Performing Arts

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$The Unfractured Fairy Tale Life of Edward Everett Horton$

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Report copyright infringementby Lon Davis (Author), Debra Davis (Author)Edward Everett Horton (1886-1970), a stage-trained American actor and undisputed master of the double-take, made his mark in the escapist films of the 1930s and '40s with his nuanced portrayals of flustered, nervous-nelly types. Movie buffs treasure his performances in such timeless classics as Trouble in Paradise (1932), Top Hat (1935), Lost Horizon (1937), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). B...

How In The World...? - A behind the scenes look at what it takes to create the MAGIC of Walt Disney World

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Report copyright infringementby David Schroeder (Author)How In The World... can you buy forty-three square miles of land without anyone knowing? That is just the beginning of this fascinating journey through the first twenty-five years of development, construction, and daily operations of Walt Disney World -- Disney's largest resort complex. No other Walt Disney World book offers such an all-encompassing perspective as "How in the World...?" as it delves into everything from how Walt Disney W...

JayBangs: How Jay Stein, MCA, & Universal Invented the Modern Theme Park and Beat Disney at Its Own Game

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Gennawey (Author)Jay Stein Builds a Better MousetrapAfter years of sitting fat and happy atop the theme park totem pole, Mickey Mouse discovered a big cat in his backyard named Jay Stein. Against stiff odds, corporate politics, and fierce opposition from Michael Eisner's Disney, Jay Stein founded Universal Studios Florida. This is how he did it.Starting in the mailroom of MCA (now NBCUniversal), where his duties included delivering messages to stars like Al...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Shelley (Author)Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 - June 9, 1993) was an American star of film, television, theatre, and radio. Born in Canada, she grew up in Los Angeles and was a professional dancer. She also studied acting and was discovered in a college production by a Warner Bros. scout. Signed to a long-term contract Smith spent nine years playing supporting parts, appearing three times with Errol Flynn, twice with Humphrey Bogart, and with Cary Grant in N...

Respect for Acting: Expanded Version - Hardcover

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by Uta Hagen (Author), Haskel Frankel (With), Katie Finneran (Foreword by)The classic book on acting, in an attractive updated edition Since its original publication in 1973, Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting has remained a durable classic and a must-read for all students of acting. As an acting instructor at the Herbert Berghof Studio, Hagen helped to develop the talents of world-class actors like Robert DeNiro, Matthew Broderick, Gene Wilder, Amanda Peet, Austin Pendleton, Whoopi Goldberg, and...

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Report copyright infringementby John Agar (Author), L. C. Van Savage (As Told to)For over 20 years, the name John Agar on a marquee meant action to moviegoers - from World War II land, sea and air battles, to the frontier west, to the new frontier of 1950s science fiction, where he stood fast against some of the era's most memorable movie monsters. Agar's rise to fame was meteoric: During World War II, the $83-a-month buck sergeant met and later married "America's Sweetheart" Shirley Temple, ...

Stay Interesting: I Don't Always Tell Stories about My Life, But When I Do They're True and Amazing

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Goldsmith (Author)What makes a life truly interesting? Is it the people you meet? The risks you take? The adventures you remember? Jonathan Goldsmith has many answers to that question. For years he was a struggling actor in New York and Los Angeles, with experiences that included competing for roles with Dustin Hoffman, getting shot by John Wayne, drinking with Tennessee Williams, and sailing the high seas with Fernando Lamas, never mind romancing many...

The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Meyer (Author)"Essential reading for any Star Trek and movie fan." -trekmovie.com When Nicholas Meyer was asked to direct the troubled second Star Trek film, he was something less than a true believer. A bestselling author and successful director, he had never been a fan of the TV series. But as he began to ponder the appeal of Kirk, Spock, et al., he realized that their story was a classical nautical adventure yarn transplanted into space and-armed...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Evans (Author)The extraordinary, funny and entertaining story of a Salford lad turned matador Number of Pages: 314 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: January 03, 2013

Whiskey Road: Special 60 Year Anniversary Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Parkey Sharkey (Author), Jon Kinyon (Author)Parkey Sharkey was an infamous hard-drinking cab driver, scofflaw and pugilist from Palo Alto, California. Many actually believed that journalist Paul Coates of the LA Daily Mirror invented Parkey Sharkey to keep his column alive in the late 1950s. Which was not true at all. Parkey's letters and cards were 100 percent legit. And yes, he actually appeared on Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life" more than once. Parkey's "...

The Book of Chalamet: A Chalamazing (Unofficial) Celebration of Timothee

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Report copyright infringementby Pesala Bandara (Author)Timoth?e? Chala... may I?! This book is a celebration of the actor, style-icon and consummate heartthrob we all love! Timoth?e Chalamet is a global superstar, award-winning actor and leading heartthrob of his generation. With his androgynous good looks and sweet, humble disposition, he is miles away from the macho superheroes who have been dominating Hollywood - and fans across all genders love him for it. He has played challenging roles,...

Living the Château Dream: As Seen on the Hit Channel 4 Show Escape to the Château

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Report copyright infringementby Angel Strawbridge (Author), Dick Strawbridge (Author)In January 2015 Dick and Angel Strawbridge embarked on the journey of a lifetime when they swapped their cosy two-bedroom flat in East London for a derelict château with 12 acres of land in the Loire valley. Where Sunday Times bestseller A Year At The Château told the entertaining and heartwarming beginning of the family's French adventure, as they found their forever home and began to restore and renovate t...

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Report copyright infringementby James Curtis (Author)The legend of W. C. Fields has persisted for more than half a century--the gin-guzzling misanthrope about whom Leo Rosten famously said, "Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad." But there was another Fields, the man behind the character of the red-nosed card sharp, who wrote, directed, and performed in some of the most enduring comedies of all time, including "It's a Gift," "My Little Chickadee," and "The Bank Dick." Fields' ca...

Fight Forever: The Ballad of Kevin and Sami

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Report copyright infringementby J. J. McGee (Author), Jaime Shelhamer (Illustrator), Kristina L. Snowden (Editor) Number of Pages: 436 Dimensions: 0.89 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 01, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Simmons (Author)The Fresh Prince Architect: The Life and Legacy of Samm-Art Williams III is the untold story of a television titan whose pen shaped a generation.From the rural roots of Burgaw, North Carolina to the glimmering sound stages of Hollywood, Samm-Art Williams rose through the ranks as a playwright, screenwriter, producer, and visionary behind some of the most iconic Black stories to ever hit American screens. While millions remember The Fresh Pr...

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Porotti (Author)I GAVE IT AWAY: Days and Nights at Vinegar Hill TheatreEntwining the story of Ann Porotti's coming of age as a businesswoman with the town building of Charlottesville, Virginia, I Gave It Away may be one of the books for the ages about the radical changes that have happened since the 1960s in the lives of women. Porotti finds a home for her independent movie theatre in 1973 and then spends thirty years showing over two thousand films while f...

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Report copyright infringementby David Childers (Author)I wanted to acknowledge some of the guys who were mentors and teachers in my earlier years which led me in becoming a key grip. First I wanted to thank Edward Powell who gave me the opportunity to get started in show business. If it wasn't for him asking me, I know the FBI is where I would have ended up going. He gave me the first start, but like anything in life if you can't cut the mustard it will never make happen. I worked hard, liste...

From Death to Dance: One Person's Journey from the Darkness and Despair of Death to the Lightness and joy of Dance

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Report copyright infringementby Janet M. Bieschke (Author)This book captures the journey of a woman who made great strides healing her pain, while inspiring others with her story of resilience and transformation. Her passion of dance serves as a testament to the incredible potential of the human spirit to rise above even the darkest of times. Number of Pages: 118 Dimensions: 0.32 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 19, 2025

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by Noah Isenberg (Author)Long considered an unpolished gem of film noir, the private treasure of film buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945) has recently earned a new wave of recognition. In the words of film critic David Thomson, it is simply 'beyond remarkable.' The only B-picture to make it into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, Detour has outrun its fate as the bastard child of one of Hollywood's lowliest studios. Ulmer's film follows, in flashb...

The Art of Theatrical Sound Design: A Practical Guide - Paperback

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by Victoria Deiorio (Author)Emphasising the artistry behind the decisions made by theatrical sound designers, this guide is for anyone seeking to understand the nature of sound and how to apply it to the stage. Through tried-and-tested advice and lessons in practical application, The Art of Theatrical Sound Design allows developing artists to apply psychology, physiology, sociology, anthropology and all aspects of sound phenomenology to theatrical sound design. Structured in three parts, the ...

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by Mike Bartlett (Author), James Grieve (Introduction by)1967. Kenneth and Sandra know the world is changing. And they want some of it.Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble. Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, one couple journeys forty-years from initial burst to full bloom. The play follows their idealistic teenage years in the 1960s to their stint as a married family unit before finally divorced and, although disintegrated...

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by Bertolt Brecht (Author), Mark Ravenhill (Translator)Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun. The figure of Galileo, whose 'heretical' discoveries about the solar system brought him to the attention of the Inquisition, is one of Brecht's more human and complex creations. Temporarily silenced by the Inquisition's threat of torture, and forced to abjure hi...

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Great Black Music: Great Black Music - Ancient to the Future

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Report copyright infringementby Lincoln T. Beauchamp (Author)GREAT BLACK MUSIC - ANCIENT TO THE FUTURE, originally published in Rome, 1998. This book contains interviews with Art Ensemble members, essays, poems, and photographs covering 50 years of history, and much more. Compiled, edited, and contributed to byLT 'Chicago Beau' Beauchamp. Other contributors include AEC members and Kalamu Ya Salaam, Mike Hennessy, hartmut geerken, DonAlonzo Beauchamp, and others. Number of Pages: ...

The Taylor Swift Book: The Ultimate Guide to the Music, Life, Eras, and Legacy of an Icon

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Report copyright infringementby Malcolm MacKenzie (Author)Go beyond Taylor Swift's iconic music with The Taylor Book, the deepest and most comprehensive exploration of her stratospheric career to date. From her humble days as a teen country artist to her record-obliterating Eras Tour, Taylor Swift is a supernova that shows no sign of burning out. This groundbreaking book gives her career the depth it deserves, featuring her studio albums alongside iconic outfits, music videos, muses, trailbla...

The Giant: Orson Welles, the Artist and the Shadow

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Report copyright infringementby Youssef Daoudi (Author)"Gloriously unruly...an incisive look at an artist who never recovered from the success of his youth." --Publishers WeeklyFrom graphic novelist Youssef Daoudi comes a radically new look at the director of Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil: legendary filmmaker Orson Welles. Long after his death in 1985, the shadow of Orson Welles still looms over Hollywood. By twenty-three, Welles had revolutionized theatre and radio with The War of the World...

After Hours: Scorsese, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Tanzer (Author)Siskel and Ebert meet Joan Didion in Auteur, a unique series that combines in-depth film criticism with personal autobiography. Each book in the series examines a single movie through a critical and historical lens, filtered through the author's creative and emotional connection to the film. The result mixes literary memoir with a loving study of some of our most beloved and influential filmsAfter Hours: Scorsese, Grief and the Grammar of Cin...

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Serra (Author), Matthew Tree (Translator)"Cinema should be this: making perception of time and space more intense." The town of Banyoles, an hour and a half from Barcelona, hosts a festival every year named after its patron, Saint Martyrianus (or, in Catalan, Martirià). There are horse races, there are local delicacies and dances, and there is always someone elected to be the festival's pregoner--literally, "town cryer." This person is given the signal h...

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by Joseph Coelho (Author), Fiona Lumbers (Illustrator)When Luna dances, she feels like the world's volume turns up, like all colors brighten, like sunlight sparkles behind every cloud. But when she ducks, dives, spins and... falls in her class test, Luna thinks she can't be a real dancer. Or can she? Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.4 x 11.1 x 9.6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 01, 2021

A Necessary Distance: Confessions of a Scriptwriter's Daughter

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Report copyright infringementby Julie Salverson (Author)George Salverson had written over a thousand radio plays for the CBC before he became the first television drama editor for the corporation. He wrote scripts for such beloved series as The Beachcombers and The Littlest Hobo, but he kept very little of his writing, being decidedly unsentimental about his work. So when his daughter Julie found a series of notebooks from a round-the-world trip he'd taken in 1963 to work on a documentary abo...

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Report copyright infringementby Mick O'Shea (Author)Illustrated throughout with rare photographs and memorabilia, The Anarchy Tour tells the story of why the 'Anarchy in the UK Tour' was so important, examining along the way punk rock's impact on the nation in the Seventies. In December 1976, a coach drove off down a London street. On board were the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Heartbreakers and their respective management, while The Damned, who were also on the bill, were travelling separatel...

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Report copyright infringementby James Kahn (Author)"I used to skip class to read James Kahn's books. What will you do?" - John Scalzi. Author, "Old Man's War"JAMES KAHN spent the 1980's and 1990's writing for Hollywood and working as an emergency room doctor. His memories of those times provide the fodder for these crazy, funny, poignant, outrageous, surreal, revealing tales.He also goes in depth about his writing of some of the biggest novelizations of the decade - Poltergeist, The Goonies, ...

Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Bailey (Author)Based on extensive research and original interviews, this intimate biography reveals the complexities of Gandolfini's character, his rise to fame, and his lasting impact on television and film. "A riveting look inside the mind of a towering talent, this is a must for Sopranos fans."―Publishers Weekly "A fast-moving, entertaining bio of a Hollywood mensch."―Kirkus In Gandolfini, critic and historian Jason Bailey traces the twinned stories o...