Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5607+4294937391 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682803 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1284244 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=687715 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=594899 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=605172 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=644220 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=561621 Everyone has firm beliefs about what he loves and hates about TV, whether this belief system is formed while watching that syndicated Seinfeld rerun for the twenty-ninth time or waiting to see which sad young thing some pathetic Bachelor will choose. In Kissing Bill OReilly, Roasting Miss Piggy, Ken Tucker, the pop-culture critic for Entertainment Weekly and New York magazine, writes in the spirit of television itself, producing a collection of prove-me-wrong arguments, proudly vulgar tirades, and carefully reasoned mini manifestoes. If you think the high point of televised political wit was MASH, or that Johnny Carson was the true king of late night, Tucker will do his damnedest to convince you that youve been hoodwinked, duped by pixilated mists of memory and bad TV criticism.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=552791 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1030262 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=110672 Even before there was Howdy Doody or The Honeymooners, there was television, the medium that would define and change forever the twentieth century. Please Stand By looks back at the rough pioneer beginnings of TV, when the glow from the small screen brought magic into every home that had a set. Chorus girls worked side by side with performing rats; Eddie Albert, Dinah Shore, Hugh Downs and Betty Furness were still plucky unknowns; and one crossed wire could ruin an entire nights programming, with losses totaling as much as sixty-five dollars! This is the first book to cover comprehensively the earliest days of television, the period between 1920 and 1948, before there were regularly scheduled programs, or even written scripts, when television was in its infancy, and TV bloopers were the order of the day rather than the exception. This is also the story of inventors like Philo Farnsworth, who invented electronic television as a high school student in rural Utah (he also invented the first fax machine), and the first network battles, between companies such as RCA, NBC and DuMont. Filled with entertaining anecdotes and rare photographs of the days when nearly all television was live, Please Stand By includes remarkable stories of many television firsts such as the first commercial, the first soap opera, the first sportscast, and the first newscast, as well as rare interviews with many of televisions pioneers - the inventors, station owners, writers, actors, presenters and crews. As a chronicle of the earliest days of the twentieth centurys most important medium, this book is an invaluable resource; as a story of the adventures and misadventures of the men and women who reinvented television daily, its a hilarious and nostalgic rollercoaster ride.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=67161 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=364183