Voted the Number One movie on the American Film Institute's List of 100 Funniest Movies, Some Like It Hot remains an undisguised movie classic, 50 years after its debut. Billy Wilder's hilarious film skilfully blends several American preoccupations
- jazz, gangsters, drag, & Marilyn Monroe
- into one scintillating bootleg cocktail. The Some Like It Hot Companion details the complete history of the comedy, from its roots as a 1951 German comedy to its Hollywood conception, where the superb Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, & Marilyn Monroe transposed the material to the Roaring Twenties. Included are drafts from the screenplay, casting trivia (the boys were almost Frank Sinatra & Danny Kaye), the background history of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre & Prohibition-era Chicago, on-set production gossip, location shots from the fabled Hotel Coronado in San Diego (doubling for Miami), lyrics from the jazz-era songs in the film, the Broadway & West End musical versions (one of which starred Tony Curtis), & the on-going legacy of the most hilarious cross-gender film in history. As the movie concludes, ' Nobody's perfect!' but this companion to the beloved film will be the perfect addition to the library of anyone who loves comedy, jazz, American film
- or Marilyn Monroe.


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May 1942. Kitty Pargeter loves the life she's leading as a talented young pilot, serving her country. But tragedy strikes when she is forced to crashland & is taken to a specialist hospital in Cliffehaven, badly injured. Devastated & feeling very alone she must come to terms with her disabling injury that threatens her career. ...

Kitty Pargeter loves the life she’s leading as a talented young pilot, serving her country. But tragedy strikes when she is forced to crash-land & is badly injured.

She is taken to a specialist hospital in Cliffehaven, where she must come to terms with the disabling injury that threatens her career.

Then comes the shattering news that her beloved brother has been shot down & presumed dead. & she wonders if she’ll able to find the courage & fortitude to carry on.

As Kitty slowly recovers – with the help of Peggy Reilly & her family at Beach View boarding house – she is more determined than ever to return to the job she loves, whatever it takes.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781787462526
• Author: Ellie Dean
• Publisher: Penguin
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 563
• Dimensions: 18 x 11 x 3.5cm













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Described recently by " Empire" magazine as Britains best ever blues singer, John Martyn was one of rock musics last real mavericks. Despite long-term addiction to alcohol & drugs, which contributed to his death in January 2009, he produced a string of matchless albums. Loved by fans & critics, loathed by ex-managers, he survived the music business he despised for forty years. With contributions by Martyn, many of his lovers & over twenty musicians who knew him well, this book documents his upbringing in Glasgow & rise through the Scottish & London folk scene of the 1960s, his many highs & lows, & his friendships with the great lost souls of British rock music
- Nick Drake & Paul Kossoff.
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You may wonder what happened to the Greek gods after the fall of Olympus. This mystery is revealed & others are explored in this novella. Myth, dream, & devotion are woven into a connected stream of short narratives, together forming a death diary, threaded through ten centuries of memories. ...

It was a scene that had many names: some original members referred to themselves as punks, others new romantics, new wavers, the bats, or the morbids. This book is about the music, the individual, & the creativity of a worldwide community rather than theoretical definitions of a subculture. ...

Lost memories. Lost loves. Can they find their way back to each other? When Will wakes up after a car accident, he's lost three years of memory. All he wants is his girlfriend & childhood sweetheart, Gem, beside him. Instead, nothing is as he remembers. Gem has finally moved on from hers & Will's break-up. With a new life & boyfriend, the last thing she expects is a call to say Will needs her
- the man who nearly destroyed her. As Will recovers, he is determined to prove to Gem that he is the man he once was. But by unlocking the secrets of his past, will he be able to piece together what caused him to change so dramatically? &, faced with the choice, will Gem continue with the safe new life she has built for herself, or will she go back to the man she used to love Product Information:  •†ISBN: 9781804367742 •†Author: Eve Ainsworth •†Publisher: Canelo •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:†384 •†Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.6cm
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Marlon Brando will never cease to fascinate us for his triumphs as an actor (On The Waterfront, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris), as well as his disasters (in roles he took for money or on a whim); for the power of the portrayals he gave on screen, & for his turbulent, tumultuous personal life. Now Stefan Kanfer gives us the definitive life of this iconic artist, seamlessly intertwining the man & the work to produce the fullest & most illuminating appraisal we have had of one of the most extraordinary talents of the twentieth century ...

Much has been written about the brutal crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, &
- thirty-five years after he

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Much has been written about the brutal crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. 

During the four decades

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