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Funny Letters from Famous People
by Charles OsgoodCharles Osgood provides humorous and informative commentary to put these letters in context. It's a fun peek at real correspondence! A very enjoyable read!
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography
by Chuck BarrisAutobiography of creator of game shows including The Dating Game and The Gong Show.
Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory, and World War II
by Richard SchickelIn this memoir, film critic Schickel recalls his childhood days growing up in a Milwaukee suburb during World War II. The story centers around the author's lifelong love of the movies. Schickel also discusses the ways in which the wartime movies he enjoyed as a youth misled the public about the nature of the war, our soldiers, our government, and the home front. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Curious George Goes to the Movies
by H. A. Rey Margret ReyWhen his curiosity leads him to investigate how the movie gets onto the screen.Young readers will enjoy this picture book. Includes picture descriptions.
The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons From a Life in Feathers
by Caroll Spinney J. MilliganMemoir of the man inside Big Bird from Sesame Street.
How Can We Keep from Singing: Music and the Passionate Life
by Joan Oliver GoldsmithThe author has been a member of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Symphony Chorus for eight years, and has a lifelong love of choral singing. This book combines memoir with far-ranging reflections on singing, friendship, the corporate world, romantic love, and much more. Goldsmith writes beautifully and her words capture the beauty and exhilaration of singing, which she considers a spiritual experience.
Call Her Miss Ross: The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross
by J. Randy TaraborrelliThis explosive, definitive biography of Diana Ross was penned from over 400 interviews with her family and friends.
If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What am I doing in the Pits?
by Erma BombeckA hilarious swipe at husbands, honeymoons, tennis elbow, marriage, lettuce, the national anthem, and a host of other domestic dilemmas.
Bessie Smith
by Jackie KayAs a young black girl growing up in Glasgow, Jackie Kay found in Bessie Smith someone with whom she could identify and idolise. Her fascinating and extraordinary Outline mixes fact and fiction, poetry and prose as she relates the tempestuous life of the greatest blues singer who ever lived. She takes us from Bessie's early years in Chattanooga, and her time spent with Ma and Pa Rainey in the Moses Stokes Travelling Show, through her rapid rise to fame and fortune, her raucous and wild lifestyle on the road in her famous yellow Pullman railroad car, to her slide from popularity during the Depression years and her eventual tragic death in a car crash in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1937.
Ballet Shoes
by Noel StreatfeildWhen 3 orphans, Pauline, Petrova and Posy- vow to make a name for themselves, they have no idea that it's going to be such hard work! With the help of a kindly benefactress, they launch themselves into the world of show business, complete with working papers, the glare of the footlights and practice, practic, practice. Each girl quickly finds her won special talent. Pauline with a flair for th dramatic seems destined for the movies, Posy is a born dancer. Practical Petrova however discovers she'd rather pilot a plane then do a pirouette.........
SeinLanguage
by Jerry SeinfeldThose who have watched Jerry Seinfeld's shows will hear his voice in this humorous writing.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael LewisMoneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball.
The Savage Nation, Saving America From The Liberal Assault On Our Borders, Language And Culture
by Michael SavageStraight-talking radio personality, Dr. Michael Savage brings his radio message of borders, language and culture to hardcover in this fast-paced, well-outlined attack on the liberal ethos he blames for a declining America, Savage points out how the ACLU and other liberal groups are the new Communists intent on destroying our constitutional republic with their unmitigated assault on our national borders, English language and Judeo-Christian, Western culture. No matter what you believe, you will enjoy this well-written story of an immigrant's son and his thoughts on America and our future.
The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate
by Norma BarzmanThe horrors of the McCarthy era.
The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'Oh! of Homer
by Aeon Skoble Mark Conard William IrwinEssays that use plots, dialogue, and characters' qualities from The Simpsons to illustrate the wisdom of the ages expressed in otherwise highbrow philosophy. The concept makes accessible and relevant to the modern reader timeless ideas that would otherwise require heavy mental lifting to fit into her current context.
Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
by Al FrankenA comedian debunks right-wing rhetoric and shows the right's hypocrisy.
Star Wars: A New Hope
by George LucasLuke Skywalker challenged the stormtroopers of a distant galaxy on a daring mission -- where a Force of life became the power of death! Luke Skywalker was a twenty-year-old who lived and worked on his uncle's farm on the remote planet of Tatooine...and he was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures out among the stars -- adventures that would take him beyond the farthest galaxies to distant and alien worlds. But Luke got more than he bargained for when he intercepted a cryptic message from a beautiful princess held captive by a dark and powerful warlord. Luke didn't know who she was, but he knew he had to save her -- and soon, because time was running out. Armed only with courage and with the light saber that had been his father's, Luke was catapulted into the middle of the most savage space war ever... and he was headed straight for a desperate encounter on the enemy battle station known as the Death Star!
Pieces of Intelligence The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld
by Hart SeelyFor all its known and unknown unknowns, Pieces of Intelligence is less about national affairs than about the poet himself. From the era when gas stations held "little things" of glass to the leak-filled corridors of present-day Washington, Rumsfeld stands out as a man whose quest for real answers long ago required the kinds of questions no reporter dared to ask. "What in the world am I doing here?" he says, in "A Confession." His answer is no less a riddle. "It's a big surprise," and nothing more. Sometimes comic, sometimes dark, D. H. Rumsfeld's poetry is irreverent but always relevant, occasionally structurally challenged and always structurally challenging. Pieces of Intelligence is the U.S. defense secretary's long-awaited first collection, combining precision-guided insights and a revolution in metaphorical affairs, to take the reader on a dazzling journey of the spoken verse.
Bonnie Raitt: Just in the Nick of Time
by Mark BegoBiography of vocalist/guitarist/song-writer Bonnie Raitt.
The Brain Games World Chess Championship
by Raymond Keene Don MorrisThe dramatic World Championship match in which Vladimir Kramnik surprisingly overthrew Garry Kasparov, the highest rated chess champion in the history of the game was, thanks to the internet, followed by more chess enthusiasts than any other chess championship match in chess history. For a month the eyes of the world were focused on the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith where the two grandmasters fought out their silent duel for two million dollars in prize money and the solid silver Howard Staunton trophy valued at N25,000 and crafted by Asprey and Garrard, the Queen's jewellers.
Caesar's Hours: My Life in Comedy, with Love and Laughter
by Sid Caesar Eddy FriedfeldThe legendary television star tells the backstage stories of the classic comedy of Your Show of Shows, Caesar's Hour , and other landmark programs. It is no exaggeration to say that without Sid Caesar, comedy in America would have been a lot less funny. He was the star and guiding force behind Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour , two of the most innovative programs in the Golden Age of Television, and the writers and stars of those shows went on to create the plays, movies, and sitcoms that we now think of as classic American comedy. So many of our greatest comedy writers - Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, Woody Allen -were part of Sid Caesar's creative troupe. Sid was a master not only of comedic performance, but also of developing characters that the audience could relate to, finding the humor in ordinary situations rather than through vaudeville-type gags. His was a comedy truly drawn from the human condition. Caesar's Hours is Sid Caesar 's artistic autobiography, his account of how these great routines were fashioned and performed, and the interactions that gave birth to them. He takes us inside the famed writers' room, the rehearsal studios, and onto the stage itself, where some of the funniest moments in television history came to life. To read his book is to learn why his intelligent and sensitive brand of humor resonates so much with us, even half a century later.