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Pretty cool but contains at least one inaccuracy
This game can be fun for people really into movies and the "creators" of the game have given us a pretty good companion book for people to check themselves.However, I found one very glaring mistake in the book.In the section about the Baldwins they claim that you can link Billy Baldwin to Kevin Pollak in The Usual Suspects and then to Kevin Bacon in A Few Good Men.Unfortunately, Billy Baldwin wasn't in The Usual Suspects.His brother Stephen was in The Usual Suspects.I'm a little surprised that no one has written about this in a review yet.For a couple of guys you claim to know a lot about Kevin Bacon, they sure screwed that one up.Other than that, this book is fun.

Lots of totally worthless trivia
Only good to go along with the game--and the game is impossible to play.

YEAH ME TOO
OK, I was in the first dinner theatre production of "A Chorus Line" with Joe Inscoe who was in "From the Earth to the Moon" with Elizabeth Perkins who was in "He said She said" with Kevin Bacon.

The "Hollow Man" Has Had a Solid Career.
This book is a companion piece to the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game. I've played the game a few times, but I never actually knew there was a real 'board game' game of the game until recently. I figured that the book might help me learn a bit more about that wonderful actor, Kevin Bacon, and give me an edge over my croonies in crime the next time we play the game. Unfortunately, there isn't a whole lot here. The book is quite short and basically consists of a bunch of "six degrees or less" lists. The introduction by Kevin Bacon himself is interesting to read and so is the history of the game. The book also has a Kevin Bacon filmography that is rather informative. However, the book needs an update because Bacon's been in several films since 1997. This book is great for any fan of Bacon, any serious film buff, and anyone who likes to play the game. If you don't fall into one of those categories, don't waste your money.

BRAVO MR. GINELLI
This is a charming commentary on the prolific career one of America's premier thespians. In this modern classic, Mr. Ginelli truly captures the essence of Mr. Bacon's career on the big screen. Like a barefoot jaunt through a flowery meadow, this novel captivates all of the readers senses. Thank you Mr. Ginelli for this masterpiece of modern literature. ... Read more

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The Greatest Disappointment of All
Oh please, read the book, wasn't thrilled. It had it's amusing points, but I think that Mr. Ammons has a vendetta against Whitney and this is the payback. I am no where near a Whitney houston fan and I read this with the intention of having more fuel to add to my fire- but this was no kerosene. I often got the impression that though this was supposed to be a "tell-all", Mr. Ammons was reluctant to diverge a lot of information he could have told. Maybe he's saving that for a follow-up, who knows? who cares? This book is best left in the store.

What a joke?
Sounds to me like Kevin wrote this book to make a quick buck and to get back at Regina.And Kevin was just as scanless as Regina he had a wife and children, however, was having an affair with Regina because of the promise of a record deal.Most of the things that were written about Whitney was not original. I could have wrote this book myself based on gathering information from previous articles written on Whitney.He should have wrote a novel about him and Regina and their scanless ways.I am glad that I waited for this book to come out in paper.

I enjoyed this book
I enjoyed this book on Whitney Houston and I know personally that a lot of what Kevin Ammons says in the book is true. I took away one star, as the latter part of the book sounds like research and not first hand knowledge.

Exploitation of a star for a quick buck
I wanted to read a biography on one of my favorite singers that will give a realistic, yet, smart look on her life. Good Girl, Bad Girl is nothing but a piece of trash written by a man who either wanted to get back onWhitney for something, or was looking to make a quick buck at her expense.I am aware that celebrity lives behind the spotlight might not bewonderful---but I still feel that they are entitled to their privacy. I amso glad I didn't buy this book, I returned it to my friend the very nextday, I didn't bother to finish it.

A well written book on Whitney Houston .
Good girl, Bad girl was a well written book on Whitney Houston, but unfortunately the book wasunauthorized and none of us know if any of the information was true. I will say that many of his comments were true, Iknow because I am a trueWhitney Houston fan. Getting to the contents ofthe rest of the book I liked it,Ammons words seemed truely sincere heseemed to know information only some one close to Whitney would know. I gave this book 2 stars, because it is an unauthorized, so for that I tookI took away some stars. ... Read more

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Andy Gotts has had extraordinary access to the world's most famous faces. His celebrity portraits illustrate the small-world phenomenon of "six degrees of separation." Each actor Gotts photographed then suggested a best friend or someone they admired. This gives a wonderful chain of "who knows who"-over one hundred A-list celebrities are included.

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Excellent planning tool for government
As a CPA and candidate for controller of Montgomery County, PA, it is refreshing to see the long-term planning, comparison, functional issue review, and the "watchdog" functions of a controller so well laidout. Montgomery County will be well served to use this planning approach.

Exemplary Urban Studies Text and Public Policy Guide
Please tell me it's not this easy to run a city.If all the Giulianis, Rendells, and Daleys of the world would just implement this new direction for urban america, our cities would not be afflicted with the ills theycurrently suffer.Every big city resident should demand that localgovernment run as recommended in this book.Students, policyprofessionals, elected officials, and urbanites everywhere should make thisbook a part of their libraries.

An insightful vision for the future of cities.
I am a passionate city fan and wish every mayor in the country would read this book and implement the policies the authors advocate.There are no quick fixes to the problems shared by large American cities (crime,poverty, decay). As successful cities prove over and over, local governmentmust concentrate on the basics -- improving schools, reducing crime,lowering taxes -- to make the city a place where people want to be insteadof a place people want to avoid.If Philadelphia would adopt therecommendations of this book, the city would truly be a great one.

This book is a progressive way of looking at urban America
Jonathan Saidel and his staff at the City Controller's Office have truly revolutionized the way city government looks at urban policy in 21st century Philadelphia. This initiative demonstrates how municipalgovernments can spearhead positive change in urban America.Thesocioeconomic proposals demand serious consideration in an ever-competitiveurban environment.Philadelphia can now be seen as a motivating force forimproved urban life.Citizens now can view government as a partner forimproved quality of life.

Landmark Public Policy Publication
This book makes concrete, achievable, realistic suggestions for reform in Philadelphia which will serve as a model for public policy direction in cities across the US.Mandel, Babyak, and Volpe have written thedefinitive text to lead Philadelphia into the next century.PANUD alsowould be an excellent textbook for public policy, urban studies, andgovernment courses at the college and graduate levels. ... Read more

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Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait
of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a
world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling or
hope.

Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of
limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago,
and snorts mountains of cocaine.He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his
best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin.Clay's holiday
turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy
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A glimpse into the abyss
Less Than Zero is a decidedly love-it-or-hate-it affair, for the simple fact that its very concept, from plot to characterization to rhetorical strategy to structure, can be adored or loathed for the exact same reasons. The novel is a group portrait of the utterly hedonistic, stunningly decadent offspring of mid-80s Los Angeles yuppie culture. Ellis depicts a generation that exists without direction, purpose, or passion, which leads an empty existence fueled by clouds of cocaine and sex and parties and fancy cars and superficiality and complete apathy and detachment. The story is told through the eyes of Clay, a college freshman who's back in town for the winter break. In a strangely non-moralistic manner, Clay slowly begins to grasp the emptiness of his life, at his inability to connect with anybody around him. It's a raw, unflinching, and at times horrifying picture. It's also chillingly effective. That is, in essence, why I love this book- its depictions are powerful and unnerving, and they strike some sort of nerve, some sort of elemental impulse that is both fascinated and repulsed by Clay's existence. It's a glimpse into the abyss, and an utterly captivating one. Those who hate the book will probably be put off by the fact that it describes an awful and unenviable state of being without any hope of redemption of growth. It is, admittedly, hard to argue with those people.

The novel's detractors probably won't like Ellis' pacing or style, either. The novel is written in the typically edgy manner of young writers: That is, in the present tense (admittedly a hit-or-miss device, but it works wonderfully here because it lends a matter-of-fact, anti-romantic feel to the story, the sensation that nothing it depicts is truly special or noteworthy), with a dry and impressionistic sentences that juxtapose details in an odd but seemingly detached manner. Just about everything that Clay does, weather he's eating lunch with his father or snorting cocaine, is expressed in the same style- it all amounts to the same, Ellis seems to be saying. This may seem amateurish or pretentious to some, and again, it really is just a matter of taste. Structurally, the novel is intentionally repetitive, a haze of parties and nightclubs and expensive restaurants and intimate moments and vague recollections blurring into one another, even as the novel approaches its unnerving climax. This may strike you as boring (and, occasionally, it is), but it does mirror the crushing repetition and utter stasis of the characters' lives. Again, people who hate the novel will probably be annoyed by the seeming lack of variety.

So, I love this novel. It's strange, hypnotic, and irresistibly appalling. I would encourage you, however, to look over as many reviews as you can, and read a few pages, of this book before buying it. You may end up despising this thing with a passion.

Not Quite Nothing
"Less Than Zero" could be read in less than two hours.I'm not sure how long it took Ellis to write the book, but my guess is it wasn't much more that.It's not a bad book, but it reads like something he might have come up with during a freshman year creative writing workshop.Having read many of his other works (especially American Psycho, which this book seems to be the more successful, older brother of), I found the story to be more of a treatise and less of a terror.

We follow a young college freshman named Clay as he returns home to Los Angeles for Christmas break.It turns out that Clay and his friends are over-priviledged and bored, and their ennui is so stiflingly huge and all-encompassing that their entertainments (read: lifestyle distractions) turn steadily grislier and darker.Clay is the viewpiece for all of this, much less an actor on the stage than one of its proscenium lights.

The book is disturbing, I guess, and it's shudder-worthy to think that this in any way mirrors reality (I guess, on second thought, it's not so hard to imagine), but the book also lacks any depth or complexity."American Psycho" tortured out its point with double-bladed questions and a central character that was the most viscerally active element of his horrifying world."Less Than Zero" has only one question, and it's as soft and muddling as a giant bank of smog, and its central character is just as vapid and vaporous.He yearns for meaning, and he instinctively withdraws from the horrors around him, but his actions are all reflex, and his pathos is all pretend.Nihilism is a tough subject to arm wrestle with (it's got two elbows and a triple-jointed wrist), but Clay (like his name) is too mutably bland to do much else besides exist.

Notable for what it is, and just as dismissable for similar reasons, "Less Than Zero" is an okay read that gets even better after it grows up and becomes its dangerous kin.People who think they've got the teeth for it should skip ahead to "American Psycho" and avoid this milk-white malaise.

Pretty lame
I'm a huge fan of literary fiction, but I was bored throughout 3/4 of this.I read on because it felt as though it was just about to get interesting...it never did.

Great book about disillusionment!
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Definitely captures the essence of young adults' disillusionment. I felt the book was written honestly -- the indifference the protagonist feels for himself, his friends, his lifestyle and culture is laid out for the reader to see and experience.

This book is a quick read - so even if you don't agree with everything written in the book or with the author, you're not going to waste a lot of your time. On the other hand, I viewed the book and the author as a (personal) study of a narrow scope of society and found this a worthwhile read.

What a waste!
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Title: "Mystic River".(Reseña de película)
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Title: El hombre sin sombra.(TT: Man with no shadow.)(Reseña)
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Author: Javier Betancourt
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on January 8, 2003. The length of the article is 819 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: De secuestros y otras paranoias. (Cine).(Reseña de película)
Author: Tomás Pérez Turrent
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: January 8, 2003
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