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"When you have a very famous father, like mine, everyone thinks they know him. My Dad, Larry Hagman, portrayed the storied, ruthless oilman JR on the TV series Dallas. He was the man everyone loved to hate, but he had a personal reputation of being a nice guy who fully subscribed to his motto: Have Fun, Don't Worry, Be Happy. Dad had a famous parent too, Mary Martin, known from many roles on Broadway, most memorably as Peter Pan. Off-stage she was...
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Skylark is the story of the tormented but glorious life and career of Johnny Mercer, and the first biography of this enormously popular and influential lyricist. Raised in Savannah, Mercer brought a quintessentially southern style to both his life in New York and to his lyrics, which often evoked the landscapes and mood of his youth ("Moon River", "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"). Mercer also absorbed the music of southern blacks--the lullabies...
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The sparkling memoir of a movie icon's life in the footlights and on camera, The Good, the Bad, and Me tells the extraordinary story of Eli Wallach's many years dedicated to his craft. Beginning with his early days in Brooklyn and his college years in Texas, where he dreamed of becoming an actor, this book follows his career as one of the earliest members of the famed Actors Studio and as a Tony Award winner for his work on Broadway. Wallach has worked...
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Johnny Depp. Marilyn Monroe. Marlon Brando. Leonardo DiCaprio. Woody Allen. Shanron Stone. What do all of these actors have in common? They're outrageous, receive huge salaries, have enormous egos, and have way too much spare time. Their out-of-control lifestyles prove that, as one Hollywood observer noted, "Hollywood is a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat."
You'll learn which director was furious when he was misquoted as saying,...
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"Renowned mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle and famous illusionist Harry Houdini first met in 1920, during the magician's tour of England. At the time, Conan Doyle had given up his lucrative writing career, killing off Sherlock Holmes in the process, in order to concentrate on his increasingly manic interest in Spiritualism. Houdini, who regularly conducted seances in an attempt to reach his late mother, was also infatuated with the idea of what he...
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Douglas, living a humdrum life in Spokane, Washington, yearning to escape working as an accountant, borderline suicidal, leaves his life behind to pursue his dream of working in entertainment. Hollywood, full of sin, seduces Douglas, distracting him in many ways. The men in the town are quite intoxicating and he exposes some pretty explicit parts of his life while making the transition to Hollywood. Douglas finds his way to cope living with the craziness...
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"I first met Robert Kennedy because I spoke Spanish. I spoke Spanish because the U.S. Army taught me that before sending me to France, Belgium, and Germany to fight Hitler's Army. This makes complete sense if you are familiar with military bureaucracy."
Such is the trademark wit of Frank Mankiewicz. With his dry sense of humor and self-deprecating humility-despite his many accomplishments-Frank's voice speaks from the pages of So as I was Saying......
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Serie de anécdotas sobre la primer gira y de las grabaciones de la telenovela Rebelde y del grupo RBD.
Nacido en México D.F. en el año de 1968. Estudió en la escuela de la vida, aventurero y rebelde por naturaleza. Vivió y recorrió los barrios más peligrosos de la época hasta que conoció a la mujer más hermosa y maravillosa del universo, con quien procreó tres excelentes hij@s. Ella le enseñó a tener fe y a creer en Dios.
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We've all heard of Disney World – the most magical place on earth, and the magic and the mystery that surrounds it. We've all at some point dreamed of visiting. But what about the people that have actually worked there?
The Year of a Million Dreams will take you on a rollercoaster ride through the author's personal journey following his year working on the International Cultural Representative Programme at The Walt Disney World Resort in Florida....
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The moving, gripping, and tell–all autobiography of Traci Elizabeth Lords, a former child porn queen, electronica maven, and cult movie and TV star.
At 14, Nora Kuzma ran away from home and ended up on the dirty streets of Hollywood. She fell in with a fast crowd, and her dreams of modelling soon landed her a spectacular centrefold in Penthouse Magazine, where at 15 she became internationally known as TRACI LORDS. From there she appeared in numerous...
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Tim Cooney's life reads more like an adventure story than a biography. He worked on the most dangerous movie ever made where close to 100 people went to the hospital. How he went from homeless to being nominated for an Oscar which certainly is not the usual path. Along the way there was 8 more nominations for various awards, elephants and tigers, Hollywood, rock and roll royalty, real royalty, and a very unusual cast of characters in this mans story....
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The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles' beloved friend, confidant, and roadie.
Malcolm Evans, the Beatles' long-time roadie, personal assistant, and devoted friend, was an invaluable member of the band's inner circle. A towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Evans loomed large in the Beatles' story, contributing at times as a performer and sometime lyricist, while struggling mightily to protect his beloved "boys." He was there...
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Eva Cassidy's story is one of the most compelling and poignant in recent music history. In this thoughtful and probing biography, Johan Bakker explores her brief performing career and the fame that only came after her death at the age of 33.
A local performer, Eva Cassidy's performance in Iceland was the closest she ever got to Europe. Yet her music has touched millions across the world. Her posthumously released albums, Imagine, Songbird, Simply...
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The definitive biography of one of pop music's most private stars. Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics has always been an enigma, ill at ease with the trappings of fame, and giving away little about herself, but now the writers have given her the biography she deserves: compelling, sympathetic, unflinching and fair.
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Michael Buble soared to overnight fame at the comparatively late age of 25 after performing at the Canadian Prime Minister's daughter's nuptials in 2000. Since then, the UK hit artist has sold over 25 million albums and has won two Grammy Awards.
At This Moment: The Story of Michael Bublé tells the story of a humble fisherman's son in Vancouver who turned his back on MTV to embrace the music of the Forties, Fifties and Sixties. With exclusive...
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The story of a world-beating multi-instrumental band with a unique creative dynamic.
Their story is compelling – a complex musical collaboration in an eight-piece band that has coalesced around Win Butler and Régine Chassagne. They have triumphed worldwide at festivals and stadiums whilst racking up three award-winning albums: Funeral, Neon Bible and The Suburbs.
This is the story of a truly fascinating band whose music has always triumphed...
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His fans adore him, the critics hate him and Barry Manilow just keeps going on! But the career of the man The Rolling Stone dubbed "a giant among entertainers" and "the showman of our generation" had the strangest of beginnings.
Biographer, Patricia Butler, unravels the strange stories behind Manilow's Brooklyn upbringing, his shortlived marriage, his cautious career change from youthful executive to freelance musician and his dramatic partnership...
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In the same inimitable, uncensored, and hilarious style that has made him one of the most popular voices on satellite radio, Jason Ellis unleashes his no-holds-barred words of advice on diet and exercise, cultivating your signature look, partying, getting laid, maintaining a relationship-and more!
Maybe-like Jason Ellis-you want to have sex with multiple partners and then talk about it on the radio while wearing cheetah pants . . .
Or maybe you...
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Between 1963 and 1965 The Beatles undertook six amazing UK tours and met many fans along the way, whose memories of these encounters tell the real story of what actually happened when the Fab Four hit the road. It was loud, chaotic and as exciting as anything Britain had ever seen. It was Beatlemania!
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