Sixteen performance artists discuss human sexuality, racism, sexism, and the ways in which art can be used to break down taboos and dogma.

    How could it lose? But instead Salamon got a front-row seat at the Hollywood disaster of the decade. She shadowed the film from its early stages through the last of the eviscerating reviews, and met everyone from the actors to the technicians to the studio executives. They'd all signed on for a blockbuster, but there was a sense of impending doom from the start--heart-of-gold characters replaced Wolfe's satiric creations; affable Tom Hanks was cast as the patrician heel; Melanie Griffith appeared mid-shoot with new, bigger breasts. With a keen eye and ear, Salamon shows us how the best of intentions turned into a legendary Hollywood debacle.The Devil's Candy joins John Gregory Dunne's The Studio, Steven Bach's Final Cut, and William Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade as a classic for anyone interested in the workings of Hollywood. With a new afterword profiling De Palma ten years after the movie's devastating flop (and this book's best-selling publication), Julie Salamon has created a riveting insider's portrait of an industry where art, talent, ego, and money combine and clash on a monumental scale.

    This book consists of magazine and newspaper articles, interviews, record reviews, excerpts from books, and other material related to the history of The Doors, to whose memory it is dedicated.

    First flight of the eagle2. Betrayed by Agent X3. Battleground: Paris4. Angels of Death, Angels of HopeRestoring Captain America to his original glory this four-part story details, and in some ways revises, the origin of Cap and chronicles his early days fighting in World War II.Beginning with a gangly Steve Rogers at the movies with friends, riveted by newsreels of the encroaching Nazi forces in Europe. Rogers signs up for the Army afterwards, so strongly does he react, but unfortunately he is deemed unfit for service. Luckily a top scientist and a general taps him for 'greater things' - a clandestine project, Operation: Rebirth.Making it through the testing program on sheer will alone he ultimately receives a treatment which turns him into a "Super Soldier." But will a Nazi assassin ensure that he'll survive the process?!If he can Rogers will have to try and fit in an Army where his identity must be concealed. There he'll meet James Buchanan Barnes, a.k.a. Bucky, a wisecracking teen who lied to get into the army. And Cap's fledgling attempts at "heroing" may send him winging his way to France, then Germany, where he'll come face-to-face with his arch-foe -The Red Skull- for the first time.Meant to capture the flavor of a 1940's serial in this series readers get to see a Captain America before he become the self-assured adventurer and leader of the Avengers. With supporting characters Bucky, Chester Phillips, Harmon Furmintz, Sgt. Duffy, Cynthia Glass plus a host of villains - Blitzkrieg, Master Man and of course Adolf Hitler.

    Ladd follows the birth, blazing success, and tragic demise of FM free-form radio.

    Immensely entertaining, endlessly informative, and filled with fascinating facts and figures on the biggest hits right up to 2007, this is the ultimate music trivia book. Separate chapters are devoted to artists, songwriters, producers, labels, years, and subjects. Within each chapter, readers will find fun-to-read, fun-to-share lists in 300 categories, including The Top 100 Love Songs, The Top 50 Songs Written by Carole King, The Top 100 Songs on Atlantic, The Top 100 Songs of 1999, and many more. A revised and updated list of The Top 5,000 Songs of the Rock Era, plus a chart and text section devoted to American Idol finalists, make this book so hot it's cool.

    A revised edition which includes the most recent films of the cultural phenomenon known as Merchant Ivory: Howard's End, The Remains of the Day, Jefferson in Paris, Surviving Picasso and The Proprietor, as well as a discussion of their future projects.

    125 woodcuts.

    Surprisingly, one of Marilyn's closest friends during the last eight years of her life was teenager James Haspiel, who is now considered one of the foremost experts on the life of this mysterious goddess. 145 photographs, 20 in color.

    Laid out like a zine, with a half dozen short blurbs and bizarre illustrations on each page, the Catalog covers everything from Abbot and Costello to yo-yos, and does so with the right mix of reverence and amusement. If you're looking for a GI Joe video, an old-fashioned wall-mounted soda pop bottle opener, an explanation of 3-D movie technology, or an Ed Norton doll, you must have this tacky volume.

    An introduction to the theology of art and the art of theology.

    "This is a book that makes me want to don a gorilla suit and rip apart a blonde with my bare claws. It's a true history of my artistic idols: the mad doctors and maniacal magicians who toured with live midnight fright shows, and scared the bejeezus out of hormone-pumped teenagers on dates. In my opinion, an absolute must-read for horror and magic fans." --Teller of Penn & Teller

    O'Meally has written that book," says Entertainment Weekly about this absorbing and authoritative account of the greatest jazz singer in history. O'Meally emphasizes Holiday's artistry and training rather than her personal miseries, and he uses voluminous archival material to correct common myths about Holiday. Chronicling her rigorous musical apprenticeship in Baltimore, her reception in New York by Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington, and her work with various musicians, particularly Lester Young, Lady Day is an impassioned testament to Holiday's genius that confirms her place in American jazz.

    Blending the richly intellectual with the sensational, Angels & Aliens gives a uniquely contemporary twist to the world of visionary experience. "In a brilliant stroke, Keith Thompson takes a subject usually confined to sensationalistic expose & reveals its surprising literary richness, intellectual energy & symbolic depths. By offering a new, open-ended perspective which avoids the dogmatism of true believers & debunkers alike, Angels & Aliens invites readers to enter a fascinating world with profound implications for our understanding of the human spirit."—- Addison Wesley Publishing "Probably the most profound book on the UFO controversy yet to appear...Thompson chronicles the unfolding UFO story, from flying saucer sightings in 1947 to the millennial mythologizing they've stimulated ever since...Prepare to imagine the unimaginable."—Venture World (VA) "Thompson thinks neither the UFO debunkers nor the UFO buffs are asking the right questions. As a consequence, the phenomenon remains suspended in a sort of scientific & theological limbo."—Utne Reader