[Book] The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King

Book cover Subtitled, The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, this is a biography of a man that most Americans over 30 grew up watching as children on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which is a show that ran on US public television stations (PBS) for 31 years (1968-2001). I cannot review this book without noting that Fred Rogers means a lot to me, as I watched his show regularly for many years....

12 Jun 2019 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

[Movie] Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018)

Movie poster This is a documentary film about Fred McFeely Rogers, who was on a popular children's program called Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from 1968 through 2001.  The movie starts his career with a children's show that he produced before Neighborhood, the Children's Corner, though skips his earliest work for NBC. Won't you be my neighbor is a very well paced, carefully timed, and beautifully edited documentary....

9 Mar 2019 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

[Book] David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones

Book sleeve cover The author of this book took a huge amount of time to collect together statements and interviews from a vast array of people who knew or in some cases even briefly met David Bowie.  Jarringly, there are places where David Bowie's own statements are included.  All of these vignettes are presented each in whole, collected into chapters into an approximate order as to when the main point of each vignette happened....

31 Oct 2018 · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink

[Book] eyE Marty by Marty Feldman

Book cover Marty Feldman is probably most famous for playing Igor in the 1974 Mel Brooks movie, Young Frankenstein.  He died in 1982, and his autobiography sat in the attic of his widow's home until her death in 2010 when it was discovered by Mark Flanagan.  Flanagan had it transcribed, exactly as it was found, including photo inserts and published without further editing. This book is in desperate need of editing....

4 Jul 2018 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink