If You Ask Me
New York film critic Gelman-Waxner here collects her irreverent, hilarious "If You Ask Me" columns that have appeared during the past five years in Premiere magazine. Of yet another Tom Cruise coming-of-age drama (Far and Away), she writes, "It's like watching Tom in a $60 million school play, where you never forget that he's really the star quarterback and the class president." William Hurt (in The Accidental Tourist) speaks "very slowly, like a Mormon on quaaludes." Gelman-Waxner is kinder to Daniel Day-Lewis, Dennis Quaid and Michelle Pfeiffer, whose "cheekbones and thighs could be grounds for a class action suit by women everywhere." The persona of the columnist-homemaker, mother and wife, married to a "wildly sought-after Upper East Side orthodontist"-is carefully fashioned as the author intersperses self-aware mockery of yuppie excesses with astringent comments about Hollywood.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.