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Iwao Takamoto: My Life with a Thousand CharactersIwao Takamoto (1925-2007) spent a lifetime in the animation industry and was influential in the creation of some of the most beloved characters in the medium's history, including Scooby-Doo, Atom Ant, The Jetsons's Astro, The Flintstones's Great Gazoo, and The Wacky Races's Penelope Pittstop...
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And You Thought You Knew Classic Movies!: 200 Quizzes for Golden Age Movie LoversKatharine Hepburn stars in what play at the climax of Stage Door? Can you name the classic in which a cigarette is put out in a jar of cold cream? What star (not Alan Ladd) is the top-billed male in This Gun for Hire?...
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You're Wrong and You're Ugly: The Highs and Lows of a Radio Bad BoyRadio personality and equal-opportunity offender Sid Rosenberg shares all the stories listeners never got to hear when the microphones were turned off in this detailed autobiography. He leaves no one unscathed, calling out self-important people in every profession, including athletes, Hollywood hunks and starlets,...
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The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy on the Indiana LakeshoreWhat really happened on the circus train in 1918? Read the story of this tragedy for the entertainment industry of the time.In the cool, pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a train engineer closed his cab window as he chugged toward Hammond,...
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Rush Limbaugh: An Army of OneNATIONAL BESTSELLER The bestselling biography of America's Anchorman by the journalist who knew him best Chafets has seen more of the pundit's personal world than any other journalist. -The Washington Post People tend to remember the moment they first heard The Rush Limbaugh Show...
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Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never MadeThis lushly illustrated graphic novel re-creates a lost Marx Brothers script written by modern art icon Salvador Dali. Grab some popcorn and take a seat...The curtain is about to rise on a film like no other But first, the real-life backstory: Giraffes on Horseback...
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The Black Cat (Hardback)This is the hardback version. In 1934, Universal Pictures released The Black Cat - the first teaming of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and the darkest, most sinister horror classic in the studio's legendary canon. MagicImage Filmbooks takes you on a time travel trip...
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Rawhide - A History of Television's Longest Cattle Drive (hardback)This is the HARDBACK version. Head 'em up, move 'em out Saddle up for the first full-length account of one of the most authentic and enduring western series in television history: Rawhide Including: * Foreword by Charles Gray * Cast biographies * Production details...
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Dear Stinkpot: Letters from Louise Brooks (Hardback)This is the HARDBACK version. LOUISE BROOKS and Jan Wahl had a special, roller-coaster relationship lasting twenty-odd years. He met the legendary star when he was a student; it turned out each of them hoped to be a writer. This intense friendship continued by...
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George Brent - Ireland's Gift to Hollywood and Its Leading Ladies (Hardback)Bette Davis answered, "George Brent" whenever asked to name her favorite co-star. Her longtime crush on the actor (they teamed in eleven films) culminated in an off-screen affair while filming Dark Victory (1939) for which she won an Oscar nomination and Brent gave what...
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Remembering Radio: An Oral History of Old-Time RadioACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION PART I: INTERVIEWS CHAPTER 1: PARKER FENNELLY "TITUS MOODY" ON THE FRED ALLEN SHOW, WITH WIFE, CATHERINE CHAPTER 2: JOAN MERRILL VOCALIST ON THE EDGAR BERGEN PROGRAM CHAPTER 3: WARD BYRON PRODUCER OF MUSICAL PROGRAMS CHAPTER 4: FRANK NELSON & VEOLA...
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Best in Hollywood: The Good, the Bad, and the BeautifulThe sheriff of Hazzard County is finally gonna spill the beans about those darn Duke boys Actor James Best's autobiography. He writes, "You can share with me the Golden Age of Hollywood, when movies had unequaled World Class. Now solidly in my eighties, I'm...
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Kay FrancisI Can't Wait To Be Forgotten pays tribute to Kay's compassionate nature, her concern for others, her great contributions on behalf of those serving in the armed forces during World War II, and the financial legacy she contributed to The Seeing Eye. Kay felt...
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The Bionic Book: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman Reconstructed..".no stone unturned to get behind the scenes of these landmark series." - Spywise.com ..".highly recommended..." - Back Issue Magazine "The Bionic Book earns its definitive title, hands down." - Video Watchdog Before Hiro on Heroes, there was Steve Austin - The Six Million...
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Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of PsychoHere is the complete inside story on the making of Psycho, the forerunner of all psychothrillers. Rebello takes us behind the scenes at the creation of one of cinema's boldest and most influential films. From Hitchcock's private files and from new in-depth interviews with...
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Cut to the Chase: Writing Feature Films with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' ProgramMillions of people dream of writing a screenplay but don't know how to begin, or are already working on a script but are stuck and need some targeted advice. Or maybe they have a great script, but no clue about how to navigate the...
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Backstage at the Tonight Show: From Johnny Carson to Jay LenoDon Sweeney was with the Tonight Show for nearly twenty years, and was one of the few staff members asked to remain when Jay Leno took over in 1992. This book is a collection of celebrity vignettes and anecdotes from the peak years of...
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The Haunted Smile: The Story Of Jewish Comedians In AmericaLawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile tackles a subject both poignant and delightful: the story of Jewish comedians in America. For the past century and more, American comedy has drawn its strength and soul from the comic genius of Jewish performers and writers. An incomplete...
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Star in a PlayMeet Digger and Daisy They are brother and sister. These dogs like to explore their world and see new things. Sometimes they agree with each other. Sometimes they disagree. But no matter the situation, one thing always stays the same--their love for each other....
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Cinema Under the Stars: America's Love Affair with Drive-In Movie TheatersWhen Richard M. Hollingshead Jr. first projected a movie onto a white bedsheet stretched between two trees at his home in Camden, New Jersey, in 1933, little did he know that he was on the verge of creating an entirely new entertainment industry. With...
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