Performing Arts category: 25753 books
The Jaws Log
30th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Winner of three Oscars and the highest-grossing film of its time, Jaws was a phenomenon, and this is the only book on how twenty-six-year-old Steven Spielberg transformed Peter Benchley's number-one bestselling novel into the classic film it became.
Hired by Spielberg as a screenwriter to work...
Going Off Alarming
The Autobiography: Vol 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The dazzlingly funny second volume of Danny Baker's memoirs: the television years.
Since my first book was published I have had countless friends and family members get in touch to say how come I hadn't included this story or that tale. Was I ashamed of being shot twice, once up the arse, in...
Straight Walk
A Supermodel's Journey to Finding Her Truth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
As a child, Patricia Velasquez watched her mother struggle to make ends meet and put food on the table for their large family. In her unprivileged community in Venezuela, food and water were scarce. It pained her to see her mother work so hard, often denying herself food or clothing for the sake of...
Public Cowboy No. 1
The Life and Times of Gene Autry
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
The only performer to earn 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Gene Autry was the singing cowboy king of American entertainment. Now, in Public Cowboy No.1, Holly George-Warren offers the first serious biography of this singular individual, in a fascinating narrative that traces Autry's climb from...
Warner Bros
The Making of an American Movie Studio
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasyWarner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to...
Adam Brody
So Adorkable!
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
As a kid growing up in San Diego, California, Adam spent most of his time surfing, skateboarding, and watching TV. But when he convinced his best friend to move to Los Angeles with him to try acting, his life began to morph into what it is today. But who said it was going to be easy? With small roles...
by Chris Nickson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
He blew critics away with his performance as a black infantryman in Glory, he stunned audiences with his powerful portrayal of Malcolm X, and he showed us a new kind of prejudice in his role as the homophobic lawyer in Philadelphia. Since then, Denzel Washington has continued to dazzle fans in films...
Permanently Suspended
The Rise and Fall... and Rise Again of Radio's Most Notorious Shock Jock
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Today, Anthony Cumia is the co-host of the wildly popular “Anthony Cumia Show,” which live-streams to a huge following of paid subscribers; however, Anthony is most well-known from the legendary, nationally syndicated “Opie and Anthony Show.” Permanently Suspended is an all-access pass to...
Miriam Hopkins
Life and Films of a Hollywood Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Miriam Hopkins (1902--1972) first captured moviegoers' attention in daring precode films such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Story of Temple Drake (1933), and Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932). Though she enjoyed popular and critical acclaim in her long career -- receiving an Academy...
Gary Cooper
American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2001
Published to coincide with his centennial in May 2001, this definitive biography of a Hollywood icon portrays actor Gary Cooper as a man of complex and sophisticated tastes, as well as large appetites. Meyers offers a riveting, inside look at Cooper's career; his tempestuous relationships with Grace...
Jack Be Nimble
The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
A warm, witty tell-all and history of American regional theater, from one of our best-loved directors
For Jack O'Brien, there's nothing like a first encounter with a great performer, nothing like the sound of an audience bursting into applause. In short, there's nothing like the theater.
Following...
by Mary Wagnalls
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Stars of the Opera contains interviews with the most famous female opera singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Melba, Eames, Calve and Lehmann.
Surviving Cissy
My Family Affair of Life in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Kathy Garver, the teenage heartthrob from the hit series Family Affair (1966–1971), was no one-hit wonder, but a journeywoman actress who appeared in such classic films as Night of the Hunter and The Ten Commandments long before she became a television icon.
This memoir is a recollection...
Creativity
The Perfect Crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
In the vein of The Creative Habit and The Artist’s Way, a new manifesto on the creative process from a master of the impossible.
Since well before his epic 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Philippe Petit had become an artist who answered first and foremost to the demands...