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Herzog by Ebert
Roger Ebert · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge matched by a sheer love of life that bolstered... |
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Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films
Molly Haskell · Yale University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented "Everything about me is in my films," Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker,... |
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Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story
Chris Nashawaty · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"More fun to read than the movie was to watch ... a scene-stealing book." -- The Washington Post An Entertainment Weekly "Must List" selectionCaddyshack is one of the most beloved comedies of all time, a classic snobs vs. slobs story of working class kids and the white... |
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Go Ask Ali: Half-Baked Advice
Ali Wentworth · Harper
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers her hilarious and unique advice on surviving the absurdity of modern life in her third collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Ali Wentworth's first two books, Ali in Wonderland and Happily Ali After, were lauded by readers, critics,... |
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Growing Up Fisher: Musings, Memories, and Misadventures
JOELY FISHER · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Actress, director, entertainer Joely Fisher invites readers backstage, into the intimate world of her career and family with this hilarious, irreverent, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her unlikely hero,... |
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The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics
David Weinstein · Brandeis
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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This absorbing biography chronicles the life and work of one of the most important entertainers of the twentieth century. Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) starred in theater, film, radio, and television. His immense popularity across a variety of media, his pride in his Jewish heritage, and his engagement... |
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Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution
Todd S. Purdum · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American CenturyThey stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound... |
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Are You Anybody: A Memoir
Jeffrey Tambor · Crown/Archetype
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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It's rare that an actor embodies even one memorable character over the arc of a career. Jeffrey Tambor has managed to create three, beginning with Hank "Hey Now!" Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, the series created by Garry Shandling, Jeffrey's first mentor in television. He went... |
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West Winging It: An Un-presidential Memoir
PAT CUNNANE · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The West Wing meets The Office in this fresh and funny exclusive look into President Barack Obama's years in the White House, directly from his senior writer and former Deputy Director of Messaging.West Winging It: An Unpresidential Memoir is the personal story of Pat Cunnane and his journey... |
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Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
Joe Hagan · Knopf
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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The first and only biography of Jann Wenner, the iconic founder of Rolling Stone magazine, and a romp through the hothouses of rock and roll, politics, media, and Hollywood, from the Summer of Love to the Internet age.Lennon. Dylan. Jagger. Belushi. Leibovitz. The story of Jann Wenner,... |
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Raging Against Aging: kicking & screaming, laughing & crying, stretching & kvetching
College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven. · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 118
Format: Paperback
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With a humorous outlook, Jacqueline Becker takes on aging and its effects on every aspect of her life. From family and personal health to dead friends and the question of an afterlife, no topic is off limits in this down-to-earth book. Author will donate 18% of her royalties to Memorial... |
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He's Got Rhythm: The Life and Career of Gene Kelly
CYNTHIA BRIDESON · UNIV PR OF KENTUCKY
Pages: 560
Format: Print book
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He sang and danced in the rain, proclaimed New York to be a wonderful town, and convinced a group of Parisian children that they had rhythm. One of the most influential and respected entertainers of Hollywood's golden age, Gene Kelly revolutionized film musicals with his innovative... |
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