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A SCREEN LEGEND'S
RAW ACCOUNT OF NEW BEGINNINGS
Portrayed by today's biggest movie stars, Linda Lovelace was just twenty-three when she became the queen of porn in the blockbuster movie Deep Throat. Her bestselling memoir Ordeal laid bare the nightmare of terror, rape and perversity she suffered during the making of the film. Now she tells the harrowing and compelling story of how she survived to build a different kind of life.
In
...In the six decades since he took to the stage and screen, Kirk Douglas has starred in eighty-three films, nine plays, written seven books, and made a remarkable commitment to humanitarian causes world-wide. Now in My Stroke of Luck, his vivid and very personal reflection upon his extraordinary life, Kirk Douglas finally completes his story by offering a candid and heartfelt memoir of where it all went right.
Written in his own words, Kirk
...From her starring role as a skeptical child in the perennial classic Miracle on 34th Street, to her troubled adolescence in Rebel Without A Cause to her tragic maturity in Splendor in the Grass and West Side Story, actress Natalie Wood transfixed the world with her hypnotic brown eyes. Yet behind the beautiful facade lurked a fragile, sparkling, generous, funny woman traumatized by her childhood and beset by personal
...Burt Lancaster is perhaps most widely remembered as the tough, iron-jawed star of films such as Gunfight at the OK Corral and Airport. But as this superbly readable and insightful biography demonstrates, he was an actor with much broader ambitions – brilliantly realised in Visconti's The Leopard – as well as the founder of the first actor-led production company in Hollywood. Lancaster's liberal political views led not only to frequent
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She was the tempestuous, strong-willed woman who ignited the movie screen with her legendary performances in Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, and All About Eve. Off-camera, Bette Davis fought endless contractual battles with studios and survived four disastrous marriages, earning a larger-than-life reputation as an actress to be reckoned with. In this extraordinary biography, fans and film historians will discover a different, darker side of Bette Davis:
...From wholesome primetime star to wife of a hard-partying rock celebrity, from tabloid headline to weight loss inspiration for millions, Valerie Bertinelli has always lived in the spotlight. But her struggle to maintain a healthy self-image while dealing with career insecurities and relationship problems will be familiar to women the world over.
This unabridged reading of Losing It is Valerie's candid account of her personal journey: the
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