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Softcover. Condition: Fair. 164 pages. Front pages is a photo of the 'Happy Days" cast including Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, etc. Articles about All-Time Film Rentals, Las Vegas Nightmare: America As One Big Crap Game; lots of advertisements and pictures. Photo of Richard Barstow caption "makes us confident the circus will be around another 200 years." Back cover has edge chipping- pieces missing, front cover has rubbing, mild soiling. Good to fair overall condition.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the July 1, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/2" by 16" and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: front cover headline article Crucial Summer For Film Biz: H'Wood Future Riding On B.O. by Thomas M. Pryor; Black Talent & Integrated GI Clubs Primed To Ease Army Tensions O'seas by Hazel Guild; West Meets East At 'Myra' [Breckinridge] Bow by Addison Verrill (on the film and Mae West); Berlin's Unfurled Flags: Absences Mark Start, 20th Yr. by Robert F. Hawkins (on the Berlin Film Festival); weekly list 50 Top-Grossing Films; double-page advertisement for the Mike Nichols' film "Catch-22"; one-page Thank You from Robert E. Gottschalk (recipient of The British Society of Cinematographers Annual Award); 'Mr. Audience' Cancels a Web: NBC's [Paul] Klein in Own CATV Setup by Les Brown; Nixon Three-Network Interview For Cambodia Update Seen As New Pitch To Cool Hot-For-TV-Time Democrats; one-page advertisement from the IMC (International Management Company) for 'The Jackson 5' (with their photograph). Pages lightly age-toned; a few tiny edge chips and closed tears to front cover.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June 10, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/2" by 16" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: front cover headline article 'Hands Off Cable Television' [Eugene Rostow]: Bids Webs Quit on Programming; N.Y. Civil Rights Commr. Sounds Off Why No Negroes In Boxoffices, TV, Pix; AIP's [American International Pictures] Status One Year After by A. D. Murphy; three-page advertisement for "Airport" ("$9,510, 729 U.S. GROSS TO DATE! IF YOU HAVEN'T TAKEN OFF WITH 'AIRPORT' NOW IS THE TIME! Come Fly With Us!"); weekly list 50 Top-Grossing Films; full-page advertisement for "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" starring Barbra Streisand and Yves Montand (with her picture); full-page advertisement for "The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker" starring Jordan Christopher ("Too young to be Establishment. Too old to be a hippie"); Robert Aldrich Seeks Outside Capital After ABC Pulls Out Of Three Projects; full-page advertisement for the upcoming Atlanta International Film Festival; full-page advertisement for "Dirtymouth" ("The trials and times of Lenny Bruce"); CATV In The Major Leagues by Larry Michie; TV Webs & Today's 'Soft' Sell: All 3 [CBS, ABC, NBC] Drag Feet on '70-'71 Sales by Bob Knight; two-page thank-you advertisement for "Playboy After Dark" from Hugh Hefner ("THANKS FOR A SWINGING SECOND SEASON!" with full-page photo of Hugh Hefner with a bevy of beauties); Academy's Finest Emmycast, But Too Many Awards & Offish 'Presenters' by Bob Knight (with list of Emmy Winners); column 'And Now A Word From' by Carroll Carroll. Pages lightly age-toned; small chip to upper edge of front cover; a few interior corner creases.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 15, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/4" by 16" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: front cover headline article TV Haven for Film Stars by Les Brown; [Walter] Winchell Memoir Fusing Into Biog by Abel Green; Salute to Moss Hart, Star-Studded, Sentimental - And Best in USC Series by A. D. Murphy; Oracles Edgy, Buffs Scoff: As Old Format Films Big B.O. [Box Office] by Addison Verrill; Saving Nitrate Prints Beyond 'Archives' - Fox Sees Profit-Yielding Buff Playoff by Eric Spilker; weekly list of 50 Top-Grossing Films; full-page advertisement for "Bloody Mama" starring Shelley Winters; full-page advertisement for "The Light at the Edge of the World" starring Kirk Douglas; Blunders with Blunderbuss: NAB [National Association of Broadcasters] Builds Case Against Itself by Les Brown; Five CBS Newsmen File Affidavits On Subpoena Threat to Profession; full-page advertisement for "Norman Rockwell's America"; full-page advertisement from Endorsements International, Ltd. ("Happy anniversary Jules Alberti" with photo of Woody Allen); TV-Radio Production Centres in the U.S. and Abroad; Nudity and Flag 'Desecration' Figure In Appeal Against 'Hair' Foldo in Hub by Guy Livingston; rear cover advertisement from International Management Company ("All New York is saying it's STEVIE WONDER-ful THE MAN"). Condition: pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June 24, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-3/8" by 16" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: front cover headline article TV Makes Like The Big Board: Rush For Shows As 'Securities' by Les Brown; Underground Media End Romance With Disk Cos.: Rap 'Exploitation' by Jeff Samuels (on the Alternative Media Project); Catholic Office [National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures (NCOMP)] Not So Tough On Black Angled-Pix; CBS-Holt's $2,500,000 Guarantees For Mr. & Mrs. L. B. [Lyndon B. and Lady Bird] Johnson's 2 Books by Abel Green; Majors Staff Up For Youth [Market]: Assign Contacts to Cover Field by Eric Spilker; Cracow [Film Festival] - No Lunatic Fringe: Poles' Film Fest Aims Protected by Robert J. Landry; weekly list 50 Top-Grossing Films; two-page advertisement for "Atlas of Sexual Education"; Democrats Get Own 'Series': Webs 'Balance' Nixon Vidcasts by Steve Knoll; [Mike] Dann Vs. Demographic Era: Quits While He's Ahead in Ratings by Les Brown; two-page advertisement for television series "Arnie" starring Herschel Bernardi; 'Guerrilla' Radio In U.S.A.: Underground FM Network? by Jeff Samuels (on the Alternative Media Project); one-page Thank-You advertisement from Sullivan Productions, Inc. ("Wishes To Thank Everyone Who Contributed To The Success Of 'The 5th Dimension Special: An Odyssey In The Cosmic Universe Of Peter Max'"); half-page advertisement for Richman's Follies Burlesque 1970 (with photo); 'Hair' Ruffles Officials In Ind'p'ls: South Bend Nix, Evansville Maybe. Pages lightly age-toned; small light spot to front cover.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the July 8, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/4" by 16" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: 'New' Film Biz Brushes B'way: Legit Sales Dip to 40-Year Low by Frank Segers; Blame It On Wall St. - Vegas Casinos Drop $8,000,000 On Bad Credit Risks; Yanks As Fests' Fair Game: Berlin's 'O.K.' Threatens K.O. by Robert F. Hawkins (on the Berlin Film Festival showing of 'O.K.' - "'O.K.' is about five U.S. soldiers who raped and killed a 15-year-old Vietnamese girl, as detailed in the New York Magazine. This film is reviewed elsewhere in this edition"); Producers Versus Directors: Film Challenge In Poland, Too by Robert J. Landry; weekly list 50 Top-Grossing Films; Fear Strike Wreck Of Writers Guild - Prompts Okay For 'Disappointing' Pact by Dave Kaufman; Berlin Fest Films (reviews of films shown at the Berlin Film Festival); two-page advertisement for "Cotton Comes To Harlem"; full-page advertisement from the Eastman Kodak Company ("film - Show your stuff"); Print Pirates Vex Majors: $2-Mil Booty in U.K. Alone by Jack Pitman; Radio Nation Vs. TV Nation: Two Approaches to July Fourth by Bill Greeley; Image Is Right, And ABC's Sure Now That The [Dick] Cavett Appeal Is For Real by Bob Knight; two-page advertisement from CBS on the upcoming television series "Headmaster" starring Andy Griffith and Jerry Van Dyke; Upstaging TViolence Report: 'Unbiased' Panel to Publish Last by Larry Michie (on the report of the Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior); full-page advertiement for "The [Steve] Allen Show." Pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 22, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/4" by 16" and containing 96 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: Fresh Capital for U.S. Films: Old Firms in Inventory Glut by A. D. Murphy; Times Worst Since McCarthy Era For Investigative News: CBS' [Jay] McMullen by Steve Knoll; Ringling [Bros. and Barnum & Bailey] Circus Shut Out 19 Times By N.Y. Knicks, Rangers: Cost $1,615,000; Porno: An Unknown Payoff: Debate Morals, Cash Fact Blur by Robert J. Landry; Fear U.S. Sexplicit Films Made Tame, Biz Hurt Via 'Pornography in Denmark' by Addison Verrill; MGM Write-Downs & Burn-Ups: 'Zabriskie' [Point] Okay, Not Its Budget; weekly list of 50 Top-Grossing Films; full-page advertisement for "The Sicilian Clan"; full-page advertisement for "Norwood" ("Introducing Joe Namath"); full-page advertisement for Reeves Production Services ("Reeves Mixed it. 'Midnight Cowboy' - Winner of three Academy Awards"); full-page advertisement for "Black is Beautiful: Africanus Sexualis" ("Rated XXX"); FCC's [Federal Communications Commission] Primetime Pipe Dream: Stations Have 'A Better Idea' by Les Brown; MIP-TV's 'Cannes You Top This?': 1,875 Miles of Film Unspooled by Harold Myers; 'Liberation' Women Explode at CBS Meet in Frisco, Finally Get Bounced; full-page advertisement for 'The Flying Nun' starring Sally Field; British Disk Biz's New Trend: Studio Groups Invade Charts by Andrew Bailey; Ringling [Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus] on Int'l High Wire: Four Shows - One for O'Seas Tour by Joe Cohen; The Circus on a 5-Foot Shelf by Leonard Traube ("Turning back in time for a reappraisal of Significant Circus Books from a personal collection, presented in eight displays ranging from Barnum's 'Struggles and Triumphs' to Cooper's 'Circus Day'"); numerous advertising spots commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Condition: pages lightly age-toned; light front cover soil; clear tape repair to front cover tear; the lower edges of several interior pages show periodic tiny chips and tiny closed tears (all to blank margins only).

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 1, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/4" by 16" and containing 96 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: cover headline article Lauren [Bacall] & Kate [Katharine Hepburn] Reap Big Loot: 'Applause' Like 'Coco,' N.Y. Hypo by Abel Green; Sexpix Simplified: They Pay - Wilsons Hate All But Profit by Addison Verrill (on Rex and Chelly Wilson); Theatre Theft Constant: M. [Mickey] Gitlin [of Continental Protective Services] - Don't Trust Relatives by Gene Arneel; full-page "50 Top-Grossing Films [Week Ending March 25]"; double-page ad for "Airport: A Ross Hunter Production" ("Radio City Music Hall - $939,391 First 25 Days!"); Jack Vizzard's 'See No Evil': Or, Inside Hollywood's Own Censorship by Thomas M. Pryor; full-page ad for motion picture "Loving"; Charge Webs Censor Dissent: Double Standard for Free Speech by Bill Greeley; double-page photo advertisement for "The Flying Nun" starring Sally Field ("The only way to fly"); full-page advertisement for television's "Here Comes The Brides"; full-page ad for television's "Get Smart"; full-page advertisement for the upcoming ABC-TV special "The MAD MAD MAD COMEDIANS"; full-page advertisement for Jeanne Steel (with photo of Jeanne Steel and Ed Sullivan). Condition: pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 8, 1970 issue of "Variety" edited by Abel Green and published by Variety, Inc. out of New York City. A large newsprint magazine for the trade measuring 11-1/4" by 16" and containing 128 pages including front and rear covers. Containing hundreds of news items and numerous short articles on all aspects of the entertainment industry, contents include: cover headline article Swap Talk as TV Shop-Talk: Also the Usual D.C. Double-Talk by Les Brown (on the recent National Association of Broadcasters convention); Unlike JFK or LBJ, Pres. Nixon Pays No Expenses for 'Command' Shows by Addison Verrill; Black Artists Do Own Disk Thing by Jeff Samuels; MGM Thinks Young and Big: 18-25 Features a Year as Goal by Addison Verrill; weekly "50 Top-Grossing Films"; Justice Backed Down On 'Race': Film Colony Sees Experience Roster Untouched After Brief Acceptance of Minority 'Trainees'; two-page advertisement for the film "Borsalino"; one-page advertisement for "MASH"; Angles on Going Public for Film Star [Steve] McQueen, Who Lives 'Dangerously' by A. D. Murphy; one-page "An Open Letter to the Film Industry" from Alfred Nichtenhauser of Cinetex Industries, Ltd. ("[W]e feel that any attack upon the MPAA cannot serve the industry, but merely weaken it"); Nixon's [Herbert] Klein 'Reviews' Webs by Larry Michie; full-page ad for "Something Else" starring John Byner; Global TV's Spring Offensive by Harold Myers ("From Chicago to Cannes, Broadcasters and Producers Are On the Move - An Overview of The Trends and Problems With the Emphasis on Programming as the '70s Decade Unfolds"); Politics Buffeting RAI-TV: B'Cast Monopoly is Threatened by Hank Werba (on Radio Telvisione Italiana); four-page advertisement for RAI-TV (Italian Broadcasting Corporation); full-page advertisement for "The Adventures of Pinocchio"; Whither Television In Britain by Jack Pitman; full-page advertisement for Polytel International Ltd.; full-page ad from intertel ("We British want to see the colour of your money"); Radio & TV Major Concerns In USSR: May Be No. 1 Operation In The World by Vladimir Pozner; full-page advertisement for Telesistema Mexicano; full-page advertisement for The 1969-1970 Tony Awards Telecast (with Hosts Julie Andrews, Walter Matthau, and Shirley MacLaine); full-page advertisement for Judy Carne ("Opening on Broadway - April 14th, in 'The Boyfriend'"). Condition: pages lightly age-toned; short closed edge tear to lower edge of front cover; lower right corners of several pages lightly creased.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Folio, perfect bound magazine, full color throughout this most canonical of Hollywood publications. Includes "Horray for Jazz" by Mel Torme, "Pussycat that was a Tiger" by Allen Rivkin about the Writers Guild which he helped found, and many others. Also includes the spectacular inserted 36-page advertisement for Empire International films, which made some great B-movies. Posters for the films; some made (like "Troll", an underground classic), and Decapitron which, although never produced, the concept made its way into the Puppetmaster franchise. This advert was made during the height of Empire International, when all things were looking up. Ghoulies was a box-office hit at the time, and it would be a couple of years before they released "Space Sluts in the Slammer" which as you can imagine was in their final death throes.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. ; Half title page inscribed by contributors Joan and Syd Silverman to Ted Spiegel. From the personal collection of notable photojournalist Ted Spiegel, known for his work with National Geographic and his portrait of John F. Kennedy. ; Signed by Contributor.