Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times by Dennis McDougal
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Praise for "Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times": 'Dennis McDougal is a rare Hollywood reporter: honest, fearless, and nobody's fool. This is unvarnished Jack for Jack-lovers and Jack-skeptics but, also, for anyone interested in the state of American cultu ...Show more
Hollywood Hellraisers : The Wild Lives and Fast Times of Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson by Robert Sellers
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'I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass' - Marlon Brando. 'I should have been dead ten times over. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around' - Dennis Hopper. 'The best time ...Show more
M Train by Patti Smith
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M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspir ...Show more
Tennessee Williams - Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
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On 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show's thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, 'like a farm boy in his Sunday best'. The Broadway ...Show more
Gilliamesque - A Pre-Posthumous Memoir (HB) by Terry Gilliam
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From his no-frills childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer, via the cutting edge of '60s and '70s counter-culture in New York, LA and London, Terry Gilliam's life has been as vivid and unorthodox as one of his films. Telling his story for the first t ...Show more
Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies by Nick Frost
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'If I'm going to tell the story of a life, my life, then I need to tell it warts and all. If the tale is too saccharine sweet then what can the reader take away from it? What do they learn about you? I've written everything down. The shit, the death, fun, naughtiness, addiction, laughter, laughter, laug ...Show more
Conversations with McCartney by Paul Du Noyer
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In June 1989, Paul Du Noyer was contacted by Paul McCartney's office in London and asked to interview the star as they had met once before and enjoyed a good raport. In the years that followed, Paul Du Noyer continued to meet, interview and work for Paul McCartney on a regular basis, producing magazine ...Show more
Double Act: The Remarkable Lives & Careers of Googie Withers & John McCallum by Brian McFarlane
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Not many can boast of careers that lasted successfully for nearly seventy years, but that is what both Googie Withers and John McCallum achieved. She acted everything from brazen murderesses to Lady Bracknell, taking in blonde nitwits, wartime Resistance workers, lady farmers and Shakespeare along the w ...Show more
Life After Dark - A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues by Dave Haslam
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Nightclubs and music venues are often the source of a lifetime's music taste, best friends and vivid memories. They can define a town, a city or a generation, and breed scenes and bands that change music history. In Life After Dark Dave Haslam reveals and celebrates a definitive history of significant v ...Show more
Maggie Smith : A Biography by Michael Coveney
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No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's best-loved actors. This new biography shines the stage-lights on the life and work of a truly remarkable performer, one whose career spans six decades. From her days as a star of West ...Show more
Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir of Stan Lee by Stan Lee (Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Macclesfield, Cheshire)
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In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee--comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes--shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be. Stan Lee is a man who needs ...Show more
Reckless by Chrissie Hynde
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By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, Ohio. Her perfect âe(tm)50s American childhood upturned by a newly acquired taste for rock âe(tm)nâe(tm) roll, motorbikes and the âe~get down boysâe(tm) seen at gigs in and around Cleveland âe" Mitch Ryder, the Jeff Beck Group, the ...Show more