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many roles in what turned out to be classic films, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Sundance Kid and The French Connection. An intriguing character. 354 pages with b/w archive photos, author’s note and filmography. £20 NOW £6
73657 MAX BYGRAVES IN HIS OWN WORDS
by Max Bygraves and Bernard Bale
Most people remember the catch phrases: ‘I’ve arrived… and to prove it I’m here’ and ‘I wanna tell you a story.’ They were the stock in trade of Max Bygraves, now famous for his Singalong albums. This book is the moving and amazing story of
the Cockney lad, son of a prize-fighter, who - in an incredible career - rose from page boy to performer and from support act to star. He could never have imagined, as he played in the streets of Rotherhithe in a poor part of London, that one day he would achieve box-office records at the London Palladium, own a Rolls-Royce and make no less than 27 round-the-world journeys. He takes us backstage among the greats of show-business, and introduces us to stars like Jimmy ‘Snozzle’ Durante, Sophie Tucker, Frankie Howerd, Max Miller, Judy Garland, Jack Benny, Eric Sykes and many others. He also lets us eavesdrop on his meetings with Royalty and brings us up to date with all his ventures and adventures. 250 nostalgic pages with many b/w photos. £15.99 NOW £5
72325 THE THEATRE: A Concise History by Phyllis Hartnoll
One of the World of Art series from Thames and Hudson, we have here the 2006 softback reprint of the third edition of Phyllis Hartnoll’s outstanding one-volume introduction to the history of dramatic literature. Acting, direction, stagecraft, theatre architecture and design and the evolution of theatre and theatrical genres, the book is all-embracing, richly illustrated and worldwide in its scope. Chronological chapters bring us up to date - medieval, Italian Renaissance, Elizabethan, France and Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries, English Restoration, 18th century Germany, pre-Revolutionary France, early 19th century, latter 19th century, Ibsen, Chekhov and the Theatre of Ideas, modern theatre and contemporary theatre. 300 illus, over 40 in colour. 304pp. £9.95 NOW £4
72527 HELLO GORGEOUS: Becoming Barbra Streisand by William J. Mann
Born in Brooklyn in 1943, Barbra Streisand’s early life was driven by a desire to please the father she never knew. Her first success was at the Roundtable in East Fiftieth Street, a well-known gay hangout where she learned acting technique from the old pro Mabel Mercer. Her bisexual lover Darren Barré had
persuaded her to start singing, and she astonished her friends by the emotional power of songs like “When a bee lies sleepin”. With The Jack Paar Show she started to get national TV exposure, and the role of Miss Marmelstein in I Can Get It for You Wholesale brought her together with Elliott Gould. The scene was now set for her great role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. 566pp, photos.
£25 NOW £7
72543 STRONGEST MEN ON EARTH: When the Muscle Men Ruled Show Business by Graeme Kent
1889 was an eventful year: a new era in entertainment was kick-started with the showdown between London’s two claimants to the title of strongest man in the world. Charles Sampson was a genuine muscle man who elevated his feats of strength to superhuman proportions by carefully concealed deceptions. £500 was offered to any man able to equal Sampson’s performance and a Prussian nobleman, Eugen Sandow, accepted. The proceedings were umpired by the Marquess of Queensberry who gave his name to the rules of boxing. Sandow knew he was up against a cheat, and for the climax of the contest he prepared bracelets which were weakened in the same ways as Sampson’s. As a result he was declared the winner, though the backers could only rustle up £350. The author has researched the full range of male and female strength acts to provide a fascinating insight into late Victorian entertainment. Rosa Richter was the first female human cannonball, while some Suffragettes trained in judo and formed a bodyguard for political campaigners. The craze lasted about 25 years. 314pp, photos. £20 NOW £6.75
72575 MARILYN AUGUST 1953: The Lost Look Photos by John Vachon and Brian Wallis
In the most astonishing story of Marilyn Monroe’s eventful life, the negatives of the photographs in this
book were filed away for nearly 60 years, most of them never seen until now! It was a chance in a lifetime for master photographer John Vachon, who took pictures of her during her in Banff, Alberta in the summer of 1953, to photograph Marilyn on location making the film River of No Return. Fortunately for the photographer, Marilyn had injured her ankle and was unable to continue filming. The resulting candid, revealing images show her as fans have never seen her before: on the phone, by the pool, clowning with her crutches, riding high on a ski lift, between the paws of a grizzly bear, pinning a medal on a Mountie’s chest, taking snapshots herself, and nuzzling up to her then husband-to-be, the legendary baseball player Joe DiMaggio. Un-idealised, natural pictures of their idol. 119 pages 28cm x 23.5cm with b/ w pictures and revealing letters from the photographer to his wife about the assignment.
£28.49 NOW £8.50
72544 TALES I NEVER TOLD by Michael Winner
Film director and food journalist, Winner denies any gastronomic expertise, and the food stories tend to feature a gaggle of hungry luvvies. His idol Orson Welles insisted on a full hour’s lunch break, Winner is a stickler for punctuality, and this makes him walk out of Nigella’s TV show before it has even started. He hangs around impatiently for the Esther Rantzen show and then has a hammer and tongs battle on air, subsequently threatening to sue if his tirade is edited out. Winner’s dinner reviews include such judgments as “It was the worst-run restaurant ever” and “Giles Coren remarked I was the only food critic who knew nothing about food.” 306pp, photos.
£16.99 NOW £5.50
72607 FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: Ian Fleming and James
Bond by Ben MacIntyre One morning in February in 1952, sitting at his desk at Goldeneye, his holiday hideaway on the north coast of Jamaica, journalist Ian Fleming said to himself “I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories”. Fleming experienced first-hand almost every aspect of the legend
he created: a harsh boarding school with no father figure, a lifetime’s cast of extraordinary characters, a playboy lifestyle and enjoyment of the finer things in life, an obsession with plots and gadgets, working in naval intelligence and, crucially, an immersion in the politics of the Cold War, the background to all the Bond books. Sometimes we observe more subtle parallels in women, food and drink, pastimes, military prowess, villains, plots, gadgets, guns and other gizmos. B/w photos and film stills. 236pp, paperback. £8.99 NOW £4
72777 POSSESSED: The Life of Joan Crawford by Donald Spoto
Dancer, dramatic actress, business woman, corporate executive with Pepsi-Cola, Joan Crawford was rarely out of the news. Now, using only recently opened archives and personal papers, an acclaimed biographer probes behind the lurid headlines to bring us the private person as well as the movie legend. Crawford was indeed a complex, contradictory, driven human being, but absolutely not the alcoholic, sadistic monster depicted in the notorious book Mommie Dearest which appeared a year after her death. Lucille Fay LeSueur escaped destitution by becoming a popular dancer and, from there, managed to make the decisive leap that transformed her into a luminous, unique star of the screen. She was married four times - once to the debonair Douglas Fairbanks Jr without being aware that he had failed to discontinue his relationship with Marlene Dietrich. She also had three adopted daughters and two adopted sons, but they all came second to her movie career. 336 pages with b/w archive photos. £20 NOW £7
72802 BRITISH DRAMATISTS by Graham Greene
Originally published in the 1940s, Graham Greene (1904- 91) first made his name as a brilliant dramatic critic. In this engaging and original survey he gives us a panoramic sense of British drama, from its roots in the Mystery and Miracle plays of the market carnival, through Shakespeare and the Restoration to our own century and his evaluations are vivid, sometimes caustic, but never dull. 94pp with many charming woodcut illus, colour plates. £6.99 NOW £3
70890 PARKY’S PEOPLE: The Lives, The
Laughs, The Legend by Michael Parkinson From 1971 to 2007, Michael Parkinson, through his perceptive on-screen interviews, introduced millions of people to the personalities of major international figures in sport, showbiz, politics, the arts and journalism. He has been faced with extreme embarrassment in the form of a very drunk Veronica Lake, fought off the advances of a persistent Emu and winkled out hitherto hidden mysteries in the backgrounds of the most reticent star guests such as Fred Astaire and Ingrid Bergman plus Henry Kissinger, sportsmen Muhammad Ali and David Beckham and great comics. 485 paperback pages, colour and b/w photos. £8.99 NOW £3.50
71343 HANDLING EDNA by Barry Humphries Housewife, icon, gigastar, advisor to royalty and world leaders, from Moonee Ponds to the glittering glamour of New York, Tokyo and London, Barry Humphries tells the truth behind the legend - Dame Edna Everage. Here are memories such as Madge, the patient bridesmaid, Edna with the late Mary Whitehouse and a late Koala, at Royal Ascot, singing with Jerry Hall, transported by Sir Richard Branson, Sir Les Patterson - diplomat at large - and others among this collection of stunning colour large photos. 340pp. £18.99 NOW £3
71642 STREEP: A Life in Film by Iain Johnstone
This biography covers Meryl Streep’s career from “Secret Service” her 1977 “made for TV” film debut to “Doubt” from late 2008, but we begin at the beginning. The Streeps’ ancestors were a veritable UN of nationalities, but after the war two of them, Harry and Mary, left Holland for New Jersey, and 22 June 1949 Mary Louise Streep was born. A straight-A student, she got to Yale and swiftly gravitated toward to dramatic and musical arts. The big break came in 1978 with the TV mini series Holocaust, swiftly followed by The Deer Hunter and then some of the best-loved films ever made - Manhattan, Kramer vs. Kramer, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Sophie’s Choice, Out of Africa, Death Becomes Her, The Bridges of Madison County and The Devil Wears Prada, to name but a few. Johnstone explores her meteoric rise and shows just how and why she has achieved the heights she has, all the while being married for 30 years and raising four children in a very private home life. Interviews and colour and b/w photos, 240pp. £16.99 NOW £4.50
71199 I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING: Katherine
Hepburn A Personal Biography by Charlotte Chandler
Katherine Hepburn’s career spans six decades and she has acted with equal skill in serious dramas or ‘screwball’ comedies. Hepburn’s mother was a suffragette and her father a prominent urologist, and when she was 14 she discovered the body of her adored older brother, an apparent suicide. Her warmest recollections were of her 27-year romance with Spencer Tracy who never divorced his wife. Other stars interviewed include Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Cary Grant, James Stewart, Christopher Reeve and others. Photos, 349pp in large softback.
£15.50 NOW £5.50
72820 WIT AND WISDOM OF THE MOVIES by Carlton Books
More than 800 amusing, enlightening and downright disheartening quotations from classic in-the-movie dialogue to ridiculous gushing from the awards stage. Here are the stars, directors, Hollywood life, celebrity excess, bitterness, breakdown and rejection, razor wit and repartee from Woody Allen, Mae West, W. C. Fields et al, slapstick and silliness from the Marx Brothers, viragos and violence from Bogart to Tarrantino, drink and drugs to spooks and spacemen. Some comic gems included. Who said ‘Can I get ya anything? Coffee? Tea? Me?’ Beautifully designed, 286pp. £9.99 NOW £3.50
71430 SEAN CONNERY: The Measure of a Man by Christopher Bray
No-one who has ever seen Sean Connery in a film can possibly deny the sheer charisma of the man. His marriage to the glamorous Diane Cilento ended in divorce, amid rumours of violence, but he re-built his life and found contentment with a second wife who is far from being star-struck and finds his title of The Sexiest Man in the World extremely amusing. In The Offence and The Hunt for Red October he gave the performances of his career, demonstrating that he was not merely the suave ‘Bond - James Bond’ - but that he had hidden depths. 340 pages, photos and filmography. £20 NOW £4
71438 TEN BAD DATES WITH DE NIRO by Richard Kelly
Subtitled ‘A Book of Alternative Movie Lists’ here are Ten Most... Richly Deserved Oscars, Best Male Movie Outfits (pictured on page 101), ‘Turkeys’ that are actually terrific, Awful Wigs An Actor Dared To Wear, Great Performances by Animals, Films that Traumatised You When Younger, from the Wallace and Gromit films to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Tony Scott’s The Hunger to political thrillers like Silkwood to the Best Screen Drunks, Lord of the Rings, John Wayne to Johnny Depp and many memorable moments in between. 460pp, line art. £12.99 NOW £3
71591 DIARY OF A JUVENILE DELINQUENT:
A Memoir by Steven Berkoff The author is well-known as an actor, director and playwright. He has invigorated English theatre, inspiring generations of young practitioners, and established himself as essential reading on university theatre courses. Readers may remember his first notable role as a sadistic policeman in A Clockwork Orange or his more recent appearances as a villain in Rambo and Octopussy. Berkoff was born in London’s Jewish East End two years before the outbreak of World War II, when life for the family was hand to mouth. 232 pages, photos.
£18.99 NOW £2.75 71604 THE ROAD TO AMBRIDGE: My Life,
Peggy and The Archers by June Spencer The author, of course, is best known for her role as Peggy in one of the UK’s longest-running radio soap operas, The Archers. She has had a sensational 60 years of life with the soap and is the only original member of the cast who is still performing in it. She discusses her husband’s decline due to Alzheimer’s, and The Archers’ identical storyline featuring her fictional husband, Jack. Then there is her theatre career, her experiences as an after-dinner-speaker, her adopting and raising children, meeting the Queen and her lifetime achievement award. 198 pages, photos. £16.99 NOW £4
71850 BUTLIN’S: 75 Years of Fun! by Sylvia Endacott and Shirley Lewis Billy Butlin branched out in 1932 with nine amusement parks at seaside resorts. The first holiday camp opened at Skegness in 1936, with the slogan “A week’s holiday for a week’s pay”, and Clacton followed in 1938. Hundreds of archive photos take the reader on a nostalgic trip down memory lane: in the 1930s keep-fit teams are immaculately turned out for morning drill, and in 1947 an aerobics team celebrate the opening of the Filey camp, while others relax in the Parliamentary Bar, an exact replica of the one at Westminster. Cheering crowds line the route when the Queen and Prince Philip visit Pwllheli in 1963. Of course the iconic Redcoats are in evidence everywhere. 128pp, softback, photos, some in colour. £12.99 NOW £4
71976 SIZE MATTERS NOT: My Extraordinary Life and Career by Warwick Davis
Aged only 11 and less than three feet in height, Warwick Davis made his screen debut as Wicket the Ewok in 1983’s box-office smash ‘Return of the Jedi’. For the next 30 years Warwick was a star in some of the biggest films. A midget at just 3' 6", he owes his success to a boundless optimism. His one-in-a-million genetic condition may have opened doors to which other actors couldn’t fit, but it has also led to trials and tragedy, from the seemingly mundane challenge of supermarket shopping, to the sometimes heartbreaking story of his struggle to start a family. Includes his wedding photos (a shotgun wedding), tons of name dropping (Dan, Rupert and Emma in the Harry Potter films), hamming it up with Stephen Merchant and Peter Crouch (6' 7") and starring in the BBC comedy series ‘Life’s Too Short’. 384pp with many colour photos. Paperback. £8.99 NOW £2.75
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72066 SIR JOHN GIELGUD: A Life in Letters by John Gielgud and edited by Richard Mangan Profiles one of the 20th century’s finest actors of stage and screen. The author has chosen nearly 800 gems, beginning with those Gielgud wrote to his mother when he was an aspiring but still unknown actor. With astute observation, we encounter hundreds of luminaries, many of whom he candidly assesses, clearly delighting in gossip. Here are Marlon Brando, Greta Garbo, Vivien Leigh, who once saved him from drowning, and Sir Laurence Olivier. Here too, for the first time, are his love letters, which show that he never was shy about expressing his most intimate feelings. 564 paperback pages, b/w archive photos. $15.95 NOW £4.50
72122 HOLLYWOOD ANIMAL: A Memoir by Joe Eszterhas
A gigantic roller-coaster of a book for a small price. It is the incredible tale of the most infamous screenwriter in Hollywood. He penned the runaway successes Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge and Flashdance as well as the legendary disasters Showgirls and Jade, and his successful films went on to gross more than a billion dollars at the box office. His story reads more like the script of one of his blockbusters than real life, but he insists that it is all true. Joe Eszterhas seems to have spend most of his spare time stealing cars, rolling drinks, battling priests and nearly going to jail. 728 paperback pages.
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72191 JAMES BOND 50TH ANNIVERSARY: 100 Postcards From the James Bond Archive by DK
In a sturdy glamorous black box are 100 completely different and unique postcards ready for use or collecting from all 23 official Bond movies. There is of course the iconic Ursula Andress in bikini with Sean Connery image, and the Halley Berry colour version many years
later, Dr No, Adolpho Celi in Thunderball 1965 and a bikini-clad Bond girl from the same movie, Claudine Auger and Domino Derval, Bond gets help removing his jet pack in the same movie and Roger Moore looks dashing in Live and Let Die 1973. Colour and b/w. £14.99 NOW £7.50
72245 FRANK: The Making of a Legend by James Kaplan
In this critically acclaimed biography, Frank Sinatra is drawn as an infinitely charismatic figure. We relive the years 1915-1954 in vibrant detail experiencing it as if for the first time from his journey from the streets of Hoboken, his fall from the summit of celebrity, and his Oscar-winning return in ‘From Here to Eternity’. Covers the singer’s career, gnawing personal insecurity, lavish sexual indulgence and obsessive musical virtuosity. Frank Sinatra once said ‘The only two people I have ever been afraid of are my mother and Tommy Dorsey.’ Weighing 13½lb at birth, Sinatra was called ‘Scarface’ at school and applied Max Factor pancake to his face and neck every morning to disguise the disfigurements on the side of his face. 786pp, paperback.
£12.99 NOW £5
71760 MICHAEL CAINE: ELEPHANT TO HOLLYWOOD by Michael Caine
This second volume of autobiography takes up the story in 1992, when Caine is approaching 60. He had several starring roles still ahead of him in The Cider House Rules, The Quiet American and in 2009 a return to his home patch with Harry Brown. He reminisces about his rise to stardom, telling many new stories and enjoys the friendship of many Hollywood stars. 408pp, paperback, photos in b/w and colour. £7.99 NOW £3.50
EROTICA
She was almost too hospitable - she kept open bed.
- Aldous Huxley
73101 POP-UP KAMA SUTRA
by Sir Richard Burton and F. F. Arbuthnot
Bibliophile has stocked many Kama Sutras over the years but none quite so clever or collectable or fun as this one, especially page 25, where the naked lady is slowly lowered by pull tab, from a frame,
to her very willing, ready and waiting Indian gentleman lover reclined beneath! ‘Anything may take place at any time, for love does not care for time or order.’ The yawning position, the rising position, congress of a cow, two women embracing against each other against a plush background of Persian style richly woven carpet, a royal couple deeply in love; the ten chapters cover the embrace, kissing, scratching with the nails, biting, various kinds of congress, striking and the sounds appropriate to that, women acting the part of the man, mouth congress and all manner of sexual union are celebrated together with six paper engineered variations including flaps and tabs to pull for more exquisite delight. Very large board pages, all in colour and 40 vintage colour plates and choice excerpts from the original text of this 2000 year old Indian treatise on the art of love. $24.95 NOW £12
73631 ADVENTURES IN THE ORGASMATRON:
The Invention of Sex by Christopher Turner Viennese psychologist Wilhelm Reich was one of the most influential and notorious thinkers of the 20th century, an eccentric pioneer of sexual liberation who prepared the way for the erotic enthusiasms of the
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