I am a huge fan of Libby Gelman Waxner's article that appears in Premiere magazine each month. It too is called "If You Ask Me", and usually discusses two or three current movies interspersed with anecdotes about her family life. While looking through the film section of my local bookstore I came across this book and recognized the author's name and the title of her column. This book is a hilarious collection of many of these Premiere Magazine articles. The articles appear to be in sequential order, and seem to start around 1988 with films like "The Last Emperor" and "Fatal Attraction", and end five years later with "Sliver" and "Indecent Proposal".

The writer is one of the best in the business, and is actually a gay man (Paul Rudnick) who is just pretending to be a Jewish mother reviewing both the movies and her fictional life. I don't laugh out loud at many things in print, but I have been brought to uncontrollable hysteria by most of his articles.

His movies (In & Out, Adams Family Values) are actually quite good too, and are commonly lauded for their excellent writing. These articles are both insightful and hilarious, and I recommend them to anyone who loves movies or hilarious writing.


Here is a separate Epinion I wrote on Premiere Magazine:
http://www.epinions.com/content_21745536644



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