Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Good Times, Ain’t We Lucky We Got ‘Em: Memoir of an American Sweetheart
$30.00 Add to cart“Norman Lear’s Good Times wasn’t just a television show-it reflected the times, a powerful narrative shaped by the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties and seventies, and a story of love, laughter, an
- Author: Stanis, Bernnadette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: October 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0977036170
- Language: English
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Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star
$29.99 Add to cartMerle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Hers was a face that “launched a thousand ships,” a so-called exotic beauty who the camera loved and f
- Author: Sen, Mayukh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050810
- Language: English
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This Life of Mine: A true story of a life filled with wealth, defeat, greatness, excitement, false promises, the mob, tragedy, love, and
$38.95 Add to cartThis Life of Mine leaves no stone unturned. Every story will be told. From the beginning to the end, This Life of Mine will share fascinating details of the author’s life, including his best of times,… [more below]
- Author: Wallach, Steven M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Being Henry: The Fonz. . .and Beyond
$22.99 Read more- Author: Winkler, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1420519018
- Language: English
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Funny Because It’s True: How the Onion Created Modern American News Satire
$30.00 Add to cartDiscover the real truth behind the original fake news with this in-depth history of beloved humor publication, The Onion.
In 1988, a band of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergrads and dropouts beg
- Author: Wenc, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0762484438
- Language: English
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Doom Guy: Life in First Person
$18.00 Read moreThe inspiring, long-awaited autobiography of video-game designer and DOOM cocreator John Romero―”a highly entertaining and thoughtful memoir” (Wall Street Journal)
After years in the gam- Author: Romero, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1419770179
- Language: English
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The Worlds of George RR Martin: The Inspirations Behind Game of Thrones
$35.00 Add to cartIn the many realms of modern fantasy there is only one true King, and his name is George Raymond Richard Martin.
With A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin has created a world on a scale almost unrivalled by- Author: Huddleston, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0711288526
- Language: English
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Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech
$32.50 Add to cartA sly and chatty collection of the revered Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist’s most notorious celebrity profiles.
Shining a white-hot spotlight on America’s famous, from Hollywood legend
- Author: Dowd, Maureen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0063392224
- Language: English
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Hollywood Hustle (Part 1)
$25.99 Add to cartThe Talent Agency Business and Antitrust Price-Fixing: A Historical Record of the Rise and Fall of TV Packaging
HOLLYWOOD HUSTLE {Part1} takes us into the seedy underbelly of Hollywood. It exposes, ste
- Author: Lenhoff, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: October 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1963844378
- Language: English
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Sergio Leone by Himself
$49.95 Add to cartCompiled writings and interviews from the director who pioneered the “spaghetti Western” film genre
Between the worldwide box-office success of his Dollars trilogy and his untimely death in April 1989
- Author: Frayling, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1909526967
- Language: English
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Cassavetes on Cassavetes
$36.99 Add to cartSince his death in 1989, John Cassavettes has become increasingly renowned as a cinematic hero–a renegade loner who fought the Hollywood system, steering his own creative course in a career spanning
- Author: Cassavetes, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0571201571
- Language: English
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Kubrick: An Odyssey
$21.95 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the groundbreaking film-maker.
The enigmatic and elu- Author: Kolker, Robert P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368760
- Language: English
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Never: The Autobiography
$30.00 Add to cart‘I hadn’t been very comfortable with fame, but I didn’t know what to do with myself after I was famous. On the surface, I was just hugely relieved to be shot of the whole thing. I felt like I’d been l
- Author: Astley, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1035049392
- Language: English
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I See Myself: Musings and Memories of a Blessed Life
$22.00 Add to cartIn I See Myself, Joe Bonsall reflects on the contrasts and the crossroads of his life. From growing up in the inner city of Philadelphia to sitting on the front porch of his log home in rural Tennesse… [more below]
- Author: Bonsall, Joseph S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1956454837
- Language: English
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The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a beloved Grammy-nominated musician, a “heartbreaking and funny” memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood, obsessive desires, and indispensable friendships that reflects on the way art and music an
- Author: Case, Neko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1538710501
- Language: English
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All Gates Open
$22.95 Add to cartAll Gates Open presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: CAN. It consists of two books. In Book One, Rob Young gives u… [more below]
- Series: Faber Social
- Author: Young, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0571311520
- Language: English
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The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
$16.99 Read moreWith laugh-out-loud funny parenting observations, the New York Times bestselling author and award-winning comedian delivers a book that is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a child, been a child,… [more below]
- Author: Birbiglia, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1538701529
- Language: English
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The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin’s Priestess of Decadence
$22.95 Add to cartThe Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber is the first contemporary biography of a notorious actor/dancer/poet/playwright who scandalized sex-obsessed Weimar Berlin during the 1920s.
In
- Author: Gordon, Mel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1932595120
- Language: English
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Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story and Other Musicals
$24.45 Add to cartAs a playwright, screenwriter, and director, Arthur Laurents has a unique place in the history of theater. In this moving, exhilarating, and provocative account, he presents readers with a front-row l… [more below]
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Laurents, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1480394475
- Language: English
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Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
$19.00 Add to cartA mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more
Van Morrison’s Astr- Author: Walsh, Ryan H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0735221367
- Language: English
