The Skinny About Best Boys, Dollies, Green Rooms, Leads and Other Media Lingo: The Language of the Media

From the author of W ebster’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 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.”

•A collection of thematic Safiresque essays
•Features hundreds of media-inspired words