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New Releases by William J. BirnesWilliam J. Birnes is the author of The Big Book of UFO Facts, Figures & Truth (2019), UFOs and The White House (2018), Suicidal Mass Murderers (2017), Beyond Columbo (2017), Edison Vs. Tesla, the Battle Over Their Last Invention (2017).
The Big Book of UFO Facts, Figures & Truth
release date: Apr 02, 2019
release date: Feb 13, 2018
release date: Jul 27, 2017
release date: Jul 19, 2017
We knew him as Lieutenant Columbo, showing up at a crime scene behind the wheel of an iconic Peugeot 403 convertible and wearing a rumpled trench coat, tie often at half mast from an open collar, and smoking a cigar. He was meticulous, though, in his search for clues, focusing on things that didn''t add up and homing in on a person whom he suspected as he tightened the web around his prey until, in a final reveal, he got the suspect to cough up a confession.This was Peter Falk, who inhabited the role of Lieutenant Columbo after a successful career playing gangsters in feature films opposite the likes of Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Glen Ford. And the new biography of Peter Falk, *Beyond Columbo,* is an in-depth look at the actor''s life, his place in history, and his artist''s life.Authors Richard Lertzman and Bill Birnes (*Dr. Feelgood* and *The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney)* cover not just the details of Falk''s life and the influences upon him, they talk about his range as a performer who could inhabit roles as tough as gangster Abe Reles in *Murder, Inc.,* slapstick comedy in *It''s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World* and *The Great Race,* and as benevolent as the kindly grandfather in *Princess Bride.* The authors reveal that there was much more to the real-life Peter Falk than the characters he played. Falk tried to join the Marines, applied to be an agent for the CIA, sailed as a cook in the Merchant Marine, worked for Marshal Tito in Communist Yugoslavia, got himself arrested in Italy over a restaurant bill, and was followed around by Soviet intelligence agents.The authors delve into the basic psychological conflict that drove Falk from the time he grew up in a well-to-do merchant family in Ossining, New York, where his father wanted him to get a steady job at a steady income instead of "painting his face" and making a spectacle of himself. This drove Falk, listening to the inner voices of his parents to question himself often, even as he tried to live the life of a vagabond performer looking for the perfect role, the role he ultimately found in *Columbo.*The book includes in-depth and exclusive interview with many of Falk''s co-stars, Joe Mantegna, Dabney Coleman, Paul Reiser, George Segal, Kevin Pollak, Dan Lauria, Steven Bochco, and Ed Begley, Jr., as well as from *Columbo''s* first director, Steven Spielberg.
Edison Vs. Tesla, the Battle Over Their Last Invention
release date: Jan 01, 2017
release date: Oct 03, 2016
release date: Feb 23, 2016
release date: Feb 23, 2016
The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney
release date: Oct 20, 2015
release date: May 06, 2014
The Haunting of Twenty-First-Century America
release date: Dec 17, 2013
George Noory's Late-Night Snacks
release date: Nov 05, 2013
release date: Sep 10, 2013
release date: May 01, 2013
release date: Apr 03, 2012
release date: Dec 15, 2011
The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America
release date: Sep 13, 2011
release date: Aug 02, 2011
release date: Aug 02, 2011
release date: Nov 02, 2010
release date: Aug 18, 2010
release date: Jul 01, 2010
The Haunting of the Presidents
release date: Feb 10, 2010
release date: Dec 22, 2008
release date: Apr 17, 2007
The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia
release date: Jan 06, 2004
The Psychology of Serial Killer Investigations: The Grisly Business Unit
release date: Oct 01, 2003
The Psychology of Serial Killer Investigations
release date: Aug 20, 2003
release date: Oct 01, 2000
release date: Jun 01, 1998
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