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Easy Street
Ron Perlman - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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The engaging, passionate, always-honest, and often-hilarious memoir of actor Ron Perlman - his triumphant story of perseverance and determination navigating the slippery slopes of Hollywood, with a foreword by Guillermo del ToroRon Perlman was a kid who had a myriad of self-image issues,... |
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Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life
Lynn Haney
Format: Book
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His first screen test was a disaster, his features were large and irregular, his left ear outsized the right, yet he would one day be headlined as the Most Handsome Man in the World. And most of his leading ladies—among them, Ingrid Bergman, Jennifer Jones, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren,... |
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Daily show - the book : an oral history
Chris Smith - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host. For almost seventeen years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political... |
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The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia
Rick Pender - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is a wonderfully detailed and comprehensive reference devoted to musical theater's most prolific and admired composer and lyricist. Entries cover Sondheim's numerous collaborators - from composers and directors to designers and orchestras - key songs... |
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Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History
Chuck D - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive, chronological survey of rap and hip hop from 1973 to the present by Chuck D, arguably the most influential rapper in the world.In the more than 40 years since the days of DJ Kool Herc and "Rapper's Delight," hip hop and rap have become a billion-dollar worldwide... |
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Sing to Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next
L a Reid - Harpercollins
Format: Book
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In this long-awaited memoir, illustrated with over 100 never-before-seen photos from his personal collection, the groundbreaking record producer chronicles his struggles, his success, and the celebrated artists that made him a legend.Over the last twenty-five years, legendary music producer... |
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Maggie Smith : a biography
Michael Coveney - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades. From her days as a West End star... |
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The Story of the Great British Bake Off
ANITA SINGH - Head of Zeus
Format: Hardcover
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Take one tent. Fill with 12 amateur bakers. Garnish with one venerable cookery writer, one blue-eyed bread-maker, and two comedy queens with a love of innuendo, and you have the recipe for the most popular show of our times. When The Great British Bake Off made its debut in August 2010,... |
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Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night
Jason Zinoman - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman delivers the definitive story of the life and artistic legacy of David Letterman, the greatest television talk show host of all time and the signature comedic voice of a generation.In a career spanning more than thirty years, David Letterman redefined... |
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Sicker in the Head: More Conversations About Life and Comedy
Judd Apatow - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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No one knows comedy like Judd Apatow. From interviewing the biggest comics of the day for his high school radio show to performing stand-up in L.A. dive bars with his roommate Adam Sandler, to writing and directing Knocked Up and producing Freaks and Geeks, Apatow has always lived, breathed,... |
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