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Orson Welles's Last Movie
The Making of The Other Side of the Wind
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Journalist Josh Karp shines a spotlight on the making of The Other Side of the Wind—the final unfinished film from the auteur of Citizen Kane in Orson Welles’s Last Movie, the basis of Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville’s Netflix Original Documentary, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead.
In...
Lonelyhearts
The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
A “breezily entertaining” look at the comic couple who hobnobbed with Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman, Bennett Cerf, and other luminaries of their day (The New York Times Book Review).
Nathanael West—author, screenwriter, playwright—was famous for two masterpieces: Miss Lonelyhearts...
by Joseph DiMona, Ann Corio
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A rollicking, colorfully illustrated history of burlesque as seen through the eyes of its first lady, Ann Corio.
Judy Garland on Judy Garland
Interviews and Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Judy Garland on Judy Garland is the closest we will come to experiencing and exploring the legend’s planned autobiography. Collecting and presenting the most important Garland interviews and encounters that took place between 1935 and 1969, this work opens with her first radio appearance under contract...
by Mark Masek
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
For more than 100 years, Hollywood Forever Cemetery has been one of the premier burial locations for entertainment celebrities, studio executives and members of the Hollywood film community. Today, it’s one of the top tourist destinations for fans who want to pay their respects to their favorite...
Curly
An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
While the Three Stooges were the longest active and most productive comedy team in Hollywood, their artistic height coincided with the years Curly was with them, and this is his definitive biography. From 1932 to 1946 Curly was the zaniest of the Stooges, becoming famous for his high-pitched voice,...
I Know What I'm Doing -- and Other Lies I Tell Myself
Dispatches from a Life Under Construction
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
New York Times bestselling author and stand-up comedian Jen Kirkman delivers a hilarious, candid memoir about marriage, divorce, sex, turning forty, and still not quite having life figured out.
Jen Kirkman wants to be the voice in your head that says, Hey, you’re okay. Even if you sometimes...
by James Aldis
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
A lavishly illustrated tribute to the greatest entertainer of a generation. ‘The world has lost one of the greats but his music will live on forever’ - Madonna Michael Jackson was the undisputed King of Pop and his untimely death has provoked tributes from around the world. With a colourful life...
by Moby
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? The second volume of Moby's extraordinary life story is a journey into the dark heart of fame and the demons that lurk just beneath the...
39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss
The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
A memoir from the Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live writer that is “funny, spiky, and twistedly entertaining” (Entertainment Weekly).
39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is a seriously funny and irreverent memoir that gives an insider’s view of the birth and rise of Saturday Night Live,...
by Steve Lukather, Paul Rees, Steve Vai
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant sound of the late ‘70s and ‘80s was not punk, but a slick, polished amalgam of rock and R&B first staked out on Boz Scaggs’ Silk Degrees. That album was shaped...
by Pete Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest, Comedy Sex God is a hilarious, profound, and enlightening romp around the fertile mind of stand-up stand-out, podcast king, and HBO superstar Pete Holmes.
Pete Holmes is a sold-out-every-night stand-up comedian with two...
The Jaws Log
30th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Winner of three Oscars and the highest-grossing film of its time, Jaws was a phenomenon, and this is the only book on how twenty-six-year-old Steven Spielberg transformed Peter Benchley's number-one bestselling novel into the classic film it became.
Hired by Spielberg as a screenwriter to work...
The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray
A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The New York Times Best Seller.
Part biography, part critical appreciation, part love letter, and all fun, this enormous full-color volume, packed with color film stills and behind-the-scenes photography, chronicles every Murray performance in loving detail, recounting all the milestones, legendary...