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(Limelight). In 1984 Antony Sher, hailed as "the most exciting actor of his generation" by the Observer, made his debut on homemade crutches as the infamous Richard III in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play. He would go on to win the Laurence Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for best actor. In his own words and sketches, he chronicles his personal and professional journey to this award-winning performance, from the moment he was offered the role to opening night, in the critically acclaimed book Year of the King, now available in this special 20th anniversary edition. From his brainstorm to use crutches to bring the king's deformity to life, to his research for the role, which included watching interviews with psychopaths, reading about mass murderers, and speaking with doctors and physically challenged individuals, to his visit to his homeland of South Africa, to his experiences in working with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the reader is given a front-row seat to Sher's physical and mental preparation or rather transformation for his landmark performance as "the bottled spider."

Hello Dere! This is the official illustrated biography of comedian Marty Allen written by me... Marty Allen! Experience first-hand what it was like over my 60+ year career in the entertainment business. Come with me as I share my personal experiences with many well known entertainers and other high profile people during my career. I have included over 198 well-chosen pictures from my personal library. This edition includes a BONUS photo chapter at the end of the book. You will find a treasure-trove of delightful tidbits from, and about, many people including the Beatles, Elvis and author Sidney Sheldon to Princess Margaret and First Lady Betty Ford!

For 15 years, "Esquire's" Scott Raab has intimately (and wittily) profiled celebrities--from Will Ferrell and Sean Penn to Ryan Seacrest and Bill Murray--and more. In "Real Hollywood Stories," Raab presents his greatest hits--22 profiles from Esquire and GQ--with 20-plus stories of fresh perspective--on what it means; feels like to get up close and personal with the biggest stars of our time.

"Whenever women are honest about their struggles, they give other women a gift. Mia delivers." Elizabeth GilbertThis book is for every woman who's been told success is as simple as Lean In, Say Yes, Live Your Best Life, Beat Your Fear, Follow Your Dream... and then feel #soblessed.It's for guilty friends, bad mums, crap wives, imperfect feminists, rebellious daughters and any girl with a big mouth and at least one foot in it. It's for any woman who's ever asked: 'Am I the only one who isn't quite coping?'Here is Mia Freedman's low road to the top - a fearless, hilarious, inspiring and surprising collection of modern misadventures to read, relate to and rejoice in, then share with all the women in your life.MORE PRAISE FOR MIA FREEDMAN"Funny, raw, fierce and - at heart - profoundly generous." Annabel Crabb"There are few writers in Australia who care as much about what makes women tick as Mia Freedman and who reveal so much of themselves." Leigh Sales"Mia Freedman is one of the most inspirational, informative and accessible voices among contemporary Australian writers ... She is dedicated to improving the lives of other women. Hers is an important unique voice in our national conversation." Cate McGregor

With his dynamic on-air personality and his trademark cry of "Burn, baby! BURN!" when spinning the hottest new records, Magnificent Montague was the charismatic voice of soul music in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. In this memoir Montague recounts the events of his momentous radio career, which ran from the era of segregation to that of the civil rights movement; as he does so, he also tells the broader story of a life spent in the passionate pursuit of knowledge, historical and musical. Like many black disc jockeys of his day, Montague played a role in his community beyond simply spreading the music of James Brown, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, and other prominent artists. Montague served as an unofficial spokesman for his black listeners, reflecting their beliefs and acting as a sounding board for their concerns. Montague was based in Los Angeles in 1965 when the Watts rioters seized on his incendiary slogan, turning the shout of musical appreciation into a rallying cry for racial violence. In Burn, Baby! BURN! Montague recalls these tumultuous times, including the personal struggle he faced over whether to remain true to his listeners or bend to political pressure and stop shouting his suddenly controversial slogan. Since the mid-1950s Montague had also expressed his passion for African American culture by becoming a zealous collector of artifacts of black history. He has built a monumental collection, taking time out from his collecting to become only the second African American to build his own radio station literally from the ground up. A compelling account of a rich and varied life, Burn, Baby! BURN! gives an insider's view of half a century of black history, told with on-the-air zest by the DJ/historian who was there to see it unfold.

Judy Cassab is one of Australia's best known portrait painters and the winner of many prestigious art awards, including the coveted Archibald Prize. In Judy Cassab Diaries , the artist tells the story of a life lived passionately and to the fullest. It is a rich, fascinating and inspirational self-portrait of a courageous and vital woman, whose determination to live shines through her writing.

This collection includes: Living It Up, The Third Time Around, and Dear George. Brought together for the first time is this over-sized, over-the-top collection of four bestselling titles full of humorous reflections on life from America's best-loved and most popular comedian.

Part memoir, part his take on life, the universe and Hollywood, this is an all-round portrait of David Gest, a true original. This book aims to broaden our perception of the person we fell in love with on 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!' and will cover a wide range of topics, from the humourous to the more serious.

For ten weeks David Brudnoy, Boston's most popular and erudite conservativeradio-talk-show host, had been off the air. When he signed back on, hisfaithful following was prepared for the usual dose of wry humor, Clintonbashing, and brilliant banter. What they got instead was an electrifyinghourlong monologue, unprecedented in the freewheeling world of talk radio, during which Brudnoy confessed, I am a fifty-four-year-old homosexual...I wassuffering the first attack of HIV--the AIDS virus. What followed was an outpouring of support and devotion from an audience notknown for its tolerance of gay issues. With his story, Brudnoy has crossed thatgreat abyss where the personal and political meet. From his near-halcyon youthas an only child growing up in a small Minnesota town to his heady days as astudent at Yale, he recounts with equal doses of humor and candor a coming ofage that, in fits and starts, eventually recognized a sexual preference for menand a political tendency toward the right. Ruminating on matters that rangefrom his own mortality to TV, radio, friends, family, romance, and politics, Life Is Not a Rehearsal offers up the kind of trenchant and intelligentinsights that are Brudnoy's hallmark.A graduate of Yale with a major in Japanese, David Brudnoy went to graduateschool at Harvard (East Asian studies) before getting his Ph.D. in Americanintellectual history at Brandeis. In 1976 he won a full-time talk radio slot atBoston's WHDH, then moved to WRKO in 1981, finally going on to the region'spowerhouse, WBZ, in 1986. In addition to his hugely successful radio show onWBZ, he is a TV commentator, film critic, newspaper essayist on politics andtravel, and teacher ofjournalism at Boston University. Life Is Not a Rehearsal shows that conservatism is not conformity--or aprejudice or a mere establishmentarian life. Conservatism is about fighting forliberty and embracing responsibility, about war and love if you will. DavidBrudnoy is certainly a veteran of both. --P. J. O'Rourke, author of Give War a Chance David Brudnoy tells the personal story behind the public story of hisremarkable life and extraordinary career. He gives us a memoir that willbenefit many others across the country learning to live with AIDS. --Senator Edward M. KennedyThis is a book about love, loyalty, and the nurturing bonds of family andfriendship. And, it is also a book about the coming of age of a brave andhonorable man who has faced the looming spectre of death with the samecourageous honesty that so many of us have long admired in him. --Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., author of How We Die In this no-holds-barred memoir, Boston's outspoken, conservative, libertarian, gay, agnostically Jewish, living-with-AIDS, college professor and media iconproves once and for all the inadequacy of labels when it comes to defining alife. Life Is Not a Rehearsal is the story of David Brudnoy as only hecould tell it, with characteristic candor, humor, and the self-awareness of onewho has teetered on the edge, gone over the cliff, and lived to tell. And tellhe does --William F. Weld

Want to know how to become an overnight success? ...in only 38 years? "A Gift of Laughter", the autobiography of comedian Allan Sherman, tells in his own words how he became an overnight success in only 38 years. First he struggled as a free-lance writer. Later he produced television shows like the long-running hit "I've Got a Secret" (which he co-created). Then, on one fateful night, after picking up his unemployment check, he recorded an album of parodies called "My Son, the Folk Singer", which sold over one million copies, and became the fastest-selling album of all time. His next two albums also became smash hits, making him the only artist ever to have three consecutive Billboard #1 albums. His third album, "My Son, the Nut" contained the hit single "Hello, Muddah! Hello, Fadduh! - A Letter from Camp Granada" -- a summer camp anthem which is still being sung 50+ years later. Sherman sang at Carnegie Hall - twice! And the Hollywood Bowl - twice! He guest-hosted The Tonight Show, performed with and conducted The Boston Pops (notable because he can't read music ), entertained Presidents and Supreme Court Justices and millions of regular folk.

This is a reproduction of the actual book published in 1959 which unfortunately fell out of copyright. It may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

'Seated at a café table, in the syrupy warmth of out-of-season Nice, he reviewed his life and found it to be alarmingly empty.' George Bland had planned to spend his retirement in leisurely travel and modest entertainment with his friend Putnam. When Putnam dies George is left attempting to impose some purpose on the solitary end of his life. Then Katy Gibb appears as a temporary resident, perhaps even squatter, in a neighbouring apartment. Greedy, selfish, sometimes alluring, often manipulative, Katy exerts a strange influence on George, forcing him to recognize that his own careful, fastidious life has shown a distinct lack of passion and daring. As the realization takes hold, George must decide how much - or how little - he can do to transform the status quo .

A starstruck Brooklyn teenager becomes a popular Latin singer only to discover the price of stardom may be too high. Abbe Lane has poured the dark and terrible secrets of her abusive marriage to (1940-50's bandleader) Xavier Cugat onto the pages of her debut novel. --Los Angeles Daily News.

The life story of one of Hollywood's most dashing swashbucklers reveals how his wild offscreen behavior--drinking, womanizing, and carousing with David Niven--contrasted with his on-screen charm. (Biography).

In the early 1950's, in Los Angeles, at 6 AM, John West, vice-president of the National Broadcasting Company in charge of west coast, gets a phone call from New York City on the NBC tie line. The caller is General David Sarnoff, chairman of the Board of RCA, the Radio Corporation of America, NBC's parent company. Awakened from sleep, Mr. West groggily says "Hello" "John, this is General Sarnoff." Mr. West swiftly clears the cobwebs. "Good morning, General, it's always good to hear from you." "John, you're acquainted with my nephew Richard Baer, aren't you?" "Yes, General, I am. He's a fine young man. I think very highly of him." "Last night I spoke with his mother, my sister. She's upset. The reason she's upset is that Richard has been out of work for four months and he has no prospects, so it looks like his life is going nowhere." "General, I'm surprised and sorry to hear that." "John, I want you to find Richard a job. And I want you to find him a job by nine o'clock this morning, your time. I'll be waiting for your call saying you took care of it. Goodbye."

Omer Fast is one of the most distinctive film and video artists of the younger generation. In his award-winning four-channel video with multiple projections, Fast investigates how experience is transformed by memory. He refuses to frame memories according to the conventions of historical reconstruction just to turn them into a consumable narrative.Born 1972 in Jerusalem and living in Berlin, Omer Fast has achieved acclaim in exhibitions at internationally renowned museums, reaping honors including the prestigious Bucksbaum Award from the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2008. Fast is nominated for the 2009 Berlin Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art.

""What Hitler Wants"" is a political analysis written by Leon Trotsky in 1933, shortly after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. The book explores the motivations, goals, and strategies of the Nazi regime, particularly in regards to its expansionist ambitions and its hostility towards the Soviet Union. Trotsky argues that Hitler's regime is driven by a desire for territorial conquest and domination, fueled by a toxic blend of racism, nationalism, and anti-communism. He also critiques the policies of the Western powers, particularly their appeasement of Hitler and their failure to recognize the threat posed by fascism. The book is a powerful warning against the dangers of fascism and the need for international solidarity in the face of authoritarianism.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

My Night With Orson is the story of Oscar nominated screenwriter and playwright Julian Barry's forty year journey through the wilds of the American and English theatre as well as the movie business. Julian worked with numerous actors, producers and writers and shares his insightful, comical interactions with many of them - allowing readers to see these celebrities in a whole new light. This engaging book reads like you are in the room with Julian and he is discussing the stories with you. The "cast" of the book includes Actors: Orson Welles, Mel Gibson, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Burton, Jose Ferrer, Mandy Patinkin, Jane Alexander, Sissy Spacek, Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Tony Bennett and Eddie Izzard; Directors Sir Peter Hall, Bob Fosse, Marty Ritt, Tom O'Horgan and Mel Brooks; the Composer Marvin Hamlisch; a weekend in Vermont with our first Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren and an unforgettable afternoon in Las Vegas with Frank Sinatra.