Barnes & Noble
555 Fifth Ave. at 46th St.
Tuesday, October 26, free, 6:00
212-697-3048
www.michaelcaine.com
www.us.macmillan.com
In his new memoir, THE ELEPHANT TO HOLLYWOOD (Holt, October 26, $28), Sir Michael Caine confesses his hatred of going on publicity tours for books and movies. But that shouldn’t stop you from checking out the charming actor at B&N on Tuesday, when the former Maurice Micklewhite will be signing copies of the tome, which focuses on the low point of his career, the 1990s, when he thought it might be all over. “I had reached the period of my life I called the twilight zone,” he writes. “The spotlight of movie stardom was fading and although the slightly dimmer light of the leading movie actor was beginning to flicker into life, it all seemed very gloomy. There were some bright spots. Out of the blue I was made CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List—a great honor and a beautiful medal. I was now a Commander of the British Empire and very proud of it, although an unkind journalist pointed out that I’d been made a commander of something that no longer existed.” Caine will be at the Midown B&N signing copies of the book only; he will not sign any other memorabilia.