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...Book is a 75-page-plus compendium of iconographical dos and don'ts assembled over nearly a half-century by Toho Studios, Godzilla's propagator and the cinematic demiurge of the Land of the Rising Saurians. This mishnah of the face and form and spirit of Japan's most popular mutant antihero was solemnly handed to Dean Devlin, 35, and Roland Emmerich, 42, in 1996, almost as soon as the pair signed to produce and direct a new version of the monster classic. "We had to read it before we could write the script," says Devlin. The implicit caution: thou...
URICH: FOR HIRE His is the face that has launched 13 series. And now, actor Robert Urich has once again found gainful employment, starring as Captain Jim Kennedy III un UPN's Love Boat: The Next Wave. Herewith a compendium of the sturdy actor's small-screen shows...
...gritty, hard-core beach-boy in all of us, there's the Del-fi Records web page, home of original "spy-and-surf noir" bands like the El Camino's and The Deuce Coupes, and the only label with "slurpy, reverb-drenched" compilation albums, "each one a transgenerational compendium of prime slime teen sleaze." "Fun, Fun, Fun" never sounded so devious...
...must merit a reading of all his works: not just the poetry, but also plays, lectures, notes, correspondence. The heretofore definitive Opus Posthumous was first published by Knopf two years after Stevens' death in 1955; the most recent edition contains nearly all of the poems found in the new compendium, including those not incorporated in Stevens' volumes. Collected Poetry and Prose assembles seven volumes of poetry released between 1923 and 1955, Stevens' uncollected poems, three plays, several prose pieces, notebooks, journals and letters; Opus Posthumous contains all but these last three. The few additional verses in Collected Poetry and Prose...
...have grown nastier and dug deeper into J.F.K.'s extramarital affairs, his concealed health history, his suspected dealings with mobsters and the ways in which his father's money and connections smoothed his path to the top. All the same, The Dark Side of Camelot is the most unrelenting compendium of accusations against him ever assembled by a prominent writer...