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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A rollicking narrative history of Jazz Age Monte Carlo, chronicling the city's rise from WWI's ashes to become one of the world's most storied, infamous playgrounds of the rich, only to be crushed under it's own weight ten years later"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in Provence, London, and New York: a daughter's wonderfully evocative and witty memoir of her mother and stepfather--Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A. J. Ayer, the celebrated and worldly Oxford philosopher--and the life they lived at the center of absolutely everything. Gully Wells takes us into the heart of London's liberated intellectual inner circle of the 1960s. Here are Alan Bennett, Isaiah Berlin, Iris...
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
US edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society. In secret, though, she has begun writing fiction under the pseudonym George Eliot. As Adam Bede's fame grows, curiosity rises. Gradually it becomes apparent that the moral genius Eliot is none other than the disgraced woman. Now celebrity begins. The world falls in love with her. She is the wise and great writer, sent to guide...
565) Insignificance
Series
Criterion collection volume 566
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for a compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's play. With a combination of whimsy and dread, director Nicolas Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror picture of cold war America that questions the nature of celebrity and plays on a society's simmering nuclear fears.
566) Dream scenario
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. When his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xix, 235 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2016, Pakistan's first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Her death quickly became a media sensation. It was both devastatingly routine and breathtakingly brutal, and in a new media landscape, it couldn't be ignored. Qandeel had courted attention and outrage with a talent for self-promotion that earned her comparisons to Kim Kardashian--and made her the constant victim of harassment and death threats....
568) Life at the Marmont: the inside story of Hollywood's legendary hotel of the stars--Chateau Marmont
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xviii, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 317 pages , 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A survey of Manhattan culture from the 1920s through the 1960s explores the ways in which the city's diverse venues set a standard for national sophistication.
570) Sinatraland
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
571) American rhapsody
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 432 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on the author's experiences as an "ambush interview" radio host to confront inconsistencies in the liberal views of leading Hollywood celebrities who support President Obama, from Michael Moore to Angelina Jolie.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Diana's Boys revealed the powerful bond between the teenaged princes, and how it strengthened even more in the wake of their mother's tragic death. Now, twenty years later, Queen Elizabeth II is in her mid-nineties, Prince Charles is in his seventies, and all eyes are turned increasingly toward William and Harry again. Christopher Andersen picks up where he left off, covering everything that has happened to the brothers as they have grown up, gotten...
575) Antiviral
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Celebrity obsession has reached an all-time high, with the public now clamoring to be infected with the same diseases their idols carry. At the Lucas Clinic, Syd March sells injections of live viruses to those fans who can afford it. But Syd also has a black market trade in illness, selling viruses smuggled in his own body to piracy groups. After super sensation Hannah Geist reveals a new disease she carries, Syd is quick to capitalize on the opportunity...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood starlet Lana Turner was Tinseltown's most recognizable faces in the 1940s and 50s. But, when the Academy Award-winning actress began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato-a thug for west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen-all the lights and glamor of Hollywood did not brighten the darkness of her personal life. Johnny's intense jealousy over Lana ruled their relationship from the get-go and Lana's daughter, Cheryl, witnessed her mother's bruises and...
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
8 Blu-rays (826 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Woody Allen Collection brings together eight classics from 1994 to 2003, Filled with comedy, romance and music, while taking you along on a ride to New York, Paris, Venice And Sicily. These films have garnered numerous nominations and awards, for writing, directing, acting, and design.
Bullets over Broadway: In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The forefront British dance critic and award-nominated author of Bloomsbury Ballerina presents a revisionist assessment of the movement that shattered the boundaries of conventional femininity through the lives of six figures that exemplified it, including Lady Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 10
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
98, 3 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Autograph-seekers interfere with Stanley Lambchop's hopes for a fun vacation with friends while sightseeing in Texas.
580) Recipe for disaster
Author
Publisher
KCP Fiction
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Francie's life is almost perfect before new girl Darlene shows up. She has her own business as a weekend baker, a best friend named Holly, and a crush on Tate Jarvis. But Darlene thinks Francie's obsession with baking is weird, she acts like Holly is her best friend, and she's somehow managed to steal Tate's attention away. Just as Francie's pastry-filled dreams are starting to slide, she gets a chance to meet celebrity baker Lorenzo LaRue. Francie...
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