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Jenettha J Baines

Original couture fashion design. Flawless makeup. Perfectly executed performances. Attention-commanding stage presence. This is only the beginning of what makes an entertainer engaging and truly memorable. Welcome to a backstage pass into the intimate details of the lives of some of the worlda??s most influential gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and inter-sexed entertainers. These are their stories. Discover their fears and motivations. Experience the joy, excitement and fascination of working in the entertainment business. These entertainers are locally appreciated, nationally known, and world traveled. They have performed everywhere from small smoke-filled clubs to Las Vegas stages. Their impact on the GLBTQI (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, inter-sexed) communities in the United States and around the world is immeasurable. Entertainers such as RuPaula??s Drag Race contestants Nina Flowers, Ongina, and Rebecca Glasscock; legendary performers Mr. Charlie Brown...

Bill Fine

William Hall

Book DescriptionBorn in London’s impoverished East End, Michael Caine went on to become one of the world’s most versatile, best–loved actors. This biography, written with the cooperation of Caine himself, reveals the life and career of this Oscar–winning star.

William Hall

Book DescriptionBorn in London’s impoverished East End, Michael Caine went on to become one of the world’s most versatile, best–loved actors. This biography, written with the cooperation of Caine himself, reveals the intriguing life andcareer of this Oscar–winning star.

Richard Buller

Book DescriptionComing of age in Paris in the 1920s, film and stage actress Lois Moran was a rumored paramour of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and the inspiration for the character of Rosemary in his Tender Is the Night. As a young girl, Lois moved to Pariswith her mother and thrived in the artistic and literary glow of the city. She danced with the National Paris Opera at age 14 and also was cast in two French films. Samuel Goldwyn, on a European tour in search of new talent, saw her work and was impressed. He cast her in what would become one of the best-known films of the era. With her performance as Laurel, the emotionally conflicted daughter in Stella Dallas, Lois Moran became an overnight sensation and took Hollywood by storm, and on her own terms. The author corresponded with Lois Moran during the last five years of her life. He had full and exclusive access to her journals, scrapbooks, and photos. In telling the Lois Moran story, Buller illuminates the history of film, theater,...

Dana Amendola

Book DescriptionA photographic treasure of a day in the life of Broadway's most storied theatre Life in a Broadway theatre is a seven-day-a-week, 24-hour-a-day operation. In fact, there is always something going on at the famed New Amsterdam Theatre, home to the record-breaking Disney's The Lion King. Gino Domenico, an Associated Press photographer, has captured the wonderful essence and activity of this historic theatre. Never-before-photographed areas of the theatre are featured, and readers will see all the nooks and crannies where the theatre's supposed ghosts are said to reside. With a brief introduction and informative captions to accompany the beautiful photography, this book will be a great treasure for theatre fans and Disneyphiles alike.

Al Carmen Guastafeste

I couldn\'t believe that Marilyn Monroe would leave her husband, Joe Di Maggio, to be with her pianist Al Guastafeste on her tour of Korea in February of 1954.

Dito Montiel

Book Description"As far back as i can remember ... i can remember manhattan." Orlandito "Dito" Montiel, son of Orlando, a Nicaraguan immigrant, and an Irish mother, grew wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking into Times Square whore houses?"Kids from nowhere going nowhere." At 14 Dito watched as his best friend and surrogate older brother, Antonio, beat another kid to death with a baseball bat during a gang fight. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is the quintessentially American story of a young man?s hunger for experience, his dawning awareness of the bigger world across the bridge, and of the loyalties that bind him to a violent past and to the flawed and desperate Saints that have guided him?a streetwise Meetings With Remarkable Men with echoes of Whitman and Kerouac , Saturday Night Fever and Dion...

Gabor H. Wylie

In this innovative biography of one of Hollywood's most recently crowned kings, Gabor H.Wylie gives Russell Crowe fans what they've been longing for-the stories that make up a lifetime, little anecdotal gems strung together like pearls on a necklace. The star of Gladiator, The Insider, and L.A. Confidential is revealed as never before. From Crowe's New Zealand roots to his emotional Oscar triumph, Wylie traces his journey to stardom with true stories that have textured his life along the way. Imagine Crowe's campy portrayal of transvestite Frank N.Furter in an Australian stage production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Or the moment Crowe revealed to his shocked father that, since the family couldn't afford to send him to university to study history as he had planned, he intended to make his way as a performer. This is Russell Crowe - the dedicated musician, the acclaimed actor, the fascinating man. Формат: 16 см x 21 см.

Paul Matthew St Pierre

Michael Troyan

Book Description?Here was a siren who had depth, strength, dignity, and humour who could inspire great trust, suggest deep intellect and whose misty languorous eyes melted your heart away!? remarked co-star Christopher Plummer. In the darkest days of World War II, Greer Garson was Hollywood?s most inspiring icon of strength and courage. Her work in Mrs. Miniver was rewarded with an Academy Award in 1941. Garson earned a total of seven Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. Fourteen of her films premiered at Radio City Music Hall, playing for a total of eighty-four weeks?a record never equaled by any other actress. She worked with such legendary performers as Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Errol Flynn, Joan Crawford, Robert Mitchum, Debbie Reynolds, and Walter Pidgeon. Garson?s memories of them, and their comments about her, provide an incomparable view of Hollywood at its most influential and creative peak. Michael Troyan...

Julian Clary

Brad Stevens

Book DescriptionFrom The Driller Killer - originally banned in Britain - to Bad Lieutenant, The King of New York and beyond, Abel Ferrara's films have attracted controversy for their extreme SUBJECT: matter and admiration for their fine acting The authorbelieves that Ferrara is among the most important cultural figures of our time: Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Matthew Modine and Ice-T have all given their finest performances under his direction--and there is a generous and passionate morality pulsing beneath Ferrara's extreme imagery. This comprehensive book contains * a wealth of biographical information * chapters on every film, television episode and music video * comparisons with key figures in cinema and literature * interviews with Ferrara's most important collaborators, Joe Delia, Ken Kelsch and Asia Argento * notes on variant versions of Ferrara?s films * a list of unrealized projects. * many rare stills and photos * Foreword by Ferrara

Carol Rocamora

Book DescriptionVaclav Havel ? dissident, activist, essayist, philosopher, politician, founder and president of the Czech Republic ? is known throughout the world as a hero of the human rights movement and a martyr for the "right to write"(he was imprisoned many times under Communism in his country). But few in the West know that he is also his country?s most famous playwright. This book tells the dramatic story of his life in the theater during three dark decades under Communism andthe extreme risks that he and many others took to perform his works. Havel?s ten full-length plays and seven one-acts are also discussed ? plays that not only tell the story of his country but also helped to change it, plays that have a significant place in twentieth-century world drama. For those who love the theater, his story is a powerful and moving one about what it means to be a playwright, a story wherein writing for the theater is an act of courage.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adam Hills (born 10 July 1970) is a Perrier and Gold Logie-nominated Australian comedian and television presenter. He has appeared on Australian and British television and is best known for his role hosting the Australian ABC music trivia show Spicks and Specks.He began performing as a stand-up comedian in 1989 at the age of 19, and since 1997 has produced ten solo shows which have toured internationally. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Montreal Just for Laughs festival, earning three consecutive Perrier Award nominations for his Edinburgh shows in 2001, 2002 and 2003.