Sunday, 2 December 2007
Sunday Times: Ten Bad Dates is 'Showbiz Book of the Year'!
posted @12:41 p.m. by Richard Kelly
Possibly our sweetest accolade to date comes via Catherine Shoard in the Sunday Times annual round-up of film/entertainment books, wherein TBD places top with the following citation: "In an age where the top 10 list is the time-pressed journo’s best friend, Richard T Kelly has turned its flippancy into a virtue. Ten Bad Dates with De Niro is a compendium, by some of Britain’s snarkiest critics, of alternative movie countdowns – and the more absurdly specific the better. Highlights include Anne Billson’s Ten Places You Wouldn’t Expect to Find a Severed Head and Tim Robey’s Ten Mighty Apoplexies of Pacino – a rundown of the best “Shouty Al” scenes (number one: the antiGod rant from The Devil’s Advocate). The most popular films mentioned, for the real list-heads among you, seem to be The Godfather, followed, less predictably, by The Fly, which turns up in Best Mad Movie Scientist, Most Memorable Meal, Best Remake That Improves Upon the Original and Ten Wince-Making Instances of Finger/Toe Abuse."
