The only biography series to include a section on career information. The "Ferguson Career Biographies" series tells the stories of some of the world's most influential and admired people, focusing on the subject's early education and training, challenges faced on the job, important mentors, and career achievements. Students follow each person's journey along one or more career paths and get a sense of the person's historical importance. These unique volumes present important information on each subject's career in a way that makes it easy to integrate into classroom and take-home...

The only biography series to include a section on career information. The "Ferguson Career Biographies" series tells the stories of some of the world's most influential and admired people, focusing on the subject's early education and training, challenges faced on the job, important mentors, and career achievements. Students follow each person's journey along one or more career paths and get a sense of the person's historical importance. These unique volumes present important information on each subject's career in a way that makes it easy to integrate into classroom and take-home...

An introduction to the life and career of the puppeteer most famous for having created the Muppets.

Television offers jobs in production, art, writing, advertising, sales, technical areas, public relations, finance, office management, and many other areas. Career Opportunities in Television and Cable details 100 jobs in this exciting field and provides extensive appendixes of resources and other useful information.

As the development of the Internet has progressed, so too have the digital worlds of video games and media giants, creating many new, highly profitable careers in the process. Career Opportunities in the Internet, Video Games, and Multimedia details more than 90 jobs in these thriving industries and features extensive appendixes of resources and other useful information. Career profiles include animator, online sales manager, video game developer, webpage designer, and more.

This book traces the extraordinary life and career of Mel Brooks, who has ridden a wave of show business success perhaps unsurpassed by anyone of his generation. Offering many insights into the wacky world of Brooks and his many collaborators, as well as an intimate look into his successful marriage to the brilliant and beautiful actress Anne Bancroft, It's Good to Be the King might just be the most delightful, engaging, and entertaining biography you'll ever read.

Half of all marriages end in divorce--and then there are the really unhappy ones.
--Joan Rivers

Do you suppose that the person who first said ""Life is stranger than fiction"" might have had Hollywood marriages in mind? Why watch a romantic film starring a leading man and a leading lady when their real-life romances are so much more interesting? It seems that a celebrity's latest film can have a considerably longer life span in the theater than his or her marriage du jour.

One would almost think that Tinseltown has come to embrace divorce as an accepted pastime. Some celebrities...

Part of the Encore Film Book Classics series, this is a reprint of the original text to The Hollywood Book of Love: An Irreverent Guide to the Films That Raised Our Romantic Expectations by James Robert Parish. If you're still waiting for bells to ring and sparks to fly, for fireworks to explode, and waves to crash upon the shore every time you kiss that special someone, don't hold your breath: you've been bitten-and brainwashed-by the Hollywood love bug From start-up to breakup, only on the big screen is romance so unreal, and in this expansive, cheery, and amusing study you'll find enough...