Best of
Pop-Culture

1989

The Heart Of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made


Dave Marsh - 1989
    The illuminating essays—complete with music history, social commentary, and personal appraisals—double as a mini-history of popular music. Here you will find singles by artists as wide-ranging as Aretha Franklin, George Jones, Roy Orbison, the Sex Pistols, Madonna, Run-D.M.C., and Van Halen. Featuring a new preface that covers the hits—and misses—of the '90s, The Heart of Rock & Soul remains as provocative, passionate, and timeless as the music it praises.

The Bruce Lee Story


Linda Lee - 1989
    Here is the complete story of the great martial artist/actor Bruce Lee, told with great personal insight by Linda Lee with hundreds of photos from Lee's personal albums.

Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century


Greil Marcus - 1989
    Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself. Hip, metaphorical and allusive...--Gail Caldwell, Boston Sunday Globe. Full-color illustrations and halftones.

The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American '80s


Paul Slansky - 1989
    A political humorist's caustically hilarious month-by-month archive of the 1980s includes memorable photographs, newspaper headlines, press clippings, pop quizzes, outrageous quotes, bizarre facts, and implausible yet true events.

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons


Jerry Beck - 1989
    cartoons but were afraid to ask, this complete and indispensable reference will delight adults, children, and audiences all over the world.

Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children


Dave Louapre - 1989
    Absurd and touching, poignant and discomforting, each story is about the search for happiness, and the sometimes extreme measures taken to find it. Despite their lyricism, each story mines a very particular vein of black humor. Originally published by Pirahna Press from 1989 to 1992 in the form of 30 single-issue comics and three graphic novels. BOOM Studios was to republish issues #1-5 as a trade paperback in 2008; this book has since been cancelled.

The History of Animation: Enchanted Drawings


Charles Solomon - 1989
    Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." This elegant, richly illustrated book tells the story of animation from its 18th-century beginnings as a magic lantern show (a box with a lamp and a mirror) to the creation of Jurassic Park and The Lion King.

The Making Of Tintin: Mission To The Moon


Benoît Peeters - 1989
    

Pinhead's Progress


Bill Griffith - 1989
    A collection of 402 new Zippy strips, including: Zippy's 1988 presidential campaign with vice presidential running mate Leona Helmsley; the search for the Sergeant Bilko Cult in Tibet; the latest on Sonny Bono's mayoral election; and more.

The Complete Avengers: The Full Story of Britain's Smash Crime-Fighting Team!


Dave Rogers - 1989
    Peel. The Avengers' world was always full of upper-class derring-do, a place of distinctly elegant high jinks-all portrayed with tongue firmly in cheek.Now, television historian Dave Rogers has assembled into one volume the complete history of this long-running program, from the early episodes featuring Ian Hendry, through the glory days of Diana Rigg, to The New Avengers-and beyond. Drawing on extensive interviews with such Avengers cast members as Linda Thorson ("Tara King"), Patrick Newell ("Mother"), Honor Blackman ("Cathy Gale"), and, of course, Patrick Macnee-plus several of the show's writers-this volume provides:-An overview of the series-A complete, show-by-show episode guide-A comprehensive collectors' guide to Avengers memorabilia-More than 200 photographs of England's classiest crime fighters-And an introduction by Avengers producer Brian Clemens.So kick back, uncork a bottle of vintage '28, and relive the dashing adventures of England's high-class heroes!

Woodstock: The Oral History


Joel Makower - 1989
    In 1969 four young men-two budding entrepreneurs who really wanted to write sitcoms, a former head shop proprietor turned rock band manager, and a record company executive who smoked hash in his office-had a dream: to produce the greatest rock concert ever held. Little did they know how enormous a reality their dream would become. Woodstock is the fascinating story of how it all came together-and almost fell apart-told exclusively in the voices of the men and women who made it happen. It shares the adventures of a ragtag bunch of businessmen and bohemians, of hippies, hucksters, handymen, and hangers-on, working against all odds to unite a generation for one wild, glorious weekend in August 1969. You'll get behind-the-scenes stories from such people as David Crosby, Abbie Hoffman, Miriam Yasgur (who, along with her husband, Max, owned the land on which the festival was held), Richie Havens, Wavy Gravy, Paul Kantner, Chip Monck, and a host of others. This special 40th anniversary edition features a new foreword by Michael Lang and Joel Rosenman, two of the original coproducers of Woodstock, as well as updated information on the people who made the music festival happen.

Harry and Wally's Favorite TV Shows: A Fact-Filled Opinionated Guide to the Best and Worst TV Series That Turn Up Everyday on Your Home Screen


Harry Castleman - 1989
    Covering 40 years of TV series, this book concentrates on what is likely to be on today in prime time, including network, cable, and local independent programming.

The Complete Gone with the Wind Trivia Book


Pauline Bartel - 1989
    Related in loving detail are inside stories of the writing and publishing of the novel; the Hollywood frenzy of transforming the book into film, including casting headaches, on-set tensions, and jinxed scenes; the premiere; and the Academy Awards. This updated edition also contains the scoop on the publication of two GWTW sequels; the disastrous debut of the Scarlett television miniseries; the post GWTW lives of cast members, such as the news of Gable s secret lovechild; the restoration of three original costumes in time for GWTW s seventy-fifth anniversary; and much, much more. The reader-friendly format fact-packed features, profiles, quizzes, and photographs will delight any GWTW fan and make this the one book that no Windie can do without."

The Hustons


Lawrence Grobel - 1989
    From Walter to John to Anjelica, there are three generations of Oscar winners in the remarkable Huston family.