Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts

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Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me

Howie Mandel

A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal host's ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHD–and how it has shaped his life and career. Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainment–respe...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2009

How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Tay...

William J. Mann

In the 60s, Elizabeth Taylor's affair with the married Richard Burton knocked John Glenn's orbit of the moon off front pages nationwide. Yet, despite all the gossip, the larger-than-life personality and influence of this very human ...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2010

Unsinkable: A Memoir

Debbie Reynolds

Unsinkable is the definitive memoir by film legend and Hollywood icon Debbie Reynolds.Actress, comedienne, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds shares the highs and lows of her life as an actress during Hollywood's Golden Age, anecdotes...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2013

Star Trek Memories

William Shatner

Beginning in 1966 as something a little out of the ordinary for prime-time TV, and suffering from shaky ratings throughout its entire run, 'Star Trek' went on to spend the better part of the next three decades exploding into a worldwi...

Paperback
Published: May 2009

A Fortunate Life

Robert Vaughn

A remarkable and delightful memoir of a life spent in the uppermost circles of acting, politics, and the world Robert Vaughn was born an actor. His family worked in the theater for generations, and he knew from the very start that he...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2009

One More Time: A Memoir (Encore Nonfi...

Carol Burnett

The acclaimed comedienne and actress reveals how her financially difficult childhood with her eccentric grandmother gave her the strength and determination to enter and become a success in the difficult world of show business. Reprint...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2003

Scar Tissue

Anthony Kiedis

The lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers presents a searing, candid memoir that captures the bright and dark moments of his life and career, including his descent into drug addiction, and their influence on his mus...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2005

700 Sundays

Billy Crystal

Billy Crystal has transformed his Tony award-winning one-man show into a petite book chronicling his 1950s childhood. Based on the estimated number of Sundays spent with his hardworking father before an untimely heart attack, the book...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2006

Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Mo...

Jenny McCarthy

Jenny McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of Baby Laughs and Belly Laughs, speaks candidly about the challenges and the humor to be found in balancing motherhood and the ups and downs of marriage. Jenny McCarthy's honesty has...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2007

J. K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harr...

Marc Shapiro

The heartwarming story behind J.K. Rowling’s rise to fame—and the answers to Harry Potter fans’ most burning questions! Harry Potter is loved throughout the world, and so is his creator. Joanne Kathleen (J.K.) Rowli...

Paperback
Published: May 2007

My Booky Wook

Russell Brand

In 2006 Russell Brand exploded onto the international comedy scene. He has been named Time Out's Comedian of the Year, Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards, and Most Stylish Man by GQ's Men. His UK stand-up tour was sold out an...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2008

My Stroke of Luck

Kirk Douglas

The Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author shares his moving story of survival after a debilitating stroke in 1995, which forever changed his life and taught him valuable lessons, and provides touching anecdotes from such...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2003

Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search fo...

Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder is one of the great comic actors who defined the 1970's and 1980's in movies. From his early work with Woody Allen to the rich group of movies he made with Mel Brooks to his partnership on screen with Richard Pryor, Wilder...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2005

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I...

Alison Arngrim

For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on one of TV history's most beloved series. Though millions of Little House on the Prairie viewers hated Nellie Oleson and her evil antics...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2011

Maybe You Never Cry Again

Bernie Mac

That's what I want to be, mama. A comedian. Make you laugh like that, maybe you never cry again.' By the tender age of five, Bernie Mac had found his calling: making others laugh. Since then, he has become one of the greatest comedian...

Abridged CD
Published: Jun 2003

The Rat Pack: Neon Nights with the Ki...

Lawrence J. Quirk

Quirk and Schoell's rehashing of the biographical details of Frank Sinatra and the rest of his crew is only intermittently able to disguise its contempt for their personal and professional lives. If there's an opportunity for a pot sh...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2003

Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of ...

Charles R. Cross

He disliked marmalade and cold sheets. His likes included music, mountains, hair, and strawberry shortcake. He immortalized his penis in plaster, set fire to his guitar, and choked to death on his own vomit at the age of 27. Charles R...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2006

My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably...

Kevin Smith

NOW UPDATED WITH THE 'INS AND OUTS' OF MAKING ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO, AND A NEW AFTERWORD! Anything but boring, Kevin Smith shares his x-rated thoughts in his diary, telling all in his usual candid, heartfelt and irreverent way!Ke...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2009

Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in F...

Lisa Lampanelli

Comedy's lovable Queen of Mean, Lisa Lampanelli reveals all in her jaw-droppingly hilarious politically incorrect memoir, Chocolate, Please.

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

La Lucci: My Story

Susan Lucci

When Susan Lucci and All My Children were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan's character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an original. But while millions have enjoyed ge...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2011

Cagney by Cagney

James Cagney

This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can.

Paperback
Published: Mar 2005

Richard Harris: Sex, Death & the Movi...

Michael Feeney Callan

An intimate biography of one of the greatest eccentric spirits of the modern cinema--from his earliest days in Ireland, and his roles in classics like Mutiny on the Bounty, A Man Called Horse, Camelot, The Field, and Unforgiven--to hi...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2005

The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, A...

Diahann Carroll

It's conventional wisdom that Hollywood has no use for a woman over forty. So it's a good thing that Diahann Carroll—whose winning, sometimes controversial career breached racial barriers—is anything but conventional. Shonda Rhime...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2009

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina...

Misty Copeland

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history as the only African American soloist dancing with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school com...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2015

Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me

Howie Mandel

A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal host's ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHD–and how it has shaped his life and career. Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainment–respe...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2010

Everybody's Got Something

Robin Roberts

"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, "Everybody's got something." So begins...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2014

Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated ...

Robert Sellers

ON SCREEN THEY WERE STARS. "A portrait of four profoundly flawed yet awesome leading men, as well as a window into a time when glamour was sacrosanct and when stardom was achieved rather than manufactured." —Playboy"...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2011

Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography

Richard Stirling

Julie Andrews is the last of the great Hollywood musical stars, unequaled by any in her time.In My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews had the biggest hit on Broadway. As the title character in Mary Poppins, she won an Academy Award. And, in 196...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2009

Frank & Ava: In Love and War

John Brady

The love story of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner has never been fully explored or explained―until now. Frank & Ava delves deeply into the lives of these two iconic stars and their turbulent lifelong relationship. It began in Hollywoo...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2017

In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of...

Carol Burnett

Comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show.  Who but Carol Burnett herself has the timing, talent, and wit to pull back the curtain on the Emmy-...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2016
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