A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood
By: Irwin Winkler
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking autobiography from the legendary producer of Goodfellas, Rocky, and Raging Bull, and a…
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1. Cellar of Horror: The Story of Gary Heidnik
By: Ken Englade
3.77
Format: 277 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Serial killer Gary Heidnik's name will live on in infamy, and his home, 3520 North Marshall Street … read more
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2. The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
By: Joe Posnanski
4.38
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Baseball 100 “A fascinating account of a man who outlasted the ignorance of a na… read more
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"Baseball in the Negro Leagues was a little bit rougher, a little bit sweeter, a little bit faster, a little bit cooler, and a little bit more fun than anything... in Major League baseball."-Joe Posnanski, The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
3. The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
By: David A. Price
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Magia Pixar este cronica plină de viaţă a istoriei şi evoluţiei companiei Pixar Animation Studios ş… read more
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"The man persisted. "No, no, no. It was so funny. What software did you use?" - apparently in the belief that the software had built-in humor generation."-David A. Price, The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
4. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
By: Peter Biskind
4.12
Format: None pages,
This down-and-dirty romp through Hollywood in the 1970s introduces the young filmmakers--Coppola, S… read more
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5. Secrets in the Cellar
By: John Glatt
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life wi… read more
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6. The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders
By: Stella Sands
3.82
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
In 1978, Rodney Alcala was a contestant on the "The Dating Game," one of America's most popular tel… read more
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7. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
By: Carol J. Clover
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film … read more
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8. Making Movies
By: Sidney Lumet
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and … read more
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10. Adventures in the Screen Trade
By: William Goldman
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-wi… read more
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11. Renegade
By: Mark E. Smith
3.86
Format: None pages,
Reams of stuff have been written about me in the past, but never in my own words: this is the prope… read more
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12. Robin Williams: When the Laughter Stops 1951 - 2014
By: Emily Herbert
3.59
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A thoughtful look at the brilliant life and tragic death of a comedy icon At midday on August 11, 2… read more
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13. Maybe We'll Have You Back: The Life of a Perennial TV Guest Star
By: Fred Stoller
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fred Stoller has played the annoying schnook in just about every sitcom you've seen on TV--Friends,… read more
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14. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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15. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
By: Ed Zwick
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more
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"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
16. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
17. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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18. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
By: Kyle Buchanan
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max:… read more
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19. You Never Know: A Memoir
By: Tom Selleck
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern Ca… read more
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20. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more
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21. MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
By: Joanna Robinson
4.22
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A superb chronicle of how Marvel Studios conquered Hollywood…. T… read more
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22. Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the iconic funnymen who ruled '80s Hollywood—Bill Murray, Steve Mart… read more
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"Sometimes you gotta say "What the fuck". If you can't say it, you can't do it."-Nick de Semlyen, Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever
23. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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24. Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision
By: Charles Elton
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The “revelatory” ( The New Yorker ) first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided… read more
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25. The JFK Assassination Chokeholds: That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy
By: James DiEugenio
4.37
Format: 1132 pages, Kindle Edition
In JFK Assassination Chokeholds, readers will find up to date evidence that would have compelled an… read more
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26. Who Is Michael Ovitz?
By: Michael Ovitz
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
If you're going to read one book about Hollywood, this is the one. As the co-founder of Creative … read more
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27. Age of Cage
By: Keith Phipps
3.78
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Icon. Celebrity. Artist. Madman. Genius. Nicolas Cage is many things, but love him, or laugh at … read more
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28. Drama in the Bahamas: Muhammad Ali's Last Fight
By: Dave Hannigan
3.91
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a m… read more
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29. Reign of Chucky: The True Hollywood Story of a Not So Good Guy
By: Dustin McNeill
4.47
Format: 755 pages, Kindle Edition
From the authors who brought you TAKING SHAPE comes REIGN OF CHUCKY, an exhaustive new look at the … read more
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30. A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood
By: Irwin Winkler
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking autobiography from the legendary producer of Goodfellas, Rocky, and Raging Bull, and a… read more
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31. The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together
By: Adam Nayman
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In The Coen This Book Really Ties the Films Together , film critic Adam Nayman carefully sifts thr… read more
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"I think the Coens are great film editors. So great! It’s funny to me because they get hired to doctor scripts all the time, but no one ever hires them to edit."-Adam Nayman, The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together
"With every movie that they do, they’ll come up with a few films they really like and we’ll talk about them. Way back when we did Barton Fink , Joel and Ethan would say, ’Think Kubrick! "-Adam Nayman, The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together
