Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Compound Cinematics
Akira Kurosawa and I
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Any list of Japan's greatest screenplay writers would feature Shinobu Hashimoto at or near the top. This memoir, focusing on his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa, a gifted scenarist in his own right, offers indispenable insider account for fans and students of the director's oeuvre and invaluable...
The Men Behind Mob Wives
Lee D'Avanzo
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Lee D'Avanzo is a mobster best known for being the leader of the New Springville Boys. This gang was allegedly the farm team for the Colombo Crime Family and the Bonanno Crime Family.
Lee was born March 7, 1969, at a time when being a mob gangster was still glamorous and popular. He once...
by Mitchell Zuckoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking oral biography. After an all-American boyhood in Kansas City, a stint flying bombers in World War II, and jobs ranging from dog tattoo entrepreneur to television...
One Tree Hunks
The Unauthorized Biographies of Chad Michael Murray and James Lafferty
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
One, two, TREE!
Without a doubt, One Tree Hill is one of the hottest shows on the WB—and the guys giving off the heat are Chad Michael Murray and James Lafferty. These rising stars have wowed fans far and wide with their undeniable talent and devastating good looks. And judging by their remarkable...
Chance and Circumstance
Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
The long-awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant, iconoclastic, and forward-thinking artists at its center—Merce Cunningham...
Greta Garbo
A Divine Star
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
In the male-oriented studio system, Greta Garbo wielded a power no other actress has ever possessed, before or since. Be it producer, director, lover or journalist, Garbo called the shots, and when she decided that she was done with the whirlwind of life as Hollywood's darling she withdrew completely,...
George Lucas
Una vida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 19, 2017
La biografía más completa jamás escrita sobre uno de los cineastas más admirados e influyentes de los últimos cincuenta años: Georges Lucas.
El 25 de mayo de 1977 se estrenó en apenas cuarenta salas estadounidenses un film con todos los números para fracasar. Sin embargo, pronto mereció...
George Balanchine
The Ballet Maker
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
The foremost contemporary choreographer in the history of ballet, George Balanchine extended the art form into radical new paths that came to seem inevitable under his direction. He transformed movement and dance in classical and modern ballet, on the Broadway stage, and in the cinema.
George...
by Ali MacGraw
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
This is the autobiography of a former photographer's stylist who became an international film celebrity and married two of Hollywood's biggest names, but then seemed to throw it all away. The role of Jenny in "Love Story" brought Ali MacGraw stardom. She married producer Bob Evans and bore him a son,...
Sinatra and the Jack Pack
The Extraordinary Friendship between Frank Sinatra and John F. Kennedy?Why They Bonded and What Went Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A New York Times Bestseller
Frank Sinatra desperately wanted to be part of John F. Kennedy, Jr.’s gang. He had his own famed Rat Pack,” made up of hard drinking, womanizing individuals like himself-guys like Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Peter Lawford-but the guy Ol’ Blue Eyes”...
Paul Harvey's America
The Life, Art, and Faith of a Man Who Transformed Radio and Inspired a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
New York Times best selling biographer Stephen Mansfield and coauthor David A. Holland present a fascinating look at America’s most popular radio host. You’ll discover how the brutal murder of his father shaped Paul Harvey’s life and career; how a high school teacher helped launch him in radio;...
Life Is Not a Stage
From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later played on television.
Florence's...
Spencer Tracy
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
“The best goddamned actor I’ve ever seen!”—George M. Cohan
His full name was Spencer Bonaventure Tracy. He was called “The Gray Fox” by Frank Sinatra; other actorscalled him the “The Pope.”
Spencer Tracy’s image on-screen was that of a self-reliant man whose sense of...
You Have No Idea
A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Holly wood, Love, Loss (and Each Other)
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The highly anticipated first book by a widely respected entertainer whose career highlights include The Right Stuff, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, and former Miss America
When Vanessa Williams was growing up, she had a plan: She’d go to college and major in musical theater; afterward...