PanAssociated PressA collection of observations, stories and aphorisms about Hollywood from one of America’s foremost writers and, these days, provocateurs. It is virtually unreadable ... This is a book that resembles the idled rantings from a feverish, unsolicited email stuck in your spam folder. There are weird capitalizations, uneasy conclusions and the rat-a-tat of non-sequiturs all held together by bad faith. It’s illustrated by Mamet’s own cartoons, which echo a middle schooler’s sense of humor and maturity ... Throughout is the stringent waft of misogyny.
Henry Winkler
PositiveAssociated PressBreezy, inspirational ... The memoir is enlivened by an unusual move: Winkler includes long reaction passages from his wife, Stacey, who is pretty brutal about Winkler’s immaturity, his parenting, his own parents and a crippling fear of poverty ... Fun moments throughout.
Peter Frampton
MixedAssociated PressThe breezy and polite look back follows an important musical figure\'s rise in the 1960s, triumph and fall in the ‘70s and resurrection in the ’80s ... Frampton\'s prose often suffers from an inability to recognize the wheat from the chaff, spending three times as much time on a few performances with the Cincinnati Ballet as it does on his times with Jagger.
Andrew Ridgeley
MixedThe Associated Press... while this may be Ridgely’s memoir, Michael looms large and the book peters out after Wham! broke up in 1986 as Michael’s star soared, almost as if the most interesting thing Ridgeley has to write about is his friend, who died on Christmas Day 2016 ... There are fun anecdotes ... Among the book’s highlights are the dozens of photos included, complete with witty captions from Ridgeley.
