Jeffrey Westhoff

Netflix Picks Up ‘The Little Prince’ From Paramount

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Jeffrey Westhoff

Netflix Picks Up ‘The Little Prince’ From Paramount animationforce: If you’re like me (an American animation fan), you’ve probably been wondering wh...

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Posted on March 17, 2016 by Jeffrey Westhoff

criterioncollection: Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in CHARADE (1963). My favorite actor and actress in their only film together, Stanley Donen’s terrific “Chara...

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Posted on March 17, 2016 by Jeffrey Westhoff

Saint books don’t turn up very often in used book stores, but I was fortunate to find a copy of “Follow the Saint” at Half-Price Books in Scha...

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Posted on March 15, 2016 by Jeffrey Westhoff

One thing I have in common in with Brian Parker, the hero of my YA spy thriller The Boy Who Knew Too Much: We both wear black Adidas Sambas. His are probably pr...

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Posted on March 14, 2016 by Jeffrey Westhoff

I’m rereading John Buchan’s classic spy novel “The Thirty-Nine Steps” for a program at the Arlington Heights library tomorrow night. I d...

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Posted on March 13, 2016 by Jeffrey Westhoff

Dinner will be ready in five hours, 21 minutes. (at Palatine, Illinois)

Books/Star Wars/What I'm Reading

What I’m Reading: ‘The Weapon of a Jedi’

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Jeffrey Westhoff

I enjoyed the Han Solo book well enough, so I read its Luke Skywalker companion. These are short books, barely longer than novellas, so they only take a day or ...

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Roll dem bones

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Jeffrey Westhoff

Some evenings, you just feel nostalgic for percentile dice.

James Bond/Personal Ramblings/The Boy Who Knew Too Much

Learner’s permit to kill: Remembering the espionage RPGs of my youth

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Jeffrey Westhoff / 4 Comments

Sometimes nothing takes you back to your past faster than a book. Or in my case, two books. These books have me reminiscing about the days when I was one...

Bond Films/Books/Films/James Bond

Remembering Ken Adam

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Jeffrey Westhoff

Spotted this book just as I was taking my seat at the Palatine Public Library. RIP Ken Adam, who made Bond’s world a fantastic one.