20 results for "Biography"

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

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

My beautiful game

DellOlio, Nancy
Though Nancy Dell'Olio is no stranger to the front pages, her real story has never been told. Now, for the first time she talks about herself, her life and the passions which have inspired her. It's a story which millions think they know already, from the acres of purely speculative newsprint which this fascinating woman has generated. Prepare to be surprised! The real story is far more gripping than the fictional one. Born and brought up in New York City, Nancy is a true woman of the world. She has the temperament and style of an Italian, yet she lives in London and has adopted an English lifestyle. She is also a proud European, a Catholic, a Jew and a true internationalist. She is also a successful lawyer with a keen interest in politics and world affairs - a woman for all seasons. Nancy has always emerged serene from scandal that would break most people. She values her sense of humour as her saving grace. Remember that scarlet cat suit entrance to Downing Street and all those classic red carpet moments? Nancy is just as at home in combat jacket and fatigues on the streets of Ramallah as lunching at Claridges. Fashion is fun and life is too serious to be taken seriously. Nancy's book tells the whole story of her life so far. From her childhood in New York and Puglia in Italy and the accident which nearly killed her, to the successful career in in commercial law and the passions which drive her on, despite all too public crises which would be the end of most of us. This is an inspirational and entertaining glimpse into the life of a fascinating and enigmatic woman.
Bantam 2013-02-04 320 pages

The devil problem and other true stories

Remnick, David
Readers know from his now classic Lenin's Tomb that Remnick is a superb portraitist who can bring his subjects to life and reveal them in such surprising ways as to justify comparison to Dickens, Balzac, or Proust. In this collection, Remnick's gift for character is sharper than ever, whether he writes about Gary Hart stumbling through life after Donna Rice or Mario Cuomo, who now presides over a Saturday morning radio talk show, fielding questions from crackpots, or about Michael Jordan's awesome return to the Chicago Bulls -- or Reggie Jackson's last times at bat. Remnick's portraits of such disparate characters as Alger Hiss and Ralph Ellison, Richard Nixon and Elaine Pagels, Gerry Adams and Marion Barry are unified by this extraordinary ability to create a living character, so that the pieces in this book, taken together, constitute a splendid pageant of the representative characters of our time.
Random House 1996-08-13 404 pages

The company they kept: writers on unforgettable friendships

Robert B. Silvers,Barbara Epstein
Now in paperback Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships–both personal and intellectual–with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They Kept is a collection of twenty-seven accounts of these varied friendships–most of them undeniably fraught with “idiosyncratic complexities.” From Anna Akhmatova’s dreamlike description of wandering through Paris with the impoverished Modigliani to Joseph Brodsky’s account of his first meeting with Isaiah Berlin (from which he returned to report, around the kitchen table, to Stephen Spender and W. H. Auden), these pieces are tantalizing glimpses into the lives of those who have made The New York Review of Books into what Esquire magazine calls “the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.”
New York Review of Books 2006 298 pages

Enough rope with Andrew Denton

Denton, Andrew
By the end of its first season, Enough Ropeproved itself to be intelligent, provocative, must-see TV. Every Monday evening, one million viewers tuned in to see Andrew Denton conduct fascinating interviews with an eclectic range of individuals that included celebrities, politicians, activists, artists and unsung 'ordinary' people with their own compelling stories to tell. He has an uncanny knack of engaging his guests in an engrossing conversation and encouraging them to reveal themselves in unexpected ways.Enough Ropecontains highlights from this year's most talked-about talk show. Come and relive some of Andrew's most stimulating conversations with some remarkable individuals including Russell Crow, Jim Carrey, Helen Caldicott, Rene Rivkin, Rebecca Gibney, the Wiggles, Molly Meldrum, Paul Hogan, Gina Riley and Jane Turner, and the removalists, truckies and fisherman who also found themselves on the show. Andrew Denton adds his own views on why each guest was chosen and how the interview proceeded.
ABC Books 2003 273 pages

Becoming myself: reflections on growing up female

Shalit, Willa
Maya Angelou -- Janis Ian -- Suzanne Malveaux -- Brooke Shields -- Lynn Goldsmith -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Heidi Kuhn -- Lisa Gay Hamilton -- Sally Fisher -- Carol Channing -- Taina Bien Aime -- Marlee Matlin -- Martha McPhee -- J.K. Rowling -- Susan Stamberg -- Gloria Feldt -- Patti La Belle -- Carol Moseley Braun -- Anne Glauber -- Jamie Lynn Sigler -- Regina King -- Esther Hautzig -- Kate Spade -- Lisa Bernhard -- Margaret Hilary Marshall -- Lesléa Newman -- Kate Winslet -- Carole L. Glickfeld -- Eva Hoffman -- Judy Martin-- Zane -- Suzanne Somers -- Kate Michelman -- Jyl Lynn Felman -- Rue McClanahan -- Julia Stiles -- Judy Woodruff -- Nina Totenberg -- Luisah Teish -- Lillian Vernon -- Tatum ONeal -- Beverly Sills -- Vanessa Williams -- Suze Orman -- Ruth Knafo Setton -- Esta Soler -- Sylvia Boorstein -- Helen Hunt -- Kitty Carlisle Hart -- Cora Weiss -- Lily Tomlin -- Tawni ODell -- Helen Gurley Brown -- Ma Jaya -- Maria Shriver -- Meryl Streep.
Hyperion 2006-04-18 288 pages

Jackie under my skin: interpreting an icon

Koestenbaum, Wayne
Jackie Under My Skin is a richly original and fascinating investigation into how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis transformed our definitions of personal identity and style. For thirty years we have lived with our internalized images of Jackie, but until now no writer has definitively explored what it feels like to exist in imaginative and heartfelt connection to this ubiquitous icon. In an elegiac gallery of fantasies and tableaux, Wayne Koestenbaum explains the late First Lady's mesmeric hold on America by anatomizing the myths and metaphors that have attached to her. Analyzing her iconography with both passion and precision, he places stories about Jackie - and photos of Jackie - within the context of literature, film, and the idiosyncratic imagination. Following her into America's dreamwork, far from pious family values, Wayne Koestenbaum dares to see her as an embodiment of pleasure, a figure of Circean extravagance, and a unique and necessary emblem of that most exhilarating of pursuits: freedom without responsibility.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1995 291 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