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Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio
MR DAVID THOMSON - Yale University Press
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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Man of the Year: A Memoir
LOU COVE - FLATIRON Books
Format: Print book
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For one 1970's family, the center may not hold, but it certainly does fold.In 1978 Jimmy Carter mediates the Camp David Accords, Fleetwood Mac tops charts with Rumours, Starsky fights crime with Hutch, and twelve-year-old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem,... |
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Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland
Sid Luft - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book
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The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric comeback after she was unceremoniously booted off the MGM lot: he produced her iconic, Oscar-nominated vehicle A Star Is Born... |
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Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era
Saul Austerlitz - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Friends, published for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the show's premiere. Howyoudoin'? In September 1994, six friends sat down in their favorite coffee shop and began bantering about sex, relationships, jobs, and just about everything... |
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Who Is Rich?: A Novel
Matthew Klam - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative and hilarious satire of love, sex, money, and politics in our new gilded age - the long-awaited first novel from the the acclaimed author of Sam the CatEvery summer, a once-sort-of-famous forty-two-year-old cartoonist named Rich Fischer leaves his wife and two kids... |
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MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
Joanna Robinson - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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"I watched all the movies. I devoured all the articles. I listened to all the pods. I thought I knew everything there was to know about the MCU . . . and then I read this magnificent book. For fans, by fans; hilarious, gripping, and emotional; no infinity stone is left unturned. I loved... |
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Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption
Ellis Cashmore - Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The first volume to examine the iconic Elizabeth Taylor in this light, Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption paints Taylor as the seminal representation of "celebrity." A figure of enormous charisma and cultural sway, she intrigued a global audience with her marriages... |
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A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York
Anjelica Huston - Scribner; 1st edition
Format: Audiobook
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Writing with an exuberant love of language and detail, Anjelica Huston shares her enchanted childhood in Ireland, her teen years in London, and her coming-of-age as a model and nascent actress in New York. Living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid... |
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