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Entertainment/Showbiz
Entertainment/Showbiz
Entertainment and Showbiz biographies of stars, musicals, theatre and theatrical managers and actors and actresses on stage and off. Fascinating lives!
| JEREMY VINE Book Number: 90220 |
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'What My Listeners Say and Why We Should Take Note' is the premise of this enjoyable memoir from an entertaining raconteur. A keen candidate on Strictly Come Dancing, presenter of Eggheads, Points...
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| DAVID MORGAN Book Number: 90823 |
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With their dead parrots, holy grails and spam, Monty Python revolutionised comedy for the rest of the world and ushered in a new brand of surrealist comedy - a stream-of-consciousness sketch show t...
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| VICTORIA RISKIN Book Number: 90771 |
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Fay Wray was most famous as the blonde in a diaphanous gown who captured the heart of the mighty King Kong, the 25 foot 60 tonne gorilla as he placed her, nestled in his 8 foot hand, on the ledge o...
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| OLIVER CRASKE Book Number: 90865 |
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Ravi Shankar became a household name when the Beatles started promoting his music in 1968, but he was already a prominent figure in the American West Coast scene, with David Crosby of The Byrds pro...
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| CARL CHINN Book Number: 88247 |
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The BBC TV series Peaky Blinders was a hit from its first showing in 2013. Transforming our perception of Birmingham of a century ago with swagger, glamour and extreme violence - not to mention a v...
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| TERRY WOGAN Book Number: 91045 |
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The late Sir Terry Wogan's autobiography is not quite like others, peopled as it is with characters called Wilting Baz, Willie Gofar or Mrs Betty Bickerdike. Starting as a stooge for Jimmy Young, w...
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| MICK WALL Book Number: 91122 |
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"I never wanted to be a big star. I just wanted to be the biggest at what I do! Powerful, unstoppable, heavy - when that word still meant something good!" - Meat Loaf, as told to Mick Wall. Everyt...
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| PHILIP NORMAN Book Number: 91132 |
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Sub-titled 'The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix', this first-rate analysis is an engaging memorial to a rock revolutionary. 'Arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock m...
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| LEONARD MERRICK Book Number: 91167 |
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This long-neglected Edwardian classic, set in the shabby world of England's theatricals, populated by hack writers, drunken actors, pushy stage mothers and unscrupulous directors, is a tale full of...
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| WALTER SHAPIRO Book Number: 90789 |
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Journalist Walter Shapiro always assumed that the stories about his great uncle Freeman Bernstein, particularly the one where he conned Hitler's war effort out of a valuable shipload of scrap metal...
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| HELEN O'HARA Book Number: 91289 |
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Sub-titled 'The Fall and Rise of Women in Film', this fascinating polemic is a powerful and sobering page turner, peppered with humour. It is a call to arms from Empire magazine's Helen O'Hara who...
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| SIMON BREW Book Number: 91503 |
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Hidden hints, motifs, references and background detail on the greatest movies, hidden within are plot clues, homages to other films and hidden details that expose on-set challenges, inside jokes an...
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| JOHN WOOLF Book Number: 91514 |
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Long underestimated in history, here are the details of extraordinary lives which turn our notions of Victorian prudery, propriety and voyeurism upside down. Dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, Siames...
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| JOHN HARRIS Book Number: 91442 |
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'The Making of the Pink Floyd Masterpiece' this is a 'beautifully illustrated, compellingly written' (Mojo) concise study that sidesteps the usual mythology and retelling how of how 'The Dark Side ...
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| WILLIAM MANN Book Number: 91332 |
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Marlon Brando's most famous line, "I coulda been a contender", was uttered in the film On the Waterfront, one of several successes that brought Brando fame and the reputation for being an actor who...
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| EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS Book Number: 91648 |
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Shown in classic pose with left hand on hip, right hand holding a long black whip, Catwoman wears a tight black latex, figure hugging cat suit, has a beautifully painted face complete with cats? ey...
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| BLOCKBUSTER Book Number: 91650 |
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The terrifying jaws open, the teeth are sharp, the naked female swimmer on the water's surface is unaware. Retro jigsaw puzzle in high quality, plastic case inspired and designed after Blockbuster...
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| JOAN BAKEWELL Book Number: 91804 |
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At 88 years old, broadcaster and Labour peer Joan Bakewell shows little sign of slowing down her work rate, yet she has had to confront her age in another way - downsizing. Her account of ditching...
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| EDITED BY CHIP CARTER Book Number: 91504 |
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Star Trek Captain, explorer, diplomat, archaeologist and vintner Captain Jean-Luc Picard is a true Renaissance man of the 24th century. Discover his sage advice, insights and wisdom from the deck ...
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| MICHELLE MORGAN Book Number: 91663 |
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The film The Seven Year Itch precipitated Marilyn into her stratospheric status as a sex symbol, but according to this author, a lifelong Marilyn fan, it was also paradoxically the film that gave M...
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| IVOR GUEST Book Number: 91707 |
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A rare find, we have the 1992 Dance Books of Cecil Court Covent Garden publication which is sub-titled 'The Alhambra and the Empire 1860-1916.' More than half a century separated the golden age of...
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| SHAWN LEVY Book Number: 91710 |
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Robert De Niro is one of the greatest screen actors of his generation. With performances in Mean Streets, The Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter and Raging Bull he dazzled moviegoers ...
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| DON GRAHAM Book Number: 91714 |
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Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean and Edna Ferber, this is a brilliant study of a classic American film. Giant was an epic film of fame and materialism based around the discovery ...
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| LEE SERVER Book Number: 91716 |
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'No one knew more about the mob, Hollywood, and Las Vegas than Johnny Rosselli.' Gentleman gangster, Hollywood producer, CIA assassin, Johnny Rosselli was at the centre of the 20th century's darke...
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| JONATHAN GILL Book Number: 91720 |
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Sub-titled 'The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy', here the Golden Age of Hollywood is the background to this story of a remarkable career. Boris Morros was a major fig...
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| JAMES ELLIS & KAYTIE NORMAN Book Number: 91724 |
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During his 72 years and more than 150 films, John Wayne imparted a seemingly endless amount of advice, wisdom and good old-fashioned common sense to his audiences. That wealth of knowledge has bee...
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| VAN MORRISON Book Number: 91725 |
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Van The Man's storied career, from the seminal Astral Weeks, through recent albums such as Roll with the Punches and The Prophet Speaks, to see his songs presented as prose and poetry once serve to...
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| NICK FRASER Book Number: 91736 |
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In a lively book, these are the musings of a man who has thought deeply about his medium of documentaries. Why are they made? Who is in the tribe of documentary filmmakers? Do their films really...
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| JULIA SOLIS Book Number: 91739 |
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A most unusual architectural look at abandoned theatres and music halls across the USA and Europe with stages cluttered with debris, vaulted ceilings pocked with peeling paint and water damage, sea...
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| DAVID MADDEN Book Number: 91746 |
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The story behind the man who brought us The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce, the film noir classics. James M. Cain was a master of the 'hard-boiled' school of writi...
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