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1001) Like brothers
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The multitalented writers, directors, producers, and actors (The League, Transparent, Togetherness, and The Mindy Project) share the secrets of their lifelong partnership in this unique personal memoir"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable...
1003) Third girl from the left
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Language
English
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Description
Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1970 is not a place a smart black girl wants to linger. For Angela, twenty years old and beautiful, the stifling conformity is unbearable. She heads to Los Angeles just as blaxploitation movies are pouring money into the studios and lands a few bit parts before an unplanned pregnancy derails her plans for stardom.
For Mildred, movies have always been a blessed diversion in a life marked by the legacy of the 1921 Tulsa race riots....
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The popular actress and best-selling author of Sexy Forever draws on the examples of her half-century marriage to Alan Hamel to counsel readers on how to mold and shape a healthy, lasting relationship without sacrificing individual strengths.
"In her most personal and inspiring book yet, ... bestselling author Suzanne Somers shows readers how to shape a healthy, lasting relationship through the lens of her fifty-year love affair with her husband,...
1006) The fat lady sang
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Hollywood producer chronicles outrageous moments from his life as well as his recovery from a near-fatal series of strokes, tracing his experiences with such individuals as Jack Nicholson, Grace Kelly, and Pope John Paul II.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find a "pocketful of happiness in every day." This honest and frequently hilarious...
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English
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Description
Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett. He was the handsome Academy Award--nominated star of Paper Moon and the classic romance Love Story. She was the beautiful, all-American Charlie's Angel, whose poster adorned the bedroom walls of teenage boys everywhere. One of the most storied love affairs in Hollywood history, their romance has captivated fans and media alike for more than three decades. In a tragic turn, the world lost Farrah after a tragic battle...
1009) Darling days
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The author describes her search for an authentic sense of self and gender identity in a coming of age biography set in the 1980s and 1990s urban bohemia of New York's Lower East Side, where punk rock, poverty and heroin met art and glamour,"--NoveList.
1010) Thank you for my service
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family dealing with 9/11, continuing through the intensity of four...
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Language
English
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Description
"With Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff among its characters, this sweeping and stylish love letter to the golden age of horror cinema tells the wonderful, tragic story of Maddy Ulm. It takes readers through her rise from the complicated shadows of Berlin's first experiments with expressionist cinema to the glamorous deserts of Hollywood. For Maddy has a secret. A secret that has given her incredible insight into the soul of horror. A secret that has a...
1012) Barbra: a retrospective
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
288 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
"She has performed for adoring audiences in nightclubs, on TV, on Broadway, and in movies. Won Oscar, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy awards. And sold 140 million albums worldwide. She is Barbra Streisand -- and this is the story of the milestones that mark her rise from a young girl living in Brooklyn to a global megastar beloved by millions."--p.4 of cover.
1013) Jordan Peele
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Series
Language
English
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Description
This fascinating book introduces readers to the life of Jordan Peele, a Black film director and comedian whose artistic and cultural contributions have expanded and illuminated the collective conversation on race. The book includes a table of contents, a Consider This special feature, a biographical timeline, informative sidebars, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers series is at the Navigator level, aligned...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An award-winning actor, in this harrowing, heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in Hollywood, not only reveals her own mistakes, but also the lessons she learned and her efforts to understand and grow rather than casting blame, proving that there is always a light at the end.
A memoir by award-winning actor Mena Suvari, best-known for her iconic roles in American Beauty, American Pie, and Six Feet Under. The Great Peace is a harrowing, heartbreaking...
1015) Life at the Marmont: the inside story of Hollywood's legendary hotel of the stars--Chateau Marmont
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2013].
Physical Desc
xviii, 348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of the well-known Los Angeles hotel, along with stories and anecdotes of the famous actors and celebrities who have stayed there from its opening in 1929 up to the present day.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"To most Americans, Hollywood activism consists of self-obsessed movie stars making transparently liberal films in a desperate bid for Academy Award glory. There's some truth in that stereotype. But celebrity activism also exerts a subtle power over the American political process. Through money, networking, and image making, the movie industry has shaped the way that politics works for nearly a century. It has helped to forge a culture that is obsessed...
Author
Language
English
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Description
""Daddy always said it takes a man of peace to stop a war." Based on the true story of Paul Robeson's visit to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, comes this recollection of his bravery and activism by his granddaughter, Susan Robeson, with her debut book. When Susan was a child her father and grandfather told her family stories over and over. Grandpa Paul was a great man, a singer with a deep and rumbling voice, a man of peace and principle...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 238 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In deeply personal essays drawn from his life, as well as his career on Broadway and in Hollywood, Rannells argues that we all pretend we are constantly succeeding--for friends, partners, parents, and others--that we are constantly succeeding in the process known as "adulting." But if this acting is leaving us unfulfilled, then we need new markers of time, new milestones, new expectations of what adulthood is and can be"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (approximately 6 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The year: 2000. The setting: Los Angeles. A gorgeous virtuoso of an actress agreed to star in a random play, and a basement-dwelling scenic carpenter said he would assay a supporting role in the selfsame pageant. At the first rehearsal she surveyed her fellow cast members, determining if any of the men might qualify to provide her with a satisfying fling. Her gaze fell upon the carpenter, and like a bolt of lightning the thought struck her: no dice....
1020) Eden-Brazil
Author
Series
Brazilian literature in translation volume 7
Publisher
Tagus Press, UMass Dartmouth
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
v, 114 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Adamastor is a freshly divorced, frustrated bureaucrat trying to reinvent his life. Richie is a young, struggling actor. Together with Ernesto, a rakish, expat Argentine showman, they create Eden-Brazil, an ecotourism destination in a stunning swath of coastal rainforest. Inspired to provide visitors with the ultimate return to nature, they decide to stage the biblical story of the Garden of Eden, complete with Adam, Eve, snake, apple, the works....
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