Download or read book Beverly Hills Adjacent written by Jennifer Steinhauer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During pilot season, June Dietz's husband Mitch Gold becomes another man—a man who doesn't notice her delicious Farmers Market homemade dinners, who mumbles responses around the tooth-whitening trays in his mouth, who is consumed with envy for his fellow television actors, who pants for a return phone call from his agent. And who wants to be married to an abject, paranoid, oblivious mess? Possibly not June, whose job as a poetry professor at UCLA makes her in but not of Los Angeles, with its illogical pecking order and relentless tribal customs. Even their daughter Nora's allegedly innocent world isn't immune from one upsmanship: while Mitch is bested for acting jobs by the casually confident (and so very L.A.) Willie Dermot, June is tormented by Willie's insufferably uptight wife Larissa and the other stay-at-home exercisers in the preschool. Could Rich Friend be the answer? Smart, age-appropriate, bookish—and a wildly successful television producer—Rich focuses on June the way nobody has since she moved to Los Angeles, and there's nothing for June to do but wallow in what she's been missing. But what's the next step? How does a regular person decide between husband and lover, family and fantasy? Set in a Los Angeles you haven't read about before, Beverly Hills Adjacent is that rare thing: a laugh-out-loud novel with heart.
Download or read book Bindlestiff written by Wayne Holloway and published by Influx Press. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2036. In a ramshackle, backwater United States, Marine Corp vet Frank Dubois journeys from L.A. to Detroit, seeking redemption for a life lived off the rails, in a country derailed from its own manifest destiny. In present day Hollywood, a wannabe British film director hustles to get his movie 'Bindlestiff' off the ground starring 'Frank', a black Charlie Chaplin figure cast adrift in post-federal America. Weaving together prose and screenplay Bindlestiff explores the power and responsibility of storytelling, revealing what lies behind the voices we read and the characters we see on screen. We open with a simple image of a man mending a hole in his shoe using a cut off piece of rubber and a tube of glue. From there the story explodes into a broiling satire on race, identity, family, friendship, war, peace, sex, drugs but precious little rock and roll. Bindlestiff. "If it's broke, fix it."
Download or read book The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills written by Jeff Hyland and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will showcase the 50 grandest estates in Southern California. Each estate will have its own chapter, with lavish colour illustrations of the house and grounds accompanied by a complete history from the home's original completion to the present day.
Download or read book Trousdale Estates written by Steven M. Price and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with beautiful, vivid photographs, Trousdale is the definitive history of the architecture and design that defined both Beverly Hills and the ultimate American Dream. Trousdale Estates is a 410-acre enclave of large, luxurious homes in Beverly Hills, California. Primarily developed in the 1950s and ’60s, it quickly became famous for its concentration of celebrity residents and the unrestrained extravagance of its midcentury modern architecture. Often working with unlimited budgets, these designers created sprawling, elegant backdrops for the ultimate expression of the American Dream in the mid-to-late twentieth century. In Trousdale, Price explores the architectural backgrounds, details, and floor plans of the amazing homes, giving readers an inside view of the world-famous Beverly Hills style. Lavish new photography is interspersed with archival and historic images, illustrating the glamour of Trousdale both then and now. Some of the architects of Trousdale include Lloyd Wright, Wallace Neff, Paul R. Williams, Harold Levitt, and A. Quincy Jones.
Download or read book Unreal Estate written by Michael Gross and published by Broadway. This book was released on 2011 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of lucrative real estate in Los Angeles shares the lesser-known contributions of a range of figures from Douglas Fairbanks and Marilyn Monroe to Howard Hughes and Ronald Reagan. By the best-selling author of Rogues' Gallery.
Download or read book Parts Per Million written by Joy Horowitz and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2007 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the landmark tort case involving Beverly Hills High School and Erin Brockovich through which oil drilling practices behind the school's athletic fields were linked to cancer outbreaks among young graduates and a heavily debated legal battle that divided the community and incorporated dramatic scientific, political, and personal influences. 40,000 first printing.
Download or read book written by Alvin Reiter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He spread the cancer," Karen said in disbelief. "He spread the cancer." EVEN DOCTORS CRY tells the story of Dr. Alvin Reiter, his success as a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, his love for his profession and his pride in his work. That work, included being the lead surgeon on the team that reconstructed the shattered face of Rodney King, whose name became a household word after he was beaten by the LAPD. "I always felt like Clark Kent putting on my surgical outfit," Reiter wrote about his transformative role. Then came, however, a time when even Superman could not help. In 1994, Alvin was diagnosed with incurable Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and was given less than a 40% chance of living 6 years, while his wife Karen was diagnosed with early breast cancer in 1999 and given a 95% chance of total cure. The Doctor survived, but Karen did not. She died of metastatic breast cancer in May 2003. Her premature death was aided and abetted by her oncologist, breast and liver surgeons and the gross failure of the medical system in which human error, negligence and hubris can - and did - take a life. The facts are chilling and irrefutable. In the midst of Karen's struggle for her life, Reiter became the target of an unwarranted investigation by the FBI and the US Attorney's office into a billling fraud scandal. Up till the time of her illness he had been living for his surgery, his patients, his wife, their cats and their garden. His paradise was a fool's paradise. He had no idea what evil lurked under the Southern California sun. EVEN DOCTORS CRY tells a riveting story of love, death, scandal and a terribly flawed medical system.
Download or read book Los Angeles Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.
Download or read book Murder Plays House written by Ayelet Waldman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Bad Mother and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits--a mystery series featuring a Los Angeles mom... With a new arrival on the way, the Applebaum household is bursting at the seams. And Juliet is balancing clue-chasing and diaper-changing with a new task: house-hunting… Juliet loves her kids. She loves their dirty little faces and skinned knees. She loves the ridiculous and amazing things they say. But when three-and-a-half year old Isaac evicts her husband and her from their own bed one night, love is the last thing on her mind. Juliet now recognizes the need for a few changes…starting with a bigger house. And when the new baby arrives, they’ll welcome the extra space. But if there’s ever a bad time to search for a new house in L.A., it’s now. In a buyer-unfriendly real estate market, one practically has to kill to find an affordable home. No wonder Juliet is prepared to over look a corpse on the grounds of her would-be dream house. To salve her conscience—and get her foot literally in the front door—she vows to find the killer of the homeowner’s sister. The investigation leads her from the madness of house-hunting into a world of washed-up actors and canceled TV shows, a world more depraved than she could ever have imagined… “[Juliet is] a lot like Elizabeth Peters’ warm and humorous Amelia Peabody—a brassy, funny, quick-witted protagonist.”—Houston Chronicle Ayelet Waldman is the author of numerous books including Love and Treasure and the Mommy-Track Mysteries featuring Juliet Applebaum. The series includes such titles as The Big Nap, A Playdate with Death, and Death Gets a Time-Out.
Download or read book A Collection of Souls written by J. C. Miller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a world in which witches and curses exist and in which each one of us has an evil double somewhere in the world. In A Collection of Souls, J. C. Miller shares terrifying tales that encourage us to believe in magic—even just for a moment—while imagining the consequences if creatures of myth suddenly appeared or whether it is possible to fall in love with a ghost. Miller offers a diverse collection of short stories filled with eclectic characters that transport others back in time as helpless observers, sending them to a medieval Polish manor; a Civil War battlefield, befriending a monster raised from the dead; to a Beverly Hills home where decreased relatives have set up permanent residence; and a village where a dead spirit scares away coyotes and skin-walkers. More frightening tales await as ants play host to tiny alien travelers who have lost their way; a dog travels down back alleys guided by a master from another planet; and a human finds love in the arms of a beautiful alien. A Collection of Souls shares an intriguing, wild ride through fear, delight, and magic that will challenge beliefs and explore all the potential horror that lurks in the shadows—just waiting.
Download or read book DIRTY LAUNDRY written by JANET JAYMES and published by Author House. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirty Laundry is a memoir written as conversational novellas to the four men who came into Janet Jaymes’ life. Whenever we start a relationship, we talk about our past, our myriad thoughts, desires and dreams. Through such conversations, Janet Jaymes’ describes her life as if each novella is an emotional panel that sewn together becomes a colorful quilt written in the bold colors Janet Jaymes used to paint as a young artist. Dirty Laundry is about a woman who, for years, always seemed to walk into the strangest situations and unconventional relationships she never asked for, as if she was in the wrong place at the right time, or the right time in the wrong place. For Janet Jaymes, life didn’t turn out like she planned. Dirty Laundry describes in remarkable detailed-memory, in brutal honesty, and with a sense-of-humor-reality, the good, the bad and the ugly of an average woman’s life that turned out to be far from average. Dirty Laundry is an emotional, roller-coaster ride like a high-flying drug trip with crashing, coming-down lows and in the end, we find out how Janet Jaymes survived. Dirty Laundry is an entertaining human interest portrayal of a woman’s life that guarantees to be a page-turner.
Download or read book Albert Brooks written by Alexander Greenhough and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Brooks: Interviews brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Brooks (b. 1947), in which he contemplates, expounds upon, and hilariously jokes about the connections between his show business upbringing, an ambivalence about the film industry, the nature of fame and success, and the meaning and purpose of comedy. Throughout all these encounters, Brooks expresses an unwavering commitment to his own artistic expression as a filmmaker and a rejection of mainstream conventions. With his questioning and critical disposition, nothing seems certain for Albert Brooks except for the integrity of art and the necessity for a wry skepticism about the incongruities of everyday life in corporate America. Brooks is neither a Hollywood insider nor an outsider. He’s somewhere in-between. Since the early 1970s, this inimitable actor-writer-director has incisively satirized the mass media system from within. After initial work as an inventive comedian, both live and on network television, Brooks contributed six shorts to the first season of Saturday Night Live, which earned him a cult following for their avant-garde form and sensibility. These were followed by his feature debut, Real Life, the first of only seven films—including Modern Romance, Lost in America, and Defending Your Life—that Brooks has directed to date. His limited output reflects not only the difficulty in financing idiosyncratic films, but equally the exacting seriousness which Brooks has in making audiences laugh and think at the same time.
Download or read book Easy for You written by Shannan Rouss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this debut collection, Shannan Rouss delivers ten sharply etched stories set against the endless freeways and twinkling lights of Los Angeles. Each one provides a momentary glimpse into the lives of the inhabitants of this sprawling space where lines and lives intersect. We are introduced to the world of a millionaire who plays host to his ex-lover's wedding, a young bulimic woman whose relationship with a chef crumbles over a truffle, a Laurel Canyon housewife whose only confidante is the daughter of her Russian maid, and other stories from the City of Angels. Filled with heartbreak and humor, Easy for You depicts the universal desire to find something true, and the lengths people will go to connect.
Download or read book CCAR Journal The Reform Jewish Quarterly Summer 2022 written by Elaine Rose Glickman and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2022-08-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly, Summer 2022 Published by CCAR Press, a division of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Download or read book The Longest Date written by Cindy Chupack and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Between Boyfriends Book and an award-winning writer for Sex and the City and Modern Family takes a hilarious, heartbreaking look at marriage Cindy Chupack has spent much of her adult life writing about dating and relationships for several hit TV series and as a sex columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine. At the age of thirty-nine, she finally found The One—and a wealth of new material. Marriage, Cindy discovered, was more of an adventure than she ever imagined, and in this collection of essays she deftly examines the comedy and cringe-worthy aspects of matrimony. Soulful yet self-deprecating, The Longest Date recounts her first marriage (he was gay) and the meeting of Husband No. 2, Ian. After the courtship and ceremony, both Cindy and Ian realized that happily ever after takes some practice, and near constant negotiation over everyday matters like cooking, sex, holidays, monogamy, and houseguests. The Longest Date takes a serious turn when it comes to infertility. The Longest Date is the perfect companion for anyone navigating a serious relationship, be it newlyweds or couples moving in that direction.
Download or read book The Gold Standard written by Ari Gold and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ari Gold, after years of dominating the Hollywood agency scene, finally offers invaluable tips and advice on how to be as successful in work and in life as Gold himself. Ari Gold is known for his ruthless approach to deal-making and client relationships that made him one of, if not the, most powerful and sought-after agents in Hollywood until he retired in 2011. In his new book The Golden Standard, Gold will illuminate, for the first time, his unique, effective and, some would say, outrageous philosophies on running a successful business, client management, employee motivation, keeping a happy home life, and other keys to his many successes. Brash, emphatic, instructive and always wise, Gold's book will rival business and leadership bestsellers the world over. In his own words and with his trademark enthusiasm, Gold's tome will be the only book anyone wanting to make something of him or herself will ever need. Ari Gold says: "In my humble opinion, if you want to run a successful business this is the only book you'll ever have to read. And my humble opinion is never wrong."
Download or read book The Spiritual Vixen s Guide To An Unapologetic Life written by Maureen Muldoon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story begins with an ending: the day Maureen Muldoon realized the devastating fact that her husband was having an affair—and leaving her for Miss Universe. Miss freaking Universe! How does this even happen? An intimate examination of Muldoon’s unraveling in the face of this betrayal, A Spiritual Vixen’s Guide to An Unapologetic Life takes a fresh, funny and fearless look at loss, denial, anger, grace, and liberation. Muldoon reveals the strength that comes from facing one’s fears, the humor that arrives in the darkest hours, and the miracles that happen when you least expect them in this grand tapestry of tales from the dark side. Ultimately, with wit and wisdom, she walks herself out of hell in a pair of sexy stilettos and manages to do what the all the king’s horses and all the king’s men could not: she puts herself back together. And in doing so, she comes to find more beauty and strength in the fractured places than anyone would have ever imagined.
