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

A book about the decorative ironwork that graces New Orleans.

New Orleans Decorative Ironwork

THE KNAPP PRESS

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

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

The groundbreaking inside look at the making - and unmaking - of a network TV series, back in print for the first time in thirty years. Smoldering Lust seemed like a sure-fire hit for NBC - a sexy new comedy-drama starring Kate Capshaw from Jay Tarses, the acclaimed, Emmy-awarding winning writer/producer of The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Buffalo Bill and The Bob Newhart Show. But things started to go wrong from the start and author Vance Muse was there to witness it all, from the development, casting, and production of the show all the way to the disastrous test screening, the long-delayed broadcast premiere under the new title Black Tie Affair, and its demise after only five of the thirteen produced episodes. It is an unparalleled expose of the culture and business of network television that is as relevant today as it was in 1994. This new edition features an Afterword by Ken Levine, the Emmy and WGA award-winning writer/producer of M*A*S*H and Cheers. "An entertaining autopsy of a failed NBC TV drama/comedy. Don't worry if you never saw or even heard of the show. Muse makes it interesting, providing colorful chapters on everything...and populates the scene-behind-the-scenes with comic episodes and likable, three-dimensional characters who really seem to love what they do." Kirkus Reviews "The book confirms what you suspect: Hollywood is a miserable place and sometimes good shows fail and bad shows succeed." Fort Worth Star-Telegram "An amusing narrative that is at its best when showing the nuts-and-bolts aspects of television production." New York Times Previously published as We Bombed in Burbank: A Joyride to Prime Time

Smoldering Lust: The Inside Story of a Doomed TV Series

Television

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