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Author: Lisa Samson Publisher: Th1nk Books ISBN: 9781600060915 Category : Blogs Languages : en Pages : 0
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Fifteen-year-old Scotty, tired of traveling from place to place with her single mother, a successful movie food designer, begins writing a blog in which she records her thoughts and keeps track of her efforts to find answers about her absent father, her future, and the strange man dogging their path.
Author: Lisa Samson Publisher: Th1nk Books ISBN: 9781600060915 Category : Blogs Languages : en Pages : 0
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Fifteen-year-old Scotty, tired of traveling from place to place with her single mother, a successful movie food designer, begins writing a blog in which she records her thoughts and keeps track of her efforts to find answers about her absent father, her future, and the strange man dogging their path.
Author: Lisa Samson Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group ISBN: 9781600062018 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 196
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Through new friendships, Scotty learns that this prayer thing might work after all. But will prayer be enough when the situation is life and death?
Author: J. E. Smyth Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019084082X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 329
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This book on the history of Hollywood's high-flying career women during the studio era covers the impact of the executives, producers, editors, writers, agents, designers, directors, and actresses who shaped Hollywood film production and style, led their unions, climbed to the top during the war, and fought the blacklist.
Author: Dan Bronson Publisher: ISBN: 9780991547906 Category : Languages : en Pages : 550
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Everyone has read biographies and memoirs of Hollywood celebrities-the lucky ones who have actually made it to the top. Dan Bronson's book is different. It tells the story of all the others-the ninety-eight percent who've worked hard and well but below the radar, the "nobodies" without whom movies and television would cease to exist. Dan's fun, funny account of his wild ride on the rollercoaster of Hollywood is littered with stars, both behind the camera and in front of it-actors like Natalie Wood, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Bateman and, yes, Tori Spelling; directors like George Seaton, Alfred Hitchcock, George Cukor, Gil Cates, Francis Ford Coppola and John McTiernan; executives like Dawn Steel, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Eisner and Ned Tanen. And along the way, Dan provides behind-the-scenes glimpses of the making of films both big and small-everything from " Galaxy of Terror " to " Godfather III " and " Die Hard: With a Vengeance ." But his real story is how the dream factory works and what it takes to avoid being crushed in its gears. A survivor's guide to Hollywood, it is a must-read for anyone interested in film.
Author: Anna Kendrick Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501117238 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 304
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The New York Times bestselling collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect. Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and “10 percent defiant.” At the ripe age of thirteen, she had already resolved to “keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But here’s the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.” In Scrappy Little Nobody, she invites readers inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly ordinary stories with candor and winningly wry observations. With her razor-sharp wit, Anna recounts the absurdities she’s experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture as only she can—from her unusual path to the performing arts (Vanilla Ice and baggy neon pants may have played a role) to her double life as a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her initial “dating experiments” (including only liking boys who didn’t like her back) to reviewing a binder full of butt doubles to her struggle to live like an adult woman instead of a perpetual “man-child.” Enter Anna’s world and follow her rise from “scrappy little nobody” to somebody who dazzles on the stage, the screen, and now the page—with an electric, singular voice, at once familiar and surprising, sharp and sweet, funny and serious (well, not that serious).
Author: J. E. Smyth Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190840838 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 329
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Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM behind the scenes, over a dozen women worked as producers, a woman headed the Screen Writers Guild three times, and press claimed Hollywood was a generation or two ahead of the rest of the country in terms of gender equality and employment. The first comprehensive history of Hollywood's high-flying career women during the studio era, Nobody's Girl Friday covers the impact of the executives, producers, editors, writers, agents, designers, directors, and actresses who shaped Hollywood film production and style, led their unions, climbed to the top during the war, and fought the blacklist. Based on a decade of archival research, author J.E. Smyth uncovers a formidable generation working within the American film industry and brings their voices back into the history of Hollywood. Their achievements, struggles, and perspectives fundamentally challenge popular ideas about director-based auteurism, male dominance, and female disempowerment in the years between First and Second Wave Feminism. Nobody's Girl Friday is a revisionist history, but it's also a deeply personal, collective account of hundreds of working women, the studios they worked for, and the films they helped to make. For many years, historians and critics have insisted that both American feminism and the power of women in Hollywood declined and virtually disappeared from the 1920s through the 1960s. But Smyth vindicates Bette Davis's claim. The story of the women who called the shots in studio-era Hollywood has never fully been told-until now.
Author: Lisa Samson Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group ISBN: 9781600062216 Category : Domestic fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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16-year-old Scotty and her grandmother try to find her mother, who may or may not be dead. Add romance, heartache, and critical choices, and Scotty's life is about to change.
Author: John Wilder Publisher: ISBN: 9781939454393 Category : Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Languages : en Pages : 0
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Introduces a contemporary take on a traditional genre with private investigator Michael Drayton, an every man for today, whose grit and diversity explodes from the page much like the reverberation from his trusty Sig Sauer. Drayton is reluctantly drawn into a grisly double homicide, one in which the loss of a world-renowned, Oscar-winning star overshadows that of the "nobody" who died alongside him.
Author: Sam Staggs Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250017750 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 390
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Inventing Elsa Maxwell, the first biography of this extraordinary woman, tells the witty story of a life lived out loud. With Inventing Elsa Maxwell, Sam Staggs has crafted a landmark biography. Elsa Maxwell (1881-1963) invented herself–not once, but repeatedly. Built like a bulldog, she ascended from the San Francisco middle class to the heights of society in New York, London, Paris, Venice, and Monte Carlo. Shunning boredom and predictability, Elsa established herself as party-giver extraordinaire in Europe with come-as-you-are parties, treasure hunts (e.g., retrieve a slipper from the foot of a singer at the Casino de Paris), and murder parties that drew the ire of the British parliament. She set New York a-twitter with her soirees at the Waldorf, her costume parties, and her headline-grabbing guest lists of the rich and royal, movie stars, society high and low, and those on the make all mixed together in let-'er-rip gaiety. All the while, Elsa dashed off newspaper columns, made films in Hollywood, wrote bestselling books, and turned up on TV talk shows. She hobnobbed with friends like Noel Coward and Cole Porter. Late in life, she fell in love with Maria Callas, who spurned her and broke Elsa's heart. Her feud with the Duchess of Windsor made headlines for three years in the 1950s. One of the twentieth century's most colorful characters is brought back to life in this biography by the author of All About All About Eve.