Carol Publishing Group

Examines the comedian's career, including his stand-up comedy, his television work, and his movie career.

INfRODlICYION It may be hard to believe—especially for young people-but tliere was a time not too long ago when there were very few opportunities to read about horror films. For a kid growing up in the Fifties—which is when I began tuning in to genre films—it was a real dry spell, believe...

FOREWORDFrom the endless steppes of Kazakhstan to the fogbound cliffs of the Kamchatka peninsula, the entire immensity that the rest of the world once called the Far East, and which it now prefers to call the West Pacific, is today in turmcil and in flames. Those who take the long view will say it...

oi lUe. The dictionary defines nostalgia as a wistful, excessively sentimental yearning for a return to some past period or irrecoverable condition. But Webster fails to explain why even the most difficult of periods later become attractive. A great American humorist once wrote that the past...