Entertainment & Performing Arts

A comprehensive guide to all of Robin Williams's movies, with facts about plots, performances, and cast, as well as notable trivia and behind-the-scenes details about each film.Did you know that, according to director Chris Columbus, Robin Williams...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859651264Author Jimmy DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316610988Author Bob ZmudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 349g

From the trolley scene in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's last dance on the silver screen ( The Barkleys of Broadway, 1949) to Judy Garland's timeless, tuxedo-clad performance of "Get Happy" ( Summer Stock, 1950), Charles...

Keith Morris is a true punk icon. No one else embodies the sound of Southern Californian hardcore the way he does. With his waist-length dreadlocks and snarling vocals, Morris is known the world over for his take-no-prisoners approach on the stage and...

Bill Marx is the last living person to have worked professionally with the three Marx Brothers his uncles Chico and Groucho and his father Harpo Marx. Because Chico and Groucho had siblings that had written about them Bill Marx wanted to complete the...

This is a story of adventure, romance and cultural history. It's a story of travel to many parts of the world; performances for TV, in iconic sports arenas, private performances in Presidential palaces and for Royalty across several continents. ...

An illustrated, illuminating insight into the world of illusion from the world's greatest and most successful magician, capturing its audacious and inventive practitioners, and showcasing the art form's most famous artifacts housed at David Copperfield's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541723Author Michael Seth StarrFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

"A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat." -Lily Tomlin "Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known." -Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice "Is there a secret to...

Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic end. A godlike entity in the history of rock and roll, this twentieth-century icon with a dazzling voice blended...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."-Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into English for the first timeBefore Billy Wilder became the...

For years, Dick Cavett played host to the nations most famous personalities on his late night talk show. In this humorous and evocative book, we get to hear Cavett's best tales, as he recounts great moments with the legendary entertainers who crossed his...

"Fate has thrown me some interesting curves," says Elmo Williams, the farm boy turned film editor, director and producer. As a young boy, he traveled with his family in a covered wagon to a new life in a New Mexico homestead. After struggling to help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476714790Author Clive DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524760199Author John Perry BarlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Hermes Pan: The Man who Danced with Fred Astaire is a rags-to-riches story about a boy from Tennessee who, armed with only an 8th grade education, an inexhaustible imagination, and an innate talent for dancing, becomes the most prolific and popular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501125799Author Lili AnolikFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786866649Author Ed SikovFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990328728Author Jeff LenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 730Imprint Moonwater PressPublisher Moonwater PressWeight(grams) 1143g

'Easily the year's best Hollywood biog.' Independent on Sunday'Ball Of Fire reveals all about house- wife superstar Lucille Ball. She made the top-rated TV show in America before her husband's serial adulteries practically sunk it.' Sunday HeraldTo...

'Easily the year's best Hollywood biog.' Independent on Sunday'Ball Of Fire reveals all about house- wife superstar Lucille Ball. She made the top-rated TV show in America before her husband's serial adulteries practically sunk it.' Sunday HeraldTo...

Cindy Williams, half of the comedic duo of Laverne & Shirley, has had a wild and lively career in show business. This book is an engaging and heartfelt journey from Williams's blue collar roots to unexpected stardom-from being pranked by Jim Morrison...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991373901Author Joan Beck CoulsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Yarnscombe BooksPublisher Yarnscombe BooksWeight(grams) 413g

The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-50-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Creed. His films have been nominated for 52 Academy Awards, includingfive movies for Best Picture, and have won 12. And Winkler...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399590900Author Julia PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Marilyn Monroe remains the most provocative female legend of the twentieth century. What you may have known about her before was only the tip of the iceberg. For twenty years, the men and women who knew Marilyn best saw what they knew suppressed because...

This intimate portrait by his former personal assistant and confidante reveals the man behind the legendary filmmaker - for the first time. Stanley Kubrick, the director of a string of timeless movies from Lolita and Dr. Strangelove to A Clockwork...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837914029Author David Barry, OSBFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Acorn Books LtdPublisher Andrews UK Limited

He was a radical stand up who dared to question the values of small town America and the evils of American foreign policy. Ruthlessly honest, a voice of reason in what he saw as an insane world, Hicks refused to compromise in spite of the censorship he...

He was a radical stand up who dared to question the values of small town America and the evils of American foreign policy. Ruthlessly honest, a voice of reason in what he saw as an insane world, Hicks refused to compromise in spite of the censorship he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647293222Author Shinobu HashimotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher Vertical Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538753873Author Misty CopelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Since its publication in 1963, Sterling Hayden's autobiography, Wanderer, has been surrounded by controversy. The author was at the peak of his earning power as a movie star when he suddenly quit. He walked out on Hollywood, walked out of a shattered...

'Genius' The New York TimesIn 1973, Norman Mailer published Marilyn, his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome. His work was immediately acclaimed - and an enduring bestseller,...

To his many fans, he was known simply as "Mr. Excitement," a singer whose music and stage presence influenced generations of performers, from Elvis Presley to Michael Jackson. Jackie Wilson: Lonely Teardrops looks at the life and career of this deeply...

A biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi.Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's most iconic film stars, tells of a young Hungarian activist forced to flee his homeland after the failed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501180668Author Patti HartiganFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a...

One day you're the sexiest man alive, and another day your face is like a flattened road-killed bird in the worst mug shot of all time. In a career spanning five decades, Nick Nolte has endured the rites of Hollywood celebrity. Rising from obscurity to...