ADVISORY/Bill Cosby at Barnes & Noble Rockefeller Center Tuesday, May 13th.

Entertainment Editors

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (May 13)

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2003

Barnes & Noble -0-

   Internationally-Renowned Comedian to Sign Copies of New Release,
           Friends of a Feather: One of Life's Little Fables

     EVENT: Bill Cosby is by any standard, one of the most
            popular and beloved stars in America today. Whether
            through concert appearances or recordings, television or
            feature films, commercials, education, or books, he has
            the ability to touch people's lives.

            The lesson in Friends of a Feather (HarperCollins
            Publishers) is timeless: it takes a flight of imagination,
            the courage to be oneself and the support of good friends.
            Slipper, Feathers and Hog, three of the rarest birds ever
            known to humankind meet for the first time on the Beach by
            the Rock, performing risky feats for one another and then
            later for the hundreds of folks who gather to watch. But
            when the sheer beauty of his best friend overshadows the
            stunts of the most gifted and eager-to-please bird, an
            attempt to borrow back the limelight nearly ends in
            disaster. Why do these birds stunt fly at all? What do
            they expect from the skies, one another, and the crowds
            below? And just what are the people on the beach looking
            for from them?

     WHERE: Barnes & Noble Rockefeller Center
            600 Fifth Avenue (at 48th Street)
            212-765-0590

     WHEN:  Tuesday, May 13, 2003
            1:00p.m.