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Posts Tagged ‘hollywood’
Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett drew an unwavering fascination among fans and the press alike for more than three decades. Ryan’s intimate memoir of this passionate love story, BOTH OF US: My Life with Farrah (Crown Archetype, on sale May 1, 2012), tells the true story behind the headlines. Ryan conveys beautifully everything their relationship was— at once exuberant, sad, and timeless, confessing the deepest parts of his heart.
Garry Marshall is one of the most respected and successful writers, directors, and producers in show business. He has also helped launch the careers of many film and television stars. His highly anticipated new autobiography, MY HAPPY DAYS IN HOLLYWOOD: A Memoir, co-written with his daughter Lori, is an entertaining, witty, and thoroughly enjoyable journey through Garry’s extraordinarily prolific career.
New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed biographer, and film historian Marc Eliot captures the complexity of Hollywood screen legend Steve McQueen. Chronicling McQueen’s tumultuous life both on and off the screen, from his hardscrabble childhood to his rise to Hollywood superstar status, to his struggles with alcohol and drugs and his fervor for racing fast cars and motorcycles, Eliot discloses intimate details of McQueen’s three marriages, including his tumultuous relationships with Neile Adams and Ali MacGraw, as well as his numerous affairs.
Spanning the golden age of Hollywood, where she shared a stand-in with Marilyn Monroe at Twentieth Century Fox, through the rise of the power and influence of television as an international star-maker, Barbara has seen and experienced it all in Hollywood. In JEANNIE OUT OF THE BOTTLE, Eden, with her innocence, strength, and humor, finally lets Jeannie out of the bottle to tell her whole unvarnished story.
“Hugely engaging . . . has tremendous verve . . . American Lightning throws valuable new light on an episode that seems, for us today, particularly pertinent. Terrorism happened here.” —Los Angeles Times
In this masterpiece of narrative history, acclaimed author Howard Blum evokes the original “crime of the century” and an aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself–a seminal episode in America’s history that would spark national debate and draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, and industry-shaping filmmaker D. W. Griffith.
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