Reviews for Correspondence Models for Educators

The average rating for Correspondence Models for Educators based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-03-13 00:00:00 Scott Francis The author comes off as deeply interested in himself and his own insights. Far more so than he is in the actors he’s interviewing. It’s like being at a party overflowing with cool people you’ve always wanted to meet — but you get trapped in the corner all night by a know-it-all who won’t shut up. So half this book is deeply unpleasant. But when the actors share their thoughts and stories — fantastic. Where else will you find Strother Martin and Lee Van Cleef in their own words.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-06-17 00:00:00 Jesse Turner Excellent interviews with several of Hollywood's best "heavy" character actors, hampered only by Horner's profound love of his own way with words. The interviews are in depth and revealing, far more so than most interviews I've read with any of the subjects (Lee Van Cleef, Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Andrew Robinson, Jack Elam, Neville Brand, Bo Hopkins, Luke Askew, Bill McKinney, Robert Donner). But a ten-page introductory essay on how such items as the Hindu Navaratri festival, the Australian Arunda tribe, the ancient Greek Anthesteria, and Prudentius's "Psychomachia" relate to movie bad guys is utterly bewildering and suggestive of more time spent by the author in the thick jungles of academia than in the movie house. Nonetheless, author William R. Horner (a self-described "scholar and banker from Vanderbilt University") managed to gain access to some of the movies' most colorful characters and not blow the opportunity. His questions, while revealing a certain lack of understanding how movies are actually made, nevertheless reveal more than these actors were generally ever allowed to say in a public forum. For that he is to be congratulated.