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  <about><![CDATA[Brett Ratner is an American film director and music-video director. He is best known as the director of <em>The Family Man, After the Sunset, Red Dragon</em>, the <em>Rush Hour</em> series, and <em>X-Men: The Last Stand</em>. He is also a producer on the Fox drama, <em>Prison Break</em>.]]></about>
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    <![CDATA[Rush Hour: Lights, Camera, Action!: The Blockbuster Companion to the Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker Trilogy (Newmarket Pictorial Movie Book)]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Coinciding with the launch of <em>Rush Hour 3</em>, the only book on the <em>Rush Hour</em> movies&#151;a full-color companion for fans, with more than 250 photos and excerpts from the outrageously comic action-packed scripts.</strong><br/><br/>&quot;I'm Detective Carter. Do you speak-a any English? DO-YOU-UNDERSTAND-THE- WORDS-THAT-ARE-COMING- OUT-OF-MY-MOUTH?&quot; And so a legendary partnership is born. One's all talk, the other's all action. Streetwise L.A. detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) and Hong Kong supercop Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) mix punches with punchlines in the hilarious action-comedy trilogy <em>Rush Hour</em>.<br/><br/>From the streets of Los Angeles (<em>Rush Hour</em>) to Hong Kong and Las Vegas (<em>Rush Hour 2</em>) and Paris high atop the Eiffel Tower (<em>Rush Hour 3</em>), these unlikely partners take down criminals around the globe, and let the wisecracks fly:<br/>&quot;You are a civilian. In Hong Kong, I am Michael Jackson and you are Toto.&quot;<br/>&quot;You think they scare me? I'm from Los Angeles. We invented gangs!&quot;<br/>&quot;Just follow my lead, act like a tourist.&quot; &quot;I <em>am</em> a tourist, fool!&quot;<br/><br/><em>Rush Hour: Lights, Camera, Action!</em> includes an introduction by Brett Ratner (who directed all three movies), a foreword by major fan Quentin Tarantino, movie stills, storyboards, behind-the-scenes material, excerpts from the three scripts, and film reviews. 250 color photos.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
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    <![CDATA[The Art of X-Men: The Last Stand: From Concept to Feature Film (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>The only book on the creation of the blockbuster movie&#151;a fabulous visual companion to the final chapter in the X-Men motion picture trilogy from 20th Century Fox.</strong><br/><br/>This lavishly illustrated filmbook boasts more than 360 illustrations, including striking movie stills and unique set designs, concept drawings, costume sketches, and storyboards, appearing exclusively in this edition. Beginning with an introduction by director Brett Ratner, text includes commentary about the production of the movie, along with an original history of the X-Men by Peter Sanderson, the comics historian and author of <em>X-Men: The Ultimate Guide</em>, illustrated with archival Marvel comic-book art.<br/><br/>In <em>X-Men: The Last Stand</em>, a &quot;cure&quot; for mutancy threatens to alter the course of history. For the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their uniqueness, though it isolates and alienates them, or give up their powers and become human. The opposing viewpoints of mutant leaders Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), who preaches tolerance, and Magneto (Ian McKellen), who believes in the survival of the fittest, are put to the ultimate test&#151;triggering the war to end all wars. The old cast returns, including Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Halle Berry as Storm, along with newcomers Kelsey Grammer as Beast, Vinnie Jones as Juggernaut, and Ben Foster as Angel. 360 photos and illustrations.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Hilhaven Lodge: The Photo Booth Pictures]]>
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    <![CDATA[When director Brett Ratner (<em>Rush Hour</em>, <em>Family Man</em>, <em>Red Dragon</em>) bought Hilhaven Lodge, the former home of Ingrid Bergman, his first purchase was an old-school black-and-white photo booth. <em>Hilhaven Lodge: The Photo Booth Pictures</em> captures--in candid, four-panel glory--the revolving door of A-listers who have passed through chez Ratner and stopped to strike a pose.<p>  Things kick off with a meandering, though entertaining, introduction from the legendary Robert Evans (don't worry, he's in there--page 177). The photos are then alphabetized by first name--from Aaliyah to Zhang Ziyi--allowing for some surprising pairings: Don Cheadle and Don Rickles, Quentin Tarantino and Quincy Jones, and the sign-of-the-apocalypse match-up of Michael Jackson across the page from Mickey Rourke clutching a Chihuahua. When faced with the prospect of posing it seems that most subjects do one of the following: Stick Out Their Tongue (Estella Warren, Jackie Chan), Mug (Britney Spears, Danny DeVito), Vamp (Gina Gershon, Rebecca Gayheart); Kiss (Bridget Fonda and Danny Elfman, Edward Norton and Selma Hayek), or Flip the Bird (Lara Flynn Boyle, Philip Seymour Hoffman). Paris Hilton pops up (as expected) along with Leonardo DiCaprio, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, and Chelsea Clinton. Christopher Penn looks like he's daring you to take the first swing, and, sporting a shaved head and thick goatee, Colin Farrell perfects the Escaped Con on a Bender look. And even without aid from their stylists or special lighting, there's no denying the natural glamour in some of these candid photos--Matthew McConaughey, Monica Bellucci, and Heidi Klum's snapshots sizzle. <p>  You'll want to clear off a VIP spot on your coffee table for <em>Hilhaven Lodge</em>, one very cool and austere collection. <em>--Brad Thomas Parsons</em></p></p>]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2003</published>
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  <id type="integer">798891</id>
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    <![CDATA[Phil Stern:  A Life's Work]]>
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    <![CDATA[Drawn to the iconic figures and emblematic events of our age, celebrated photographer Phil Stern has documented World War II soldiers in combat in North Africa and Sicily, the luminous jazz legends of Verve Records, and Hollywood stars living the high life.  Collected for the first time in this amazing tribute to Stern's long-standing legacy, Phil Stern: A Life's Work features never-before-seen photographs of the greatest figures and times of the American twentieth century.  Stern, who enlisted in the Army of Dec. 7, 1941, joined the ranks of &quot;Darby's Rangers,&quot; a much-heralded fighting unit, as combat photographer.  In North Africa documenting the harsh and brutal battles against General Rommel's forces, Stern was wounded.  Awarded a Purple Heart for bravery, Stern was then reassigned to cover the invasion of Sicily for Stars and Stripes.  Covering the homecoming of Darby's Rangers for Life, the assignments Stern shot for the magazine brought him into another intrinsically American experience:  Hollywood.  At the same time, Stern worked intermittently for jazz label legend Norman Granz, photographing album covers for the Verve, Pablo, and Reprise record labels.  A golden-era industry insider par excellence, Stern was tapped by Frank Sinatra to be the official photographer for the JFK Inaugural Gala.  His friendships with and access to the greatest legends of the time allowed him to create indelible portraits - most seen here for the first time - Of James Dean, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Bette David, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Count Basis, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and Lester Young, among many others.  Stern's oeuvre is studded with classic figures of entertainment at its best; and in Phil Stern: A Life's Work they come together to form a brilliant constellation around this truly star photographer.]]>
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