how Robert De Niro won 60 pounds for his role in Raging Bull. Most of the trivia facts in this book are really boring and the author makes mistakes as writing Anjelica Huston name in one page with an j and in other with a g. Dillon Malone makes unforgetable omissions as not including Clint Eastwood's Oscar winner film "Unforgiven"(1992) in her list of 10 westerns nominated for best picture at the Oscar. Let's not be totally negative, Dillon Malone book "Stranger than Fiction", a book of literary lists is a lot better, maybe because literature hasn't been as overexposed as movies.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Naughty Author Should Know Better,
By Phoebus Mudd "Biograph Consulting" (Chico, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I Was a Fugitive from a Hollywood Trivia Factory: A Book of Hollywood Trivia Lists (Paperback)
When a collection of information about movies is put together, folks assume that because it's in a book, especially a hardbound, it's accurate, and soon that information is spread--and in this case, spread inaccurately. While the cover design for this book is a luring delight, the text is riddled with inaccuracies, misquotes and misspellings. As a few examples: Butterfly McQueen did not win an Oscar for Gone With The Wind (that was Hattie McDaniel); the child Judy Garland never auditioned for the TV Version of Our Gang (TV wasn't around when Judy was a tot); John Gilbert was never, ever married to Marlene Dietrich (she was only married once to Rudolf Sieber and never divorced); one could go on. Even quotes, which could be easily checked, are given inaccurate readings--Bogie never said "The problems of three people don't amount to a hill of beans..." It's "three little people," a big difference! Cary Grant's original name was Leach, not Leech, Roy Rogers was Slye, not Syle, Cyd Charisse's middle name was Ellice, not Elice. If you've decided to be a trivia authority, then you should check your facts, your sources, your manuscript! While clad in a lovely format, with a quality binding and nice paper, this book should be avoided if the reader is looking for any kind of accuracy and more than a silly giggle.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Be wary of using it as a reference.,
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This review is from: I Was a Fugitive from a Hollywood Trivia Factory: A Book of Hollywood Trivia Lists (Paperback)
As an author of a trivia book, "Trivia for Smarties" (2001), I appreciate that any trivia book has the right to present its own diversified set of trivia, defined as "inessential, obscure, limitedly-useful facts." The material here is uneven and the accuracy is suspect. Maybe, it's just me. But I don't think it's cool let alone constructive to know and make a cocktail tidbit of the 25 stars that Warren Beatty was involved with (p. 28), 10 stars who had drug problems (p. 92), and 5 stars with star-sized libidos (p. 153) for starters but... 10 stars' unique audition experiences (p. 22), the 10 different endings to films (p. 97), 15 cases of movie set-friction (p. 114) are interesting although I have to verify their accuracy first.
I also wrote a movie dialogue book, "Dialogue Devices for the Screenwriter" (2009) so I easily spotted misquotes and boy, this book doesn't disappoint. If we cannot trust the movie quotes that are readily verifiable, how are we supposed to trust the so-called real-life quotes that the author have compiled. Some of the errors I found from a quick browse: p. 40 5 Memorable Lines from Casablanca "Of all the gin joints in all the world, she walked into mine." Correction: "Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world... she walks into mine." p. 40 Blink and You Miss `Em (10 early cameo performances) Geena Davis in Tootsie (1982) Brad Pitt in Thelma and Louise (1991) This writer doesn't understand the definition of a movie cameo. p. 82 15 Actors Who Became Directors But Didn't Appear in their Films Warren Beatty, Reds (1981) This is a candidate for the writer's most glaring error. p. 96 Curtain Calls (10 classic movie end lines) "For a minute there, I thought we were in trouble." Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Correction: "Oh, good. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble." "All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-ups now." Sunset Boulevard (1950) Correction: "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." "Nobody's perfect." Some Like It Hot (1959) Correction: "Well, nobody's perfect." "Tomorrow is another day." Gone with the Wind (1939) Correction: "After all... tomorrow is another day!" "Come back, Shane!" Shane (1953) Correction: "Shane! Shane! Come back!" p. 130 Hitchcock cameos Rear Window (1954) Winds up a clock in the screenwriter's apartment. Correction: songwriter's apartment p. 225 Reality Bites (fact versus fiction) John Travolta plays a U.S. president who "invents" a war to distract attention from a sexual scandal in Primary Colors (1998). Correction: That's the plot of Wag the Dog (1997).
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