Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
The Moose That Roared
The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
For those of us who love The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, these names conjure up memories of some of the wittiest, most inspired, and relentlessly hilarious half-hours of animation ever produced. There was a kind of gleeful magic to the shows, a cumulative joy that transcended the crude animation and...
Maggie Smith: A Biography
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades. From her days as a West End star of comedy and...
by Edward Gross, Mark A. Altman
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
From Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, the bestselling authors of the definitive two-volume Star Trek oral history, The Fifty-Year Mission, comes the complete, uncensored, unauthorized oral history of Battlestar Galactica in So Say We All.
Four decades after its groundbreaking debut, Battlestar...
Elizabeth Taylor
The Lady, The Lover, The Legend 1932-2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
From her fairytale childhood to her impressive array of movies and marriages, Elizabeth Taylor's life, both on and off the screen, has enchanted, saddened, appalled, and entertained us for the past seven decades.
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend -- the first new biography to...
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...
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...
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...
Laid Bare
A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1997
A powerful chronicler of the American Nightmare through his gripping examinations of near-mythic Southern California murders (the Black Dahlia, Tate-La Bianca), John Gilmore now draws upon his personal experiences to turn his sights on our morbid obsession with Celebrity and the ruinous price it extracts...