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WISCONSIN BOOKWATCH > The Theatre/Cinema/TV Shelf:  With the publication of "Set Sail with McHale", co-authors Denny Reese and Steven Thompson have crafted an affectionate and entertaining look back at a television favorite, presenting an all-four season episode breakdown and providing additional insight and trivia through their exhaustive research. Among the treasures to be discovered within these pages is how tough guy movie actor Ernest Borgnine originally turned down the offer to appear in the pilot episode and what prompted him to eventually change his mind.  The book is informative, fun, and nostalgic, and illustrated with a number of B/W historical...

On the evening of  October 5, 2024, author Laura Jerrolds will be doing a book signing -- as well as a screening of Laura La Plante's 1927 movie, "The Cat and the Canary".  The event will be at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, 37417 Niles Blvd, Fremont, CA 94536.

Here's what Lisa Sweasy, the Director/Curator of the Vent Haven Museum in Kentucky had to say about Bobbie Kimber: “You’ve pulled it all together and comprehensively told Bobbie’s story. I’m so glad to have this book for the Vent Haven Library.”

Q&A with Roger Mitchell, author of the new Zardoz! book Why do you think Zardoz appealed to you as a schoolboy?I was walking through Limerick on a rainy Saturday afternoon, and I passed the Savoy Cinema and saw a very weird poster on the wall outside. The choice was: Sean Connery standing on a giant disembodied hand, or going home on the bus. Actually, the girl at the till shouldn’t have even let me in - Zardoz was an “X” in Ireland. I came out a couple of hours later sort of... blinded. I think I was at just the...