Author : Kimball King
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-04
ISBN 10 : 9781136525674
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (113 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Hollywood on Stage written by Kimball King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Darwin Porter
Publisher : Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.
Release Date : 2001
ISBN 10 : 0966803027
Pages : 746 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (68 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Hollywood's Silent Closet written by Darwin Porter and published by Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood's Silent Closet provides a banquet of information about the pansexual intrigues of Hollywood between 1919 and 1926, compiled from eyewitness interviews with men and women, all of them insiders, who flourished in its midst. Not for the timid, it names names and doesn't spare the guilty. If you believe, like Truman Capote, that the literary treatment of gossip will become the literature of the 21st century, then you will love Hollywood's Silent Closet. Hollywood's Silent Closet is a vivid portrait of the decadent, homosexual, and gossipy world of pre-talkie Hollywood. It's an Info-Novel where 90% of everything in it is true. It represents the greatest collection of star-studded scandal ever assembled on the film stars of Hollywood's Silent Era. Valentino, Ramon Novarro, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Pola Negri, Nazimova, and many others figure into eyewitness accounts of the debauched excesses that went on behind closed doors. It also documents the often tragic endings of America's first screen idols, some of whom admitted to being more famous than the monarchs of England and Jesus Christ combined. Many of the interviews that went into the compilation of this book were conducted between 1940 and 1974, as the subjects were nearing the end of their lives and were willing, at last, to reveal scandals and insights that had previously been repressed by their own fears and by the media machines of the studio system. Marriages of convenience are the norm as intra-male peccadillos (and lots of lesbian love, too) are swept under the potted palms of the Edwardian age. The hero of this tale is the amiably cross-dressing Durango Jones, a wide-eyed neophyte from Kansas, circa 1919, who hits Hollywood during its Pre-Code excesses, and stays for a sexual feast wherein the banquet consists of many of the era's most flamboyant sex symbols. And although technically, this title has been formatted as a novel rather than a straight-line biography, there's the sometimes disturbing sense that this book is genuinely historical as well as being a jolly and rollicking piece of very savvy entertainment. This is high-testosterone Hollywood at its most compulsively readable. The 60s didn't invent sex-the stars of the Silent Screen did. --Cruiser. Who slept with Mary Pickford's three husbands, her two brothers-in-law, and even her brother? The hero of Hollywood's Silent Closet, that's who! --Trova Roma.
Author : Mark Dunster
Publisher :
Release Date : 1999-12-01
ISBN 10 : 0896429806
Pages : 11 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (642 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format New Wine in Old Bottles written by Mark Dunster and published by . This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amalie Berlin
Publisher : Harlequin
Release Date : 2016-07-01
ISBN 10 : 9781488009761
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (148 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Taming Hollywood's Ultimate Playboy written by Amalie Berlin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forbidden to the A-lister When Grace Watson last saw Liam Carter, she was in black lingerie and a trench coat at his door, while he gently—mortifyingly!—turned her down. Now Liam is Hollywood's hottest property, and Grace is the top physical therapist he needs to literally get him back on his feet. Grace tempted him then and she tempts him even more now. As her kindness banishes the demons that have always haunted him, is it possible that their second chance can heal his damaged heart?
Author : Joe Eszterhas
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2008-12-16
ISBN 10 : 9781409044574
Pages : 752 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (14 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Hollywood Animal written by Joe Eszterhas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He spent his earliest years in post-World War Two refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland - stealing cars, rolling drinks, battling priests, nearly going to jail. He became the screenwriter of the world-wide hits Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge and Flashdance. He also wrote the legendary disasters Showgirls and Jade. The rebellion never ended, even as his films went on to gross more than a billion dollars at the box office and he became the most famous - or infamous - screenwriter in Hollywood.
Author : Derek Hill
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
Release Date : 2010-10-21
ISBN 10 : 9781842433928
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (184 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers written by Derek Hill and published by Oldcastle Books. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1990s, a subtle, subversive element has been at work within the staid confines of the Hollywood dream factory. Young filmmakers like Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, David O. Russell, Richard Linklater, and Sofia Coppola rode in on the coattails of the independent film movement that blossomed in the early 1990s and have managed to wage an aesthetic campaign against imaginative cowardice of all persuasions, much like their artistic forebears -- the so-called Movie Brats Coppola, Scorsese, De Palma, Altman, and Ashby among others -- did in the 1970s. But their true pedigree can be traced back to the cinematic provocateurs of the Nouvelle Vague (Truffaut, Goddard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette, et al), who in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s liberated screens around the world with a series of films that challenged our assumptions of what the medium could offer and how stories could be told -- all of them snapping with style as much as they delivered on ideas. Highly idiosyncratic yet intricately realised, accessible yet willing to overthrow the constraints of formal storytelling, surreal yet always grounded in human emotions, this new breed of American film captures the angst of its characters and the times in which we live, but with a wryness, imagination, earnestness, irony and stylish wit that makes the slide into existential despair a little more amusing than it should be. This book analyses and traces the origins of the pivotal films and directors in this undeclared war on the mundane.
Author : John Austin
Publisher : SP Books
Release Date : 1994
ISBN 10 : 1561712884
Pages : 183 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (171 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Hollywood's Babylon Women written by John Austin and published by SP Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bizarre inside stories of Hollywood's most beautiful women who were doomed for death. Hollywood's Babylon Women takes the reader behind closed doors and beyond the official reports of law enforcement agencies and studio public relations departments to reveal the sordid romantic, sexual, political and financial factors behind these tragedies. Photos.
Author : Gregory William Mank
Publisher : Feral House
Release Date : 2007-10-01
ISBN 10 : 9781932595673
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (193 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Hollywood's Hellfire Club written by Gregory William Mank and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They made fans go crazy and censors apoplectic, spent fortunes faster than they made them, forged Rembrandts and hung them in major museums, went on trial for committing statutory rape with necrophiliac teenage girls, reinterpreted Hamlet as an incestuous mama's boy,and swilled immeasurable quantities of spirits during week-long parties on wobbly yachts. They were "The Bundy Drive Boys," and they made the Rat Pack look like Cub Scouts. Their self-destructiveness was spectacular, the misanthropy profound, but behind the boozy bravado was a devoted mutual affection. The Bundy Drive Boys' un-bowdlerized stories have never been illustrated so well or told so completely as within Hollywood's Hellfire Club. Author Gregory William Mank also wrote It's Alive!: The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein and Hollywood Cauldron.
Author : David Volk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013-11-05
ISBN 10 : 9781493006588
Pages : 296 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (149 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Cheap Bastard's® Guide to Seattle written by David Volk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and updated, the second edition of Cheap Bastard's Guide to Seattle details endless free and inexpensive opportunities available in the Emerald City from theater, concerts, and museums to yoga classes, haircuts, and massages––for native and visiting cheapskates alike. Written in a fun, humorous tone, this unique guide offers sound advice on how to live the good life on the cheap!
Author : Mark Dunster
Publisher :
Release Date : 2000-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0794900100
Pages : 11 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (49 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format New Wine for Old Bottles written by Mark Dunster and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yannis Tzioumakis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-07
ISBN 10 : 9780748649594
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (74 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Hollywood's Indies written by Yannis Tzioumakis and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost three decades the big Hollywood studios have operated classics divisions or specialty labels, subsidiaries that originally focused on the foreign art house film market, while more recently (and controversially) moving on to the American 'indie' film market. This is the first book to offer an in depth examination of the phenomenon of the classics divisions by tracing its history since the establishment the first specialty label in 1980, United Artists Classics, to more contemporary outfits like Focus Features, Warner Independent and Picturehouse.This detailed account of all classics divisions examines their business practices, their position within the often labyrinthine structure of contemporary entertainment conglomerates and their relationship to their parent companies. Yannis Tzioumakis examines the impact of those companies on American 'indie' cinema and argues that it was companies such as Fox Searchlight and Paramount Classics (now Paramount Vantage) that turned independent filmmaking to an industrial category endorsed by the Hollywood majors as opposed to a mode of filmmaking practised outside the conglomerated major players and posed as a sustained alternative to mainstream Hollywood cinema. A number of case studies are provided, including such celebrated films as Mystery Train, The Brothers McMullen, Broken Flowers, Before Sunset and many others.
Author : Joseph Wambaugh
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-11-06
ISBN 10 : 9781849167635
Pages : 464 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (184 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Hollywood Crows written by Joseph Wambaugh and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cops of Hollywood Station are over-worked, under-staffed, bound by red tape, hobbled by political correctness, and constantly amazed by what the boulevards can throw at them. Scratch the surface of the 'reel' Hollywood and you'll discover the 'real' Hollywood. Here, Mickey Mouse is a crack addict, Marilyn Monroe is a man and when the moon is full, the neighbourhood gets even weirder. When the legendary Oracle is replaced by Sgt. Jason 'Chickenlips' Treakle - a politically correct, paper-shuffling putz with a shiny shoe fetish - Nate 'Hollywood' Weiss leaves the mid-watch to become a Crow, or Community Relations Officer (C.R.O.). These are the guys dealing with domestic disputes, busting stalkers, bouncing paparazzi and calming chronic complainers, wannabe cops and loons of all varieties. It should be easy duty - to the other cops it's 'the sissie beat' - but being Hollywood, the loons are not in short supply and not everything is quite at is seems. So when Hollywood Nate and fellow crow Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. To them, Margot is a harmless hill bunny, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from a nefarious strip-club-owner. But Margot's no helpless victim: the femme fatale is setting them up so she can pull off the perfect murder and walk away with her ex-husband's ill-won fortune. But Margot isn't the only one with a deadly plan.
Author : Louisa Graves
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Release Date : 2013-04-01
ISBN 10 : 9781456608637
Pages : 230 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (145 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Hollywood Beauty Secrets written by Louisa Graves and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrity Body Parts Model -Turned- Media Beauty Expert, Louisa Graves, shares scientifically proven advice, that addresses a variety of self-help, 'head to toe' beauty and age-proofing solutions. Louisa "walks the talk"! Many of the DIY beauty recipes, remedies and budget-friendly products she shares are those that have helped her remain tops in her field in youth-oriented Hollywood as both a celebrity body parts model and beauty expert on TV. Doctors on TV and radio regularly invite Louisa to share her non-invasive approach to halting the aging process, addressing topics ranging from hair loss and skin conditions, to brittle nails, dark circles, acne, enlarged pores, cracked heels, hormones, cellulite, weight loss, and much more. In fact, the doctor-approved slimming tonic she reveals in this book, helped one women lose over 150 lbs. while dropping her medications from 17 - down to ONE! Her clients and customers are worldwide. They include: Doctors, actresses, models, TV anchors, producers, moms, baby boomers, seniors and teens. As a Beauty Expert Louisa has appeared on myriad television shows including: The Talk, The Doctors, Extra, The Style Network and Discovery Channel, to name a few. She has done over 500 radio shows including: Sirius XM's Doctor Radio, KIIS/FM, WGN/Chicago, Hot 97/ New York, K-Earth-/Los Angeles and many more. Her tips have been featured on the cover of Woman's World Magazine, in FIRST Magazine, at AOLHealth.com, AOLJobs.com, MSNBC.com, and WomansDay.com, to name a few. Louisa's proven solutions will have you achieving faster results than many conventional methods. There is something for everyone in this concise beauty book -whether you're 20, 45 or 80 - woman or man. Louisa stays 'ahead of the curve' so she's on the pulse of what women want - proven solutions that work AND don't cost a fortune! We all strive to be our best and Louisa provides concise, do-able information to help us address our concerns. Her solutions are very timely, given this current economic time.
Author : YOURSTRULYTRINA
Publisher : Summit Publishing Company Inc.
Release Date : 2018-09-03
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 250 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Hollywood's Princess written by YOURSTRULYTRINA and published by Summit Publishing Company Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On screen, Sophia Heart Valentine is the toast of Tinseltown. She’s the entire package, after all. She can sing, act, dance—you name it. But off screen, she’s dealing with personal drama that feels awfully like a movie. Her dad is marrying a woman that she absolutely abhors. Her best guy friend is ignoring her feelings for him. And her agent is forcing her to star in a movie with Axel Brooks, Hollywood’s Prince and all around annoying guy on set. Who wants to be Hollywood’s Princess when you could be drama queen, right? But then again, Hollywood’s Princess does have a nicer ring
Author : Daniel Bernardi
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-17
ISBN 10 : 0814338070
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (433 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Hollywood's Chosen People written by Daniel Bernardi and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of film production. Yet Jewish characters have been represented onscreen in stereotypical and disturbing ways, while Jews have also helped to produce some of the most troubling stereotypes of people of color in Hollywood film history. In Hollywood's Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema, leading scholars consider the complex relationship between Jews and the film industry, as Jews have helped to construct Hollywood's vision of the American dream and American collective identity and have in turn been shaped by those representations. Editors Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson introduce the volume with an overview of the history of Jews in American popular culture and the American film industry. Multidisciplinary contributors go on to discuss topics such as early Jewish films and directors, institutionalized anti-Semitism, Jewish identity and gossip culture, and issues of Jewish performance on film. Contributors draw on a diverse sampling of films, from representations of the Holocaust on film to screen comedy; filmmakers and writers, including David Mamet, George Cukor, Sidney Lumet, Edward Sloman, and Steven Spielberg; and stars, like Barbra Streisand, Adam Sandler, and Ben Stiller. The Jewish experience in American cinema reveals much about the degree to which Jews have been integrated into and contribute to the making of American popular film culture. Scholars of Jewish studies, film studies, American history, and American culture as well as anyone interested in film history will find this volume fascinating reading.
Author : Samuel Clemens
Publisher : Sequoia Press
Release Date : 2020-05-22
ISBN 10 : 9780578682822
Pages : 213 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (57 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format Pat: A Biography of Hollywood's Blonde Starlet written by Samuel Clemens and published by Sequoia Press. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat Sheehan was one of Hollywood's most talked-about celebrities. Initially a San Franciscan vying for the title of Miss America, she quickly caught the attention of numerous columnists, producers, and admirers. She won pageants, appeared in newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Examiner, modeled for magazines like Scene and Parade, and attracted such men as Bing Crosby, Howard Hughes, and Rod Taylor. Her appearance was compared to actresses Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth. Studios such as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 20th Century Fox casted her for their movies, and she was frequently seen on television with talents like Dean Martin, Mickey Rooney, and Art Linkletter. She was signed by the National Broadcasting Company in February 1956, being promoted by the network as "Television's First Starlet".Today, Pat Sheehan is remembered for being Playboy's Playmate of the Month for October 1958 with actress Mara Corday. Her centerfold was seen in Clint Eastwood's Space Cowboys (2000). People don't realize that she was one of Hollywood's most talked-about celebrities of the 1950's and 1960's, and that she remained closely associated with Hollywood afterwards. Those who knew her described her as personable, intelligent, and kind.
Author : Diane Brenda Bryan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2009-12-28
ISBN 10 : 9781469113807
Pages : 172 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (146 users)
Download or read book in PDF or another Format A Hollywood Tale of Love and Murder written by Diane Brenda Bryan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hollywood is the land of beautiful people--some talented; some, not. If you are lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time, it could be the big break you need. Christine O'Hara was lucky when she met Charles Markham, a cinematographer. They fall deeply in love. At a cast party on the Paramount lot, he introduces her to some important people, one of whom, Director John Victor, immediately sees Christine's potential. And, therein lies the tale. Hollywood, like any other place, has its demons, as well. Blake Dugan, an extra and bit player, had dated Christine, briefly. He has now become her nemesis, stalking her relentlessly with phone calls and appearances in places where she could be found. The temptation of fast money lures him into the nefarious world of drugs. He is determined to make Christine his own. He has a plan. His actions thrust him headlong into an irreversible web of deceit. Between the glitz and greed, the story draws a realistic picture of people living the Hollywood dream."