Some Like It Hot

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Summary: Some like it Hot
Review: A beautiful tribute to a beautiful movie

A masterpiece of design, editorial, and layout....

The benchmark of coffee table books for the new millennium

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Summary: Amasterpiece of a masterpiece!
Review: A scrumptuous, sumptuous, brilliant and beautiful look into the world of Billy Wilder's masterpiece of comic genius. Gorgeous in every respect. Yellow leather cover, interviews with Lemmon, Wilder and Curtis, stiolls from all scenes, color, pull out facsilmile of Marilyn's prompt book with her notations. Just magnificent! A must have coffee table treat deluxe for the Marilyn or Wilder fan! WOW!

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Summary: I liked it hot!!
Review: Dan Auiler has created a masterpiece in coffee table books. This book has replaced all others on my table!! "Some Like It Hot" is a whimsical movie and this book immulates the style and impromptu spirit of Billy Wilder's movie. The interviews and photography are marvelous and take me back to the first time I viewed this movie. Congradulations, Mr. Auiler, on catching both the spirit of Marilyn and allowing the movie to live on through the pages of your book.

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Summary: I liked it hot!!
Review: Dan Auiler has created a masterpiece in coffee table books. This book has replaced all others on my table!! "Some Like It Hot" is a whimsical movie and this book immulates the style and impromptu spirit of Billy Wilder's movie. The interviews and photography are marvelous and take me back to the first time I viewed this movie. Congradulations, Mr. Auiler, on catching both the spirit of Marilyn and allowing the movie to live on through the pages of your book.

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Summary: The best book on the funniest film of all time!!
Review: I received this book as a gift from my wonderful husband (thanks dear!) after putting it on my wish list as soon as I heard about it. I love this book and this is one of my top two movies of all time! I am very impressed with all that this book entails. Marilyn Monroe's prompt book is my favorite part but the whole book is fantastic and very worth every penny. (And a pretty penny it was!) A must for every huge fan of the movie or for people who collect movie memorabilia and items on Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, or Tony Curtis. I am thrilled to own it!

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Summary: less than meets the eye
Review: Received this as a gift this Christmas and must say I was disappointed all things considered. I found it lovely to look at, but not much beyond that.

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Summary: less than meets the eye
Review: the most lavishly produced book devoted to a single film to date.

the photos & the script drafts are the main attractions here. the interviews, less so. many of the stories have been told before, so there's little new insight or keen analysis.

in fact, author dan auiler spoke about the book on wnyc recently and said of Some Like it Hot's first screening that "Audrey Hepburn, Billy Wilder's wife, remembers that Steve Allen was the only person in the theater who laughed at the film, and the rest of the audience just sort of sat there stony faced wondering what they were looking at."

don't know what mr. auiler was thinking, but mrs. wilder is not the late audrey hepburn, but audrey young.

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Summary: sumptuous, weighty, pricey!
Review: the most lavishly produced book devoted to a single film to date.

the photos & the script drafts are the main attractions here. the interviews, less so. many of the stories have been told before, so there's little new insight or keen analysis.

in fact, author dan auiler spoke about the book on wnyc recently and said of Some Like it Hot's first screening that "Audrey Hepburn, Billy Wilder's wife, remembers that Steve Allen was the only person in the theater who laughed at the film, and the rest of the audience just sort of sat there stony faced wondering what they were looking at."

don't know what mr. auiler was thinking, but mrs. wilder is not the late audrey hepburn, but audrey young.

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Summary: Wow
Review: Wow, this has to be the most beautiful book I've ever owned. I'm not exactly sure why the authors have chosen this particular film to give such treatment to (I find the film amusing, but not a museum piece), but I love the treatment. From it's sumptious leather cover with stylized typeface to the cute Billy Wilder bookmark, Marilyn's prompt book which fits just so in the back cover, to the detailed presentation of the scripts, the color photographs, and the press materials it's all a great package. I'm guessing this was published by a German publishing house because there are German, French and other language translations after the chapters and along the margins with the script. I can't say as though I would have spent [price] on this, but it was a fabulous gift that I will treasure.