Biography: arts and entertainment

Are all rich people born rich?

In Shark Infested Waters, Michael Whitehall contrasts the glamorous image of theatrical life with the mundane realities of the business, while passing on some startling trade secrets along the way.

A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the founding father of the Welfare State and was as great a peacetime leader as Churchill was in war.

The autobiography of famous actor and vaudevillian Otis Skinner who trod the boards in the early 1900's, this book is filled with anecdotes of a bygone age.

»ABBA-Songs sind erschütternd und erhebend zugleich, sie können zu Tränen rühren und zum Tanzen führen, schenken Freude und Selbstvertrauen und haben bisweilen therapeutische Wirkung.

From the presenter of ITV1's Long Lost Family and the bestselling author of One of the Family, comes a moving and honest book about Nicky Campbell's own search for his birth parents.

The young John Zaradin felt driven to make his life in music against all sensible career advice offered by his peers and parents.

In the years just preceding the War of 1812 one man, an Indian, dominated the American frontier-Tecumseh.

Von großer Bedeutung für die Musikwissenschaft ist Jahns Biografie über W.

Probably no native American handicrafts are more widely admired than Navajo weaving and Navajo and Pueblo silver work.

First published in 1954, in this quintessential autobiography Ben Hecht recounts his childhood, education, and career as journalist, playwright, and screenwriter, describes famous political and literary acquaintances, and examines U.

Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman.

Bruce Forsyth is known across four generations as the face of family entertainment classics such as The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right and The Price is Right.

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The bestselling guide to overcoming addiction from comedian Russell Brand.

From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up dual-heritage, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity.

The amazing life of Madness frontman and national treasure, SuggsSuggs is one of pop music's most enduring and likeable figures.

Almost there is a compelling true story of a young Rap Artist who went from Rapper & Producer to Record Company Executive.

Raymond Chandler fue, junto con Dashiell Hammett, el renovador y el maestro indiscutido del género policiaco.

In June 1994, Michael Barrymore, television celebrity and gameshow host, checked himself out of an American clinic where he was receiving treatment for alcohol and drug abuse.

'Does a fantastic job tracing the development of Dury's career.

Ninguém nasce preparado para morrer e são muito poucas as pessoas que fazem uma preparação adequada.

In his old age, Plenty-Coups (1848-1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, told the moving story of his life to Frank B.

Als wichtigste Leistung Kalbecks gilt seine 1904 bis 1914 veröffentlichte umfangreiche Biographie des Komponisten Johannes Brahms, die bis heute eine wesentliche musikhistorische Quelle darstellt, ungeachtet einiger zeitgebundener Fehler und der teils sehr subjektiv gefärbten Darstellungen.

For many fans, David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era remains the most extraordinarily creative period in his career.

Dear DadHey dad if you're listeningthis poem is for youjust writting to let you knowall the things life has put me throughstrangers somehow have a tendacyto try to take your placebut they can't do it, it's impossiblethe pain could never be erasedthey can't fillthis emotional viod in my heartinside I still wonderwhy must we stand so far apartmy mom's got a new manhe used to treat her rightwhy she stays with him, I don't understandbecause now all they do is fightit's not like I grew upa completely fatherless kidbut he can't make upfor all the birthdays and christmases you missedhe tries a little bitbut the job wasn't made for him to dosometimes it's too hard not to crycause he's no youso why did he have to be the oneto see off my first day of schoolhe even took me to the dentist when I lost my first toothso dad where you at my graduationno way to gonot even a congratulationsso tell me will you be there to help me blow out my sixthteen candlessometimes life gets hardand the pain is too much to handleI'm a big girl nowso I hold my tears insideI already had my first kissand you were never there to teach me about guysyou never took me shoppingor fishingyou just left me hopingand wishingbut you can't always get what you wish forand dreams don't always come truehe taught me thatbut we both know he's no youThe End

A majority of ethnographer Morris Edward Opler's research was done on Native American groups of the American Southwest.

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Sekar K , My Experiments with Projectand Personnel ManagementThis book is a treasure of project management with rich hands on experiences portrayed in a simple manner, deals with four stages of professionals- novice, middle level, executive level and top levels, discussing the essential qualities desired at each level.

The bestselling and infamous diary of a high-class call girl, as seen on the show starring Billie Piper.

New Foreword by Irvine Welsh.

Inspirada en la fortuna e infortunios de la familia Getty, cuyo episodio más dramático y extraordinario, el secuestro y rescate del nieto Paul Getty, es ahora una película cinematógráfica dirigida por Ridley Scott a partir de un guion de David Scarpa y con Michelle Williams, Kevin Spacey y Mark Wahlberg de protagonistas.

¿Cómo empezar de nuevo cuando todo se ha roto en pedazos?

Valery Panovs autobiography, Scene From The Wings, reveals the workings of the ballet world: behind the stardust and the fame Panov is a man living through the prism of his art.

'A masterpiece, as fresh and shocking as if it were written yesterday' Craig Brown"e;I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

'A great celebration of one of our most loved national treasures' Felicity KendalThe term 'national treasure' has seldom been more appropriate.

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.

On Fathers Day, I hadnt received any calls from my kids.

One-Act Plays for School and Theatre is dedicated to children of all ages.

»Springsteen ist eine poetische und musikalische Einladung ins richtige Leben, mit allen Höhen und Tiefen, mit allen Tränen und Lachfalten.

Mark Hellinger, beloved newspaperman, whose Broadway column was read daily by 22,000,000 people, and whose years as a Hollywood producer were marked by such outstanding successes as "e;High Sierra,"e; "e;The Killers,"e; and "e;Naked City,"e; died in 1947 in his forty-fifth year.