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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 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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THE BOOK THAT INSIDERS ARE ENJOYING.
TV INSIDE-OUT
READ EXCERPTS FROM THEIR INTRODUCTIONS
HOSTS...
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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“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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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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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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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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One of the best-selling female rock stars of all time, the incomparable Pat Benatar writes about her life, rock 'n' roll, and how her generation changed music forever in Between a Heart and a Rock Place. The first solo female rocker ever to appear on MTV, Benatar writes with the same edge and attitude that was a hallmark of her music-from "Heartbreaker" to "Hit Me with Your Best Shot." The winner of four consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Female Rock...
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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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While a large percentage of Americans claim religious identity, the number of Americans attending traditional worship services has significantly declined in recent decades. Where, then, are Americans finding meaning in their lives, if not in the context of traditional religion? In this provocative study, the authors argue that the objects of our attention have become our god and fulfilling...
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Billie Eilish, the 18-year-old teenager wrote history by winning five trophies at the 2020 Grammys. Depressing, grim, sullen, death-haunted, are some of the adjectives used to describe her music. From tarantulas crawling out of her mouth, black tears rolling down her cheeks, staining her face and white shirt alike, to needles injected into her shirtless back and cigarettes snuffed out on her flawless cheeks one after the other, Billie Eilish's videos...
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THE SHARK IS ROARING:THE STORY OF JAWS: THE REVENGE
Jaws the Revenge is known as the film that killed off the Jaws franchise. But after 35 years, what is the legacy of this much-maligned aquatic horror?
The Shark Is Roaring: The Story of Jaws: The Revenge will tell you all you need to know about the genesis of the film, its 9-month journey from script to screen, interviews with cast and crew who were there plus the notorious novelisation and video...
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The extraordinary life story of America's most celebrated African-American actress, Cicely Tyson is always worthy to remember. Cicely Tyson never ceased to flabbergast the audience and never aimed to break their trust. Till her death she never quitted acting. Her passion gave her tremendous energy to defy the hurdles of criticism. Cicely Tyson's exquisite talent and urge to make a change in her life ended up changing the mindset of the American society....
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The unbelievable story of the legendary 1980s B-movie studio continues in The Cannon Film Guide Volume II, which covers the company's output from 1985 to 1987, their peak production years under Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. This book takes an up-close look at sixty Cannon movies, from deep cuts to cult classics, including American Ninja, The Delta Force, Over the Top, Invasion USA, Masters of the Universe, Runaway Train, Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
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A 20-year-old shy boy with ocean-like eyes is all set for his first Hollywood break, romancing the voluptuous beauty queen and actress diva, Jacqueline Bisset, living in her palatial Spanish bungalow, hobnobbing with the tinsel town's who's who- Andrew McCarthy's life was straight out of a fantasy. One article in New York sufficed to tarnish the image that McCarthy was only striving to create and in one fell swoop, he was a Brat Packer. He ran to...
20) Roone: A Memoir
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Roone Arledge's extraordinary career of more than a half century mirrors the history of the television industry he helped create. Roone is the vivid, intimate account of his own rise to fame and power as the head of both ABC Sports and ABC News as well as an up-close-and- personal story of his era, peopled with friends and foes alike.
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