Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Is This the Real Life?: The Untold Story of Queen
$24.99 Add to cartQueen’s success in the 1970s was accompanied by a taste for musical and non-musical excess. Is This the Real Life? draws on eyewitness testimonies — former producers and managers, ex-girlfriends and … [more below]
- Author: Blake, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0306820714
- Language: English
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Almost Interesting
$19.99 Add to cartA hilarious and biting memoir from the actor, comedian and Saturday Night Live alumni David Spade.
David Spade is best known for his harsh “Hollywood” Minute Sketches on SNL, his starring roles in movi
- Author: Spade, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062376993
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
$18.99 Add to cart“Donald Wolfe has written one of the most absorbing accounts of Marilyn’s life to date.”
–Fred Lawrence Guiles, author of Norma Jean“Admirable …Wolfe takes us very close indeed to the dark truth abo
- Author: Wolfe, Donald H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0062206494
- Language: English
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Sondheim & Me: Revealing a Musical Genius
$26.95 Read moreFOR TEN YEARS, they exchanged notes, letters, faxes, and phone calls. Stephen Sondheim would contact him, and Paul Salsini, the founder and editor of The Sondheim Review, would respond. And vice versa
- Author: Salsini, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1610885929
- Language: English
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Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend
$36.95 Add to cart2023 SABR Baseball Research Award
Born and raised in rural Mississippi and the even
A Booklist Top 10 Sports & Recreation Book
Finalist for the 2023 Seymour Medal
Finalist for the 2022 CASEY Award- Author: Hiltner, Judith R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496222857
- Language: English
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Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood
$29.00 Read moreA fascinating exploration and celebration of the life and work of the coolest man in Hollywood, Samuel L. Jackson–from his star-making turns in the films of Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino to his ubi… [more below]
- Author: Edwards, Gavin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0306924323
- Language: English
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Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead’s Long, Strange Trip
$19.99 Add to cartA tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995 The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of g
- Author: Selvin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 16, 2020
- ISBN10: 0306903067
- Language: English
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My Days with Princess Grace of Monaco
$34.95 Add to cartGet to know the real Princess Grace, from the first years of her marriage to the last days of her life. “My Days with Princess Grace of Monaco: Our 25-Year Friendship, Beyond Grace Kelly” chronicles w… [more below]
- Author: Dale, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1895885086
- Language: English
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Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara
$22.95 Add to cartTheda Bars’s remarkable life as told by Eve Golden’s heartfelt account is short of discovering a means of traveling through time and as close as we are ever likely to get to meeting the screen’s great… [more below]
- Author: Golden, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 05 1998
- ISBN10: 1879511320
- Language: English
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Classic Tracks: David Bowie: All the Songs, All the Stories 1970 – 1980
$14.95 Add to cartChameleon, entertainer, actor, legend: that was David Bowie. Discover the man behind the image through 10 extraordinary years of songwriting.
Throughout his lifetime, David Bowie always pushed the musi
- Author: Welch, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1787390691
- Language: English
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Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too
$19.99 Add to cartWith wry wit and touching humor, Louie Anderson, New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning comedian currently starring in Zach Galifianakis’s Baskets, shares his journey of turning life… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Louie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1501189182
- Language: English
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Pretty Mess
$18.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Without her alter-ego Erika Jayne, Erika Girardi says she’d just be “another rich bitch with a plane”–so get ready for the dishy, tell-all memoir from show-stopping performe- Author: Jayne, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1501181904
- Language: English
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The Age of Bowie
$18.00 Add to cartAuthor and industry insider Paul Morley explores the musical and cultural legacies left behind by “The Man Who Fell to Earth.”Respected arts commentator and author Paul Morley, an artistic advisor to … [more below]
- Author: Morley, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1501151177
- Language: English
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Strong Female Character
$19.95 Read more- Author: Flint, Hanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1804440000
- Language: English
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Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews
$50.00 Add to cartThe cinephile community knows Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) as one of the most important filmmakers of the previous decades. This volume illustrates why the Iranian filmmaker achieved critical acclaim … [more below]
- Series: Conversations with Filmmakers (Hardcover)
- Author: Raesch, Monika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844874
- Language: English
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Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr
$34.00 Add to cartHedy Lamarr’s exotic beauty was heralded across Europe in the early 1930s. Yet she became infamous for her nude scenes in the scandalous movie Ecstasy. Trapped in a marriage to one of Austria’s muniti
- Author: Shearer, Stephen Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 125004183X
- Language: English
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We Killed
$25.99 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
We Killed shines in its details and its anecdotes….Well crafted and entertaining.–The Boston Glob
A Very Oral History
With a New Introduction by the Author- Author: Kohen, Yael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037786
- Language: English
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West of Eden: An American Place
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie
Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her ground- Author: Stein, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0812987934
- Language: English
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Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography
$20.00 Add to cartThe all-access biography and unprecedented look at the life, career, and legacy of a pint-sized kid from Long Island who became a music legend.
“A funny, revealing, and poignant look at [Billy] Joel’s … [more below]- Author: Schruers, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0804140219
- Language: English
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Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life
$24.99 Add to cartHis 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 l… [more below]
- Author: Haney, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 15 2005
- ISBN10: 0786716568
- Language: English
