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Author
Publisher
MacMillion Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash?
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 820 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations on endpapers, photographs ; 24 cm.
Description
In the history of American popular culture, there is no more dramatic story - no swifter or loftier ascent to the pinnacle of success and no more tragic downfall - than that of Orson Welles. In this magisterial biography, Patrick McGilligan brings young Orson into focus as never before. He chronicles Welles's early life growing up in Wisconsin and Illinois as the son of an alcoholic industrialist and a radical suffragist and classical musician, and...
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
106 pages cm
Description
Charlie Chaplin sang on a London stage for the first time at the age of five. Performing proved to be his salvation, providing a way out of a life of hardship and poverty. Success came early and made Chaplin one of the best loved people in the United States until the McCarthy witch hunts drove Chaplin from his adopted country. This is a moving portrait of a multi-talented man?actor, director, writer, even music composer?and the complicated times...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mel Brooks, the comedian, director and screenwriter, has energetically avoided a documentary profile from being made, until now. He has agreed to throw himself into a new documentary about his storied career, giving American Masters exclusive interviews and complete access to his film archives.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
xv, 432 pages. 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Sam Shepard: A Life details his lifelong bouts of insecurity and anxiety, and delves deeply into his relationship with his alcoholic father and his own battle with the bottle. Also examined for the first time in-depth are Shepard?s tumultuous relationship with Lange, and his decades?long adherence to the teachings of Russian spiritualist G. I. Gurdjieff."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 276 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A lighthearted account by the producer and director of such productions as "Laverne & Shirley" and "Pretty Woman." Marshall traces his Bronx childhood, role in shaping A-list celebrity careers, and personal philosophies about life and entertainment.
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