This Memoir is written through the eyes, interviews, research and experiences of the author. It is a gift to his family; a verification of genetic history once lost, now found, resulting in discovery that had no memory, and memories that made a 70-year reunion possible. It is also a story for all, starting within this family and its consistent success in the professions that helped corroborate the passion and need to communicate. From printers, writers and publishers to vaudevillians and H...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The legendary Hollywood star of classic films and TV shows such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bye Bye Birdie, and Mary Poppins shares intimate stories from six decades of his renowned career.“Earnest, funny, and appealing . . . captures the essence of an eventful life lived on and off the small screen.”—The Washington PostWith a foreword by Carl ReinerDick...

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYJanet Maslin, The New York Times • People • VogueONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFinancial Times • Chicago Sun-Times •The Independent • Bookreporter •The Sunday Business PostMom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THI...

"I reread Betty White in Person and I was fascinated, naturally―because it was about ME. But I was also intrigued by my perspective of TV twenty-five years ago, little dreaming that this old broad would still be hanging around and still be in the same business, and talking about an electronic edition of this book!” This is the first book Betty White wrote by herself, and was written during the second season of "The Golden Girls." She shares about the people she had been closest to...

You think I’m overdressed? This is my slip!No, I’m going to tell you the truth about what I’m wearing.I used to work as a lampshade in a whorehouse.I couldn’t get one of the good jobs.From housewife to humorist, Phyllis Diller made millions laugh for over five decades with her groundbreaking comedy. Boasting unique material, a raucous laugh, wild hair, the ...

Show-business legend Dick Van Dyke is living proof that life does get better the longer you live it. Who better to offer instruction, advice, and humor than someone who's entering his ninth decade with a jaunty two-step? Van Dyke isn't just a born song-and-dance man; his irrepressible belief in embracing the moment and unleashing his inner child has proved to be the ultimate elixir of youth. When he was injured during the filming of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, his doctor warned him h...

The current generation of actors may be great and talented, but there will always be a place in everyone's hearts for the actors of the past. These are the people that, during the 1900's, redefined the movies that we see today. From what was once a small silent movie attraction, they helped turn it into a thriving business that now generates billions of dollars every year. Compiled and edited with a working table of contents, this collection of quotes contains 1,100 quote...

Winner of the Anne M. Sperber PrizeA spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time.After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch-22 and Th...

From 1959 to 1964, a chilling new anthology series held audiences captive with tales of horror, delight, and mystery. Rod Serling changed the face of television with The Twilight Zone, a groundbreaking series that enticed viewers to tap into the wonders of a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. When they accepted that cryptic invitation, viewers found themselves in The Twilight Zone. Now, one of those minds transported to strange new worlds extends his invitation ...

Together in one volume for the first time: The harrowing #1 New York Times bestseller with a new introduction, and its triumphant sequel.This volume includes two memoirs by Christina Crawford, recounting the abuse she endured as a child and her journey to recovery as an adult.Mommie Dearest: An unprecedented memoir of child abuse, Mommie Dearest also chipped away at the façade of Christina Crawford's alcoholic abuser: her adoptive...

Despite her many years of offering relationship advice as a syndicated columnist-not to mention her pedigree as the daughter of the woman the world revered as Ann Landers- Margo Howard had to walk down the aisle four times before getting it right.Now the outspoken and witty Howard shares the sometimes rueful, always optimistic story of her adventures in pursuit of the perfect mate. Eat Drink and Remarry is the candid, funny no-holds-barred memoir of Howard's enduring belie...

The seventies were a decade of groundbreaking horror films: The Exorcist, Carrie, and Halloween were three. This detailed filmography covers these and 225 more. Section One provides an introduction and a brief history of the decade.Beginning with 1970 and proceeding chronologically by year of its release in the United States, Section Two offers an entry for each film. Each entry includes several categories of information: Critical Reception (sampling both '70s and...