The authors of Snaps offer a humorous collection of the best and worst one-line gambits used by men on women, organized into such categories as Bar Lines, Celebrity Lines, and Politically Correct Lines. Original.

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

He played the wrong game. The song of preacher, college basketball star Sean "Sylk" Ross prayed that God would get him in the NBA, until he started playing games of love and power. Then the way to fame was leading him toward a mistake that could send him straight to hell... She never looked back. Lies, drugs, too many men-- golden skinned singer Topaz Black would do anything to get a hit to the top of the charts, even walk away from her friends and family. But surrounded by greed and lust, the love the longed for seemed to be slipping away forever. He broke all the rules. Brought up in South Central L.A., movie producer Gunther Lawrence learned early how to get the wealth and women he wanted-- and to turn his back on his roots. Now, blinded by Hollywood's glitter, his illusions may shatter when he discovers who really controls his career. As their lives touch, ignite, and explode, three talented African-Americans pursue fame at any cost...and the price may be their happiness...or their lives.. An alternate selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club

Sunset Denis suffers from visions of ghosts and the horrors of the Vietnam War, so he spends his nights in a Menomonee Indian Reservation tavern trying to wash the images away. During an alcohol induced flashback, he kills a tribal policeman and flees deep into the Central Wisconsin reservation. At the same time, there has been a rash of brutal murders in the region. A serial killer is at work and Sunset is the prime suspect. Sheriff Early Crow, Sunset's best childhood friend, reluctantly agrees to try to bring him in. During the manhunt, Sheriff Crow encounters the leader of a dark militia group, called the Defenders of Freedom, which is plotting to start a race war between the reservation's Indian population and local whites. Soon the tables turn and the militia become the hunters and Early Crow the hunted. With the help of Sunset Denis and a small group of civilians he meets and deputizes along the way, Sheriff Crow battles on two fronts to escape his militia pursuers and bring the real serial killer to justice.

The kings of the put-down have conquered the pick up! The unstoppable comedy team that first came to national attention through the wild popularity of "Snaps"--hilarious one-line put-downs with a sharp urban edge--present a new, side-splitting collection of pick-up lines which testify to the crazy lengths men will go to get the attention of women--and vice versa Radio publicity .

Do you know what films have given us the following quotes? "What we have here is a failure to communicate." "Excuse me while I whip this out." "Would somebody get this walking carpet out of my way?" "I don't know why they call this stuff Hamburger Helper, it does just fine by itself." And how are you at movie trivia? In The Blues Brothers why are Jake and Elwood "puttin' the band back together"? In Airplane!, which dinner was poisoned: the fish or the chicken? True or False: Diane Keaton won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Annie Hall. For the movie buff and video hound, Jai Nanda's What's that From? provides hours of entertainment. You can test your knowledge with more than 1,000 quotes and questions from more than 250 contemporary films--from Academy Award winners to cult classics. Also included are bonus questions on actors and directors, special categories on individual actors, movies, and themes (Western, baseball, sequels), plus a section devoted exclusively to Academy Award-winning performances. It's all here in the ultimate tribute to the great movies of the seventies, eighties, and nineties from National Lampoon's Animal House to When Harry Met Sally... So the next time you hear someone say, "It's just a flesh wound, " you won't have to ask "What's that from?"

Shelton Jackson «Spike» Lee is one of the most culturally influential and provocative film directors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bringing together seminal writings - from classic scholarship to new research - this book focuses on this revolutionary film auteur and cultural provocateur to explore contemporary questions around issues of race, politics, sexuality, gender roles, filmmaking, commercialism, celebrity, and the role of media in public discourse. Situating Lee as an important contributor to a variety of American discourses, the book highlights his commitment to exploring issues of relevance to the Black community. His work demands that his audiences take inventory of his and their understandings of the complexities of race relations, the often deleterious influence of media messages, the long term legacy of racism, the liberating effects of sexual freedom, the controversies that arise from colorism, the separatist nature of classism, and the cultural contributions and triumphs of historical figures. This book seeks to stimulate continued debate by examining the complexities in Lee's various sociopolitical claims and their ideological impacts.