We Bombed in Burbank is Vance Muse's entertaining inside view of a phenomenon that for better or worse touches our lives almost daily - the 30-minute television comedy. Smoldering Lust, a sexy comedy-mystery series starring Kate Capshaw (Mrs. Steven Spielberg), was the brainchild of former NBC head Brandon Tartikoff and Jay Tarses, Emmy award-winning writer (for The Carol Burnett Show) and creator of The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. Reviews of this quirky, lowkey-to-a-fault sitcom - which finally premiered under the much safer but completely inappropriate title Black Tie Affair - were baffled and mixed at best, and a beleaguered NBC, preoccupied with the loss of David Letterman and Cheers, yanked the series after airing only five expensive episodes. Muse's wry, behind-the-scenes perspective - on everything from casting and costuming to Tarses's insistence on the purity of his vision and the ridiculous antics of the network suits - mingles the gossip value of People magazine with the bottom-line sense of The Wall Street Journal to create a witty, incisive portrait of a pop-cultural institution. With its fly-on-the-wall peek inside story meetings and the network suites, at what happens on the set and inside the stars' dressing rooms, there's no better look at the making (and unmaking) of a network show.

We Bombed In Burbank: A Joyride To Prime Time

MUSE, Vance

Humor & Entertainment

Da Capo Press

The God-Kings of Mexico (Treasures of the World)

The God-kings of Mexico (Treasures of the World)

Dickey, Thomas

Henry Wiencek

Stonehenge Press/Tree Commications Inc.

Don't buy a car made on Monday

Times Books

Old_New_Orleans New Orleans Lullaby The Organ Grinder Pontalba: America's Oldest Apartments. Old New Orleans by Vance Muse. Soldiers in an attempt to capture New Orleans. New Orleans is home to one of the largest and busiest. This book has great interior pictures of some glorious New Orleans homes. Sadly, the old home is no longer there. Has Plantations of the Old South. The Last Great Houses of the Old. Many of New Orleans' grandest old homes and nearby plantations are featured in this book. The "Venice of North America.

Old New Orleans (Great American Homes)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Oxmoor House

Old New Orleans (Great American homes)

Knapp Press

Describes points of interest in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, and provides information on museums, monuments, and historic sites

The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: Northern New England

History

Americas

Stewart. Tabori & Chang

A series of guides to the historic sites of America consisting of 12 volumes, each devoted to a particular region of the country. The entries are arranged geographically and include sections on the history of art and literature, the building of homes and the making of fortunes. Vance Muse is an editor of "Life" magazine and author of "Old New Orleans".

The Smithsonian Guide To Historic America: Norhern New England

Traces several centuries of life in the Southern United States

The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: The Deep South

Logan, William Bryant

The second revised edition in the SMITHSONIAN GUIDES series. A presentation of American historic sites and museums in Northern New England. Features up to date site information which includes location, visiting hours, phone numbers and fee information. Maps and illustrations are included.

Northern New England: Smithsonian Guides (SMITHSONIAN GUIDES TO HISTORIC AMERICA)

Travel

Reference

Harry N. Abrams

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