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21) Whiskey in a teacup: what growing up in the South taught me about life, love, and baking biscuits
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the producer who created Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, from his childhood in California to his careers in films.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the creative life of Charlie Chaplin, describing how he helped support his sick mother by performing on the streets of London, where he found the inspiration for his iconic character.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An engrossing biography of one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history, Kubrick grew up in the Bronx, a doctor's son. From a young age he was consumed by photography, chess, and, above all else, movies. He was a self-taught filmmaker and self-proclaimed outsider, and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside the Hollywood mainstream. Kubrick's Jewishness played a crucial role in his idea of himself as an outsider. Obsessed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
105 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
While other kids played sports, Steven Spielberg was writing scripts and figuring out camera angles. He went from entertaining his Boy Scout troop with home movies to amazing audiences around the world with epic blockbusters. He has directed four of the most successful films of all time and has won two Academy Awards for Best Director. From Jaws to Lincoln, young readers and aspiring filmmakers will be fascinated by the life of this famous director--...
Author
Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
Español
Description
"The chronology and themes of Walt Disney's inspiring life are presented in a masterfully succinct text, with just a few sentences per page. The fresh, stylized illustrations are sure to captivate young readers and adults alike. With a read-aloud biographical summary in the back, this age-appropriate introduction shares the life and work of one of the most influential creators and entertainers of our time"--
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
David Geffen is an agent, manager, record industry mogul, Hollywood and Broadway producer, and a philanthropist. Notoriously press and camera shy, Geffen reveals himself for the first time in this two-hour documentary.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The movement of people--what Americans call 'immigration' and the rest of the world calls 'migration'--is among the defining issues of our time. Technology and information crosses countries and continents at blistering speed. Corporations thrive on being multinational and polyglot. Yet the world's estimated 244 million total migrant population, particularly those deemed 'illegal' by countries and societies, are locked in a chaotic and circular debate...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Alexi Pappas was four years old, her mother committed suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas's life and setting her on a perpetual search for female role models. When her father started signing her up for sports teams as a way to keep his bereaved daughter busy, female athletes became some of the first women Pappas looked up to, and she became a girl with a goal: to be an Olympian. Despite setbacks and hardships, Pappas held fast...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In American Rebel, Marc Eliot examines the ever-exciting, often tumultuous arc of Clint Eastwood's life and career, from his days as a disaffected college dropout to his rise to fame as the archetypal loner to his acceptance into the pantheon as a multiple Academy Award winner.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric comeback after she was unceremoniously booted off the MGM lot: he produced her iconic, Oscar-nominated vehicle A Star Is Born and expertly shaped her concert career. Previously unpublished, Sid Luft's intimate autobiography tells his and Judy's story in hard-boiled yet elegant prose. It begins...
35) Altman
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Maverick. Auteur. Rebel. Innovator. Storyteller. Rambler. Gambler. Mad man. Family man. Director. Artist. Robert Altmanʼs life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution of his art form, but also on the western zeitgeist. ALTMAN, Canadian director Ron Mannʼs new documentary, explores and celebrates the epic fifty-year redemptive journey of one of the most important...
Publisher
Film Movement LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A love story about sexploitation director Joe Sarno and his wife and collaborator Peggy, as he struggles to get one last film on screen in an industry that's long denied his transcendent auteur style.
Publisher
Grasshopper Productions
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Robert Frank, now 91 years old, is among the most influential artists of the last half-century. His seminal volume, The Americans, published in 1958, records the Swiss-born photographer's candid reactions to peculiarly American versions of poverty and racism. Today it is a classic work that helped define the off-the-cuff, idiosyncratic elegance that are hallmarks of Frank's artistry.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 241 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But back in 1987, Ron Shelton was a first-time director and no one was willing to finance a movie about baseball-especially a story set in the minors. The jury was still out on Kevin Costner's leading man potential, while Susan Sarandon was already a has-been. There were doubts. But something miraculous happened, and...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As one of the most famous faces of silent cinema, Buster Keaton was and continues to be revered for his stoic expressions, clever visual gags, and acrobatic physicality in classics such as Sherlock Jr., The General, and The Cameraman. In this spirited biography, every aspect of Buster Keaton's astonishing life is explored, from his humble beginnings in vaudeville with his parents to his meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom during the silent era. Based...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvii, 201 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Beginning with his earliest memories of growing up a shy boy in New Orleans, Perry recalls the moments of grace and beauty in a childhood marked by brutality, deprivation, and fear. With tenderness he sketches portraits of the people who sustained him and taught him indelible lessons about integrity, trust in God, and the power of forgiveness: his aunt Mae, who cared for her grandfather, who was born a slave, and sewed quilts that told a story of...
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