Rachel Pine
Autor(a) de The Twins of Tribeca
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The Twins of Tribeca por Rachel Pine
Delightful and funny, enough to put you off working in the American movie industry. I read this after the Harvey Wienstein scandal. I read the book without looking up anything about Miramax. After reading it, I have spent hours annotating the book to identify who the people really are.
Like The Devil Wears Prada and Because She Can, The Twins of Tribeca tells the story of a young, optimistic and naive young woman taking a job in a notoriously difficult environment because she is certain (a) the stories are exaggerated, and (b) the experience will be worth it. This light book obviously tracks working for the Weinstein brothers at Miramax, and is an enjoyable enough read especially anyone interested in or involved with the movie industry.
For me, the narrative never reached the levels of The Devil Wears Prada, and the drama was much less dramatic (which is a positive for the poor narrator if not for the reader). Still, this book was nowhere near as satisfyingly evil as other offerings in the genre, and left me feeling a little flat. A decent plane or beach read, The Twins of Tribeca doesn't live up to its hype, but is well-written enough to rate three stars.… (mais)
For me, the narrative never reached the levels of The Devil Wears Prada, and the drama was much less dramatic (which is a positive for the poor narrator if not for the reader). Still, this book was nowhere near as satisfyingly evil as other offerings in the genre, and left me feeling a little flat. A decent plane or beach read, The Twins of Tribeca doesn't live up to its hype, but is well-written enough to rate three stars.… (mais)
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ForeignCircus | 3 outras críticas | Nov 5, 2008 |
ForeignCircus | 3 outras críticas | Nov 5, 2008 | Eeeeh. A very thinly veiled story of how awful it must be to work for the Weinstein brothers at Miramax, by an ex-exployee.
This started off very slowly for me and I feared it might be another of those books that I have to force myself to finish, but thankfully it picked up somewhere around the middle. It reminds me a lot of The Devil Wears Prada, but is nowhere near as...captivating, I think. I'm easily entertained and thought it was fun to figure out which movies/actors she was referring to, though sometimes it was really obvious. It could've started out stronger, but overall it wasn't bad.
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