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Don't you wish you could do all the cool tricks that MacGyver did? Now you can. The Unofficial MacGyver How-to Actual Working Tricks as Seen on TV's MacGyver provides step-by-step instructions to MacGyver's most inventive tricks. As viewers of the show, we had always assumed that MacGyver's tricks were fiction, the kind of stuff that only works on TV. Inspired by a rerun in which MacGyver seals an acid leak with a chocolate bar, we decided to dig up our old high school science books and find out if this stuff really works. The result of our investigation is The Unofficial MacGyver How-to Actual Working Tricks as Seen on TV's MacGyver, an illustrated primer to MacGyver's tricks complete with scientific explanations. We provide step-by-step, how-to instructions that unlock the scientific secrets and spy genius of MacGyver's many tricks, How to pick a lock with a pocket knife; How to develop film with orange juice; How to create homemade fog; How to use a paperclip to undress a woman AND disarm a missile! Each entry A description of the materials you need to perform the trick; Step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish the trick; The scientific explanation of why the trick works. In depicting these tricks, The Unofficial MacGyver How-to Actual Working Tricks as Seen on TV's MacGyver, offers a mix of extreme scenarios and practical applications. So while you'll probably never have the thrill of breaking into a high security laboratory, you can feel like a secret agent while you develop photos in the kitchen sink with orange juice.

Twelve glorious full-color poster tell the story of love and heroism that entralled moviegoers and earned Titanic a record-tying eleven Academy Awards. Each poster folds out to a gigantic 20 x 25 inches. Featuring the most memorable and touching scenes between Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet and stunning pictures of the "ship of dreams," these posters commemorate the movie event of the decade and the tragic romance of the century.

The world's best-selling rock band stars in this photo-filled, year-by-year account of every record and concert. Starting with its earliest efforts as just another British blues band, you can trace Fleetwood Mac's success up to the 1997 re-formed band. Fully covered are the public and private exploits of each member of the group—Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, Jeremy Spencer, Bob Brunning, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and Cristine.

\\\WINNER OF THE 1989 PYTHON PRIZE FOR THEIR OWN BOOKS\\\ The complete scripts from the four Monty Python series, first shown on BBC television between 1969 and 1974, have been collected in two companion volumes. Characters' names, often not spoken, are given as in the original scripts, along with the names of the actual performer added on their first appearance in each sketch. This second volume contains twenty-two classic episodes, featuring some of the most entertaining writing to have gone into television anywhere. The minister of silly walks, the dead parrot, banter in a cheese shop - here is every silly, satirical skit, every snide insult, every saucy aside.

Quickie divorces. Overpaid actors. Alarmingly thin actresses. Cynical producers only concerned with profits. These issues aren't new to Hollywood - they've been around since its "Golden Age," in the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Read all about it in articles by and about Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Gloria Swanson and more.