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Marilyn Monroe
The Final Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Published for the fiftieth anniversary of her tragic death, this definitive account dispels the rumors and sets the record straight on her last two years
Marilyn Monroe passed away at the age of thirty-six under circumstances that have remained mysterious to this day. Marilyn Monroe: The Final...
The Todd Glass Situation
A Bunch of Lies about My Personal Life and a Bunch of True Stories about My 30-Year Career in Stand-Up Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A “triumphant” (The New York Times) memoir from beloved comedian Todd Glass about his decision at age forty-eight to finally live openly as a gay man, and the support from his illustrious collection of comedy pals, from Louis CK to Sarah Silverman.
As Todd Glass tells it, growing up in...
Hollywood Monster
A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Robert Englund, legendary star of A Nightmare on Elm Street, peels back the Freddy Krueger mask and reveals the stuff of every horror buff’s dreams.
ONE...TWO...FREDDY'S COMING FOR YOU...
You've seen him in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series—and in your darkest dreams. The sadistic...
Death Punch'd
Surviving Five Finger Death Punch's Metal Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
From the cofounder of Five Finger Death Punch, a fascinating inside account of one of the most successful heavy-metal bands of the past decade, and a revealing personal journey through the wild highs and terrifying lows of the rock and roll lifestyle—a wry and rollicking tale of music, addiction,...
by Ira H. Gallen
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
A HISTORY OF THE MOST CONTROVERSAL MOTION PICTURE EVERY MADE A hundred years have passed since the masterpiece of David Wark Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, first appeared on the screens of America, in the winter of 1915. It demonstrated that the cinema, no less than literature and no less than the...
by Peter Wild
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
“Most directors have one film for which they are known or possibly two,” said Francis Ford Coppola. “Akira Kurosawa has eight or nine.” Through masterpieces such as Kagemusha, Seven Samurai, and High and Low, Akira Kurosawa (1910–98) influenced directors from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg...
Fritz Lang
The Nature of the Beast
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The name of Fritz Lang—the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat, and thirty other unforgettable films—is hallowed the world over. But what lurks behind his greatest legends and his genius as a filmmaker? Patrick McGilligan, placed among “the front rank of film biographers”...
by Ben Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Coming ten years after the group's first appearance, Whatever People Say They Are...That's What They're Not is the first comprehensive biography of Arctic Monkeys, the greatest British group of the internet age.
This is the story of a talented group of hip-hop loving school friends from Sheffield,...
A Body of Work
Dancing to the Edge and Back
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as “the most exciting male dancer in the western world,” presents a look at his artistic life—up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating...
by David Sterritt
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
From Dial M for Murder and Vertigo to North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) made some of the most memorable thrillers in the history of cinema. Acclaimed for both his daring artistic innovations and his irrepressible showmanship, Hitchcock blended suspense,...
My Life as a Mankiewicz
An Insider's Journey through Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
The son of famed director and screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( All About Eve [1950], Guys and Dolls [1955], Cleopatra [1963]) and the nephew of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz was genuine Hollywood royalty. He grew up in Beverly Hills and New York, spent summers on his...
by Steve Bluestein
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Steve Bluestein is articulate, and funny, and incredibly insightful. You will laugh as you completely identify reading this book.
– Henry Winkler, Actor best know as
Arthur Fonzarelli on Happy Days
Steve Bluestein has always been able to make me laugh out loud, and now his book…...
Starflacker
Inside the Golden Age of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
A renowned Hollywood press agent to the superstars.. a “starflacker” in a phrase his daughter coined for him.. captures the spirit of the Golden Age of Hollywood and of its legendary talents. His very personal experience of their wit, charm and antics, relived in well over a thousand anecdotes, defines...
by Barry Cryer
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Barry Cryer is one of the great comedians of the last 50 years. This is a sparkling series of hilarious and true anecdotes, almost all of which have never been told before!
Barry Cryer has collaborated with all the greats from Max Miller to Tony Hancock, Bob Hope, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore,...