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The Disney Version
The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2019
“The single most illuminating work on America and the movies” (The Kansas City Star)****: the story of how a shy boy from Chicago crashed Hollywood and created the world’s first multimedia entertainment empire—one that shapes American popular culture to this day.
When Walter Elias Disney...
Der Klang der Maschine
Autobiografie
Language: German
Release Date: August 25, 2017
"Das Modell", "Die Roboter", "Computerwelt" oder "Tour de France": Bei allen großen Hits von Kraftwerk war Karl Bartos als Komponist dabei.
Mit seinem Einstieg im Jahr 1975 entwickelte das Düsseldorfer Quartett jene unverkennbare Soundarchitektur, die...
by Steve Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Adult movie actress and entrepreneur. Born Jenna Marie Massoli on April 9, 1974, in Las Vegas, Nevada, to Lawrence and Judith Massoli. Lawrence was a local constable, and Judith was a showgirl on the Las Vegas Strip. Jameson had only a few years with her mother, who died from skin cancer cells on...
Young, Rich, and Dangerous
The Making of a Music Mogul
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Jermaine Dupri has reached modern-day mythical status in the music industry. He is the power behindthe music of top artists including Mariah Carey,Usher, Lil Jon, and Janet Jackson.
At the age of sixteen, Jermaine Dupri had discovered the child rap duo Kris Kross; by the age of nineteen, Dupri...
That Old Black Magic
Louis Prima, Keely Smith, and the Golden Age of Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Both a love story and a tribute to the entertainment mecca, this exploration shines a spotlight on one of the hottest acts in Las Vegas in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The illuminating depiction showcases the unlikely duo-a grizzled, veteran trumpeter and vocalist molded by Louis Armstrong and...
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye
A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully...
by Amy Schumer
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"This is your happy hour with Amy Schumer... It's Bossypants meets Trainwreck meets your long weekend." —TheSkimm
“Amy’s got your back. She’s in your corner. She’s an honesty bomb. And she’s coming for you.” —Actress...
The Entertainer
Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Using the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood actor, New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot tells the thrilling story of the rise of popular culture through a transfixing personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot’s career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left...
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.
In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert...
Coreyography
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
"Spares no details." —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
**"**An incredible read." —Richard Donner, Director
"People always ask me about life after childhood stardom. What would I say to parents of children in the industry? My only advice, honestly, is to...
by Neal Gabler
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney.
Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then...
Superficial
More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The star-studded and sidesplitting follow up to The Andy Cohen Diaries
The megapopular host of Watch What Happens: Live and executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise is back, better than ever, and telling stories that will keep his publicist up at night.
Since the publication...
by Rees Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney - artist, entrepreneur, innovator, filmmaker, and theme-park impresario - gave birth to a sprawling entertainment enterprise that, in the half-century since his death in 1966, remains a fixture in the culture unlike any other. A titan of the American Century, Walt...
Rob Delaney
Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
From a Deadpool 2 fan favoritecomes a “hilarious, raw” (Rolling Stone) memoir about love, sex, parenthood, work, substance abuse, and everything else that makes life wonderful and/or horrible.
Updated with new material!
Rob Delaney is a comedy superstar. But if you’re ever watched...