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The hilarious and scandalous book that skewered Hollywood. "And here, for celluloid junkies everywhere, are such fascinating tidbits as Kim Bassinger's relationship to jalapeno peppers; why Bob Dylan lost out on a chance to appear in Goodfellas; how Sean Young developed her mathematical skills; the influence of Albert Camus, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Pia Zadora on Woody Allen; and the nature of Oliver Stone's obsession with testicles, drugs, mutilation, and the meaning of life."
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Amusing bluster about stars and movie themes by wiseacre Queenan (Imperial Caddy, 1992), a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, Movieline, etc. States Queenan: ``As readers familiar with my work know, I make my living by watching unspeakably foul, hopelessly incomprehensible movies, and then issuing belated, useless warnings to the… Read More

First American edition, first printing of Hawthorne's final children's book. A spectacular American literary presentation copy inscribed by Nathaniel Hawthorne to Oliver Wendell Holmes: "O.W. Holmes from his friend N.H."
Holmes wrote about Tanglewood Tales with great enthusiasm in a letter to its publisher, James T. Fields: "Hawthorne's book has been not devoured, but bolted by my children. I have not yet had a chance at it, but I don't doubt I shall read it with as much gusto as they, when my turn comes. When you write to him, thank him if you please for me, for I suppose he will hardly expect any formal acknowledgment" (September 6, 1853).
The two were friends for many years. Holmes served as Hawthorne's pallbearer in May 1864. The next month he wrote in The Atlantic, "Our literature could ill spare the rich ripe autumn of such a life as Hawthorne's, but he has left enough to keep his name in remembrance as long as the language in which he shaped his deep imaginations is spoken by human lips."… Read More