[michaelwww]

> I find the language just goddamned terrible

I agree but she interviews much better than she writes: http://www.salon.com/2013/06/14/hollywood_memoirist_lynda_ob...

It's funny that she was an editor for the New York Times. I'm guessing she decided to edit her own book, so she had no one to tell her that her breathless and gossipy over-wrought writing style would be laughable if it weren't so painful to read.

[john_b]

It's an excerpt, so the style might fit better in the book, where hopefully the reader isn't thrown right into it and bombarded with it constantly.

Even as an excerpted article, however, it needed to be edited much more. I skimmed the last half because I found the style unbearable. If you're going to explain why movies suck now, then start talking about facts, ideas, and their connections. Why bother with so much character development when those characters don't matter in such a short piece?

[nnethercote]

"It hit me like a rock in the face."

[michaelwww]

"I just went around saying, “The landlord has the blues,” and blithely fell into the future."