Entertaining With Regis Kathie Lee

Contains recipes, party ideas, & tips for every time of year, from New Year's Brunch to Mother's Day, through Fourth of July picnics to Christmas. There are unique concepts for invitations, party settings, decorations, & menus, as well as brand-new recipes from the four star chefs & gourmet stars who've appeared on the show. There are personal favorites & reminiscences from Regis, Kathie Lee, their families, & staff. There's something here for everyone & for every occasion, from a St. Patrick's Day gathering, to gifts for bridal shower guests, & ideas for summertime entertaining. Fabulous fun for all those who love this irrepressible twosome.

Two popular television hosts present their best ideas for seasonal holiday parties, offering recipes, hints for successful entertaining, party plans, and much more.

"It's not always easy being me," writes Regis Philbin ... then goes on to prove just that by traveling across time and behind the scenes for unforgettable encounters with Johnny Carson, Robert DeNiro, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Jack Paar, Bill Cosby and many other celebrities. He also tells of his boyhood stomping grounds in the south Bronx, his college adventures at Notre Dame, his family and career crises. This is Reege up close and personal as he's never been seen before, self-deprecating, funny and always exasperated!

Live with Regis and Kathie Lee is among the top three spots in the TV ratings, boasting 20 million viewers each week. These contrasting personalities make their completely impromptu, extemporaneous show easily the hottest thing on the morning television schedule. This is the often heartwarming, always revealing, story of the highly successful show and its cohosts. Photos, many in color.

Annotation Regis Philbin is short, middle-aged, curmudgeonly, and pure schmaltz. Yet, he commands so much celebrity attention that he launched his own award-winning fashion line. The dapper host of Live! With Regis and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, a runaway hit that single-handedly ushered in a new era of television game shows, is admired by an incredibly diverse fan base: old-timers love his cantankerous outlook on life; middle-aged men want to be him and middle-aged women want to marry him; younger viewers love his hip-to-be-square attitude. Kathleen Tracy's Regis! The Unauthorized Biography looks at the personal and professional struggles of Philbin during his thirty-year climb to the top of the television heap, including his complicated relationship with Kathie Lee Gifford and the improbable events that led to his becoming the host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

“From her head down to her gnarly (no longer!) toes, Kathie Lee is pure dame. And she’s served up a cocktail of wit and wisdom with a decidedly salty rim!”—Meredith Vieira Just When I Thought I’d Dropped My Last Egg is Kathie Lee Gifford’s triumphant laugh-out-loud celebration of forging ahead with gusto, even long after we’re old enough to know better. Age, after all, isn’t a number, it’s a state of mind, and being fertile isn’t just about having babies, it’s about being passionate and creative. Writing with the candor of a friend who knows where the bodies are buried, Kathie Lee reveals the truth every woman of a certain age knows but won’t admit: that we love our kids every second of every day but are counting the minutes till they’re ready to go off to college, that even though gravity is a constant force, not all parts of our bodies droop at the same rate, and that life and show business share one simple rule: “Don’t sit by the phone and wait for a man or a job.” Full of warmth, humor, and down-to-earth wisdom, this wonderful book is a delectable read for grown-ups of all ages. Praise for Just When I Thought I’d Dropped My Last Egg “I’ve been through a couple of calamities with Kathie Lee and nobody handles them better. You could blow her up, cook her and hang her out to dry and she will still survive and have some laughs doing it.”—Regis Philbin “Kathie Lee has always entertained me with her humor, wry wit, and penchant for pinpointing all of our very human foibles with great accuracy and hilarity. Now she does it again. This charming memoir filled with amusing anecdotes about herself and her family, friends, and colleagues brought a smile to my face but also touched me. Her insight is as remarkable as she is.”—Barbara Taylor Bradford “Gifford dishes about everything.”—The Tampa Tribune “Fans will be delighted . . . by the book’s mix of earnest life lessons and self-conscious kookiness.”—Publishers Weekly “Outrageously funny . . . [Gifford’s] quirky sense of humor shines through.”—Wichita Falls Times Record News

Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural categories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre: history, industry, audience, text, and genre mixing. Drawing on well-known television programs from Dragnet to The Simpsons, this book provides a new model of genre historiography and illustrates how genres are at work within nearly every facet of television-from policy decisions to production techniques to audience practices. Ultimately, the book argues that through analyzing how television genre operates as a cultural practice, we can better comprehend how television actively shapes our social world.

The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.