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FROM: Margaret Elwood <m_elwood@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/9/01, 11:06 AM

I am thinking of doing a quickie booklist for the Ides
of March titled "Bad Dates" which would include
examples of bad dating experiences in books/film.

There must be thousands but I can only come up with a
collection of celebrity bad dates (titled Bad
Dates/Carole Markin) and My Ride with Gus by Charles
Carillo (man picks up woman, kills her in self
defense, spends night disposing of body).

Cinematic bad dates: After Hours, Blind Date

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks
Margaret

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FROM: "Jeanne Linn" <jlinn@libby.org>
REC'D: 3/9/01, 11:16 AM

You mean like "Looking for Mr. Goodbar"??? :) Jeanne

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[mailto:Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Margaret Elwood
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:56 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Bad Dates

I am thinking of doing a quickie booklist for the Ides
of March titled "Bad Dates" which would include
examples of bad dating experiences in books/film.

There must be thousands but I can only come up with a
collection of celebrity bad dates (titled Bad
Dates/Carole Markin) and My Ride with Gus by Charles
Carillo (man picks up woman, kills her in self
defense, spends night disposing of body).

Cinematic bad dates: After Hours, Blind Date

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks
Margaret

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FROM: Greta Ulrich <gulrich@nileslibrary.org>
REC'D: 3/9/01, 11:16 AM

The Albert Brooks film "Mother" has a good example of a really bad date.

Greta Ulrich
Niles Public Library District
Niles, IL

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From: Jeanne Linn [mailto:jlinn@libby.org]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:07 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: Bad Dates


You mean like "Looking for Mr. Goodbar"??? :) Jeanne

-----Original Message-----
From: Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org
[mailto:Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Margaret Elwood
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:56 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Bad Dates

I am thinking of doing a quickie booklist for the Ides
of March titled "Bad Dates" which would include
examples of bad dating experiences in books/film.

There must be thousands but I can only come up with a
collection of celebrity bad dates (titled Bad
Dates/Carole Markin) and My Ride with Gus by Charles
Carillo (man picks up woman, kills her in self
defense, spends night disposing of body).

Cinematic bad dates: After Hours, Blind Date

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks
Margaret

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FROM: "Nora M. Armstrong" <narmstro@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 3/9/01, 11:27 AM

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Margaret Elwood wrote:

>
> I am thinking of doing a quickie booklist for the Ides
> of March titled "Bad Dates" which would include
> examples of bad dating experiences in books/film.

Off the top of my head:

Books:
*Bridget Jones - isn't that chock-full of bad date esperiences?
*Amanda's Wedding - a recent release, along the lines of BJ
*Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married - ditto
*Bad Boy by Olivia Goldsmith - the female protagonist suffers through
a series of bad dates with her loser boyfriend, as does the male
protagonist

Movies:
*Bye, Bye Love - a group of suddenly-single men have to reacquaint
themselves with the dating scene. Randy Quaid and Janeane (?) Garofolo are
one of the most hilariously mismatched couples in cinematic history. Thier
first date is a true cringe-fest. Not to be missed. And Matthew Modine
with all those soccer moms who show up for dinner on the same night...
*When Harry Met Sally (?) Don't Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan spend a lot of
time dating the wrong people in this one?
*Pretty in Pink - Molly Ringwald has a horrible time with the rich kid she
thinks is the guy of her dreams; lucky for her Jon Cryer's waiting to
"pick up the pieces when somebody breaks her heart"...

That's all I can come up with at the moment. Is this the kind of story
you're looking for?

Nora Armstrong
CCPL&IC
Fayetteville NC 28301-5000

FROM: Michele Reinhart <mrein@ghpl.org>
REC'D: 3/9/01, 11:38 AM

The movie Next Stop Wonderland features a couple of bad date scenes.

And, the original Look Who's Talking has another bad date scene.

Michele Reinhart
Grandview Heights Public Library
Columbus, OH
mrein@ghpl.org

>===== Original Message From "Fiction_L" <Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org>
=====
>I am thinking of doing a quickie booklist for the Ides
>of March titled "Bad Dates" which would include
>examples of bad dating experiences in books/film.
>
>There must be thousands but I can only come up with a
>collection of celebrity bad dates (titled Bad
>Dates/Carole Markin) and My Ride with Gus by Charles
>Carillo (man picks up woman, kills her in self
>defense, spends night disposing of body).
>
>Cinematic bad dates: After Hours, Blind Date
>
>Does anyone have any other suggestions?
>
>Thanks
>Margaret
>
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FROM: "Karen Traynor" <traynor@midyork.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 3/9/01, 11:48 AM

----- Original Message ----- >
> Cinematic bad dates: After Hours, Blind Date

The movie Bye, Bye, Love has a hilarious bad date between Jeanine Garafalo
and Randy Quaid.

The new book "Amanda's Wedding" by Jenny Colgan starts out with a date gone
bad.

Karen Traynor
Sullivan Free Library
519 McDonnell Street
Chittenango, NY 13037

FROM: "Peel, Nancy" <npeel@city.windsor.on.ca>
REC'D: 3/9/01, 12:10 PM

"Wild Thing" is another movie all about one bad date (the movie's not so
great either).

-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret Elwood [mailto:m_elwood@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:56 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Bad Dates

I am thinking of doing a quickie booklist for the Ides
of March titled "Bad Dates" which would include
examples of bad dating experiences in books/film.

There must be thousands but I can only come up with a
collection of celebrity bad dates (titled Bad
Dates/Carole Markin) and My Ride with Gus by Charles
Carillo (man picks up woman, kills her in self
defense, spends night disposing of body).

Cinematic bad dates: After Hours, Blind Date

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks
Margaret

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FROM: "Brad Scott" <bscott@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 3/9/01, 12:28 PM

I got some laughs from a little book called "Dates from Hell : True Stories from the Front", collected & edited by Katherine Ann Samon, published in 1992 by Plume. It's a compilation of various people's worst-date stories.

Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public Library

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FROM: Bsbgc@aol.com
REC'D: 3/10/01, 2:47 PM

On the Cinematic Side, I liked "The Truth About Cats & Dogs," where a the
heroine, a vet, tries to fix up her friend with the guy that she (the vet)
likes. A lot of fun.


Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Renee Patterson <rpatterson@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 3/10/01, 2:58 PM

One of my favorite reads in the past couple of years -
_Nice_ by Jen Sacks.

The female lead goes out with guys, they fall for her, she doesn't want to
hurt their feelings by dumping them, so she kills them instead. :) One of
the guys tries date rape, so I think it would qualify for the Bad Date list.
And I suppose the guys that end up dead might consider it to have been a bad
date...

I believe I originally heard about the book here, but if you haven't read
it, or at least looked at it, check it out. :) It's appealed to a wide range
of patrons here, and it's a thinner book.


Renee Patterson
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Alachua County Library District
High Springs, FL
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employer.
-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret Elwood [mailto:m_elwood@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:56 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Bad Dates

I am thinking of doing a quickie booklist for the Ides
of March titled "Bad Dates" which would include
examples of bad dating experiences in books/film.

There must be thousands but I can only come up with a
collection of celebrity bad dates (titled Bad
Dates/Carole Markin) and My Ride with Gus by Charles
Carillo (man picks up woman, kills her in self
defense, spends night disposing of body).

Cinematic bad dates: After Hours, Blind Date

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks
Margaret

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FROM: "Kathy Loucks" <KLOUCKS@cml.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 3/10/01, 3:19 PM

Kiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher Baer and Prelude to a Scream by Jim Nisbet are both about guys who meet a woman in a bar, go to bed with her, and wake up missing a kidney.

Kathleen Loucks
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Columbus, OH

FROM: "Doxtator, Jan" <jdoxtato@uwsp.edu>
REC'D: 3/10/01, 3:30 PM

The movie Green Card was a bad date (fake marriage) that turns good.

Barry Gifford's books, Wild at Heart, etc. tell about a couple that can't
stay together despite their love for one another.

Jan Doxtator
Portage County Public Library

FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <kkeller@tln.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 3/10/01, 3:52 PM

Look for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: "Linda Lundquist" <ldl@mediaone.net>
REC'D: 3/10/01, 4:03 PM

The film '20 Dates' by Myles Berkowitz is a 'mockumentary' of a man who goes
on some pretty horrible dates.

Linda Lundquist

FROM: Patience Beer <beerpati@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 3/10/01, 4:35 PM

There is a very funny new book called BAD HEIR DAY by Wendy Holden where
the heroine gets involved in some disastrous romantic and work situations
before finally finding true love and happiness.

Margaret Elwood wrote:

> I am thinking of doing a quickie booklist for the Ides
> of March titled "Bad Dates" which would include
> examples of bad dating experiences in books/film.
>
> There must be thousands but I can only come up with a
> collection of celebrity bad dates (titled Bad
> Dates/Carole Markin) and My Ride with Gus by Charles
> Carillo (man picks up woman, kills her in self
> defense, spends night disposing of body).
>
> Cinematic bad dates: After Hours, Blind Date
>
> Does anyone have any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Margaret
>
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FROM: Alicia Graybill <aliciag@rand.lcl.lib.ne.us>
REC'D: 3/11/01, 1:23 PM

Okay, so this is off-topic but every time I read this header I think of
the scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" where Indiana Jones is carrying
around this date that he got from a bowl of fruit on Sallah's table and
keeps starting to eat it then getting distracted. Finally, he tosses the
date in the air with triumph, intending to down it in one gulp, and
Sallah snatches it out of the air before pointing to the dead monkey on
the table who had been eating the fruit. His line? "Bad dates."

All right, so I watch too many movies.:)
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FROM: Lisa Price <lprice@MtLaurel.Lib.NJ.US>
REC'D: 3/12/01, 9:20 AM

Lawrence Sanders, The Third Deadly Sin. This is a police
procedural/thriller revolving around a woman who poses as a prostitute
and then kills her "clients."
Lisa Price
Mount Laurel (NJ) Library
Opinions are my own.

Renee Patterson wrote:
>
> One of my favorite reads in the past couple of years -
> _Nice_ by Jen Sacks.
>
> The female lead goes out with guys, they fall for her, she doesn't want to
> hurt their feelings by dumping them, so she kills them instead. :) One of
> the guys tries date rape, so I think it would qualify for the Bad Date list.
> And I suppose the guys that end up dead might consider it to have been a bad
> date...
>
> I believe I originally heard about the book here, but if you haven't read
> it, or at least looked at it, check it out. :) It's appealed to a wide range
> of patrons here, and it's a thinner book.
>
> Renee Patterson
> _____________________________
> High Springs Branch
> Alachua County Library District
> High Springs, FL
> rpatterson@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us
>
> The opinions expressed do not necessarily represent those of my
> employer.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Margaret Elwood [mailto:m_elwood@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:56 AM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Bad Dates
>
> I am thinking of doing a quickie booklist for the Ides
> of March titled "Bad Dates" which would include
> examples of bad dating experiences in books/film.
>
> There must be thousands but I can only come up with a
> collection of celebrity bad dates (titled Bad
> Dates/Carole Markin) and My Ride with Gus by Charles
> Carillo (man picks up woman, kills her in self
> defense, spends night disposing of body).
>
> Cinematic bad dates: After Hours, Blind Date
>
> Does anyone have any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Margaret
>
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FROM: "Brad Scott" <bscott@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 3/12/01, 11:27 AM

I just thought of another one that might be applicable: "Maiden", by Cynthia Buchanan. Fortune' Dundee, the heroine, is a thirty-year-old, somewhat neurotic virgin who decides that she is going to finally find Mr. Right by moving into a swinging-singles apartment complex in southern California. As you might expect, this leads to some very strange and disastrous dates --

Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public Library

** All opinions are personal. **

FROM: Jaffe <kjaffe@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 3/13/01, 12:41 PM

Hi,

My daughter and her friends are enjoying

Rosenfeld, Lucinda.
What she saw in Roger Mancuso, Gunter Hopstock, Jason Barry
Gold, Spitty Clark, Jack Geezo, Humphrey Fung, Claude Duvet, Bruce
Bledstone, Kevin McFeeley, Arnold Allen, Pablo Miles, Anonymous 1-4, Nobody
5-8, Neil Schmertz, Bo Pierce : a novel
Take your choice of many bad dates !! :)

Karen Jaffe
Comsewogue Public Library
Port Jefferson Station, NY

FROM: Margaret Elwood <m_elwood@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/21/01, 5:57 PM

Fiction
Amanda's Wedding, Jenny Colgan
Bad Boy, Olivia Goldsmith
Bad Heir Day, Wendy Holden
Bridget Jones Diary, Helen Fielding
Kiss Me, Judas, Will Christopher Baer
Looking for Mr Goodbar, Judith Rossner
Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Marian Keyes
Maiden, Cynthia Buchanan
My Ride with Gus, Charles Carillo
Nice, Jen Sacks
Prelude to a Scream, Jim Nisbet
The Third Deadly Sin, Lawrence Sanders
What she saw in Roger Mancuso, Gunter Hopstock, Jason
Barry
Gold, Spitty Clark, Jack Geezo, Humphrey Fung, Claude
Duvet, Bruce
Bledstone, Kevin McFeeley, Arnold Allen, Pablo Miles,
Anonymous 1-4, Nobody
5-8, Neil Schmertz, Bo Pierce : a novel, Lucinda
Rosenfeld
Widow for One Year, John Irving
Wild at Heart, Barry Gifford

Non Fiction
Bad Dates: Celebrities (and other talented types)
reveal their worst nights out, Carole Markin
Dates from Hell: True Stories from the Front,
Katherine Ann Samon
More Bad Dates, and other tales from the dark side of
love, Carole Markin

Movies
20 Dates
After Hours
Blind Date
Bye Bye Love
Green Card
Look Who's Talking
Looking for Mr Goodbar
Mother
Next Stop Wonderland
Pretty in Pink
The Truth about Cats and Dogs
When Harry Met Sally
Wild Thing

Thanks everyone for your suggestions!

Margaret Elwood
Cedarbrae District Library
Toronto Public Library

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