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Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
Neal Gabler · Yale University Press 2016.
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful...talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age." Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment - from a popular vocalist... |
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You're On an Airplane: Subtitle TK
Parker Posey · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey? On an airplane, with Parker as your seat companion, perhaps? Parker's irreverent, hilarious, and enchanting memoir gives you the incredible opportunity. Full of personal stories, whimsical how-tos, recipes, and beautiful... |
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In such good company : eleven years of laughter, mayhem, and fun in the sandbox
Carol Burnett · Crown Archetype
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show. Who but Carol Burnett herself has the timing, talent, and wit to pull back the curtain on the Emmy-Award winning show that made television history for eleven... |
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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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The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism
Anna Fields · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Amy Schumer -- and every other "funny woman" -- comes a candid feminist comedy manifesto exploring the sisterhood between women's comedy and women's liberation. "I'm not funny at all. What I am is brave." - Lucille Ball... |
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Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure
AMY KAUFMAN · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The first definitive, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes cultural history of the Bachelor franchise, America's favorite guilty pleasureFor fifteen years and thirty-five seasons, the Bachelor franchise has been a mainstay in American TV viewers' lives. Since it premiered in 2002, the show's... |
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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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Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio
MR DAVID THOMSON · Yale University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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21st Century Yokel
Tom Cox · Random House UK
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or not, often through our family and our past. It's not quite a nature book, not quite a humor book, not quite a family memoir, not quite folklore, not quite social history, not quite a collection... |
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The Lies They Tell
Tuvia Tenenbom · Gefen Publishing House
Pages: 370
Format: Print book
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Welcome to the real America,a place you call home but don't yet know! The USA is the world's empire and its actions will influence us all for generations to come. But who are the Americans, the people who make up America? Tuvia Tenenbom travels through America to find out. His wanderings... |
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Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame
Mara Wilson · Penguin Books
Pages: 259
Format: Print book
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""Growing up, I wanted to BE Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight."--Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City "Genuine and authentic, funny and heartbreaking, Where Am I Now? reminds you that no matter how unique your life is, some things bind us all together."... |
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The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
Glenn Frankel · Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery... |
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Adjustment Day: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire.People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.Adjustment Day, the author's... |
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