On This Day in Comedy is not just an encyclopedia, but a celebration of comedy. In humorous prose the book takes readers through the often-neglected subcultures of comedy in America, acknowledging the inclusiveness of the performers as well as shows and films that made this art form so vital to comics of all backgrounds. It’s artistically criminal that a search for Native American or Asian comedy information yields a virtually blank slate. Look for Middle Eastern comics and you’ll be provided information on the region's comic book revolution, and search results for Latin comedy are confined to a series of outdated articles. This encyclopedia will offer rare and in some cases never-before-seen photos and obscure facts, making it an indispensable comedy essential.

This Day In Comedy: The Ethnic Encyclopedia of Laughter

Humor & Entertainment

Littleton, Darryl

Holder, Frank

Humor

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Hide Your Love Away: An Intimate Story of Brian Epstein as told by Larry Stanton

While Brian Epstein was basking in the attainment of fame with the Beatles and traveling worldwide, he also was struggling with a concealed darker side of life. The artists he managed had no knowledge of the demons Brian hid within, but due to a chance meeting, Larry Stanton became a mutual confidant. Hide Your Love Away takes place during the sixties music revolution with Brian in the forefront of historical changes and both in the midst of Hollywood and British luminaries. Notorious London gangsters and music moguls who played in the demise of the internationally recognized manager are disclosed. Hide Your Love Away narrates the details of Brian and Larry's four-year close and personal relationship and the introduction of a young manipulative man who became the toxic lover may be responsible for Brian's early death. Hide Your Love Away shares Brian and Larry's quest for true love and supportive companionship when the laws in England and the U.S. kept gay men and women locked in the closet.

Biographies & Memoirs

Bragg-Marcelli, Robin

Marcelli, Rick

Arts & Literature

With the help of University of Oregon professors, as well as professors from CU Boulder and University of Cincinnati, this book ties together the author's personal experiences and interviews of members of the New Hollywood and those that influenced them, such as the Merry Pranksters and their film crew, Poetic Cinema Filmmakers, still living members of the Beat Generation, and through academic articles and books, from Plato to Yeats and the time's literary theory deconstructionists, answers the question of what created them.

Echoes From The Set Volume II (1967- 1977) Shadows From the Underground: Cinema Under the Influence

Arts & Photography

Wilson, Katherine

Photography & Video

Fly By Night: The Secret Story of Steven Spielberg, Warner Bros, and the Twilight Zone Deaths

Not for thirty years could this amazing Hollywood story be told. It began as a contest between two top young Hollywood directors. Who could make the best movie and the cheapest? Confident he would beat Steven Spielberg, John Landis gleefully named his venture "Fly by Night." He even had the words painted on the nose of the helicopter. It was a joke - until the helicopter crashed, killing actor Vic Morrow, and two children who had been hired illegally. The crash occurred on the set of the Steven Spielberg/ John Landis coproduction of Twilight Zone: The Movie. The movie was made by Warner Bros. The question now became who is responsible. Steven Spielberg? John Landis? Or Warner? The internal conflict sparked by this question ended in a massive cover-up in which top studio executives and the highest paid L.A. lawyers joined to conceal evidence and create an illusion far more potent than anything that Hollywood conveyed on the screen. Only the unprecedented access to confidential sources within the studios - and to the private world of Steven Spielberg and John Landis, as well as to the DA's office, the sheriff's office, Interpol, and the FBI - enabled the author to penetrate the illusion Hollywood created to the ultimate end of protecting Warner Bros. and Steven Spielberg. Fly by Night is the real-life story of death and greed in the Twilight Zone. It reveals how a major studio, eager for "Spielberg product" gave a free hand to John Landis, Spielberg's partner and friend, even though this young director was known from Blue's Brothers for the economically unsound practices involving stunts and special effects. It tells the story of the cover-up which began with the erasure of the legend that read like a confession from the nose of the helicopter mere hours after the crash, never to be heard again in all of the five years of testimony and trial. It relates how real-life Century City's sharpest legal minds hatched a $5-million-dollar plan to keep John Landis out of jail and Steven Spielberg out of the headlines. It discloses the exclusive confessions of John Landis' private secretary, formerly Alfred Hitchcock's, who took streams of phone calls from famous people on the day of the crash and afterwards witnessed an incredible series of suspicious events in the office. Fly by Night tells the never-before-told story of the "hush" money Warner Bros. paid in its bizarre settlement with Vic Morrow's daughters. And it tells the story of James Neal of Watergate fame, the swashbuckling $5,000-a-day attorney from Nashville, who led a team of crack L.A. law firms to an unbelievable acquittal by a jury that like everyone else in this amazing true tale of the Twilight Zone, had fallen under the spell of Hollywood. Despite a 5-year battle in the courts, and a 10-month long trial, the true story of what really happened on the Twilight Zone set has never been told. Newly uncovered internal documents from Warner Bros. - 30 years later - allow the complete story to be told. It's a story of strange events and of a strange Hollywood period with a cast of characters ranging from Jamie Lee Curtis to Dan Rather; from the Hollywood of Chevy Chase, George Lucas, Dan Akroyd, and Carey Fisher to the Hollywood of John Huston, Jackie Cooper, Ralph Belamey, and Don Ameche, both the old and the new Hollywood found themselves party to this unprecedented event where the first time in Hollywood history, actors died on a movie set.

Chain, Steven

Movies

Fly By Night is about the helicopter crash on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie&nbsp;- the Warner Bros. film co-produced by Steven Spielberg and John Landis - that killed actor Vic Morrow, and two children who had been hired illegally. Confidential sources in the studios and in the private worlds of Spielberg and Landis - and in the DA's office, the sheriff's office, Interpol and the FBI - and newly uncovered internal Warner Bros. documents - let the author show the cover-up that ensued, a $5-million-dollar scheme to keep Landis out of jail and Spielberg out of the headlines, resulting in an unbelievable acquittal by a jury that had fallen under the spell of Hollywood. From John Huston, Jackie Cooper, Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche to Chevy Chase, George Lucas, Dan Aykroyd and Carrie Fisher, both old and new Hollywood found themselves party to this unprecedented event.

About the Author Robin Bragg-Marcelli has forty-five years in management experience at University of California, Los Angeles that included management of five UCLA Extension campuses. She was VP-NoHoWest NC, EMT trained, Ambassador-City of Santa Monica, a volunteer Battalion 14 Coordinator with LAFD-CERT (16 yrs.), LAPD, FBI-LACAAA, FBI-InfraGard-L.A., and certified in Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Rick Marcelli has fifty-seven years in show business covering every area in the Entertainment world from Personal Management to Producing. He was Executive Producer for TV Shows on FOX network, ITV, BBC in England, New Zealand, and with Dick Clark Productions, and Director of development for CBS, William Self Productions. He is a member of the Producers Guild and Television Academy, and also a volunteer with LAPD, FBI-LACAAA, and FBI-InfraGard-L.A. He is author of a book entitled Smoke & Mirrors that has sold over 2000 copies. Larry Stanton was born in 1937 and raised in Southern California. He served in the military having joined the Air Force, and then Reprise Records signed him to a recording contract in his early twenties. He was an entertainer, a studio engineer, a mastering engineer, a personal manager, and a record producer for twenty years. He had a successful career outside of the entertainment industry, and continues living in Southern California. Product Description Did a “toxic lover” kill Brian Epstein?American Larry Stanton had a four-year relationship with Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles, when being gay was a dangerous secret that could ruin lives and careers. Larry saw the inner demons that tortured Brian as he partied underground with London gangsters and music moguls who likely played a part in Brian’s demise. Worse, Larry introduced Brian to a manipulative young man – a toxic lover – who may have been responsible for Brian's death. This true-life story is finally told. This paperback version (revised and expanded) has a new Preface, more and better pictures, more info, and a larger font and better margins and spacing for easier reading.

Nothing Dies For Film

Computers & Technology

Wallenstein, Joe

Networking & Cloud Computing

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