Review: 'Ferris Bueller... You're My Hero'

Imagine crazed Nick Cage as Ferris Bueller, popping his girlfriend Tandy, played by Meg Ryan, out of class so that the couple and their pal—the guy played by Emilio Estevez, not the girl played by Lara Flynn Boyle—can go to a depressing strip club. Ferris is also buddies with that druggie his sister—his twin sister, not his kid sister—meets at the cop station. 

Review: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go! The Story of The Ramones'

In 2002, Joey Ramone had died just a year earlier. The rest of The Ramones was still alive and Everett True had just published Hey! Ho! Let's Go! The Story of The Ramones. Dee Dee Ramone would die half way through that year. Johnny Ramone would follow in 2004. A year later, an updated edition of Hey! Ho! Let's Go! acknowledged these two grim milestones. 

Review: 'Freddie Mercury: By the Man Who Knew Him Best' (Omnibus Remastered Edition)

The simplicity of its title implies that Freddie Mercury is a biography. The claim in its subtitle, By the Man Who Knew Him Best, implies intimate access into the life of a superstar who was completely audacious on stage but shy and guarded in his private life.

Freddie Mercury: By the Man Who Knew Him Best is not a biography though it does afford intimate access into the life of the Queen frontman. It's a memoir of a limited period in Mercury's life, as Peter Freestone joins Queen's touring crew as wardrobe master in 1980 and sticks around as his  personal assistant until the singer's death eleven years later. Freddie Mercury largely reads as a diary of that time. Freestone writes of his day-by-day duties in a consistently amiable tone. He discusses Mercury's volatile relationships with no more dramatic emphasis than he discusses music video shoots, Freddie's favorite foods, or procuring dry underwear for his boss after a show. Only when discussing his friend's death does Freestone's amiably neutral tone drop. The author goes into much more intimate detail than he does anywhere else in the book.