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guitarrgirl	Another Time Another Place–Quantum Leap	Lead	[-]
Registered User Posts: 424 (09/12/2008 03:39:08) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : scott bakula, quantum leap, dean stockwell, don bellisario, sam beckett, al calavicci Hey there. . . Does anyone have this book? I was wondering of it would be worth getting or not. You can see 'inside' the book on Amazon.com and I found a typo on the first page so I'm thinking I should find out from someone who has the book already if it is worth it. The same author has a book out on Remington Steele that I'm interested in too. Before I shell out 50 bucks for these two I'm waiting for some reviews. Here's the link to the amazon entry: Another Time Another Place-Quantum Leap To look inside the book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/...ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link If you have a review can you email me: guitarrgirldotcom@gmail.com Thanks in advance, :) m Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs!
leapme		#1	[-]
Registered User Posts: 1362 (09/12/2008 04:20:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	you now Mel for a sec I thought you made a music vid with a headersubject llike that :-)
guitarrgirl		#2	[-]
Registered User Posts: 424 (09/12/2008 05:08:49) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	leapme wrote: you now Mel for a sec I thought you made a music vid with a headersubject llike that :-) Sorry. . . that's the book's title. When I saw that someone commented. . . I thought I might have had a review. Drat. I can make a video with that title if you'd like, but I might get sued. :) m Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs!
Pam from Boston		#3	[-]
Registered User Posts: 6506 (09/12/2008 06:23:28) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I remember there was some griping on the message boards when this was released. I don't think anyone who was griping had seen the book yet, though. I have never seen it, and I forget the nature of the griping. There is one guide to QL that i don't recommend - The Making of Quantum Leap by Hal Schuster. Almost all of its content was pulled from internet archive files created by fans of the show. In other words, it's likely quite accurate, but it's also plagiarism. Just find the archives online and print them yourself rather than giving this man any money. I have the Chunovic guide - it's set up in an odd fashion (in leap date order) it has errors, and it was incomplete when I bought it. It has since been updated. Perhaps the errors were fixed. I doubt the order was changed. It had some nice pictures. I'm sure you've seen all of them online somewhere. There is a portion that I vaguely recall as a behind the scenes/making of that i found interesting. It mentioned that Scott and Bob Saget were friends, so it may have been the making of Stand Up. Julie Barrett's Quantum Leap A to Z is accurate (she's a fan and former Con Commitee member from TX) but it's also in an unusual order (A - Z). If you don't mind that, it's a gathering of info you probably already know (like who is Donnna, etc) I believe this book was authorized by Universal, unlike the Schuster one. (yes, my name still ended up in the credits of the Schuster one, but I backed out early and really didn't contribute anything but someone else's paper for the "author" to copy off of. Does anyone have a non-fiction QL Guide they actually like? I don't. There is also one by Scott Nance. I heard it was bad but I can't remember why, so I can't really say it was. ---- I never check my inbox, please email me (pam at bakulanews dot com) www.bakulanews.com - Latest news, summarized www.mindspring.com/~pashworth/BakulaNewsHome - Archives of older Scott info >') ( ~)/ ~~~~~~~ Who's singing that song on my favorite show? If it's not Scott, try tunefind.com - a great site by just a guy who watches TV (unsolicited plug)
helene		#4	[-]
Moderator Registered User Posts: 1771 (09/12/2008 07:14:25) Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Melissa, I've never even heard of the book so obviously I know nothing about it. However, there is a part of me that now insists that, at minimum, it has to be on the up and up (though not quite sure what that means) because Jay Schwartz, Scott's publicist, has full control over all photos relating to the show now and since there are a few on the cover (no clue what's inside), they had to at least have spoken to him to get approval for their use. I realize that doesn't answer your question, of course. I will certainly ask around and see if anyone else has any info to share. Regardless, thanks for bring it to everyone's attention!
guitarrgirl		#5	[-]
Registered User Posts: 424 (09/12/2008 07:52:26) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	helene wrote: snipped they had to at least have spoken to him to get approval for their use. Unless they were stupid enough to print it without permission. You'd think people would clue in, but I've seen this happen before. --- After more poking around. . . The inside does have photos, but this is a really low budget look. They have this info on the inside: "Copyright 2004 - JM Media Group - WGA Registered Richie F. Levine and Judith A. Moose" And further on down: "Photographic material used in this book is credited to JM Media Group, Project Quantum Leap, Deborah M. Pratt and NBC/Universal Television." The website listed is for info on the book is for a 'self-publish' company. Too bad really because people think they can 'do-it-themselves' the quality of the product suffers. Sorry in advance if Judith A. Moose is a listmember here. After looking more closely at the inside pages (and not too closely at that) I found even more typos. It looks like someone set this up in MS Word. Speaking of physicists. . . anybody catch the smashing of particles yesterday with the Hadron Collider? :) m Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs!
Pam from Boston		#6	[-]
Registered User Posts: 6506 (09/12/2008 10:40:06) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	isn't the JM media group something Roger has to do with? or was that Jim Hill media? I don't know what either of them actually are of course. ---- I never check my inbox, please email me (pam at bakulanews dot com) www.bakulanews.com - Latest news, summarized www.mindspring.com/~pashworth/BakulaNewsHome - Archives of older Scott info >') ( ~)/ ~~~~~~~ Who's singing that song on my favorite show? If it's not Scott, try tunefind.com - a great site by just a guy who watches TV (unsolicited plug)
Pam from Boston		#7	[-]
Registered User Posts: 6506 (09/12/2008 10:44:35) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	guitarrgirl wrote: Speaking of physicists. . . anybody catch the smashing of particles yesterday with the Hadron Collider? I think I have a screen cap from ABC that says ... let me just upload it. (I didn't know what it was as I fast forwarded thru it, but it amused me, so I capped it.) if you scroll right, you can see the abc news bug. ---- I never check my inbox, please email me (pam at bakulanews dot com) www.bakulanews.com - Latest news, summarized www.mindspring.com/~pashworth/BakulaNewsHome - Archives of older Scott info >') ( ~)/ ~~~~~~~ Who's singing that song on my favorite show? If it's not Scott, try tunefind.com - a great site by just a guy who watches TV (unsolicited plug) Last Edited By: Pam from Boston 09/12/2008 10:48:51. Edited 1 times.
helene		#8	[-]
Moderator Registered User Posts: 1771 (09/12/2008 12:38:00) Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Was able to get a bit of info: Yes, as it turns out, this appears to be a reissue of the same book that was published in 2004. At the time, the copyright for the photos was not with Jay but rather still with Universal. Deb Pratt apparently let them have some of hers, too, and other sources provided photos and information as well. The more I've read about it, the more I'm starting to remember a little of this and a little of that about what went on when it was published. One of the larger issues was the reputation of its author, Richie Levine. I've been reminded that he had some serious legal 'troubles' at the time. In fact, I was sent the following website as a reminder of what those problems were. I do not know the disposition of this legal issue but as you can probably imagine, it put the damper on some folks' feelings about the book at the time: http://www.midhudsonnews....Levine_arrest-17Mar04.htm
leapme		#9	[-]
Registered User Posts: 1362 (09/12/2008 23:28:34) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	guitarrgirl wrote: leapme wrote: you now Mel for a sec I thought you made a music vid with a headersubject llike that :-) Sorry. . . that's the book's title. When I saw that someone commented. . . I thought I might have had a review. Drat. I can make a video with that title if you'd like, but I might get sued. m not by me :-)
guitarrgirl		#10	[-]
Registered User Posts: 424 (09/13/2008 03:32:22) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	helene wrote: Yes, as it turns out, this appears to be a reissue of the same book that was published in 2004. At the time, the copyright for the photos was not with Jay but rather still with Universal. Deb Pratt apparently let them have some of hers, too, and other sources provided photos and information as well. Yes, that is what the inside cover info showed (from my earlier post). There weren't any permissions specifically given from Jay or Scott listed. The book listed on Amazon is actually the 2004 version. For $25 bucks a pop though, really. That's the part that bugs me the most. At least make a table book with really nice color photos and have the text professionally set for that amount. Geeze! Boy, that guy sure makes interesting headlines. I think I'll pass on this one. We should still have a really GOOD book out there somewhere though! :) m PS: The Large Hadron Collider involves the almost 17 mile in diameter ring shaped tunnel built underground in Switzerland and France where scientists built a machine that accelerates two beams of atomic particles in opposite directions so they will collide, thus creating a mini black hole/big bang. Scientists are attempting to find the answers to the beginning of the universe. An extremely simplified explanation. The commotion was about whether the earth was safe from such an experiment (kind of like the atom bomb testing done in the 50s when people thought they'd blow up earth). We somehow survived the test. The collision actual creates some pretty interesting art (not shown). LHC = Collider. Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs!
Joanne		#11	[-]
Registered User Posts: 7205 (09/13/2008 03:45:11) Local user Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I noticed several typos and grammatical errors on the back cover copy, too. And does he even have the "Theorizing..." quote right? It seems off to me. It really is a shame there was never a proper QL Encyclopedia authorized by all concerned. If they want to do one now, I know a great proofreader who'd work cheap....
Pam from Boston		#12	[-]
Registered User Posts: 6506 (09/13/2008 04:59:37) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I found comments from fans on another book by judith moose here (apparently I forgot to paste in the link and I don't have it anymore. sorry) ---- I never check my inbox, please email me (pam at bakulanews dot com) www.bakulanews.com - Latest news, summarized www.mindspring.com/~pashworth/BakulaNewsHome - Archives of older Scott info >') ( ~)/ ~~~~~~~ Who's singing that song on my favorite show? If it's not Scott, try tunefind.com - a great site by just a guy who watches TV (unsolicited plug) Last Edited By: Pam from Boston 09/16/2008 09:44:28. Edited 1 times.
guitarrgirl		#13	[-]
Registered User Posts: 424 (09/16/2008 02:47:51) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Pam from Boston wrote: I found comments from fans on another book by judith moose here Where?? No link . . . and while I'm still on this kick. . . I finally found the link about the collider I was desperately searching for: http://www.nytimes.com/re...0070514_CERN_GRAPHIC.html Talk about really cool science (and NOT fiction!) :) m Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs!
guitarrgirl		#14	[-]
Registered User Posts: 424 (09/16/2008 02:52:25) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Joanne wrote: I noticed several typos and grammatical errors on the back cover copy, too. And does he even have the "Theorizing..." quote right? It seems off to me. It really is a shame there was never a proper QL Encyclopedia authorized by all concerned. If they want to do one now, I know a great proofreader who'd work cheap.... Yeah that back page doesn't quote, with actual quote marks, the QL intro. I think it may be an attempt to further explain the show's premise. :) m <------proofreads for a living. . . as well as draws, takes photos, designs ads, cd & dvd covers, posters, signs. . . okay, you get the concept. Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs!

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