Books, 12/6.

"Defining Moments in Movies, edited by Chris Fujiwara, is an 800-page, 4-pound bag of potato chips," writes Girish. "You can’t just read one entry and stop; instead, you dive in at random and go snacking all over the place." Also noted: Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema "contains a canon of 1000 personal favorites that is available online, thanks to Harry Tuttle."

"The Shamus has been bewitched, bothered and bewildered by Wilfred Sheed's marvelous book, The House That George Built."

Meanwhile, the Siren snips a fine passage from Liv Ullmann's Changing.

Joe Queenan reviews Dennis McDougal's Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times for the Globe and Mail. Also via Bookforum: Blogcritic Eric Whelchel on I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski and What Have You and an excerpt in Reason from Thomas Doherty's Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I Breen and the Production Code Administration.

For the Austin Chronicle, Melanie Haupt reviews Ed Sikov's Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis.

"Voice writers pick their favorite 20 books of the year."

Posted by dwhudson at December 6, 2007 7:27 AM