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Making Movies
Written by Sidney Lumet
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 19, 1996
Price: $15.00
From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on 40 years of experience on movies ranging from Long Day's Journey Into Night to The Verdict, Lumet explains the... Read more >
Written by Sidney Lumet
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 19, 1996
Price: $15.00
From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on 40 years of experience on movies ranging from Long Day's Journey Into Night to The Verdict, Lumet explains the... Read more >
Also available as an
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Steve McQueen
A Biography
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $26.00
Steve McQueen is one of America’s legendary movie stars best known for his hugely successful film career in classics such as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, and The Towering Inferno as well as for his turbulent life off-screen and impeccable style. His unforgettable physical beauty... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $26.00
Steve McQueen is one of America’s legendary movie stars best known for his hugely successful film career in classics such as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, and The Towering Inferno as well as for his turbulent life off-screen and impeccable style. His unforgettable physical beauty... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Learning to Live Out Loud
A Memoir
Written by Piper Laurie
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $24.99
An intimate memoir by three-time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie, one of Hollywood's most gifted and respected actresses
At the age of seventeen, in the glory days of movie-making, Piper Laurie was living every little girl’s dream. Having been selected by Universal Studios to be a contract star, Piper was removed from her acting class and... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Piper Laurie
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $24.99
An intimate memoir by three-time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie, one of Hollywood's most gifted and respected actresses
At the age of seventeen, in the glory days of movie-making, Piper Laurie was living every little girl’s dream. Having been selected by Universal Studios to be a contract star, Piper was removed from her acting class and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Apollo's Angels
A History of Ballet
Written by Jennifer Homans
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2011
Price: $20.00
A History of Ballet
Written by Jennifer Homans
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2011
Price: $20.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history of ballet ever written—is a groundbreaking work. From ballet’s origins in the Renaissance...
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Sanford Meisner on Acting
Written by Sanford Meisner and Dennis Longwell
Introduction by Sydney Pollack
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1987
Price: $16.00
This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Throughout these pages Meisner is delight--always empathizing with his students and urging them... Read more >
Written by Sanford Meisner and Dennis Longwell
Introduction by Sydney Pollack
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1987
Price: $16.00
This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Throughout these pages Meisner is delight--always empathizing with his students and urging them... Read more >
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A Practical Handbook for the Actor
Written by Melissa Bruder
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: April 12, 1986
Price: $12.95
6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. Read more >
Written by Melissa Bruder
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: April 12, 1986
Price: $12.95
6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. Read more >
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Audition
Written by Michael Shurtleff
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 2, 1979
Price: $7.99
Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows like Chicago and Becket and for films like The Graduate and Jesus Christ Superstar. His legendary course on auditioning has launched hundreds of successful careers. Now in this book he tells the all-important HOW for all aspiring actors, from the beginning... Read more >
Written by Michael Shurtleff
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 2, 1979
Price: $7.99
Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows like Chicago and Becket and for films like The Graduate and Jesus Christ Superstar. His legendary course on auditioning has launched hundreds of successful careers. Now in this book he tells the all-important HOW for all aspiring actors, from the beginning... Read more >
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On a Cold Road
Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock
Written by Dave Bidini
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1998
Price: $17.95
David Bidini, rhythm guitarist with the Rheostatics, knows all too well what the life of a rock band in Canada involves: storied arenas one tour and bars wallpapered with photos of forgotten bands the next. Zit-speckled fans begging for a guitar pick and angry drunks chucking twenty-sixers and pint glasses. Opulent... Read more >
Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock
Written by Dave Bidini
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1998
Price: $17.95
David Bidini, rhythm guitarist with the Rheostatics, knows all too well what the life of a rock band in Canada involves: storied arenas one tour and bars wallpapered with photos of forgotten bands the next. Zit-speckled fans begging for a guitar pick and angry drunks chucking twenty-sixers and pint glasses. Opulent... Read more >
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eBook.
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My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business
A Memoir
Written by Dick Van Dyke
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $12.99
Dick Van Dyke, indisputably one of the greats of the golden age of television, is admired and beloved by audiences the world over for his beaming smile, his physical dexterity, his impeccable comic timing, his ridiculous stunts, and his unforgettable screen roles.
His trailblazing television program, The Dick Van... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Dick Van Dyke
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $12.99
Dick Van Dyke, indisputably one of the greats of the golden age of television, is admired and beloved by audiences the world over for his beaming smile, his physical dexterity, his impeccable comic timing, his ridiculous stunts, and his unforgettable screen roles.
His trailblazing television program, The Dick Van... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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Walt Disney
The Triumph of the American Imagination
Written by Neal Gabler
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $22.00
The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history.
Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White... Read more >
The Triumph of the American Imagination
Written by Neal Gabler
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $22.00
The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history.
Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
