The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons
 This significant book is the first full length biography of one of the most influential women in Hollywood. It spans a momentous time in terms of the film industry and, with superior scholarship, examines that era through a different and important lens. - [... more]
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The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons
Not a page-turner, but authentic: I grew up the the 1950s and bought every movie magazine with articles by Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper that my meager allowance would afford me. Dr. Barbas has produced an academic, thoroughly researched work (there [... more]
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The First Lady of Hollywood
Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of more than forty million readers. This first full-length [... more]
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Cats Meow
From award-winning screenwriter Steven Peros and acclaimed director Peter Bogdanovich comes The Cat's Meow, an extraordinary look at a fateful excursion of fun and frolic aboard William Randolph Hearst's private yacht in November of 1924 that brought [... more]
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Cats Meow
In November of 1924, a mysterious Hollywood death occurred aboard media mogul William Randolph Hearst's yacht. Included among the famous guests that weekend were, Charlie Chaplin, Hearst's mistress, starlet Marion Davies, the studio system creator, [... more]
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A Biography of Louella Parsons
The first biography of the powerful Hollywood gossip columnist Louella Parsons.This significant book is the first full length biography of one of the most influential women in Hollywood. It spans a momentous time in terms of the film industry and, with [... more]
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The Whole Enchilada: A Spicy Collection of Sylvia's Best
divbPart of an interview conducted by Larry McDonald, Sebastopol (CA) Times & News/bbrbrbMcDonald: You seem to take special pleasure in making fun of men whose names begin with R (Rocky, Rambo, Ronald Reagan). Is there a reason?/bbrbrSylvia: It does [... more]
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Masterson
The year is 1919 and William Barclay Bat Masterson, frontier lawman, gambler, and crony of Wyatt Earp, is working as a sports columnist on the New York Morning Telegraph and enjoying the last legal Manhattan whiskey with his friends as Prohibition looms. [... more]
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Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-Up Advice on Making ...
Narcissistic: Letters to a Young Artist is not worth reading. Anna Deavere Smith is a gifted artist herself, but her book springs from the assumption that she has profound wisdom to bestow. Her narcissism was disappointing because I have great respect [... more]
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Dish:: How Gossip Became the News and the News Became ...
What really goes on behind the scenes..: If you have any fascination with gossip/celebrities or how the "media machine" works, this is a great book. It is very fast pace, tracing the history of gossip columns from the early "penny papers& [... more]
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Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Amazon.com Review: Writing with the low-key stylishness his subject deserves, British academic Graham McCann pays tribute to the working-class Englishman who became "a democratic symbol of gentlemanly grace" to moviegoers worldwide. Aptly [... more]
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Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making ...
Narcissistic: Letters to a Young Artist is not worth reading. Anna Deavere Smith is a gifted artist herself, but her book springs from the assumption that she has profound wisdom to bestow. Her narcissism was disappointing because I have great respect [... more]
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