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Carrie Fisher reads her New York Times Bestselling Memoir! Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," coming-of-age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and becoming a cultural icon and bestselling...
2) Then again
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English
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The award-winning actress documents her rise from an everyday girl to an acclaimed performer while exploring her defining relationship with her mother and how their shared and separate dreams influenced their experiences.
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Pantheon Books
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1st ed.
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English
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Mel Watkins follows the remarkable arc of Perry's life and career: from his beginnings in minstrel shows, carnivals, and vaudeville extravaganzas to his spectacularly successful and wild years in Hollywood to his decline into bankruptcy and obscurity as "Stepin Fetchit" was forced into cultural exile. We see as well the full vindication of his career and of the character that had both made and destroyed it with a special award from the NAACP and induction...
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Thorndike Press
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Thorndike Press large print ed.
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English
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In John Wayne: My Father, Aissa Wayne delves into her father's childhood, his film career, and his life off the screen. The result is an affecting portrait that offers a new perspective on one of America's most enduring hero's humanity.
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Doubleday
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First edition.
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English
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Describes the lesser-known technological talents of actress Hedy Lamarr and the collaborative work with avant-garde composer George Antheil that eventually led to the development of spread-spectrum radio, cell phones, and GPS systems.
14) Ava: my story
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Bantam Books
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English
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Just before her death in 1990, Ava Gardner finished recording a chronicle of her life. Born to a poor farmer, she underwent a transformation to a sultry movie star. She reveals her roots and her tempestuous private life, including a long and complex friendship with Howard Hughes.
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Atria Books
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English
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In vivid detail, the thirty-year veteran of stage and screen describes his Texas upbringing, his personal struggles, his rise to fame with "North and South," his commercial breakthroughs in "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost," and the soul mate who's stood by his side through it all: his wife, writer and director Lisa Niemi.
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The Academy Award-winning film star and best-selling author of Then Again describes the ups and downs of living in a beauty-obsessed world, recounting stories about a makeup artist's embarrassing advice, her trip to Victoria's Secret with her teen daughter and more.
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Ashley Judd is an award-winning film and stage actor known for both box-office hits and art-house gems. Yet in 2002, she found her true calling: as a humanitarian and advocate for those suffering in neglected parts of the world. Asked why she was opting out while she was one of the highest-paid women in Hollywood, she could not provide an answer. She simply knew that after her first trip to the notorious brothels, slums, and hospices of southeast...
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In 1976, Carrie Fisher was a teenager filming a movie, with an all-consuming crush on her costar. And it just happened to become one of the most famous films of all time -- the first Star wars movie. When she recently discovered the journals she had kept, she found them full of plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. In revisiting her diaries, Fisher ponders the joys and insanity...
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