My Hollywood Stories is a collection of informative, historical, educational, funny, exciting, entertaining, sexy, shocking, and tragic stories and anecdotes about famous and not-so-famous Hollywood people--actors, directors, producers, writers, and studio moguls. While it is not a book about acting, it is written by an actor with contributions from various actors, all of whom are writing about other actors. Older readers will take a trip down memory lane, remembering many of the celebrities mentioned, while younger readers will discover Hollywood history from its earlier years to the present. They will learn about the people who were part of the building blocks of the film industry: the highs, the lows, the successes, the failures, and the tragedies.
It tells the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery surface of Hollywood. Claire, a composer and a new mother, comes to LA so her husband can follow his passion for writing television comedy.
A tender collection of original and translated poetry from the editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books exploring the lives and longing of Russian immigrants in L.A.
He came away with a unique understanding of adaptations--an understanding he shares in this book: which stories make good source material (and why); what Hollywood wants (and doesn't); what you can (and can't) get in a movie deal; how to ...
Laurel after Hardy After Oliver Hardy's death in 1957 at the age of sixty-five, his long-time partner Stan Laurel refused to perform publicly again. The British-born Laurel was far from reclusive.He lived in a small apartment in Santa ...
Everyone hung out there: Jack, Luana, Carole Eastman, my friend piano player–singer-songwriter Morgan Ames, and the rest of our class. Jack, Luana, and Sandra Knight (who later married Jack), had been “runners” at MGM, teenagers taking ...
Love, Laughter and Tears: My Hollywood Story
A former child star who, at ninety-three, reveals her #metoo story for the first time. Valderrama unfolds these stories, and many more, in a volume that is by turns riveting, maddening, hilarious, and shocking.
Of MY FIRST TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, Academy-Award-winning film preservationist, historian, and author Kevin Brownlow writes: "What every film fan years for-first-hand, eyewitness accounts of a Hollywood none of us can remember and all of us wish ...
Patsy Ruth Miller gives us a fascinating pictorial and written "insider's look of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
This little book aims to help you figure out how to get your story told on big screens or small.