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By Michael J. Fox, 2003
ISBN 0786888741
"Life is great. Sometimes, though, you just have to put up with a little more crap." --Michael J. Fox In September 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announcing he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease -- a degenerative neurological condition.
- Marilyn Monroe: The Biography
By Donald Spoto, 2001
ISBN 0815411839
Relying on over 150 interviews as well as Marilyn's letters and diaries, this work by best-selling biographer Spoto casts new light on every aspect of the actress's tempestuous life.
- Last Words
By George Carlin, 2009
ISBN 1439172951
As one of America's preeminent comedic voices, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary fifty-year career and made fun of most of it. Last Words is the story of the man behind some of the most seminal comedy of the last half century, blending his signature acer-bic humor with...
- Rainbow: The Stormy Life of Judy Garland
By Christopher Finch, 1976
ISBN 0448121425
Judy Garland (June 10, 1922-June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage.
- The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
By Sidney Poitier, 2007
ISBN 0061357901
"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I’ve suddenly come up with the answers to all life’s questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questing. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and...
- Life
By Keith Richards, 2010
ISBN 031603438X
With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming...
- It's Always Something
By Gilda Radner, 2000
ISBN 038081322X
"I had wanted to wrap this book up in a neat little package. I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end."The world fondly remembers the many faces of Gilda Radner: the adamant but misinformed...
- Lauren Bacall: By Myself
By Lauren Bacall, 1985
ISBN 0345333217
The epitome of class, instinctive talent, and razor-sharp wit, Lauren Bacall continues to project an audacious spirit and pursue on-screen excellence. The product of an extraordinary mother and a loving extended family, she produced, with Humphrey Bogart, some of the most electric and memorable...
- Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow
By David Stenn, 1993
ISBN 0385421575
Jean Harlow (1911-1937) reigned as Hollywood's original platinum blonde sex symbol in the years before her death from kidney failure at age 26. With this crisply written, well-documented biography, Stenn ( Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild ) seeks to reveal the woman behind the screen goddess and to resolve...
- Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood
By Suzanne Finstad, 2002
ISBN 0609809571
Natalie Wood was always a star; her mother made sure this was true. A superstitious Russian immigrant who claimed to be royalty, Maria had been told by a gypsy, long before little Natasha Zakharenko's birth, that her second child would be famous throughout the world.
- Steps in Time: An Autobiography
By Fred Astaire, 2008
ISBN 0061567566
One of the foremost entertainers of the twentieth century—singer, actor, choreographer, and, of course, the most dazzling "hoofer" in the history of motion pictures—Fred Astaire was the epitome of charm, grace, and suave sophistication, with a style all his own and a complete disregard for the...
- Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman
By Donald Spoto, 2001
ISBN 0306810301
First time in paperback: "A resoundingly successful biography" (Washington Post) and the basis for a major television miniseries this year. The life of Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) is as compelling as that of any of the women she portrayed in dozens of unforgettable movies and plays-a list that...
- My Remarkable Journey
By Larry King, 2009
ISBN 1602860866
The definitive autobiography of one of the most famous personalities in television history-an intimate, revealing, and riveting memoir that will show a Larry King the world has never known, up close and personal.Celebrated as "the most remarkable talk-show host on TV ever" by TV Guide and "master...
- A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
By Bill O'Reilly, 2008
ISBN 0767928822
The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive. For reasons you will soon understand, my parents...
- What Falls Away
By Mia Farrow, 1997
ISBN 0553763342
In this memoir, Mia Farrow takes us on a journey into her life. She covers childhood and motherhood and explores her spiritual journey, with a candid examination of her marriages to Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn and her close but troubled 12-year relationship with Woody Allen.
- Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy
By Dorothy Dandridge, 1970
ISBN 0200716905
Dorothy Dandridge's life story is the stuff Hollywood dreams--and nightmares. Completed shortly before her tragic death in 19665, Everything and Nothing recounts her rags-to-riches-to-rags story form her personal point of view. Dandridge recalls her humble beginnings in Depression-era Cleveland...
- June Allyson Can
By June Allyson, 1983
ISBN 0425063283
June Allyson (October 7, 1917 July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss (1951).
