Books, films, magazines: a disturbing mixture of reality and parody...

Real or parody?...

...Real, actually. I was going to start with a parody book cover featuring the Hardy Boys and an entertainment industry figure who's in the news a lot right now, because it made me cry with laughter. But my old news training kicked in and I had to admit that I had rarely seen anything more libellous - you can just about get away with that sort of thing in the USA, but not here. So here's an unrelated parody film poster instead:

From the title, I'd guess that this 1932 film was later remade as Top Gun:

I think this is parody - but so many people have given up wheat around here, Guardian-readers would probably buy it for their kids by the bucketload:

This 1949 Dirk Bogarde film about speedway was released in the UK as Once a Jolly Swagman, in the US as the testosterone-charged Maniacs on Wheels - but the German title makes it sound distinctly unappealing: 

Is there a court in the land that would convict?:

And to think that Newquay used to be a nice, sedate holiday destination:

Don't say you weren't warned:

This may not be the best LP title of all time:

This reminds me that I haven't checked Twitter for a couple of days:

I don't remember the Samba ever being quite this exciting:

One day we'll forgive them. Maybe:

Hey, this could be the next BBC costume drama (they could make one of the characters a black transexual and put solar panels on the roof of the mansion):

This next film would certainly have been funnier that than the released version:

Doh!

I can picture this one stacked high at the local Waterstones:

Could it have something to do with being born there, Chuck?: