Biographies
All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader
by Yona Zeldis McDonough (Editor)
Listed under Marilyn Monroe
Adventures
in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
by William Goldman
Paperback: Warner Books
ISBN: 0446391174; Reissue edition (May 1989)
Billy
by Pamela Stephenson
Hardcover from Overlook Press
Book Published: 26 September, 2002
Bravemouth:
Living with Billy Connolly
Pamela Stephenson
Synopsis: Mrs Billy Connolly's tale of a more-than-usually extraordinary
year in the life of living with her husband offers an insider's view of
his filming, his charity works, his 60th birthday party, the TV and includes
personal insight into what makes him tick, and what makes her tick (it's
her year too). It's a celebration but it's interspersed with serious reflection
- both on what he does and what she does (the contrast between the inherent
seriousness of what she does, compared to the zaniness of what he does).
The nature of fame, the challenges of age, the triumph-over-adversity are
all themes underlying the many anecdotes collected in this book.
The Art of the Fellowship of the Ring
by Gary Russell
Listed under Tolkien
Cancer
Schmancer
by Fran Drescher
Hardcover: 260 pages
Warner Books; ISBN: 0446530190; (May 2002)
Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry
by Elizabeth Taylor
Listed under Elizabeth Taylor
Quentin
Tarantino: The Man and His Movies
by Jami Bernard
Paperback: 272 pages
Harperperennial Library; ISBN: 0060951613; (January 1996)
If
Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
by Bruce Campbell, et al
(Hardcover -- June 2001)
Rebel
Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood
Player
by Robert Rodriguez
How Robert Rodriguez made his groundbreaking film El Mariachi on a
shoestring budget. Db
(Paperback -- September 1996)
Russell Crowe: The Unauthorized Biography
by James L. Dickerson
Listed under Russell Crowe
The Truth About Elvis Aron Presley: In His Own Words
by Donald, Md. Hinton, Jesse
Listed under Elvis Presley
Josh
Hartnett
by Lorelei Lanum
(Paperback -- June 2002)
Audrey Style
by Pamela Clarke Keogh
Listed under Audrey Hepburn
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
by Peter Guralnick
Listed under Elvis Presley
Fall
Down, Laughing: How Squiggy Caught Multiple Sclerosis and Didn't Tell Nobody
by David L. Lander, Lee Montgomery (Contributor)
Hardcover: 200 pages
J. P. Tarcher; ISBN: 1585420522; (September 2000)
Peter Greenaway: Fear of Drowning
by Peter Greenaway
Listed under Peter Greenaway
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Brilliant Madness: Living With Manic-Depressive Illness
by Patty Duke
Paperback: 338 pages
Bantam Books; ISBN: 0553560727; Reissue edition (June
1, 1993)
Lynch on Lynch
by David Lynch, Chris Rodley
You know David Lynch as the director of terminally weird movies such
as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Wild at Heart, as well as the bizarre and
highly influential television series Twin Peaks. But did you know that
it was Mel Brooks who gave him his first big break? That the idea for Blue
Velvet grew out of a fantasy Lynch had about sneaking into a private room
and learning the secret to a murder mystery? That Twin Peaks came about
because co-creator Mark Frost was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe?
In Lynch on Lynch, a 250-page interview book, editor Chris Rodley
does a superb job of getting Lynch to talk at length about the high and
low points of his life and career. Their conversation covers his early
work as a painter through the making of his major films of the 1980s, the
fiasco of Dune ("It is what it is."), and the recent and very obscure Lost
Highway ("I just *loved* this title.").
Lynch is particularly interesting when he talks about the creative process:
"I don't want to give the impression that I sit around thinking up horrible
things. I get all kinds of different ideas and feelings. If I'm lucky,
they start organizing themselves into a story--then maybe some ideas come
along that are too eerie, too violent, or too funny, and they don't fit
that story. So you write them down and save them for two or three projects
down the road. There's nowhere you can't go in a film--if you think of
it, you can go there." Lynch on Lynch is a treat for Lynch fans of all
shapes, sizes, and fetishes. - Amazon.com
Paperback: 290 pages
Faber & Faber; ISBN: 0571195482; Pbk Ed edition (April
1999)
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