Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts

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Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmor...

Lauren Graham

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from...

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Published: Oct 2017

Motherhood and Hollywood: How to Get ...

Patricia Heaton

Motherhood and Hollywood is Patricia Heaton's humorous and poignant collection of essays on life, love, marriage, child-rearing, show business, having parents, being a parent, spousal rage, surviving fame, success, and the shame of un...

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Published: Jun 2003

Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Will...

Paul Hemphill

Traces the life and career of the mid-twentieth-century country music star, from his sickly and fatherless childhood and musical education by an African-American street singer, to his early gigs in Depression-era rural honky-tonks and...

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Published: Sep 2006

How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Tay...

William J. Mann

In the 60s, Elizabeth Taylor's affair with the married Richard Burton knocked John Glenn's orbit of the moon off front pages nationwide. Yet, despite all the gossip, the larger-than-life personality and influence of this very human ...

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Published: Apr 2010

Unsinkable: A Memoir

Debbie Reynolds

Unsinkable is the definitive memoir by film legend and Hollywood icon Debbie Reynolds.Actress, comedienne, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds shares the highs and lows of her life as an actress during Hollywood's Golden Age, anecdotes...

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Published: Nov 2013

Star Trek Memories

William Shatner

Beginning in 1966 as something a little out of the ordinary for prime-time TV, and suffering from shaky ratings throughout its entire run, 'Star Trek' went on to spend the better part of the next three decades exploding into a worldwi...

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Published: May 2009

A Fortunate Life

Robert Vaughn

A remarkable and delightful memoir of a life spent in the uppermost circles of acting, politics, and the world Robert Vaughn was born an actor. His family worked in the theater for generations, and he knew from the very start that he...

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Published: Nov 2009

One More Time: A Memoir (Encore Nonfi...

Carol Burnett

The acclaimed comedienne and actress reveals how her financially difficult childhood with her eccentric grandmother gave her the strength and determination to enter and become a success in the difficult world of show business. Reprint...

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Published: Aug 2003

Scar Tissue

Anthony Kiedis

The lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers presents a searing, candid memoir that captures the bright and dark moments of his life and career, including his descent into drug addiction, and their influence on his mus...

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Published: Oct 2005

700 Sundays

Billy Crystal

Billy Crystal has transformed his Tony award-winning one-man show into a petite book chronicling his 1950s childhood. Based on the estimated number of Sundays spent with his hardworking father before an untimely heart attack, the book...

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Published: Oct 2006

Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Mo...

Jenny McCarthy

Jenny McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of Baby Laughs and Belly Laughs, speaks candidly about the challenges and the humor to be found in balancing motherhood and the ups and downs of marriage. Jenny McCarthy's honesty has...

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Published: Apr 2007

J. K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harr...

Marc Shapiro

The heartwarming story behind J.K. Rowling’s rise to fame—and the answers to Harry Potter fans’ most burning questions! Harry Potter is loved throughout the world, and so is his creator. Joanne Kathleen (J.K.) Rowli...

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Published: May 2007

My Booky Wook

Russell Brand

In 2006 Russell Brand exploded onto the international comedy scene. He has been named Time Out's Comedian of the Year, Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards, and Most Stylish Man by GQ's Men. His UK stand-up tour was sold out an...

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Published: Aug 2008

My Stroke of Luck

Kirk Douglas

The Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author shares his moving story of survival after a debilitating stroke in 1995, which forever changed his life and taught him valuable lessons, and provides touching anecdotes from such...

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Published: Jan 2003

Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search fo...

Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder is one of the great comic actors who defined the 1970's and 1980's in movies. From his early work with Woody Allen to the rich group of movies he made with Mel Brooks to his partnership on screen with Richard Pryor, Wilder...

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Published: Jan 2005

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I...

Alison Arngrim

For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on one of TV history's most beloved series. Though millions of Little House on the Prairie viewers hated Nellie Oleson and her evil antics...

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Published: Jun 2011

The Rat Pack: Neon Nights with the Ki...

Lawrence J. Quirk

Quirk and Schoell's rehashing of the biographical details of Frank Sinatra and the rest of his crew is only intermittently able to disguise its contempt for their personal and professional lives. If there's an opportunity for a pot sh...

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Published: Jun 2003

My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably...

Kevin Smith

NOW UPDATED WITH THE 'INS AND OUTS' OF MAKING ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO, AND A NEW AFTERWORD! Anything but boring, Kevin Smith shares his x-rated thoughts in his diary, telling all in his usual candid, heartfelt and irreverent way!Ke...

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Published: Oct 2009

High On Arrival: A Memoir

MacKenzie Phillips

"A raw glimpse" (Entertainment Weekly) into her lifelong battle with personal demons and near-fatal addictions—and reveals the shattering truth behind her complex, secretive, and damaging history with her father, the legen...

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Published: Feb 2011

Cagney by Cagney

James Cagney

This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can.

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Published: Mar 2005

Richard Harris: Sex, Death & the Movi...

Michael Feeney Callan

An intimate biography of one of the greatest eccentric spirits of the modern cinema--from his earliest days in Ireland, and his roles in classics like Mutiny on the Bounty, A Man Called Horse, Camelot, The Field, and Unforgiven--to hi...

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Published: Mar 2005

The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, A...

Diahann Carroll

It's conventional wisdom that Hollywood has no use for a woman over forty. So it's a good thing that Diahann Carroll—whose winning, sometimes controversial career breached racial barriers—is anything but conventional. Shonda Rhime...

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Published: Sep 2009

Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated ...

Robert Sellers

ON SCREEN THEY WERE STARS. "A portrait of four profoundly flawed yet awesome leading men, as well as a window into a time when glamour was sacrosanct and when stardom was achieved rather than manufactured." —Playboy"...

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Published: Apr 2011

Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography

Richard Stirling

Julie Andrews is the last of the great Hollywood musical stars, unequaled by any in her time.In My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews had the biggest hit on Broadway. As the title character in Mary Poppins, she won an Academy Award. And, in 196...

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Published: Apr 2009

Frank & Ava: In Love and War

John Brady

The love story of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner has never been fully explored or explained―until now. Frank & Ava delves deeply into the lives of these two iconic stars and their turbulent lifelong relationship. It began in Hollywoo...

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Published: Oct 2017

Johnny Carson

Henry Bushkin

"A close look at how show business power corrupts . . . The dishiest read of the year." – Janet Maslin, "Ten Favorite Books of the Year," New York Times"Here's Johnny!" Probably everyone in America kno...

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Published: Oct 2014

Robin Williams: When the Laughter Sto...

Emily Herbert

A thoughtful look at the brilliant life and tragic death of a comedy icon At midday on August 11, 2014, much-loved comedian Robin Williams was pronounced dead at his California home. From Mrs. Doubtfire, Jumanji, and Aladdin to Good ...

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Published: Nov 2014

Men Are Stupid . . . And They Like Bi...

Joan Rivers

Red-carpet fashion laureate, comic icon, and outspoken superstar Joan Rivers is uniquely qualified to talk about plastic surgery -- because she's one of the few celebrities unafraid to admit to the world what she's 'had done' to keep ...

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Published: Dec 2009

Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford

Donald Spoto

Joan Crawford was one of the most incandescent film stars of all time, yet she was also one of the most misunderstood. In this brilliantly researched, thoughtful, and intimate biography, bestselling author Donald Spoto goes beyond th...

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Published: Jul 2011

My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Busi...

Dick Van Dyke

Dick Van Dyke, indisputably one of the greats of the golden age of television, is admired and beloved by audiences the world over for his beaming smile, his physical dexterity, his impeccable comic timing, his ridiculous stunts, and h...

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Published: May 2012
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