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18-529: The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst is a 2005 book about the booby prize award show the Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzies), written by John J. B. Wilson , founder of the awards ceremony. The book was published in 2005 by Warner Books , the same year as the 25th Golden Raspberry Awards . The book includes an introduction by Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers ,

36-625: A brief history of the Golden Raspberry Awards, and entries on films organized thematically which include plot summaries and reviews by Wilson. Wilson comments on and discusses his picks for the worst films of all time. It was on the Los Angeles Times best-seller list. The introduction was written by Travers, who is a voting member of the Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation. The book begins with selected quotes from

54-529: A wonderfully droll review, dialog excerpts, and his own acerbic plot summary." The Official Razzie Movie Guide received generally positive reviews from critics. Barry X. Miller reviewed the book for Library Journal , and wrote "Wilson's text is a surfeit of saccharine Goobers and gooey Ju Ju Bees, empty calories but fun to eat." Miller compared to the book to Golden Turkey Awards and The Fifty Worst Films of All Time . Miller commented that Wilson provides "a wonderfully droll review" for each film entry in

72-500: Is never really more than descriptive. Still, that's all some films require." Booby prize Booby prizes may also be given as consolation prizes to all non-placing participants of a competition. This type of prize is common in the CBS game show, Let's Make a Deal which are known as "zonks." The word "boob" stems from the Spanish bobo meaning silly, which in turn came from

90-605: The Independent becoming the newspaper's morning edition and the Press-Telegram the evening edition. They had a combined circulation of approximately 243,000 at their peak in the late 1960s, under publisher Daniel Ridder and executive editor Miles Sines, making them the second largest printed news source in the Los Angeles area, behind the Los Angeles Times and ahead of the strike-decimated Herald-Examiner . During this period,

108-529: The Press , was first published in 1897. The Press was purchased in the early 20th century by Charles H. Prisk and William F. Prisk , Charles being the owner and William the editor and publisher. Sometime after 1918 the Press was merged with another paper, the Daily Telegram ; the combined paper was first published under the name Daily Press , then, from 1924, the Press-Telegram . On September 30, 1933,

126-569: The Press-Telegram published what David Dayen called "One of the more influential letters to the editor in American history": Francis Townsend 's letter outlining the Townsend Plan, a proposal that sparked a national campaign which influenced the establishment of the Roosevelt administration's Social Security system. In 1952, the Independent (founded in 1938) merged with the Press-Telegram , with

144-518: The 1970s, leaving the Press-Telegram (now published in the morning) as the paper's only edition. The paper was owned by Ridder Publications and its successor Knight Ridder from 1952 to 1997, when it was acquired by its current owner, the Los Angeles Newspaper Group (then a division of newspaper conglomerate MediaNews Group ). In 2013, MediaNews Group and 21st Century Media merged into Digital First Media . An online version of

162-444: The Golden Raspberry Awards, or Razzies, has become the authority for all movies so dreadful, they're laughable, so excruciating, they're, well, award-winning." Catherine Shoard of The Evening Standard took a less enthusiastic approach to the book, describing it as "a companion book to the annual Golden Raspberry awards", and saying that "it's a shame elderly duds get more space than recent winners, and Wilson's style, though amusing,

180-692: The Latin balbus meaning stammering ; the word booby to mean dunce appeared in 1599. Booby prize literally means "idiot's prize". The OED dates this usage to 1893. Booby trap and "booby hatch" are related terms. Long Beach Press-Telegram The Press-Telegram is a paid daily newspaper published in Long Beach, California . Coverage area for the Press-Telegram includes Long Beach, Lakewood , Signal Hill , Artesia , Bellflower , Cerritos , Compton , Downey , Hawaiian Gardens , Lynwood , Norwalk and Paramount . The Press-Telegram 's precursor,

198-529: The Long Beach papers employed a number of journalists who would go on to prominent careers at other publications, including David Shaw , who received a Pulitzer Prize while working at the Los Angeles Times , Ross Newhan and Rich Roberts ( Los Angeles Times ), John Cash ( Las Vegas Sun ) and Bill Wasserzieher ( Village Voice ). The Independent was discontinued in 1981 after circulation slipped during

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216-591: The Musicals". Each movie entry includes credits of the cast and crew, excerpts of dialogue from the movie, and a plot summary and review by Wilson. Wilson's picks of the ten worst films include The Adventurers (1970), Battlefield Earth (2000), Body of Evidence (1993), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Glen or Glenda (1953), The Lonely Lady (1983), Mommie Dearest (1981), The Oscar (1966), Showgirls (1995) and Xanadu (1980). Pat Nason of United Press International (UPI) wrote that marketing of

234-539: The basic rules of decorum. Hopefully the humor with which it is packaged takes a little of the sting out of it", said Wilson to UPI. Christopher Borrelli of The Toledo Blade described the book as "a merchandising tie-in" to the Golden Raspberry Awards. Wilson announced the nominees for the 25th Golden Raspberry Awards at a book signing for The Official Razzie Movie Guide at Brentano's in Century City, California. "For each film, Wilson provides cast and crew credits,

252-530: The book "may have been somewhat complicated by the cover art", which shows an actor in a gorilla costume with his middle finger raised , taken from the 1976 film A*P*E . Wilson had originally wanted the gorilla picture to appear on the back cover of the book; however, Warner Books stated it must appear on the book's front cover. "It might stand as an apt emblem of the Razzies themselves," commented Nason. "We are not PC. We do not pull punches. We do not pay attention to

270-663: The book. Ben Steelman of the Wilmington Star-News called the book a "handy volume", and commented "in loving detail, Mr. Wilson describes his 100 favorites among the Worst Movies Ever Made", David Germain of the Associated Press wrote that Wilson discusses "his take on the 100 most awful—yet perversely fun—movies to watch". Jenny Marder of the Long Beach Press-Telegram noted "Wilson, creator of

288-469: The paper began web publication in 1995. In 2011, the paper eliminated its sports, photography, and features departments. Some of the eliminated positions were picked up by the Torrance Daily Breeze , another Los Angeles Newspaper Group paper. The paper's longtime home, the Press-Telegram building at 6th Street and Pine Avenue, was sold in late 2006 to real estate developers intending to convert

306-646: The property into condominiums. The paper's operations were moved to the Arco Center in Downtown Long Beach . The building at 6th Street and Pine Avenue in Downtown Long Beach occupied nearly the entire block, and at one time encompassed the entire production of the paper, including the presses, which were formerly visible behind glass windows at street level. The old building on Pine Avenue was eventually acquired and redeveloped by Molina Healthcare . The paper

324-400: The reviewers of such critically panned films as The Blue Lagoon , From Justin to Kelly , and Color of Night . The book also includes a brief history of the Golden Raspberry Awards. Wilson lists and discusses his picks of the 100 worst films of Hollywood. The chapters deal with bad movies, and are organized thematically with titles such as "Disasters ... In Every Sense." and "Can't Stop

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