Entertainment category: 96258 books
The Last Greatest Magician in the World
Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Here is the seminal biography of the magician's magician, Howard Thurston, a man who surpassed Houdini in the eyes of showmen and fans and set the standard fro how stage magic is performed today.
Everyone knows Houdini-but who was Thurston? In this rich, vivid biography of the "greatest...
Howie Mandel
An Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This is the unlikely story of a multi-talented stand-up comedian, actor, game show host and voice artist who has left an indelible mark on the entertainment business. Howie Mandel began as a high school dropout turned carpet salesman who went on to own his own carpet sales business. After a fateful...
Master of Ceremonies
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, Joel began his life in the theater at the age of 9, starting in children’s theater and...
Double Life
Portrait of a Gay Marriage From Broadway to Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
“A fascinating, frank and page-turning memoir about the lifelong love affair of two extraordinary men” (Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City).
The human story at the center of this debate is told in Double Life, a dual memoir by a gay male couple in a fifty-plus year relationship....
Barbra Streisand
Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Barbra Streisand has been called the “most successful...talented performer of her generation” by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is “one of the natural wonders of the age.” Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment—from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star...
Married to Laughter
A Love Story Featuring Anne Meara
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
The current generation knows him as the serenity-seeking Frank Costanza from Seinfeld. An older generation knows him as one-half of the comedy team Stiller and Meara. But, as his memoir, Married to Laughter, reveals, Jerry Stiller has had a lifelong love affair with entertainment.
Growing up during...
The Goomba Diet
Living Large and Loving It
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Stop crying! The Goomba Diet is here—the dolce vita diet that shows you how to eat more, drink more, laugh more, live more, and feel great while you’re doing it. The Goomba Diet is the personal lifestyle guide from Steven R. Schirripa—Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri from HBO’s hit series The...
by Ali MacGraw
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
This is the autobiography of a former photographer's stylist who became an international film celebrity and married two of Hollywood's biggest names, but then seemed to throw it all away. The role of Jenny in "Love Story" brought Ali MacGraw stardom. She married producer Bob Evans and bore him a son,...
Pauline Kael
A Life in the Dark
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
**“A smart and eminently readable examination of the life and career of one of the twentieth century’s most influential movie critics.”—Los Angeles Times
“Engrossing and thoroughly researched.”—Entertainment Weekly
• A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2011 •
The...
Netflixed
The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Netflix has come a long way since 1997, when two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings, decided to start an online DVD store before most people owned a DVD player. They were surprised and elated when launch-day traffic in April 1998 crashed their server and resulted in 150...
Season Finale
The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In the mid-1990s, two major Hollywood studios, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures, each launched their own broadcast television network with the hope of becoming the fifth major player in an industry long dominated by ABC, CBS, NBC, and, more recently, Fox. Despite the odds against them, the WB and...
by Melissa Jo Peltier
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2013
New York Times bestseller Melissa Jo Peltier turns her attention to the brilliant, back-stabbing world of prime-time television in this wickedly funny new novel. Peltier has worked in entertainment for more than 20 years, making the darkly funny Reality Boulevard a true insider’s view of Hollywood...
Powerhouse
The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A New York Times bestseller
An astonishing—and astonishingly entertaining—history of Hollywood’s transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun.
The...
The Video Game Industry
Formation, Present State, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The Video Game Industry provides a platform for the research on the video game industry to draw a coherent and informative picture of this industry. Previously this has been done sparsely through conference papers, research articles, and popular science books. Although the study of this industry is...