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Beastly Puzzles: A Brain-Boggling Animal Guessing Game

by Rachel Poliquin, Byron Eggenschwiler

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88 pages2019Kids Can Press, LimitedISBN 9781771389136

About this book

"The book includes the stories of film historian/critic Leonard Maltin, TCM host Robert Osborne discussing Rock Hudson's secret 1970s film vault, RoboCop producer Jon Davison dropping acid and screening King Kong with Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore East, and Academy Award-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow recounting his decades-long quest to restore the 1927 Napoleon. Other lesser-known but equally fascinating subjects include one-legged former Broadway dancer Tony Turano, who lives in a Norma Desmond-like world of decaying movie memories, and notorious film pirate Al Beardsley, one of the men responsible for putting O. J. Simpson behind bars. Authors examine one of the least-known episodes in modern legal history: the FBI’s and Justice Department's campaign to harass, intimidate, and arrest film dealers and collectors in the early 1970s. Many of those persecuted were gay men. Victims included Planet of the Apes star Roddy McDowall, who was arrested in 1974 for film collecting and forced to name names of fellow collectors, including Rock Hudson and Mel Tormé"

Publication Details

Publisher
Kids Can Press, Limited
Published
2019
Pages
88
ISBN
9781771389136
Language
en

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