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cathygeha · 3 months

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REVIEW

Dream Town by Lee Goldberg

Eve Ronin #5

Dream town for some but a nightmare for others is my conclusion at the end of the book. I wonder if Eve is finding it dreamy, difficult, deadly or some other adjective that begins with “D” as Eve and Duncan tackle their next cases that may overlap before the end of the book.

What I liked:

* Eve: dedicated, competent, focused, intelligent, sees connections, growing in her profession, outspoken but can be tactful, conflicted about the new TV series based on her life, is searching for balance between her professional and personal life, beginning a relationship with Dr. Daniel Brooks * Duncan: a good man, father figure to Eve, a good mentor, seasoned detective, supportive, smart, decades on the job, great detective, loving husband and father, perfect job partner for Eve, interesting, and has a sense of humor * The way Eve and Duncan worked together as a team

* Daniel: forensic anthropologist, intelligent, driven, excellent in his field, attracted to Eve and potentially a perfect love interest for her – want to see how things work out * Seeing Eve’s family again and catching up on how they are doing * The police procedural aspects and watching how Eve and Duncan found then followed leads * That the persons responsible for the crimes in this story were found and dealt with and there were no loose ends.

* The plot, pacing, writing, and setting where I spent many of my formative years * Knowing that there will be another book to look forward to.

What I didn’t like:

* Who and what I was meant not to like

* The mindset, behavior, entitlement, and disconnect with reality some characters exuded

* Knowing that though this is fiction, there are people as evil as those in this book

Did I enjoy this book? Yes Would I read more in this series? Definitely.

Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for the ARC – This is my honest review.

5 Stars

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A gated dream town for the megarich becomes a murderous nightmare in a riveting Eve Ronin thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.

Hidden Hills is a private celebrity enclave of white picket fences and horse trails that seems to exist in a dreamworld. But when reality superstar Kitty Winslow is killed within their gates and corpses are found in the vast state park outside them, LASD detective Eve Ronin realizes there is a deadly, razor-thin line between what’s real and what’s imagined.

Eve discovers that Kitty’s surreal on- and off-camera life, a blur of fact and fantasy, shockingly mirrors her own as she struggles to investigate the killings, wade into a music industry war, and battle a vicious Chilean gang—all while her life is being turned into a fictional cop show directed by her estranged father.

Eve’s grip on reality and the case is strained to the breaking point as the slayings continue, the media frenzy reaches a fever pitch, and the only inescapable truth she can see is death…and it’s coming for her.

#Lee Goldberg #Eve Ronin 5 #NetGalley #Thomas & Mercer #Murder #Crime #Fiction #Police Procedural #Hollywood #Murder Mystery #homicide detectives

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punksmoovelounge777 · 1 year

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#bill ritter #lee goldberg #liz cho #abc #abc news #new york

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bethly126 · 1 year

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What I’m Listening to now: The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

Our mom picked this up at half price books on actual CD to listen to in the car! The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

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#audio #audiobooks #Janet Evanovich #Kate listens #Kate reads #Lee Goldberg

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reportwire · 2 years

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NYC Weather: Steamy PM thunderstorm

NEW YORK (WABC) — A stretch of extreme heat will continue Thursday, with temperatures in the mid-90s that will feel like 100, but we could also contend with evening thunderstorms, especially north of New York City. We are now forecasting a 7-day heat wave, which started Tuesday and extends through Monday. The most extreme heat may actually wait until the weekend. We’re forecasting 98 on Sunday,…

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#AccuWeather forecast #brittany bell #jeff smith #lee goldberg #new york city weather #nyc weather #sam champion #tri-state weather #Weather Forecast

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theblackestofsuns · 1 year

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“Limitless Dimensions!!”

Fantastic Four #51 (June 1966)

Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott and Stan Goldberg

Marvel Comics

#Fantastic Four #Stan Lee #Jack Kirby #Joe Sinnott #Stan Goldberg #Marvel Comics #Great Comics #Great Comic Art #Limitless Dimensions!!

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silviacrossdresser · 4 months

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Recaption by Joe Six-Pack from the cover of “Millie the Model” #126 (January 1965), published by Marvel Comics. Original art by Stan Goldberg, based on a script by Stan Lee.

#Joe Six-Pack #Millie the model #Stan Goldberg #Stan Lee #Marvel Comics #Crossdressing Dreams

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dd-the-man-without-fear · 1 month

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Happy 4/20 day, peeps 🚬🌿

#420 #420 🌿#4/20 #4/20 🌿#Strange Tales #Jack Kirby #Dick Ayers #Stan Goldberg #Stan Lee #Larry Lieber #comic books #comics

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fashioninpaper · 1 month

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#paper dolls #my girl pearl #Stan Lee #stan goldberg

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smbhax · 1 year

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Cover of Strange Tales #111, August 1963. Stan Lee script, Jack Kirby pencils, Dick Ayers inks, Stan Goldberg colors, Artie Simek letters.

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balu8 · 8 months

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Matt Murdock; Karen Page and Foggy Nelson

Daredevil Annual #1

by Stan Lee; Gene Colan; John Tartaglione; Stan Goldberg(?) and Sam Rosen

Marvel

#matvel comics #daredevil #annual #A Colorful Collection of DD's Cast of Characters #Inside Daredevil #Gene Colan #John Tartaglione #Stan Goldberg ?#Sam Rosen #Stan Lee #comic book

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cathygeha · 8 months

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REVIEW

Malibu Burning by Lee Goldberg

Sharpe & Walker #1

Fiery, fast paced, immersive beginning to a new series with great promise!

What I liked: * Danny Cole: master thief, conman, a bit of a Robin Hood, charismatic, brilliant, strategic thinker, wealthy, and puts the humanity before money

* Walter Sharpe: arson investigator, intelligent, puzzle solver, experienced, looks for clues and facts to verify when investigating fires, willing to share knowledge, doesn’t jump to conclusions

* Andrew Walker: new to arson investigation after working as a US Marshall, married, soon to be a father, “hunter” who always gets his man, a bit of an adrenaline junkie…maybe

* The introduction to Sharpe & Walker and the foundation for their working together as a team – would like to know more about them

* Danny and the team he put together for the heist

* That rights that were wronged

* Being able to see the story and believing it would work on the big or small screen

* Being able to relate to the fires as I grew up in California and have experienced and seen fires like those described

* Knowing there is another book to look forward to in the series

What I didn’t like: * Who and what I was meant not to like

* The fires and the damage they do – wish that Danny had come up with a less damaging way to achieve his goals – so many animals suffer as well as the land destroyed

Did I like this book? Yes

Would I read more in this series? Yes

Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4-5 Stars

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For a professional criminal and a relentless arson investigator, fear and revenge spread like wildfire in a an incendiary thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg. Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what he needs to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend. As the most devastating firestorms in Los Angeles’ history scorch the hills of Malibu, relentless arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his wild card of a new partner, Andrew Walker, a former US marshal, suspect that someone set the massive blazes intentionally, a terrifying means to an unknown end. While the flames rage out of control, Danny pursues his brilliant scheme, unaware that Sharpe and Walker are closing in. But when they all collide in a canyon of fire, everything changes, pitting them against an unexpected enemy within an inescapable inferno.

#Lee Goldberg #Sharpe & Walker 1 #Arson #Conman #Heist #Arson investigation #firefighters #fiction

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disneytva · 5 months

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The talented people like Eric Goldberg & Jennifer Lee at Walt Disney Animation Studios are celebrating Disney Television Animation's 40th Anniversary and 100th Series with a TOONTOWN AD using hand-drawn animation.

The spot features Mickey Mouse and the gang in their ONCE UPON A STUDIO desings interacting with Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney Television Animation rides like "Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway" & "DuckTales: Donald's Boat"

TOONTOWN also features rides like "Chip 'n' Dale's GADGETcoaster" inspired by "Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers" and Goofy's How-to-Play Yard featuring nods to "Goof Troop", "DuckTales 2017" and "A Goofy Movie".

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gauzyguts · 15 days

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oc dump here we go

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thehappyspaceman · 1 year

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Ranking All the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Specials

So, I’m in the process of finishing the script for a review of all the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer specials. However, I don’t know if I will realistically be able to complete my video before Christmas, so here is my ranking of every Rudolph special, from best to worst.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964): Despite all the memes (“Deviation from the norm will be punished unless it is exploitable!”), the original Rankin/Bass Rudolph special holds up much better than most of the internet gives it credit for. It has memorable characters and songs, it is well-paced and does not try to cram too many subplots into its runtime, its stop-motion animation was quite good for the time (and has a unique charm nowadays), and it actually fixes most of the issues with the original song and story. It’s a classic. 9.5/10

Rudolph’s Shiny New Year (1976): The follow-up to the Rankin/Bass special is not as good as the first one, and the lesson of “If people laugh at you, it’s because you bring them joy and that’s a good thing!” is kind of reprehensible, but it’s still pretty alright. It certainly has some nice songs and creative ideas, and Red Skelton is charming as Father Time, although I can see why it didn’t become a holiday staple like the first one. For one thing, it’s less well-paced, and doubling it as a New Year’s special and as a celebration of America’s Bicentennial felt stranger. Still pretty good. 7/10

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948): This Max Fleischer short aired a year before the song’s release and thus is more closely based on the original Rudolph story. The animation is kind of janky (as a lot of Max Fleischer’s shorts are in hindsight, even though he was an animation pioneer) and the story is a bit standard, but it’s still a decent short film and a noble enough screen debut for the character. 6/10

Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July (1979): Rankin/Bass pulled out all of the stops for this big epic crossover film between Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, and Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, their own Avengers: Endgame that also doubled as a sendoff for Rudolph and Frosty, who would never star in a Rankin/Bass project after this. However, despite some creative ideas, the plot felt all over the place, with far too many subplots and too much lore to keep track of, plus we did not need a explanation for Rudolph’s nose powers. We could have accepted it as simply being “magic,” and making him a chosen one poses more questions than it answers. Still, at least it was imaginative, which is more than I can say for the post-Rankin/Bass specials. 5.5/10

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998): GoodTimes Entertainment’s attempt at rebooting the franchise has diminishing returns, and reeks of the usual GoodTimes stench. The plot beats and characters felt very derivative of the original Rankin/Bass special, as a lot of GoodTimes movies feel derivative of other films, but this one felt even more obvious since even the songs themselves felt derivative of songs from the first Rankin/Bass one. And the $10 million budget clearly didn’t go to the writing or animation, so I have to wonder where it went. Presumably to the voice cast, and while it does bring in some well-known voice actors (including John Goodman, Whoopi Goldberg, Debbie Reynolds, and Monty Python’s Eric Idle), they cannot save this special from mediocrity. 4/10

Rudolph’s Lessons for Life (1996): There’s a reason this special has been forgotten and isn’t even mentioned on Wikipedia. I only found out about it thanks to TV Tropes. Rudolph’s Lessons for Life feels like a remake of Max Fleischer’s Rudolph short, but a lot worse. At least the Fleischer short was good for the time. This special’s framerate feels like a PowerPoint presentation at points. The only copies that exist of this special are 240p VHS rips, so don’t bother watching unless you are a serious Rudolph completionist. 2/10

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys (2001): GoodTimes Entertainment’s second attempt at a Rudolph movie, this one continues from the original Rankin/Bass special and ignores the two sequels. This movie easily has the worst animation of all of them, summoning memories of Foodfight! to mind, and even if you look past the animation, it’s seriously uninspired. The plot lifts beats from the original Rankin/Bass special, and the villain is ripped from Toy Story 2. Perhaps the only decent plot element is a subplot about an island where toys can get plastic surgery? But even then, it’s wasted because they do nothing with it. And the celebrity voice cast--including Richard Dreyfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Rick Moranis--do nothing to help. This is bad. Awful. Burn it. Purge it with fire. 1/10

And that’s my ranking! What do you guys think? Leave your own rankings in the comments below, feel free to discuss if you have any questions, and look out for my review sometime next month!

#rudolph the red nosed reindeer #christmas #christmas specials #ranking #rankin/bass #animation #cartoon #rudolph #jamie lee curtis #rick moranis #richard dreyfuss #john goodman #debbie reynolds #whoopi goldberg #eric idle

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theblackestofsuns · 1 year

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“Beware!”

Fantastic Four #47 (February 1966)

Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott and Stan Goldberg

Marvel Comics

#Fantastic Four #Stan Lee #Jack Kirby #Joe Sinnott #Stan Goldberg #Marvel Comics #Great Comics #Great Comic Art #Beware!

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silviacrossdresser · 1 year

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Recaptioned an modified image by Chandlyr Ellis, from the cover of “Millie the Model” #113 (March 1963), published by Marvel Comics. Original art by Stan Goldberg, based on a script by Stan Lee.

#Chandlyr Ellis #Millie the Model #Marvel Comics #Stan Goldberg #Stan Lee

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