Favorite Books, Films, & Music of your Favorite Authors, Directors, Musicians & More!
Disney's The Last Jedi (Star Wars - Episode IIX), starring Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, and the late Carrie Fisher, is scheduled to be released this December. The eagerly awaited film is written and directed by the talented Rian Johnson, writer and director of Looper, The Brothers Bloom, and indie-favorite, Brick. Below is a selection of films …
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After reading approximately 2,000 books concerning investing and investment strategies, The Wall Street Journal's Jason Zweig opines that only a select handful are worth reading. The following books are those highlighted by Zweig as excellent resources for anyone interested in investing in securities (click on the book images for more information). For more on Zweig, …
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The favorite books of music icon Nick Cave are examined below. Cave, front-man of the Bad-Seeds, Grinderman, and The Birthday Party, is also an accomplished author (And the Ass Saw the Angel and The Death of Bunny Munro: A Novel), poet, film scorer (The Road), and screenwriter (Lawless (adapted from Matt Bondurant's The Wettest County in the World: A …
Dennis Lehane is the author of the classic Kenzie-Gennaro series (A Drink Before the War; Sacred; Gone, Baby, Gone; Darkness Take My Hand; and Moonlight Mile), The Drop, Mystic River, Shutter Island, and The Given Day. Lehane is also credited with writing several episodes of HBO's acclaimed series The Wire. Currently, Lehane teaches advanced fIction writing at Harvard University. Below is a selection of some …
Music icon David Bowie was not only a prolific songwriter, but a vivacious reader with a lifelong love of literature. During an interview with Vanity Fair, Bowie stated that his "idea of perfect happiness" was "reading." In a future post, we will be examining the favorite albums of the late musician. Below is a selection …
Renowned investors invariably share one common trait: they are voracious readers. Indeed, as successful investors will attest, investing intelligently in securities requires a sound intellectual framework for making decisions. Warren Buffett, one of the world's wealthiest individuals with a net worth of $74.5 billion at the time of this writing, famously read between 600 - …
