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Book Review of Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler : Celluloid Tirades and Escapades

Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler : Celluloid Tirades and Escapades
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-In the winter of 1998, armed only with a stopwatch, Joe Queenan ricked death by plunging fully dressed into the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. He did this to prove that it is impossible for Leonardo DiCaprio to last as long and talk as much as he does at the end of Titanic. It is this cavalier disregard for life and limb that has made Queenan America's most beloved, heavily medicated film critic...In [this book], [Queenan] rants about everything from the cenimatic paralysis caused by Barbara Striesand's hairstyles, to the alarming rise of auricular trauma (ear mutilation) in contemporary films.....