Download or read book Rumors on the Red Carpet written by Carole Mortimer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rumors on the Red Carpet Learning at the hands of a billionaire When a dream holiday propels Thia into the glittering world of New York's scandalous elite, she catches the eye of renowned businessman Lucien Steele. For the first time, Thia's determined to take what she really wants...love and life in the fast lane! The Talk of Hollywood Lights, Camera, Bedroom! From his latest sports car to his latest blonde, gossip surrounds infamous Hollywood director Jaxon Wilder. Infuriatingly, Stazy Bromley proves resistant to Jaxon's usual charms--and demands an equal stake in his project! Is it only a matter of time before another scandalous affair rocks the tabloids?
Download or read book Red Carpet written by Erich Schwartzel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a fascinating book. It will educate you. Schwartzel has done some extraordinary reporting." — The New York Times Book Review “In this highly entertaining but deeply disturbing book, Erich Schwartzel demonstrates the extent of our cultural thrall to China. His depiction of the craven characters, American and Chinese, who have enabled this situation represents a significant feat of investigative journalism. His narrative is about not merely the movie business, but the new world order.” —Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree and The Noonday Demon An eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that details the surprising role of the movie business in the high-stakes contest between the U.S. and China From trade to technology to military might, competition between the United States and China dominates the foreign policy landscape. But this battle for global influence is also playing out in a strange and unexpected arena: the movies. The film industry, Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel explains, is the latest battleground in the tense and complex rivalry between these two world powers. In recent decades, as China has grown into a giant of the international economy, it has become a crucial source of revenue for the American film industry. Hollywood studios are now bending over backward to make movies that will appeal to China’s citizens—and gain approval from severe Communist Party censors. At the same time, and with America’s unwitting help, China has built its own film industry into an essential arm of its plan to export its national agenda to the rest of the world. The competition between these two movie businesses is a Cold War for this century, a clash that determines whether democratic or authoritarian values will be broadcast most powerfully around the world. Red Carpet is packed with memorable characters who have—knowingly or otherwise—played key roles in this tangled industry web: not only A-list stars like Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, and Richard Gere but also eccentric Chinese billionaires, zany expatriate filmmakers, and starlets who disappear from public life without explanation or trace. Schwartzel combines original reporting, political history, and show-biz intrigue in an exhilarating tour of global entertainment, from propaganda film sets in Beijing to the boardrooms of Hollywood studios to the living rooms in Kenya where families decide whether to watch an American or Chinese movie. Alarming, occasionally absurd, and wildly entertaining, Red Carpet will not only alter the way we watch movies but also offer essential new perspective on the power struggle of this century.
Download or read book Hollywood Gossip written by Kristina Adams and published by Kristina Adams. This book was released on with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They’re rich, they’re famous, and they’re about to fall apart… From Kristina Adams, author of the bestselling What Happens in… series comes the first book in the prequel companion series Hollywood Gossip. Jump back in time to when Tate and Jack were in their late teens, trying to transition from child stars to megastars. Follow them on their journey from enemies to lovers alongside familiar faces from the What Happens in Hollywood Universe and new ones you’re going to love. Tate What’s it really like to grow up rich and famous? Pressure. So much pressure. Unbelievable, inescapable pressure. My whole life has been about building my brand as an actor and singer. Reaching the top of the Hollywood ladder. I will not let anyone screw it up. Not even Jack. He’s talented, sure, but his work ethic is non-existent. I have no time for people like him. Yet I’m weirdly drawn to him and I can’t work out why. He’s so different to anyone else I’ve ever met. So completely outside of my celebrity bubble. It’s refreshing. But it’s also dangerous. He could completely ruin everything I’ve spent my whole life building. Am I about to screw up my whole life for one guy? For one chance at love? Jack I never had anything growing up. I was a homeless orphan doing what I could to survive. One night, I got lucky DJing and a record label hired me. My first album took off, but I can’t seem to replicate its success. So instead, I drink. And I party. And I do whatever else I can to run from my problems. Or I did. Until she walked in. Tate’s like no one I’ve ever met. She’s obsessed with work. But that’s not why I’m drawn to her. She’s funny, she’s sexy, and she’s intelligent. Oh, and she hates me. I mean, I don’t blame her. We couldn’t be more different. But what if…she didn’t hate me? Could our musical collaboration turn into something more, or am I living in a romantic fantasy? Hollywood Gossip is part one of a dual POV six-book love story with morally grey celebrities, difficult women, supportive (but stubborn) men, frenemies, poetry, an on/off relationship, and an asthmatic popstar. Not every Hollywood Gossip book has a happy ending, but you will find one at the end of the series. Before they can truly love each other, Tate and Jack first have to love themselves. And that's where our story begins.
Download or read book Walk This Way written by Geoff Edgers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind “Walk This Way,” Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music. The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair metal bands were selling out stadiums, while clubs and house parties in New York City had spawned a new genre of music. At the time, though, hip hop's reach was limited, an art form largely ignored by mainstream radio deejays and the rock-obsessed MTV network. But in 1986, the music world was irrevocably changed when Run-DMC covered Aerosmith's hit “Walk This Way” in the first rock-hip hop collaboration. Others had tried melding styles. This was different, as a pair of iconic arena rockers and the young kings of hip hop shared a studio and started a revolution. The result: Something totally new and instantly popular. Most importantly, "Walk This Way" would be the first rap song to be played on mainstream rock radio. In Walk This Way, Geoff Edgers sets the scene for this unlikely union of rockers and MCs, a mashup that both revived Aerosmith and catapulted hip hop into the mainstream. He tracks the paths of the main artists—Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Joseph “Run” Simmons, and Darryl “DMC” McDaniels—along with other major players on the scene across their lives and careers, illustrating the long road to the revolutionary marriage of rock and hip hop. Deeply researched and written in cinematic style, this music history is a must-read for fans of hip hop, rock, and everything in between.
Download or read book Harlequin Presents December 2013 Bundle 1 of 2 written by Sharon Kendrick and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8 original stories! This month, Harlequin Presents brings you eight original passionate stories in one convenient bundle! This Harlequin Presents bundle includes new releases Defiant in the Desert and The Sheikh's Undoing by USA TODAY bestselling author Sharon Kendrick, The Prince She Never Knew and Khaladov's Last Mistress by USA TODAY bestselling author Kate Hewitt, Rumors on the Red Carpet and The Talk of Hollywood by USA TODAY bestselling author Carole Mortimer and His Ultimate Prize and The Price of Success by Maya Blake. Glamor and Passion collide with 8 new romances every month from Harlequin Presents!
Download or read book Behind the Screen written by Spencer Lewerenz and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to Hollywood, Christians too quickly wash their hands of popular culture and leave this immensely influential media to unbelievers. In truth, the industry is listening. There is a church in Hollywood, but too often their work is unrecognized. Behind the Screen offers a glimpse of Hollywood insiders who, through their jobs on movie sets, behind TV shows, and in radio broadcasts, work together to give glory to God. With contributions from the writers and producers of such productions as Joan of Arcadia, Mission Impossible, Batman Forever, That '70s Show, and others, believers everywhere are encouraged to join with the church in Hollywood and do their part in closing the gap between Christianity and culture.
Download or read book Something to Talk About written by Meryl Wilsner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A showrunner and her assistant give the world something to talk about when they accidentally fuel a ridiculous rumor in this debut romance. Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called scandal couldn't come at a worse time—threatening Emma's promotion and Jo's new movie. As the gossip spreads, it starts to affect all areas of their lives. Paparazzi are following them outside the office, coworkers are treating them differently, and a “source” is feeding information to the media. But their only comment is “no comment”. With the launch of Jo’s film project fast approaching, the two women begin to spend even more time together, getting along famously. Emma seems to have a sixth sense for knowing what Jo needs. And Jo, known for being aloof and outwardly cold, opens up to Emma in a way neither of them expects. They begin to realize the rumor might not be so off base after all…but is acting on the spark between them worth fanning the gossip flames?
Download or read book A Lost Love written by Carole Mortimer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic bestselling romance, a wife reinvents herself after a near-fatal accident and plots revenge on her millionaire husband who thinks she died. Brooke Adamson knew how devilishly handsome magnate, Rafe Charlwood felt about her. She was his wife after all—or rather she had been, until a terrible car accident three years ago, which Rafe still believed had claimed her life. Now she’s returned, with a new face and identity, to claim her son. But even though she despises Rafe—almost as much as he hates the memory of the woman he married—resisting his sinful touch and devastating kiss proves more difficult than Brooke ever anticipated . . .
Download or read book GYPSY written by Carole Mortimer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can get swept away once again by this powerful, sizzling,bestselling story from Carole Mortimer. Claiming his woman… Shay is the raven-haired beauty the Falconer brothers called Gypsy.Irresistible to each brother, it was Lyon Falconer who claimedher—when he didn't have the right… Yet it was Ricky, the youngestFalconer, who picked up the fragments of Shay's shattered life andmarried her out of love. But, with her husband's death, destiny hashurled Shay back within Lyon's reach. Now Lyon has a final chance toprove that Shay has always been—and would always be—his!
Download or read book First Love Last Love written by Carole Mortimer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't miss your chance to meet this sexy playboy boss in a seductive reissue from reader-favourite Carole Mortimer. One night with her playboy boss… Alexander Blair is definitely the wrong man for Lauri. Not only is he a shameless playboy with a revolving door to his bedroom, he's also older than her—and her boss! He's everything that Lauri doesn't want. Yet the undeniable attraction between them is almost too strong to resist… So when Alexander suggests that the best way to get over their desire is to give in to it, it sounds like a reasonable theory… But, in practice, their passion for each other doesn't work that way!
Download or read book Devil Lover written by Carole Mortimer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't miss out on the second chance to get your hands on thisgorgeous Greek tycoon from bestselling author Carole Mortimer. A marriage for revenge… Powerful Greek magnate, Andreas Vatis has everyreason to hate Regan. Not only is his pride severely wounded, butbecause of her father's actions, he lost something much more valuable.Before he passed away, Regan's father seduced Andreas's wife and ranoff with her—and Andreas's means to continue the Vatis empire… Now Andreas is determined to take his revenge from Regan—with the ruthlessdemand that she replace what her father deprived him of—a wife and anheir!
Download or read book Hollywood Secret written by Nicole French and published by Raglan publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Baker was a jerk. A chiseled, green-eyed, hypnotizingly delicious jerk. And like a bad penny, he just kept showing up. Crashed my bike? There he was. Flat tire? One more time. And yet he thought I was the one stalking him. Seriously. How paranoid do you have to be? But the more I got know my intense new neighbor, the more his hard shell cracked, revealing a soulful man starved for affection. A man whose secrets were eating him alive. Just like mine. He was broken. I was broken. But together we seemed whole. Maybe, just maybe, we could fix each other. If our secrets didn't break us first. Author's Note Hollywood Secret was originally published as Discreet, a steamy, 120,000-word celebrity romance from USA Today bestselling author Nicole French.
Download or read book Winning From Walk On to Captain in Football and Life written by Gary Brackett and published by Clerisy Press. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framed within the frenzy leading up to a Super Bowl, Gary Brackett flashes back to the defining moments and lessons in his journey leading to the threshold of a championship season. With his heart metaphorically on his jersey sleeve, Gary invites the reader inside the world of NFL football and the drama leading up to the biggest game day of the year. Along the way, Gary provides glimpses of real-life heroes, on and off the field, as he recounts the stories in this touching testament to the memory of his mom, dad and brother.
Download or read book Tales of a Hollywood Gossip Queen written by Mary Kennedy and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessie's the queen of buzz... and she's about to get stung! Landing the star role in Reckless Summer-filmed at her high school last year-definitely had its perks for Jessie Philips. She shared romantic scenes with the superstar, Shane Rockett, and he set her heart aflame. Then he doused it when she caught him kissing a co-star. Jessie thought a summer like that could never be topped-but she was so wrong. Now she's landed her own teen celeb column in a gossip magazine. Jessie gets to live in Hollywood and rub elbows with all the celebs she drools over (hopefully there will be more rubbing than drooling). She's seeing a lot more of Shane and he's sending out signals too...but sightings of him with a teen actress are giving her major doubts. With Shane's needed A-list contacts and his gorgeous smile, is it worth risking her heart again? It looks like this summer's hottest gossip may be about Jessie.
Download or read book Bad Boy Hidden Secrets written by Michelle Love and published by Blessings For All SC. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this bad boy, secret baby romance collection at a terrific discount. You don’t have to be a damsel in distress to love a man who takes charge. Sink your teeth into these seductive Billionaires and the women they worship. Make sure to bring a glass of water! Book one: His Hidden Love: A Holiday Romance (Their Secret Desire Book 1) When singer India Blue meets superstar actor Massimo Verdi, their sexual attraction is immediate and almost overwhelming. But India is plagued by a dark secret, and when her life is threatened, the two would-be lovers find their love inundated with jeopardy and distance. Complicating matters is India's close relationship with her friend, K-pop star Sun, who is in turmoil as well. After photographs of Massimo kissing his ex-girlfriend flood the internet, India flees to Seoul where she and the distressed Sun rekindle their sexual relationship. With two men in her heart and another determined to kill her, India becomes mired in uncertainty and depression. When she and Massimo reconnect, she begins to see a way of out of her gloom and falls in love with him... ...except her vengeful psychopath is never far behind. With more secrets getting revealed, India needs to decide who to love-and who to trust. Book two: Secrets of the Flame: A Doctor Romance (Saved by the Doctor Book 1) My last year of med school, the best year ever because of her-my future changed forever because of her... From the moment I saw her, I knew there was something between us not many people find. Passionate nights, stolen kisses throughout our busy days; she and I had the same goals-goals that would end the special connection we'd found. Leaving her behind proved to be the hardest thing I'd ever done. Finding her one day in a Seattle hospital, tending to one of my best friends, proved that old flame had never completely gone out. No longer the easygoing, easy-to-love girl I'd known years ago, she'd become guarded. My only question-why? Keywords: bad boy, Secret baby, Doctor, happily ever after, love books, love stories, romantic novels, sexually romantic books, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers. Christmas romance, holiday ebooks.
Download or read book Romance Short Stories written by Ivy Wonder and published by Blessings For All SC. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this bad-boy billionaire romance collection at a terrific discount. One Night in a Strange City (A His Hidden Love Extra) When Gracia Verdi meets the members of K-pop band, Midnight Snow, at her brother’s wedding, she is immediately attracted to the extroverted Chul, the flamboyant singer. When they hang out with her in New York City in the days following the wedding to do the tourist thing, Gracia realizes she has more in common with the quieter, eccentric Kyu, and as they spend time together, his kind and sensitive nature makes Gracia fall hard for him. But Kyu is too shy to tell Gracia how he really feels, and when a jealous Chul teases him, he goes missing. Wherever You Are (A Fire in the Blood Short Story) Nick Stavos gazed out of the window of his family’s private jet as it circled into its landing at the airport. He hadn’t been back to Greece for a few years now, and he hadn’t wanted to come this time… except he couldn’t not come. His dad, his beloved Papa, Georgiou, was dying. “Lung cancer, my boy,” Georgiou had told him in a gentle, upbeat tone. “Both lungs. Comes to us all.” This Feeling (An All of Me extra story) After widowhood and a disastrous, almost-fatal romance with a psychopath, coffeehouse owner Sarah Knowles has avoided romantic entanglements for the past few years, concentrating on herself and her business. While her best friend and co-owner Tiger Rose is away in Paris with her husband, Lazlo, Sarah advertises for temporary help for the coffeehouse and is surprised when a young gorgeous Korean-American man, Jae, applies for the job. Due to his experience, Sarah hires him and soon a mutual attraction begins to build between them—despite the fact that Sarah is a decade older. She resists the temptation to begin a romance with Jae but he soon makes it clear he is attracted to her. Keywords: billionaire, bad boy, love books, love stories, new adult, sweet romance, romantic novels, sexually romantic books, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after.
Download or read book Velvet Promise written by Carole Mortimer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another chance to enjoy this emotional and dramatic story from USA TODAY bestselling author Carole Mortimer. Learning to trust his touch… Jordan St. James has never concealed his contempt for Willow. He believes she trapped his wealthy cousin into marriage—with her pregnancy—and then walked out on him! So when she returns three years later, Willow is completely unprepared for Jordan's passionate and determined pursuit of her—and surprised by her own equally passionate response! But Willow is hiding a dark secret—one she finds painful and shameful. Can she ever trust Jordan enough to tell him the truth about her marriage…?
