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How I Slept My Way to the Middle
Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
How I Slept My Way to the Middle winningly combines never-before-heard stories featuring A-list entertainers with fan favorites and Kevin’s own thoughts about how he made it. He turned down his first invitation to do stand-up on The Tonight Show because he knew that he’d make a bigger impact if...
Going Off Alarming
The Autobiography: Vol 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The dazzlingly funny second volume of Danny Baker's memoirs: the television years.
Since my first book was published I have had countless friends and family members get in touch to say how come I hadn't included this story or that tale. Was I ashamed of being shot twice, once up the arse, in...
Straight Walk
A Supermodel's Journey to Finding Her Truth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
As a child, Patricia Velasquez watched her mother struggle to make ends meet and put food on the table for their large family. In her unprivileged community in Venezuela, food and water were scarce. It pained her to see her mother work so hard, often denying herself food or clothing for the sake of...
The Rhino Records Story
Revenge of the Music Nerds
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
In the 1970s in the backroom of a record store, Harold Bronson and Richard Foos were making history—and Rhino Records was born. Harold Bronson’s The Rhino Records Story tells the tale of how a little record shop became a multi-million dollar corporation. Starting as an expression of Bronson and Foos’...
Warner Bros
The Making of an American Movie Studio
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasyWarner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to...
Adam Brody
So Adorkable!
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
As a kid growing up in San Diego, California, Adam spent most of his time surfing, skateboarding, and watching TV. But when he convinced his best friend to move to Los Angeles with him to try acting, his life began to morph into what it is today. But who said it was going to be easy? With small roles...
As If!
The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Will we ever get tired of Clueless? Ugh, as if!
Acclaimed pop culture journalist Jen Chaney celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the classic film’s release in the first book of its kind, weaving together original interviews with writer and director Amy Heckerling; key cast members, including...
by Chris Nickson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
He blew critics away with his performance as a black infantryman in Glory, he stunned audiences with his powerful portrayal of Malcolm X, and he showed us a new kind of prejudice in his role as the homophobic lawyer in Philadelphia. Since then, Denzel Washington has continued to dazzle fans in films...
Permanently Suspended
The Rise and Fall... and Rise Again of Radio's Most Notorious Shock Jock
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Today, Anthony Cumia is the co-host of the wildly popular “Anthony Cumia Show,” which live-streams to a huge following of paid subscribers; however, Anthony is most well-known from the legendary, nationally syndicated “Opie and Anthony Show.” Permanently Suspended is an all-access pass to...
America 51
A Probe into the Realities That Are Hiding Inside "The Greatest Country in the World"
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A skewering of the American underbelly by the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Deadly Sins, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven, and You're Making Me Hate You
The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor begins America 51 with a reflection on what his itinerant youth...
Miriam Hopkins
Life and Films of a Hollywood Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Miriam Hopkins (1902--1972) first captured moviegoers' attention in daring precode films such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Story of Temple Drake (1933), and Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932). Though she enjoyed popular and critical acclaim in her long career -- receiving an Academy...
Gary Cooper
American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2001
Published to coincide with his centennial in May 2001, this definitive biography of a Hollywood icon portrays actor Gary Cooper as a man of complex and sophisticated tastes, as well as large appetites. Meyers offers a riveting, inside look at Cooper's career; his tempestuous relationships with Grace...
Jack Be Nimble
The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
A warm, witty tell-all and history of American regional theater, from one of our best-loved directors
For Jack O'Brien, there's nothing like a first encounter with a great performer, nothing like the sound of an audience bursting into applause. In short, there's nothing like the theater.
Following...
by Mary Wagnalls
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Stars of the Opera contains interviews with the most famous female opera singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Melba, Eames, Calve and Lehmann.