When Little Frog is introduced to his nine new brothers and sisters, at first he is not impressed. After all, the tadpoles don\"t do anything. They just stay in a jar - they won\"t play the drums, they won\"t jump or skip, they won\"t build a tower. But when they turn into frogs . . . they also turn into best friends!...

When Little Frog is introduced to his nine new brothers and sisters, at first he is not impressed. After all, the tadpoles don\"t do anything. They just stay in a jar - they won\"t play the drums, they won\"t jump or skip, they won\"t build a tower. But when they turn into frogs . . . they also turn into best friends!...

Little Owl definitely knows what he likes (doing sums, eating ice-cream, riding his scooter). And he definitely knows what he doesn\"t like (his new scarf that\"s itchy, long, and far too orange). So when his scarf is lost at the zoo, Mummy decides that Little Owl should definitely be involved in helping her to make the replacement....

When Mummy decides that Blue Blanket needs a wash, Small Bunny is worried. After all, Blue Blanket is perfect just the way it is. Will it feel the same afterwards? Will he love it as much? Find out in this whimsical tale of love, loss, and laundry!...

Small Elephant is quite sure that he does not want a bath. After trying all sorts of ways to tempt her little elephant into the tub, Mummy knows that Daddy being silly might just do the trick in taming a toddler tantrum!...

Over the course of the eight feature films he has directed since 1979, Michael Mann has shown himself, time and again, to be a rigorous, honest dramatist, a maker of solid worlds. So much so that in America, at least, he tends to be underrated. The most respectful of his critics often define him (a bit too simply) as a "realist....

"I like shadows in movies. I don't like them in life." Roman Polanski's ability to wring laughter from the most degrading heartbreaks will carry the same wealth of healthy shocks in a hundred years. He creates a macabre beauty to be wooed by and wondered at....

This is a comprehensive guide to the financial markets\' most important and often least understood instruments. This key practical guide examines derivatives traded in the equity, debt, and currency markets, focusing on those product characteristics that emphasize the instruments\' specific uses and applications....

American cinema, as we've known it since The Godfather, would be impossible to reimagine without Al Pacino. As Michael Corleone he breathes life into an American of epic dimension....

Poet, pirate, libertine Versatile and veracious How do we even describe the alienated beauty of Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, Donnie Brasco, Don Juan DeMarco, Captain Jack Sparrow and Sweeney Todd, apart from the prodigious gift of Johnny Depp?...

A recognized prodigy at age 10, world famous by age 23, Orson Welles was a triple magician of theater, radio, and film-and by age 25 a promising figure in American politics. President Franklin Roosevelt encouraged him to try a run for the Senate; newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst branded him a pariah....

James Dean died at the age of 24, yet half a century later his mystique is unfaded. Had luck favored him that fatal evening, he might still be with us, an actor in the same generation as Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, and Sean Connery....

Elvis Presley would have been the first to laugh at the mad, godlike status he attained after death, but he would have surely identified with the human, gospel-haunted need such adoration rises out of. He shared that need, and courted it. He could sing and move with a spellbinding violence and grace....

Had he not been an actor, Marlon Brando once wrote, he would have become a criminal-specifically, a con artist. Take him at his word....

\"You say everybody wants to be Cary Grant? Even I want to be Cary Grant.\" - Cary Grant He\'s the most self-invented man in movies, this side of Charlie Chaplin. Like Chaplin, Cary Grant grew up poor, trained as an acrobat, and brims with confidence, romance, and a spirit of merry larceny-he just has a better tailor....