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141) I'm your huckleberry
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Legendary actor Val Kilmer shares the stories behind his most beloved roles, reminisces about his star-studded career and love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles in a remarkably candid autobiography. Val Kilmer has played so many iconic roles over his nearly four-decade film career. A table-dancing Cold War agent in Top Secret! A trouble-making science prodigy in Real Genius. A brash fighter pilot in Top Gun. A swashbuckling...
142) Clint Eastwood
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
"Clint Eastwood is one of the biggest stars of his generation, a cinematic icon who has created some of the most memorable characters in Hollywood history. But he is also a director, producer, musician, inn keeper, clothing manufacturer, golfer, and former mayor. From his California childhood through his service in the Korean War and on to stardom, Biography explores Eastwood's multi-faceted life in this feature-length profile. Friends, family members...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"A brutally honest and moving memoir of lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow and Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes"--
Four years ago Haynes woke up in a hospital. He'd had two seizures, lost the sight in one eye, almost ruptured a kidney, and been put on an involuntary psychiatry hold. By sixteen he had been signed by the world's top modeling agency; his face appeared on billboards, but he was still a lonely, confused teenager,...
144) Robin
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his powerful Academy Award-winning performance in Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams was an innovative actor and comedian. He often came across as a man possessed, holding forth on culture, politics, and personal revelation with mercurial, tongue-twisting intensity as he inhabited and shed one character after another. In his comedy and in celebrated films like Dead Poets...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen"--
Tucci grew up in an Italian family that put great import on food: the quality of ingredients, the careful preparation, the passing on of family recipes and cultural culinary traditions. He has written cookbooks, become involved in food-related charities, and has probably spent more time focusing on food than he does...
146) Honey, baby, mine
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close, but when Diane developed a sudden illness, their relationship...
147) I am Spock
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Best known to the world as the actor who created the legendary Mr. Spock in the cult television series that launched the Star Trek phenomenon, Leonard Nimoy has written the definitive Star Trek memoir. Having played the pivotal role of Mr. Spock in the original series, 6 motion pictures, and a special 2-part episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as directing 2 of the movies, Nimoy is well suited to tell the true story behind what was...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The Internet isn’t all cat videos. There’s also Felicia Day - violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer, hoagie specialist, and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become the ruler of a new world... or at least semi-influential in the world of Internet Geeks. After growing up in the south where she was "home-schooled for hippie reasons," Felicia moved to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In these intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, and show business, Tony Award-winner and the star of TV's Younger Sutton Foster shares memorable moments - including her fraught relationship with her agoraphobic mother; a painful divorce splashed on the pages of the tabloids; her struggles with fertility; the thrills she found on the stage; her breakout TV role in Younger;...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
From the time she was two and "aced out in her nudes" to explore the neighborhood (as her mom famously described her toddler jailbreak), Busy Philipps has always been headstrong, defiant, and determined not to miss out on all the fun. These qualities led her to leave Scottsdale, Arizona, at the age of nineteen to pursue her passion for acting in Hollywood. But chasing her dreams wasn't always easy and sometimes hurt more than a little. In this candid...
151) On the couch
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
"Known to millions as psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Melfi on HBO's hit series The Sopranos, a role for which she has received multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild nominations, Lorraine Bracco is one of the most recognizable actresses working today, a glamorous and intelligent presence on both the big and the small screen, as well as on the Broadway stage. It's hard to imagine that this formidable woman was once voted the "ugliest girl...
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Formats
Description
"Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family dealing with 9/11, continuing through the intensity of four...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Joel Grey, the Academy Award-winning master of ceremonies in Cabaret, finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and woolly Jewish-American family in 1930's Cleveland, Joel began his life in the theater at the age of nine, starring in local productions of touring Broadway hits. He was hooked, and the search for the spotlight took him from the Cleveland Playhouse to seedy, gangster-filled nightclubs in Chicago, and finally...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Candid, insightful, and wildly entertaining essays about life, love, and lessons learned as an actress in Hollywood, from the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and New York Times bestselling author of Talking as Fast as I Can. With her signature sense of humor and down-to-earth storytelling, Lauren Graham opens up about her years working in the entertainment business-from the sublime to the ridiculous-and shares personal stories about everything from...
155) I am Chris Farley
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A documentary film that will tell the bittersweet story of one of the most innovative comedians who ever graced the stage, screen and television, before his untimely death from a drug overdose at the tender age of only 33. Immortalized for his uniquely bold, energetic, and in-your-face comedic style, Chris Farley's off the charts talent cemented his place as a key player in a movement that evolved and redefined the comedic genre.
157) Steve McQueen: American icon : the untold true story of the spiritual quest of a Hollywood legend
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
An avid fan of the actor, and owner of a replica of McQueen's car in the classic film Bullitt, Pastor Greg Laurie hits the road in his mint Mustang, traveling the country in search of the true, untold story of McQueen's redemption-filled final chapters, in a true faith journey.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Best known for playing loner rebel Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills 90210, Luke Perry was fifty-two years old when he died of a stroke in 2019. There have been other deaths of 90's stars, but this one hit different. Gen X was reminded of their own inescapable mortality, and robbed of an exciting career resurgence for one of their most cherished icons, with recent roles in the hit series Riverdale and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time In Hollywood bringing...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Terry Crews spent decades cultivating his bodybuilder physique and bravado. On the outside, he seemed invincible: he escaped his abusive father, went pro in the NFL, and broke into the glamorous world of Hollywood. But his fixation with appearing outwardly tough eventually turned into an exhausting performance in which repressing his emotions let them get the better of him-leading him into addiction and threatening the most important relationships...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Perfect for fans of Hidden Figures and Mae Among the Stars! To Boldly Go tells the true story of Nichelle Nichols and how she used her platform on Star Trek to inspire and recruit a new generation of diverse astronauts and many others in the space and STEM fields. As Lieutenant Uhura on the iconic prime-time television show Star Trek, Nichelle Nichols played the first Black female astronaut anyone had ever seen on screen. A smart, strong, independent...
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