Most Popular Books by Howard Fine

Heralded as "Best Acting Teacher in LA" by Back Stage magazine, Hollywood''s most sought after acting teacher Howard Fine reveals the winning technique that has garnered his students international acclaim and the industry''s highest honors in his astonishing book FINE ON ACTING. During his twenty-five years as a teacher and director, Fine has developed a technique that is both useful and exciting. Emmy Award(R)-winning actor Michael Chiklis (THE SHIELD, FANTASTIC FOUR) writes in the foreword for FINE ON ACTING, "You''ve purchased this book because you either aspire to be an actor or want to be a better one. Either way you''ve made a wonderful decision. Howard Fine is a great teacher. His philosophy and approach to the craft of acting are the most helpful, encouraging and practically applicable I''ve ever encountered." FINE ON ACTING covers the essentials for actors, including The Common Mistakes, Rehearsal, Auditions, Stage vs. Television and Film Acting, and Comedy vs. Drama. Fine also offers valuable advice for troubleshooting challenging situations, such as playing opposite a bad actor, nerves, memorizing lines, working with a bad director, and being emotionally blocked. A close colleague of the legendary Uta Hagen and the founder of the Howard Fine Acting Studio, Fine has worked with hundreds of stars, including Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Bradley Cooper, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake, Lindsay Lohan, Salma Hayek, Simon Baker, Amanda Bynes, Gerard Butler, Jennifer Connelly, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Michelle Williams, Val Kilmer, Sela Ward, Jason Priestley, Kerry Washington, Amy Smart, Jared Leto, Wilmer Valderrama, Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah, Rick Fox, Estella Warren, Christopher Meloni, Enrique Murciano, Garry Shandling, Alexa Vega, Heather Locklear, Geri Halliwell, Carla Gugino, James Belushi, Diana Ross, Jon Bon Jovi, and Josh Groban. Fine is one of the few elite acting experts who has devoted his primary career to perfecting the teaching and coaching of professional actors. His outstanding reputation is the product of his remarkable expertise uniquely coupled with his extraordinary gift to inspire.

This perceptive analysis exposes five paradoxes that put women in no-win professional situations and concludes with a new model for business, which the authors call a coed corporation.

Many minimally invasive procedures have been developed over the past decades, leading to a great improvement in eye surgery. This unique textbook and reference guide provides a complete up-to-date overview of minimally invasive surgical techniques in ophthalmology. Lavishly illustrated with superb illustrations and video clips, it presents the state of the art of minimally invasive ophthalmic procedures. It serves as an invaluable resource for all ophthalmic surgeons with widely varying levels of experience, from the resident to the experienced surgeon.

The popular Answer Guy from ESPN The Magazine provides a compilation of information, trivia, anecdotes, and answers to some of sports fans'' most pressing questions, in sixty-five entertaining columns that cover such crucial questions as "Why are there 18 holes in a round of golf" and "Why do hockey players wear shorts?"

A collection of popular Christmas carols and poems in which the illustrations feature pig characters.

Cataract Surgery CD-ROM: The State of the Art provides a comprehensive look at this ever-challenging procedure by surgical experts, led by world renowned surgeon, Dr. I. Howard Fine. Drs. Fine, Packer and Hoffman have carefully selected 28 different surgical videos demonstrating techniques such as IOL Insertion, Stromal Hydration, Limbal Relaxing Incisions, and Capsular Tension Ring and presented them in a straightforward fashion for the viewer to get the maximum exposure to each procedure. Invaluable audio narration follows each step of every procedure, and is spoken by the authors themselves, providing the user with accurate knowledge of what is happening. The authors describe their approach to all aspects of lenticular surgery including clear lensectomy, the use of power modulations and why they are important, as well as insight on how lowering the total amount of energy into the eye has resulted in clearer corneas and faster and better uncorrected visual activity in the intermediate postoperative period. Their technique for routine cataract surgery shows why it can also be used in any difficult or challenging case without any alteration in technique. The authors’ techniques are easy to emulate because they don’t involve any intraocular gymnastics and are uniform and consistent in all instances. This CD-ROM gives a unified, consistent approach to lens surgery that is useful in each and every situation an ophthalmologist will face. Some Procedures Include: I. Howard Fine''s Choo Choo Chop & Flip Phaco Techniques Cortical Cleaving Hydrodissection Limbal Relaxing Incisions Staining the Capsules with Vital Dyes Piggyback IOLs System Requirements For Your PC Pentium Based PC or above Windows 95, 98 or later 6X CD-ROM drive 16 MB of RAM (32 MB preferred)LIu003e 15 MB of hard disk storage 8-bit Sound Blaster-compatible sound card QuickTime 5.0 or higher for Windows (included) For Your Macintosh Power PC or above 16 MB of RAM (32 MB preferred) 15 MB of hard disk storage Mac OS version 8.6 or later QuickTime 5.0 or higher for Macintosh (included)

A collection of popular Christmas carols and poems in which the words have been altered to include pig characters.

Two days after his golf pro and friend Frank Lopez died, Jonathan Fine saw a satiny, gossamer-like cloud of energy pulsating near an electrical outlet. Feeling an eerie and powerful presence, Fine candidly admits that he believes this was Frank. Shortly thereafter, more weird things began happening to Fine, but best of all, his golf improved dramatically. Citing the incredible power of belief, Fine explains that whether Lopez'' spirit actually helped him play better golf is irrelevant, attributing his success to the belief that it did.