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On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame
Written by Ty Burr
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.95
With 8 Pages of Black-and-White Photographs
In this captivating history of stardom, Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr traces our obsession with fame from the dawn of cinema through the age of the Internet. Why do we obsess over the individuals we come to call stars? How has both the image of...
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The Making of a Hollywood Classic
Written by Walter Wanger and Joe Hyams
Afterword by Kenneth Turan
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
Cleopatra faced countless problems during its filming and production: passionate casting disputes, broken contracts, a costly re-location from London to Rome, an emergency tracheotomy for its star, Elizabeth Taylor, scandal-ridden gossip surrounding relationships on set, and a budget of $2 million that ballooned to final costs of $44 million. Legendary producer Walter... Read more >
The Making of a Hollywood Classic
Written by Walter Wanger and Joe Hyams
Afterword by Kenneth Turan
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $9.99
Cleopatra faced countless problems during its filming and production: passionate casting disputes, broken contracts, a costly re-location from London to Rome, an emergency tracheotomy for its star, Elizabeth Taylor, scandal-ridden gossip surrounding relationships on set, and a budget of $2 million that ballooned to final costs of $44 million. Legendary producer Walter... Read more >
Rachel of the Comedie-Francaise
Written by Rachel Brownstein
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $19.99
Rachel Felix (1821-58), the homely daughter of poor Jewish peddlers, was the first stage actress to achieve international stardom - and the last person one would have expected to resurrect the cultural patrimony of France. Yet her passionate, startling performances of the works of Racine and Corneille saved them from almost... Read more >
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The Simple 3-Week Plan for Supercharged Weight Loss
Written by Bob Harper and Greg Critser
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $25.00
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOSE UP TO 20 POUNDS IN 21 DAYS!
In The Skinny Rules, celebrity trainer and coach of NBC’s The Biggest Loser Bob Harper delivers the ultimate strategy for healthy, long-term weight loss and “thin maintenance.” But what if you have a big event looming—a reunion, wedding, beach vacation, or other...
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The Simple 3-Week Plan for Supercharged Weight Loss
Written by Bob Harper and Greg Critser
Read by Bob Harper
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $20.00
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOSE UP TO 20 POUNDS IN 21 DAYS!
In The Skinny Rules, celebrity trainer and coach of NBC’s The Biggest Loser Bob Harper delivers the ultimate strategy for healthy, long-term weight loss and “thin maintenance.” But what if you have a big event looming—a reunion, wedding, beach vacation, or other...
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The Simple 3-Week Plan for Supercharged Weight Loss
Written by Bob Harper and Greg Critser
Read by Bob Harper
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $7.50
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOSE UP TO 20 POUNDS IN 21 DAYS!
In The Skinny Rules, celebrity trainer and coach of NBC’s The Biggest Loser Bob Harper delivers the ultimate strategy for healthy, long-term weight loss and “thin maintenance.” But what if you have a big event looming—a reunion, wedding, beach vacation, or other...
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The Simple 3-Week Plan for Supercharged Weight Loss
Written by Bob Harper and Greg Critser
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOSE UP TO 20 POUNDS IN 21 DAYS!
In The Skinny Rules, celebrity trainer and coach of NBC’s The Biggest Loser Bob Harper delivers the ultimate strategy for healthy, long-term weight loss and “thin maintenance.” But what if you have a big event looming—a reunion, wedding, beach vacation, or other...
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Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors
Written by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.00
Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.
We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic... Read more >
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Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors
Written by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $9.99
Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.
We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic... Read more >
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Written by Kevin Brownlow
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $24.99
From Kevin Brownlow, cinema historian and discoverer of lost films, here is the first full-scale exploration of a vital and now almost forgotten chapter of American moviemaking: the response of early producers of the decades before World War I.
All the issues that torment America today were rampant in the... Read more >
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Written by Kevin Brownlow
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $18.99
Here, from one of today’s leading authorities on film history, is the story, told brilliantly and for the first time, of the pioneering movie makers who as early as 1905 traveled beyond the studio stages to make feature films on location—and in so doing recorded the real history and real life... Read more >
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The Autobiography of Luis Bunuel
Written by Luis Bunuel
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
A provocative memoir from Luis Buñuel, the Academy Award winning creator of some of modern cinema's most important films, from Un Chien Andalou to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
Luis Buñuel’s films have the power to shock, inspire, and reinvent our world. Now, in a memoir that carries all the surrealism... Read more >
The Autobiography of Luis Bunuel
Written by Luis Bunuel
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $11.99
A provocative memoir from Luis Buñuel, the Academy Award winning creator of some of modern cinema's most important films, from Un Chien Andalou to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
Luis Buñuel’s films have the power to shock, inspire, and reinvent our world. Now, in a memoir that carries all the surrealism... Read more >
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Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Translated by Thomas Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $13.99
For the first time in English, Vladimir Nabokov’s earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-four: his only full-length play, introduced by Thomas Karshan and beautifully translated by Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy.
The Tragedy of Mister Morn was written in the winter of 1923–1924, when Nabokov was completely unknown. The...
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Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Translated by Thomas Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $26.00
For the first time in English, Vladimir Nabokov’s earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-four: his only full-length play, introduced by Thomas Karshan and beautifully translated by Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy.
The Tragedy of Mister Morn was written in the winter of 1923–1924, when Nabokov was completely unknown. The...
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The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie L.A.
Written by Richard Alleman
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
The classic guide to who-did-what-where in Los Angeles, on- and off-screen, including:
Film & TV locations: the Hollywood Hills house where Barbara Stanwyck seduced Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity...the funky apartment building where William Holden lived in Sunset Boulevard...the exotic Frank Lloyd Wright mansion that's housed everyone from Harrison Ford in Blade... Read more >
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The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York
Written by Richard Alleman
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
The classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including:
Classic film and TV locations: Marilyn Monroe’s infamous Seven Year Itch subway grating . . . the deli where Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally . . . the diner where Courteney Cox (in... Read more >
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A Journey into the Wondrous World of the Circus, Past and Present
Written by Duncan Wall
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $26.95
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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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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Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way
Written by Boze Hadleigh
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 20, 2013
Price: $12.99
The first book of theater celebrity gossip, can you believe it? Here's the book that airs Broadway's dirty laundry! Inspired by the classic Hollywood Babylon (in print for more than forty years, more than 100,000 copies sold), Broadway Babylon presents a hyper-entertaining look at the Great White Way's biggest scandals, best-kept... Read more >
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Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
Written by Warren Littlefield and T. R. Pearson
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
Top of the Rock is an absorbing insiders’ account of an incredible time and place in television history: the years when Must See TV—led by Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends, ER, and Law & Order—made NBC an unstoppable success. Here the story is vividly told through the words of the actors, writers, producers...
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A History of Marriage in the Movies
Written by Jeanine Basinger
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of “the marriage movie”; what it is (or isn’t) and what it has to tell us about the movies—and ourselves.
As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet...
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A History of Marriage in the Movies
Written by Jeanine Basinger
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $15.99
From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of “the marriage movie”; what it is (or isn’t) and what it has to tell us about the movies—and ourselves.
As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet...
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Written by Richard Schickel
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $24.95
Now in paperback, and with a new afterword: the history and process of moviemaking in general, and of Martin Scorsese's brilliant and varied films in particular, through the words and wit of the master director.
With Richard Schickel as the canny and intelligent guide, these conversations take us deep into Scorsese's life... Read more >
