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Rating: 
Summary: Disappointing
Review: One wonders just what criteria is used in order for an item (or name) to be included in this book, and indeed, the "expertise" of its contributors. For instance, how could any "comprehensive" cinema work include names like Warren Beatty and Donald Sutherland as actors, but exclude Ray Milland, Robert Taylor, Robert Young, Dana Andrew, Walter Pidgeon, Frederick March, John Garfield, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Cher, John Travolta, Tommy Lee Jones, Richard Chamberlain, James Garner, Nicholas Cage, and Tom Hanks? How could Yves Montand be included without Simone Signoret? And why Jane Russell, and not Rosalind Russell (I'm afraid to ask)? And Gerard Depardieu, but not John Malkovich? Michael Hordern, and not Alexander Knox? Jerry Lewis without Dean Martin? And how on earth does newcomer Emma Thompson rate an entry, while Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Helen Hayes, Greer Garson, and Loretta Young are left out entirely? What "comprehensive" music work includes the Sex Pistols, and not the Bee Gees or the Moody Blues? Janis Joplin, and not Jim Morrison? And no Nat King Cole, Loretta Lynn, or Cher? And no Henry Mancini? Makes one wonder, if the music and cinema sections are so bereft, just how complete the art, literature, fashion, dance, photography, architecture, sculpture and theater offerings could be. It's not comprehensive. It's suspect. A waste of money.
Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: One wonders just what criteria is used in order for an item (or name) to be included in this book, and indeed, the "expertise" of its contributors. For instance, how could any "comprehensive" cinema work include names like Warren Beatty and Donald Sutherland as actors, but exclude Ray Milland, Robert Taylor, Robert Young, Dana Andrew, Walter Pidgeon, Frederick March, John Garfield, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Cher, John Travolta, Tommy Lee Jones, Richard Chamberlain, James Garner, Nicholas Cage, and Tom Hanks? How could Yves Montand be included without Simone Signoret? And why Jane Russell, and not Rosalind Russell (I'm afraid to ask)? And Gerard Depardieu, but not John Malkovich? Michael Hordern, and not Alexander Knox? Jerry Lewis without Dean Martin? And how on earth does newcomer Emma Thompson rate an entry, while Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Helen Hayes, Greer Garson, and Loretta Young are left out entirely? What "comprehensive" music work includes the Sex Pistols, and not the Bee Gees or the Moody Blues? Janis Joplin, and not Jim Morrison? And no Nat King Cole, Loretta Lynn, or Cher? And no Henry Mancini? Makes one wonder, if the music and cinema sections are so bereft, just how complete the art, literature, fashion, dance, photography, architecture, sculpture and theater offerings could be. It's not comprehensive. It's suspect. A waste of money.
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