{"product_id":"9781250199768","title":"The Jokiest Joking Trivia Book Ever Written . . . No Joke!: 1,001 Surprising Facts to Amaze Your Friends","description":"\u003cp\u003ePurchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: David Bowie, Ray Bradbury, María Félix, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Patti Smith, Philippe Starck, Josef Tal, June Anderson, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Marcel Marceau, Moritz de Hadeln, Alicia de Larrocha, Julian Barnes, Stephen Frears, Răzvan Theodorescu, Georges Delerue, David Stratton, Jean Hamburger, Pierre Brasseur, Barbara Wright, Pierre Emmanuel, Yves Mourousi. Excerpt: Dr. Adoor Gopalakrishnan Moutatthu \"Adoor\" Gopalakrishnan Unnithan (b. 3 July 1941) is a National Award winning Indian film director , script writer , and producer . Adoor Gopalakrishnan had a major role in revolutionizing Malayalam cinema. Adoor's first film Swayamvaram (1972) pioneered the new wave cinema movement in Kerala. Most of his films go to festivals around the world, and are released in Kerala . All the ten films he directed, from Swayamvaram to Oru Pennum Randaanum , were screened at several International film festivals and won him several National and International awards. He won National Film Awards fifteen times, Kerala State Film Awards seventeen times and also won several International Film Awards. He won the prestigious British Film Institute award for Elippathayam . Adoor received the Padma Shri in 1984 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2006. The Nation honoured Adoor for his valuable contributions to Indian cinema by awarding him the highest cinema award of India, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2004. He is one among the very few Indian film makers who are well known in the international film fraternity. Biography Gopalakrishnan was born on 3 July 1941 in the village of Pallickal (Medayil Bungalow) near Adoor, present day Kerala , India as the son of Madhavan Unnithan and Mouttathu Gauri Kunjamma. He started his artistic life as an actor in amateur plays when he was 8. Later he shifted his base ...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012132520176,"sku":"9781250199768","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250199768_p0.jpg?v=1763703434","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250199768","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}