by Will Fowler ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 29, 1992
Last of the ``Front Page'' reporters tells his story. Fowler carried a heavy load in following in his father Gene's footsteps, dad being the most famous reporter in America during the Roaring Twenties and a bestselling author (Good Night, Sweet Prince) thereafter. ``Boy, you sure don't write like your father,'' Fowler was told by his first Los Angeles Examiner editor after a few months on the job in the late 40's as Fowler's stories kept getting thrown into the basket. Fowler had been raised among his dad's cronies—W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn, Groucho Marx, and so on- -and it wasn't until dad phoned in the obituary for W.C. Fields, asking that the byline be given to Fowler, that the young reporter received his first byline—after three years on the job. Fowler's tales are tremendous fun and often quite grisly, especially those of the blood-bedewed suicides and autopsies that marked his apprenticeship. In fact, the stories circle more around murder, rape, dismemberment, executions, and aging syphilitic whores than around theft, graft, or fraud. That Fowler is writing a hymn to days past is clear from the way he points up how he and his buddies made fun of the bumbling new medium called TV, with its pathetic news coverage for the 300 or so sets then in existence. Among those he memorializes are Aggie Underwood, the first woman managing editor; Jim Murray, Fowler's idol, surrogate brother, and ``the finest raw newspaper writing talent I ever ran into''; ``Uncle Claude'' (W.C. Fields); Flynn; and alcoholic painter John Decker. His richest tale outlines his huge personal scoop on the Black Dahlia murder case and how he and his fellow Examiner reporters kept ahead of the law and the opposition. Restrainedly rip-roaring and solidly readable.
Pub Date: Jan. 29, 1992
ISBN: 0-915677-61-X
Page Count: 336
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 15, 1991
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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