Biographies and memoirs of some of the original reporters from Sixty Minutes, plus a few minutes with Andy Rooney! A personal accounting Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News, includes his dismissal from CBS, the Abu Ghraib story, the George W. Bush Air National Guard controversy, his coverage of the JFK assassination, the origin of “Hurricane Dan” [...]
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Some of the most popular series on PBS and the BBC are often based on hidden classics, books which gain contemporary popularity after the television series. Below Stairs, soon to be re-issued in the US, brilliantly evokes the vanished world of masters and servants portrayed in Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs. Back on the UK bestseller [...]
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The quiz show “Jeopardy” will broadcast the competition between IBM’s “Watson” computing system and the show’s two top contestants, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, on September 12, 13 and 14. Answer your questions about some of the show’s champions with these books! Ken Jennings is one of the show’s greatest champions. Learn more about [...]
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Here’s a more serious look at some of our celebrities. Patricia Bosworth looks at her friend Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman. Exploring the life of the actress, fitness trainer and anti-war activist beyond her controversial public persona, she draws on private records to cover such topics as her complicated relationship with [...]
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You know you want to read about them. They’re pefect for the beach. This summer’s crop of celebrity biographies: Is Denise Richards The Real Girl Next Door? The former model, actress, and reality television star shares her life in a raw, honest, and heartfelt memoir. She’s probably best known for being married to Charlie Sheen [...]
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Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller, the authors of Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, now take on ESPN in Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN. When the network began, it seemed to consist mainly of Australian Rules Football, rodeo, and a rinky-dink clip show [...]
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The library’s recent display of “…for Dummies” books - “Sudoko for Dummies,” “Saints for Dummies,” “Ethics for Dummies” and the like – shouldn’t be confused with this post about dummies – the wooden kind. Dummy Days: America’s Favorite Ventriloquists from Radio and Early TV by Kelly Asbury is an affectionate look back at wise-cracking, insult-hurling dummies like [...]
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The folks who put together the Emmy winning TV show Mad Men have certainly done their homework about all aspects of the 1960s, not just the clothes and drinking and smoking habits. Here are some resources that can help put the show in the context of its times. Mad Men Unbuttoned highlights the Madison Avenue advertising mavens, the role of working women, sex, decor, the [...]
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