December 2004 :: Print Reviews
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Friends, sex symbols, actresses...lend Peter Bogdanovich your ears for this discussion of movie stars he has known and loved. It's a sometimes maddening, sometimes sensitive, sometimes candid trip through Wonderland with filmmaker Bogdanovich your own private mad hatter. Ben Varkentine says pass the butter.
A signifigant number of Bush voters believed that Iraq had a hand in 9/11. If so, Bush certainly would be an ungrateful little snot, declaring war on the country that gave him a second term. Michael Ruppert, a former LAPD narcotics investigator, has studied the abuses of government power for decades; his new book looks at the question of just how far some people will go for control of the world. James Mann says: Pretty far, really.
Bill Hicks believed that great comedy provides an answer, and he tried to provide more than a few in his own work. A new book collects those answers on subjects ranging from gun control to pornography to movie criticism, by reprinting verbatim his unsacrificing routines, letters and other writings. Ben Varkentine looks at this gifted, cursed man.
Ben Varkentine says "Ask me what's the secret of comedy." You start to say, "What's the secret of..." and Ben yells "Timing," very loudly, right in your face. Kills you, doesn't it?
Ben Varkentine's got a little list ("He's gota little list...").
