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The companion book to the popular movie starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK. Stuck in an East Texas old folks home, they must face off against a redneck mummy. ... Read more

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Best Elvis Performance
Hooky, and yes it's a 'B' movie, but the best acting job
Bruce Campbell ever did. Worth buying just to see Bruce
Campbells acting!

Great story, great script, great book!
Once upon a time, Texan writer Joe R. Lansdale was forced to put his ailing mother in a rest home.The writer found the place both sad and creepy...and a wonderful setting for a story.Combining two fallen heroes from his youth (Elvis Presley and President John Kennedy) with an interest in archeology (i.e. mummies) Lansdale drafted the story Bubba Ho-Tep, wherein the eldery men who may or may not be who they say they are (the aforementioned misters Presley and Kennedy) battle a soul sucking mummy that is feeding on the frail residents of the rest home they live in.Lansdale's story is sad, spooky, funny, and ulitmately heartwarming as the two find themselves vitalized by the battle with a nemesis that only they can see and touch.Ironically, Lansdale did not care much for the story and was surprised when it became a fan favorite.He was also stunned that Phantasm writer/director Don Coscarelli wanted to make the story into a movie.Considering how oddball the concept was, it is no surprise that financing Bubba Ho-Tep would prove problematic.But Coscarelli stuck to his vision and snagged Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis to star and managed to make the movie he wanted to make.When no one would distribute it, he distributed it himself and a bona-fide cult classic was born.In this book are Lansdale's story and Coscarelli's respectfully faithful shooting script.Whether you are a fan of Lansdale, Coscarelli, or Campbell (or all of the above, like me) this book is required reading.Highly recommended.

A Fitting Book to an Outstanding Movie
I became obsesses with this movie when I heard Bruce Campbell speak at his book signing. It introduced me to the world of the Mojo story-telling of Joe R. Lansdale. I rushed out and ordered Writers Of The Purple Rage which included Bubba Ho-Tep. This volume not only includes the original story but also the screenplay to the movie. It is amazing how faithful Don Coscarelli has kept the script to the original. As an added bonus there is an inttroduction by Lansdale and Coscarelli plus their autograph to this limited 970 editions. The retail price is $40.00. Truly this is a bargain at $28.oo. If you see the movie, you will definitely want this fine companion piece!!! ... Read more

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Chapters: Libyans of Italian Descent, Italian Settlers in Libya, Claudio Gentile, Don Coscarelli, Franco Califano, Rossana Podestà, Mario Schifano, Gabriele de Paolis. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Italian, Sicilian, other languages of Italy, Libyan Arabic Italian settlers in Libya (also called Italian Libyans) typically refers to Italians, and their descendants, who resided or were born in Libya. Italian heritage in Libya can be dated back to Ancient Rome, when the Romans controlled and colonized Libya for a period of five centuries prior to the fall of the Roman Empire and its takeover by Arab and Turkish civilizations. But predominantly Italian heritage in Libya refers to modern-day Italians. In 1911, the Kingdom of Italy waged war on the Ottoman Empire and captured Libya as a colony. Italian settlers were encouraged to come to Libya and did so from 1911 to the outbreak of World War II. In Libya, the Italians in less than thirty years (1911-1940) built significant amount of public works (roads, railways, buildings, ports, etc.) and the Libyan economy flourished. Italian farmers cultivated lands that were lost to the desert for centuries and improved Italian Libya's agriculture to international standards. Libya was considered the new "America" for the Italian emigrants in the thirties, substituting the United States. An idealized image of the take over of Ottoman Libya by Italy in 1911The governor Italo Balbo is attributed with the creation of modern Libya in 1934, when he convinced Mussolini to unite the Italian colonies of Tripolitania, Cirenaica and the Italian Libyan Sahara in one single country named "Libia" in Italian. The Italians in Libya numbered 108,419 (12.37% of the total population) at the time of the 1939 census. They were c...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17255075 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : José Todaro, Herbert Pagani, Claudio Gentile, Moussa Koussa, Seif El Islam Kadhafi, Tarik El Taib, Don Coscarelli, Jehad Muntasser, Saadi Kadafi, Rossana Podestà, Shaha Riza, Djamal Mahamat Bindi, Léonce de Tripoli. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Giuseppe « José » Todaro est un ténor lyrique né le 2 octobre 1940 à Tripoli de parents italiens. Il passe son enfance à Agrigento en Sicile. Adolescent, il rejoint ses frères ainés installés à Sainte-Marie-aux-Chênes en Lorraine dans le Pays-Haut Mosellan où ils travaillent dans les mines de fer. Il débute ses études musicales au conservatoire de Metz auprès de Georges Genin, ancien ténor de l'Opéra de Paris. En 1962, il est engagé au théâtre de Mulhouse en tant que choriste. Il y reste trois saisons aux cours desquelles il aborde de petits rôles de soliste. Il fait ses grands débuts en 1965 au Théâtre de la Monnaie de Bruxelles dans le rôle de Rodolfo de « La Bohème » de Puccini; de 1968 à 70 il est fréquemment invité à l'opéra de Gand interprétant Vincent dans « Mireille » de Gounod, Alfredo dans « La Traviata » de Verdi et Des Grieux dans « Manon » de Massenet; en 1969 il se produit à l'opéra de Marseille comme Cassio dans « Othello » de Verdi ; en 1970 à Nice comme Alfredo, à Lille comme Wladimir dans « Prince Igor » de Borodin. Ayant quelques rôles d'opérette à son Répertoire (Vincent dans « Le chanteur de Mexico » de Lopez, Sou Chong dans « Le pays du sourire » de Léhar), en 1971 Francis Lopez lui propose de créer « Gipsy » au théatre Sébastopol de Lille puis au Théâtre du Châtelet à Paris. Cela lui a apporté un succès spectaculaire avec un série de 600 présentations au Chatelet(!). Dans ce même Théâtre et avec un succès semblable, il crée ens...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Italian Settlers in Libya, Claudio Gentile, Don Coscarelli, Franco Califano, Rossana Podestà, Mario Schifano, Gabriele de Paolis. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Italian, Sicilian, other languages of Italy, Libyan Arabic Italian settlers in Libya (also called Italian Libyans) typically refers to Italians, and their descendants, who resided or were born in Libya. Italian heritage in Libya can be dated back to Ancient Rome, when the Romans controlled and colonized Libya for a period of five centuries prior to the fall of the Roman Empire and its takeover by Arab and Turkish civilizations. But predominantly Italian heritage in Libya refers to modern-day Italians. In 1911, the Kingdom of Italy waged war on the Ottoman Empire and captured Libya as a colony. Italian settlers were encouraged to come to Libya and did so from 1911 to the outbreak of World War II. In Libya, the Italians in less than thirty years (1911-1940) built significant amount of public works (roads, railways, buildings, ports, etc.) and the Libyan economy flourished. Italian farmers cultivated lands that were lost to the desert for centuries and improved Italian Libya's agriculture to international standards. Libya was considered the new "America" for the Italian emigrants in the thirties, substituting the United States. An idealized image of the take over of Ottoman Libya by Italy in 1911The governor Italo Balbo is attributed with the creation of modern Libya in 1934, when he convinced Italian leader Benito Mussolini to unite the Italian colonies of Tripolitania, Cirenaica and the Italian Libyan Sahara in one single country named "Libia" in Italian. The Italians in Libya numbered 108,419 (12.37% of the total population) at the time of the 1939 census. They were concentrated in the ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17255075 ... Read more

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Just OK
Great imagination as you would expect from Joe, but in the end I thought it was just OK. Had a great beginning and a fantastic last paragraph, but the in between just seemed to float around.

Could make an interesting movie. And every time I go to the drive in with my wife, I'm instantly reminded of the Popcorn King and Cannibalism.

The Complete Drive-In
This is an excellent book. I read it in a week. I had a very hard time putting it down also!
LOVED IT!!!

Cannibalism, gore, and the Popcorn King - another night at the picture show
A collection of three cult novels that form one larger story arc, The Complete Drive-In is an absolute must read for horror fans, particularly those with tastes that lean towards the grindhouse. A night at the local drive-in movie theater (on horror marathon night) is interrupted by a most unusual comet, and afterwards the night never seems to end. Tensions start to rise, people start to die, bodies start getting eaten, and then the Popcorn King comes along...and we're not even through the first of the three books. Lansdale has made a spectacularly wonderful little work that's equal parts pitch-black comedy, gruesome horror tale, fascinating adventure, and incredible display of imagination, all while juggling some seriously low-class roots and a taste for the gross-out. It's an absolute blast, and while the end is a little bit of a letdown, it's definitely not enough to ruin the book; it just doesn't quite live up to what's come before. But I really can't recommend this enough if you've got the taste for it (heh) - it's manages to both embrace the genre and have some fun with it, and it's a joy to read.

Good Book
This was a good book. This is my first Joe Lansdale book and was not disappointed. I would suggest getting "The Complete Drive-In" so that you get the whole story. At times in the book, its like the author was on some hallucinagenic drugs but overall a good story.

Joe R. Landsdale rules
Collected 'Drive-In' stories.Joe R. Landsdale is one of the greatest writers alive today.This guy could make the weather interesting if he wrote about it.Seriously.Check him out. ... Read more

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Limited Edition of 500 copies. Official novel adaptation of the original Phantasm film (1979) ... Read more