O'Reilly always whining about "his" books not getting reviewed, gets his wish - annnd he's *burnt*!1
Actually, last night, flipping through the final hours of the past three days of oppressive holiday programming, what seemed to be something substantive -- Tom HANKS sitting in a chair narrating something -- I tanked out. It was O'LOOFAH's "Killing LINCOLN" thing. Of course, I have never looked at anything of his Killing fetish, while almost believing his constant yammering about how good his junk is and almost thinking I should give it a chance, while always considering the well known actors who agree to collaborating (in the Nazi sense) with O'LOOFAH on his projects to be collaborators (in the Nazi sense).
Well, I only lasted five minutes or so. There was some wooden staging and acting -- and I came in during the Ford Theater scene!1 -- and Tom HANKS (deliberately?!1) made the Narrator from Rocky Horror look scholarly.
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[font size=5]Mr. Bill, Oh No!
Bill O’Reilly Wants Someone to Review His Book, Does He? OK, Here It Is[/font]
Pete Dexter Jeff Nale
.... Forcefully reminding viewers once again that Killing the Rising Sun is the best-selling book in the world, O’Reilly made his complaint: that only two outlets—newspapers and magazines and maybe National Public Radio—had shown the respect to review it.
He paused for a moment, letting the injustice sink in. ....
The book is a mess. O’Reilly and his co-writer Martin Dugard write sentences without life—flat, passive, riddled with clichés, sometimes four or five of them crammed into a single short paragraph. O’Reilly moves mindlessly from the present tense to the past and then back again, possibly it was someone’s idea of a cure for dead sentences.
His research—what he calls “the truth”—isn’t fresh, but then, real historians and writers have spent years studying and dramatizing the war in the Pacific. What O’Reilly has done is read the Cliff’s Notes and written your term paper for thirty bucks.
More telling, O’Reilly’s “research” has the taste of pornography. ....
And in this way, O’Reilly concludes his epic saga (250 pages or so, not counting pictures) on a personal note: He writes: “Not usually introspective, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]my father[/FONT] was convinced of one certainty, which he shared with me on a few occasions—that [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]his very existence, and[/FONT] therefore [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]my life as well[/FONT], was likely saved by a terrible bomb and a gut-wrenching presidential decision that is still being debated to this day. ....
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