Press Release: Author HERBIE J PILATO Views Popular TV As Educational

With New Books About
BIONICS and LIFE GOES ON
Author HERBIE J PILATO
Views Popular TV As Educational


Author Herbie J Pilato, best known for his books, Bewitched Forever and The Kung Fu Book Of Caine, has just released two new TV tomes: THE BIONIC BOOK; THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN AND THE BIONIC WOMAN RECONSTRUCTED and LIFE STORY THE BOOK OF LIFE GOES ON: TV'S FIRST AND BEST FAMILY SHOW OF CHALLENGE. An actor, producer, director, and singer/songwriter from Rochester, New York, Pilato employs his books with TV & Self-Esteem Seminars – a lecture series that he brings to schools, colleges and community and business organizations – one that helps to close the gap between popular culture and academia. Popular television programs, in particular, Pilato says, are an “untapped resource for education – beyond PBS and The Learning Channel.” According to Pilato, the Bionic shows and Life Goes On, along with Bewitched and Kung Fu, “teach us to look beyond our differences and to concentrate on what makes us the same.”



THE BIONIC BOOK; THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN AND THE BIONIC WOMAN RECONSTRUCTED is chock-full of commentary culled from Pilato's exclusive interviews with Bionic stars Lee Majors (who played half-superman/half-mechanical marvel Steve Austin), Lindsay Wagner (Jaime Sommers - Steve's female counter-part and one true love), series creator (and science fiction novel icon) Martin Caidin, executive producer Harve Bennett (who would later help to ignite the Star Trek feature film franchise), producer/director Kenneth Johnson (The Incredible Hulk and Alien Nation) and actor Richard Anderson, the latter of whom portrayed Oscar Goldman - Steve and Jaime's stoic but understanding superviser (and who has penned the book's foreword). Much more than a mere TV trivia guide, THE BIONIC BOOK explores in-depth the social, psychological, medical and scientific influence, appeal and message behind two of the most popular and heroic science fiction television programs of all time.





In the history of popular television, no other show has addressed the issues of adolescence, family values, diversity, prejudice, and physical and mental disabilities so directly and as fully as Life Goes On. Inside the pages of LIFE STORY THE BOOK OF LIFE GOES ON: TV'S FIRST AND BEST FAMILY SHOW OF CHALLENGE, the reader will find revealing commentary from Herbie J Pilato's extensive conversations with cast members such as the Golden-Globe-nominated Chris Burke (who played Corky Thacher, the high-school teen with Down syndrome, which Burke has in real life), the Emmy-winning Chad Lowe (the AIDS-stricken Jesse McKenna), and the Family-Television-Award-winning Kellie Martin (Becca Thacher, Corky’s sister and Jesse’s loyal young love. Also interviewed were pristine behind-the-scenes team players including director/producer Michael Nankin and creator/executive producer Michael Braverman (who has penned the book's foreword).





About The Author

Herbie J Pilato is an actor, producer, director, and singer/songwriter from Rochester, New York. He’s served as an editor for several websites (such as TV-Now.com, UPNTV.com, PAX-TV.com and MediaVillage.com), contributed to many magazines (like Starlog, Sci-Fi Entertainment, Retro Vision, Classic TV and Remember), made hundreds of radio and TV show appearances (including The E! True Hollywood Story, A&E’s Biography, Entertainment Tonight and General Hospital, worked as a producer for Bravo’s five-part hit series, The 100 Greatest TV Characters, and has served as a consultant on Nora Ephron’s Bewitched feature film, and on the TV-DVD releases of Bewitched, Kung Fu and CHiPs. Pilato has several television shows and feature films in development, has recently toured as Frankie Valli in the Nik & the Nice Guys Rock Icon Tribute Artist Show, and has just released his first music CD, entitled, Two. His next book for BearManor Media is NBC & ME: My Life As A Page In A Book.



About BearManor Media

BearManor Media - a small press that publishes BIG books – takes pride in publishing quality entertainment/nostalgic books and biographies on unique subjects, including: QUE SERA SERA: The Magic of Doris Day Through Television by Pierre Patrick and Garry McGee, HOLLYWOOD’S BABE: Dancing Through Oz by Caren-Marsh Doll, and the second edition of I LOVE THE ILLUSION: The Life and Career of Agnes Moorehead by Charles Tranberg (and for which Herbie J Pilato has penned the epilogue).