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Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts
Thursday, October 3, 2024

Blu-Ray/Movie Review: Fighting with my Family

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  Fighting With My Family is a 2019 biographical drama/comedy written and directed by Stephen Merchant starring Florence Pugh, Lena Headey, ...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

4k-UHD/Movie Review: Rocketman

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  Rocketman is a 2019 drama loosely based on the life of Elton John.  It is a very different take on a biopic, loosely telling a fantasy ver...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Blu-Ray/Movie Review: Gia

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  Gia is a 1998 biographical movie that tells the story of the rise and fall of model Gia Carangi, who shot to fame in the late 1970s and ea...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Book Review: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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  American Prometheus is a biography of Robert Oppenheimer, who was the lead scientist on the Manhattan Project and was, after World War II,...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

Book Review: Legend: The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe

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  Legend is a biography of Marilyn Monroe written by Fred Lawrence Guiles and published in 1984. It is actually a follow-up to his 1969 bio ...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Book Review: The Man Who Warned America: The Life and Death of John O'Neill: The FBI's Embattled Counterterror Warrior

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  This is a biography of John O'Neill, who was basically the FBI's head of counterterrorism in the New York office until 2001, when ...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

Book Review: The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe

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  The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe was a biography published in 2000 by Sarah Churchwell. She took a bit of a different track when writing t...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Book Review: No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet

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  No Better Time is a biography, written by Molly Knight Raskin, of a math/tech genius named Danny Lewin who, as a graduate student at MIT, ...