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Summary: Libby! Libby!! LIBBY!!! You are my spiritual fiancée!
Review: At last, a film critic whose take on movies matches that of a real audience. No pseudo-intellectual nonsense, just appreciation of the important things in cinema: popcorn, scantily-clad men and Michelle Pfeiffer's performance in "The Fabulous Baker Boys", to name but a mere three. Libby is a true auteur and the supreme goddess of cutting-straight-to-the-chase. This makes going to the movies oh so easy: you just know that if Libby likes it, you'll love it. Every single review is smack on the money. As an added bonus, you can keep tabs on Libby's fascinating life - because she magically manages to link movie storylines to (her) real life. Can you imagine any other critic doing that? Thought not.... But even goddesses need a break now and then, so Libby's own literary masterpiece is sprinkled with contributions from her mother, her daughter, her husband and her therapist. True, the films reviewed in this book are a bit on the old side now but, hey, now you have an indispensible guide regarding what videos/DVDs to rent! Libby's book is a complete and utter riot - never mind that this is a collection of film reviews, the fantastic quality of the writing and the amazing wit will have you in stitches from the first page to the last! This is probably the most-read book in my collection. I live in hope of two things. One, that Libby will come to her senses, dump Josh and marry me - forget Denis Quaid, Libby, I'm the one you really want (and anyway my mother would be SO pleased). Two, that the next volume of her insightful, razor-sharp analyses of modern cinema will hit the shelves very soon. Libby Gelman-Waxner deserves a Pulitzer, if you ask me.
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Summary: Libby! Libby!! LIBBY!!! You are my spiritual fiancée!
Review: At last, a film critic whose take on movies matches that of a real audience. No pseudo-intellectual nonsense, just appreciation of the important things in cinema: popcorn, scantily-clad men and Michelle Pfeiffer's performance in "The Fabulous Baker Boys", to name but a mere three. Libby is a true auteur and the supreme goddess of cutting-straight-to-the-chase. This makes going to the movies oh so easy: you just know that if Libby likes it, you'll love it. Every single review is smack on the money. As an added bonus, you can keep tabs on Libby's fascinating life - because she magically manages to link movie storylines to (her) real life. Can you imagine any other critic doing that? Thought not.... But even goddesses need a break now and then, so Libby's own literary masterpiece is sprinkled with contributions from her mother, her daughter, her husband and her therapist. True, the films reviewed in this book are a bit on the old side now but, hey, now you have an indispensible guide regarding what videos/DVDs to rent! Libby's book is a complete and utter riot - never mind that this is a collection of film reviews, the fantastic quality of the writing and the amazing wit will have you in stitches from the first page to the last! This is probably the most-read book in my collection. I live in hope of two things. One, that Libby will come to her senses, dump Josh and marry me - forget Denis Quaid, Libby, I'm the one you really want (and anyway my mother would be SO pleased). Two, that the next volume of her insightful, razor-sharp analyses of modern cinema will hit the shelves very soon. Libby Gelman-Waxner deserves a Pulitzer, if you ask me.
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Summary: I'm an assistant buyer in Junior's Activewear...
Review: I'm not ashamed to say that the number one attraction for me of buying the film magazine 'Premiere' is the Libby Gelman-Waxner film review column "If You Ask Me". By "film review" I should add that her camp and funny articles are really more like little tales of her life and thoughts dressed up as a film review.They are laugh-out-loud funny and even though Libby is a ficticious creation, frankly I'm in for the ride through her world of therapy, her orthodonist husband and her "tragically single" best friend as well as everyone else that populates the Libby-verse. If you like your film with a good sense of humour and appreciate excellent comedy writing this is the book for you. If you ask me.
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Summary: if you ask me - Libby's a goddess
Review: I'm not ashamed to say that the number one attraction for me of buying the film magazine 'Premiere' is the Libby Gelman-Waxner film review column "If You Ask Me". By "film review" I should add that her camp and funny articles are really more like little tales of her life and thoughts dressed up as a film review. They are laugh-out-loud funny and even though Libby is a ficticious creation, frankly I'm in for the ride through her world of therapy, her orthodonist husband and her "tragically single" best friend as well as everyone else that populates the Libby-verse. If you like your film with a good sense of humour and appreciate excellent comedy writing this is the book for you. If you ask me.
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Summary: if you ask me - Libby's a goddess
Review: If you ask me, Libby is the best thing - and sadly often the only thing - worth reading in Premiere. This book is a collection of some of her earlier columns. I remember picking it up in a bookstore, and reading the part about "Rain Man" and laughing so much I was helplessly bent over and terrified that I would be thrown out or carted away by men in white coats. Luckily, I wasn't. Hollywood badly needs someone to prick its enormous bubble of egotism, and Libby is always up to the job. Many movie stars are in desperate need of a reality check, a reminder that their hangnails aren't on the same level as say, world peace. In addition to Libby, we meet her adorable children, Mitchell-Shawn and Jennifer, her friend the terminally single Stacy Schiff, her husband Josh (like Bill Clinton he can balance a budget, then jog over to pick up a bag of donuts), her mother, and her shrink - all of whom contribute columns. Equally funny if not funnier than Dave Barry at his best, this book is a worthy addition to anyone with a slightly warped sense of humor's shelf.
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