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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben—these shows captivated millions of TV viewers in the ’60s and ’70s. Join award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard and audience-favorite actor Clint Howard as they frankly and fondly share their unusual family story of navigating and surviving life as sibling child actors. -- from publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An intimate memoir by the controversial, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his privileged New York upbringing, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such landmark films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface"--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Walt Disney with a focus on his work making dreams come true for himself and for generations of children"--
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdo.
John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate
8) Walt Disney
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documents the life and career of Walt Disney.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1979, Wim Wenders traveled to New York City to make a film with legendary director Nicholas Ray. As Ray lays dying of cancer, he reflects on his life and career. The resulting film tells a moving story both about friendship and a life in cinema.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Alexi Pappas was four years old, her mother committed suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas's life and setting her on a perpetual search for female role models. When her father started signing her up for sports teams as a way to keep his bereaved daughter busy, female athletes became some of the first women Pappas looked up to, and she became a girl with a goal: to be an Olympian. Despite setbacks and hardships, Pappas held fast...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
327, [9] p. : col. ill., ports. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wes Anderson is one of the most influential voices from the past two decades of American cinema. A true auteur, Anderson is known for the visual artistry, inimitable tone, and idiosyncratic characterizations that make each of his films -- 'Bottle Rocket', 'Rushmore', 'The Royal Tenenbaums', 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou', 'The Darjeeling Limited', 'Fantastic Mr. Fox', and 'Moonrise Kingdom' -- instantly recognizable as "Andersonian." 'The Wes...
14) Room to dream
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 577 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this memoir, David Lynch, co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced -- sometimes successful, sometimes not -- to bring his projects to fruition. Part-memoir, part-biography, [this book] interweaves Lynch's own reflections...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who believes she can change the world, one joke at a time. She shares her personal experiences growing up as the "Other" in an American culture that has no time for nuance. Writing bluntly and hilariously about the elements of race we are often too politically correct to discuss, Farsad takes a long hard look at the iconography that still shapes our concepts of "Black," "white," and...
Publisher
Media Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) ; sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-three directors discuss their careers and the art of filmmaking. Also included are film clips, guest stars and each director's film biography as well as interesting facts about their careers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 895
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
English
Description
An absorbing portrait of the artist, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself. From the privacy of his home and painting studio in the Hollywood Hills, a candid Lynch conjures people and places from his past, from his boyhood in Idaho and Virginia to his experiences at art school in Boston and Philadelphia to the beginnings of his filmmaking career in Los Angeles, in stories that unfold like scenes from his movies.
19) Whiskey in a teacup: what growing up in the South taught me about life, love, and baking biscuits
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
303 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Academy Award–winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm. Reese Witherspoon’s grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty and strength made southern women “whiskey in a teacup.” We may be delicate and ornamental on the outside, she said, but inside we’re strong and fiery....
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