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Lewis J. Stadlen is a great actor. He is also a superb writer. SAVE ME A SEAT is a wickedly accurate account of the grit and the glory of a year on the road with a great American musical. Stadlen is willing to name names, to defy taboos and fearlessly confront himself, his country, and a business that has changed drastically over a half century he has served brilliantly. The result is endlessly interesting, richly entertaining and very moving....

Lewis J. Stadlen is a great actor. He is also a superb writer. SAVE ME A SEAT is a wickedly accurate account of the grit and the glory of a year on the road with a great American musical. Stadlen is willing to name names, to defy taboos and fearlessly confront himself, his country, and a business that has changed drastically over a half century he has served brilliantly. The result is endlessly interesting, richly entertaining and very moving....

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Barbara Roisman Cooper's fifth book looks at a group of distinguished artists and creators behind the scenes of theatre and film productions. Great Britons of Stage and Screen: Volume III, Behind the Scenes features a dozen interviews with the most honored filmmakers and theatrical professionals of the past 75 years. All of these interviews were personally conducted by Roisman Cooper in Los Angeles, London, and New York over a period of five y...

IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME... I was seven when I sat enthralled in a dark theatre watching The Land That Time Forgot. Three years later I was on a car roof watching a double bill of The People That Time Forgot and At the Earth's Core, in our town's last drive-in. I watched Motel Hell in that same drive-in three years later and it kept me awake for weeks after. These were just some of the films of legendary director KEVIN CONNOR and there wo...

Kenneth Landau was an artist of considerable talent during the late Golden Age and Silver Age of Comics. His work particularly graced the pages of ACG's horror and mystery comics... although my favorite was his rendition of Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub in the mid-1950s. If only more artists had followed his lead in signing their work, expressing their pride in their contributions to what was one of the liveliest forms of popular culture...

IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME... I was seven when I sat enthralled in a dark theatre watching The Land That Time Forgot. Three years later I was on a car roof watching a double bill of The People That Time Forgot and At the Earth's Core, in our town's last drive-in. I watched Motel Hell in that same drive-in three years later and it kept me awake for weeks after. These were just some of the films of legendary director KEVIN CONNOR and there wo...

Kenneth Landau was an artist of considerable talent during the late Golden Age and Silver Age of Comics. His work particularly graced the pages of ACG's horror and mystery comics... although my favorite was his rendition of Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub in the mid-1950s. If only more artists had followed his lead in signing their work, expressing their pride in their contributions to what was one of the liveliest forms of popular culture...

The Brown family, three brothers and a sister, applied themselves to the task of finding this unknown [starlet] through searching the Internet's genealogy sites, researched every repository they could, visited film museums, and contacted every expert they could find to restore this golden leaf in their family tree. Because of their commitment, there is now an extensive Regina Doyle filmography online and a family "backstory" that is no longer ...

The Brown family, three brothers and a sister, applied themselves to the task of finding this unknown [starlet] through searching the Internet's genealogy sites, researched every repository they could, visited film museums, and contacted every expert they could find to restore this golden leaf in their family tree. Because of their commitment, there is now an extensive Regina Doyle filmography online and a family "backstory" that is no longer ...

Marie Wilson was one of the best of the "dumb blondes" of the 1930s and 1940s, but what most people don't know is that she was a highly intelligent woman who painstakingly created her persona in movies, on radio, and on television. This book includes a complete log of the classic American television series episodes in which she appeared, My Friend Irma (1952-1953). ". . . an enjoyable read and something that would be welcomed by casual f...

The past few years have seen the release of "Twilight Zone" scripts by principal writers Rod Serling, Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, and Earl Hamner. With this publication, all but a few of the scripts from the original series will be in print. This distinguished pair of volumes also includes critical commentary and biographical information about the writers of these marvelous old tales. This volume contains: "The Incredible World of Hora...

Ah, yes! It is almost here! The story of everyone's favorite mustache, Jerry Colonna, coming from the bulging eyes of his son, Bob. Teeming with personal, unpublished photos from this wacky author's private collection, this book will keep you up all night! And then some! But that's a good thing. Foreword by Star Wars composer, John Williams!

Cultural Historian Anthony Slide, who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a one-man publishing phenomenon, strikes again with a book guaranteed to contain something OFFENSIVE for everyone. Chapters on subjects as varied as CAMP, FASCISM in Hollywood, Hedda Hopper and the PORKY'S movies. The latest topical jokes on Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Challenger disaster. Subjects such as ALCOHOL, DRUG and SPOUSAL ABUSE, COMMUNI...

Foreword - Jim Harmon Vic and Sade (The Stembottom Situation) - William F. Nolan Radio Detectives - Jim Harmon Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Duplicate Daughter The Avenger and the Maker of Werewolves Baby Snooks (Out with Mommy) - Ben Ohmart The Whistler (For I Walk by Night) - Mel Gilden Jimmie Allen (In World War II) - Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D. House of Mystery (The Ghastly Dream) - Tony Albarella Richard Diamond ...

Michael A. Hoey is the son of British actor Dennis Hoey, best remembered for his portrayal of Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard in the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone. A combination memoir and history of the film business covering the decades from the 40's through the present. Here is an examination of classic Hollywood and such iconic studio bosses as Jack L. Warner, Darryl Zanuck and Walt Disney, plus memorable actors and di...

Serafim Karalexis produced, co-produced & distributed 35 feature films, and worked with Martin Scorsese on The Last Temptation of Christ and brought Billy Joel to the Soviet Union for concerts in Leningrad and Moscow as an HBO Special. He also co-produced Anna Pavlova, the story of the legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova, featuring the Bolshoi and Kirov Ballet Companies, which was distributed by Paramount Pictures. As a partner in UIP, in Bos...

Serafim Karalexis produced, co-produced & distributed 35 feature films, and worked with Martin Scorsese on The Last Temptation of Christ and brought Billy Joel to the Soviet Union for concerts in Leningrad and Moscow as an HBO Special. He also co-produced Anna Pavlova, the story of the legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova, featuring the Bolshoi and Kirov Ballet Companies, which was distributed by Paramount Pictures. As a partner in UIP, in Bos...

I was lucky enough to grow up during the golden age of Top 40 AM radio and enjoying the best DJs in the business. We all listened to Bill Randle, Carl Reese, Phil McLean, Johnny Holiday, and of course Alan Freed and Mad Daddy. We exhibited our 'smarts' by pretending to know which hits would be # 1, next week. What my friends didn't know was my inside track with DJ's like Alan Freed coming to my house to go over play lists with my dad Leo who, ...

I was lucky enough to grow up during the golden age of Top 40 AM radio and enjoying the best DJs in the business. We all listened to Bill Randle, Carl Reese, Phil McLean, Johnny Holiday, and of course Alan Freed and Mad Daddy. We exhibited our 'smarts' by pretending to know which hits would be # 1, next week. What my friends didn't know was my inside track with DJ's like Alan Freed coming to my house to go over play lists with my dad Leo who, ...