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Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Español
Description
The Colombian television journalist describes her relationship with cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, how she became his witness of choice for subduing people, and how she was silenced for twenty years before fleeing for America in 2006.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The award-winning master biographer chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era who has never stopped experimenting, pushing boundaries that changed culture globally, and fiercely defending a person’s right to love whomever—and be whoever –they wanted.
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"1968: Actress Gemma Turner once dreamed of stardom. Unfortunately, she's on the cusp of slipping into obscurity. When she's offered the lead in a radical new horror film, Gemma believes her luck has finally changed. But L'Etrange Lune's set is not what she expected. The director is eccentric, and the script doesn't make sense. Gemma is determined to make this work. It's her last chance to achieve her dream-but that dream is about to derail her life....
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie--the perfect place to develop and...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
For Vince, Eric, Drama and Turtle, life in Hollywood's fast lane isn't without its road bumps, as we learned when a botched deal cost Ari, Vince's longtime agent, his job. Will change at the top make the difference in getting Vince his dream picture, or will the boys regret giving Ari the ax?
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"Since her screen debut in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable, endearing roles. But she has never told the story of her life before fame--until now. Here, she takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America. Her memoir begins in 1935, when Julie was born to an aspiring vaudevillian mother and a teacher father,...
608) Vanished years
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
This memoir is filled with stories from Rupert Everett's childhood to the present: astonishing encounters; tragedy and comedy; vivid portraits of friends and rivals; razor-sharp observations of the celebrity circuit from LA to London and beyond.
609) Echo after echo
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to director Leopold Henneman, to play a dream role in Echo and Ariston, the Greek tragedy that taught her everything she knows about love. When the director asks Zara to promise that she will have no outside commitments, no distractions, it's easy to say yes. But are the deaths at the theater accidents, or murder, or a curse that always comes in threes? When assistant lighting director Eli Vasquez,...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1936 newspapers were ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood and starring the actress Mary Astor; the story pushed Hitler and Franco off the front pages. George S. Kaufman, then the most successful playwright on Broadway and a married man to boot, had been Astor's lover. The scandal revolved around Marys diary, which her ex-husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, had found when they were still together. Mary, he claimed, had...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 8
Publisher
Paw Prints
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
[Paw Prints ed.]
Language
English
Description
Nancy, Bess and George visit the Hollywood set of the movie "The Aliens Next Door", and try to solve the mystery of the missisng leading cat star, Fluffington.
614) The chaperone
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become. Written by Julian Fellowes and based on the beloved novel by Laura Moriarty.
615) The name of the game
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"TV producer Johanna Patterson has worked long and hard to make a name for herself in a man's world. She's tough, self-sufficient and isn't about to be impressed by a man like actor Sam Weaver, whose tough good looks have propelled him to movie stardom. Johanna can't be won over by a pretty face. Sam has a reputation, and Johanna is determined to protect herself at all costs. The problem is that Sam is not quite the man Johanna thought he was. He's...
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Comedian and performer Andy Kaufman's resume was impressive--a popular role on the beloved sitcom Taxi, a high-profile stand-up career, and a surprisingly successful stint in professional wrestling. Although he was by all accounts a sensitive and thoughtful person, he's ironically best remembered for his various contemptible personas, which were so committed and so convincing that all but his closest family and friends were completely taken in. Why...
617) Star of the show
Author
Series
Magic puppy volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Acting in a film for the first time, Tessa is lonely until she meets a magic puppy who helps her make friends and meet her favorite actor.
Author
Publisher
Umbriel/Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera edicion.
Language
Español
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Description
"Evelyn Hugo, el ícono de Hollywood que se ha recluido en su edad madura, decide al fin contar la verdad sobre su vida llena de glamour y de escándalos. Pero cuando elige para ello a Monique Grant, una periodista desconocida, nadie se sorprende más que la misma Monique. ¿Por qué ella? ¿Por qué ahora? Monique no está precisamente en su mejor momento. Su marido la abandonó, y su vida profesional no avanza. Aun ignorando por qué Evelyn la ha...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The intimate debut memoir by the man known to the world as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood's "Officer Clemmons," a Grammy Award-winning artist who made history as the first African American actor to have a recurring role on a children's television program.
Publisher
Películas Rodríguez
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
Los tres huastecos : Three brothers (a priest, a soldier and an outlaw), unaware of each other's existence, cross paths when on soldier recieves orders to capture and bring his outlaw brother to justice. Comedia basada en la vida tres hombres triates nacidos en tres pueblos diferentes y criados separadamente. La fuerza de la sangre hace que los tres compartan las mismas sensaciones y se ayuden mutuamente.
El seminarista : Miguel is a young man studying...
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