Starstruck
My Unlikely Road to Hollywood

Author Leonard Maltin Leonard Maltin is an American film critic, film historian, and author. He was the movie critic on 'Entertainment Tonight' for 30 years and published Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide from 1969 to 2014. Leonard Maltin with fellow film critics Gene Siskel (left) and Roger Ebert Leonard......more

Especially if you're a fan of old movies, no doubt you're familiar with the author, a long-time and well-respected Hollywood historian and film reviewer. At our house, one of his movie guides is always near the TV remote and opened frequently to check his rating of a movie we're watching or, more of......more

Leonard Maltin's "Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood" is the book you expect it to be. An extraordinarily knowledgeable and always engaging film journalist, Maltin shares with precision and passion his unlikely road toward becoming one of the U.S.'s most respected and embraced film journalist......more

Very dry and not at all what I expected. I thought this was positioned as a book about Maltin's life. Instead only a few dozen pages are devoted to his early years and the rest are snippets of career memories he has of interviewing celebrities. So most of the book isn't about him, other than his non......more

In an old footlocker, I have old books. One worn-out book is one of Leonard Maltin's earliest movie guides, which I used for years and years, looking up movies listed in the TV Guide. To me, it was invaluable, because I watched a lot of TV during my childhood and in my early 20s. Mr. Maltin's review......more