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Film Crazy

Interviews with Hollywood Legends

by Patrick McGilligan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

In Film Crazy, McGilligan shares some of his fascinating interviews with screen luminaries from his salad days as a young journalist working the Hollywood beat. He rides the presidential campaign bus with Ronald Reagan, visits Alfred Hitchcock on the set of the Master of Suspense's last film, "Family...
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John Osborne

The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man

by John Heilpern
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009

John Osborne, the original Angry Young Man, shocked and transformed British theater in the 1950s with his play Look Back in Anger. This startling biography–the first to draw on the secret notebooks in which he recorded his anguish and depression–reveals the notorious rebel in all his heartrending...
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Speedbumps

Flooring It Through Hollywood

by Teri Garr, Henriette Mantel
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006

In this laugh-out-loud funny and inspiring autobiography, one of Hollywood’s best-loved comediennes muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS In a book that is at once Hollywood hilarious and personally moving, Teri Garr, star of such classic films as Young Frankenstein, Oh God!, Close...
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by Peggy Schwartz, Murray Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011

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Acting Is a Job

Real Life Lessons about the Acting Business

by Jason Pugatch
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010

• How to cope with the realities of life as an actor-if you don’t laugh, you'll cry • In-depth interviews with actors, agents, casting directors. In this hip, warts-and-all look at acting, author Jason Pugatch shares his insights as a working "day player" to give an unvarnished look at theater,...
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Comic's Bedpan

A Lobotomy Patient's guide to joke writing, performing, and selling.

by Stuart Cassell
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

A Lobotomy Patient's guide to joke writing, performing, and selling. An entertaining, easy to follow text and workbook that offers a comprehensive step by step formula for creating jokes as well as performing a stand-up routine. Class room tested exercises for defining your stage character....
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Murder in Motion

The Strange Life of Photographer (and Murderer) Eadweard Muybridge

by Jennifer Warner
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015

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Out of the Inkwell

Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution

by Richard Fleischer
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2005

Max Fleischer (1883--1972) was for years considered Walt Disney's only real rival in the world of cartoon animation. The man behind the creation of such legendary characters as Betty Boop and the animation of Popeye the Sailor and Superman, Fleischer asserted himself as a major player in the development...
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Accompanying Gracie

The Life, Times and Music of Harry Parr Davies (1914-1955)

by Andrew Everett MA
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015

You may have heard about Gracie Fields. Harry not only accompanied her, but composed for her, eventually becoming an important British major light composer in his own right. This is his life story, discussing not only his musical achievements but his personal life.
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by Manoah Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

Style. Beauty. Passion. Vision. These are just a few of the words often used to describe the films of the single most celebrated director in Italy, and one of the most important directors the world has ever known-Federico Fellini. Fifty years since their initial releases, his films of the 1960's...
Cover of Jennifer Lawrence: Girl on Fire - The Biography
by Nadia Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

JENNIFER LAWRENCE is the reigning queen of lots of things: Hollywood, the awkward award-ceremony-stumble, and hundreds of priceless BuzzFeed pages - to name a few. She announced herself to the world at a young age in The Burning Plain and Winter’s Bone, gripping dramas set in America’s...
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Godfather

The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola

by Gene D. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013

WITH A FOREWORD BY WALTER MURCH Gene Phillips blends biography, studio history, and film criticism to complete the most comprehensive work on Coppola ever written. The force behind such popular and critically acclaimed films as Apocalypse Now and the Godfather trilogy, Coppola has imprinted his distinct...
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Free for All

Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told

by Kenneth Turan, Joseph Papp
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009

Free for All is an irresistible behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most beloved and important cultural institutions. Under the inspired leadership of founder Joseph Papp, the Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival brought revolutionary performances to the public for...
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Matthau

A Life

by Rob Edelman, Audrey Kupferberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2002

Funny yet down-to-earth, honest yet full of exaggeration, actor Walter Matthau (1920-2000) will always occupy a place in America's heart as one of the great comic talents of his generation. Born Walter Matuschanskayasky into Jewish tenements on New York's Lower East Side, he was a child actor in New...
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