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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A subversive, inside glimpse of the complex world of the film industry describes every aspect of filmmaking, from initial concept, to script, to screen, covering topics that range from "How Scripts Got So Bad" to "Manners in Hollywood."
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie, a fresh graduate of rehab at age thirteen. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town, mysteriously scarred...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When best buddies Jay and Silent Bob discover that a major motion picture is being based on their likenesses, the dopey duo head for Hollywood to claim the movie money the deserve. Packed with stars, including Ben Affleck, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, and more!
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Orry-Kelly was a Hollywood legend, his costume designs adored by cinema's greatest leading ladies - but in his home country of Australia his achievements remained unknown. Now acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong is bringing the legend home and celebrating the life of this extraordinary Aussie in her new film, WOMEN HE'S UNDRESSED. Official Selection at the **Frameline: San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival**.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood's violations. Penelope Schleeman, a consistently broke Connecticut high school teacher, is as surprised as anyone when her sensitive debut novel, "American Mermaid"--the story of a wheelchair-bound scientist named Sylvia who...
Author
Publisher
Wiliam Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Jeannie is a marketing executive for Oxford Pictures, where she deals with demanding Hollywood types, huge budgets, and long hours. When her producer boyfriend, Aidan, proposes, Jeannie begs off, citing her difficult family, and regales him with comic stories about her family.
11) Oil!: a novel
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Follows the relationship of a man from a wealthy California family and his son, as they pursue oil and deal with the manipulations of magnates and speculators, socialists, Hollywood tycoons, and state and national politicians.
13) Audrey
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth documentary on the life, loves and career of Audrey Hepburn. Actress, humanitarian, fashion Icon and Legend from the Golden Age of Cinema.
Publisher
Mark Rappaport
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Mark Rappaport's creative bio-pic about actress Jean Seberg is presented in a first-person, autobiographical format (with Seberg played by Mary Beth Hurt). He seamlessly interweaves cinema, politics, American society and culture, and film theory to inform, entertain, and move the viewer. Seberg's many marriages, as well as her film roles, are discussed extensively. Her involvement with the Black Panther Movement and subsequent investigation by the...
15) Nancy McKeon
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
She became a star when she was just 14 on The Facts of Life, but she quickly learned that life can be tough. This profile of Nancy McKeon follows the popular performer's career.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1940 Santa Cruz, the winner of Miss California makes a shocking decision that leaves her name in the headlines, years later in 2007 Santa Cruz, Marisol investigates her grandfather's secrets, including his connection to a beauty queen.
Author
Series
Waiting for Tom Hanks volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Romantic-comedy-obsessed Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing internet content, rewatching Sleepless in Seattle, and waiting for her movie-perfect meet cute. If she could just find her own Tom Hanks--a man who's sweet, sensitive, and possibly owns a houseboat--her problems would disappear and her life would be perfect. But Tom Hanks is nowhere in sight. When a movie starts filming in her neighborhood and...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Known as "The B-Movie King", Roger Corman's filmography has paved ways for genre films, igniting the screen with his rambunctious exploitation cinema. This portrait, made by Christain Blackwood who at the time was an aspiring filmmaker himself, takes a closer look at Corman's plentiful career. Corman's early casts and crews were oftentimes bursting with young talent such as Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme and David Carradine. His horror-comedy hits...
Author
Series
Sean Rosen books volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013], �2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
With the help of his "manager," a thirteen-year-old boy sells a movie idea to a major Hollywood studio.
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