![]() ![]() The casting of Richard Benjamin as Portnoy is not inspired, but I suppose it was inevitable. This is the way he handles the celebrated encounter with the Portnoy family's liver dinner, and I suppose we should all be relieved that we didn't have to watch them sit down to that particular meal. ![]() Maybe that's why the best moments in the movie come when Lehman simply has his hero repeat Roth's dialog from the book, verbatim. Movies are terribly literal and can't get away with flights of fancy the way novels can. But it's hard to show fantasies in a movie. It has been written, produced and directed by Ernest Lehman as a sort of expedition with gun and camera into the untamed jungle of Alexander Portnoy's fantasies. In any event, the movie version of "Portnoy's Complaint" is a true fiasco. This was no doubt to protect those under 18 from exposure to a subject about which, of course, they have no knowledge. That is apparently what the little old ladies on the Chicago Police Censor Board have decided, since they ignored the R rating and made "Portnoy" adults-only in Chicago. ![]() When you try to handle bad taste in good taste, you almost always wind up with something truly obscene. It was something like two of my favorite comedies, " The Producers" (1968) and " Where's Poppa?", which had the courage to face their subjects forthrightly and go for belly-laughs instead of embarrassed snickers. ![]() To be sure, Roth's subject and approach was in bad taste - but in magnificently bad taste. ![]()
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Deeck - Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers, and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship. She is the winner of the 2018 Hugh Holton Award, the 2018 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award, the 2017 William F. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture. Manansala (she/her) is a certified book coach and the author of ARSENIC AND ADOBO (Berkley May 4, 2021), the first in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series. ![]() ![]() ![]() It talks about Taoism and how Winnie the Pooh exudes Taoist principles. ![]() Review: What a sweet, calming read! The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff is a cute, quick read. *** this post contains affiliate links *** My Copy Came From: My husband won this in a book swap my family did for Christmas. Romp through the enchanting world of Winnie-the-Pooh while soaking up invaluable lessons on simplicity and natural living. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the author of this smash bestseller explains with ease and aplomb that rather than being a distant and mysterious concept, Taoism is as near and practical to us as our morning breakfast bowl. ![]() Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist’s favorite food is honey. Official Synopsis from Goodreads: The Wisdom of Pooh. ![]() ![]() ![]() In New York, after a series of jobs, she opened a restaurant, Café Nicholson, in Manhattan’s East Side. She copied Christian Dior dresses for Dorcas Avedon (the wife of photographer Richard Avedon), made a dress for Marilyn Monroe and became well known for her African-inspired dresses. She may not have ironed but she had sewn, and quickly found work as a seamstress. She had never ironed before and was fired after three hours. 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