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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!
| DAVID HARE Book Number: 84199 |
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Playwright David Hare wanted to reform society from the very beginning. Applying to Cambridge in the hope of being taught by the socialist thinker Raymond Williams, he found that Williams never tur...
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| STEWART O'NAN Book Number: 84529 |
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A dazzling, intimate novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Hollywood years. In 1937, Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long behind him. In poor health, with his wife con...
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| FIREFLY ENTERTAINMENT Book Number: 85132 |
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The King of Pop was due to play in London shortly before his untimely death in 2009. He is still much missed, but his music and legacy lives on. This special 75 minute colour DVD is a profile of ...
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| TINA BROWN Book Number: 85241 |
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Vanity Fair represented the last word in literary prestige, social glamour and visual ravishment. It was published by Condé Montrose Nast (1872-1942), the dashing Casanova and publishing entrepren...
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| ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Book Number: 84985 |
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Princess Leia has spent her time on the Senate fighting the Emperor, and when she realises how little she has achieved she finally joins the Rebellion, eager to outwit the forces of darkness. But ...
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| LANDRY D. WALKER Book Number: 84986 |
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'Star Wars VII - The Force Awakens' was one of the biggest and most eagerly anticipated films ever, premiering in 2015, ten years after the previous instalment ('Revenge of the Sith') and the first...
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| TOM ANGLEBERGER Book Number: 84987 |
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A roller-coaster retelling of the blockbuster film, this speed-of-light story starts in Jabba's Palace with Luke Skywalker's return to Tatouine to rescue Han Solo from the clutches of the Dark Side...
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| RAY CONNOLLY Book Number: 85017 |
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This insight into the life of the most iconic rock figure of them all shows that sadly Elvis's use of amphetamines can be traced right back to the mid-fifties. Well-known journalist and screenwrite...
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| ADRIAN JOHNS Book Number: 85025 |
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The story starts in 1966 with a confrontation that ended in manslaughter between two pirate radio station owners, the weapon being a twelve-bore shotgun. Pirate radio was a signature phenomenon of...
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| BENITA EISLER Book Number: 85042 |
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George Catlin (1796-1872) has been described as 'the first artist of the West' as no white man before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. An unsuccessful ...
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| P. T. BARNUM Book Number: 85364 |
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'I am 'a showman' by profession, and all the gildings shall make nothing else of me.' Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th century. In 1934, desperate to create a better life for his family,...
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| BARRY STONE Book Number: 84499 |
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Saddle up and ride alongside The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Westworld (1973), The Great Train Robbery (1903), Wagon Master (1950), Rio Bravo (1959), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), A Fistful of...
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| GERED MANKOWITZ Book Number: 85280 |
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Reputations were made quickly in the frenetic pop world of the sixties, and the 18-year-old Gered Mankowitz became an iconic photographer when he spent two years documenting the Rolling Stones in 1...
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| JAMES GOSS & STEVE TRIBE Book Number: 85058 |
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There is no greater voyage than across the universe. From a Time Lord's sonic screwdriver and Excalibur, to the Moon and a DVD, a 100 objects from the Who-niverse are rounded up in this brilliant c...
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| DK Book Number: 85520 |
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An official Star Wars Disney huge colourful softback packed with lightsabre action and Darth Vader defeating the emperor. Vader passes away and joins Obi-Wan and Yoda by becoming a Force ghost. T...
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| ALBERT GOLDMAN Book Number: 85557 |
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Look beyond the legends of Lennon to the man behind the music. After six years of research and some 1,200 interviews, this collation of the many faces of John Lennon looks extraordinarily deeply in...
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| Judith Wills Book Number: 85741 |
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Sub-titled 'The Swinging '60s, The Glam '70s and Me', Judith Wills sang with Freddie Mercury, got high with Jim Morrison, had a strange encounter with David Bowie, babysat Kate Beckinsale, accompan...
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| PAULA BYRNE Book Number: 85660 |
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A marvellous re-issue of Dr Byrne's 2002 book with a new foreword and extra chapter looking at a distinctive look at Jane Austen in Hollywood and a number of film adaptations from A.A. Milne to Whi...
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| RICHARD SCHICKEL Book Number: 85816 |
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"That indomitable spirit is an integral part of the make-up of the screen Charlie Chaplin" Churchill wrote. At age 28, Charlie Chaplin was a millionaire and one of the world's most famous personal...
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| TRACY TYNAN Book Number: 85836 |
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A candid, entertaining memoir told through clothes. Tracy Peacock Tynan grew up in swinging London and New York in the 1950's and 60s, privy to her parents' glamorous parties and famous friends - ...
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| SOPHIA LOREN Book Number: 85840 |
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Mambo! In her first memoir, the Academy Award-winning actress Sophia Loren tells her incredible life story from the struggles of her childhood in war-torn Naples to her life as a screen legend, ic...
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| MICK WALL Book Number: 86015 |
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Our favourite rock writer and biographer Mick Wall was a lifelong Lou Reed and Velvet Underground fan and here he brings us the story of the most misunderstood genius in rock. Lou Reed wrote songs...
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| FERGUS BYRNE Book Number: 86019 |
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Sub-titled 'The Extraordinary Life of Felix Dennis', when he died in 2014, Dennis was a multi-millionaire. Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by turns, a true maverick, Felix left Harrow Col...
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| JOEL SELVIN & PAMELA TURLEY Book Number: 85955 |
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After the shock death of Jerry Garcia in 1995, "Deadhead" fans reluctantly realised that it was the end of the road for the eclectic band with its roots in the Bay culture of the mid-sixties. Few k...
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| PASCAL MÉRIGEAU Book Number: 85962 |
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Hailed by his friend and contemporary Orson Welles as "very probably the greatest of all directors", Jean Renoir was the son of the Impressionist painter and grew up in turn-of-the-century artistic...
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| MARK A. VIEIRA Book Number: 85965 |
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From Son of Frankenstein in January to The Hunchback of Notre Dame in December, 1939 was a year of magnificent escapism as the shadow of war loomed and then became a reality, though serious themes ...
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| JEREMY VINE Book Number: 86119 |
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Attracting more than seven million listeners, taking more than 25,000 calls, and presenting his show on Radio 2 since 2003, Jeremy Vine is a British radio host whose programme consists of news, vie...
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| STEPHEN DAVIS Book Number: 86234 |
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"I contend an abiding sense of irony over all I do" wrote Jim Morrison in 1968. His famous 'Lizard King' persona was a joke, but it was a serious joke. Jim Morrison's serial evocation of the Amer...
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| VICTOR BOCKRIS Book Number: 86277 |
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Entertainment weekly said, "Blending informed biographical narrative with abundant quotes and a dishy conversational style, Bockris captures the many moods - and mood swings - of a true rock and ro...
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| TERRY TEACHOUT Book Number: 86210 |
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Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the 20th century. An impenetrably enigmatic personality, no one not even his closest friends claim to understand him. The grandso...
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