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70743 ROBERT ALTMAN:


The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zuckoff Visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man and Hollywood legend, Robert Altman comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography. Crew members, producers and stars have their say including Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Tim Robbins, Julieanne Moore, Paul Newman,


Julie Christie, Elliott Gould, Martin Scorsese, Robin Williams, Cher and many others. From an all-American boyhood in Kansas City, a stint flying bombers in World War Two, and jobs ranging from dogs tattoo-entrepreneur to TV director, Robert Altman burst onto the scene in 1970 with the movie M*A*S*H. He produced masterpieces at an astonishing pace - McCabe and Mrs Miller, Thieves Like Us, The Long Goodbye, 3 Women and of course Nashville. Falling out with Hollywood, he reinvented himself with a new set of masterworks - The Player, Shortcuts and Gosford Park. Finally just before the release of his last of nearly 40 movies, A Prairie Home Companion, he received an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement from the Academy who had snubbed him for so many years. 560pp with roughcut pages and many photos. 2009 US first edition. £25 NOW £7


70782 BEST MOVIE QUIZ BOOK EVER


by The Puzzle House Which detective film has been portrayed on screen over 200 times? In which Austrian city is The Third Man set? I Could Have Danced All Night comes from which movie musical? Pot Luck, Heroes and Villains, Marilyn Monroe, The 1960s, Best Actors, Weepies, Superstars, Sequels and Remakes, James Bond - you will find over 300


individual quizzes each containing 25 questions. The quizzes cover every aspect of the films and movie business from the studios to Westerns and come in three carefully graded levels of difficulty. 320pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3


70473 HALFWAY TO HOLLYWOOD: Diaries 1980-


1988 by Michael Palin The first volume of Michael Palin’s memoirs, 1969-1979, The Python Years, spent weeks on bestseller lists around the world, and we are extremely pleased to be able to offer this chunky paperback edition of the next volume. Covering the bulk of the 1980s, it was a period when writing and acting took over


his life and included the last Python film, Meaning of Life, and culminated in his winning a BAFTA for his role as the stammering, chip-abused Ken Pile in the much-loved and hilarious Fish Called Wanda. There were a further five films in between, and many TV films, TV shows and books. The book ends as Michael makes his final preparations for the documentary which was to change his life and launch a whole new period of his career, Around the World in 80 Days. It is impossible not to warm to Palin in these diaries. Mixing with Hollywood’s A-list at a series of parties, he also describes the northwest coast of Scotland around Mallaig and up to Kyle of Lochalsh with such enthusiasm that you think he will end up staying there forever, then next he is at John Cleese’s birthday party in Ladbroke Grove! 621pp with 24 pages of b/w and colour photos. £14.99 NOW £5


70733 HITCHCOCK PIECE BY PIECE by Laurent Bouzereau


Exclusive pictures and removable memorabilia from the master’s archives and a foreword by Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell make this Abrams lavish production a most collectable item. In a career that spanned 60 years, Alfred Hitchcock made more than 50 feature length films and hosted his own TV series, transforming the thriller genre in the 20th century. Known as a master of suspense, not only because he knew how to manipulate an audience, Hitchcock also developed a particular language that used all the great tools in the art of filmmaking. He started his career in the silent era in England and invented most of the techniques and vocabularies still in use by contemporary filmmakers. Psycho, Rear Window, North by Northwest, The Birds are testaments to the durability of his artistic vision. In very glamorous golden envelopes, the facsimile documents include a telegram from Hitchcock to producer David O. Selznick dated May 11th 1940 and handwritten notes in facsimile from the same year noting objectives - ‘Suspense’ and how the audience must play his part in providing maximum suspense, the springboard situation and examples from Jamaica Inn and Rebecca. This has been handwritten on Cunard White Star RMS Queen Mary notepaper and reproduced in exact facsimile. We counted ten such wallets, each with his unmistakable profile shaping the envelope. Another contains a 1976 storyboard for ‘Family Plot’ and another the document given to Hitchcock upon being knighted by the Queen in 1979. packed with hundreds of


photographs, many rare and previously unseen, mostly full page, colour and black and white. 176 large pages. 2010 US first edition.


£30 NOW £15


70809 JULIE CHRISTIE: The Biography by Tim Ewbank and Stafford Hildred


After winning Best Actress Oscar in 1965 for her portrayal of an amoral London fashion model in ‘Darling’, Julie Christie has poured herself out in a succession of romantic roles. This insightful biography charts the remarkable life of the tea planter’s daughter born in India, the troubled Sussex schoolgirl who turned into the striking young woman who


unforgettably sashayed to stardom in ‘Billy Liar’. She became The Face of 1965, made the mini skirt notorious and was courted by Hollywood’s most eligible men, including Warren Beatty. At the very height of her fame she walked away from the glamour, wealth and attention to embrace a simpler life in Wales and concentrate her energies on campaigning for causes close to her heart. 262 pages. Colour and b/w photos. £18.99 NOW £5


70801 HORROR!: 333 Films


to Scare You to Death by James Marriott and Kim Newman


Arranged chronologically, each film comes with information about director, stars, synopsis and a concise critical assessment, and many are illustrated by black and white stills. The Golem and The


Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, both from Germany, kick-started the genre in 1920, with Murnau’s Nosferatu, the first truly successful horror film, following in 1922. 1931 ushered in the 30s with Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, not to mention Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff as Dracula and Frankenstein respectively. The war-torn 40s saw a fading away of the horror genre, but the 50s bounced back with Frankenstein and Dracula remakes and The Mummy (1959), which starred Cushing and Lee and initiated a whole series of variations on the theme. The 60s opened with Hitchcock’s Psycho, while Rosemary’s Baby followed up the “event horror” genre in 1968, influencing later writers such as Stephen King and Peter Straub in 70s films like The Exorcist and The Omen. Kubrick’s 1980 The Shining is a classic of psychological tension and in 1991 Silence of the Lambs turned serial killing into a love story, but by contrast Sleepy Hollow by Tim Burton is a macabre Gothic fantasy which sidesteps emotional involvement. 352pp, softback, critical features on different genres, numerous stills. £16.99 NOW £6


70728 BING CROSBY: A


Pocketful of Dreams by Gary Giddins


Subtitled The Early Years 1903- 1940, this commanding biography sees its protagonist take a remarkable journey from a provincial law student from Spokane Washington to the pinnacle of the entertainment world. A pioneering jazz vocalist, Bing Crosby lent his style to every kind of pop music


from Tin Pan Alley, spiritual songs and blues, to Western ballads, Hawaiian reveries and Irish lullabies. With his nonpareil mastery of the microphone, he led the way in establishing American pop as modern, swinging and cool. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War, Crosby was the world’s most beloved entertainer. He holds the record for the most number one singles, the most singles to hit the charts and the most popular song (White Christmas) of all time in the US. Here is Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra, Hollywood, his courtship of the beautiful and tragic Dixie Lee, his triumph as a sportsman who created the first celebrity Pro-Am golf tournament and the man who helped build the Dell Mar Race Track. With discography, filmography, many movie stills and b/ w photos, extensive notes and sources. 728pp in US first edition.


$30 NOW £6.50


68709 HOW TO BE A MOVIE STAR: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood by William Mann


In the 1960s, Elizabeth Taylor’s affair with the married Richard Burton knocked everything else off the front pages. She survived a marriage engineered for publicity, feuds with Hedda Hopper and Mr Mayer, she won Oscars, endured tragedy and juggled Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton and her country’s conservative values. Swathed in mink, staring down at us with her lavender eyes, disposing of husbands but keeping diamonds, here is Elizabeth Taylor leading her epic life on her own terms. 484pp, photos. £15.99 NOW £4


69066 CECIL B. DEMILLE AND THE GOLDEN CALF


by Simon Louvish


Here is the story of one of Hollywood’s most enduring legends, remembered - and often reviled - for his grandiose biblical sagas such as Samson and Delilah and his version of The Ten Commandments with its cast of tens of thousands. The author reveals the character of DeMille through his work. Most of his 70 films were silent and remain unknown even to avid fans. He was an unsung auteur, a master of increasingly bizarre narratives, with tales of adultery and divorce, hedonism and sin, reflecting an age in which modernity, the consumer society and the pursuit of money made the USA a battlefield of clashing values and temptations. He will probably remain a pervasive puzzle. 507 pages, illus and list of plays and films. £25 NOW £5


69067 CHAPLIN: The Tramp’s Odyssey by Simon Louvish


The hat, the moustache, the cane. Sharp, fast, full of unexpected detail, this impressive biography succeeds in demystifying Charlie Chaplin while leaving the Tramp’s mechanistic mystique largely intact. Louvish looks at Chaplin afresh, summing up the roots of comedy and its appeal to audiences everywhere who revelled in the clown’s raw energy, his ceaseless struggle against adversity, and his capacity to represent our own hopes, fears, dreams, foibles and inner demons. 412pp in paperback, illus and cartoons. £9.99 NOW £2.50


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69984 HANNA-BARBERA TREASURY: From Boo Boo to Bamm Bamm The Ultimate Cartoon Scrapbook


by Jerry Beck and Fred Seibert A treasury of rare art and mementos, postcards in wallets, collectors card cartoons to collect, tiny booklets, a tiny Yogi Bear colouring book, big Flintstones cards, many teeny booklets of Lippy the Lion, Hardy Har Har and much more. Here is Fred Flintstone with his irrepressible ‘Yabba-Dabba-Doo!’ and there is the lovable Yogi Bear boasting ‘I’m smarter than the average bear!’ while Penelope Pitstop shouts ‘Hayulp, Hayulp’ at the top of her voice. Few images nowadays are able to gain and maintain the appeal that has defined the characters of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera for more than 50 years since they first joined forces as young animators. The duo won a well-deserved seven Academy Awards and eight Emmys. Hooray for Atom Ant, Scooby-Doo, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Wacky Races, Quick Draw McGraw, Top Cat, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, Magilla Gorilla, Space Ghost, Secret Squirrel and a host of others. Long may they live to delight everybody, young and old.


Apologies if dust jacket has stuck to laminated hardback inside the plastic cover: reflected in price. 157 pages 29mm x 26mm in brilliant colour, packed with 24 pull-out


mementoes protected in polythene, with timeline. Sketches, comic book covers, product packages, archival newspaper and magazine ads,


£30 NOW £18


69077 MINGHELLA ON MINGHELLA edited by Timothy Bricknell


Antony Minghella grew up above his Italian parent’s café on the Isle of Wight. He studied and then taught at the University of Hull where he began to write. His prize-winning plays appeared in the theatre, on radio and television. His debut feature film which he wrote and directed, ‘Truly, Madly, Deeply’ was a huge surprise hit with audiences everywhere. Each of his subsequent movies saw him grow in ambition, stature and acclaim, from the epic scope of The English Patient to the lustre of The Talented Mr Ripley and his monumental adaptation of Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain starring Nicole Kidman. In his own words here is how he likes to cast the characters alone, how he interprets the books like Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient. 178pp, many photos.


£12.99 NOW £3.50


69404 BAMBI VS. GODZILLA by David Mamet Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? What happens in a pitch meeting? How is the screenplay like a personal ad? What makes a great chase scene and why are so many producers listed in a movie’s credits? Mamet provides hilarious, surprising and bracingly forthright answers to these and other questions from concept to script to screen. Great and rotten acting, film noir and he- men, storytelling and techniques, begging letters, helpful hints of screenwriting, Jews in show business, victim and villains and much more. 250pp in paperback. £11.99 NOW £2.50


70239 PANTOMIME LIFE OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI: Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain’s Greatest Comedian


by Andrew McConnell Stott “I make you laugh at night but am Grim-All-Day”. Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837) completely transformed the role of the clown in the theatre, becoming the first celebrity comedian with his white make-up


and outrageously coloured costumes. Yet he also created another instantly recognisable character - that of the glum, brooding comedian. Son of an Italian immigrant stage clown who was driven insane by syphilis, Joseph Grimaldi struggled all his life with depression and his life was blighted with tragedy. As he got older the sheer physicality of his performances took their toll on his body and left him disabled and in constant pain. Here is not only the definitive biography of Grimaldi, but also a highly nuanced portrait of Georgian theatre, from the frequent riots which occurred in Drury Lane to the spectacular excesses of its arch-rival Sadler’s Wells. 16 pages of excellent colour and b/w plates. 433pp. £20 NOW £6


69609 LETTING GO by Robert Lindsay Equally at home on stage and screen and has given outstanding performances in comedies, drama and musicals, Robert Lindsay is probably best-known to us from his TV appearances as Wolfie Smith, Tooting’s answer to Che Guevara and, more recently, as the put- upon father in the award-winning My Family. Lindsay’s acting developed through appearances on both, taking him from London to Broadway and back (Me and My Girl), with a brief flirtation with Hollywood thrown in. Here he lifts the lid on his busy life and what makes him tick, describing the lasting influences of his childhood and family. 293 pages, photos. £18.99 NOW £5


70287 FURIOUS LOVE


by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger This New York Times bestseller is subtitled ‘Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century’. He was a tough guy Welshman, softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman. She was a modern-day Cleopatra, madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance, often called ‘the marriage of the century’, was the most notorious, publicised and celebrated love affair of its day. Here is their 13 year saga, their ten year marriage followed by divorce, a remarriage and a final divorce and how the vulgarity, arrogance and the money, her fantastic beauty, languid body and his remote eyes transfixed the world. Name-dropping and film recollections galore, 500 page softback with photos. Remainder mark. $16.99 NOW £6


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69772 HOME: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews


‘When Walt [Disney] appeared in my dressing room, he exuded natural charm and friendliness. After the formalities, he told me and Tony about a combination live action/animated film that he was planning to make, based on the Mary Poppins books by P. L. Travers. I was familiar with the title, but had never read the books.’ Shame on you, Julie! Fast paced, full of fun and vitality like the lady herself, this is showbiz biography at its very best. 340pp in paperback with 32 pages of b/w photos. £8.99 NOW £2.50


70034 JOSEPH P. KENNEDY’S HOLLYWOOD YEARS: The First and Only Outsider to Fleece


Hollywood by Cari Beauchamp Patriarch of the all-powerful Kennedy clan, before his family could dominate American politics Joe Kennedy had first to make his fortune, and this compelling, star- studded volume is the first book to tell the full story of how he did it, and what happened afterwards. From 1926 to 1930 his high-octane blend of finance, mergers and uncompromising business dealing saw him simultaneously running three movie studios ruining the careers of two of Hollywood’s most sensational stars, one of them his mistress, Gloria Swanson. Sorting with through the maze of deals, letters and memos with a fine-toothed comb Beauchamp shows how he did it, lining his pockets to an almost unimaginable degree along the way. During his time in the film industry he produced over 100 films, and the author writes about these, the stars he made and ruined and the Hollywood titans he charmed, cajoled and battled. B/w family photos, movie stills and publicity shots. 506pp. £25 NOW £7


70165 I MUST COLLECT MYSELF: Choice Cuts


from a Long Shelf-Life by Maureen Lipman As might be expected from the talented Miss Lipman, this endearing volume of monologues, a selection of her best Guardian newspaper columns, stories, reminiscences and jokes, is warm-hearted, clever and amusing. She muses on the London bombings, gets angry with road hogs, prays for lost chickens in Notre Dame, grieves for her late husband, admires Aung San Suu Kyi’s steadfastness and falls for a snowy owl. In between all this, she gives us the inside story of playing an alien in Doctor Who, describes a night of cabaret to raise money for a statue of Spike Milligan in East Finchley and recounts various eccentric romantic adventures. We are also introduced to her yodelling, bark-less dog, the Bishop of Rangoon and Sheila, the unintentionally smutty art tutor. 350pp. £18.99 NOW £6.50


70304 PRIVATE DIARIES OF


CATHERINE DENEUVE by Catherine Deneuve and Polly Mclean


The elegant, sensual and beautiful actress turns out to be an impressive writer, although intriguingly remote. The startling portrayal of an icy, sexually adventurous housewife in Luis Buñuel’s Belle du Jour established Catherine Deneuve as one of the most compelling actresses of her


generation. 40 years later, she is regarded as one of the grandes dames of French cinema. Here she takes the reader behind the scenes in a collection of seven previously unpublished diaries that she kept while filming abroad. She charts the shooting of such films as The April Fools, Tristana, Indochine which was an adventure, a journey in which she was completely bowled over by Vietnam and had her jewellery box raided by a thieving magpie, and Dancer in the Dark. Make up, dinners, hotels, the Cannes Film Festival and much more. 198pp in paperback with photos and filmography.


$14.95 NOW £4 EROTICA


My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.


- Les Dawson


70799 EROTIQUE by Michelle Olley


Erotic art goes back to the Kama Sutra and beyond, and unlike porn, which tends to diminish the subject, it appeals to the viewer emotionally and intellectually. The dividing line is not easy to define but this study of 46 practitioners of the erotic is a convincing mix of the classic and


popular. The author surveys the 19th century French Romantics and the decorative libido of Aubrey Beardsley’s fantasies before moving on to 20th century exponents of the erotic. Magritte, Picasso, Dix, Emin, Klimt, Emin and Watt are mainstream painters whose erotic work is part of larger oeuvre, but graphic artists are also well represented here. Following its heyday in the 1950s, the pin-up began to be seen as a commercialised art-form which had lost its original glamour, and artists such as Jenny Saville and Hans Bellmer took the representation of the body into new, surreal regions in which the unconscious supplies some of a work’s content. Meanwhile Snowlen is a young female artist in the Hentai tradition of adult-themed manga, using brightly coloured and explicit straight and gay images. Michael Manning’s black and white gender- bending graphics also draw on Japanese erotic tradition, while the Swiss-born H.R. Giger, the man behind The Alien, continues to scare and disturb. 224pp, almost 200 colour plates, critical essays. £20 NOW £8


70557 SEX AND THE SEASONED WOMAN Pursuing the Passionate Life by Gail Sheehy Women of 45 and above were falling over themselves to tell Sheehy about their sexual experiences and to respond to her online questionnaire. Passionates (40%), healthy, independent, sexy women, likely to be involved with someone but not eager to marry. The next group is Seekers (20%), hungry for sex, actively seeking partners but not having much luck. WMDs (Women Married, Dammit!) are frustrated within their relationships, SQs (Status Quos) are resigned to not having a partner, often


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