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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!
| CAROLINE WEST & MARK LATTER Book Number: 80870 |
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The authors state, 'We all have our favourite foods, both good and bad, but have you ever thought what you would ask for if you only had one final meal before shuffling off this mortal coil?' They...
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| JOEL FINLER Book Number: 81949 |
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A former actor himself, director Elia Kazan is shown in a superb series of black and white stills on set, reflecting his remarkable collaboration with such young actors as Marlon Brando on A Street...
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| ROY BLOUNT Book Number: 82611 |
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From the Introduction, 'Elvis had a lot to do with creating a generation, but he wasn't part of it. He was a generation unto himself, not a beatnik, not a hippie. He was sort of the opposite of the...
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| JOHN CARTER CASH Book Number: 82461 |
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June Carter was an American music legend, a 'Country Girl', part of the renowned Carter Family whose mix of folk and blue grass thrilled the country. Eventually, June married another music legend, ...
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| RICHARD KING Book Number: 82511 |
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'Once the door to Revolver was opened in the morning, the alarm had been turned off and the lights turned on, any other interpretation of everyday life was hard to imagine. Instead time was told by...
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| DC COMICS Book Number: 82881 |
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From the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Warner Bros. film, help Batman protect Gotham City and the world from all threats. Build both the Batmobile and the Batwing vehicles from the expertly d...
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| DAVID HARE Book Number: 82896 |
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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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| CENTUM BOOKS Book Number: 82910 |
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Take ECTO-1 for a spin or hang out with Slimer, the globs of ectoplasm, Terror Dogs and a giant marshmallow man along the way. Complete the ghostly grid, rewrite the end-of-the-world battle with a...
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| MICHAEL RAEBURN Book Number: 82571 |
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Shakespeare wrote: 'If music be the food of love, play on...' and the art of opera has been playing on our stages and later, on recording devices since 1589 with great aplomb and acclaim. The Chron...
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| CHRIS EVANS Book Number: 82671 |
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Heard of the midlife crisis? Chirpy Liverpudlian Chris Evans has turned 50 and now looks to educate us in the lessons he has learnt in the last few years. The presenter and broadcaster writes openl...
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| MICK WALL Book Number: 82688 |
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Kerrang magazine's star writer and with his weekly show, Monsters of Rock, on Sky TV, Mick Wall bestrode the world of 1980s music journalism like the colossi of rock of whom he wrote. Like a few ot...
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| DICK VAN DYKE & M. TYLER MOORE Book Number: 82846 |
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Mary Tyler Moore stars as Dick van Dyke's lovely wife and is the perfect foil to his comedy style in this charming 1930s situation comedy. He is the challenged Dad and head writer of 'The Alan Bra...
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| J. NEWMAN GRAY, L. TENG CHEW Book Number: 82975 |
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With dedication page, and published by Puffin Books and BBC Children's Books, here is the Tardis, Cybermen, Daleks, the Ood, the weeping angels, Doctors past and present plus their assistants, robo...
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| DAVID HOWARD Book Number: 83020 |
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Story arc, plotting and sub plotting, characterisation, coincidence, classical versus revolutionary screenplay structure, tone, style and atmosphere, the use of time on screen, drama and tension an...
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| JONATHAN MILLER Book Number: 83181 |
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Now 83 and showing little sign of slowing down, actor, doctor, director, broadcaster, TV personality and all-round polymath Sir Jonathan Miller is best at writing about them. This volume draws toge...
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| CHRIS LAOUTARIS Book Number: 83192 |
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Named one of the Best Books of 2014 by the Telegraph and Observer, Shakespeare Institute lecturer Chris Laoutaris gives us a remarkable new perspective on the life and fortunes of William Shakespea...
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| MARK ASHLEY Book Number: 83245 |
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From 1939 to 1945 British cinema became literally part of the British war effort against Nazi Germany and its Axis partners. The British film industry pioneered the format known as the drama-docum...
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| RICH COHEN Book Number: 83299 |
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The drugs and the girlfriends and the rows and the endless reunions and of course, the music. Cohen's fresh and galvanising consideration of the Rolling Stones rock band will define once and forev...
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| COLIN GRANT Book Number: 83035 |
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'Get Up, Stand Up', 'I Shot the Sheriff' and 'Stir It Up' are three songs that have come to define an era. This engrossing triple biography follows The Wailers and the undisputed kings of reggae, ...
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| RAY CONNOLLY Book Number: 82665 |
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Elvis's manager, Colonel Parker, has often been credited with pushing Elvis beyond reasonable limits in order to line his own pockets, and this book includes some shocking data on the range of pres...
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| DAVID PARKINSON Book Number: 83075 |
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The most modern of all the arts, cinema is fittingly the most dependent on science and technology. It was born out of the 19th century predilection for machinery, movement, optical illusion and pu...
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| EDITED BY ROBERT GOTTLIEB Book Number: 83081 |
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Body language is key in human communication and a skill that expresses this language is most certainly dance, with each genre using the tool that is the body in unique ways to express feeling and s...
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| GORDON MCMULLAN & Z. WILCOX Book Number: 83485 |
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A lavish British Library publication celebrating Shakespeare's story, a tale of sea-changes and show-stopping successes. From the very first production of Hamlet to a digital-age remix, the book e...
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| ANNE SHELTON, JUDY GARLAND Book Number: 83703 |
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The five divine divas are Anne Shelton, Judy Garland, Sophie Tucker, June Christy and Lita Roza, each superbly gifted in her own right. These five outstanding voices were acclaimed by millions and...
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| FASTFORWARD MUSIC Book Number: 83711 |
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Here are themes and love song tunes (no vocals) from the movies like As Time Goes By (Casablanca), Where do I Begin? (theme from Love Story), Everything I Do I Do It For You (Robin Hood), Can You F...
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| SYLVIE SIMMONS Book Number: 82919 |
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The genius behind such classic songs as Suzanne, Bird on the Wire and Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, a man of spirituality, emotion and intelligence, has been one of the most important and influential ...
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| BRIAN WILSON & BEN GREENMAN Book Number: 83736 |
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The album Pet Sounds is one of the most popular and enjoyable in musical history, so enduring that the band toured it for its 50th anniversary, together with a giant Giraffe, in 2016. The long-awa...
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| JOHN MCENROE Book Number: 84017 |
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With a reputation as one of the bad boys of tennis, John McEnroe's cry of 'You cannot be serious!' is part of tennis history, mimicked worldwide. This is the follow on and update to his first book ...
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| MICK WALL Book Number: 84030 |
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In the wake of Prince's premature death in 2016, music biographer Mick Wall turns his attention to the rock giant with a uniquely flamboyant style and barrier-breaking sound. The hit biopic Purple...
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| PAT STEWART & VERONICA CLARK Book Number: 83970 |
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When Pat Stewart posed on the railings of Blackpool promenade on a blustery day, little did she know that the resulting photograph would become an iconic image of the 20th century and follow her th...
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