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David E. Kelley : The Man Behind Ally McBeal
by Josh Levine
Paperback - 200 pages (May 1999)

America's luckiest guy? The real story behind the most important man in the lives of Michelle Pfeiffer and Ally McBeal "I love Ally McBeal," says one female fan. "She's gorgeous, she has a great job, men are crazy about her, and she's still unhappy! Well, if Ally can be unhappy then I can be unhappy too."

Is that what the popularity of "Ally McBeal" is about? Misery loves company? Only partly. The dialogue is scintillating, the characters peculiar, the stories -- and not just those fantasy moments -- are creative and surprising. But most of all, "Ally McBeal" is about romance. First-date kisses. Lost chances. Jealous suspicions. Raging desire. Wattle fetishes. As Shakespeare and David E. Kelley know, these are everyone's favorite topics.

How did David Kelley, the man behind "Ally McBeal", become one of the most exciting writer/creator/producers working in television today? How did a young lawyer with almost no writing experience end up scripting some of the best episodes of "L.A. Law"? And go on to create "Picket Fences", "Chicago Hope", and "The Practice"? And then marry Michelle Pfeiffer? And create a female character named Ally who would become so popular, so loved and reviled, that she would end up on the cover of Time?

Depending on which newspaper columnist or public commentator you ask, "Ally McBeal" is either destroying the American feminist movement or revealing the secret hopes and desires of women across the country. In Ally, David Kelley has captured the spirit of our times. And he's having fun doing it, too.

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Basic Studio Directing (Media Manuals Series)
by Rod Fairweather
Paperback - 192 pages (November 1998)

Customer Comments:
A reader , April 5, 1999
Easy to grasp, very down to earth and accurate info about TV I' have worked for years as an Editor and a sought to find some literature that gave me the overall picture about directing in a studio without the pain of filosofical theories. This is it. A good one glance manual that confirmed many of my aquired skills and stimulated me to go further in my career. Thank you Rod for a very fine book.

The Art of the Storyboard : Storyboarding for Film, Tv, and Animation
by John Hart
Paperback - 224 pages (January 1999)

Book Description
This book will show beginners how to use storyboards to communicate their vision to the cinematographer, set designer and special effects supervisor, or to create the skeletal outline around which an animated program is developed, or to plan a multimedia project.
It covers the history and evolution of this craft and discusses the essentials of translating one's vision onto paper., from the rough sketch to the finished storyboard. Illustrations from the author's and other storyboard artists' work illuminate the text throughout.

And on my nightstand ...

A Man in Full
by Tom Wolfe
Hardcover - 727 pages 1 edition (November 6, 1998)

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Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preferences loud and clear. For New Journalism's poster boy, minimalism is a wash, not to mention a failure of nerve. The real mission of the American writer is to produce fat novels of social observation--the sort of thing Balzac would be dishing up if he had made it into the Viagra era. Wolfe's manifesto would have had a hubristic ring if he hadn't actually delivered the goods in 1987 with The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now, more than a decade later, he's back with a second novel. Has the Man in White lived up to his own mission?

On many counts, the answer would have to be yes. Like its predecessor, A Man in Full is a big-canvas work, in which a multitude of characters seems to be ascending or (rapidly) descending the greasy pole of social life: "In an era like this one," a character reminds us, "the twentieth century's fin de siècle, position was everything, and it was the hardest thing to get." Wolfe has changed terrain on us, to be sure. Instead of New York, the focus here is Atlanta, Georgia, where the struggle for turf and power is at least slightly patinated with Deep South gentility. The plot revolves around Charlie Croker, an egomaniacal good ol' boy with a crumbling real-estate empire on his hands. But Wolfe is no less attentive to a pair of supporting players: a downwardly mobile family man, Conrad Hensley, and Roger White II, an African American attorney at a white-shoe firm. What ultimately causes these subplots to converge--and threatens to ignite a racial firestorm in Atlanta--is the alleged rape of a society deb by Georgia Tech football star Fareek "The Cannon" Fanon.

Plumed Serpent (Quetzalcoatl)
by D. H. Lawrence
Paperback - 445 pages Reissue edition (May 1992)

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Book Description
The story of a European woman's self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico. Lawrence's mesmerizing and unsettling 1926 novel is his great work of the political imagination

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