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Joint Venture
A Backstage Rock and Roll Journey
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
This book is my journey, from listening to the music my older brother listened to in the mid-1950s to working with bands and entertainers from the 60s to the 80s. It is filled with stories regarding bands and entertainers I worked with, managed, and knew. I learned a lot of lessons over the years,...
Adventures in Movies
An Intimate Chronicle of 25 Years Working in the Film Industry from Roger Rabbit to Harry Potter
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
A wry, witty and revealing review of the last 25 years working 'behind the scenes' in the film industry; from 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' to 'Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince', taking in, 'Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade' and 'Sherlock Holmes' along the way. Loaded with many anecdotes about...
Hire Me, Hollywood!
Your Behind-the-Scenes Guide to the Most Exciting - and Unexpected - Jobs in Show Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
The secret to Stan Lee's writing process
The story behind Elmo's giggle
What's for lunch on the set of The Walking Dead
Squirrel training with Johnny Depp
Think you know what it takes to get your favorite TV show on the air every week? (You'd be surprised.) Or what all those people whose names...
Mickey Rooney Was Right
How I Spent My Lifetime Following a Dream When Logic and Those Around Me Said to Stop
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Mickey Rooney Was Right is D.W. Paones autobiography with the emphasis on his quest to achieve success as both a writer and assistant cameraman in the entertainment industry.However, no matter how hard he tried, and he tried very hard, long-term success in both these aspects of the industry continued...
by Patricia Bunin
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
"Password: SeniorMoment" is based on Patricia Bunin's weekly "Senior Moments" column published in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Whittier Daily News, Redlands Daily Facts, Pasadena Star-News, San Bernardino Sun, and the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. The book is a collection...
Whatever It Takes
Life Lessons from Degrassi and Elsewhere in the World of Music and Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
This book will change the way you think about success.
Producer of television’s iconic Degrassi franchise Stephen Stohn tells stories from behind the scenes and of making it in the music and television world in this star-studded, rock ’n’ roll trip through a Canadian show business explosion....
by Nadia Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
THEY HAVE BECOME KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD AS THE ULTIMATE POP-CULTURE POWER COUPLE.
Favourites of the paparazzi, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are both worth millions in their own right. She is the queen of reality TV and an all-round business mogul. He’s a rapper, fashion designer and outspoken...
Can I Go Now?
The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's First Superagent
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
**“To call Sue Mengers a ‘character’ is an understatement, unless the word is written in all-caps, followed by an exclamation point and modified by an expletive. And based on Brian Kellow’s assessment in his thoroughly researched Can I Go Now? even that description may be playing down her...
The Champagne Life
Starts Promoting Parties at Age 15...Networked with Industry's Elite by Age 20...Owns Star-Studded Nightclub by Age 22
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Entertainments industry leaders portray a rags to riches phenomenon that suggests that those who become successful simply transition from the sidewalk to the Bentley overnight. Hip-Hop culture celebrates the luxurious lifestyle but often ignores the journey of making it to the top.
The Champagne...
by Ron Cornelius
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Chapter Two, The Guitar Behind Dylan & Cohen
Introduction:
For many years, over, and over, people have told me that I should write a book about my life experiences in the music industry. Never gave that much thought until, at a point in time, the concept of individual...
D. W. Griffith
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of the most controversial. He raised the cinema to a new level of art, entertainment, and innovation, and at the same time he illustrated, for...
No Applause--Just Throw Money
The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
A seriously funny look at the roots of American Entertainment
When Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin were born, variety entertainment had been going on for decades in America, and like Harry Houdini, Milton Berle, Mae West, and countless others, these performers got their start on the vaudeville...
My Anecdotal Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
More than once, Carl Reiner has had friends say, "Hey, Reiner, you ought to write those things down." And at eighty, he finally has.
In this funny and engaging memoir, one of the best raconteurs on the planet recalls his life in show business in short comic takes. Reiner tells of...
Rewrites
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
A winning combination of touching personal memories and reflections, anecdotes about the writing life, and hilarious stories about some of the biggest names in the entertainment business, "Rewrites" is "one wonderful read" (Larry King, USA Today).
His plays and movies have kept us laughing...