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All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader
by Yona Zeldis McDonough (Editor)
Listed under Marilyn Monroe

Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
by William Goldman
Paperback: Warner Books
ISBN: 0446391174; Reissue edition (May 1989)

Billy
by Pamela Stephenson
Hardcover from Overlook Press

Bravemouth: Living with Billy Connolly
Pamela Stephenson
Synopsis: Mrs Billy Connolly's tale of a more-than-usually extraordinary year in the life of living with her husband offers an insider's view of his filming, his charity works, his 60th birthday party, the TV and includes personal insight into what makes him tick, and what makes her tick (it's her year too). It's a celebration but it's interspersed with serious reflection - both on what he does and what she does (the contrast between the inherent seriousness of what she does, compared to the zaniness of what he does). The nature of fame, the challenges of age, the triumph-over-adversity are all themes underlying the many anecdotes collected in this book.

The Art of the Fellowship of the Ring
by Gary Russell
Listed under Tolkien

Cancer Schmancer
by Fran Drescher
Hardcover: 260 pages
Warner Books; ISBN: 0446530190;

Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry
by Elizabeth Taylor
Listed under Elizabeth Taylor
 

	Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox (Hardcover -- April )

Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies
by Jami Bernard
Paperback: 272 pages
Harperperennial Library; ISBN: 0060951613;

If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
by Bruce Campbell, et al
(Hardcover -- June )

Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
by Robert Rodriguez
How Robert Rodriguez made his groundbreaking film El Mariachi on a shoestring budget. Db
(Paperback -- September )
 

	The Hollywood Book of Death : The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols by James Robert Parish Paperback: 416 pages Contemporary Books; ISBN: 0809222272; (October 29, )

	The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune by Stuart Galbraith IV (Hardcover -- February )

Russell Crowe: The Unauthorized Biography
by James L. Dickerson
Listed under Russell Crowe

The Truth About Elvis Aron Presley: In His Own Words
by Donald, Md. Hinton, Jesse
Listed under Elvis Presley

Josh Hartnett
by Lorelei Lanum
(Paperback -- June )
 

	Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography by Lawrence J. Quirk, William Schoell (Hardcover -- September )

Audrey Style
by Pamela Clarke Keogh
Listed under Audrey Hepburn

Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
by Peter Guralnick
Listed under Elvis Presley
 

	Inherited Risk: Errol Flynn and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam by Jeffrey Meyers (Hardcover -- June )

	I, Toto: Autobiography of Terry, the Dog Who Was Toto by Willard Carroll, Timothy Shaner (Designer) (Hardcover -- October )

Fall Down, Laughing: How Squiggy Caught Multiple Sclerosis and Didn't Tell Nobody
by David L. Lander, Lee Montgomery (Contributor)
Hardcover: 200 pages
J. P. Tarcher; ISBN: 1585420522;
 

	The Sexiest Man Alive: A Biography of Warren Beatty by Ellis Amburn (Hardcover -- July 23, )

	The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood by Dennis McDougal (Afterword) (Paperback -- April 10, )

	It's Always Something by Gilda Radner (Paperback -- May 30, )

	Natalie Portman: Queen of Hearts by James L. Dickerson (Paperback -- April )

Peter Greenaway: Fear of Drowning
by Peter Greenaway
Listed under Peter Greenaway
 

	The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit by Shirley MacLaine (Paperback -- April 3, )

	Jet Li: A Biography by James Robert Parish (Paperback -- June )

A Brilliant Madness: Living With Manic-Depressive Illness
by Patty Duke
Paperback: 338 pages
Bantam Books; ISBN: 0553560727; Reissue edition (June 1, 1993)

Lynch on Lynch
by David Lynch, Chris Rodley
You know David Lynch as the director of terminally weird movies such as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Wild at Heart, as well as the bizarre and highly influential television series Twin Peaks. But did you know that it was Mel Brooks who gave him his first big break? That the idea for Blue Velvet grew out of a fantasy Lynch had about sneaking into a private room and learning the secret to a murder mystery? That Twin Peaks came about because co-creator Mark Frost was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe? 

In Lynch on Lynch, a 250-page interview book, editor Chris Rodley does a superb job of getting Lynch to talk at length about the high and low points of his life and career. Their conversation covers his early work as a painter through the making of his major films of the 1980s, the fiasco of Dune ("It is what it is."), and the recent and very obscure Lost Highway ("I just *loved* this title."). 

Lynch is particularly interesting when he talks about the creative process: "I don't want to give the impression that I sit around thinking up horrible things. I get all kinds of different ideas and feelings. If I'm lucky, they start organizing themselves into a story--then maybe some ideas come along that are too eerie, too violent, or too funny, and they don't fit that story. So you write them down and save them for two or three projects down the road. There's nowhere you can't go in a film--if you think of it, you can go there." Lynch on Lynch is a treat for Lynch fans of all shapes, sizes, and fetishes. - Amazon.com
Paperback: 290 pages
Faber & Faber; ISBN: 0571195482; Pbk Ed edition (April )
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