ESPN began as an outrageous gamble with a lineup that included Australian Rules Football, rodeo, and a rinky-dinky clip show called Sports Center. Today the empire stretches far beyond television into radio, magazines, mobile phones,the internet, video games and more, while ESPN's personalities... (learn more about this book)
ESPN began as an outrageous gamble with a lineup that included Australian Rules Football, rodeo, and a rinky-dinky clip show called Sports Center. Today the empire stretches far beyond television into radio, magazines, mobile phones, restaurants, video games and more, while ESPN's personalities... (learn more about this book)
With unprecedented access, Tom Shales and James Miller, with authorization from Lorne Michaels, have interviewed the stars, writers, crews, and guests who have made Saturday Night Live the greatest long-running comedy of all time. Out of these backstage stories they have woven an oral history... (learn more about this book)
Syndicated television critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, Shales has selected some of his well-known appreciations of entertainment celebrities written upon their deaths for this star-struck anthology. Shales's affection for stars of years ago--Fred... (learn more about this book)