Back from holiday break and bursting into 2022 with a special quick listen all about the best Film & TV books I read in 2021 AND a quick review of the Harry Potter reunion special on HBO Max, in which I totally forgot to mention how great Helena Bonham Carter was in cackling her way through the entire thing and being her naughty, bawdy self.

Links to the Books mentioned in this episode:

Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic

The Fifty-Year-Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of the Making of Start Trek, the First 25 Years

Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel

We're Ready For You, Mr. Grodin

Robert Altman: The Oral Biography

The Fade Out

This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories

Rockers: The Making of Reggae's Most Iconic Film

The Mudd Club

The Score

The Laidlaw Trilogy

One Day You'll Burn

Penny: A Graphic Memoir

The Godfather Gang: In Hollywood, Everything is Personal

The Pine Barrens Strategem: From The Case Files of Steve Rockfish

Links to Instagram accounts mentioned in this episode, all great follows:

Joseph Schneider

Ernest Lupinacci

Karl Stevens

Ken Harris

Richard Boch

Carla Valderrama

Elizabeth Breitweiser