My Hollywood Stories

Author : Mona Simpson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307593771

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My Hollywood by Mona Simpson Pdf

A wonderfully provocative and appealing novel, from the much-loved author of Anywhere But Here and A Regular Guy, her first in ten years. It tells the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery surface of Hollywood. Claire, a composer and a new mother, comes to LA so her husband can follow his passion for writing television comedy. Suddenly the marriage—once a genuine 50/50 arrangement—changes, with Paul working long hours and Claire left at home with a baby, William, whom she adores but has no idea how to care for. Lola, a fifty-two-year-old mother of five who is working in America to pay for her own children’s higher education back in the Philippines, becomes their nanny. Lola stabilizes the rocky household and soon other parents try to lure her away. What she sacrifices to stay with Claire and “Williamo” remains her own closely guarded secret. In a novel at turns satirical and heartbreaking, where mothers’ modern ideas are given practical overhauls by nannies, we meet Lola’s vast network of fellow caregivers, each with her own story to tell. We see the upstairs competition for the best nanny and the downstairs competition for the best deal, and are forced to ask whether it is possible to buy love for our children and what that transaction costs us all. We look into two contemporary marriages—one in America and one in the Philippines—and witness their endangerment, despite the best of intentions. My Hollywood is a tender, witty, and resonant novel that provides the profound pleasures readers have come to expect from Mona Simpson, here writing at the height of her powers.

Author : YOURSTRULYTRINA
Publisher : Summit Publishing Company Inc.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hollywood's Princess by YOURSTRULYTRINA Pdf

On screen, Sophia Heart Valentine is the toast of Tinseltown. She’s the entire package, after all. She can sing, act, dance—you name it. But off screen, she’s dealing with personal drama that feels awfully like a movie. Her dad is marrying a woman that she absolutely abhors. Her best guy friend is ignoring her feelings for him. And her agent is forcing her to star in a movie with Axel Brooks, Hollywood’s Prince and all around annoying guy on set. Who wants to be Hollywood’s Princess when you could be drama queen, right? But then again, Hollywood’s Princess does have a nicer ring

Author : Stephen Schochet
Publisher : Hollywood Stories
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780963897275

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Hollywood Stories by Stephen Schochet Pdf

Just when you thought you've heard everything about Hollywood comes a totally original new book - a special blend of biography, history and lore. Hollywood Stories is packed with wild, wonderful short tales about famous stars, movies, directors and many others who have been part of the world's most fascinating, unpredictable industry! Full of funny moments and twist endings, Hollywood Stories features an amazing, icons and will keep you totally entertained!

Author : Adela Rogers St. Johns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Love, Laughter and Tears: My Hollywood Story by Adela Rogers St. Johns Pdf

Author : Boris Dralyuk
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781589881679

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My Hollywood and Other Poems by Boris Dralyuk Pdf

"The wit and daring of his rhymes and phrasing remind me of that old master, Donald Justice, who dazzled us with the elegance of his forms. Dralyuk carries this high style into the 21st century, and I, for one, am thrilled to be in the presence of his marvelous verbal art. Pay attention, readers: a new maestro is in our midst."—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa "These [poems] are the souvenirs of an almost-vanished glamour, an ethnic, gritty, free-wheeling city, little fantasias encased in rhyme and meter."—Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's My Hollywood and Other Poems is a collection of lyric meditations on the experience of émigrés in Los Angeles. In forms ranging from ballades to villanelles to Onegin sonnets, the poems pursue the sublime in a tarnished landscape, seek continuity and mourn its loss in a town where change is the only constant. My Hollywood draws on the poet’s own life as a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union, honors the vanishing traces of the city’s past, and, in crisp and poignant translations, summons the voices of five Russian poets who spent their final years in LA, including the composer Vernon Duke. “Dralyuk embraces rhyme with a rare and admirable enthusiasm for sound and syllable, for musical variety and plays on words . . . [An] air of upbeat sorrow permeates My Hollywood. It’s an émigré mood, defined by the conviction that things could always be worse.”—New York Review of Books "Sophisticated, musical, and often humorous."—Booklist "Byronic rhymes are poetry’s answer to special effects, and Dralyuk’s skill at slipping them in—so that the art seems artless—is worthy of Industrial Light & Magic . . . What’s true of my favorite films is true of this book: the lines are first-rate, but it’s the images that linger.”— Austin Allen, The Hopkins Review "My Hollywood is a first-rate collection of precise, delightfully graceful poems, the poet as Fred Astaire tap-dancing up and down the lines."—Russian Life

Author : John Robert Marlow
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781250017871

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Make Your Story a Movie by John Robert Marlow Pdf

$50 Billion of Advice in One Book* Have you ever wondered why some books and stories are adapted into movies, and others aren't? Or wished you could sit down and pick the brains of the people whose stories have been adapted--or the screenwriters, producers, and directors who adapted them? Author John Robert Marlow has done it for you. He spoke to book authors, playwrights, comic book creators and publishers, as well as Hollywood screenwriters, producers and directors responsible for adapting fictional and true stories into Emmy-winning TV shows, Oscar-winning films, billion-dollar megahits and smaller independents. Then he talked to the entertainment attorneys who made the deals. He came away with a unique understanding of adaptations--an understanding he shares in this book: which stories make good source material (and why); what Hollywood wants (and doesn't); what you can (and can't) get in a movie deal; how to write and pitch your story to maximize the chances of a Hollywood adaptation--and how much (and when) you can expect to be paid. *This book contains the distilled experience of creators, storytellers and others whose works have earned over $50 billion worldwide. Whether you're looking to sell film rights, adapt your own story (alone or with help), or option and adapt someone else's property--this book is for you.

Author : Brenda Dickson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Television actors and actresses
ISBN : 0988575701

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My True Hidden Hollywood Story by Brenda Dickson Pdf

Author : Eric Morris
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780983629955

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My Hollywood Stories by Eric Morris Pdf

My Hollywood Stories is a collection of informative, historical, educational, funny, exciting, entertaining, sexy, shocking, and tragic stories and anecdotes about famous and not-so-famous Hollywood people--actors, directors, producers, writers, and studio moguls. While it is not a book about acting, it is written by an actor with contributions from various actors, all of whom are writing about other actors. Older readers will take a trip down memory lane, remembering many of the celebrities mentioned, while younger readers will discover Hollywood history from its earlier years to the present. They will learn about the people who were part of the building blocks of the film industry: the highs, the lows, the successes, the failures, and the tragedies.

Author : St. Johns, Adela Rogers
Publisher : Signet
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0451087526

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Love, Laughter and Tears : My Hollywood Story by St. Johns, Adela Rogers Pdf

Author : W. R. Wilkerson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613736630

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Hollywood Godfather by W. R. Wilkerson Pdf

This is the definitive biography of the most powerful man in Hollywood during the 1930s, '40s and '50s, the man who founded the Hollywood Reporter and the most storied nightspots of the Sunset Strip, introduced Clark Gable and Lana Turner to the world, invented Las Vegas, brought the Mafia to Hollywood, engineered the shakedown of Hollywood studios by Willie Bioff and his mob-run unions, was possibly involved in the murder of Bugsy Siegel, started the Hollywood blacklist, and helped destroy the studio system. Perhaps nobody in Hollywood history has ever ruined so many careers and done so much damage to the industry as Billy Wilkerson. Yet there has never been a solid biography of the man. Billy's son, William R. Wilkerson III, has done tremendous research on his father, interviewing over decades everyone who knew him best, and portrays him beautifully (and damningly) in this book.

Author : Rosanne Welch
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476668871

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When Women Wrote Hollywood by Rosanne Welch Pdf

This collection of 23 new essays focuses on the lives of female screenwriters of Golden Age Hollywood, whose work helped create those unforgettable stories and characters beloved by audiences--but whose names have been left out of most film histories. The contributors trace the careers of such writers as Anita Loos, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Lillian Hellman, Gene Gauntier, Eve Unsell and Ida May Park, and explore themes of their writing in classics like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Ben Hur, and It's a Wonderful Life.

Author : David Bordwell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520246225

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The Way Hollywood Tells It by David Bordwell Pdf

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Author : Katharine Hepburn
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307807687

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Me by Katharine Hepburn Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the Year “In her book about her life, Miss Hepburn insists that that woman in the movies was not her at all. ‘I’m not going to hide behind you anymore,’ she says. ‘Who are you anyway? You're not me.’ Sure she is. The woman in the book is cocky, fearless, smart, capable, and human, on screen and off.”—Anna Quindlen, The New York Times Admired and beloved by movie audiences for more than sixty years, four-time Academy Award winner Katharine Hepburn is an American classic and an extraordinary, enduring presence on the international cultural scene. Yet her private life has been obscured by mystery. Now Miss Hepburn breaks her long-kept silence in this absorbing and provocative memoir. With characteristic gusto and candor, Katharine Hepburn reflects on the events, people, and places that have shaped her life—her childhood and family, her early days in New York, and her experiences with political activism. She talks about the ups and downs of her career, her long friendship with Spencer Tracy, and of course, her close collaborations with several of the leading actors, directors, and producers of the past half century. Me is an unforgettable portrait of Katharine Hepburn as we have not seen her before. “It is the understanding heart revealed just before the final curtain that makes us fall in love with Katharine Hepburn.”—The New York Times Book Review NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.

Author : Timothy Dean Lefler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476650395

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Mabel Normand by Timothy Dean Lefler Pdf

American silent film actress Mabel Normand (1892-1930) appeared in a string of popular movies opposite stars like Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle before dying of tuberculosis at 37. Her brief but remarkable career--which included directorial and writing credits and heading her own studio and production company--was eclipsed by scandal when police connected her to the unsolved 1922 murder of director William Desmond Taylor.Tracing her life from humble beginnings on Staten Island to the heights of world superstardom, this book highlights Normand's substantial yet largely overlooked contributions to film history and popular culture.

Author : Phil Brody
Publisher : Medallion Media Group
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781605427829

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The Holden Age of Hollywood by Phil Brody Pdf

Hollywood died on me as soon as I got here. Welles said that, not me, but damn if he didn’t nail it, you know? Sam Bateman came to Hollywood to settle a score, but amidst the sunny and 75, his plans went astray. Everything changed the day he drank in the intoxicating legend of Meyer Holden, the greatest screenwriter Hollywood has ever known, the one who pulled a Salinger and walked away. Holden now tacks pseudonyms onto his works and buries them in the bottomless sea of spec that is Hollywood’s development process. They’re out there for anyone to find—but at what cost? In his quest, Bateman severs all ties and sinks into a maddening world of bad writing and flawed screenplays. Paranoid and obsessive, the belligerent savant encounters an eccentric cast of characters—each with an agenda—in his search for the one writer in Hollywood who does not want to be found. Phil Brody’s The Holden Age of Hollywood is at once a detective novel, an unexpected love story, and a provocative exposé of a broken industry. With dark humor and incisive commentary, the novel immerses readers in a neo-noir quest to attain the Hollywood dream, integrity intact.