“billy wilder”

More than 50 years after its release, the classic "Double Indemnity" is one of the best films of all time. This facsimile edition contains Wilder and Chandler's original--and quite different--ending, published here for the first time. Jeffrey Meyers's Introduction provides hilarious anecdotes about ... More

"The Lost Weekend" swept the 1945 Academy Awards, with nominations for Best Film Editing, Score, and Black and White Cinematography, and Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Screenplay. It also received numerous awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globes. Based on the novel by... More

"Stalag 17" (1953), the riveting drama of a German prisoner-of-war camp, was adapted from the Broadway play directed by Jose Ferrer in 1951. Billy Wilder developed the play and made the film version more interesting in every way. Edwin Blum, a veteran screenwriter and friend of Wilder's, collaborate... More

Text extracted from opening pages of book: COLLOIDAL PHENOMENA An Introduction to the Science of Colloids BY ERNST A.. HAUSER, PH. D. Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology FIRST EDITION McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK AND LONDON 1939 COPYBIQHT, 193... More

B. Wilder, a 25 year old Atlanta native has been writing and reading poetry for over 15 years. A style familiar to that of her literary muses' Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, she introduces a collection of syncopated and sometimes abrupt tempo pieces. You'll find a variety of poetic styles in Thoug... More

Someone is killing New Orleans' street people and this is hurting the City's tourist trade just beginning to recover from Hurricane's Katrina and Rita. More than just simple acts of murder, voodoo is involved, the killer possibly an actual Vodoun deity. Homicide detective Tony Nicosia seeks the help... More

Name of the Game is a collection of early Eric Wilder short stories. Some are autobiographical, all are entertaining.... More

This collection of stories is about Louisiana and New Orleans in particular. It also contains regional recipes and cooking tips that embody Creole and Cajun cuisine.When visiting New Orleans years ago, I searched for a book that would give me a quick feel for the City - a collection of information a... More