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Not the Girl Next Door
Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
In this fascinating new biography of screen legend Joan Crawford, Charlotte Chandler draws on exclusive and remarkably candid interviews with Crawford herself and with others who knew her, including first husband Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Crawford's daughter Cathy. As a result, this biography is...
The Colonel
The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
In The Colonel, Alanna Nash, the author of Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch, explores in depth the amazing story of Colonel Tom Parker, the man behind the legend and the myth of Elvis Presley. The result is a book that reads like the most riveting of real-life detective stories -- one that...
Without You
A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Anthony Rapp captures the passion and grit unique to the theatre world as he recounts his life-changing experience in the original cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent.
Anthony had a special feeling about Jonathan Larson's rock musical from his first audition, so he was thrilled...
Newsfail
Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A “feisty, literate, and uncompromising” (Publishers Weekly) primer on the most urgent issues of our day, from the creators and co-hosts of Citizen Radio, a listener-supported show whose slogan is “independent radio that won’t lead you to war.”
#Newsfail is definitely not your grandmother’s...
Wired
The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
This reissue of Bob Woodword’s classic book about John Belushi—one of the most interesting performers and personalities in show business history—“is told with the same narrative style that Woodward employed so effectively in All the President’s Men and The Final Days” (Chicago Tribune).
John...
Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, and of director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke—****“a tremendous explication of a tremendous film….Breathtaking” (The Washington Post).
Fifty years ago a...
Seinfeldia
How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The New York Times bestseller about two guys who went out for coffee and dreamed up Seinfeld—“A wildly entertaining must-read not only for Seinfeld fans but for anyone who wants a better understanding of how television series are made” (Booklist, starred review).
Comedians Larry David...
A Curious Mind
The Secret to a Bigger Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
#1 New York Times bestselling author and Oscar–winning producer Brian Grazer has written a brilliantly entertaining and eye-opening exploration of curiosity and the life-changing effects it can have on every person’s life.
From Academy Award–winning producer Brian Grazer, New York Times...
Ingrid
Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Ingrid Bergman was one of the biggest and most glamorous stars in Hollywood -- until she became one of the most controversial, when an international scandal threatened to end her career. She had starred in several now-classic films: Casablanca, Spellbound, Notorious, Gaslight, and her co-stars included...
She Made Me Laugh
My Friend Nora Ephron
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
“A very personal remembrance of Nora Ephron’s life and loves, and her ups and downs” (USA TODAY) by her long-time and dear friend Richard Cohen in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their decades-long friendship.
Nora Ephron (1941–2012) was a phenomenal personality,...
Lion of Hollywood
The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—MGM—the biggest and most successful film studio of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
An immigrant from tsarist Russia, Mayer began in the film business as an exhibitor but soon migrated to where the...
Marlene
Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
In Marlene, the legendary Hollywood icon is vividly brought to life, based on a series of conversations with the star herself and with others who knew her well. In the mid-1970s Charlotte Chandler spoke with Marlene Dietrich in Dietrich’s Paris apartment. The star’s career was all but over, but...
Rickles' Book
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Why you need to buy RICKLES' Book immediately:
RICKLES' BOOK will help you win friends and influence people.
RICKLES' BOOK will introduce you to all of his famous friends, from Frank Sinatra to Johnny Carson.
RICKLES' BOOK will help you lose weight.
RICKLES' BOOK will help...
by Pearl Jam
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Published in celebration of Pearl Jam’s twentieth anniversary and in conjunction with Cameron Crowe’s definitive film, Pearl Jam Twenty is the unprecedented, and lavishly illustrated portrait of one of the world’s most influential and successful bands.
Published in celebration of Pearl...