Before I left for Paris I received my new book on Vincente Minelli (Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer) – I’ve been waiting for this book to be published. He is to me one of the most artistic movie directors in all of Hollywood – movies like An American in Paris, Ziegfeld Follies, The Band Wagon – he made poetry on screen and I can’t wait to read the book and get some inside stories from when these movies were made.
The last one I just finished reading was The Lost City of Z and for me as a traveler, this was one great adventure. Reading about what this man went through in mapping out the Amazon right after the turn of the century was quite amazing. His commitment to mapping out a whole part of the world that was unknown was real blood and guts. I hear that they’re about to make the movie – I think Liam Neeson would make the perfect lead role.
What are you reading? Anything good that I need to know about?
