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…
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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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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4. When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season
By: Rich Cohen
3.90
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and … read more
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5. 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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6. 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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7. A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune—An Oral History
By: Max Evry
4.17
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
LIMITED FIRST EDITION contains red foil gilded page edges and a black satin ribbon marker. As featu… read more
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8. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
By: David Zucker
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more
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9. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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10. Kind of a Big Deal: How Anchorman Stayed Classy and Became the Most Iconic Comedy of the Twenty-First Century
By: Saul Austerlitz
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Generation Friends, featuring brand-new interviews with Will Ferrell and Adam Mc… read more
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11. 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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12. Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen
By: Brian Raftery
4.07
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of … read more
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13. The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania
By: Brad Balukjian
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
They say to never meet your heroes. Brad Balukjian doesn’t listen. From the bestselling author of… read more
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14. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
By: Daniel de Visé
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more
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15. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
By: Sam Wasson
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more
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16. Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies that Broke Television
By: Peter Biskind
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
We are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called Peak TV, in which television, in … read more
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17. Macho Man: The Untamed, Unbelievable Life of Randy Savage
By: Jon Finkel
4.14
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Oooohhh yeahhhh! Macho The Life of Randy Savage is the sensational, definitive biography of the Wr… read more
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18. Kubrick: An Odyssey
By: Robert P. Kolker
4.26
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey , The Shining , and A Clockwork Or… read more
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19. 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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20. Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
By: Kliph Nesteroff
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the preeminent historian of modern comedy comes an expansive history of showbiz and the cultur… read more
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21. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
By: Chris Nashawaty
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more
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