Top of the Rock
Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
Written by Warren Littlefield and T. R. Pearson
Read by Bob Balaban

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $20.00

Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier, ER, Cheers, Law & Order, Will & Grace…Here is the funny, splashy, irresistible insiders’ account of the greatest era in television history -- told by the actors, writers, directors, producers, and the network executives who made it happen…and watched it all fall apart.

Warren Littlefield was the NBC President... Read more >

So You Want to Be a Producer

Written by Lawrence Turman

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2005
Price: $14.95

Few jobs in Hollywood are as shrouded in mystery as the role of the producer. What does it take to be a producer, how does one get started, and what on earth does one actually do? In So You Want to Be a Producer Lawrence Turman, the producer of more than... Read more >

Gods Like Us
On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame
Written by Ty Burr

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $28.95

WITH 8 PAGES OF BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

How—and why—do we obsess over movie stars? How does fame both reflect and mask the person behind it? How have the image of stardom and our stars’ images altered over a century of cultural and technological change? Do we create celebrities, or do they create us?
 
Ty... Read more >

Michael Douglas
A Biography
Written by Marc Eliot

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $26.00

A groundbreaking portrait of one of Hollywood’s most successful stars, from critically acclaimed  and bestselling biographer Marc Eliot
 
Through determination, inventiveness, and charisma, Michael Douglas emerged from the long shadow cast by his movie-legend father, Kirk Douglas, to become his own man and one of the film industry’s most... Read more >

The Ordinary Acrobat
A Journey into the Wondrous World of the Circus, Past and Present
Written by Duncan Wall

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $13.99

The extraordinary story of a young man’s plunge into the unique and wonderful world of the circus—taking readers deep into circus history and its renaissance as a contemporary art form, and behind the (tented) walls of France’s most prestigious circus school.

When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as...

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Before Sunrise & Before Sunset
Two Screenplays
Written by Richard Linklater

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $13.99

   In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers.

   On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, at the end of a romance and his European trip, meets... Read more >

The TV Writer's Workbook
A Creative Approach To Television Scripts
Written by Ellen Sandler

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $15.99

Why is TV writing different from any other kind of writing? How will writing a spec script open doors? What do I have to do to get a job writing for TV? Writing for television is a business. And, like any business, there are proven strategies for success. In this unique... Read more >

The Actor's Art and Craft
William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
Written by William Esper and Damon Dimarco

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $13.99

William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner's legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor.

Esper worked closely with Meisner for seventeen years and has spent decades developing his famous program for actor's training. The result is... Read more >

OUT ON A LIMB

Written by Shirley Maclaine

Format: eBook, 380 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $7.99

Her most controversial book is one you will never forget.  An outspoken thinker, a celebrated actress, a truly independent woman, Shirley MacLaine goes beyond her previous two bestsellers to take us on an intimate yet powerful journey into her personal life and inner self.  An intense, clandestine love affair with a prominent politician... Read more >

The Mailroom
Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
Written by David Rensin

Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.99

It’s like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for many, it happens to be true. Some of the biggest names in entertainment—including David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Michael Ovitz— started their dazzling careers in the lowly mailroom. Based on more than... Read more >