Download or read book An Affair with Hollywood written by Roger Niez and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Affair with Hollywood written by Roger Niez and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Affair with Hollywood are stories of a bodyguard and limo driver working during the height of male chauvinism in Hollywood during the historic 1980s. His personal relationships with clients, and his interactions with wishful young actresses, presented him with a medium into the party scene...and what was truly going on with this sexually charged era. Throughout these stories, he dives headfirst into exploring the Hollywood scene and the mindsets involved during the peak of the casting couch, favor making, and drug usage.
Download or read book My Love Affair with Hollywood written by jJackie Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Jackie Epstein's work as a Hollywood columnist, tennis columnist, speaker, and publicist for film and television, and her husband's career as an Entertainment editor for the Herald-Examiner, , doors to the celebrity world opened up, and they were able to enjoy the luxuries of the rich, while raising a family on a paycheck-to-paycheck income. Almost 90 years have passed since Jackie was born in Hollywood, and she takes the reader on a fun-filled romp of a life well-lived, sharing, wisdom, humor, and anecdotes of her professional and personal encounters with both Hollywood and tennis stars, her love of family, and her love of life. Her lens as a publicist and columnist give fresh insights into the many celebrities she came to know, and at the same time, reveals a realistic experience of what it is to work behind the scenes in a glamorous industry.
Download or read book Hollywood on the Couch written by Stephen Farber and published by William Morrow & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals details about encounters between star psychiatrists and their clientele
Download or read book A Hollywood Affair written by Lucy Broadbent and published by Headline. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and loyalties get tested in another gripping LA drama from Lucy Broadbent. Pearl Sash lives the dream. Adoring husband, perfect child, and a glamorous Hollywood Hills mansion. Shame how perfect gets boring, isn't it? Cue the re-entrance of Brett. Dangerous, sexy Brett who she married years ago, and who left her the second his own Hollywood star was rising. Now he's back, wanting to start over. No man ever made her feel so bad. No man ever made her feel so good! Will Pearl make the right decision to get her own Hollywood ending?
Download or read book An Affair with Hollywood written by Roger Niez and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Affair with Hollywood are stories of a bodyguard and limo driver working during the height of male chauvinism in Hollywood during the historic 1980s. His personal relationships with clients, and his interactions with wishful young actresses, presented him with a medium into the party scene...and what was truly going on with this sexually charged era. Throughout these stories, he dives headfirst into exploring the Hollywood scene and the mindsets involved during the peak of the casting couch, favor making, and drug usage.
Download or read book The Girls written by Diana McLellan and published by Booktrope Editions. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana McLellan reveals the complex and intimate connections that roiled behind the public personae of Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, and the women who loved them. Private correspondence, long-secret FBI files, and troves of unpublished documents reveal a chain of lesbian affairs that moved from the theater world of New York, through the heights of chic society, to embed itself in the power structure of the movie business. The Girls serves up a rich stew of film, politics, sexuality, psychology, and stardom.
Download or read book One from the Hart written by Stefanie Powers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her career, Stefanie Powers has notched up so many stage, screen and TV credits that her name alone recalls memories as varied as her roles. 'One From the Hart' is the story of a resourceful, empowered woman and her atypical celebrity life.
Download or read book Hollywood at the Races written by Alan Shuback and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horse racing was so popular and influential between 1930 and 1960 that nearly 150 racing themed films were released, including A Day at the Races, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry, and National Velvet. This fast-paced, gossipy history explores the relationship between the Hollywood film industry, the horse racing industry, and the extraordinary participation of producers, directors, and actors in the Sport of Kings. Alan Shuback details how all three of Southern California's major racetracks were founded by Hollywood luminaries: Hal Roach was cofounder of Santa Anita Park, Bing Crosby founded Del Mar with help from Pat O'Brien, and Jack and Harry Warner founded Hollywood Park with help from dozens of people in the film community. The races also provided a social and sporting outlet for the film community -- studios encouraged film stars to spend a day at the races, especially when a new film was being released. The stars' presence at the track generated a bevy of attention from eager photographers and movie columnists, as well as free publicity for their new films. Moreover, Louis B. Mayer, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Betty Grable, and Don Ameche were all major Thoroughbred owners, while Mickey Rooney, Chico Marx, and John Huston were notorious for their unsuccessful forays to the betting windows.
Download or read book Love and Loss in Hollywood written by Cooper C. Graham and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, Florence Deshon—tall, radical, and charismatic—was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clandestine affair with Charlie Chaplin, she continued to remain romantically involved with the well-known writer and socialist Max Eastman. By 1922, she was found dead in a New York apartment, rumored to have committed suicide. Love and Loss in Hollywood: Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin uses previously unpublished letters between Deshon and Eastman to reconstruct their relationship against the backdrop of the "golden age" of Hollywood. Deshon's tragic life and her abuse at the hands of powerful men—including Chaplin, Eastman, and Samuel Goldwyn—resonate with the concerns of today's MeToo movement. Above all, though, this is a book about an extraordinary woman unjustly forgotten: a brilliant writer and campaigner for women's rights, driven both by her ambition to succeed and a boundless desire for life. Rich in tantalizing detail, Love and Loss in Hollywood chronicles crucial years of American film history, overshadowed by the pervasive fear of Bolshevism after World War I, the Red Riots, and the emergence of the big studios in Hollywood. This beautiful edition features dozens of unpublished photographs, among them six mesmerizing full-length portraits of Deshon by Adolph de Meyer, Vogue's first fashion photographer.
Download or read book Mary Astor s Purple Diary The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936 written by Edward Sorel and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious send-up of sex, scandal, and the Golden Age of Hollywood by legendary cartoonist Edward Sorel. In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel tore away layer after layer of linoleum from the floor of his $97-a-month Manhattan apartment until he discovered a hidden treasure: issues of the New York Daily News and Daily Mirror from 1936, each ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood starring the actress Mary Astor—and the journal in which she detailed her numerous affairs. Thus began a half-century obsession that reached its peak in Mary Astor’s Purple Diary, “a thoroughly charming” (New York Times Book Review, front-page review) account of the scandal in which Sorel narrates and illustrates the travails of the Oscar-winning actress alongside his own personal story of discovering an unlikely muse. Now in a stunning paperback, featuring more than sixty ribald and rapturous original illustrations, Mary Astor’s Purple Diary is the life’s masterpiece of one of America’s greatest illustrators.
Download or read book Surviving Cissy written by Kathy Garver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathy Garver, the teenage heartthrob from the hit series Family Affair (1966–1971), was no one-hit wonder, but a journeywoman actress who appeared in such classic films as Night of the Hunter and The Ten Commandments long before she became a television icon. This memoir is a recollection of a working actress’s experiences, from the many films, television shows, and stage plays in which she performed, to her second career as a voice-over specialist in popular animated films and audiobooks. Featuring anecdotes, Hollywood history, and details of her relationships with such stars as Charlton Heston and Jon Provost, Surviving Cissy is a veritable quilt of Kathy’s exciting life.
Download or read book Scandals of Classic Hollywood written by Anne Helen Petersen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrity gossip meets history in this compulsively readable collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson. This guide to film stars and their deepest secrets is sure to top your list for movie gifts and appeal to fans of classic cinema and hollywood history alike. Believe it or not, America’s fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Cardi B, Kanye's tweets, and the #metoo allegations that have gripped Hollywood. And the stars of yesteryear? They weren’t always the saints that we make them out to be. BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Petersen, author of Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, is here to set the record straight. Pulling little-known gems from the archives of film history, Petersen reveals eyebrow-raising information, including: • The smear campaign against the original It Girl, Clara Bow, started by her best friend • The heartbreaking story of Montgomery Clift’s rapid rise to fame, the car accident that destroyed his face, and the “long suicide” that followed • Fatty Arbuckle's descent from Hollywood royalty, fueled by allegations of a boozy orgy turned violent assault • Why Mae West was arrested and jailed for "indecency charges" • And much more Part biography, part cultural history, these stories cover the stuff that films are made of: love, sex, drugs, illegitimate children, illicit affairs, and botched cover-ups. But it's not all just tawdry gossip in the pages of this book. The stories are all contextualized within the boundaries of film, cultural, political, and gender history, making for a read that will inform as it entertains. Based on Petersen's beloved column on the Hairpin, but featuring 100% new content, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart.
Download or read book A Hollywood Affair written by Lucy Broadbent and published by Headline. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and loyalties get tested in another gripping LA drama from Lucy Broadbent. Pearl Sash lives the dream. Adoring husband, perfect child, and a glamorous Hollywood Hills mansion. Shame how perfect gets boring, isn't it? Cue the re-entrance of Brett. Dangerous, sexy Brett who she married years ago, and who left her the second his own Hollywood star was rising. Now he's back, wanting to start over. No man ever made her feel so bad. No man ever made her feel so good! Will Pearl make the right decision to get her own Hollywood ending?
Download or read book A Hollywood Affair written by Molly Mirren and published by Molly Mirren. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a relationship based on make-believe ever find its true Hollywood ending? Find out in this sexy and heartwarming standalone romance! Piper Torres needs to save her career. After being fired from her popular sitcom for gaining too much weight, she’s desperate to land another role. Her heart is set on scoring the part of Heledd, Welsh warrior princess, on Battle of Fortunes, the latest fantasy series taking the streaming world by storm. British actor Grant Cammish has been the resident womanizer and villain on Battle of Fortunes for five years and is ready for something new. He's set his sights on his favorite comic book hero of all time, Captain Justice, an icon of American pop culture. Only problem? Grant is “too British” for the role. When Grant and Piper's PR machine comes up with the idea of a fake relationship to help them land their dream roles, Piper is reluctant to agree. After all, Grant is an aloof snob, and Piper is America’s sweetheart: it’s a disaster waiting to happen. Except Grant isn’t what he seems. It turns out there’s a softer side to one of Hollywood’s most reviled villains—one the public never gets to see. But can a relationship based on make-believe ever find its true Hollywood ending? Note: Although not gratuitous, this novel does contain some profane language and a steamy sex scene which may offend sensitive readers.
Download or read book My Love Affair with Hollywood written by Jackie Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Hollywood almost 90 years ago, Jackie Epstein has had a love affair with the city of her birth and the movie stars she admired on the big screen, since early childhood. Through her numerous careers as a Hollywood columnist, tennis columnist, speaker, and publicist for film and television, and her husband's career as a journalist, doors opened to the glamourous industry that brought adventures beyond her dreams, access to hundreds of celebrities, and the lifestyle of the rich, while she raised a family on a paycheck-to-paycheck income. Come share this fun-filled roller-coaster ride as Jackie tells of her love of family and life, and offers upbeat and humorous anecdotes of professional and personal encounters with the big-hearted and talented entertainment and tennis stars she met along the way--while her love of family and zest for life illuminate every page.
Download or read book A Stellar Affair written by Eve Montelibano and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMERICA'S SWEETHEART MEETS HOLLYWOOD BAD BOY. SPARKS FLY.Lights...camera...action!WES STONER is about to be someone's "boy toy" against his will. Not that he hadn't been a boy toy once or twice in the past, but they were all on his terms. He'd called the shots-when to start it, when to end it and all the encores have depended on his whim. This time, however, is a different story. He won't be calling the shots. He'd be following orders.AVA RYDER is the Pop Empress, one of the biggest recording stars in the world. Her reputation has always been above reproach and she wants to keep it that way. But a scandal breaks out and suddenly she's painted in the rags as the other woman trying to wreck a happy marriage. Major damage control is definitely in order, so she hires Hollywood bad boy Wes Stoner to be her pretend boyfriend to divert the public's attention from the scandal.Ava is America's sweetheart, the ultimate It girl. Wes is America's most famous villain on cam and even out of it, the ultimate bad boy. How they will convince the world they are a perfect match is beyond him, but she's sold on the idea. The kicker is, he can't afford to say no. His next movie depends on it.They enter into a contract.It's just a job. Their 'relationship' is purely business. Until they come face to face.The moment they meet, Stoneryder takes the world by storm.
