Have dinner with the Soter family! Sit down, put your feet up, and relax with the idiosyncratic Soters and their friends and family in new tales from the author of OVERHEARD ON A BUS (which former ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY critic Tom Sinclair called "humorous and heart-wrenching"). DISAPPEARING ACT offers never-before-presented tales of crooked retailers, happy hamsters, notorious nuns, and much more in a book you'll want to return to again and again!
Overheard On a Bus is Tom Soter's collection of witty, touching, perceptive, and funny reflections on people – both famous and not – he has met, places he has visited, and experiences he has had. Here are meetings with film great Charlie Chaplin, cult TV star Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner), baby boomer icon Fess Parker (Davy Crockett), and such notables as Patrick Macnee (The Avengers), Raymond Burr (Perry Mason), Stan Lee (Marvel Comics), Roald Dahl (novelist), Lalo Schifrin and John Barry (film composers), and the former Lord Chancellor of England, Gerald Gardiner. Here are strange encounters with wired comedians, and memorable moments with Tom's eccentric family. Here is life, unfolding in a marvelous collection of stories that will make you laugh, make you cry, and, above all, make you wonder, “How could I have thought of passing up this terrific book?”
TOM SOTER, whose previous books have included INVESTIGATING COUPLES ("Entertaining and very informative" - Scarlet Street) and DISAPPEARING CAT ("Witty, breezy, and engaging" - Kirkus Reviews) is back with ruminations on BUSTER KEATON, James Bond, ROD SERLING, GODZILLA, AKIRA KUROSAWA, 24, UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, THE FUGITIVE, ED SULLIVAN, FRIENDS OF THE LEMON, STAR TREK, HYPOTHERMIA, PUBLIC SPEAKING, FIGHTING CITIBANK, HIS FATHER'S WWII LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER, LOST NEW YORK, THE THIN MAN, TV-MOVIE REUNIONS YOU'LL NEVER SEE, PATRICK McGOOHAN, PRESTON STURGES, BED-LEAPING, CRY U.N.C.L.E., SINGING ABOUT DANIEL BOONE, CULP & COSBY, and (of course) IMPROVISATION. Illustrated with over 100 photos.
Male-female detective pairings often exhibit offbeat, dark humor and considerable chemistry as they investigate crimes. They have proven to be both entertaining and alluring on screen and television. This work reveals an evolutionary progression in the depictions of three detective duos: the married pair Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man, black-humored special agents John Steed and Emma Peel of The Avengers, and finally the smoldering Mulder and Scully in The X-Files. Ten chapters offer critical analysis, rich with background information and insider observations. Production comments are given throughout. Three appendices (one for each series) offer episode guides with original broadcast dates, credits and brief synopses.
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. You should all know that by now. This is a dimension which began, on national television, with Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Here, Michigan horror writer Tom Sawyer (White Out) presents to you even further provocative and eerie tales as a follow-up to his first two collections in his series In Rod We Trust. Follow Mr. Sawyer, if you dare, into this dimension of imagination that knows no concepts of time or boundaries and beyond mystery and normal understanding or perception. Black Bed Sheet Books proudly presents In Rod We Trust Again.
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. This is a dimension of imagination. In the case of these stories, it is THE 2nd TIME where author Tom Sawyer’s imagination takes flight in an explosive follow-up to IN ROD WE TRUST, a collection of stories uniquely inspired by Rod Serling's THE TWILIGHT ZONE television series. Mr. Sawyer, as a celebrated Michigan horror and science fiction fiction author over many years past, presents to you further thrilling tales that will not only entertain, enchant, and leave you mesmerized, but guaranteed to completely pull you in and freak you out....which is exactly what fervent fans of Serling's The Twilight Zone fully expect!
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. This is a dimension of imagination. In the case of these stories, it is where author Tom Sawyer’s imagination takes flight. Mr. Sawyer, as a popular Michigan horror fiction author of many delights ( From Paradise to Hell, Dark Harbors), pays an ultimate tribute to Rod Serling’s own imagination, which influenced viewers around the world since its inception decades ago with The Twilight Zone TV series. Here, Sawyer continues the tradition seamlessly on these pages. So sit back, relax, and cross over into the sight and sound and of mind which is.....The Twilight Zone.
Male-female detective pairings often exhibit offbeat, dark humor and considerable chemistry as they investigate crimes. They have proven to be both entertaining and alluring on screen and television. This work reveals an evolutionary progression in the depictions of three detective duos: the married pair Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man, black-humored special agents John Steed and Emma Peel of The Avengers, and finally the smoldering Mulder and Scully in The X-Files. Ten chapters offer critical analysis, rich with background information and insider observations. Production comments are given throughout. Three appendices (one for each series) offer episode guides with original broadcast dates, credits and brief synopses.
Traces the four-thousand-year history of the charismatic father of the Greek gods, from his origins in the Russian steppes and reign on Mount Olympus to his approaching end in Christian Constantinople, in an account that follows the author's journeys to relevant sites in Greek mythology.
Petersburg, that "sleepy little village" we read about in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, awakes to the news of Huckleberry Finn's presumed murder, and the escape of Miss Watson's Jim. A confrontation is evoked between Jimmy Finn, and Judge Thatcher, when widow Douglas is given the rights to Huck's money. Jimmy swears revenge against Judge Thatcher, and nearly kills Widow Douglas. Without Huck, Tom Sawyer turns his attention to Becky Thatcher as his new bosom friend. She proves to be a willing comrade and participant. The two embark on an expedition of an old home-The Stantan Home-to look for a rumored treasure. They discover a passageway that has been filled with dirt. Believing the treasure to be on the other side, they begin removing dirt. Their adventure is interrupted when Jimmy takes out his revenge on Judge Thatcher by kidnapping Becky, with the help of two accomplices. Becky knows she must remain strong in order to overcome her ordeal. Tom, believing he is to blame for her kidnapping, goes in search for her. After Becky's escape, she and Tom resume their adventure within the Stantan Home. What they discover at the end of the tunnel both amazes and mystifies them. And it has nothing to do with the rumored treasure!
Exploring a vast array of topics related to computation, Computing: A Historical and Technical Perspective covers the historical and technical foundation of ancient and modern-day computing. The book starts with the earliest references to counting by humans, introduces various number systems, and discusses mathematics in early civilizations. It gui
A father (Tom) hears his son Richard say, “School is OK except I don’t like learning numbers or arithmetic.” After dinner, Tom sits with Richard and tells him a story of a kingdom long ago where the use of numbers is forbidden by King Kcaj and of the chaos that ensues because of it. As Tom’s story unfolds, he hopes to instill in Richard a sense of the importance of learning numbers, counting, and arithmetic along with other life lessons.
There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way.
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