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That's Amore
A Son Remembers Dean Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
Ricci Martin takes readers on a tour through his childhood, from the star-studded parties to the exploration of three marriages, eight kids, one family, to the treasured one-on-one time he shared with his father.
John Gilbert
The Last of the Silent Film Stars
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897--1936) was among the world's most recognizable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts of his life have focused on his high-profile romances with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, his legendary...
Some Enchanted Evenings
The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Mary Martin was one of the greatest stars of her day. Growing up in Texas, she was married early to Benjamin Hagman and gave birth to her first child, Larry Hagman. She was divorced even more quickly. Martin left little Larry with her parents and took off for Hollywood. She didn't make a dent in the...
The Broken Spoke
Austin's Legendary Honky-Tonk
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
James and Annetta White opened the Broken Spoke in 1964, then a mile south of the Austin city limits, under a massive live oak, and beside what would eventually become South Lamar Boulevard. White built the place himself, beginning construction on the day he received his honorable discharge from the...
Voice Lessons
A Sisters Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Voice Lessons is the story of one younger sister growing up in the shadow of a larger-than-life older sister—looking up to her, wondering how they were alike and how they were different and, ultimately, learning how to live her own life and speak in her own voice on her own terms.
As Cara...
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...
This Is Not Fame
A "From What I Re-Memoir"
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
An unfiltered, unapologetic, hilarious, and sometimes obscene assemblage of tales from the down-and-dirty traveling comedy circuit
Doug Stanhope has been drunkenly stumbling down the back roads and dark alleys of stand-up comedy for over a quarter of a century, roads laden with dank bars, prostitutes,...
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...
Seduction
Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood’s glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul’s obsessions with sex, power and publicity...
My Boring-Ass Life (Revised Edition)
The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
NOW UPDATED WITH THE ‘INS AND OUTS’ OF MAKING ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO, AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!
Anything but boring, Kevin Smith shares his x-rated thoughts in his diary, telling all in his usual candid, heartfelt and irreverent way!
Kevin Smith pulls no punches in this hard-hitting,...
by Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Harry Judd
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Prepare to meet the real McFly .
In 2003, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter came together and formed what would become one of the most popular and successful bands in the UK. Just teenagers at the time, they were catapulted into the limelight and had to adapt quickly...
Lowside of the Road
A Life of Tom Waits
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today. After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty...
by A. Scott Berg
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century - reigning as an admired actress, a beloved movie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time.
In...