Epinions Recent Reviews for Jennifer_Gibbons

Hollywood Homicide not on my mind

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:21:51 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - One of the great things about movies is how you can lose yourself in the story, the action, the char...

Miss Katie, Lassie Had Nothing On You

Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:18:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons -

I know I’ve been very lucky in my life. I’ve always known I was very loved by both my parents. I had and still have a great extended family of aunts, my cousin, and friends, plus I had grandparents who pretty much thought I was the...

Live From New York: Everyone hates Chevy Chase!

Sun, 27 Apr 2003 03:27:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - When I was a kid, one of the local channels showed reruns of Saturday Night Live. I loved watching these reruns. All the people were so funny and silly, and there was one lady named Gilda Radner who made everyone laugh, who could just come out and say...

The Angels Want to Write Like Anne Lamott, and they want her Blue Shoe

Sun, 27 Apr 2003 03:22:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons -

All right, I'll admit it right now: I love Anne Lamott. Not only is she my favorite writer, but I also took a writing class with her years ago that forever changed my writing life. But I am also now a book reviewer, and I have to be objective when...

Bring On the Guilt Trip, Barbara!

Sun, 27 Apr 2003 02:53:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons -

Around 1993 everyone I knew was recommending Barbara Kingsolver to me. "Oh, Jen, you'll just love her. She's so funny and her characters are so great and her writing is like poetry and she's the best thing since sliced bread." Well, maybe the...

It's Witchcraft, witchcraft baby!

Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:59:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - Okay, people, this is Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons, drill seargent here. I am about to give you orders on the book Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult. Do you understand?

Yes Ma'am!

I can't hear you!

YES MA'AM!!!

That's...

Where Have you gone, Beaver? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you

Sun, 21 Oct 2001 03:57:24 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - I don't get TVLand on my cable. I'm very bitter about this, but I do get to see it time to time when I travel, and I got to see it when I went out of town last month and I saw that old chestnut, Leave It To Beaver.

I hadn't seen LITB in almost...

Bernard and Miss Bianca to the Rescue! WYWUAS Write-off

Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:24:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - Note: This review is part of the When You Wish Upon a Star Write Off hosted by Lisa_J and Opalman. The write-off is anything Disney, and the money from this review will go to the family of the lovely Emily Rose to help with her medical bills. Emily Rose...

Have I seen more than I should? In My Daughter's Eyes...

Mon, 8 Oct 2001 05:27:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - Maybe I should admit my bias right now: I'm friends with the author of this book, Jessica Barksdale Inclan. In fact, she sends me e-mails saying that I should mail my book to NYC to an agent. She has been my role model as I wrote my novel-if Jessica can...

Romantic Movie Write-Off-Loving Does Take its course

Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:28:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - I've always had mixed feelings about Valentine's Day; maybe it's because around this time of year, I never have someone to celebrate with. Stop, Jennifer! Don't feel sorry for yourself! Okay, okay, I'm stopping. But I know I'm not the only girl out there...

How the Price Family Gets Their Groove Back

Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:04:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - Terry McMillan became a well known writer thanks to a "Oprah" appearance years ago to plug her new novel "Waiting to Exhale"(It's worth seeing because Judith Krantz kept on giving McMillan the evil eye for some reason) and since then, she has become one...

Tammy Faye Tells All

Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:18:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - When I was in my early teens, I sometimes watched Jim and Tammy Faye Baker. Don't ask me why. They were just so odd that I couldn't take my eyes off them; kind of like when people look at car accidents on the highway. Anyway, I would watch as Tammy...

It's The Feel Good Death Row Movie of the Year!

Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:34:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - My grandfather was a prison guard for over twenty years, starting out in Indiana, then worked in California. What he did was supervised the men where they learned a trade, making sure they were doing the job right and weren't out of line. Many men wrote...

The Rich Tapestry of Carol King

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 03:18:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - Thirty years ago this year, a songwriter named Carol King came out with her first solo CD. People would know Carol King if they read the liner notes or songwriter credits on such songs as "The Loco Motion" "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" and "Natural...

Raise High The Roof, Jamal

Sat, 20 Jan 2001 17:18:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - Writers are always hard to capture in movies. You either get the stereotype of the person in the coffee house, smoking cigarettes, wearing black and reading their latest haiku that goes something like: "I saw a bird. I said hello. It didn't say hello...

Fantasia 2000: A Rhapsody in Film

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:57:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - I've always had mixed feelings about the Wonderful World of Disney. I loved many films of theirs like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, The Rescuers, and Beauty and The Beast. However, I was angry when they made The Little Mermaid and gave it a happy...

The Haunting Sad Depressing Tale of Jean Seburg

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 02:13:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - If someone did a person on the street interview on who Jean Seburg was, odds are people wouldn't know, scratch their head, then shrug. But many people remember her as the girl who became famous because of her first movie, Saint Joan. Never mind it was a...

The Child Ain't Right

Tue, 2 Jan 2001 03:22:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - I've said here before that I'm not a big fan of horror movies, with the exception of the film Carrie. But people have always said I had to see The Exorcist. "It's so scary!" People would tell me. "You'll never be able to eat pea soup...

An Open Letter to Sandra Bullock

Sat, 30 Dec 2000 23:29:56 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - Dear Sandra(I hope you don't mind me calling you by your first name)

Let me just say this: I've always liked your work. I thought you were great in Speed, charming in While You Were Sleeping. I rooted for you in The Net, I thought you were...

Tales of Ralphie, Mom, Randy, and The Old Man

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 02:41:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - You might not know Jean Shepherd's name, but God, you would know his voice. No doubt you heard it when TNT repeated "A Christmas Story" over and over again, as the adult Ralphie, talking about that Christmas he received his best Christmas gift,...

How is the truth to be said?

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 02:12:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - There are some issues that will probably never be resolved in our lifetime: Capital punishment, the election of 2000, and one of the most debated issues of our time, abortion. There are no easy answers to the latter issue, and Paula Sharp addresses that...

Trading in a Ferrari for the minivan

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 01:24:13 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - I really do love Christmas movies. Christmas movies that aren't too gooey, you laugh, you dab away some tears, then sigh at the happy ending. I was hoping that would be the case for "The Family Man" and while I did laugh, I did get a little...

The Sad Tale of Amanda, Mattie, and Ruth

Fri, 22 Dec 2000 02:47:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - I've been waiting for this book for a while; I've been broke so I've been dependent on the library for new books, and when Oprah recommended Drowning Ruth, the requests for it doubled. I waited my time, and I finally checked out the book last week. I...

That Wacky Crazy Marquis De Sade!

Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:24:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - I just saw a movie about a man who will do anything for his art. He will do it even when people tell him: "You can't do that!" He will do it even when the powers that be tells him he can't. He will do it at risk of his own health. No, I'm not...

All He Wants To Do is Dance

Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:13:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Jennifer_Gibbons - When I was a kid, I remember watching ballet dancers on PBS and I was stunned by how they moved, with such utter grace and beauty, and on their faces was always a look of pure beautiful joy. I could tell they were right in the moment, that they were so...