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Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Moviesby James AgeeISBN 0375755292 (0-375-75529-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Alternate Oscars: One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress from 1927 to the Presentby Danny PearyISBN 0385303327 (0-385-30332-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Bad & the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fiftiesby Sam Kashner, Jennifer MacnairISBN 0393324362 (0-393-32436-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad & the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties'Book summary:The drama and tragedy of Hollywood's most scandalous and dynamic decade, and the legends who have endured. In these stories of momentous events and legendary characters, Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair re-create the drama and contradictions of Hollywood's most scandalous and dynamic decade. Colourful and humorous anecdotes of such public icons as Lana Turner, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, and Mae West profile the celebrities' lives away from the camera, telling of the private moments that were exploited by tabloids such as "Confidential" and gossip queens Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper, and Sheilah Graham. Chronicling the unique obsessions of the era, the authors also offer behind-the-scenes commentary on the making of classic films: Hollywood's curious religious revival with "The Robe"; the film industry's exploitation of the potboiler "Peyton Place", even as it rejected the housewife who penned it; and the anarchic director Nick Ray, who, on the set of the enduring classic "Rebel without a Cause", taught his teenage stars about much more than acting. The authors reveal a city at a crossroads, attempting to reinvent the magic and mystery of its past glories. [via]
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Baked Potatoes : A Pot Smoker's Guide to Film and Videoby John Hulme, Michael WexlerISBN 0385478372 (0-385-47837-2)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Filmby Tricia Cooke, William Preston Robertson, John Todd Anderson, Rafael SanudoISBN 0393317501 (0-393-31750-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film'Book summary:Since their debut with Blood Simple in 1984, Joel and Ethan Coen have created a unique body of work that seems to project their combined imaginations directly onto the movie screen. By concentrating on the filming of their homage to Raymond Chandler, The Big Lebowski, this book provides a great deal of insight into the way that these extraordinary filmmakers take an idea and transform it into a movie.
Text and illustrations combine to reveal the Coens' combination of quirkiness and craft, and the ways that the singular (or is it binary?) vision of the brothers combines with actors and crew in the group effort necessary to produce a finished film. This book doesn't attempt a critical analysis of the work of Joel and Ethan Coen--the complexity of their vision resists such an approach. Instead, we're treated to a fly-on-the-wall view of the creative process, and it's enough to get the most casual film lover to grab a notebook, rent a camera, and start making movies! --Simon Leake [via]
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The Boulevard of Broken Dreamsby Kim Deitch, Simon DeitchISBN 0375421912 (0-375-42191-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of Animated Cartoonistby Chuck JonesISBN 0380712148 (0-380-71214-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of Animated Cartoonist'Book summary:Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist is a sort of autobiography of Chuck Jones, the brilliant Warner Brothers animator who created such enduring characters as Wile E. Coyote and Marvin the Martian. Like his best cartoons, Jones skips around to the fun parts, giving a bit of childhood here, a few words of drawing advice there, and a good yarn wherever one fits. Jones also manages to work in a detailed yet somehow never boring description of the long and silly process of making a cartoon. Jones is refreshingly generous about spreading credit around to others. He fondly remembers art teachers, tips his hat to fellow directors and mentors Friz Freleng and Tex Avery, and gives the reader a new appreciation of the layout men who create the backgrounds for animated features. Most engaging are Jones's accounts of office life at Warner Brothers, which sounds like just as much fun as you hope it would be. Jones recounts stories of drawing tables wired to wake up sleeping animators when the boss approached and Cal Howard, a gag writer who ran an illegal commissary out of his metal-lined desk. The book is filled with sketches and color plates of much-loved moments from Warner Brothers cartoons and even includes a quick Road Runner and Coyote scene that comes to life when the pages are flipped. Highly recommended for kids who like to draw and adults who have not lost their appreciation for Looney Toons. --Ali Davis [via]
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A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0393312836 (0-393-31283-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolateby Laura EsquivelISBN 0385721234 (0-385-72123-4)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate'Book summary:Esta novela, relata las tradiciones y las vivencias de una familia latinoamericana, en la que se viven muchos desengaños y desobediencias. La hija menor, Tita, está condenada a cuidar a su madre hasta que esta muera, olvidándose así de conocer lo que es el amor y el matrimonio. Su novio, Pedro , no contento con tener que resignarse a estar sin su querida, se casa con la hermana de esta para así poder vivir junto a ella, y verla siempre, sin pensar que su madre, Mamá Elena no lo permitirá. A parte de este gran problema surgirán otros, así como también historias divertidas y buenos ratos. En Como agua para chocolate las relaciones son complejas y desarrolladas bajo signos opuestos, en ocasiones irreconciliables. Aparece una fuerte rivalidad entre hermanas, el choque fraternal queda signado en la relación entre Rosaura y Tita, metaforizada en el contacto «del agua en aceite hirviendo». Desde niñas muestran naturalezas diferentes: Tita hace de la cocina su universo propio, su lugar de juegos y su modo de vida, mientras que Rosaura no tiene sazón, es torpe para cocinar y melindrosa para comer. Pero será en su juventud cuando estas diferencias se acentúen y culminen con la traición de Rosaura al casarse con el novio de su hermana. De ahí nació la aversión de Nacha para con Rosaura y la rivalidad entre las dos hermanas, que culmina con esa boda en la que Rosaura se casa con el hombre que Tita ama. [via]
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Crashby J.G. BallardISBN 0394741099 (0-394-74109-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crash'Book summary:J. G. Ballard's graphic, violent novel is controversial wherever it is read, even on Amazon.com's own Web page! The book's characters are obsessed with automobile accidents and are determined to narrate the horrors of the car crash as luridly as possible. In the words of the novel's protagonist, the wounds caused by automobile collisions are "the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse technology." Read this novel and learn why David Cronenberg, who had previously adapted Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch for the screen, fought to turn it into his latest film. [via]
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Cult Movies No. 2: Fifty More of the Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderfulby Danny PearyISBN 038529753X (0-385-29753-X)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Deliveranceby James DickeyISBN 038531387X (0-385-31387-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreamsby Nick ToschesISBN 038533429X (0-385-33429-X)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams'Book summary:Only a handful of showbiz biographers can lay claim to posessing the literary acumen of writers like Michael Holroyd and Peter Ackroyd. Nick Tosches is one of these writers, and his unauthorized biography of Dean Martin stands as a testament to his genius. Several inimitable sequences in which Tosches adopts his subject's perspective (most of which are regrettably unsuitable for quotation here) make the book a real standout.
Dino is a fascinating portrait of a man who had it all--money, fame, women--and didn't give a damn about any of it and suggests that, even as he wallowed in the excesses of Hollywood and the Rat Pack, Martin stayed critically aloof from that world, albeit often in a booze-and-pill-addled haze. He got into showbiz precisely because it required so little effort of him: "I can't stand an actor or actress who tells me acting is hard work," he once said. "It's easy work. Anyone who says it is hard never had to stand on his feet all day dealing blackjack." Nobody could impress Martin. While Frank Sinatra would do anything just to hang out with reputed Mafioso, the Mob would have to make special trips to ask Martin in person to play a show at one of their casinos.
Tosches' portrait, written only a few years before Martin's death in 1996, depicts its subject as nothing so much as a Zen master without the spiritual anchor; after sampling everything that life had to offer and finding it lacking, Martin spent the last years of his life waiting to die in virtual seclusion. [via]
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Elia Kazan: A Lifeby Elia KazanISBN 0385261039 (0-385-26103-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elia Kazan: A Life'Book summary:One of the most important theater autobiographies of the 1980s, Elia Kazan: A Life, has finally been released in paperback. The extra decade adds to the book's poignancy and its value: a history of backstage personalities and politics in the 20th century is included in this release. Elia Kazan was a founding member of the Group Theatre, was among those shouting "Strike! Strike!" on the legendary opening night of Waiting for Lefty, directed the two greatest Broadway dramas ever--Death of the Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire--and earned countless other credits, but he also played a flawed role in the greatest real-life moral drama of his era: the McCarthy Communist witch hunts of the 1950s. Kazan offered names to the House Un-American Activities Committee. He cut his conscience to fit the fashion of the time, and his conscience continues to bleed. Though this book is framed, like so much of Kazan's best stage and film work, as a lifelong search for man's proper relationship to society, the book serves as a massive explanation and apologia for Kazan's one monumental lapse. He lived his life intensely, a life in which a single word could transform you, where a misdeed might be "never forgotten or forgiven." Such were the times, and Kazan captures them with appropriate drama. [via]
The Emergence of Film Art: The Evolution and Development of the Motion Picture As an Art, from 1900 to the Presentby Lewis JacobsISBN 0393950492 (0-393-95049-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and About Groucho Marxby Groucho Marx, Stefan KanferISBN 037570213X (0-375-70213-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and About Groucho Marx'Book summary:Groucho Marx may be the funniest man who ever lived. Here in one volume are the classics of Marxian mayhem: excerpts from the scripts of the immortal movies, passages from his books, his articles for magazines ranging from The New Yorker to the Saturday Evening Post, the choicest ad-libs and quips from his long-running game show, You Bet Your Life, and selected letters, including his classic correspondence with T. S. Eliot. It's all here-the finest and funniest work by this century's most influential comedian, that man of whom Woody Allen said, "He is simply unique in the same way Picasso and Stravinsky are, and I believe his outrageous, unsentimental disregard for order will be equally funny a thousand years from now. In addition to all this, he makes me laugh."
In the words of Groucho Marx:
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he go in my pajamas I don't know.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. [via]More editions of The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and About Groucho Marx:
Face to Face: A Filmby Ingmar BergmanISBN 0394404521 (0-394-40452-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Film As a Subversive Artby Amos VogelISBN 0394732073 (0-394-73207-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Gandhi: The Screenplayby John BrileyISBN 0394624718 (0-394-62471-8)
Softcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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Getting Evenby Woody AllenISBN 0394726405 (0-394-72640-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Getting Even'Book summary:After three decades of prodigious film work (and some unfortunate tabloid adventures as well), it's easy to forget that Woody Allen began his career as one heck of a great comedy writer. Getting Even, a collection of his late '60s magazine pieces, offers a look into Allen's bag of shtick, back when it was new. From the supposed memoirs of Hitler's barber: "Then, in January of 1945, a plot by several generals to shave Hitler's moustache in his sleep failed when von Stauffenberg, in the darkness of Hitler's bedroom, shaved off one of the Führer's eyebrows instead..."
Even though the idea of writing jokes about old Adolf--or addled rabbis, or Maatjes herring--isn't nearly as fresh as it used to be, Getting Even still delivers plenty of laughs. At his best, Woody can achieve a level of transcendent craziness that no other writer can match. If you're looking for a book to dip into at random, or a gift for someone who's seen Sleeper 13 times, Getting Even is a dead lock. [via]
Green Shadows, White Whaleby Ray BradburyISBN 0380789663 (0-380-78966-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh, Russell Jackson, Rolf KonowISBN 0393045196 (0-393-04519-6)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:The "Annotated Shakespeare" series allows readers to fully understand and enjoy the rich plays of the world's greatest dramatist. One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. This fully annotated version of "Hamlet" makes the play completely accessible to readers in the 21st century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers and the general reader in mind. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody and alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations provide readers with all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. In his introduction, Raffel offers important background on the origins and previous versions of the Hamlet story, along with an analysis of the characters of Hamlet and Ophelia. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom meditates on the originality of Shakespeare's achievement. [via]
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Hamlet: By William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh, Russell Jackson, Rolf Konow, Peter MountainISBN 0393315053 (0-393-31505-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friendsby Charlotte ChandlerISBN 0385124449 (0-385-12444-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murdersby Curt Gentry, Vincent BugliosiISBN 0393322238 (0-393-32223-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Hokkaido Popsicleby Isaac AdamsonISBN 0380812924 (0-380-81292-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Hollywood Genres: Formulas Filmmaking and the Studio Systemby Thomas SchatzISBN 039432255X (0-394-32255-X)
Hardcover, Random House
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Hollywood: The Pioneersby Kevin Brownlow, John KobalISBN 0394508513 (0-394-50851-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Horrorsby Ed NahaISBN 0380004992 (0-380-00499-2)
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Hot Toddy: The True Story of Hollywood's Most Shocking Crime The Murder of Thelma Toddby Andy EdmondsISBN 038071132X (0-380-71132-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The House of Barrymoreby Margot PetersISBN 0394553217 (0-394-55321-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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House of Leavesby Mark Z. DanielewskiISBN 0375703764 (0-375-70376-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Leaves'Book summary:Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on.
Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? According to Johnny Truant, the tattoo-shop apprentice who discovers Zampanò's work, once you read The Navidson Record,
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.
We'll have to take his word for it, however. As it's presented here, the description of the spooky film isn't continuous enough to have much scare power. Instead, we're pulled back into Johnny Truant's world through his footnotes, which he uses to discharge everything in his head, including the discovery of the manuscript, his encounters with people who knew Zampanò, and his own battles with drugs, sex, ennui, and a vague evil force. If The Navidson Record is a mad professor lecturing on the supernatural with rational-seeming conviction, Truant's footnotes are the manic student in the back of the auditorium, wigged out and furiously scribbling whoa-dude notes about life.Despite his flaws, Truant is an appealingly earnest amateur editor--finding translators, tracking down sources, pointing out incongruities. Danielewski takes an academic's--or ex-academic's--glee in footnotes (the similarity to David Foster Wallace is almost too obvious to mention), as well as other bogus ivory-tower trappings such as interviews with celebrity scholars like Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom. And he stuffs highbrow and pop-culture references (and parodies) into the novel with the enthusiasm of an anarchist filling a pipe bomb with bits of junk metal. House of Leaves may not be the prettiest or most coherent collection, but if you're trying to blow stuff up, who cares? --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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Ingrid Bergman: My Storyby Ingrid BergmanISBN 0385283741 (0-385-28374-1)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community 1930-1960by Larry Ceplair, Steven EnglundISBN 0385129009 (0-385-12900-9)
Hardcover, Anchor Press/Doubleday
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Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrityby Richard SchickelISBN 0385123361 (0-385-12336-1)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-Inby Joe Bob BriggsISBN 0385294425 (0-385-29442-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Kate: The Life of Katharine Hepburnby Charles HighamISBN 0393325989 (0-393-32598-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Kiss of the Spider Womanby Manuel PuigISBN 0393311481 (0-393-31148-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000by Gore VidalISBN 037572639X (0-375-72639-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Lauren Bacall by Myselfby Lauren BacallISBN 0394413083 (0-394-41308-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Like Water for Chocolateby Thomas Christensen, Laura Esquivel, Carol ChristensenISBN 038542017X (0-385-42017-X)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Like Water for Chocolate'Book summary:Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother. Reprint. Movie tie-in. [via]
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Like Water for Chocolateby Laura Esquivel, Carol ChristensenISBN 0385420161 (0-385-42016-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Like Water for Chocolate'Book summary:Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story. [via]
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The List of 7by Mark FrostISBN 0380720191 (0-380-72019-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Lucky Manby Michael J. FoxISBN 0375431411 (0-375-43141-1)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucky Man'Book summary:The same sharp intelligence and self-deprecating wit that made Michael J. Fox a star in the Family Ties TV series and Back to the Future make this a lot punchier than the usual up-from-illness celebrity memoir. Yes, he begins with the first symptoms of Parkinson's disease, the incurable illness that led to his retirement from Spin City (and acting) in 2000. And yes, he assures us he is a better, happier person now than he was before he was diagnosed. In Fox's case, you actually might believe it, because he then cheerfully exposes the insecurities and self-indulgences of his pre-Parkinson's life in a manner that makes them not glamorous but wincingly ordinary and of course very funny. ("As for the question, 'Does it bother you that maybe she just wants to sleep with you because you're a celebrity?' My answer to that one was, 'Ah...nope.'") With a working-class Canadian background, Fox has an unusually detached perspective on the madness of mass-media fame; his description of the tabloid feeding frenzy surrounding his 1988 wedding to Tracy Pollan, for example, manages to be both acid and matter-of-fact. He is frank but not maudlin about his drinking problem, and he refreshingly notes that getting sober did not automatically solve all his other problems. This readable, witty autobiography reminds you why it was generally a pleasure to watch Fox onscreen: he's a nice guy with an edge, and you don't have to feel embarrassed about liking him. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Marlene Dietrich : By Her Daughterby Maria E. RivaISBN 0394586921 (0-394-58692-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Marlene Deitrich was considered one of the most glamorous stars of her day. A determined perfectionist with an incredible ego, her beauty, her style, her sense of the outrageous, made her a star. In this candid, illuminating, and detailed biography full of photographs, her only daughter Maria Riva, tells the incredible, fascinating, story of the star's life and career, loves and hates, hits and misses, as only a daughter can.
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Modern Times, Modern Places : A Monumental Study of the Transformation of Art and Life in the Twentieth Centuryby Peter ConradISBN 037540113X (0-375-40113-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern Times, Modern Places : A Monumental Study of the Transformation of Art and Life in the Twentieth Century'Book summary:"The earth," said Gertrude Stein in 1938, "is not the same as in the 19th century." And how. Covering a staggeringly vast distance, Peter Conrad traces the development of modern consciousness during the 20th century through the art and thought of Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and Tokyo. He compares the progress to that of a human life, passing from youthful zest to maturity, but only by way of anguish and torment. This sounds simplistic; the book is not. Conrad's prose is as fluid as his ideas are sharp, and the scope of his reference is vast, its application unassailable. This is intellectual writing at its most accessible. He considers Freud and Chaplin, Stravinsky and Einstein, as he pursues his theme of a planet that has shrunk, as we have grown, to a size that we can manipulate and, as Hiroshima showed, we can destroy. Society's greatest advances have been technological, he argues, yet at the expense of reducing the individualism of humankind, of "dumbing down" to a sedative senility. Wisely avoiding the business of prediction, his declaration of faith in laughter when facing the future, and in the reinterpretation of the past in order to escape it, provides a pleasantly unexpected conclusion.
Arranged in 30 chapters, each a rounded essay in its own right, Modern Times, Modern Places is a powerfully evocative appraisal of the 20th century and its achievements that succeeds, quite frankly, where many will fail. --David Vincent [via]
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The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horrorby David J. SkalISBN 0393034194 (0-393-03419-4)
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The Moviegoerby Walker PercyISBN 0375701966 (0-375-70196-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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My Life So Farby Jane FondaISBN 0375435026 (0-375-43502-6)
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The Name Above the Title: An Autobiographyby Frank CapraISBN 0394712056 (0-394-71205-6)
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Norma Shearer: A Biographyby Gavin LambertISBN 0394551583 (0-394-55158-3)
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O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actorsby Luc Sante, Melissa Holbrook PiersonISBN 0375700927 (0-375-70092-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors'Book summary:O.K. You Mugs is an unusual collection of essays--a book full of writers writing about actors without once making cracks about their relative intelligence. It is a wildly varied collection that jams deadly serious film critiques up against swoops of poetry, but all the pieces are united by a genuine love of cinema--be it Dave Hickey's ode to Robert Mitchum's eternal cool or Manny Farber's bracingly crabby essay on the death of real acting in movies. In a refreshing change of pace, character actors are given just as much space as leads, if not more. Homage is paid to both to Thelma Ritter's solid but always welcome screen persona and the quiet genius of Margaret Dumont, the remarkably dignified dowager in the Marx Brothers movies. The best pieces will send you straight to the video store--Greil Marcus's essay on the chameleonic evil of J.T. Walsh will have you eagerly rewatching a half-dozen terrific oh-he-was-THAT-guy! performances with renewed appreciation. John Updike's "Suzie Creamcheese Speaks" is also a revelation, exploring the surprisingly tough and pragmatic private persona of screen good girl Doris Day. An entertaining and thought-provoking collection for actors and movie fans alike. --Ali Davis [via]
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An Open Bookby John HustonISBN 0394404653 (0-394-40465-3)
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Pasolini Requiemby Barth David SchwartzISBN 0394577442 (0-394-57744-2)
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People Will Talkby John KobalISBN 0394536606 (0-394-53660-6)
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Pictureby Lillian RossISBN 0385468792 (0-385-46879-2)
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Play It Again, Samby Woody AllenISBN 039440663X (0-394-40663-X)
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Postman Always Rings Twiceby James M. CainISBN 0394725832 (0-394-72583-2)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Postman Always Rings Twice'Book summary:Penzler Pick, April 2000: It is sometimes easy to trace a literary genre to its source, and James M. Cain's first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, is the noir novel that paved the way for all the noir fiction that followed. The famous film starring Lana Turner and John Garfield is notoriously dark, but the novel is even more full of despair and devoid of hope. It is a short book--little more than a novella--but its searing characterization and depiction of tawdry greed and lust is branded into every reader's memory.
Frank Chambers, a drifter, is dropped from the back of a truck at a rundown rural diner. When he spots Cora, the owner's wife, he instantly decides to stay. The sexy young woman, married to Nick, a violent and thuggish boor, is equally attracted to the younger man and sees him as her way out of her hopeless, boring life. They begin a clandestine affair and plot to kill Nick, beginning their own journey toward destruction.
Horace McCoy, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, and the other notable noir writers never achieved Cain's spare brilliance. Virtually all of his major works have been filmed, though several Hollywood studios refused to make the films, directors refused to be involved, and actors turned down roles because of their repugnance at the lack of morality inherent in all Cain's characters. Reading him may not be fit for a Sunday school class, but once you begin you will be unable to resist continuing, like picking at a painful scab or watching a tarantula inside a glass dome. --Otto Penzler [via]
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The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selectedstoriesby James M. Cain, Robert PolitoISBN 037541438X (0-375-41438-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selectedstories'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)These three classics from the master of the noir novel, along with five otherwise unavailable short stories, are electric with the taut narrative voice, the suspense, and the explosive violence and eroticism that were James M. Cains indelible hallmarks.The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cains first novelthe subject of an obscenity trial in Boston, the inspiration for Camuss The Strangeris the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into an erotic obsession, and into a murder. Double Indemnitywhich followed Postman so quickly, Cains readers hardly had a chance to catch their breathis a tersely narrated story of blind passion, duplicity, and, of course, murder. Mildred Pierce, a work of acute psychological observation and devastating emotional violence, is the tale of a woman with a taste for shiftless men and an unreasoned devotion to her monstrous daughter. All three novels were immortalized in classic Hollywood films. Also included here are five masterful stories Pastorale, The Baby in the Icebox, Dead Man, Brush Fire, The Girl in the Storm that have been out of print for decades. [via]
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The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Filmby Bruce ChadwickISBN 0375708324 (0-375-70832-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Roger Ebert's Book of Film : From Tolstoy to Tarantino - the Finest Writing from a Century of Filmby Roger EbertISBN 0393040003 (0-393-04000-3)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Romantic Comedy: In Hollywood from Lubitsch to Sturgesby Jim HarveyISBN 0394503392 (0-394-50339-2)
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The Screenwriter's Workbookby Syd FieldISBN 0385339046 (0-385-33904-6)
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Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies That Matterby Christine Vachon, David EdelsteinISBN 0380798549 (0-380-79854-9)
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Showman: The Life of David O. Selznickby David ThomsonISBN 0394568338 (0-394-56833-8)
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Side Effectsby Woody AllenISBN 0394511042 (0-394-51104-2)
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Silver Lightby David ThomsonISBN 0394556224 (0-394-55622-4)
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Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to Itby Kaleem AftabISBN 0393328945 (0-393-32894-5)
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Spike Lee: That's My Story And I'm Sticking to Itby Spike Lee, Kaleem AftabISBN 0393061531 (0-393-06153-1)
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The Stepford Wivesby Ira LevinISBN 0394481992 (0-394-48199-2)
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A Third Face : My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmakingby Samuel Fuller, Christa Lang Fuller, Jerome Henry Rudes, Martin ScorseseISBN 0375401652 (0-375-40165-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Third Face : My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking'Book summary:In his new book, Samuel Fuller, independent director-producer extraordinaire, tells the story of
his life, a life that spanned most of the twentieth century. His twenty-nine tough, gritty pictures made from 1949 to 1989 set out to capture the truth of war, racism, and human frailties, and incorporate some of his own experiences.
He writes of his years in the newspaper businessselling papers as a boy on the streets of New York, working for Hearsts New York Journal American, first as a copyboy, then as personal runner for the famous Hearst editor in chief Arthur Brisbane. His film Park Row was inspired by his years as a reporter for the New York Evening Graphic, where his beat included murders, suicides, state executions, and race riotshe scooped every other New York paper with his coverage of the death by drug overdose of the legendary Jeanne Eagels.
Fuller writes about hitchhiking across the country, seeing America firsthand at the height of the Great Depression. He writes of his years in the army . . . fighting with the first infantry division in World War II, called the Big Red One . . . on the front lines during the invasion of North Africa and Sicily, and landing on Omaha Beach on D Day, June 6, 1944. These experiences he later captured in his hugely successful pictures The Big Red One, The Steel Helmet, and Merrills Marauders, which was based on the true story of a three-thousand-man infantry that fought behind enemy lines in Burma in 1944.
Fuller talks about directing his first picture (he also wrote the script), I Shot Jesse James . . . and how, as a result, he was sought after by every major studio, choosing to work for Darryl Zanuck of Twentieth Century Fox. We see him becoming one of the most prolific, independent-minded writer-directors, turning out seven pictures in six years, among them Pickup on South Street, House of Bamboo, and China Gate. He writes about making Underworld U.S.A., a movie that shows how gangsters in the 1960s were no longer seen as thugs but as respected tax-paying executives . . . about the making of the movie Shock Corridorabout a journalist trying to solve a murder in a lunatic asylumwhich exposed the conditions in mental institutions . . . and about White Dog (written in collaboration with Curtis Hanson), a film so controversial that Paramounts then studio heads, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner, refused to release it.
Honest, open, engrossing. A must for anyone interested in movies. [via]More editions of A Third Face : My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking:
Time Banditsby Michael PalinISBN 0385177321 (0-385-17732-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Visions of Tomorrow: Great Science Fiction from the Moviesby Edward EdelsonISBN 0385096674 (0-385-09667-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Wizard of Oz: The Screenplayby Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Michael Patrick Hearn, Edgar Allan WoolfISBN 0385297602 (0-385-29760-2)
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A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960by Jeanine BasingerISBN 0394563514 (0-394-56351-4)
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You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Againby Julia PhillipsISBN 0394575741 (0-394-57574-1)
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Como Agua para Chocolateby Laura EsquivelISBN 0385471378 (0-385-47137-8)
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Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolateby Laura EsquivelISBN 0385471483 (0-385-47148-3)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate'Book summary:Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story.
The Spanish language edition of the best-selling Like Water For Chocolate is a remarkable success in its own right. Now, in this mass market edition, thousands of new readers will be able to partake in the sumptuous, romantic, and hilarious tale of Tita, the terrific cook with an extra special something in her sauce. [via]More editions of Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate:
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