There’s a bookcase in every room of our house, from the three-shelf antique in the kitchen filled with cookbooks to the battered four-shelf unit in the family room stuffed with paperbacks. My husband collects biographies of famous newsmen. I collect Nancy Drews from the 1960s. We’ve got self-help, reference, humor, history and a smattering of fiction. Hello, my name is Saimi, and I’m a bibliophile.

I have no idea if AMC’s “The Prisoner” will be any good. Frankly, I don’t care. As far as I’m concerned, it has already justified its existence by prompting the release of the original “Prisoner” on Blu-ray.

"Gentlemen Broncos” can be summed up in five words: boobs, balls, barf and bucks. Lightening hasn't struck twice for “Napoleon Dynamite” writer/director Jared Hess.

It possesses the best title of the season, but “The Men Who Stare at Goats” is good in name only. The rest is little more than regurgitated Joseph Heller filtered through the unimaginative mind of a Coen brothers wannabe. It’s funny, all right, but only sporadically, and only because of the ability of George Clooney and Jeff Bridges to enliven a political satire that’s more drab than droll.

 “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,” author David Wallace Foster’s observations on piggish American males, is John Krasinski's first stab as a feature film director.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “highly anticipated” album, “Night Castle,” hit stores Oct. 27. And when an album is “highly anticipated,” that usually means that fans, reporters and the executives of your record company have been asking about it for a very long time. Trans-Siberian Orchestra performs in Peoria on Nov. 7. While a full-scale production of “Night Castle” is not yet being performed, the Peoria show will include songs from the new album.

“Survivor: Samoa” is as fierce and competitive as prior “Survivor” excursions, but the deception, physical demands, weather woes and short tempers seem to be at an all-time high. I know what you’re thinking: How could it get any worse?

The heart of “Mad Men,” and the source of many of its greatest moments, is the off-the-charts business acumen of leading ad man Don Draper. Everything you really need to know about business can be learned watching Don Draper:

The "Young Jesus Chronicles," a book of cartoons created by friends, will soon join the publisher of "Dilbert," "Calvin and Hobbes" and "The Far Side." Mark Penta and Spencer Smith, who drew and captioned the book's 60 cartoons about the childhood adventures of the young savior, said they have signed a contract with Andrews McMeel Publishing of Kansas City, Mo., which will release an expanded edition of their book in February.

I’m always disappointed in myself when I learn a movie that captures my interest was a book first. It happened with “Fight Club,” which is probably my favorite movie. The book was better, at least the end made more sense and was more gratifying, but it’s not among my Top 5. Go figure. Incidentally, Chuck Pahlaniuk knows a lot of weird, weird stuff.

The director of the indie favorite “Napoleon Dynamite” and the Jack Black wrestling yarn “Nacho Libre” now brings us “Gentlemen Broncos,” another eccentric ode to outcasts.

George Clooney's latest, "Men Who Stare At Goats" opens tomorrow.

The recent passing of legendary wrestling manager Captain Lou Albano struck a chord with members of a certain generation. Now in our mid-40s, we were part of the last group of wrestling fans to enjoy the sport before it became corrupted with Vince McMahan’s vulgar vision.

Tech-savvy whiz kids seem to get their hands on a band’s music just days after an album goes through its final mixing stages. But somehow, Nirvana’s epic headlining performance at the 1992 Reading Festival remained virtually untouchable ... until now.

Costumed zombies, super heroes, Mad Hatters and Alices, at least one Jesus, bunnies, and fans dressed as the “Whip It” band Devo, all fought the mud on this Halloween Night.