The Big Book of Showbiz Bloopers and Blunders is a wonderfully entertaining collection of on-air mistakes from some of the most notorious names in showbiz and politics. Readers won't know whether to laugh or cry as they follow a pantheon of all-stars from Hollywood, the T.V. news, politics, sports radio, the soaps, the talk show circuit and lots more as they fumble and flub through their on-air moments. Readers have never before been allowed such an intimate peek behind the scenes at incidents these folks would prefer to forget. This is a tour through the most juicy mishaps and embarrassing moments from Jayne Mansfield, Humphrey Bogart, and Ed Sullivan, to the Harry Potter films, the White House and everywhere in-between. You can't get away with anything in this world, especially when it's caught LIVE on air. Nobody gets it right all the time, and this book is there, ready to point out all sorts of gaffes.

Mistakes Were Made is a revealing memoir and unexpected love story from model and actress Fiona Lewis about her journey to self-acceptance as she restores a crumbling French chateau. Alone in the French countryside, Lewis reflects on her glamorous youth across London and Paris in the ’60s, Hollywood in the ’70s, and the important, sometimes disastrous, choices she made along the way. Having lived a perfectly satisfactory life in California for over two decades, Fiona Lewis wakes up one day in her fifties and asks herself, Is this it? Is this the existence I’m meant to have? She can hardly complain. After all, her life has been full of adventure and privilege: London and Paris in the ’60s, Los Angeles in the heady ’70s. Now, however, she feels lost, as if she were slipping backward over the edge of a ravine, abandoned not only by her old self, but by that reliable standby, optimism. Realizing she has to find a way to reinvent herself, she impulsively buys a rundown chateau in the South of France. (Her husband is not pleased.) Alone in the depths of the countryside, she contemplates her childhood, her affairs––Roman Polanski, Roger Vadim––her years as an actress in some good and some questionable films, and her first Hollywood marriage to the damaged son of a movie star. As the renovation drags on, fighting with a band of impossible French workmen, she is forced to battle her own fears: her failure to become a real success, her inability to have children, and her persistent fear of aging. And she has to contend with her husband, who has no interest in the French countryside. In fact, he resents her obsession with France, with the house, with the renovations. The house seems to have a hold over her, and he’s not wrong. He reluctantly visits and is annoyed by the cost of the renovation. Was she not content with him in LA? Why can’t she just be happy? It’s an age-old question and one every woman must confront, along with aging, lost love, and missed opportunities. Yet, Fiona’s wit and wisdom prevail. And this provocative, brave memoir takes a stunning turn when all those unanswered questions develop into a tender and unexpected romance.

There are dozens of books on the music business but none like this one, in most every book by an insider people love to talk about when good instincts paid off. In this book, we are turning the tables on that philosophy. We don't care how many times a person was right. We want to read about the time they were dead wrong. What they really learned from hard-won experience about what not to do in the future. We'll go behind closed doors of the most expensive mistakes ever made in the modern music industry as well as some common but lesser known ones that seven out of ten people make when starting out. Some of these mistakes will be taught first-hand, by the people who made them: record executives, managers, artists, producers who've worked with: Michael Jackson, Christina Aguilera, Courtney Love, Madonna, Nickel Back, Twisted Sister, Dead Kennedys, Susan Vega, Chaka Khan, Debbie Gibson, Destiny's Child, Joan Osborne, Kurt Cobain, Paul Stanley, The Captain & Tenille, Jessica Simpson, Aerosmith, Pink, Ricky Martin, Dido, and literally dozens more.

"ACTING: Make It Your Business, written by a veteran casting director, puts the power to land jobs and thrive in any medium - stage, film, TV, or the Internet - directly into the hands of the actor. This blunt, wise, and often hilarious guide overflows with cutting-edge audition, marketing, and networking strategies, combining traditional techniques with those best suited for the digital age. Well-known actors and powerful agents make cameos throughout, offering newcomers and working professionals alike a clear-eyed, uncensored perspective on survival and advancement within the entertainment industry."--BOOK JACKET.

Factual accounts expose how professional sports manipulate the outcomes of games for TV ratings and profits.