Kirk Douglas

How to Zoom Your Room: A book review by Bob Morris

June 28, 2022

How to Zoom Your Room: Room Rater’s Ultimate Style Guide Claude Taylor and Jessie Bahrey, with Illustrations by Chris Morris Voracious/An imprint of Little, Brown & Company (June 2021) Why “zoom a room”? Up front, I acknowledge with pride and…

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Ten of the best, yet least appreciated films

June 18, 2015

In my opinion, these are ten of the best, yet least appreciated films, listed in order of appearance. Yellow Sky (1948): My favorite among the westerns directed by William (“Wild Bill”) Wellman, co-starting Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, and Richard Widmark.…

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Olivier: A book review by Bob Morris

August 29, 2014

Olivier Philip Ziegler MacLehose Press (2013) A comprehensive biography of a magnificent performer who was large, who contained multitudes Prior to reading Philip Ziegler’s biography, what I knew about Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) was limited almost entirely to seeing several of…

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