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Language
English
Description
In her own words, the living legend tells the story of her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in NY nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl to the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed.
Author
Language
English
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Granted total and unprecedented access to the Academy Award-winning director's archives, the author, drawing on hundreds of interviews with the artist and those who have worked closely with him, chronicles his attempt to reimagine the entire pursuit of moviemaking though his production company American Zoetrope.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia and Szwed considers Harry Smith to be one of the twentieth century’s most overlooked cultural figures. From his time recording the customs of Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Florida to his life in Greenwich Village in its heyday. Smith was responsible for the influential Anthology of American Folk Music and several pioneering experimental...
4) Everywhere an oink oink: an embittered, dyspeptic, and accurate report of forty years in Hollywood
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and work of Orson Welles in the context of the era that included the Great Depression, World War II, Jim Crow, and the House Un-American Activities Committee. Explores the relationships between Welles and other key figures of the times, including Franklin D. Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst. Told in parallel with Welles's story are those of Isaac Woodard, an African American soldier who was the victim of a violent racist attack,...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"I’ll be dropping a few names,” Ed Zwick confesses in the introduction to his book. “Over the years I have worked with self-proclaimed masters-of-the-universe, unheralded geniuses, hacks, sociopaths, savants, and saints.” Written mostly with love, sometimes with rue, this memoir is also a meditation on working, sprinkled throughout with tips for anyone who has ever imagined writing, directing, or producing for the screen.
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