HOLLYWOOD IN BRIEF : A Further Sampling

Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of “Casablanca”--Bogart, Bergman and World War II, by Aljean Harmetz (Hyperion: $24.95; 354 pp.). The team that made one of the world’s most cherished movies didn’t think they were making anything more than another World War II romance. What accounts for the magic?

Life in Hollywood, 1936-1952 by Peter Stackpole (Clark City Press: $50; 250 pp.). This collection from one of the four original Life magazine photographers is a gem--a true Hollywood-at-home album, where Liz Taylor could be any 12-year-old bicycling insouciantly past Spanish-style mansions.

A Day in the Life of Hollywood (Collins Publishers: $45; 224 pp.). Hollywood, ironically, is a harder world to capture in a day than all of Australia, Japan, America . . . or any of the “Day in the Life” group’s other projects. (Page 1 photo of Goldie Hawn is by David C. Turnley.)

Lawrence of Arabia: The 30th Anniversary Pictorial History, by L. Robert Morris and Lawrence Raskin, foreword by Martin Scorsese (Doubleday: $40; 236 pp.). Speaks for itself--more Lawrence than any one heart can take.

The Scorsese Picture: The Art and Life of Martin Scorsese, by David Ehrenstein (Birch Lane Press: $30; 250 pp.). Scorsese cooperated with the Advocate’s film critic.

George Lucas: The Creative Impulse, LucasFilm’s First 20 Years, by Charles Champlin (Abrams: $39.95; 201 pp.). Written by the Times Arts Editor Emeritus.