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The Skinny About Best Boys, Dollies, Green Rooms, Leads and Other Media Lingo: The Language of the Media
The Skinny About Best Boys Dollies Green Rooms Leads and Other Media Lingo The Language of the Media Author:Richard Weiner From the author of Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communciations comes this witty guide to the remarkable words that come from the media. In this compilation, Weiner reveals stories and meanings of familiar and unfamiliar words and phrases from sources such as Hollywood movies, the theater, publishing, broadcast TV, and other... more » media. Featuring everything from "yellowbacks" to "yellow journalism," "white mail" to the "Great White Way," and "teasers" to "spin doctors," this book is the "leading light."