9 results for "Autobiography"

Howard Stern comes again

Stern, Howard
Rock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobsters. A president. Over his four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities -- discussing sex, relationships, money, fame, spirituality, and success with the boldest of bold-faced names. But which interviews are his favorites? It's one of the questions he gets asked most frequently. Howard Stern Comes Again delivers his answer. Tracy Morgan opens up about his near-fatal car crash. Lady Gaga divulges her history with cocaine. Madonna reminisces on her relationship with Tupac Shakur. Bill Murray waxes philosophical on the purpose of life. Jerry Seinfeld offers a master class on comedy. Harvey Weinstein denies the existence of the so-called casting couch. An array of creative visionaries weigh in on what Stern calls "the climb"--The stories of how they struggled and eventually prevailed. Interspersed throughout are selections from the Howard Stern Show archives with Donald Trump that depict his own climb: transforming from Manhattan tabloid fixture to reality TV star to president of the United States. Stern also tells of his Moby Dick-like quest to land an interview with Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the 2016 election. He speaks with extraordinary candor about a variety of subjects, including his overwhelming insecurity early in his career, his revolutionary move from terrestrial radio to SiriusXM, and his belief in the power of psychotherapy. As Stern notes in the introduction: "The interviews collected here represent my best work and show my personal evolution. But they don't just show my evolution. Gathered together like this, they show the evolution of popular culture over the past quarter century."
Simon & Schuster 2019 549 pages

Stories my father told me: notes from "The Lyons Den"

Lyons, Jeffrey
"This amazing collection of choice anecdotes takes us right back to the Golden Age of New York City nightlife, when top restaurants like Toots Shor's, "21," and Sardi's, as well as glittering nightclubs like the Stork Club, The Latin Quarter, and El Morocco, were the nightly gathering spots for great figures of that era: movie and Broadway stars, baseball players, champion boxers, comedians, diplomats, British royalty, prize-winning authors, and famous painters. From Charlie Chaplin to Winston Churchill, from Ethel Barrymore to Sophia Loren, from George Burns to Ernest Hemingway, from Joe DiMaggio to the Duke of Windsor: Leonard Lyons knew them all. For forty glorious years, from 1934 to 1974, he made the daily rounds of Gotham nightspots, collecting the exclusive scoops and revelations that were at the core of his famous newspaper column, "The Lyons Den." In this entertaining volume Jeffrey Lyons has assembled a considerable compilation of anecdotes from his father's best columns, and has also contributed a selection of his own in-depth interviews conducted on his own TV shows with George Clooney, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Dame Judi Dench, George Carlin, Dennis Hopper, Sir Michael Caine, Sir Ben Kingsley and other current stars. Organized chronologically by decade and subdivided by celebrity, "Stories my father told" me offers fascinating and amusing stories illustrated by some sixty archival photographs. He so captured the tenor of those exciting times that the great Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg said: "Imagine how much richer American history would have been had there been a Leonard Lyons in Lincoln's time."--
Abbeville Press 2011-06-07 352 pages

Lives of houses

Kate Kennedy,Hermione Lee
A group of notable writers--including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow--celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially fascinated by the houses of the famous and often long-dead? In Lives of Houses, a group of notable biographers, historians, critics, and poets explores these questions and more through fascinating essays on the houses of great writers, artists, composers, and politicians of the past. Editors Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee are joined by wide-ranging contributors, including Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, David Cannadine, Roy Foster, Alexandra Harris, Daisy Hay, Margaret MacMillan, Alexander Masters, and Jenny Uglow. We encounter W. H. Auden, living in joyful squalor in New York's St. Mark's Place, and W. B. Yeats in his flood-prone tower in the windswept West of Ireland. We meet Benjamin Disraeli, struggling to keep up appearances, and track the lost houses of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen. We visit Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh, England, and Jean Sibelius at Ainola, Finland. But Lives of Houses also considers those who are unhoused, unwilling or unable to establish a home--from the bewildered poet John Clare wandering the byways of England to the exiled Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera living on the streets of London. With more than forty illustrations, Lives of Houses illuminates what houses mean to us and how we use them to connect to and think about the past. The result is a fresh and engaging look at house and home. Featuring Alexandra Harris on moving house; Susan Walker on Morocco's ancient Roman House of Venus; Hermione Lee on biographical quests for writers' houses; Margaret Macmillan on her mother's Toronto house; a poem by Maura Dooley, "Visiting Orchard House, Concord, Massachusetts"--the house in which Louisa May Alcott wrote and set her novel Little Women; Felicity James on William and Dorothy Wordsworth's Dove Cottage; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst at home with Tennyson; David Cannadine on Winston Churchill's dream house, Chartwell; Jenny Uglow on Edward Lear at San Remo's Villa Emily; Lucy Walker on Benjamin Britten at Aldeburgh, England; Seamus Perry on W. H. Auden at 77 St. Mark's Place, New York City; Rebecca Bullard on Samuel Johnson's houses; a poem by Simon Armitage, "The Manor"; Daisy Hay at home with the Disraelis; Laura Marcus on H. G. Wells at Uppark; Alexander Masters on the fear of houses; Elleke Boehmer on sites associated with Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera; Kate Kennedy on the mental asylums where World War I poet Ivor Gurney spent the last years of his life; a poem by Bernard O'Donoghue, "Safe Houses"; Roy Foster on W. B. Yeats and Thoor Ballylee; Sandra Mayer on W. H. Auden's Austrian home; Gillian Darley on John Soane and the autobiography of houses; Julian Barnes on Sibelius and Ainola.
Princeton University Press 2020-03-24 297 pages

Joan Rivers confidential: the unseen scrapbooks, joke cards, personal files, and photos of a very funny woman who kept everything

Rivers, Melissa,Currie, Scott
"Joan Rivers is an enduring icon of the 20th century, and her wildly popular humor has appealed to generations of fans. With a career that began in the late 1950s, Joan kept mementos over the course of her entire working life, and Joan Rivers Confidential is a compilation of never-before-seen personal archives. Assembled by her daughter Melissa with Scott Currie, the book contains scripts and monologues, letters from famous friends, exchanges with fans, rare photographs, as well as classic and never-before-heard jokes--many simply scribbled on everything from hotel stationery to airplane boarding passes. Touching on subjects from her 50 years in show business (The Tonight Show, Las Vegas, Elizabeth Taylor, Heidi Abromowitz, the red carpet, and Fashion Police), this is a revelatory and humor-filled insider look at the popular, multitalented comedian."--Provided by Amazon.com.
Abrams 2017-10-24 336 pages

Being Jordan: my autobiography

Price, Katie
This book needs no introduction. The hardback edition was the hottest seller of 2004. WH Smith cited it as the record holder for most copies of an autobiography sold in one week. In fact it has turned out to be the surprise darling of the book trade! Now, at last, the paperback edition is available and Katie has brought it right up-to-date with full details of her love for Peter, their new life together, their engagement and their impending wedding. She also reveals the projects she has been working on and what the future holds for her career. No book buyer will want to miss out on the next instalment of Katie's life - so fasten your seatbelts for another rollercoaster ride.
John Blake 2004 316 pages

This is me: the high life, the dark times, the full story

Price, Katie
** AN EXPLOSIVE READ. GET READY FOR TRUTHS AND BOMBSHELLS. **'Staggeringly honest... Katie is one of showbusiness's great survivors,' Bryony Gordon 'Katie is the best storyteller,' Jamie Laing'Katie is a survivor,' Elizabeth DayCelebrating twenty years since her bestselling debut autobiography, Being Jordan, and a stellar thirty-year career, This Is Me is Katie Price as you've never heard her before - raw and reflective. Katie explores the incredible highs and devastating lows of her life and turbulent career, as well as the journey she's beenon to get to where she is today.From her first forays into glamour modelling when she was just 17 years old, through a wild ride of Playboy mansions, Eurovision Song Contests, reality TV and everything in between, This Is Me is the true story of Katie's life behind the headlines. But it's not all glitz, glam and cosmetic surgery. For the first time, Katie will reflect on her journey through therapy, PTSD, trauma and the trials of living her life in the media spotlight. It's a true tale of survival during a career that has seen her become a household name - sometimes for all the wrong reasons. But though this is Katie in her most reflective book to date, it's also punctuated with the very real drama she's been dealing with in her life at the moment.Full of life lessons she's learned along the way as well as the pain and heartache of the ones she's still learning, this is the real, explosive and unapologetically honest Katie Price.
John Blake Publishing 2025-07-17 272 pages

Reborn

Price, Katie
Katie Price is one of the most talked-about women in the UK, and she has had an explosive couple of years. Her new autobiography holds nothing back. In it she will talk about: - Her controversial marriage to stripper Kieran; - Their very public split after he slept with one of her oldest friends; - Her difficult pregnancy and the fear she felt giving birth to her fifth child prematurely; - The continued joy and challenges of looking after her severely disabled son, Harvey; - Her public battle with Peter Andre, and the truth behind his allegations; - Why she forgave her third husband Kieran Hayler, and the truth behind his affair with Jane Pountney; And much, much more.
Century 2016-09-22 360 pages