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Sammy Davis Jr. lived a storied life. Adored by millions over a six-decade-long career, he was considered an entertainment icon and a national treasure. But despite lifetime earnings that topped $50 million, Sammy died in 1990 near bankruptcy. His estate was declared insolvent, and there was no possibility of itever using Sammy's name or likeness again. It was as if Sammy had never existed.
Years later his wife, Altovise, a once-vivacious woman...
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The latest fabulous edition of Memory Lane, Winter 2021, Issue 213. Features in this issue include Ernest Ritte, Dinah Miller, Teddy Sinclair, Mary Lee, Vernon Ferry, Whispering Jack Smith, Steve Conway and Kate Garnder plus our regular feature Caught in the Web (a review of the online news). Additionally, there are cd and book reviews, readers' letters and plenty more. Profusely illustrated.
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In Volume Two of Jack Benny's Lost Broadcasts, (25 episodes from August 1 to October 26, 1932), Benny and scriptwriter Harry Conn continue to craft a personality-based radio variety program. They draw on Benny's vaudeville style and explore new constructions of comedy characters and situations. Benny and Conn develop quirky-yet-likeable identities for the major performers-"Broadway Romeo" Jack, tightwad band leader George Olsen, sultry vocalist Ethel...
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THE BOOK THAT INSIDERS ARE ENJOYING.
TV INSIDE-OUT
READ EXCERPTS FROM THEIR INTRODUCTIONS
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Bob Eubanks: On The Newlywed Game I asked a woman, "What's the one thing your husband wouldn't want you to talk about?" She spilled the beans that her husband and cousin were going to kill their uncle for the insurance money! Then, the husband told the same story! They matched and got the points!! Randy's TV INSIDE-OUT documents some of the most unpredictable...
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Actualmente se recuerda a Friends como un icono de la comedia de los años noventa, cuando empezaba a despuntar la nueva pasión por la ficción televisiva. Pero en 1994, cuando se estrenó la serie, nadie esperaba que tuviera un éxito tan arrollador. Desde sus fulgurantes inicios, pasando por sus altibajos y por el resurgimiento posterior que ha experimentado, Friends ha mantenido un vínculo insólito con su público, que la ve al mismo tiempo...
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I Shudder is a side-splittingly funny collection of essays from Paul Rudnick, one of America's preeminent humorists. Rudnick, who writes for The New Yorker and has written the screenplays for the films In and Out, Sister Act, and Addams Family Values, shares his hilarious observations on life in New York City and New Jersey, the perils of show business, and dealing with one's family, however crazy they may be. As David Sedaris says, "There's no book...
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Frank Deford is one of the most beloved sports journalists in America. A contributing writer to Sports Illustrated for more than fifty years, and a longtime correspondent on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, these days, Deford is perhaps best known for his weekly commentaries on NPR's "Morning Edition." Since 1980, Deford has recorded 1,600 of them, and in I'd Know That Voice Anywhere he brings together the very best, creating a charming, insightful,...
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“Saturday Night” is the intimate history of the original “Saturday Night Live”, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. This is the book that revealed to the world what really happened behind the scenes during...
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How DO you avoid the 'nightmare scenario' of having two open tubs of margarine in your fridge? Throw one tub away, or give it to a friend or neighbour? If the remedy were that simple no one would have bothered to write a book about it, would they? John Shuttleworth would... and he has!
'Sheffield's funniest man' (The Times) and 'The 42nd best reason to love Britain' (The Telegraph) has made simple remedies to everyday domestic dilemmas, well......
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From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of “The Contender” comes this celebration of the great American love story, the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before.
In “Bogie & Bacall”, William Mann offers a deep and comprehensive look at Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and the unlikely love they shared. Mann details their early years, Bogart's effete upbringing...
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Presenting the original screenplay of the second Lee Neville Entertainment short film "Time Stops Moving" that was originally released in 2010. Discover monologue sections that were cut from the final film as well as lines that ended up being delivered slightly differently when performed. Also included is a reflective introduction written by Lee Neville in 2024 that will give unique insight into the film, the complete end credits, behind-the-scenes...
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The electric and daring independent wrestling tag team share their inspiring story of how two undersized, ambitious athletes from Southern California became the idols of millions of popular sports fans, coveted among the ranks of AEW's elite wrestling lineup.
Featuring over 60 photographs and alternating between each brother's perspective, this entertaining memoir is a complete portrait of what it means to grow into-and give back to-wrestling,...
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In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than one year later, she was tried and executed, charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. The mistress of many senior Allied officers and government officials, even the French minister of war, she had a sharp intellect and a golden tongue fluent in several languages; she also traveled widely throughout war-torn Europe, with seeming...
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"[Designs on Film] traces the art of building pretend worlds. Starting back in the pre-talkie years, and moving through Hollywood's golden age and the epic-crazy '60s, right up to contemporary Hollywood, the book is packed with insider tidbits about the wildly inventive-and improvisational-business of movie-making." - Wall Street Journal
"Whitlock makes a major contribution to movie literature by saluting undersung production designers, set decorators...
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There's No Place Like HomeThe magical Ruby Slippers, worn by actress Judy Garland in MGM's beloved 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz is perhaps the most iconic example of movie memorabilia in the world. The pair on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History draws more visitors than any other exhibit at the famed museum... with the single exception of The Star Spangled Banner.With a market value exceeding $6,000,000 they are...
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Lucy! is a buoyant picture book biography of trailblazer Lucille Ball, the comedy queen who loved to make the world laugh, from authors Amy Guglielmo and Jacqueline Tourville and bestselling illustrator Brigette Barrager.
Lucy was not a proper little girl. She was sassy. She was bold. She was funny. She was a rule-breaking, chance-taking, comedy pioneer.
Can't act? Can't sing? Can't dance? Lucy proves them all wrong-and then has the last...
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Starting in January of 2020, I began writing articles for “Medium”. I had originally believed I'd write only one a month, but it quickly turned into a weekly thing.2020 was an interesting year. Let's just go with that. I wrote about how I felt with the plague raging all around, how to live fearlessly, but also how to make Kombucha, and some writing advice as well.
This volume contains all the articles from that first year of “Medium”, collected...
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Vestida de azul de Antonio Giménez-Rico fue el primer documental español protagonizado por seis mujeres transexuales que se estrenó en salas comerciales. Hoy, 35 años después y con la perspectiva que da el paso del tiempo, la periodista Valeria Vegas analiza cómo los medios y el cine abordaban la transexualidad en una época verdaderamente hostil para un colectivo tan expuesto como minoritario. A través de las circunstancias que rodearon a...
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He came to mainstream prominence as a machine more human than his creators in Blade Runner, terrified us as a hitchhiker bent on his own death and the death of anyone who got in his way in The Hitcher, and unforgettably portrayed a lonely king roaming the night as a wolf and pining for the love of a hawk during the day in Ladyhawke.
Rutger Hauer has dazzled audiences for years with his creepy, inspiring, and villainous portrayals of everyone from...
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