Truth and Rumors The Reality Behind TV's Most Famous Myths (The Praeger Television Collection) by BillBrioux Hardcover, 212 Pages, Published 2007 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99247-7, ISBN: 0-275-99247-0 "When you first heard it, you couldn't believe it: Jerry Mathers, from TV's Leave It To Beaver, had been killed in Vietnam. Then word came that Abe Vigoda, the actor who played the curmudgeonly cop Fish on Barney Miller, was dead; and that Mikey, who would eat anything as the Life Cereal tyke, had eaten too many Pop Rocks and exploded. Besides exposing us to things we couldn't otherwise believe, television can convince us of things that ..."
TV GUIDE CELEBRITY COOKBOOK by Donna Weinerman, BillBrioux, Glenn Esterly, Joan Hunt, Greg Murphy, Lee Anne Nicholson, Bonnie Siegler, Ed Weiner, Jane Marion, Jeff Katz, Carol Ferguson Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1994 by Telemedia Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-9691959-3-1, ISBN: 0-9691959-3-1 "More than 100 Celebrity Recipes...From Dr. Ruth's Amost-as-Good-as-Sex Cheesecake to Bob Barker's Bruschetta to Orrah Winfrey's Famous Mashed Potatoes, here's cooking...and what's cooking with America's favorite TV stars. Quick and easy recipes from some of television's best loved celebrities, including prime-time stars, soap stars, sports figures and talk-show hosts. Also food trivia and more."
Night Watch 50 Years of Late Night Television (The Praeger Television Collection) by BillBrioux Hardcover, 204 Pages, Published 2008 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99756-4, ISBN: 0-275-99756-1 "Today, well into the era of Leno, Letterman, Kimmel, Ferguson, and Stewart, and 50 years after Steve Allen wrote the blueprint for Late Night TV on NBC's The Tonight Show, late night talk TV remains as Johnny Carson once described it: the last arena of television as it was originally intended. Through first-hand accounts with the stars and principle players of late night, Brioux recounts all of late night's milestones and highlights. Th ..."
Truth and Rumors The Reality Behind TV's Most Famous Myths by BillBrioux 212 Pages, Published 2008 by Greenwood Publishing Group ISBN-13: 978-0-313-08478-2, ISBN: 0-313-08478-5 "A revealing examination of the meaning of and causes behind the television rumors that circulate in our culture today"
