A behind-the-scenes account of the making of an Australian film about two Sydney drag queens and a transexual who take their show on the road to Alice Springs in a lavender bus. It covers the troubles with finding a cast, location shooting in the desert and negotiations in Los Angeles and London, to the final cut and the triumph at Cannes.

Making Priscilla

Clark, Al

Humor & Entertainment

Penguin Books Australia Ltd.

The Rock Yearbook, 1985

Jones, Allan

St.Martin's Press

The book covers the making of the low budget movie "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" in the Australian Outback. Priscilla is the name of the bus featured in the trip to Alice Springs Contains B&amp;W and color photos of the stars and one from the movie, the famous scene of the Sidney Opera in Drag, photographed in color by Elise Lockwood.

Making Priscilla/the Hilarious Story Behind the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Plume

If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his thirty years as a professional umpire he took on some of baseball’s great umpire baiters, such as Earl Weaver, Billy Martin, and Dick Williams, while ejecting any number of the game’s elite—once tearing a hamstring in the process. He was the first Jewish umpire in American League history, and probably the first to eject his own father from the officials’ dressing room. But whatever Clark was doing—officiating at Nolan Ryan’s three hundredth win, Cal Ripken’s record breaker, or the “earthquake” World Series of 1989, or braving a labor dispute, an anti-Semitic tirade by a Cy Young Award winner, or a legal imbroglio—it makes for a good story. Called Out but Safe is Clark’s outspoken and often hilarious account of his life in baseball from umpire school through the highlights to the inglorious end of his stellar career. Not just a source of baseball history and lore, Clark’s book also affords a rare look at what life is like for someone who works for the Major Leagues’ other team.

Called Out but Safe: A Baseball Umpire's Journey

Sports & Outdoors

Schlossberg, Dan

Biographies

University Of Nebraska Press

Analyzes the screenplays for detective movies written by Raymond Chandler and examines the movie adaptations of his mystery novels

Raymond Chandler in Hollywood

Proteus Pub Co

Analyzes the screenplays for detective movies written by Raymond Chandler and examines the movie adaptations of his mystery novels

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Rock Year Book

Music

VIRGIN BKS.

If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his thirty years as a professional umpire he took on some of baseball’s great umpire baiters, such as Earl Weaver, Billy Martin, and Dick Williams, while ejecting any number of the game’s elite—once tearing a hamstring in the process. He was the first Jewish umpire in American League history, and probably the first to eject his own father from the officials’ dressing room. But whatever Clark was doing—officiating at Nolan Ryan’s three hundredth win, Cal Ripken’s record breaker, or the “earthquake” World Series of 1989, or braving a labor dispute, an anti-Semitic tirade by a Cy Young Award winner, or a legal imbroglio—it makes for a good story. Called Out but Safe is Clark’s outspoken and often hilarious account of his life in baseball from umpire school through the highlights to the inglorious end of his stellar career. Not just a source of baseball history and lore, Clark’s book also affords a rare look at what life is like for someone who works for the Major Leagues’ other team.   

Four years after writing his first novel, The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler found himself sitting in an office at Paramount Studios earning a weekly salary that amounted to almost half of what he had received film rights to his second novel, Farewell My Lovely. Despite the considerable rewards, he was always uncertain, often disgruntled, never at ease. Raymond Chandler in Hollywood is an entertaining and comprehensive assessment of Chandler's turbulent association with Hollywood, both as a screenwriter whose credits included Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia and Strangers on a Train and as the provider of source material -- his six filmed novels have so far yielded ten movies. Illustrated with over 100 rare stills, this book provides a special insight into the work of the world's most acclaimed writer of detective fiction.

Silman-James Pr

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Making Priscilla

The Rock Yearbook, 1985

Making Priscilla/the Hilarious Story Behind the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Called Out but Safe: A Baseball Umpire's Journey

Raymond Chandler in Hollywood

Raymond Chandler in Hollywood

Rock Year Book

Called Out but Safe: A Baseball Umpire's Journey

Raymond Chandler in Hollywood