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How to Lose Your Ass and Regain Your Life: Reluctant Confessions of a Big-Butted Star

10 best books like How to Lose Your Ass and Regain Your Life: Reluctant Confessions of a Big-Butted Star (Kirstie Alley): Under the Wire: The bestselling memoir of an American Spitfire pilot and legendary POW escaper, So Far..., My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure, Jack the Ripper: The Facts, Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic, Roseanne: My Life as a Woman, Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There, A Bit More Fry & Laurie, Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man, The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of Pinups

Under the Wire: The bestselling memoir of an American Spitfire pilot and legendary POW escaper
AuthorWilliam Ash
ISBN1481088858
An enthralling memoir of WWII adventure: fighter pilot, fugitive in Paris, Gestapo prisoner, and ultimately a great escape artist, Bill Ashs story is unforgettable. From the lean days of Depression-era Texas to the thrill of being one of the few who flew Spitfires, from a death-defying crash landing...
So Far...
AuthorKelsey Grammer
ISBN0451186052
Kelsey Grammer is one of America's best-loved performers—a Shakespearean actor who became an instant celebrity when he joined the cast of Cheers and went on to expand his legion of fans with his own top-rated, Emmy Award-winning show, Frasier. But Kelsey Grammer could never be confused with Dr....
My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure
AuthorShawn Decker
ISBN1585425257
I was destined for a life of medical drama from day one," begins this comic memoir with a mission. "I was born in the month of July, and my horoscope sign is a disease (Cancer). The symbol for Cancer? A crab (the sexually transmitted critter). Not only that, my parents named me Shawn Timothy Decker, which...
Jack the Ripper: The Facts
AuthorPaul Begg
ISBN1861056877
Using contemporary documents, police files, Home Office papers and newspaper reports, Jack the Ripper: The Facts recreates the notorious crimes and police investigation of 1888 to provide the best available overview of the 'Great Victorian Mystery', the greatest unsolved, true crime story of...
Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic
AuthorPenn Jillette
ISBN1572972939
Penn & Teller know travel! They've taken every mode of transportation from motorcycles to the QE2 and stayed everywhere from Motel 6 to The Plaza (Motel 6 is better -- they explain why).Now, the beloved authors of Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends present practical jokes, miracles, and anecdotes that...
Roseanne: My Life as a Woman
AuthorRoseanne Barr
I *really* wanted Roseanne's latest book, but this was all that was handy at the library. It wasn't bad - it was definitely a quick read, and entertaining - but it's a good example of a work from an artist unfamiliar with the medium. I genuinely could not tell when she was trying to be funny, or ironic, or sarcastic...
Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There
AuthorJason T. Eberl
ISBN1405178140
What's the point of living after your world has been destroyed? This is one of many questions raised by the Sci-Fi Channel's critically acclaimed series Battlestar Galactica. More than just an action-packed "space opera," each episode offers a dramatic character study of the human survivors and...
A Bit More Fry & Laurie
AuthorStephen Fry
ISBN0749310766
Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile. As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his comedy partner, Hugh Laurie, he has appeared in A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. He is...
Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man
AuthorMick LaSalle
ISBN0312283113
Using the same mix of accessibility and insider knowledge he used so successfully in Complicated Women, author and film critic Mick LaSalle now turns his attention to the men of the pre-Code Hollywood era.

The five years between 1929 and mid-1934 was a period of loosened censorship that finally...
The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of Pinups
AuthorRichard Foster
ISBN0806520752
What a sad life. For a lady who appeared to be so confident and comfortable, her own inner demons completely destroyed her. She also stabbed some people with a bread knife and spent years in mental institutions, which is a sharp contrast to the mythos that she simply faded from the limelight to avoid damaging...
Ghetto Klown
AuthorJohn Leguizamo
ISBN1419715186
“Ghetto Klown is autobiographical dynamite—this is Leguizamo at his scathing, honest, moving, comedic best. Among the finest portraits of an artist as a young wounded talented man as I’ve read.”
—Junot Díaz
 
“My main Johnny Legs has done it again. Ghetto Klown as a graphic...
Mouse Under Glass: Secrets of Disney Animation and Theme Parks
AuthorDavid Koenig
ISBN0964060515
Mouse Under Glass: Secrets of Disney Animation & Theme Parks by David Koenig is a book that gives the secrets to Disney productions and animations. It starts off with an introduction to Disney’s “secret recipe” to their success which is the mentality of what can they do better to work on...
Battle of Britain
AuthorLen Deighton
ISBN1840222085
I thought I had the Battle of Britain pretty much sussed, but this book was full of stuff I didn't know. It's also beautifully designed and laid out, with detailed colour illustrations to satisfy my inner avgeek. Len Deighton is both an excellent writer and a diligent researcher, resulting in a book that...
MythBusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time
AuthorKeith Zimmerman

Leave no urban myth untested. Could you kill someone by dropping a penny from a skyscraper? Can an unsuspecting scuba diver be sucked out of the water by a firefighting helicopter and get spit out in the middle of a forest fire? Can you save yourself in a plummeting elevator by jumping just before...
Finding Lost: The Unofficial Guide
AuthorNikki Stafford
ISBN1550227432
Several of my good friends had been at me for some time to watch LOST - somehow I had missed the show when it was originally broadcast. Since I trust these friends implicitly when it comes to movie and TV recommendations (we share a common interest in myth and pop culture), I knew I had to give LOST a try eventually....
My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy
AuthorNancy Cartwright
ISBN0786886005
Nancy Cartwright, the ultimate Simpsons insider, gives voice to the boy immediately recognizable as none other than Bart Simpson. Now, Nancy traces The Simpsons' rapid rise to wild popularity, offers hilarious anecdotes about cast members and guest stars and reveals what it's like to be at the center...
Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy
AuthorSimon Louvish
ISBN0312325983
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have remained, from 1927 to the present day, the screen's most famous and popular comedy double act, celebrated by legions of fans. But despite many books about their films and individual lives, there has never been a fully researched, definitive narrative biography of...
The Art of Drew Struzan
AuthorDrew Struzan
ISBN1848566190
He is the favorite artist of both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and the artist behind some of the most iconic images of our time… he is Drew Struzan.

Struzan has worked on the posters for the biggest films of the last 30 years. Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Jurassic Park and E.T: The Extraterrestrial...
Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!
AuthorBob Harris
ISBN0307339564
"In Prisoner of Trebekistan, Bob Harris chronicles his transformation from a struggling stand-up comic who repeatedly fails the Jeopardy! audition test into an elite player competing against the show's most powerful brains. To get there, he embarks on a series of intense study sessions, using his...
The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale
AuthorMichael Bamberger
ISBN1592402135
An acclaimed writer takes readers inside the world of M. Night Shyamalan—the most successful filmmaker of his generation—as he creates a new movie masterpiece

In 1999, filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan exploded onto the cinema scene with his supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense, which...
The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Europe 1944-45
AuthorJohn Nichol
ISBN0142004472
As World War II approached its end, thousands of American and British soldiers languished in German POW camps. With the Russian Red Army closing in from the east and Allied troops advancing from the west, Hitler forced the POWs deeper into the heart of Germany. Over the next several months these prisoners...
Snake Hips: Belly Dancing and How I Found True Love
AuthorAnne Thomas Soffee
ISBN1556525222
This hilariously uplifting memoir follows an Arab American woman’s merry life as she shimmies her way from getting dumped by her tattoo-artist boyfriend to coming to grips with being single, ample, and 30. Feeling lost and heartbroken, Anne Thomas Soffee moves back home to Richmond, Virginia....
The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies
AuthorDavid Bordwell
ISBN0520246225
Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today’s bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers...
Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl
AuthorAisha Tyler
ISBN0452286328
In this rowdy collection of pop culture essays, Aisha Tyler brings her razor-sharp wit and sweet irreverence to bear on everything from light beer, dating strategies, and music videos to women’s self-image, the Ms. Foundation, and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Both comical and scathing, Aisha uses...
The Ultra Secret
AuthorF.W. Winterbotham
ISBN0060146788
This is an interesting book, although the title is a bit misleading. Those who are expecting a detailed account of the Bletchley Park scene, or details about how the codes worked and how they were broken -- will be disappointed. Those hoping for details on the moral implications and decisions made by...
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