Camera Obscura: DEAR LOLA/THE BENIKER GANG
We are going deeply obscure here, folks. So obscure the book doesn’t have a Wikipedia…
Camera Obscura: Ode to Billie/Billy Joe
And then she said, I got some news this mornin’ from Choctaw Ridge Today, Billy…
Camera Obscura: THAT WAS THEN [PUNCTUATION] THIS IS NOW
I’d known for years that Emilio Estevez was in the movie of this, but I’d…
Camera Obscura: THE FIRST WIVES CLUB
Olivia Goldsmith died relatively young. She had a heart attack as a complication from elective…
Camera Obscura: ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN
This feels like cheating. Surely the movie version, the original movie from 1975, is not…
Camera Obscura: THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER
The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world. They lied…
Camera Obscura: MOLL FLANDERS/THE AMOROUS ADVENTURES OF MOLL FLANDERS
It is generally assumed that Moll Flanders was written by Daniel Defoe. (Or, to give…
Camera Obscura: TWINS/DEAD RINGERS
We are a little late this month, because it took me longer to get to…
Camera Obscura: THE NORTH AVENUE IRREGULARS
I am, as astute readers will be aware by now, firmly in Camp The Book…
Camera Obscura: BIG TROUBLE
If you want my opinion—and why else would you read my columns, after all—Dave Barry’s…