Defending Rights A Life in Law and Politics Book

Oh sure, there's the occasional oddball assertion (believing that Mommie Dearest was actually good, for example...when in fact Faye Dunaway was so scarily awful in that one that she would've frightened Joan Crawford herself). Not to mention them ragging on Valley of the Dolls and the Poseidon Adventure. But a very high percentage of the time the snarky one-liner approach suits the "unofficial" mood perfectly, and this tome is chock-full o' facts (as well as intriguing asides and what-ifs). Btw I definitely could've done without so much Pauline Kael. Seriously, did she like anything? (she certainly put the "critic" in "film critic"). Incidentally, in such a work I think only contemporaneous reviews should be used (no retrospective commentaries allowed!). Actually though, the only real problem with the book is that it's so damn cram-packed with info it takes forever to get through! :D (Seriously, I was at it for a month or more.) Oh yeah, and they definitely could've used the services of a proofreader/facts checker (at one point I think they implied that Joan Bennett and not Anne Baxter was the star of All About Eve; then there was Cuba Gooding Sr being a "one-hit wonder").