Entertainment category: 96258 books
by Alistair Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A wonderful entertainment that reflects Alistair Cooke’s love affair with cinema, from his early days as a film critic to his iconic role as the host of Masterpiece Theatre
Humphrey Bogart, Fred Astaire, Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, and Marilyn Monroe are just a few of the stars profiled,...
by Martin Popoff
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home & Away is a detailed history of the exhaustive road experience of Canadian rock icons Rush. Celebrating the band’s 30th anniversary, By-Tour features in-depth original interviews with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart. Together, history’s...
Springfield Confidential
Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Semi-Finalist for the 2019 James Thurber Award * One of Vulture's Top-10 Comedy Books of 2018 * A "Must" pick by Entertainment Weekly * **An A.V. Club Best Books selection * A "New and Noteworthy" selection by USA Today
In celebration of The Simpsons thirtieth anniversary,...
Riding the Elephant
A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit.
Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact that he...
Happily Ali After
An Other Fairly True Tales
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“Hilarious. . . . Her glass isn’t half full—it’s ‘empty and cracked.’”—Entertainment Weekly (the Must List)
Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet one day, Ali Wentworth resolves to live by the pithy maxims she discovers in her feeds. What begins as a sort of self-help...
WWE Legends - Superstar Billy Graham
Tangled Ropes
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
"I'm the man of the hour," Superstar Billy Graham told his audiences, "the man with the power. Too sweet to be sour!"
Despite years of devastating health issues (a long history of drug abuse led to a liver transplant in 2002), the man regarded as one of the most influential...
Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only
The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, one of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the most talented...
Hooked on Hollywood
Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Leonard Maltin is America's best-known film historian, film reviewer, and author of books that have sold more than 7 million copies. He remains a thought leader on past and present Hollywood through his website www.leonardmaltin.com, and a social media presence that includes an active Facebook page...
Public Cowboy No. 1
The Life and Times of Gene Autry
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
The only performer to earn 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Gene Autry was the singing cowboy king of American entertainment. Now, in Public Cowboy No.1, Holly George-Warren offers the first serious biography of this singular individual, in a fascinating narrative that traces Autry's climb from...
by Jeff Mudd
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK She jokes. She writes. She acts. She hosts. She produces. Is she a budding tycoon? A whirling typhoon? Well, yes and yes. Chelsea Handler is at once a sexy, sharp-tongued comic, a highly-rated television host, a best-selling author, and, of late, a sitcom...
All in Good Time
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
All in Good Time is a luminous memoir about growing up in the shadow of the golden age of songwriting and Sinatra, from the celebrated radio personality and novelist Jonathan Schwartz.
“Dancing in the Dark.” “That’s Entertainment.” “By Myself.” “You and the Night and the Music.”...
Las Vegas, the Untold Stories
...That Made Sin City the Entertainment Capital of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Youre about to enter a city that has no equal. It was built by extraordinary people with imaginative minds. Did they drink? Not sure, but why else would they build it in a Nevada desert?
Some say you can go anywhere in the world and discover that people not only know about Las Vegas--theyd...
The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart
The Early Years (1899-1931)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
This biography shatters myths with a controversial closeup of Bogart at the debut of his career, pre-Casablanca, pre-Bacall, and pre-African Queen, revealing for the first time what was under the trench coat of history's most famous male movie star. Focusing on those mysterious early years when Bogart,...
I'll Have What She's Having
How Nora Ephron's Three Iconic Films Saved the Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A backstage look at the making of Nora Ephron's revered trilogy--When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, and Sleepless in Seattle--which brought romantic comedies back to the fore, and an intimate portrait of the beloved writer/director who inspired a generation of Hollywood women, from Mindy Kaling...