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| Pat Benatar is without question one of the best rockers of all time. This little lady came out of nowhere in the eighties to become one of the biggest stars ever. Her sexy persona, glamorous looks, and infectious rock and roll style lit up the charts, sizzled the airwaves, and made cash registers chime the world over. Her Greatest Hits collection is a wonderful ride back to the time when she ruled. Huge hits like We Belong, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, You Better Run, Fire and Ice, Treat Me Right, and Shadows of the Night gives the senses a boost of adrenaline that makes you want to get up and dance and smile all over the place. One cannot think back to the eighties without a huge image of Pat Benatar materializing in the mind’s eye. This woman is still as exciting today as she was in her heyday and radio from coast to coast still crackles with her music on a regular basis. Female rockers now use rock chicks like Pat as the bar by which they measure themselves and Pat Benatar: Greatest Hits leaves no question as to why this is so. It, like Pat, is just phenomenal. Grade: A+ |
| In today’s world, autobiographies telling the tale of how various people overcame the odds to find happiness and success in life are commonplace. There are so many of them that readers often lose track of who’s who. So it therefore takes a truly outstanding new entry in this genre to turn heads and make readers talk. With Forever The Fat Kid, writer Michael Boyd delivers just the type of stand-out story that makes people sit up and take notice. With an entire generation of people lost in that no man’s land between the much hyped Generation X and the ever popular Baby Boomers, Boyd relates the story of how he went from being an overweight, unpopular teen, through his transformation into a successful writer. His struggle to shed the pounds and work through the trauma of being the brunt of endless jokes rings a familiar bell with millions of people and there is also the message contained herein that nothing is unattainable if one just has the desire and the inspiration to work for whatever his dreams may be. Forever The Fat Kid is one of those books that make people think long after the last word is read. Grade: A+ |
| 1939’s classic The Women is an all time masterpiece that has been hailed for its ingenious filmmaking for the past seventy years. This was the movie that set the bar for all the chick flicks that have followed in the decades since it first hit the silver screen. A tale of one woman’s marriage on the rocks, another’s love life in wilting bloom, and the friends who rally around them both to provide touching support and comic relief is just priceless. The fact that there isn’t a man in it is just delicious when one considers the time in which it was made and the sheer star power of the legendary actresses who made it sparkle. Norma Shearer is the wife who feels that her life is in tatters when rumors of her husband’s dalliance with Joan Crawford leak into her inner circle of friends. Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, and Paulette Goddard just shine as the ladies who choose up sides with Shearer and throw daggers at Crawford, who masterfully deflects them back with ease. That fashion show segment, in full color in the middle of a black and white film, was absolute genius. Director George Cukor created a film of immortal standards in The Women and it is still enjoyed by millions to this day. With a remake now about to hit theaters, the original has nothing to worry about. It will forever shine as the diamond it has been for all these years. Grade: A+ |
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