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by Stefan Kanfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Humphrey Bogart: it’s hard to think of anyone who’s had the same lasting impact on the culture of movies. Though he died at the young age of fifty-seven more than half a century ago, his influence among actors and filmmakers, and his enduring appeal for film lovers around the world, remains as...
If Chins Could Kill
Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor Here we are together in the digital universe. Somehow, you've clicked yourself to this page. If you came here of your own free will and desire, you and I are going to get along just fine.
Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not...
by Uggie
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
A heartwarming memoir by the Jack Russell Terrier that starred in The Artist and Water for Elephants.
Uggie’s memoir offers readers the true rags-to-riches tale of one ordinary Jack Russell Terrier who made it big in Hollywood.
For the first time, Uggie tells his story of rising from...
A Star Is Born
Judy Garland and the Film that Got Away
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
New York Times bestselling author and daughter of Judy Garland tells the story of A Star Is Born -- at once the crowning achievement and greatest disappointment in her mother's legendary career. This is a vivid account of a film classic's production, loss, and reclamation.
A Star Is Born -- the classic...
Straight from the Source
An Expose from the Former Editor in Chief of the Hip-Hop Bible
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Kim Osorio had a front-row seat for the biggest beefs, battles, and blow-ups in hip-hop. As the first female editor-in-chief of The Source, she had come up.
From her corner office, Kim got the goods on hip-hop's hottest names: Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent, Lil' Kim. She developed close -- sometimes...
Bette Davis
More Than a Woman
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Best-selling author James Spada has written the definitive biography of one of America’s greatest actresses, Bette Davis. Bette Davis participated in over 100 roles as an actress, including the films, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Jezebel, Dark Victory, and Dangerous. She won two Academy Awards,...
Rebel
My Life Outside the Lines
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The legendary icon tells his story—a tale of art, passion, commitment, addiction, as intense and hypnotic as the man himself.
In a career spanning five decades, Nick Nolte has endured the rites of Hollywood celebrity. Rising from obscurity to leading roles and Oscar nominations, he has been...
Hollywood Hellraisers
The Wild Lives and Fast Times of Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
'I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.' Marlon Brando
'I should have been dead ten times over. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.' Dennis Hopper
'The...
Unmasked
The True Life Story of The World's Most Prolific Cinematic Killer
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Unmasked documents the unlikely true story of a boy who was taunted and beaten relentlessly by bullies throughout his childhood. Kane only escaped his tormentors when he moved to a tiny island in the South Pacific where he lived for all of his teen years. After living shirtless in a jungle for a...
by Stewart Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Experience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why 'wool' is a funny word! See how jokes work, their inner mechanisms revealed, before your astonished face!
In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and...
Lost in the Funhouse
The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
From renowned journalist Bill Zehme, author of the New York Times bestselling The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin', comes the first full-fledged biography and the only complete story of the late comic genius Andy Kaufman. Based on six years of research, Andy's own unpublished,...
Remember Me to Harlem
The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic,...
Lizard Tales
The Wit and Wisdom of Ron Shirley
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The star of TruTV's hit show, Lizard Lick Towing, shares stories of life as a small-town repo man, as well as the "Ron-isms" and "Ron-osophy" he is known for.
Crazier than a sack of rabid weasels?
Country as cornflakes?
Gooder than grits?
You bet he is!
Week after week,...
Stepin Fetchit
The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era’s most popular comic stereotype–the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as “the best actor that the talking movies have produced,”...