The Rest of the Story: A Continued Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood

By Arthur Laurents(Hardback)

Best known for the hit musicals West Side Story and Gypsy, Arthur Laurents began his career writing socially minded plays such as Home of the Brave and Time of the Cuckoo. He also garnered impressive credits as a screenwriter (The Way We Were) and stage director (La Cage aux Folles). Such a varied professional life makes for absorbing reading, as....

Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them

By Frank Langella(Hardback)

Deeply Superficial: Noel Coward, Marlene Dietrich, and Me

By Michael Menzies(Hardback)

In this dazzling memoir that also serves as a dual biography of stage and film legends Noel Coward and Marlene Dietrich, producer Michael Menzies chronicles in hilarious detail his life-long obsession with the theater in general and these two international superstars in particular. Born in New Zealand, and physically a doppelganger of his father, Menzies was convinced at an early....

Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster

By Kristen Johnston(Hardback)

The two-time Emmy Award winner presents a harrowing, hysterical, and beautifully written memoir as frank and revealing as Augusten Burroughs--with the humor and wit of David Sedaris.A celebrated and award-winning actress who is perhaps best known for the long-running TV show "3rd Rock from the Sun," for which she won two Emmys, Kristen Johnston has entertained audiences with her impeccable....

Robert Rodriguez: Interviews

(Hardback)

Rogue filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (b. 1968) rocketed to fame with his ultra-low-budget film El Mariachi (1992). The Spanish-language action film, and the making-of book that accompanied it, were inspirational to filmmakers trying to work with the most meager of resources. Rodriguez embodies the postmodern auteur, maintaining a firm control of his projects by not only writing and producing his films,....

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Robert Rodriguez: Interviews

(Paperback / softback)

Rogue filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (b. 1968) rocketed to fame with his ultra-low-budget film El Mariachi (1992). The Spanish-language action film, and the making-of book that accompanied it, were inspirational to filmmakers trying to work with the most meager of resources. Rodriguez embodies the postmodern auteur, maintaining a firm control of his projects by not only writing and producing his films,....

Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman

(Paperback / softback)

Jack Crawford (1847-1917) entertained a generation of Americans and introduced them to their frontier heritage. A master storyteller who presented the West as he experienced it, he was one of America's most popular performers in the late nineteenth century.Dressed in buckskin with a wide-brimmed sombrero covering his flowing locks, Crawford delivered a "frontier monologue and medley" that, as one New....

Is That All There Is?

By Mark Rice-Oxley(Paperback)

Spencer Tracy

By James Curtis(Paperback)

During his lifetime (1900-67), Spencer Tracy was known as Hollywood's 'actor's actor'. Critics wrote that what Olivier was to theatre, Tracy was to film. Over his career he was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won two. This title presents a biography of this tortured, complex and immensely talented man.

Comedy and Error: They Really Were Marvellous Times

By Simon Day(Paperback)

Simon Day, star of the Fast Show and Bellamy's People, tells the shocking, sometimes sad and hilariously funny story of his life so far

From the Heart

(Paperback / softback)

For the first time Kym will tell the story of her rise to fame--from growing up on an estate in Wigan and struggling as a young single mother with two children, to her big break in Hear'Say and finally becoming a much-loved barmaid Michelle Connor on the UK soap opera, "Coronation Street." In this candid and compelling memoir Kym reveals....

Diaghilev: A Life

(Paperback / softback)

Featuring an eight-page gallery of full-color illustrations, here is a major new biography of Serge Diaghilev, founder and impresario of the Ballets Russes, who revolutionized ballet by bringing together composers such as Stravinsky and Prokofiev, dancers and choreographers such as Nijinsky and Karsavina, Fokine and Balanchine, and artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Bakst, and Goncharova. An accomplished, flamboyant impresario....

Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart

By Stefan Kanfer(Paperback / softback)

Humphrey Bogart: it's hard to think of anyone who's had the same lasting impact on the culture of movies. Though he died at the young age of fifty-seven more than half a century ago, his influence among actors and filmmakers, and his enduring appeal for film lovers around the world, remains as strong as ever. What is it about Bogart,....

Never Would Have Made It

(Hardback)

This true story, written by Melvin Childs, Executive Producer of Tyler Perry's first national tour, "I Know I've Been Changed," is a cautionary behind-the-scenes, story of how Tyler Perry went from being an anonymous, struggling playwright to a household name. Childs shares his personal experience as mentor, promoter, and friend to Tyler Perry after Tyler's first two touring attempts that....

Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film

By Professor Ruth Barton(Paperback / softback)

Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by salacious rumors and public scandal, but it was her stunning looks and classic Hollywood glamour that continuously captivated audiences. Born Hedwig Kiesler, she escaped an unhappy marriage with arms dealer Fritz Mandl in Austria to try her luck in Hollywood, where her striking appearance made her a screen legend. Her notorious nude role in....

Marilyn: Intimate Exposures

By Susan Bernard(Hardback)

Legendary Hollywood photographer Bruno Bernard's iconic photograph of Marilyn Monroe standing over the subway grate in a billowing white dress is synonymous with Hollywood glamour and sex appeal. This book celebrates Marilyn's enduring beauty through photographs by Bernard.

Bossypants

By Tina Fey(Paperback)

Tina Fey is one of the world's greatest comic writers and performers. Bossy Pants is her first book.

And Furthermore

By Judi Dench(Paperback / softback)

In this engaging memoir, Academy Award-winner Dame Judi Dench ("Shakespeare in Love") offers insight into her exceptional career on stage and in film, and shares how she coped after losing her husband to cancer in 2001.

The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice

By M G Lord(Hardback)

Lord takes a probing look at the life and career of Elizabeth Taylor, whose numerous film roles were branded as startlingly feminist, from her breakout role in "National Velvet" to her Oscar-winning performance in "Butterfield 8."

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

By Rob Lowe(Paperback)

Rob Lowe is teen idol at fifteen, international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars. This title chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood.