Epinions Recent Reviews for rightbrain

La Liz in the Death Movie

Thu, 31 Jan 2002 01:44:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - "Boom!" says the Angel of Death. "The shock of each moment of still being alive."

"Gasp!" say I. "The shock of La Liz's outre wardrobe."

It takes a skillful creative team to make the subject of death entertainment fare. Sure,...

The Swinger Who Died Too Young

Sun, 20 Jan 2002 01:59:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - Darin only lived to be 37, a victim of serious childhood bouts with rheumatic fever that ended in fatal heart damage in 1973, but he did a lot in those 37 years. He knew he might not live to middle age, so he parlayed his talent and charisma across both...

Voh-dee-oh-doh!

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 03:32:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - When asked, "Which movie won the first Academy Award for Best Picture?" a fair number of people will know it's 1927's "Wings." Ask those people, "What was the first musical to win an Academy Award for Best Picture?", and many of their faces wrinkle in...

Despair Inc: A frown is a corporate smile turned upside-down

Sun, 23 Dec 2001 04:25:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - There are a few things in life that make the hair on my facial mole stand on end. One is seeing a beautifully crafted sign with a blatant grammatical error (usually a possessive is where a plural should be). Another are those ubiquitous framed posters...

La Liz in the Facelift Movie

Wed, 5 Dec 2001 04:06:17 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - Dominick Dunne, name-dropping novelist and celebrity journalist, managed to produce a few films in the seventies between dinner parties. I seem to recall reading that after he had produced "Ash Wednesday" he cleaned up his act and stopped drinking and...

We're AT&T. We don't have to care.

Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:55:10 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - Sorry, but I'm not going to discuss the technical service merits of AT&T Broadband and Digital Cable, even though I'm paying for their service now...in more ways than one. My focus now is on their "Customer Care" (I mean, "Customer-I-Don't-Care") billing...

This is the story of evil...

Wed, 21 Nov 2001 03:02:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - CAUTION: SPOILERS

"This is the story of evil...in all its naked ugliness..."

That's how 'Beyond the Forest' begins, and you just know it's going to be yum-delicious. And how could it not be with Bette Davis at the top of her form,...

What's a Surrogate-Mother Wife to Do?

Sun, 18 Nov 2001 13:36:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - Caution: Spoilers

What's a Joan Crawford movie without lots of close-ups and medium shots of the Eyebrow Queen looking totally distraught, trembling and on the edge of becoming unhinged? It's diddly-squat, but, rest assured, "Autumn Leaves"...

Yma Growls, Snarls, and Hisses in Mambo

Fri, 9 Nov 2001 01:29:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - Updated 1/6/02 to correct 6-octave range to 4-to-5-octave range. (Though I know I read 6 somewhere!)

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When I was a young girl many, many years ago, there were lots of names of people and concepts and things I couldn't get adults to...

Swing Jazz Mastery

Mon, 5 Nov 2001 01:08:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - The name says it all. Bennett sings Ellington Hot and Cool. Does it get any classier than that? I had to put this CD away a year ago, because I wouldn't stop listening to it. The transcending elegance of Ellington's music is timeless, and it would seem...

The Synergy of the Ridiculous

Sun, 4 Nov 2001 13:21:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - Synergy is the interaction of elements that, when combined, produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements. Well, dis compilation got dat synergy, baby!

None of these cuts had any impact during their initial...

One man's garbage, another man's treasure

Sun, 4 Nov 2001 12:49:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - No, the top-40 songs of the sixties and early seventies did not make up the entire musical garbage heap of that period. If you dug through the trash, down closer to where even the rats wouldn't go, you'd find these songs.

Sammy Davis Jr.'s...

Oddly compelling compilation

Sun, 4 Nov 2001 12:23:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - Those old enough to remember these popular songs (from the sixties) and old enough to remember the artists (from the sixties, fifties, forties, thirties...) performing them will find these compilations oddly compelling. Like watching a deeply disturbed...

Mrs. Miller, the One-Take Songstress

Sat, 3 Nov 2001 15:46:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - The last time I heard anyone whistling in a song was the seven dwarfs in Snow White. And then along came Mrs. Elva Miller.

I must have been busy being young and crazy in the sixties, because I don't remember seeing the sixty-plus Mrs. Miller...

VD doesn't whitewash women

Sat, 3 Nov 2001 15:15:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - NOTE: I updated the text dramatically from its initial form.

CAUTION: SOME SPOILERS

What makes Valley of the Dolls a great book are two things:

(1) Content

It doesn't whitewash the lives of its celeb women, and it...

Mitzi had the life you always wanted!

Sat, 3 Nov 2001 15:02:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rightbrain - 04/2002 NOTE: Velkro includes a pivotal scene involving a bad, bad priest and an innocent altar boy. Does the author have ESP or what?

NOTE: I updated the text dramatically from its initial form.

Valerie F. de Daulles' debut novel,...