I just finished this book The Rudolph Valentino Case Files last night. It gives me no pleasure to say that I give this book a 'Thumbs Down' book review. I waited to purchase it until Amazon had a steep price reduction and bought it for a fraction of it's original asking price. After reading, I know why it's on clearance.
I plan to review this book in seperate parts because unlike the other Valentino books, this is a hodge-podge of essays, newspaper reprints, translations, guesswork theories passed off as research, some appear to be amateur blog posts disguised as additional chapters. It's finished out with colorized B&W images, ironically many of them have no connection whatsoever to Rudolph Valentino.
Part 1 of my book review
There is a Valentino Book Bibliography List which starts on page 317. The books are listed alphabetically under the respective author's last name rather than the actual title of the Valentino book. When I looked for Valentino Dream Of Desire under the name of it's author, David Bret, it was nowhere to be found. Odd, I thought since Zumaya spent 8 entire pages discussing Valentino Dream Of Desire and even mentioned it's actual title on four occasions within those eight pages.
It's common knowledge Evelyn Zumaya has long attacked his book, but I felt surely she wouldn't censor a title from the Valentino book bibliography list simply because of that. After all, she equally rallied against the book by Brad Steiger and Chaw Mank in the same chapter she rails on Bret. She even included additional chapters for them, the authors of Valentino An Intimate And Shocking Expose, called "Mr Mank" and "The Brad Steiger Interview" Yet, their book Valentino An Intimate And Shocking Expose was indeed included in their Valentino Bibliography yet Bret's appears to be deliberately banished.
For the record; Evelyn Zumaya and Renalto Floris have never been shy about venting their outrage of having their own Valentino books eliminated from a prominent Valentino website's book list.
Yet, they are A-OK with doing it to the books they don't approve of? This is hypocrisy and they frankly should be called out on doing the very thing they complain about being done to them.
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| Renato Floris expresses his "utmost disgust" that "none of our books were included" |
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| Renato Floris says it is "intellectually dishonest" that she "does not include books which are not to her liking" Quote dated 10/11/21 |
So, I ask you - are Evelyn Zumaya and Renato Floris "intellectually dishonest"? After all, it is he, himself who said a person not including Valentino books not to their liking on their bibliography list makes them intellectually dishonest. Yet that is what they have done in The Rudolph Valentino Case Files. I'll let you decide for yourself.
This is a good example of why, in my opinion, that neither they themselves nor the multiple Valentino books put out by Evelyn Zumaya and Renato Floris will ever be taken seriously nor found in any scholarly book depository.
This is end of my book review Part 1. The discussion of The Rudolph Valentino Case Files will continue in Part 2
The pantomime rolls into its 20th year, with a few cast changes. Mother Goose and Rumplestiltzkin, currently playing to empty theatres via Skype from their Padre-Liberace-Pink-Painted bolthole on the edge of a Belmarsh-style industrial complex in the small Italian town of Homophobia…hyserically supported by The Seven Sisters of Syphillis, two of whom are The Madwoman herself, staring at her reflection in the mirror while trying not to crack it with that Hepzibah Pincheon stare and that bloodcurdling shriek.
ReplyDeleteToday, she posts NINETEEN pages of insanity which she says she wrote in 2003. In this, she mentions books which were published AFTER this year, and dates one paragraph 2019. Such is her level of madness, yelling through the cat-flap in the hope that Mr. Mumbles is not earing his ear-plugs in order to acquire a brief respite from that screech, that she criticises me for getting a name wrong, then gets the name of one she says she hates more than other WRONG!!!!!
Not being mentioned by Evelyn Zumaya in her overpriced tosh does not bother me, as few will ever see (or be able to afford, unless her books are on offer) what she writes in her mostly invented terms. For the record, too, I give everything she writes and youtubes a BIG thumbs-down. So do every aspect of the media, who have blacklisted her. Nice being popular, eh, Lizzie?
Everything the Madwoman of Turin says about us applies to herself. I’m sure there’s a medical term for this….ah, yes, lunacy!
She says that I do not sell books, and that she does. Really? Are publishers around the world sending her copies of my royalty statements?
She says I have a miserable home life, while hers is blissfully happy? Has she bugged my home now, so that she can listen in on our conversations—as she did with Valentino, with all those quotes she came out with in her book? And where does she find time for the love-love-love she boasts about when all her time is spent trawling Twitter, Facebook groups et-all under fake names?
She says that I live in squalor, and that I’m dirt poor. Really? Does she have a drone floating over my house, and access to my bank accounts? Has she taken a gander around that industrial estate where she lives, with a backdrop that looks like something out of a Dickensian workhouse?
She says that I am obsessed with Valentino and that I have him on the brain 24/7. Really? He’s never OFF hers! Indeed, she says that I would like to pretend to be Natacha Rambova and make love to him. Really? A man who’s been dead almost a hundred years and who is invariably applauded these two dinosaur wunderkinds and their scumbag aficionados as a one-eyed, smelly sex-pest, riddled with venereal disease—who not only infected the sister-in-law he bonked, but the love-child he got her up the duff with, resulting in the aforesaid love-child (whose name, like that of Knitter Noldi, they cannot pronounce) suffering from dwarfism? With friends like that lot, Rudy certainly didn’t need enemies! And what is going through these people’s minds when Mumbles is calling Rudy his “Atom Bomb of Love” in the group no one has visited for FOUR months)? My old religious studies teacher drilled it into us that such activities can make you blind! Is she so obsessed with calling me a “porn-fiction writer” of “monkey poo” that she’s forgetting to tell us something about herself? Can she be found in the “oldies” section of Chaturbate? And if so, will unsuspecting visitors have to wear a mask, in case her mask slips off? Just asking for a friend…
And finally, how does this bleached, tattoed, pierced, homophobic bag of of sinew and bones know WHO I did or did not know or meet? Has she been the invisible parrot on my shoulder for the past 50 years? There is one interesting point. She did NOT spend hours interviewing Bill Self. It’s true that he slammed the door in her face when informed what she was like. But, according to one of my Italian friends (one of two who has ensured that she and Mumbles will NEVER be allowed into any Valentino events in Italy, and most especially Castellaneta), when interviewed, Self could not even remember meeting her. Such is her UN-importance, in asmuch as she is UNIVERSALLY BANNED WORLDWIDE by every aspect of the media on account of her prejudiced, evil attacks on EVERYONE (there are NO exceptions) in the Valentino world.
ReplyDeleteSo, there we are…awaiting her next tome which will again see her making a complete tit of herself!