Download or read book You Can t Be Serious written by Kal Penn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The star of the Harold and Kumar franchise, House, and Designated Survivor recounts why he rejected the advice of his aunties and guidance counselors and, instead of becoming a doctor or “something practical,” embarked on a surprising journey that has included confronting racism in Hollywood, meeting his future husband, and working in the Obama administration, in this “incredibly joyful and insightful” (Kiefer Sutherland) memoir. You Can’t Be Serious is a series of funny, consequential, awkward, and ridiculous stories from Kal Penn’s idiosyncratic life. It’s about being the grandson of Gandhian freedom fighters, and the son of immigrant parents: people who came to this country with very little and went very far—and whose vision of the American dream probably never included their son sliding off an oiled-up naked woman in the raunchy Ryan Reynolds movie Van Wilder…or getting a phone call from Air Force One as Kal flew with the country’s first Black president. “By turns hilarious, poignant, and inspiring” (David Axelrod, New York Times bestselling author), Kal reflects on the most exasperating and rewarding moments from his journey so far. He pulls back the curtain on the nuances of opportunity and racism in the entertainment industry and recounts how he built allies, found encouragement, and dealt with early reminders that he might never fit in. He describes his initially unpromising first date with his now-fiancé Josh, involving an 18-pack of Coors Light and an afternoon of watching NASCAR. And of course, he reveals how, after a decade and a half of fighting for and enjoying successes in Hollywood, he made the terrifying but rewarding decision to take a sabbatical from a fulfilling acting career for an opportunity to serve his country as an Obama White House aide. Above all, You Can’t Be Serious shows that everyone can have more than one life story. The book “is insightful, funny, and instructive for anyone who’s ever grappled with how they fit into the American dream” (Ronan Farrow, New York Times bestselling author), and demonstrates that no matter who you are and where you come from, you have many more choices than those presented to you. And okay, yes, it’s also about how Kal accidentally (and very stupidly) accepted an invitation to take the entire White House Office of Public Engagement to a strip club—because, let’s be honest, that’s the kind of stuff you really want to hear about.
Download or read book AGAINFILM written by George Sydgal and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description Book Title: “AGAINFILM” "On the pages of the book, Sarah, the producer, brings her successful film production to life. There is always a way out of chaos." Lights, Love, Chaos: A Producer's Story Sarah, a successful producer, is well-acquainted with the taste of success. However, her life is far from the glamour it appears to be on the red carpet. Her personal life is like a house of cards on the verge of collapse; her boyfriend, whom she truly loves, is a notorious womanizer who shows no signs of settling down. Her career is not spared from chaos either, as she finds herself at a low point. Just when it seems all hope is lost, a series of unexpected events begin to reshape Sarah's life. The author, also a film director and screenwriter, innovatively uses cinematic techniques to tell Sarah's story. The dialogue and scenes vividly emerge, captivating the reader and providing a unique reading experience. Discover how Sarah overcomes the turmoil, and how she finds herself anew through love, lights, and chaos.
Download or read book Don t Mess with the Press written by Tony Seton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How to Write, Produce and Report Quality Television News is in a Paperback format"--Editor.
Download or read book I Don t Know What You Know Me From written by Judy Greer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know Judy Greer, right? Maybe from The Wedding Planner, 13 Going on 30, Carrie, Arrested Development, or The Descendants. Yes, you totally recognize her. And, odds are, you already feel like she’s your friend. In her first book of essays, I Don’t Know What You Know Me From, Greer writes about everything you would hope to hear from your best friend: how a midnight shopping trip to Walgreens can cure all; what it’s like to wake up one day with stepchildren; and how she really feels about fans telling her that she’s prettier in person. Yes, it’s all here—from the hilarious moments to the intimate confessions. But Judy Greer isn’t just a regular friend—she’s a celebrity friend. Want to know which celebs she’s peed next to? Or what the Academy Awards are actually like? Or which hot actor gave her father a Harley-Davidson? Don’t worry; Greer reveals all of that, too. You’ll love her because, besides being laugh-out-loud funny, she makes us genuinely feel like she’s one of us. Because even though she sometimes has a stylist and a makeup artist, she still wears (and hates!) Spanx. Because even after almost twenty years in Hollywood, she still hasn’t figured everything out—except that you should always wash your face before bed. Always.
Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Download or read book Women Make Movies written by John Gaspard and published by Albert's Bridge Books. This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advice from the Trenches Are you looking to break into the film business? Read valuable lessons from these formidable women about the art and craft of making movies: How to break in, stay in and rise to the top. Eleven women who've found success in the film and television industry (directors, actors, writers, editors, executives) talk about what it took to get them to where they are today. Amy Heckerling (Director, Clue, Fast Times at Ridgemont High) Susan Seidelman (Director, Desperately Seeking Susan) Lesli Linka Glater (Director, Homeland, The West Wing, Twin Peaks) Carol Littleton (Editor, The Big Chill, Body Heat) Nancy Savoca (Director, True Love, Household Saints) Dody Dorn (Editor, Memento, Insomnia) Susan Coyne (Actress, Co-Creator, Slings & Arrows) Mo Collins (Actress, MadTV, Fear The Walking Dead) Edie Falco (Actress, The Sopranos, Nurse Jackie) Debra Eisenstadt (Actress, Oleanna and Director, Blush and Before the Sun Explodes) Donna Smith (Production Manager and the first women to run production at a major studio) This book provides great insight and information on the real story behind working in the film business. Grab it today!
Download or read book If It Bleeds It Leads written by Laura Di Battista and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1986 and sex is everywhere, even in the workplace. Cara Angeli has just landed her first full-time job working in a local newsroom. Although it is only an entry-level position, Cara is confident that hard work and diligence will help her achieve her dream of being a television reporter. Unfortunately, Cara does not realize the lengths she will have to go to in order to reach her goal. As she begins her job as a production assistant in a newsroom full of lecherous bosses and motley co-workers, Cara soon discovers the television news business is not as glamorous as she once envisioned. Amid the shortcomings of a womanizing news director, an insecure anchorman, and colleagues determined to stop at nothing to get the lead story, Cara doggedly climbs an unsteady career ladder. As she attempts to balance her quest for true love with her desire for professional success, only time will tell if she will be able to attain everything she has ever wanted despite a violent act and a heartbreaking loss. If It Bleeds, It Leads shares the compelling tale of a young womans journey through the cutthroat world of television news as she explores friendship, love, and the power of her own perseverance.
Download or read book Eight Decades of American Life As Lived by Jimmie and his Family written by and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SEALs in Paradise written by Cat Johnson and published by Cat Johnson. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains these 6 titles: HOT SEAL, DIRTY MARTINI Clay & Tasha "adorably hilarious love story!" A Navy SEAL who wants seclusion. A diva who craves the spotlight. The deal they make could give them both what they need, if they don't kill each other from being trapped in the same house together first. HOT SEAL, TIJUANA NIGHTS Zach & Gabby "sexual tension out the wazoo!” This Navy SEAL survived Houthi rebels, but he might not survive his sister’s best friend. HOT SEAL, RUNAWAY BRIDE Nick & Dani "deliciously page-turning" Friends? No. Enemies? Maybe. Lovers? Never! Ten years isn't nearly long enough for her to forgive or forget the boy next door. HOT SEAL, HEARTBREAKER Brian & Alicia “adorable & funny Navy-SEAL-fake-date-Valentine's-Day love story!” When one Navy SEAL heartbreaker gets a dose of his own medicine and falls hard, he has to convince the commitment-adverse woman he's fake dating that love isn’t the enemy. HOT SEAL, COLD WATER Joanne Rossi & Jacob "Swoon of major proportions" When a Navy SEAL on leave clashes with a Hollywood producer with bad directions and a worse attitude, they both find a love they didn’t know they were looking for. HOT SEAL, UNDER PRESSURE Stefan & Shelly “full of action, romance and lots of fun” One SEAL gets embroiled in more than he can handle when he’s ordered to train and compete with a sexy civilian female in a reality show that tests him in ways the Navy never did.
Download or read book Cocktails at Seven Apocalypse at Eight written by Don Bassingthwaite and published by ChiZine. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “THE ONLY PROPER PLACE FOR ICE IS IN A COCKTAIL . . .” I’m Derby Cavendish—that’s pronounced Derby with an “ar” sound, not an “er”: remember that for later. Ever since I was a boy, the forces of the otherworldly have been drawn to me like divas to a spotlight. But I’m ready for them. Bring it on, bitches. He’s the reason there are no zombies at Christmas, no fairy magic (the bad kind) at Gay Pride, and no werewolves (except one and he’s a dear friend) at Hanukkah. He’s Derby Cavendish, and for several years, celebrated author Don Bassingthwaite has been bringing him to life each holiday season. Now for the first time, these flamboyantly funny, supernaturally saucy stories have been brought together in one fabulous, long-awaited collection. (Fruitcake faddler sold separately.) If you like your chills with giggles and glitter, Cocktails at Seven, Apocalypse at Eight is for you!
Download or read book Who Cares written by Mort Fleischmann and published by Who Cares?. This book was released on 2008-12-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about Hollywood personalities such as Bob Hope, Cary Grant and Johnny Carson, but here is an even deeper look at these icons. This is not tabloid stuff, but a personal intimate look at the celebrities. * Mort's adventures in New York, growing up, and getting into trouble, during the depression, his three friends who shaped each other's lives in amazing ways, training in the Army Air Force Cadets and how fate can play such an important role in all our futures is in this book. * This is a personal glimpse of one who was in service during World War II and what it was like from a navigator-bombardier-pilot's point of view. * The behind-the-scenes stories and history of radio and television, from its infancy, is told by someone who was actually there, and knew the people involved. His tales are both dramatic and humorous and document history in the making, up to today's modern military and civilian technology. The inside story about the RCA Corporation is here. Fascinating stuff
Download or read book Darkening the Italian Screen written by Eugenio Ercolani and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth and rise of popular Italian cinema since the early 1950s can be attributed purely to necessity. The vast number of genres, sub-genres, currents and crossovers and the way they have overlapped, died out or replaced each other has been an attempt, in postwar years, to contain the invasion of U.S. product while satisfying the demands the American industry had created in Italy. The author explores one of the most multi-faceted and contradictory industries cinema has ever known through the careers of those most closely associated with it. His recorded interviews were conducted with directors and actors both well-known and upcoming.
Download or read book Sinful Woman written by James M. Cain and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel by “one of the greats of American noir,” a starlet comes to Reno to start a new life—and end her old one forever (The Guardian). Sylvia Shoreham’s Hollywood dreams came true long ago. Critically beloved for her beauty, talent, and style, she was on her way to international stardom when a bad contract committed her to seven years of trashy comedies and half-baked melodramas. Her marriage to her producer husband has become a rotten, loveless sham, so Sylvia’s silver screen life is now a nightmare. To escape her celluloid hell, she has only one option: Forget Hollywood. Instead, it’s time for a Reno vacation. She arrives in Nevada hoping for a divorce from her husband and an end to her contract, but the ugly side of the business follows her. To protect herself, she enlists Nevada’s biggest Sylvia Shoreham fan. He’s six feet tall, strong as a mule, and just happens to be Reno’s sheriff. And when her divorce turns into a war, this Hollywood icon will be glad to have him on her side. Praise for James M. Cain’s fiction “Cleverly plotted.” —The New York Times “Swift and absorbing.” —The Wall Street Journal
Download or read book Murder in a Hot Flash written by Marlys Millhiser and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reluctant psychic Charlie Greene is called on to solve the case when a horror-film director gets the ax—and Charlie’s mother is the prime suspect Between doing lunches, making deals, and being a full-time single mom, Hollywood literary agent and part-time psychic Charlie Greene doesn’t have time to solve crimes. But when the number-one suspect in the murder of schlock horror director Gordon Cabot is her menopausal mother, Charlie suddenly finds herself a major player in a real-life movie more shocking than any screenwriter could have dreamed up. Cabot’s callous disregard for the teeming plant life and critters serving as extras in his overbudget new film has made him plenty of enemies, including Charlie’s mother, a biology professor specializing in rodents of the high-desert plateau. In spite of their volatile relationship, Charlie’s certain that her mother’s hot flashes have nothing to do with the corpse chilling out in this remote stretch of Utah desert, and to clear her mom’s name, Charlie teams up with swoonworthy superstar environmentalist Mitch Hilsten. Amid warring film crews, wild cliff glides, and fears that Charlie’s agency is going under, she and Mitch race to catch a cunning killer of the lethal, two-legged variety in this electrifying novel.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-06-22 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Download or read book Hazel Wood Girl written by Judy May Murphy and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DAY ONE I have NO friends. None. Count them. It's OFFICIAL since last night, and I can't even feel angry any more these days. I don't feel anything now, it's like having pins-and-needles in the places where I used to feel happy or sad. I mean, God, you'd think that I could make one person like me after six months here. I can't believe people are still annoyed that I had lunch with Danny from Chemistry when I didn't even know he was that girl's boyfriend for the last million years. I think they just like having someone easy to hate. Ever since her family moved to the country to live on a farm, Poppy's been miserable. She has a new life and a new school but unfortunately no new friends. Luckily, that's all about to change...
