Performing arts

You Watch Too Much TV is a Book of Lists for the television generation, offering fun facts and quizzes on Leave It To Beaver, Everybody Loves Raymond, and just about every show in between.

All too often, highly fictionalized cinematic depictions of the past are accepted as the unassailable truth by those unfamiliar with the "e;real"e; account.

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Robert Zemeckis has risen to the forefront of American filmmaking with a string of successes: Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future I, II, & III, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Jackie Chan: Inside the Dragon is the first biography of this international star.

In John Wayne: My Father, Aissa Wayne delves into her father's childhood, his film career, and his life off the screen.

Funny yet down-to-earth, honest yet full of exaggeration, actor Walter Matthau (1920-2000) will always occupy a place in America's heart as one of the great comic talents of his generation.

Every baby boomer in America knows who that masked man was.

Based on more than a half dozen interviews with the director himself, this unauthorized biography recounts Spielberg's childhood, education, career, philanthropic and charitable endeavors, and his extremely private personal life.

Frank Bank's story is a sometimes wild, sometimes bawdy, often poignant, always funny account of a real-life Louie Louie who led a nation to California-dreamin'.

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD'Sally really tells it how it is .

Misteriosa, exótica y sensual… La danza del vientre, ha generado controversia, fantasía y admiración durante siglos.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

An Essential Guide to Landing -- and Keeping -- Your first Hollywood JobA position as an assistant to a producer, agent, director, studio executive, or star can be the path to a fabulous career -- or a one-way ticket to hell.

Five keys to creating authentic, distinctive work, whether you are a student, professional or simply love making films on your ownFor Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out, three professors at the renowned University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television interviewed fifteen outstanding filmmakers, then distilled their insights into the "e;Five I's"e; of creativity.

Of all the diverse races and civilizations encountered by Starfleet, none have been as fearsome and unstoppable as the cybernetic life-form known as the Borg.

Part of the My First Picture Book series: perfect for every toddler to help encourage language skills, understanding, enjoyment and sharing.

In Eminent Hipsters, musician and songwriter Donald Fagen, best known as the co-founder of the rock band Steely Dan, presents an autobiographical portrait that touches on everything from the cultural figures that mattered the most to him as a teenager, to his years in the late 1960s at Bard College, to a hilarious account of a recent tour he made with Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald.

All Our Todays is the first book about the BBC's most influential news and current affairs programme, published to celebrate Today's 40th anniversary in October 1997.

Steve Coogan was born and raised in Manchester in the 1960s, the fourth of six children.

With enough money-saving tips to banish the budgetary blues for good, these collected hints and tips from Channel 4 s Supercrimpers show us all how to be more clever with our cash.

'REVELATORY' - DAILY TELEGRAPH *****'FASCINATING' - OBSERVER'ENGROSSING' - DAILY MAIL'You ll worry at your hunger to keep on reading, but you won t be able to stop' - GUARDIAN, Book of the Year David Litvinoff was one of the great mythic characters of 60s London.

Sunday Times BestsellerWith a brand new introduction for 2020.

Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22.

Felix Dennis, notorious multimillionaire publisher, first started writing poetry after a life-threatening illness.

With a fondness for spoonerisms and double entendres, Ronnie Barker is one of the nation s greatest comics.

With a foreword by Ronnie Corbett.

Fast approaching his fortieth birthday, Andrew is cornered at a family gathering by the nine-year-old son of his brother-in-law's sister.

With an Introduction byP.

The inspiration behind BBC2's The Girl starring Toby Jones and Sienna Miller, Spellbound by Beauty examines Hitchcock's relationship with his leading ladies including Tippi Hendren and Grace Kelly.

Mark Wallington has a dream.

In 1956, at the age of 22, Alan Bates was cast in John Osborne's controversial play, Look Back in Anger.

Winner of the National Book Awards Autobiography of the YearThe long-awaited autobiography of one of Britain's best-loved actors*As seen in David and Jay s Touring Toolshed on BBC Two*Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early life dodging bombs and bullies, both with impish good timing.

The Vintage Collected Edition of Angela Carter's works continues with THE CURIOUS ROOM, which contains her dramatic writings, including several previously unpublished plays and screenplays.

London during the Blitz was a time of hardship, heroism and hope.

Alan Root is one of the great wildlife pioneers.

The black man suffering at the hands of whites, the white woman sexually threatened by the black man.

The creator of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Henry VIII and Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton's career spans 50 films and 40 stage roles.

The Paris-Roubaix Classic.