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"As the head of a prestigious movie studio for nearly two decades, Andy Westfield has had every conceivable professional luxury: a stunning office on the forty-fourth floor, a loyal assistant who can all but read his mind, access to a private jet and company cars. The son of Hollywood royalty, Andy always put his career before his marriage, and now, besides his daughter and young grandchildren, it's the only thing he truly loves. But then Andy's world...
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Agoraphobic Em Moore is the writing half of a biography team. Her partner, Teddy, does the schmoozing. When Teddy dies, Em is devastated, alone in a world she doesn't understand. The only way she can honor his memory is to finish their current book, an 'autobiography' of director Garrett Malcolm. She finds Malcolm friendlier and far sexier than she had imagined. But Em senses trouble between Malcolm and one of his former stars, and she hears whispers...
3) King Kong
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Publisher
Grupo Editorial Tomo
Pub. Date
[2019]
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254 pages ; 20 cm
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El libro sigue el descubrimiento en una isla remota de un simio gigante, el afecto nefasto de la bestia por una mujer joven y su captura y explotación
The book follows the discovery on a remote island of a giant ape, the beast's ill-fated affection for a young woman, and his capture and exploitation by greedy would-be entrepreneurs
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Evelyn Hugo, el icono de Hollywood que se ha recluido a su edad madura, por fin decide contar la verdad sobre su vida llena de glamour y de escandalos. Pero cuando para ello elige a Monique Grant, una periodista desconocida, nadie se sorprende mas que la propia Monique. Por que ella? Por que ahora?
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Shopaholic series volume 7
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"Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) is newly arrived in Hollywood and starry-eyed. She and her two-year-old daughter, Minnie, have relocated to L.A. to join Becky's husband, Luke, who is there to handle PR for famous actress Sage Seymour. Becky can't wait to start living the A-list lifestyle, complete with celebrity sightings, yoga retreats, and shopping trips to Rodeo Drive. But she really hopes to become a personal stylist--Sage's personal stylist--if...
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
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291 p. ; 24 cm.
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When he discovers that his troubled younger brother, Nick, has been blackmailing their brother Paul, a would-be Hollywood mogul, psychologist Tom Crandall becomes caught in a terrifying conspiracy that threatens his own sanity.
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Library of America volume 93
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1997
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x, 829 p. ; 21 cm.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
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330 pages ; 24 cm
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"In 1938, nineteen-year-old ranch hand Bud Frazer sets out for Hollywood. His little sister has been gone a couple of years now, his parents are finding ranch work and comfort for their loss where they can, but for Bud, Echol Creek--where he grew up and first learned to ride--is a place he can no longer call home. So he sets his sights on becoming a stunt rider in the movies and rubbing shoulders with the great screen cowboys of his youth"--Amazon.com....
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Rick Barron, a former Beverly Hills police officer, has risen to head of production of Centurion Studies. Tension is running high in Hollywood since this is the time of the Communist hunt (the Red Scare) by Congress. The witch hunt is spreading, and with it comes deception, murder, and dirty dealings.
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Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
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198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Pearl lives on a ranch where her chores include collecting eggs and feeding ornery ostriches. She has three older brothers, who don't coddle her at all. And she knows a thing or two about horses, too. One day, Pearl's brothers get cushy jobs doing stunts for this new form of entertainment called "moving pictures." They're the Daredevil Donnelly Brothers, a Death-Defying Cowboy Trio. Before she knows it, Pearl has stumbled into being a stunt girl...
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2019.
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112 pages cm.
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"Who HQ rolls out the red carpet for Where Is Hollywood?--the film capital of the world. Developed in the 1880s by Midwesterners looking for a sunny winter getaway, Hollywood was a small housing development outside still-small Los Angeles. But everything changed in the early 1900s when filmmakers from New York flocked to the area, where they could make movies without having to pay Thomas Edison's patent fee. It didn't hurt that the weather was perfect,...
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Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Leonor Reyes was once a groundbreaking figure in the Filipino film industry during its ragtag action cinema glory days, but now she struggles with old age, mounting bills, and the untimely death of her son. While revisiting an unfinished script about a fearless protagonist trying to avenge his brother's murder, Leonor is struck on the head by a falling television set and knocked into a coma. As she lays unconscious in the hospital, fantasy and reality...
15) Lovelace
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Dramatizes the life of Linda Lovelace, star of the 1970s pornographic film "Deep throat" and later an activist protesting violence against women.
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
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1 DVD (1 hr. 52 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie, a fresh graduate of rehab at age thirteen. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town, mysteriously scarred...
17) She said
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Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2023
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New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
18) I'll do anything
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Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
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1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A talented but unemployed actor (Nolte) unexpectedly gains custody of his six-year-old daughter (Wright).
19) The congress
Pub. Date
2014
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1 DVD videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
20) Babylon
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"A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, Babylon traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood." --Provided by publisher.
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