Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Written by Alan Alda
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $16.00
Picking up where his bestselling memoir
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–beloved actor and acclaimed author Alan Alda offers an insightful and funny look at some impossible questions he’s asked himself over the years: What do I...
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The Pixar Touch
Written by David A. Price
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $16.00
The Pixar Touch is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it. With the help of animating genius John Lasseter and visionary businessman Steve Jobs, Pixar has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot...
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24 Favorite One Act Plays
Edited by Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: April 3, 1963
Price: $16.99
Two dozen classic dramas by some of the finest and most famous playwrights of the last hundred years--Anton Chekhov, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, and A.A. Milne.
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So You Want to Be a Producer
Written by Lawrence Turman
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2010
Price: $11.99
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...
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An Empire of Their Own
How the Jews Invented Hollywood
Written by Neal Gabler
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2010
Price: $15.99
Winner of the
Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls" (
Chicago Tribune ) is a provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry.
From the...
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The Best Old Movies for Families
A Guide to Watching Together
Written by Ty Burr
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $20.00
If a child can watch
Barney, can’t that same child also enjoy watching Charlie Chaplin or the Marx Brothers? And as they get older, wouldn’t they grow to like screwball comedies (
His Girl Friday), women’s weepies (
Imitation of Life), and westerns (
The Searchers)? The answer is that they’ll follow because they’ll...
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The Great Movies II
Written by Roger Ebert
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2008
Price: $14.99
From America's most trusted and highly visible film critic, 100 more brilliant essays on the films that define cinematic greatness.
Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in
The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's
The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of...
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Untied
A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering
Written by Meredith Baxter
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $11.99
“I remember Sarah asking me, when I’d just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man. After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it. ‘Hair,’ I blurted. ‘He has to have hair.’” Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for her enormously...
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