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My Stroke of Luck
ISBN: 9780060014049 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. My stroke taught me so much, and for all that it stole, it gave me even more. In the process of healing, my life has changed for the better. Now I want to share what I have learned.
In this vivid and very personal reflection upon his extraordinary life as an actor, author, and legend in his own time, Kirk Douglas offers a candid and heartfelt memoir of where it all went right in his life -- even after suffering a debilitating stroke. Revealing not only the incredible physical and emotional toll of his stroke but how it has changed his life for the better, Douglas shares the lessons that... My stroke taught me so much, and for all that it stole, it gave me even more. In the process of healing, my life has changed for the better. Now I wan...
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61,02 zł |
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Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood
ISBN: 9780060514914 / Angielski / Miękka / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Hattie McDaniel is best known for her performance as Mammy, the sassy foil to Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. Though the role called for yet another wide-grinned, subservient black domestic, McDaniel transformed her character into one who was loyal yet subversive, devoted yet bossy. Her powerful performance would win her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and catapult the hopes of Black Hollywood that the entertainment industry --after decades of stereotypical characters-- was finally ready to write more multidimensional, fully realized roles for blacks. But... Hattie McDaniel is best known for her performance as Mammy, the sassy foil to Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. Though the role calle... |
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69,02 zł |
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Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas And All The Rest Of My Hollywood Friends : My Life
ISBN: 9780060520724 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Fans of John Leguizamo's smash-hit one-man shows (Mambo Mouth, Spic-o-rama, Freak, and Sexaholix) have already gotten a glimpse into his life, but this book tells the whole story, carrying readers along on a wild journey from his childhood in Queens to his current home at the top of the Hollywood pyramid. An acclaimed director, producer, and play-wright, and one of the highest-paid Latin actors in the world, Leguizamo shares the stories behind his many roles--what inspired them and what transpired as he created them--while dishing on his personal... Fans of John Leguizamo's smash-hit one-man shows (Mambo Mouth, Spic-o-rama, Freak, and Sexaholix) have already ... |
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69,02 zł |
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Maybe You Never Cry Again
ISBN: 9780060529321 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. By the tender of age of five, Bernie Mac had found his calling: making others laugh. Now this amazing comedian delves deep inside to share the poignant story of his childhood and the people who shaped him into the strong, self-reliant man and ruthlessly funny comedian he is today. When Bernie was just sixteen, he lost his mother to cancer. A tough but loving teacher, she showered the unwilling boy with life lessons and "Mac-isms" that would later carry him through many hardships and give him strength during his slow rise to stardom. Maybe You Never Cry Again recounts... By the tender of age of five, Bernie Mac had found his calling: making others laugh. Now this amazing comedian delves deep inside to share the poig... |
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77,18 zł |
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A Paper Life
ISBN: 9780060751029 / Angielski / Miękka / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A real Hollywood-style tell-all, this is the extremely candid and highly explosive autobiography of one of the movie industry's most talented and troubled young stars. At age ten, Tatum O'Neal became the youngest Oscar winner in history for her performance in the film classic Paper Moon. As the sidekick to her father, the flamboyant star and man-about-town Ryan O'Neal, she became a fixture at the most glamorous Hollywood parties and counted celebrities ranging from Cher to Stanley Kubrick among her childhood friends. Yet behind the glittering facade of Tatum's life lay... A real Hollywood-style tell-all, this is the extremely candid and highly explosive autobiography of one of the movie industry's most talented and t... |
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63,56 zł |
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Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz
ISBN: 9780060840839 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. He's the porn world's Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he's starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and over the last twenty years has become porn's biggest ambassador to the mainstream. He's appeared in 60 regular films, 14 music videos, and VH1's Surreal Life, starred in the critically acclaimed Porn star (a movie about his life), and in Being Ron Jeremy (a take off on Being John Malkovich), co-starring Andy Dick. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. . . . Ron Jeremy is a born storyteller... He's the porn world's Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he's starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of t... |
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65,02 zł |
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Elia Kazan: A Biography
ISBN: 9780060955120 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the late forties through the sixties, Elia Kazan was the most important and influential director in America, and the only one who managed simultaneously to dominate both theater and film. In that role he manifestly shaped the conception and writing, as well as the presentation, of many of the period's iconic works, reshaping the values of the stage and bringing a new realism and intensity of performance to the screen. His various achievements include the original Broadway productions of The Skin of Our Teeth, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman and such Hollywood films as Gentleman's... From the late forties through the sixties, Elia Kazan was the most important and influential director in America, and the only one who managed simu... |
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73,02 zł |
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From This Day Forward
ISBN: 9780060959548 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. After thirty years together, Cokie and Steve Roberts know something about marriage and after thirty distinguished years in journalism, they know how to write about it.In From This Day Forward, Cokie and Steve weave their personal stories of matrimony into a wider reflection on the state of marriage in American today. Here they write with the same conversational style that catapulted Cokie's We Are Our Mother's Daughters to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. They ruminate on their early worries about their different faiths -- she's Catholic,... After thirty years together, Cokie and Steve Roberts know something about marriage and after thirty distinguished years in journalism, they know ho... |
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69,02 zł |
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Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption
ISBN: 9780061131233 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The firstborn child of famed Rat Pack actor Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy, sister to John F. Kennedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford grew up with presidents, senators, and movie stars as close relatives and personal friends. When he was a toddler, Marilyn Monroe taught him how to dance the twist. He recalls being awakened late at night to hear his uncle Jack announce his candidacy for president. His early life was marked by the traumatic assassinations of two beloved uncles—and during his teen years, he succumbed to the tragic allure of the 1970s drug scene. Symptoms of... The firstborn child of famed Rat Pack actor Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy, sister to John F. Kennedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford grew up with... |
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61,02 zł |
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Barbra: The Way She Is
ISBN: 9780061242892 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the author of The Day Diana Died and The Day John Died comes this fascinating New York Times bestseller about one of the greatest legends who ever lived--Barbra Streisand--revealing an up-close, intimate portrait of the woman behind the star. She is a global icon, the ultimate diva, the Brooklyn girl made good, the ugly duckling who blossomed into a modern-day Nefertiti, the Oscar-winning actress and bona fide movie mogul, and arguably the greatest female singer who has ever lived. Yet even to the multitudes who idolize her, Streisand has remained... From the author of The Day Diana Died and The Day John Died comes this fascinating New York Times bestseller about one o... |
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77,18 zł |
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The Measure of a Man
ISBN: 9780061357909 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questing. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I myself have set." In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic... "I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary... |
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69,02 zł |
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The Measure of a Man Lp
ISBN: 9780061357923 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questing. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I myself have set." In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic... "I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary... |
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81,66 zł |
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The Facts of My Life
ISBN: 9781593938536 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the HARDBACK version. "It's about time a book came out about one of the most talented and beloved performers in the American theater. Charlotte is the consummate actress, comedienne, entertainer. Her work on stage and screen is always hilarious and somehow also gets you right in the gut. Her story is every bit as brilliant. Read it and smile." -Comedy Legend, Carl Reiner "To think of Charlotte Rae is to smile. Consequently, when I began to read "The Facts of My Life," I was unprepared for the emotional impact it would have on me. By the time I finished the first chapter, dealing as it...
This is the HARDBACK version. "It's about time a book came out about one of the most talented and beloved performers in the American theater. Charlott...
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157,65 zł |
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The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage
ISBN: 9780156031691 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The sparkling memoir of a movie icon's life in the footlights and on camera, The Good, the Bad, and Me tells the extraordinary story of Eli Wallach's many years dedicated to his craft. Beginning with his early days in Brooklyn and his college years in Texas, where he dreamed of becoming an actor, this book follows his career as one of the earliest members of the famed Actors Studio and as a Tony Award winner for his work on Broadway. Wallach has worked with such stars as Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Marilyn Monroe, Gregory Peck, and Henry Fonda, and his many movies include The...
The sparkling memoir of a movie icon's life in the footlights and on camera, The Good, the Bad, and Me tells the extraordinary story of Eli Wal...
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72,86 zł |
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Duse: A Biography
ISBN: 9780156262590 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, diaries, and personal papers, Weaver brings alive the legend of Italian actress Eleanor Duse, one of the greatest actresses in the history of the theater. Index; photographs.
Drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, diaries, and personal papers, Weaver brings alive the legend of Italian actress Eleanor Duse, one of the g...
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81,06 zł |
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Fanny Brice : The Original Funny Girl
ISBN: 9780195085525 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man," Fanny Brice once boasted. "I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in the rows at the Palace. I've doubled as an alligator; I've worked for the Shuberts; and I've been joined to Billy Rose in the holy bonds. I've painted the house boards and I've sold tickets and I've been fired by George M. Cohan. I've played in London before the king and in Oil City before miners with lanterns in their caps." Fanny Brice was indeed show business personified, and in this luminous volume, Herbert G. Goldman, acclaimed biographer of Al...
"I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man," Fanny Brice once boasted. "I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in the rows...
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231,33 zł |
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American Original : A Life of Will Rogers
ISBN: 9780195086935 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Hailed by The New York Times as "America's Aristophanes," Will Rogers was one of this century's most astute and beloved humorists. If as he often remarked, he never met a man he didn't like, it is also true that Rogers never met a man he didn't like to make fun of. Everyone from congressmen and Presidents to Hollywood movie moguls and wealthy industrialists bore the brunt of his gently lacerating wit--and seemed, mostly, to be charmed in the process. So popular did Rogers become--through dozens of films, a daily column that ran for nine years in newspapers across the country, and countless...
Hailed by The New York Times as "America's Aristophanes," Will Rogers was one of this century's most astute and beloved humorists. If as he often rema...
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315,39 zł |
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Gilbert and Sullivan : A Dual Biography
ISBN: 9780195147698 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "A Gilbert is of no use without a Sullivan." With these words, W.S. Gilbert summed up his reasons for persisting in his collaboration with Arthur Sullivan despite the combative nature of their relationship. In fact, Michael Ainger suggests in Gilbert and Sullivan the success of the pair's work is a direct result of their personality clash, as each partner challenged the other to produce his best work. After exhaustive research into the D'Oyly Carte collection of documents, Ainger offers the most detailed account to date of Gilbert and Sullivan's starkly different backgrounds and long...
"A Gilbert is of no use without a Sullivan." With these words, W.S. Gilbert summed up his reasons for persisting in his collaboration with Arthur Sull...
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651,43 zł |
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Mae West : An Icon in Black and White
ISBN: 9780195161120 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" Mae West invited and promptly captured the imagination of generations. Even today, years after her death, the actress and author is still regarded as the pop archetype of sexual wantonness and ribald humor. But who was this saucy starlet, a woman who was controversial enough to be jailed, pursued by film censors and banned from the airwaves for the revolutionary content of her work, and yet would ascend to the status of film legend?
Sifting through previously untapped sources, author Jill Watts unravels the enigmatic life of Mae West, tracing... "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" Mae West invited and promptly captured the imagination of generations. Even today, years after her death,...
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259,38 zł |
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A Magic Lantern : An Autobiography
ISBN: 9780226043821 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood. Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and vision to moviegoers for decades, traces his lifelong love affair with film in his breathtakingly visual autobiography, The Magic Lantern. When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that ... |
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68,80 zł |