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...
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The Intent to Live
Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor
Written by Larry Moss
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $16.00
“I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don’t seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.”
–Larry Moss, from the Introduction
When Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted their Academy Awards, each credited Larry Moss’s guidance as key to their career-making performances. There is a...
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Michael Douglas
A Biography
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2013
Price: $16.00
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...
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The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Written by J. W. Rinzler
Foreword by Ridley Scott
Format: Hardcover, 372 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $85.00
In this lavish thirtieth-anniversary tribute to the blockbuster film
Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, New York Times bestselling author J. W. Rinzler draws back the curtain to reveal the intense drama and magnificent wizardry behind the hit movie—arguably the fan favorite of the
Star Wars Saga.
Following...
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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
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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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My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business
A Memoir
Written by Dick Van Dyke
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $11.99
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...
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Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights
Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee
Written by Stella Adler
Edited by Barry Paris
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2013
Price: $16.95
Stella Adler was one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, a legendary force of nature whose generations of students include Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Anthony Quinn, Diana Ross, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, and Mark Ruffalo.
This long-awaited companion to her book on the master European playwrights...
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