I Saw the Light: The Story of Hank Williams by Colin Escott
$19.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs like Your Cheatin' Heart, Hey Good Lookin' and Jambalaya sold millions of records and became the model for virtually all country music that followed. But by the time of his death at age twenty-nine, Williams had ...Show more
Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
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Category: Entertainment
In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. She writes frankly about her route from girl to woman and pioneering icon within the music and art scene of New York City in the 1980s and '90s as well as marriage, motherhood, and in ...Show more
Boys In the Trees by Carly Simon
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Category: Entertainment
Carly Simon is a household name. She was the staple of the '70s and '80s Billboard charts and was famously married to James Taylor with whom she has two children. She has had a career that has spanned four decades, resulting in thirteen top 40 hits, including the Number 1 song 'You're So Vain', numerous ...Show more
Orson Welles by Simon Callow
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Category: Entertainment | Series: Orson Welles Biographies Ser.
A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the definitive Welles biography.
Orson Welles : Hello Americans by Simon Callow
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Category: Entertainment
The reason for the decline of Orson Welles's career is a hotly debated issue, but decline it certainly did. When 'Citizen Kane', his first film, opened in 1941, Welles was universally acclaimed as the most audacious filmmaker alive. But instead of marking the beginning of a triumphant career in Hollywoo ...Show more
Respect - The Life of Aretha Franklin by David Ritz
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Category: Entertainment
The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz. Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her nat ...Show more
Going Clear - Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
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Category: Entertainment
The Basis For The New HBO Documentary. A National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Scientology presents itself as a scientific approach to spiritual enlightenment, but its practices have long been shrouded in mystery. Now Lawrence Wright--armed with his investigative talents, ...Show more
De Niro - A Life by Shawn Levy
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REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ICON There s little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest screen actors of his generation, perhapsof all time--if not, in fact, "the "greatest.His work, particularly in the first 20 years of his career, is unparalleled. "Mean Streets, the Godfather Part II, Taxi Dr ...Show more
Make 'Em Laugh: Short-term Memories of Longtime Friends by Reynolds, Debbie
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Category: Entertainment
Open the Cage, Murphy!: Vol 4 by Paul O'Grady
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Category: Entertainment
To describe Open the Cage, Murphy as action-packed is a massive understatement. The book takes us on a roller coaster ride through a decade of Paul O'Grady's life and is stuffed to the gunwales with hilarious stories, extreme situations and outrageous one-liners. At the end of Paul's previous volume of ...Show more
Dietrich & Riefenstahl - Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives by Karin Wieland
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Category: Entertainment
Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, born less than a year apart, lived so close to each other that Riefenstahl could see into Dietrich's Berlin flat. Coming of age in the Weimar Republic, both sought fame in Germany's silent film industry. While Dietrich's depiction of Lola Lola in The Blue Angel cat ...Show more