{"id":3487,"date":"2006-12-13T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2010-04-20T21:59:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T02:59:23","slug":"book-report-selections-from-stars-by-daphne-davis-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/13\/book-report-selections-from-stars-by-daphne-davis-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Selections from Stars! by Daphne Davis (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book cheaply, I expect, at a book fair this year.  But how they blur together.  I don&#8217;t know what I am suddenly into books about the pop culture of my youth, but I suspect it&#8217;s as much a reflection of sentimentality and nostalgia as I age as hope for trivia infusion.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a subset from a larger work apparently entitled <i>Stars!<\/i> which focuses on glamorous photos and stills of the movie makers of the day.  This book presents a number of pictures, including some full color, with some suitably laudatory text.<\/p>\n<p>Profiled stars include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barbra Streisand\n<li>Robert Redford\n<li>Jane Fonda\n<li>Dustin Hoffman\n<li>Warren Beatty\n<li>Jack Nicholson\n<li>Faye Dunaway\n<li>Al Pacino\n<li>Diane Keaton\n<li>Jill Clayburgh\n<li>Burt Reynolds\n<li>Meryl Streep\n<li>Robert De Niro\n<li>Brooke Shields\n<li>John Travolta\n<li>Sissy Spacek\n<li>Harrison Ford<\/ul>\n<p>Most of these could count 1984 as their pinnacle, although I&#8217;m sure many would lie to themselves about their continuing relevance (Streisand, Fonda, Beatty, Dunaway, Keaton, Streep, Shields, Spacek).  One I don&#8217;t even recognize (Clayburgh).  Only a couple remain draws to this day (De Niro, Pacino, Ford, maybe Nicholson, maybe Travolta).  So it&#8217;s a timestamped piece of fluff.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, though, and probably only coincidental that these actors starred in a lot of overlapping movies.  Or maybe those movies are what Davis thought we&#8217;d carry of the Disco years into eternity.  With the exception of <i>The Godfather<\/i> and <i>Star Wars<\/i>, I think she would have been mistaken.  <i>Kramer Vs Kramer<\/i>?  Common, 50% of the population is getting divorced now.  The Black Death had a smaller chance of killing you in the Dark Ages.  <i>Saturday Night Fever<\/i>?  Take some NyQuil and go to bed early.  <i>Shampoo<\/i>?  We&#8217;ve stopped lathering and repeating.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, I get to mark one book down and move it to my to read shelf and I didn&#8217;t have to spend much time on it.  Which makes just that much more time for me to avoid <i>War and Peace<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B0006YLFSG&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book cheaply, I expect, at a book fair this year. But how they blur together. I don&#8217;t know what I am suddenly into books about the pop culture of my youth, but I suspect it&#8217;s as much a reflection of sentimentality and nostalgia as I age as hope for trivia infusion. 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