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Edith Head’s How to Dress for Success

Posted on 16th March 2009 | Leave a comment

Edith Head’s no-nonsense style guide from 1967, How to Dress for Success, is being reissued by V&A Publishing. Head was arguably Hollywood’s most famous and influential costume designer, responsible for the clothes in over a thousand films including Roman Holiday, The Birds and Sunset Boulevard.

Illustrated using Head’s own delightful line drawings, the book contains witty advice on life’s perennial problems such as exactly how to look younger and slimmer and just how to attract and keep a man. In a chic lilac cloth binding and priced at only £8.99, it offers invaluable inspiration for replicating that vintage Hollywood look.

Pre-order a copy from the V&A Shop website

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The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin DVD boxset

Posted on 10th March 2009 | Leave a comment

With the remake soon to hit our screens, it seems like the perfect time to reissue one of the finest sitcoms ever produced by the BBC – The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin.

Written by David Nobbs and starring Leonard Rossiter, it's a dark (but very funny) tale of a man desperate to escape his dull marriage and even more dull job – and that mid-life crisis pushes Reggie to 'disappear', only his clothes left on a beach.

Over the three series that follow, we see Reggie return in a variety of guises, one of which remarries his former wife and gets his old job back – before getting sacked for being Reggie. He then opens Grot (a shop selling rubbish), turning it into a business empire, then quits the rat race once more to open his own commune.

The boxset packs in every episode (running for a total of 845 minutes), throwing in some extras including the Legacy of Reginald Perrin series, Comedy Connections: Reginald Perrin and a skit from The Funny Side of Christmas. It's out on April 27th 2009, available from Amazon for a bargain £17.98.

Find out more at the Amazon website

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Film Posters of the 60s by Tony Nourmand

Posted on 9th March 2009 | Leave a comment

As owner of Reel Poster Gallery in London, Tony Nourmand certainly knows his stuff when it comes to movie posters. He has put that knowledge to good use in the book “Film Posters of the 60s: The Essential Movies of the Decade” .

The posters have been selected according to his principle that “a good poster not only portrays the film for which it was designed, but that ultimately its image perfectly represents the era in which it was born”. The films collected here do tend towards the well-known titles of the period, rather than more obscure fare, but there is still plenty of interest here.

This book is the first in a series by Nourmand, with further books now available covering every decade from the 40s to 90s. The 1960s book is available from Amazon priced £5.99 in paperback.

Categories / Film and TV, Kids, Toys and Games

Emu arm puppet returns

Posted on 2nd March 2009 | 1 Comment

Sadly, Rod Hull has long departed, but we still have Emu, returning here as a large or small puppet.

What can you say, except this is an official replica of the original 1970s (and 80s) Emu (more professional in many ways), giving you license to attack friends and family at will. Because as we all know, it isn't you, it's the Emu. And of course, you can manipulate that sift beak into various expressions, just for added effect.

Who knows…it could be a whole new career for you in light entertainment – and all for just £14.95.

Find out more at the Firebox website

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Monitor Season at BFI Southbank

Posted on 2nd March 2009 | Leave a comment

If you're on the look out for some vintage culture, look no further than the Monitor Season at BFI Southbank.

Monitor was the BBC's flagship arts show in the 1950s and 1960s, hosted by Huw Weldon and featuring a hosting of 'cutting edge' cultural figures of the day, not to mention a team of directors for the short films that included the likes of John Schlesinger and Ken Russell.

The BFI's season will feature themed compilations of the shows, featuring surviving archive material – Monitor Interviews the Artist, Monitor on Film, Monitor: Humorists, Novelists and Angry Young Men and Monitor Miscellany. It runs from 9th to the 23rd April, see over the page for the full details.

BFI website

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Mike Leigh The BBC Collection DVD boxset

Posted on 25th February 2009 | Leave a comment

If you have an interest in classic British TV drama, you really need to own the Mike Leigh The BBC Collection DVD boxset.

It contains all of the BBC's surviving Mike Leigh works, running from 1973's Hard Labour through to The Long Goodbye in 2000 over six DVDs, throwing in classics like Abigail's Party, Nuts In May and Grown-Ups along the way, not to mention director's commentaries from the man himself, a must-read booklet, documentaries, interviews and a gaggle of rarely-seen short films from 1975.

See over the page for all the details and if you like what you read, you can pick the box up from 6th April 2009, priced around the £50 mark.

Amazon website

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