Adam Roberts

Dec 2, 2024 | washingreview.com | Steve Larkin |Adam Roberts |Sonny Bunch |Sheila O'Malley

Pay no attention to that Managing Editor of the Washington Review of Books behind the curtain!In Lit Hub, an excerpt from Tim Robey’s book about Hollywood flops (Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops, November) about Babe: Pig in the City (1998):“That’ll do, pig” from Farmer Hoggett was the first film’s motto, but when it’s trotted out at the end here, with Babe safely back at the farm, it plainly doesn’t work.