Download or read book Variety Movie Guide written by Derek Elley and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1992 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the glory days of burlesque and Tin Pan Alley to the present, the weekly newspaper Variety has been the entertainment industry's bible. Its first film review appeared in 1907, and since then, Variety has seen it all. This collection of 5,000 of the paper's best reviews is a veritable history of the 20th century's liveliest art.