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The too-tame murder-mystery “Double Life” is a cautionary counter-illustration of something every B-moviemaker should know: that trashiness beats good taste, almost every time.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2023

And yet, despite all this indisputable trashiness, Robinson’s second collection of brazen, honest and pop culture-conversant essays comes with a dollop of optimism, too, not to mention its author’s rapid-fire wit.

From The Guardian • Nov. 2, 2018

Something about its spiky sense of kitsch satisfied a savvy audience’s yen for winking trashiness, because once the show began running, the response was electric.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018

As I wrote in the book “Life the Movie,” American popular culture, which is so often accused of trashiness, wasn’t necessarily trashy because Americans were ignorant or unrefined.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2016

The thick softness of gaslight, with the lovely specks and motes in it, so like natural light, gave illusion to many a scene which is now revealed in all its naked trashiness by electricity.

From The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections by Terry, Ellen