MARINES AND MOVIELAND Attention! The book “Anyone Here a Marine? The Marines, the Media, and the Movies” has been updated and revised in a new edition by Brightlights Publications. Its author is a professor of history at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, Dennis Carpenter, who enjoys popular culture and military history.

The book’s definition of a “celebrity marine” is expansive and includes New Yorkers such as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Hoving, who served as an executive officer of an amphibious tractor company, and Vince Sardi of Sardi’s restaurant, who supervised a rest camp for wounded Marines in Okinawa, Japan.

Higher-profile personalities, such as actor Brian Dennehy (“Death of a Salesman”), PBS host Jim Lehrer, and singer Freddie Fender, are also mentioned in “Anyone Here a Marine?” All three were stationed in Okinawa.

Who knew that actors Gene Hackman and Don Adams (“Get Smart”) both lied about their ages to join the Marines? Mr. Hackman enlisted in 1948 and served in China, Japan, and Hawaii. Mr. Adams saw combat in Guadalcanal, was wounded, and spent almost three years in a military hospital suffering from black water fever. Harvey Keitel joined the Marines in 1956 when he was 17. He served in Beirut, Lebanon.

Comedian Drew Carey, who joined the Marine Corps Reserve in 1980 after a working as a waiter, “incorporated the Marine buzz-cut as part of his signature look.” Steve McQueen may have taken more from the corps than a coiffure – perhaps his tough-guy persona drew from his stint as a rifleman.

Not only men heed the call of duty: Actress Bea Arthur (“Golden Girls” and “Maude”) was a recruiter in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve soon after the outbreak of World War II.

Just about anyone of note who was once a Marine is listed, from social critic William Whyte (“The Organization Man”) and historian Shelby Foote to DJ Don Imus, who was a bugler at Camp Pendleton. Bob “Captain Kangaroo” Keeshan had a lower rank in the corps than he did on television: He was discharged as a private first class.

Half of Mr. Carpenter’s proceeds will be donated to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, which raises educational funds for the children of law enforcement personnel and members of any military branch whose parents were killed in the line of duty.

Sports cartoonist Bill Gallo, him self a former Marine, drew the book’s cover illustration, and journalist James Brady, who writes for Parade magazine, wrote the foreward. In addition to the bios of well-known figures, the book explores how Marines have been portrayed in movies and on television (“Gomer Pyle, USMC,” and “Baa Baa Black Sheep”).

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SCI-FI FOLLOWING A crowd braved the rain earlier this week to attend the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series held at South Street Seaport. James A. Freund hosted the evening, which featured two readers. The first, John Langan, who resides in New Paltz, read from a ghost story that takes place in the Hudson Valley.

The second reader was Samuel Delaney, whom Mr. Freund met on his first visit to WBAI’s drama and literature department when the latter was 13 years old. “I came to answer phones,” said Mr. Freund, who now hosts a weekly show on science fiction on Saturday mornings at 5 a.m. How does he wake up that early? “I stay up all night,” he told the Knickerbocker.

Mr. Delaney read from his collection “Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories” (Vintage).Mr. Delaney said that Books in Print had forgotten to list his work”Phallos.” The audience laughed when he said in a way that was appropriate since the book is about “a search for something that may or may not exist.”

In the audience were the editor of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Gordon Van Gelder, and Mark Blackman, who was once on a panel on Rocky & Bullwinkle. The cartoon panel took place as the former Yugoslavia was breaking up. Mr. Blackman said he had speculated whether the area Pottsylvania, where the dastardly foreign agent in the cartoon, Boris, hailed from, would likewise split into Pott and Sylvania.

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TOWN ‘CRIER’ Court TV celebrated the fifth anniversary of the television series “Catherine Crier Live” at the Four Seasons yesterday.

Speaking of the elegant surroundings, Court TV’s chairman, Henry Schleiff, told the crowd, “Every place you have lunch after today is downhill.” He added that he considered Ms. Crier the city’s classiest anchor. The fifth-anniversary special is set to air January 10. In a clip screened before lunch, Ms. Crier said, “I talk about issues that are very important to me and do it for a living. I am a very lucky person.”

Among those in the audience were people who have been guests on the show, including writer Dominick Dunne and attorney Joseph Tacopina, whose clients include Bernard Kerik and Michael Jackson. Seated near Mr. Tacopina was actor Bo Dietl, a frequent guest on “Imus in the Morning,” who has played the role of Carmine “Bumpy” Bustale on “Law & Order.” He said that he has a book coming out later this year on networking. He told those within earshot that it is more important to gather others’ business cards than to hand out one’s own. Why? “Because they may not call you.”

Ms. Crier, who wrote “The Case Against Lawyers” (Broadway Books) also has a new book in the works.