Bob McCabe Libros

Harry Potter: Page to Screen opens the doors to Hogwarts castle and the wizarding world of Harry Potter to reveal the complete behind-the-scenes secrets, techniques, and over-the-top artistry that brought J.K. Rowling’s acclaimed novels to cinematic life. Developed in collaboration with the creative team behind the celebrated movie series, this deluxe, 500-plus page compendium features exclusive stories from the cast and crew, hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and concept illustrations sourced from the closed film sets, and rare memorabilia. As the definitive look at the magic that made cinematic history, Page to Screen is the ultimate collectible, perfect for Muggles everywhere.

Covering all of Gilliam's work from Monty Python's Flying Circus to the 1998 big screen version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Each chapter deals in depth with each production, covering the story behind its making, complete with critical analysis of the film and detailed cast lists and credits. The book will be fabulously illustrated featuring many previously unseen photographs, story boards and drawings from Gilliam's private archive. Each chapter features an interview with Gilliam which gets his take on the work. Chapters include Early Years - childhood and early collaborations with John Cleese and Woody Allen; Monty Python - for the first time Gilliam talks about the creation of the cultiest of cult TV shows; Python and the Holy Grail -first attempt at directing includes interviews with John Cleese and Terry Jones; Jabberwocky, includes interviews with Michael Palin; Time Bandits; Brazil including the inside story of the infamous ad war with Universal, interview with co-writer Tom Stoppard; The Budget fiasco which was Baron Munchausen; Fisher King includes interview with Robin Williams; Twelve Monkeys includes an interview with Bruce Willis; Fear and Loathing Hunter S. Thompson talks about Gilliam's adaption. Also includes the abandoned projects - A Tale of Two Cities with Mel Gibson and Defective Detective with Nicholas Cage, as well as work in progress on Time Bandits II.

Graham Chapman was the quiet, pipe-smoking Python who qualified as a doctor—the policeman's son whose tweedy demeanor belied an anarchic nature. More than any other Python, he lived the complete lunacy of the show. He was John Cleese's writing partner, from their days at Cambridge right through the Monty Python years. It was Chapman's off-screen antics, however, that epitomized the surreal qualities of a Python sketch; moreover, he fearlessly flaunted his homosexuality at a time when it was certainly not done. Chapman died in 1989, with brilliant comic timing—on the 20th anniversary of the first Python recording. This is an honest, often hilarious tribute to a true original.

In 1989, Steven Spielberg declared Sean Connery - whom he had just cast as Harrison Ford's father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - one of the five genuine movie stars in the world. Ten years on, Sean Connery now tops that list. In a career spanning five decades, and crowned by his recent knighthood, Sir Sean Connery has not only achieved global super-stardom, but redefined the screen image of the male. From the iconic cool of James Bond to Indiana Jones's dad, from The Man Who Would Be King to the man who can still convincingly seduce the thirty year old Catherine Zeta Jones in Entrapment, Sean Connery has come to embody an ideal of masculinity and virility. More than just an actor, Sean Connery is also a sex symbol, golf fanatic, father figure and above all else, a Movie Star. This book tells the story of the man now most regularly voted 'Sexiest Man Alive'. From his crucial casting as James Bond and his later rejection of the role in the early 1970s, to his rediscovery by a younger generation of filmmakers and his powerful seam of roles as a father figure to younger stars (culminating in his long overdue Oscar for The Untouchables), it charts Connery's path to his now unas

Over 30 years ago, a group of five Englishmen - and one wayward American - rewrote the rules of comedy with an unheralded half-hour show of sketches, hilarities, inanities and animations. Here the surviving Pythons provide the story of Monty Python's Flying Circus and the 'genius' who created it