Male-female detective pairings often exhibit offbeat, dark humor and considerable chemistry as they investigate crimes. They have proven to be both entertaining and alluring on screen and television. This work reveals an evolutionary progression in the depictions of three such detective duos: the married pair Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man, blackhumored special agents John Steed and Emma Peel of The Avengers, and finally the smoldering Mulder and Scully in The X-Files. Ten chapters offer critical analysis, rich with background information and insider observations. Production comments...

Overheard On a Bus is Tom Soter's collection of witty, touching, perceptive, and funny reflections on people - both famous and not - he has met, places he has visited, and experiences he has had. Here are meetings with film great Charlie Chaplin, cult TV star Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner), baby boomer icon Fess Parker (Davy Crockett), and such notables as Patrick Macnee (The Avengers), Raymond Burr (Perry Mason), Stan Lee (Marvel Comics), Roald Dahl (novelist), Lalo Schifrin and John Barry (film composers), and the former Lord Chancellor of England, Gerald Gardiner. Here are strange...

Have dinner with the Soter family Sit down, put your feet up, and relax with the idiosyncratic Soters and their friends and family in new tales from the author of OVERHEARD ON A BUS (which former ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY critic Tom Sinclair called "humorous and heart-wrenching"). DISAPPEARING ACT offers never-before-presented tales of crooked retailers, happy hamsters, notorious nuns, and much more in a book you'll want to return to again and again

Newly revised and updated OVERHEARD ON A BUS is Tom Soter's collection of witty, touching, perceptive, and funny reflections on people - both famous and not - he has met, places he has visited, and experiences he has had. Here are meetings with film great Charlie Chaplin, cult TV star Patrick McGoohan (THE PRISONER), baby boomer icon Fess Parker (DANIEL BOONE), and such notables as Patrick Macnee (THE AVENGERS), Raymond Burr (PERRY MASON), Stan Lee (SPIDER-MAN), Roald Dahl (THE WITCHES), Lalo Schifrin (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE) and John Barry (GOLDFINGER), and the former Lord Chancellor of...

ALTERNATE COVER EDITION Seasoned improvisers CAROL SCHINDLER and TOM SOTER share the lessons of improv learned during 30 years of performing and teaching improvisation. "This is a great teaching tool," says Master Teacher Rob McCaskill. "It will remain a document of our time and will be read by actors and improvisers for decades to come " Adds screen star Mark Ruffalo ("The Avengers"): "I highly recommend this book to anyone who is starting out or who is still on the path to knowledge " Finally, Hal Linden (Broadway star and also on TV's "Barney Miller"): "I wish I had this book when I was...

In DRIVING ME CRAZY, the follow-up to the "hilarious and heart-wrenching" OVERHEARD ON A BUS and the "funny, touching, and revealing" DISAPPEARING ACT, TOM SOTER recalls learning to drive in his 30s, talking to James Bond screenwriter TOM MANKIEWICZ about SEAN CONNERY, trying to get his father to quit smoking, shooting the long-running public access TV show VIDEOSYNCRACIES, discovering he had a sister, discussing improv comedy with CAROL SCHINDLER, meeting the "real" GEORGE COSTANZA from SEINFELD, and facing bomb threats and angry neighbors as the president of his co-op.

LOOK AT THEM NOW AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE GUARDIAN ERA, 1968-1975 - featuring 40 exciting mystery, science fiction, and fantasy stories from the legendary Guardian Group. *Can Earth survive a battle with telepaths who want to take over the world in "The Ultimate Weapon"? *What fate awaited "Hanging Judge" Sean Haney "At the Top of the Stairs"? *What was the horrifying secret of "Ethel's Children"? * What horrors would Jon Fleetwood face in "The Cave of Thith"? Also included "The Conditioners," "So Die the Guilty," "Trigger Happy," "Two Against the Wilderness," "The Warthog in America: His...

This new collection by Tom Soter (OVERHEARD ON A BUS, DRIVING ME CRAZY) features autobiographical essays and much more: an interview with MONTY PYTHON funnyman JOHN CLEESE; a sit-down with the first Superman KIRK ALYN and a look at his successors GEORGE REEVES and CHRISTOPHER REEVE; a visit with HILLARY ZWICKY, a woman who interviews dogs; and musings by Soter as an improv teacher, cat owner, and unabashed CHARLIE CHAN fan. Plus: SOTER PARTIES, CHIMNEY SWEEPS, LONDON CABS, A GREEK GROWS IN BROOKLYN, and CLINT EASTWOOD AS JESUS See why KIRKUS REVIEWS called KIRKUS REVIEWS called this "a...