Laurie Jacobson

TV Dinners combines America's love of good food with its great nostalgia for Classic TV by sharing recipes and recollections from dozens of TV's most beloved kid stars of the '50s, '60s and '70s. Their favorite dishes both from their heyday and today are highlighted with personal memories, detailed biographies and rare photos. TV Dinners is as American as apple pie, capturing all the fun and warmth of the era through childhood recipes and recollections from the cream of the crop of Classic TV kids. Meanwhile, a second helping of their favorite adult recipes brings the reader right up to the minute. Their personal stories are funny, charming, often revealing. All serve up a cornucopia of cherished Memories. And Laurie has a unique connection to these kids that gives her more access than most. She is married to one of them and has called the rest friends for two decades. She is able to cut right to the meat of every story. The result is so genuine, fans will feel like their TV heroes are in the kitchen with them. And what a great story they will have when they serve their TV dinners.

40 Classic TV Kid Stars Dish Up Favorite Recipes with a Side of Memories

TV Dinners

Marc Wanamaker

Fully revised with totally new stories about the ghosts of Lucille Ball, Erroll Flynn, and Madonna's hanuted house. More than 100 vintage stunning photographs support the authors' amusingly spooky tales of spirits who haunt the world's most bizarre city. In this macabre and very entertaining tome, the ghost of Ozzie Nelson proves there is sex after death, Howard Hughes haunts a landmark movie palace and we discover celebrities who have lived with ghosts as well as those who are ghosts, Marilyn Monroe, Lon Chaney, Montgomery Clift and more.

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