As no-nonsense as it gets.
Exhaustive list of essential celebrity contact information.
McAuley makes it his business to know how to get in touch with the high and the mighty, and he offers his expertise to any layperson who can pony up the cover price. (McAuley also makes his listings available on the Internet for $9.95 a month.) This is just what it sounds like: a big, fat book full of the official contact addresses for celebrities, laid out in phonebook format. Hollywood's brightest are here, of course: Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Robert DeNiro, et al.–plus anyone else who's ever appeared on film and is still alive and kicking. But McAuley casts his net far beyond Hollywood. A single page turns up Sandra Dee ("Actor, Model"), Bikram Shah Dev Deependra Bir ("Prince"), Joe DeFrank ("Race Car Driver"), Ellen DeGeneres ("Actor, Comedian"), and Hans G. Dehmelt ("Nobel Prize Laureate"). Other categories include "Royalty," "Beauty Pageant Winner," "Biologist," "Diplomat," and "Financier." There is no "wrong" kind of celebrity for McAuley; the mere fact of being famous qualifies one to be listed: Tonya Harding ("Athlete"), Joey Buttafuoco ("Actor"), and musical group the Butthole Surfers (no official designation) can all be found. McAuley provides over 40,000 celebrity addresses in all. Autograph hounds and charitable organizations in need of spokespeople will find an enormous amount of help; there are no telephone numbers or email addresses, so snail-mail is the only way to go. (And the addresses provided are almost always not those of the actual celebrities; most often, they're the addresses of celebrities' reps.) For all its lack of detail, browsing the list is certainly fascinating: why is Knox Millsaps ("Engineer") listed, and who is Allie McGuire (no designation)?
As no-nonsense as it gets.Pub Date: Jan. 1, 2005
ISBN: 0-9707095-3-6
Page Count: -
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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