Joe Queenan(I)
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
The acerbic writer and critic Joe Queenan has essentially made a career
out of being extremely unpleasant about people in print with the result
that he is one of America's finest cultural commentators. Beginning his
career working for financial publications he landed work for Movieline
magazine where his acerbic wit won him much praise and led to several
successful books such as 'If you're talking to me your career must be
in trouble' and 'Confessions of a cineplex heckler'. Less successful
was his book 'The Unkindest Cut' in which he attempted to follow in the
footsteps of Robert Rodrigeuz's _Mariachi, El(1992)_ and make a movie on his credit
card. The resulting abysmal effort was Twelve Steps to Death (1995) which makes for
appalling celluloid but a very funny book. His other works include
'Imperial Caddy: The Rise of Dan Quayle in America and the Decline and
Fall of Practically Everything Else' and 'True Believers: the tragic
inner life of sports fans'. He also writes for the Guardian and the New
York Times.
