Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Tom Cruise
An Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Andrew Morton uncovers the true story of the biggest celebrity of our age.
Everyone knows Tom Cruise—or at least what he wants us to know. We know that the man behind the smile overcame a tough childhood to star in astonishing array of blockbusters: Top Gun, Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of...
I Like You Just the Way I Am
Stories About Me and Some Other People
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
A New York Times Best Seller!
By the actress, writer, and one of the funniest women on Twitter, an outrageous, hysterical memoir of acting on impulse, plotting elaborate hoaxes, and refusing to acknowledge boundaries in any form
Jenny Mollen is an actress and writer living in Los Angeles....
Here We Go Again
My Life In Television
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
A memoir of Betty White's first five decades on television—as irreverent and irresistible as the beloved actress herself.
Betty White first appeared on television in 1949 and has gone on to have one of the most amazing careers in TV history, starring in shows such as Life with Elizabeth,...
The Andy Cohen Diaries
A Deep Look at a Shallow Year
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A New York Times bestseller, The Andy Cohen Diaries chronicles a year in the whirlwind life of the beloved pop icon, in his own cheeky, candid, and irreverent words
As a TV Producer and host of the smash late night show Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen has a front row seat to an exciting...
Not Young, Still Restless
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Jeanne Cooper, the Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for her portrayal of Katherine Chancellor on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, recounts the steps and missteps of her eight-decade career in Not Young, Still Restless. Exploring a career that began with the birth of...
Paul Newman
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict, The Color of Money, and Nobody’s...
This Is Just My Face
Try Not to Stare
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
“Gabourey Sidibe’s delightful memoir offers a memorable look into what happens when a black girl’s dreams come true, from the inside out. Sidibe is fearless, incredibly funny, and gorgeously open. What she offers of herself in these pages is a gift.”—Roxane Gay
In This Is Just My Face, Gabourey...
Her Again
Becoming Meryl Streep
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A portrait of a woman, an era, and a profession: the first thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep—the “Iron Lady” of acting, nominated for nineteen Oscars and winner of three—that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling with love, feminism, and her astonishing...
by Michael Caine
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act
When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent...
I Must Say
My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz- obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian."
Short takes the reader on a rich, hilarious,...
Leonard
My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
New York Times Bestseller
Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner first crossed paths as actors on the set of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Little did they know that their next roles as Spock and Captain Kirk, in a new science fiction television series, would shape their lives in ways no one could have...
Live From New York
The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales's definitive oral history of Saturday Night Live, hailed as "incredible" (Vulture) and "required reading" (People), rollickingly updated with nearly 100 new pages covering the decade since the book's original release.
When first published...
So That Happened
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
If it can happen in show business, it’s happened to Jon Cryer. Now he’s opening up for the first time and sharing his behind-the-scenes stories in a warmly endearing, sharply observed, and frankly funny look at life in Hollywood.
In 1986, Jon Cryer won over America as Molly Ringwald’s...
Presto!
How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Penn Jillette’s New York Times bestselling account of his “extremely funny and somewhat profane journey to discovering a healthy lifestyle…that will motivate others to seek weight-loss solutions” (The Washington Post).
More than three hundred and thirty pounds and saddled with a systolic...