Neal Gabler's Life: The Movie shows how all aspects of twentieth-century life have been infused by the phenomenon of entertainment. The amazon.com comment entitled "Another flop of a Life" pretty much gets it right--Gabler has taken the subject of infotainment and written an infotaining book about it that never bothers to engage any of the extensive literature on the subject, or do something as bothersome as primary research. Kudos to Gabler on one note: He does not just take sides with the people who see the expansion of entertainment as unquestionably a bad thing that destroys culture and essence without any possibility for good, or happiness, or anything positive. In that regard, I prefer Gabler to such serious writers as Guy Debord, whose Society of the Spectacle is a strong candidate for Joe's Least Favorite Book Ever. But that doesn't change the book that this book is pretty useless if you've ever read anything else even remotely on this subject.