Tag Archives: Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Howard Hawks
by Todd McCarthy“Spectacular . . . McCarthy’s thick, rich biography . . . chronicles in vivid detail how perhaps the last great popular artist in the…
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Hellfire
by Nick Tosches“The best rock ‘n’ roll biography ever written. . . . There is a novelistic intensity to this story of tragedy, triumph and love….
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Elizabeth
by Alexander Walker“A fine, serious, readable attempt to understand a woman who became a star-cum-studio victim . . . informative, thoughtful, and understanding.” –The Listener
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The Death of James Dean
by Warren Newton Beath“Beath’s profiles of some of the odd, obsessed fans who keep the Dean legend alive [are] brilliant, recalling Nathanael West.” –Publishers Weekly
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The Comedians
by Kliph NesteroffAn expansive and endlessly entertaining history of stand-up comedy, spanning more than a century from vaudeville through radio, television, the counterculture, and the comedy…