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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!
| 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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| 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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| 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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| MICHAEL PENNINGTON Book Number: 87715 |
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Recently a triumphant King Lear in New York, Michael Pennington has been a leading actor for 50 years in the RSC and English Shakespeare Company and played leading roles plus solo shows on Shakespe...
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| BLAIR TINDALL Book Number: 88445 |
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Journalist and first oboe Blair Tindall takes you on a no-holds-barred tour of what really goes on both back-stage and in the orchestra pit! From her acclaimed debut recital at Carnegie Hall to the...
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| IAN LLOYD Book Number: 89271 |
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A compelling series of vignettes on 30 famous Victorians such as Barnum, the Greatest Showman, who failed to impress Queen Victoria, how the Queen was taught to use the telephone by Alexander Graha...
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| DAVID WILLS Book Number: 89275 |
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In a film career spanning more than five decades, Frank Sinatra proved to be a roulette wheel of constantly spinning talent, the likes of which Hollywood has rarely seen. The legacy of his work st...
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| ANGELA HUTH Book Number: 89371 |
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In 1943, at the age of five, Angela Huth decided that she wanted to be a writer. She and her mother Bridget had decamped to California just before the outbreak of war but her film director father H...
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| VERONIQUE MORTAIGNE Book Number: 89028 |
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When the young Jane Birkin met film star Serge Gainsbourg in 1968, he had recently divorced from Brigitte Bardot and was contemptuous of the debutante who was presented to him as his co-star. Jane...
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| RICHARD HOUGHTON Book Number: 89036 |
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More than any other band that emerged in the 1960s, The Who is associated with live performance, and these accounts of over 300 gigs by people who were there is an unusual take on the band's colour...
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| BARBRA PASKIN Book Number: 89392 |
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When Dudley Moore was ill with the neurological disease PSP, his friend and biographer Barbra Paskin asked hundreds of friends and admirers to contact him with a cheerful message. This memoir is he...
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| PAMELA HUTCHINSON Book Number: 89502 |
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Using just 300 words and one image to tell the story of the genres, techniques, directors and stars who have shaped cinema history, from gritty documentaries to global cinema, glossy musicals to So...
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| NEIL YOUNG Book Number: 89632 |
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Southern Man has a fantastic music and song writing career spanning 40 years and 34 studio albums of rock and roll, folk and country. From his early days with Buffalo Springfield and his solo care...
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| ADRIAN BESLEY Book Number: 89695 |
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Slipcased first edition containing envelopes packed with hidden treasures, 16 items in facsimile documents of original sketches together with all crossings out and amendments in handwriting reprodu...
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| DWIGHT JON ZIMMERMAN Book Number: 89885 |
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An actor, motorcycle and automobile racer, and all-round petrol head, Hollywood's sexiest leading actor Steve McQueen rose from hardscrabble circumstances to become one of the most famous movie sta...
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| KERI DAVIES Book Number: 89784 |
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'What's for tea, Clarrie love?' From the fabled kitchens of Ambridge come the recipes and gossip that fuel the nation's favourite village from BBC Radio 4. Whether it's Susan's spicy chilli con c...
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| TIMOTHY BENTINCK Book Number: 89786 |
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A self-deprecating dual biography of character and actor, juxtaposing the simple life of farmer David Archer with the rollercoaster ups and downs of being an actor. When Tim Bentinck landed the pa...
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| LOUISE SIMONSON Book Number: 90101 |
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'She craved the cold camaraderie of intrigue and raced the night to lure a killer? But the one thing she couldn't outrun was the warm whisper of love in her own back seat!' 'Desire Drives the Blac...
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| KATE GARRAWAY Book Number: 90114 |
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Why do we not talk about how important big knickers are? Will the menopause be a nightmare? How do we make love last? Kate Garraway, TV and radio presenter, turned 50 and questioned everything: 'F...
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| DYLAN JONES Book Number: 90131 |
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Who was the real Jim Morrison? Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27, having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors, Morrison was quickly immortalised among the rock 'n' roll deit...
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| DAVID ROBERTS Book Number: 90140 |
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We absolutely love this one! Simply put, here are 127 mostly colour shots of the world's biggest names in music from the 50s to the present day with cars they have either owned, borrowed, wrecked o...
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| 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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| LYNDA BELLINGHAM Book Number: 90276 |
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The much-loved actress, famous from the Ah! Bisto adverts was a tremendously gifted storyteller. She brings a rich collection of tales of love, loss and laughter, often laugh-out-loud funny as she...
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| TREVOR MCDONALD Book Number: 90432 |
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Sir Trevor McDonald, now in his eighties, has been a leading figure in British news reporting for 50 years. Starting his career in Trinidad on the island's radio station, he had parents who taught ...
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| VICTOR BORGE Book Number: 90736 |
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An 80 minute show with Victor Borge and his guests Canadian Brass, Robert Merrill, Stephanie Conte and Marilyn Mulvey, the Alexandria Harmonisers, the Paul Hill Chorale and the Wolf Trap Orchestra....
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| SIMON PALFREY & EMMA SMITH Book Number: 90554 |
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Here the dead come to life, ghosts haunt the living and there are famous final speeches like Hamlet's 'The rest is silence', Mercutio's 'A plague o'er both your houses', or Richard III's 'My kingdo...
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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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