Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!
This busy holiday weekend, we’re going to keep this simple. We stole this from a blogger named Idzie, who called this the F.A.B. (film, audio, book) meme.
F.A.B. winter 2025
F. Film: What movie or TV show are you watching?
I watched the CBS piece Rob Reiner: Scenes from a Life. Mark Evanier said about it: “Someone — probably many someones — did an extraordinary job putting it together in not enough time. They not only got access to a lot of Reiner’s closest friends, but they got them to share very personal, unique insights into the man…
“I know how easy it is to lapse into clichés and say generic things about how wonderful the deceased was, how the world will never be the same, etc. This was not that. It was a portrait of a real person painted by people who knew that real person and who said things specific to that real person. “
I totally agreed with that assessment. Also, “Remembering the treasured films of Rob Reiner from CBS Sunday Morning by Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz
BTW, I wrote about the Reiners here.
A. Audio: What are you listening to?
Besides Christmas music, which I will play until January 6 or until I run out, whichever comes first, I’ve been listening to musicians whose birthdays are in early January:
Joan Baez: Simple Twist of Fate
David Bowie: Panic In Detroit
Jim Croce: Operator
Roger Miller: You Can’t Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd
Donald Fagan: The Royal Scam – Steely Dan
Elvis Presley: Jailhouse Rock
Soupy Sales: Though I’m Just A Clown, On Motown Records!
Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells A Story
Michael Stipe: It’s The End Of The World As We Know It – REM
Stephen Stills: Woodstock – CSNY
B. Book: What are you reading?
I’m catching up on The Week magazine and the newspapers.
Thank you for playing! Please come back next week.
