NY Times Bestseller List (Non Fiction) August 31st 2014

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Non Fiction

Week Ending August 31st 2014

10 - The Invisible Bridge - Rick Perlstein
(2 weeks on list)

9  -Blood Feud - Edward Klein
  (8 weeks on list)

8  -  Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
(182 weeks on list)

7  -  Hard Choices - Hillary Clinton
(10 weeks on list)

6  -  A Spy Among Friends - Ben Macintyre
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
(44 weeks on list)

4  -  The First Family Detail - Ronald Kessler
(2 weeks on list)

3  -  In The Kingdom of Ice - Hampton Sides
(2 weeks on list)

2  -  One Nation - Ben Carson
(13 weeks on list)

1  -  America - Dinesh D'Souza
(6 weeks on list) (3rd week at #1)
A defense of America against the view that its power in the world should be diminished.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) August 31st 2014

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending August 31st 2014

10 - The Magician's Land - Lev Grossman
(2 weeks on list) (last week at #1)

9  -  The Lost Island - Preston and Child
(2 weeks on list)

8  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(15 weeks on list)

7  -  The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
(5 weeks on list)

6  -  The Heist - Daniel Silva
(5 weeks on list)

5  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
(43 weeks on list)

4  -  Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty
(3 weeks on list)

3  -  The 6th Extinction - James Rollins
(Debut)
The 10th Sigma Force novel offers Nazis, an ancient secret, a ticking nuclear clock and alien life forms.

2  -  Love Letters - Debbie Macomber
(Debut)
Three couples struggle with intimacy one summer at Cedar Cove's Rose Harbor Inn.

1  -  Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
(DEBUT)
A young man's difficult coming of age.

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

This week our show is "The Mysterious Traveler" which had 370 episodes from 1943-1952 and become known for the lonesome locomotive whistle to heralded the arrival of the Narrator (portrayed by Maurice Tarplin).   Featuring suspense, crime dramas, science fiction, fantasy and mystery.
This weeks show features science fiction.

The Mysterious Traveler

"Strange New World"

Feb 19th 1952

2014 Emmy Award for Drama Series

Winner of the 2014 Emmy for Drama Series

Breaking Bad

2nd consecutive win

2014 Emmy Award for Comedy Series

Winner of the 2014 Emmy for Comedy Series

Modern Family

5th straight win as Best Comedy series,

tying "Fraiser" for the record.

This Week in Movie History

This week in 1960 Elvis was king of the movie theaters as his just released movie "G.I. Blues" tops the box office charts for the week.

Top Ten Bruce Lee Moments

In honor of the 41st anniversary of the US theatrical release of Bruce Lee's last film "Enter The Dragon", here are Watchmojo.com's Top 10 Bruce Lee moments.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 08/17/2014

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending August 17th 2014

10 - The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith
(7 weeks on list)

9  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(13 weeks on list)

8  -  Act of War - Brad Thor
(4 weeks on list)

7  -  A Perfect Life - Danielle Steel
(2 weeks on list)

6  -  Fast Track - Julie Garwood
(Debut)
A woman faces threats as she searches for the truth about her long dead mother, aided by her best friend's attractive older brother.

5  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tarrt
(41 weeks on list)

4  -  The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
(3 weeks on list)

3  -  Tom Clancy: Support and Defend - Mark Greaney
(2 weeks on list)

2  -  The Heist - Daniel Silva
(last week's #1) (3 weeks on list)

1  -  Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty
(DEBUT)
Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in the same school become friends.

NY Times Bestseller List (NonFiction) 08/17/2014

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Non Fiction

Week Ending August 17th 2014

10 - Capital In The Twenty First Century - Thomas Piketty
(17 weeks on list)

9  -  Think Like A Freak - Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
(12 weeks on list)

8  - The Mockingbird Next Door - Marja Mills
(3 weeks on list)

7  -  David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
(42 weeks on list)

6  -  Blood Feud - Edward Klein
(6 weeks on list)

5  -  Hard Choices - Hillary Clinton
(8 weeks on list)

4  -  Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
(180 weeks on list)

3  -  One Nation - Ben Carson with Candy Carson
(11 weeks on list)

2  -  A Spy Among Friends - Ben Macintyre
(Debut)
An account of the British Cold War spy Kim Philby focuses on the two close friends whose trust he betrayed.

1  -  America - Dinesh D'Souza
(2nd consecutive week at #1) (4 weeks on list)
A defense of America against the view that its power in the world should be diminished.

 

Top Ten Mob Movie Characters

Classic Movie Poster of the Week (Robin Williams)

Today is a sad day for all of us as America loses an original, Robin Williams.   Gone way too soon, he left a legacy of laughter and even some great dramatic roles and he was an Oscar winner for

"Good Will Hunting". 

Nothing more can be said, but that he and Jonathan Winters are entertaining the multitudes in Heaven

Here is just a sampling of his impressive film work

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 08/10/2014

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending August 10th 2014

10 - Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King
(8 weeks on list)

9  -  Remains of Innocence - J.A. Jance
(Debut)
Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two seemingly unrelated, perplexing cases.

8  -  Invisible - James Patterson and David Ellis
(5 weeks on list)

7  -  The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith
(6 weeks on list)

6  -  Act of War - Brad Thor
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
(40 weeks on list)

4  -  A Perfect Life - Danielle Steel
(Debut)
A successful TV anchor faces a young rival at work just as the long kept secrets of her private life are exposed.

3  -  Tom Clancy : Support and Defend - Mark Greaney
(Debut)
A Dominic Caruso novel, written in the tradition of Clancy who died in October 2013.

2  -  The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
(2 weeks on list) (last week's #1)

1  -  The Heist - Daniel Silva
(2nd week on list)
Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, must track down a famous missing painting by Caravaggio.

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

1960

NY Times Bestseller List (Hardback Fiction) 08/03/2014

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction (Top 10)

Week Ending August 3rd 2014

10 - Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King
(7 weeks on list)

9  -  Wayfaring Stranger - James Lee Burke
(Debut)
A man's life is traced over decades starting with is encounter, at age 16, with Bonnie and Clyde.

8  -  Top Secret Twenty-One - Janet Evanovich
(5 weeks on list)

7  -  The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith
(5 weeks on list)

6  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt 
(39 weeks on list)

5  -  Invisible - James Patterson and David Ellis(4 weeks on list)

4  -  Cut and Thrust - Stuart Woods 
(Debut)
Complications abound as the New York lawyer Stone Barrington attends a politcal convention in Los Angeles.

3  -  Act of War - Brad Thor
(2nd week on list) (last week's #1)
The counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath undertakes two dangerous missions as America faces an imminent attack.

2  -  The Heist - Daniel Silva
(Debut)
Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, must track down a famous missing painting by Caravaggio.

1  -  The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
(DEBUT)
In the conclusion to the All Souls trilogy, the Oxford scholar/witch Diana Bishop and the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont return from Elizabethan London to the present.

Bonanza - Season 6

The 1964-65 television season was the 6th season of Bonanza and its first (of 3 consecutive seasons) as the #1 show on network primetime programming.

"Jonah"

Season 6 episode 32

aired May 9th 1965

NBC

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

This week's show is probably my favorite old time radio show not called Gunsmoke,
"The Jack Benny Program" which starred of course, Jack Benny.  Jack was a comedy and radio legend and transitioned to television with no problem and deftly took his show with him and became a tv legend.
Jack along with his famous cast saw little change in lineup from his debut in 1932 to the final radio show in 1955.   He made household names out of his wife Mary Livingstone, announcer Don Wilson, singer Dennis Day and band leader Phil Harris.  In the early 1950s Phil Harris left Jack's show and was smoothly replaced by Bob Crosby (brother of Bing Crosby) and it was seamless.   Jack himself said that his role was to have a funny show and it didnt matter who got the laughs because it was always The Jack Benny Program the people remembered.

October 24th 1954

"The Drive In Movie"

CBS Radio

(Jack, Don and Dennis have a night out at the movies)