This volume contains the complete screenplay as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how the Oscar-winning movie was made, by one of its writers, Howard Koch. Charles Champlin, Roger Ebert, Umberto Eco, and others contribute incisive analyses of the movie's timeless appeal, and twenty-five beautifully reproduced stills capture the dramatically charged scenes of this true American classic.

    From The Birth of a Nation--the groundbreaking work of independent filmmaker Oscar Micheaux--and Gone with the Wind to the latest work by Spike Lee, John Singleton, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry and Will Smith, Donald Bogle reveals the ways in which the depiction of blacks in American movies has changed--and the shocking ways in which it has remained the same.

    Fully illustrated with great photographs.

    Our Broadway Vocal Selections book features a dozen fantastic songs from this Kander and Ebb blockbuster: All I Care About * And All That Jazz * Class * Funny Honey * A Little Bit of Good * Me and My Baby * Mister Cellophane * My Own Best Friend * Nowadays * Razzle Dazzle * Roxie * When You're Good to Mama.

    A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority.Into this maelstrom came a working class, Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a taste for opera and ballet. Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced—or bought—and he refused to go along with the system. He had sworn an oath to uphold the law, even if the perpetrators happened to be other cops. For this unwavering commitment to justice, Serpico nearly paid with his life.

    The motion pictures of that era, stumbling perhaps across a new poetics, projected gorgeous fantasies which soared beyond the plots and elaborate sets, even beyond the luminous glamour of the stars. Once on film, subjects have a beguiling sense of drifting through space as through painted by a casual barely visible presence. And in truth, the visual intelligence behind these films was often one of genius; genius which could dream and still control a new technology.

    Taking in the sights of Jamaica before returning to Pinewood Studios, Moore’s razor wit and unique brand of humour is ever present. With tales from every location, including his encounters with his co-stars and key crew members, Moore offers the reader an unusually candid, amusing and hugely insightful behind-the-scenes look into the world’s most successful film franchise.

    Before Ozzie knew it, his band was in such demand that people were willing to pay them an incredible $10 per night.From then on, it was only up for Ozzie as he divided his free time at Rutgers University between football and music. Finally, music won out over the gridiron and within five years of his college graduation, he was the leader of one of the big bands of the 1930’s and an established radio personality. During this period he met Harriet Hilliard, who became his partner and, of course, his wife. Together, they won millions of radio fans when they joined Red Skelton on the highly popular “Raleigh Cigarette Hour.” In 1944, “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” was first broadcast, and ran on radio and television for a total of 22 years, a show business record of almost legendary proportions! And Ozzie’s career did not end there - he returned to the stage in plays such as The Impossible Years, State Fair and The Marriage-Go-Round, and this fall he will be back on television with a new series, “Ozzie’s Girls.”OZZIE is more than Ozzie’s success story and more than a family album of Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky. It is also a nostalgic evocation of one of the most glamorous eras of show business; the Nelsons worked with virtually every big name in entertainment from Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra to Tallulah Bankhead and Charles Laughton.Ozzie’s story, enriched by a wealth of amusing anecdotes, is a truly memorable one. It presents a genuinely nice man who writes with such warmth and unaffected charm that we end by liking the man just as much as his entertaining story.

    

    

    'From time to time, I have been asked whether, in fact, I was born barmy.' To answer this, and other pressing questions, Beatrice Lillie has composed these memoirs.With the irrepressible wit and disarming candour that have endeared her to hundreds of thousands of fans, she recounts the ups and downs of her life: her childhood in Toronto; her early success in London in Andre Charlot's revues; her marriage to Sir Robert Peel and the tragic loss of her only son during World War II; her widely acclaimed reputation as 'the funniest woman in the world'.And here, in a series of delightful anecdotes, are some of her friends, acquaintances, and co-workers: Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Michael Arlen, Julie Andrews, Fanny Brice, Charlie Chaplin, Ethel Barrymore, Helen Hayes, the Prince of Wales, Elsa Maxwell ('whom I regarded as 39 of my most intimate friends'), and too many more to drop here.Hilarious, informative and surprisingly touching, this book reflects all the varied facets of Beatrice Lillie, a uniquely talented and universally admired woman.