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5.19.2009

Forgotten Hotties of the 80s #1


I was watching Less Than Zero the other day and realized two things. One, Andrew McCarthy needs a Mickey Rourke/Robert Downey, Jr. size comeback. Two, Jami Gertz is a fogotten hottie of the 80's. Really, what happened to her? After Less Than Zero and The Lost Boys she did some minor stuff in the 90's but nothing as cool as her two 80's flicks. Her career fizzled out before she got really huge so she was never established as an 80's hottie. When you think 80's hotties you think Molly Ringwald or Phoebe Cates, but never Jami Gertz. This is why Jami Gertz is a forgotten hottie of the 80's.


5.05.2009

My Summer Reading list '09...in no particular order

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
Jules and Jim -
Henri-Pierre Roché
Catcher in The Rye - JD Salinger
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
Perfume, The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Women - Charles Bukowski
Getting Even - Woody Allen
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis
Pygmy - Chuck Palahnuik
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Young Che - Ernesto Guevara Lynch
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

I expect to get through at least half the list. A quarter of the list I'd be happy with. I'll update as I do.

UPDATED: June 21