Holiday Books: Hollywood
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New books on casting films, Stephen BaldwinÂs faith, Jimmy Stewart, Ellen Burstyn and life in old Hollywood.
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In a season flooded with film biographies, there are fascinating books offering fresh and sometimes alternative views of people we've come to know onscreen.
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By Kitty Bean Yancey  In the movie The Holiday, opening today, Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz play disheartened singles who swap homes with each other for vacation and find new loves.
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Variety - Hollywood seems to be taking a page from the publishing industry when it comes to promoting genre pics.
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Far off the radar screens  of booksellers are two revealing inspections of well-known  Hollywood celebrities.
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Paddington Bear, a teddy in a duffle  coat who loves marmalade sandwiches and has impeccable manners,  is the latest character from a children&#39;s book to head for  Hollywood aiming at movie stardom.
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Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
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Tech gifts needn't be electronic. Geeks and non-geeks alike can enjoy the old-fashioned pleasure of curling up by the fire with a good read. Michelle Delio reviews a passel of new books just in time for the holiday season.
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LOS ANGELES  - With the holidays just  one week away, everyone in Hollywood is about to shut down for  a fortnight -- everyone in Hollywood, that is, except for those  awards season campaigners whose job it is to fret about Oscar  nominations, since nominations ballots will be mailed Dec. 27.
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'Tis the season, finally, for some good films. As Hollywood gets serious, our critic delivers his verdict on who's been naughty and who's been nice.
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Oscar winning actress Tatum O'Neal's A Paper Life, is a book which Hollywood would dread as the book not only spills sordid secrets of the stars but also their names have been spelled explicitly.
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Some books find paradise only on film. Written by talk-show host and Tuesdays With Morrie author Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is one of those gift-shop inspirational parables that usually are more popular with book buyers than book critics.
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By Kathy Morrison, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 17--With just about a week left for Christmas shopping, I couldn't resist offering a few more suggestions of gifts for readers of chapter books.
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A Dora the Explorer doll that says a child's name, a TV game that lets girls color their hair, and other electronic toys may be among the best-selling holiday items in the United States this year, according to a list to be published in Redbook magazine.
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Variety - Waters, who claims to have an unironic love of Christmas, has put together a collection of holiday tunes (also titled "A John Waters Christmas" and released by New Line's music division) that combines the tastelessly mawkish with unearthed R&amp;B gems. His 45-minute monologue only mentioned the album in passing; instead, his loosely structured, often hilarious comments touched on holiday shoplifting, memories of Baltimore Christmases past, what presents to buy him (books, including a cookbook written by a serial killer and "Call Me Lumpy," the autobiography of "Leave It To Beaver" sidekick Frank Bank), his favorite holiday movie ("Christmas Evil," which climaxes with a homicidal Claus protected from a mob by a ring of children), and visions of holiday collaborations with producer William Castle (the low-budget frightmeister who specialized in stunts like "The Tingler," where auds were literally shocked out of their seats), leading to Christmas tie-in travesties such as "The Care Bear Massacres" and "I Dismember Rainbow Brite."
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Several new movies tap into the public's ever-growing curiosity about celebrity lives.
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Between Valentine's Day  and the Presidents Day holiday weekend, Hollywood is throwing a  lot of product at moviegoers, hoping that some will stick.