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Synopsis
This book focuses on 25 memorable film moments. Each story is filled with firsthand insights & entertaining behind-the-scenes anecdotes, & numerous sidebars reveal 100s of other movie moments, plus over 200 star-filled photos. The accompanying DVD, hosted by Dustin Hoffman, contains the actual scenes from 25 films: The Wizard of Oz; Casablanca; On the Waterfront; Some Like It Hot; Psycho; The Graduate; Five Easy Pieces; Dirty Harry; The Exorcist; The Godfather Part II; Jaws; Rocky; National Lampoon's Animal House; Alien; Raiders of the Lost Ark; E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial; Wall Street; When Harry Met Sally; Field of Dreams; Thelma & Louise; Pulp Fiction; There's Something About Mary; Cast Away; & The Lord of the Rings.
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About the Author
Joe Garner, a pioneer in multimedia publishing, is the author of Stay Tuned: Television's Unforgettable Moments. Joe also wrote the New York Times best-sellers We Interrupt This Broadcast, And The Crowd Goes Wild, and And the Fans Roared, as well as Echoes of Notre Dame Football. Each of these multimedia compilations includes the actual landmark broadcasts that indelibly etched these moments in readers' imaginations. Joe is a 20-year radio-broadcast veteran and the president of Garner Creative Concepts Inc. in Los Angeles. He's a frequent guest on radio and national television shows, including the Today show and Larry King Live. Garner's books are also best-sellers in Publishers Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.
From Publishers Weekly
Multimedia book expert Garner (Stay Tuned; And the Crowd Goes Wild; We Interrupt This Broadcast, etc.) turns his eye from TV and radio to film in his latest "best of" compilation. Garner admits up front that certain studios prohibited him from using films for this book, so his list of the silver screen's 25 "unforgettable moments" is necessarily limited. Nonetheless, it's a fine assemblage of memorable movies. Beginning with 1939's The Wizard of Oz and ending with 2001 and 2002's Lord of the Rings movies, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, Garner shares a few film stills and discusses the cast, crew and filming specifics. For example, in the chapter on Field of Dreams, Garner details the difficulty of finding the right location for shooting and in Some Like It Hot he explains that Tony Curtis's famous, mid-seduction leg lift was designed to avoid the ire of Hollywood censors. Though hardly comprehensive, this is still a fun look at American cinema's evolution, complete with a DVD featuring commentary from Dustin Hoffman.
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0756793335
- ISBN 13 9780756793333
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages160
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