Entertainment category: 96258 books
Include Me Out
My Life from Goldwyn to Broadway
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
In classic Hollywood tradition, Farley Granger, a high school senior, was discovered by Sam Goldwyn's casting director in an off-Hollywood Boulevard play. Granger describes how he learned his craft as he went on to star in a number of films, giving an insider's view of working with Hitchcock on Strangers...
Follow the Music
The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Jac Holzman started his own record company when he was all of nineteen. His total assets amounted to a handful of dollars, a brain fizzing with ideas, and a heart pumping with naive late-teenage hope. He christened his label Elektra.
Twenty years later, Jac had brought five...
Lessons from the Prairie
The Surprising Secrets to Happiness, Success, and (Sometimes Just) Survival I Learned on America's Favorite Show
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
"Lessons from the Prairie delivers one belly laugh after another as Melissa tees up an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to tackling life's toughest challenges, and making your life happier." - Megyn Kelly
For fans of the beloved TV show Little House on the Prairie, a self-help book...
Sticky Fingers
The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A delicious romp through the heyday of rock and roll and a revealing portrait of the man at the helm of the iconic magazine that made it all possible, with candid look backs at the era from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Elton John, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, and others.
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The story...
I'll Be Back Right After This
My Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
A New York Times Best seller!
Pat O'Brien was a skinny South Dakota kid with long hair, a rock and roll band, divorced parents and an alcoholic father. In all the familiar ways, he was on the road to nowhere until a professor, who envisioned his future as the household name he would soon become,...
Sweet Revenge
The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
For this definitive biography, acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Tom Bower was granted unprecedented access to Simon Cowell and those around him—and the result is a fascinating multilayered portrait of one of the world’s most intriguing television personalities ever to dominate the music...
by Barry Paris
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
The most ambitious and personal account ever written about Hollywood's most gracious star-Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris is a "moving portrayal" (The New York Times Book Review) that truly captures the woman who captured our hearts...
With the insights of family and friends who never before...
A Curious Man
The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A Curious Man is the marvelously compelling biography of Robert “Believe It or Not” Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities, and whose outrageous showmanship taught us to believe in the unbelievable.
As...
by Margaret Cho
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Comedian. Icon. TV star. Role model. Trash talker. Fag hag. Gypsy. Tramp. Thief. Margaret Cho displays her numerous sides in this funny, fierce, and honest memoir. As one of the country’s most visible Asian Americans, she has a unique perspective on identity and acceptance. As one of the country’s...
KISS
Behind the Mask - Official Authorized Biogrphy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
After three decades of wild dedication, this official authorized biography provides Kiss fans their first real look inside one of rock and roll's most extraordinary bands.
President Me
The America That's in My Head
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Imagine a world where New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actor, television, and podcast host Adam Carolla is the President of the United States. Can’t do it? You don’t have to! Adam has done it for you!
Podcast king Adam Carolla first shared his unique, but always funny world...
Patti LuPone
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The legendary Patti LuPone is one of the theatre’s most beloved leading ladies. Now she lays it all bare, sharing the intimate story of her life both onstage and off--through the dizzying highs and darkest lows--with the humor and outspokenness that have become her trademarks.
With nearly...
Marvel Comics
The Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
**The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America’s history -- Marvel Comics – and the outsized personalities who made Marvel including Martin Goodman, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby. **
“Sean Howe’s history...
by Bruce Watson
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, has been called a "cultural force," a "fourth branch of government," and "the most influential man in America." In this pioneering biography, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson charts Stewart's remarkable rise from a wise-cracking New Jersey comic to a powerful pundit hosting presidents and prime ministers, all with a smirk.