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Books by Al Clark






Called Out but Safe(Reprint)
A Baseball Umpire's Journey
by Al Clark, Dan Schlossberg, Marty Appel
Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4962-0599-5, ISBN: 1-4962-0599-5

"If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his thirty years as a professional umpire he took on some of baseball’s great umpire baiters, such as Earl Weaver, Billy Martin, and Dick Williams, while ejecting any number of the game’s elite—once tearing a hamstring in the process. He was the first Jewish umpire in American League history, and probably the firs ..."






The New Baseball Bible
Notes, Nuggets, Lists, and Legends from Our National Pastime
by Dan Schlossberg, John Thorn, Al Clark
Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 2020 by Sports Pub
ISBN-13: 978-1-68358-346-2, ISBN: 1-68358-346-9

"A comprehensive tome of baseball facts, figures, and did-you-knows—?newly updated! For fans of baseball trivia, this updated version of The New Baseball Bible, first published as The Baseball Catalog in 1980 and selected as a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate, is sure to provide something for everyone, regardless of team allegiance. The book covers the following topics: beginnings of baseball, rules and records, umpires, how to play the ..."






Called Out but Safe
A Baseball Umpire's Journey
by Al Clark, Dan Schlossberg, Marty Appel
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-4688-1, ISBN: 0-8032-4688-9

"If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his thirty years as a professional umpire he took on some of baseball's great umpire baiters, such as Earl Weaver, Billy Martin, and Dick Williams, while ejecting any number of the game's elite-once tearing a hamstring in the process. He was the first Jewish umpire in American League history, and probably the firs ..."






Making Priscilla(1st Edition)
The Hilarious Story Behind The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
by Al Clark
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1995 by Plume
ISBN-13: 978-0-452-27484-6, ISBN: 0-452-27484-2

"The movie itself is outrageous enough: Two drag queens and a transsexual, hilariously and tragically at odds with their environment, their act on the road to Alice Springs, Australia, in a converted school bus. But producer Al Clark's epic journey through the obstacles of making The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, is just as entertaining and even wilder. From the launch at Cannes (involving a last-minute attempt at comic s ..."






Margaret and David
5 stars
by Sandy George, Amanda Duthie, Geoffrey Rush, Fred Schepisi, Jan Chapman, Cate Shortland, Gillian Armstrong, Andrew Bovell, Josh Pomeranz, Al Clark
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2017 by Wakefield Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-74305-513-7, ISBN: 1-74305-513-7

"'Margaret and David are critics who love movies to the point of obsession.' - Fred Schepisi 'Thank you for your contribution to the success of our film, but more for your absolute object lesson in how to support, invigorate, challenge and inspire an entire nation's film culture.' - Kath Shelper and Warwick Thornton In Margaret & David: 5 stars, Australian filmmakers, critics, distributors and festival directors pay tribute to Australi ..."






Making Priscilla
by Al Clark
214 Pages, Published 2016 by Momentum
ISBN-13: 978-1-76030-181-1, ISBN: 1-76030-181-7

"... tape to enable the picture to be edited by Sue Blainey on the rapidaccess computerised Avid system, and as we have been unable to afford to print up the corresponding film footage, we are screening what might be mistaken for a poorly pirated video, with primitive sound and enough visual blemishes to suggest that the duplicating engineer ate a pizza on it. This is not the ideal introduction to our widescreen crossdressing outbac ..."






Called Out but Safe
A Baseball Umpire's Journey
by Al Clark, Dan Schlossberg
240 Pages, Published 2014 by U Of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-5496-1, ISBN: 0-8032-5496-2

"My brothers Jeffrey and Marty, the late Al Rossi, and my lifelong friend Phil Moran never withheld their friendship or ... of Dallas), and former hospitality executives Bob White and Sher- yl DeWalt, whose friendship I've enjoyed for decades. ... Kudos also to foreword writer and publicist Marty Appel, a xvii Acknowledgments."






Called Out but Safe
A Baseball Umpire's Journey
by Al Clark, Dan Schlossberg
Published 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1-306-47728-4, ISBN: 1-306-47728-X






Introduction to Tissue Engineering
Applications and Challenges
by Ravi Birla, Al Clark, Dan Schlossberg
352 Pages, Published 2014 by U Of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-5497-8, ISBN: 0-8032-5497-0

"Al Clark and I are so much alike that it's frightening. TwoJewish kids ... The project took well over a year, from the time fellow author Marty Appel and literary agent Rob Wilson introduced us at Foley's New York to the excruciating (for me) wordbyword revisionof the chapters I sent to Al for review. Suffice tosay that we did not ... All Ican say is it's a good thing Al has a loud voice—honed by years of bellowing at such notoriou ..."






Called Out but Safe
A Baseball Umpire's Journey
by Al Clark, Dan Schlossberg
Published 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-5498-5, ISBN: 0-8032-5498-9






The Lavender Bus(2nd Edition)
(Film)
by Al Clark
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1999 by Currency Press Pty Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-86819-575-9, ISBN: 0-86819-575-8

"Al Clark describes in hilarious detail how the eccentric The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert became an international hit. This book describes the production and release, including box office figures and soundtrack sales from around the world."






Raymond Chandler in Hollywood(Updated)
by Al Clark
Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 1996 by Silman-James Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-879505-29-2, ISBN: 1-879505-29-0

"Four years after writing his first novel, THE BIG SLEEP, Raymond Chandler found himself sitting in an office at Paramount Studios earning a weekly salary that amounted to almost half of what he had received for the film rights to his second novel, FAREWELL MY LOVELY. Despite the considerable rewards, he was always uncertain, often disgruntled, never at ease. RAYMOND CHANDLER IN HOLLYWOOD is an entertaining and comprehensive assessment o ..."






Eye of Beholder
by Stephan Elliott, Al Clark, Charles Gassot, Grant Lee, Hilary Shor, Jacqueline George, Marc Behm
ISBN-13: 978-0-7678-5166-4, ISBN: 0-7678-5166-8






The Film Year Book 1984
by Andrea Barrett, Al Clark
272 Pages, Published 1983 by Grove Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-739685-6, ISBN: 0-00-739685-6

"These stories possess a wonderful clarity and ease, the serene authority of a writer working at the very height of her powers.' 'New York Times' 'Barrett's insights into the stormier regions of the heart offer plenty of restorative balm."






Rock Year Book 1984
by Al Clark
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-907080-86-2, ISBN: 0-907080-86-3






The Road To Rock(1st Edition)
A ZigZag Book of Interviews
by Pete Frame, Al Clark
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1974 by Charisma
ISBN-13: 978-0-85947-014-8, ISBN: 0-85947-014-8

"The Road To Rock - A ZigZag Book Of Interviews (ISBN: 0859470148) Peter Frame (Editor). ZigZag rock magazine spin off. Interviews with Pink Floyd, Family, Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page, Rod Stewart, Jeff Beck, Elton John & Family."






The Last Frontier
by Victor Mature, Guy Madison, James Whitmore, Anne Bancroft, Robert Preston, William Fadiman, Philip Yordan, Richard Emery Roberts, Russell S. Hughes, William C. Mellor, Al Clark, Columbia Pictures Corporation, directed by Anthony Mann
Dvd, Published 2005 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Closed-Captioned, Color, Dvd-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc, Import
ISBN-13: 978-1-4049-7116-5, ISBN: 1-4049-7116-5

"They called him the Butcher of Shiloh. Personally responsible for the wrongful deaths of 1500 men,Colonel Frank Marston (Robert Preston, Northwest Mounted Police) has been exiled to the farthest reaches of the American frontier. Driven insane by disgrace, Marston plans his return to glory by leading a squad of raw recruits in a suicide raid against the Indian Nation. Although Jed Cooper (Victor Mature, My Darling Clementine) is the o ..."






We Were Strangers
by Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Gilbert Roland, Sam Spiegel, Pedro Armendáriz, Ramon Novarro, Al Clark, Jules Buck, Peter Viertel, Robert Sylvester, Russell Metty, S.P. Eagle, Inc. Horizon Pictures, John Huston, directed by John Huston
Dvd, Published 2005 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Black & White, Closed-Captioned, Dvd, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
ISBN-13: 978-1-4049-6381-8, ISBN: 1-4049-6381-2

"It's been seven long years since his people last tasted freedom. So when Cuban-born expatriate Tony Fenner (John Garfield) finally returns to Havana, he joins the Organization, a small band of revolutionaries dedicated to ending the tyrannical rule of President Gerardo Machado. Aided by fellow rebel China Valdes (Jennifer Jones), Fenner proceeds with his audacious master plan: to execute the head of the senate and then assassinate all o ..."






The Man with Nine Lives
by Boris Karloff, Roger Pryor, Stanley Brown, Irving Briskin, Wallace Macdonald, Jo Ann Sayers, John Dilson, Benjamin H. Kline, Al Clark, Harold Shumate, Karl Brown, Ernie Adams, Columbia Pictures Corporation, Bruce Bennett, Hal Taliaferro, directed by Nick Grinde
Dvd, Published 2005 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Multiple Formats, Black & White, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
ISBN-13: 978-1-4049-8312-0, ISBN: 1-4049-8312-0

"To save many, he'll sacrifice a few. Missing for ten years, Dr. Leon Kravaal (Boris Karloff) has been found! Frozen solid in a block of ice, Kravaal was conducting forbidden experiments in human cryogenics when he became trapped within his own freezer. Thawed out by Tim Morgan (Roger Pryor) and Judy Blair (Jo Ann Sayers), Kravaal vows to continue his research, using his enemies as guinea pigs. But with the death of his last human "volun ..."






Jubal
by Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Felicia Farr, Valerie French, William Fadiman, Rod Steiger, Paul Wellman, Russell S. Hughes, Delmer Daves, Charles Lawton Jr., Al Clark, Noah Beery Jr., Columbia Pictures Corporation, directed by Delmer Daves
Dvd, Published 2005 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Multiple Formats, Closed-Captioned, Color, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
ISBN-13: 978-1-4049-6976-6, ISBN: 1-4049-6976-4

"Found grievously injured by rancher Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine, The Wild Bunch), Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford, 3:10 to Yuma, 1957), a man who's life has been dogged by bad luck, is offered a job as a cowhand. Soon his obvious abilities earn him Shep's trust and a promotion. This riles former top hand, Pinky (Rod Steiger, On The Waterfront) who's been supplanted by the new man. Things are further complicated when Shep's wife Mae, unhappy ..."



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