Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
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 David Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
"Cooper was heroic, of course, in his own mind as much as in his scripts. He was manly, tall, ruggedly handsome. He was a man for a fight."
On screen Gary Cooper was the ultimate all-American hero: lean, laconic, and masculine, a lone sheriff battling his enemies in High Noon, or...
by Edward Gross, Mark A. Altman
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This is the unauthorized, uncensored and unbelievable true story behind the making of a pop culture phenomenon. The original Star Trek series debuted in 1966 and has spawned five TV series spin-offs and a dozen feature films, with an upcoming one from Paramount arriving in 2016. The Fifty-Year Mission...
by James May
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Top Gear presenter and columnist for the Daily Telegraph James May brings together another brilliant collection of his most controversial and humorous writing.
From tales of motoring adventures through India, Russia and Iceland, to classic articles on essential subjects such as driving songs...
The Importance of Being Ernie
From My Three Sons to Mad Men, a Hollywood Survivor Tells All
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
“[A] wryly told . . . frank and funny tale of TV, movies, and family life” from the iconic Hollywood child star (Brent Maddock, producer).
A true Hollywood survivor, Barry Livingston is one of the few child stars who turned early success into a lifelong career—even if his lazy eye nearly...
Everything Is Cinema
The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
A landmark biography explores the crucial resonances among the life, work, and times of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age
When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Unlike any earlier...
by Annalisa Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
Learn all about your favorite One Direction member!
This fact book on Niall Horan includes:
-What kinds of girls he likes to date. -All about his first kiss. -His upcoming plans with One Direction for 2013. -His favorite movies, foods, restaurants, sports, hobbies, songs, and more!
Do you know all about him? Download today and find out!
You Might Remember Me
The Life and Times of Phil Hartman
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Beloved TV comedic actor Phil Hartman is best known for his eight brilliant seasons on Saturday Night Live, where his versatility and comedic timing resulted in some of the funniest and most famous sketches in the television show's history. Besides his hilarious impersonations of Phil Donahue, Frank...
by Michael Palin
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
The amazingly insightful, funny and brilliant record of Michael Palin's prime years as a member of the famed comedic group, Monty Python.
Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s. This volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese,...
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.
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,...
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...