William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic Wings (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice.
The definitive biography of the great Shemp Howard, an original member of the Three Stooges, and one of Hollywood's most influential actors that Library Journal calls "e;a complete portrait of a talented character actor,"e; Booklist praises as "e;fascinating,"e; Kirkus Reviews describes as an "e;illuminating.
Bach has remained a figure of continuous fascination and interest to scholars and readers since the original Master Musicians Bach volume's publication in 1983 - even since its revision in 2000, understanding of Bach and his music's historical and cultural context has shifted substantially.
First published in 1978, Snakes and Ladders is volume two of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirsSnakes and Ladders follows Bogarde from the challenges of his army training camp at Catterick, through the horrors of war, to his glittering if often trying film career.
2017 hatte sich Robert Atzorn sehr plötzlich und gefolgt von einem großen Medienecho aus der Öffentlichkeit verabschiedet – und hat sein Vorhaben auch konsequent durchgezogen, trotz zahlreicher Angebote.
Born in Central Europe during the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, three ';vonderful vimmen'Zsa Zsa, Eva, and Magda Gabortransferred their glittery dreams and gold-digging ambitions to Hollywood.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art One of twentieth-century America’s most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray.
Whisperin' Bill: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music presents a revealing portrait of Bill Anderson, one of the most prolific songwriters in the history of country music.
Actress, director, entertainer Joely Fisher's touching, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her unlikely hero, sister Carrie Fisher, ignited the writer in her.
A must-have for every Boyz II Men fan, this unofficial and unauthorized handsome volume traces forty years of the groundbreaking group through stunning photography, fascinating facts, and interviews with fans and industry pros.
Marvin Gaye's life and brilliant career were cut tragically short on April 1, 1984 one day before his 45th birthday when he was shot and killed by his own father.
Emma Lou Diemer--a composer who successfully combines a classicist's interest in form with a fresh, contemporary, harmonic vocabulary--has produced a diverse, sophisticated, and largely unheralded opus, including 350 works composed for orchestra, symphonic band, chamber ensemble, keyboard, chorus, voices, and solo and electronic instruments.
Canadian composer Louis Applebaum devoted his life to the cultural awakening of his native land, and this "e;magnificent obsession"e; drove him to become a founder of the Canadian League of Composers and the Canadian Music Centre.
In the late 1950s, the Limelight gallery and coffeehouse was the intellectual hangout of Greenwich Village, drawing patrons and critics with the work of such figures as Minor White, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Brassa, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Robert Frank.
When the Civil War halted steamboat travel on the Mississippi River in 1861, an unemployed riverboat pilot named Samuel Clemens enlisted in the Missouri militia.
Nicholas Temperley documents the lives, careers, and music of three British composers who emigrated from England in mid-career and became leaders in the musical life of the early United States.
This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into obscurity after leaving New York to marry a scientist in Baltimore, and her constant efforts to reinvent her style and subject matter.
Die Gruberin ganz persönlich – Das E-Book zum Bildband mit Tibor BoziSeit Jahren begeistert Monika Gruber ihre Fans auf der Bühne, zuletzt 20 000 Menschen in der zweimal ausverkauften Olympiahalle – aber wie macht sie das eigentlich?
A self-defined "e;seductress of beautiful women"e; and the by-product of an immense fortune, lesbian activist Mercedes de Acosta (born in 1892) was descended from Spain's Dukes of Alba and a beneficiary of the best education and best social skills that her parents' Gilded Age fortune could buy.
The rise and rise of the 'manufactured' pop group has been a reliable and consistent trend over the last 50 years of the pop music charts, and this entertaining account by Nick Brownlee features them all!
A collection of articles, reviews, essays, and diaries from the celebrated writer: "e;A wonderful book, the wit of which spills over even into the index"e; (The Times, London).
The Unfinished Song of Francisco Urondo: When Poetry is Not Enough is a comprehensive, well-written, documented, and carefully developed study of the literary work and life of Francisco Urondo, an Argentine poet, intellectual, activist, cultural promoter, revolutionary, and clandestine guerilla member who died in 1976 fighting for a cause in which he believed, against the oppressive Argentine Military Junta.
