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"Woody Allen meets Nick
Hornby in this hilarious beach read. Gerald Everett Jones, who is every bit as
clever as Larry David (and has more hair!), has created a witty, literate George
Costanza for us to savor. NBC, are you paying attention?"
- Paula Berinstein, producer and host of The
Writing Show podcast.
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Rubber Babes:
Further Misadventures of Rollo Hemphill
In this hilarious sequel to My Inflatable
Friend, clueless tyro Rollo Hemphill continues to fail upward to become
the youngest-ever director of a multimillion- dollar charitable foundation. Far
too late, he begins to suspect it's a money laundry for sinister players in the
Secret Government who are setting him up to take the fall for an international
fraud. But his paranoia becomes most acute when he becomes entangled with a
succession of women he calls "rubber babes."
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My Inflatable Friend:
The Confessions of Rollo Hemphill
Dumb
stunt with celebrity look-alike doll backfires.
Boy fails upward.
A reformed hacker-turned-slacker, twentysomething
Rollo Hemphill fantasizes about becoming a top-forty
deejay but
has more talent than ambition. He's settled
for a menial job as a car jockey at
The Wuthering
Palms, a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills. More
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My Inflatable Friend is a witty,
cautionary tale about
the perils of pretending to be someone you're not -
and the
hazards of stroking every male's most
private and vulnerable part - his swelling
ego.
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24P: Make
Your Digital Movies Look Like Hollywood
Thomson Course Technology
For indies and students who aspire to great
things. Shooting or finishing in 24P isn't just
a matter of flipping a switch on the camcorder. It's all about planning,
shooting, editing, and finishing for film-look video, a distinctive style
that draws on the best practices of Hollywood craftsmanship, while taking
advantage of the latest digital tools. Coauthored with
Pete Shaner,
who did the first 24P HD feature, here's how to stop waiting for permission from some studio executive to
get your movie made.
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Writer-director-producer Pete
Shaner made the romatic comedy Lover's Knot
and Nicolas,
the first feature shot
with the Sony CineAlta 24p HD camera.
Digital filmmaking book author Pete Shaner
has been a guest on TechTV's "Call for
Help,"
(now G4 TV)
and on G4's "Attack of the Show!" To
get production tips from these shows, search the G4
Archive
for Shaner.
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Storytelling 3min 2sec
Tips on getting screenplays started, including entering a
scene in the middle of the action. Excerpt from Independent Writers of
Southern California (IWOSC) seminar at The Writers Store in Los
Angeles
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How
to Lie with Charts
LaPuerta
BRAND-NEW SECOND EDITION
Find out how you might be fibbing in your own presentations without knowing it. And learn how to spot misleading errors when someone else is
pitching to you. Mandatory reading for analysts, statisticians, math
students, and marketing execs.
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Digital
Filmmaking for Teens
Finalist PMA Benjamin Franklin Awards
Thomson Course Technology
We're all over it, dude. Coauthored with
writer-director Pete Shaner,
here's how to do it all with just a Canon ZR camcorder, iMovie, and iDVD.
Way cool DVD included with original cinema short "Neo's Ring," a music video,
making-of shorts, a
stunt fighting tutorial, SOCAPA student film festival shorts, and more.
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Real
World Digital Video
Peachpit Press
The
bible for a new generation of filmmakers. Second
Edition Coauthored with Pete Shaner, writer-director
of the first feature film shot on 24P HD. Companion DVD has bonus
software, video clips, and tutorials, including two award-winning short
subjects.
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PMP
Certification For Dummies
Wiley
PMP® certification
is the official professional credential for career project managers. We think we've
developed the very best, most useful, most understandable guide to this
challenging exam. The companion CD has hundreds of sample questions. Coauthored
with Peter Nathan, PMP.
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Easy
Photoshop Elements
Que / Pearson Education
Easy
says it all. This book is the simplest, quickest way to learn
how to use your computer as a photo lab for your digital pictures and an
art studio for using them in your graphic projects. Companion CD with
photos and 3D-Album software.
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