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In John Williams: A Composer's Life, the first biography of the composer, author Tim Greiving offers an engaging account of a man whose body of work is well-known but whose personal life has consistently remained very private.

Der preisgekrönte Hollywood-Schauspieler Stanley Tucci lässt uns in sein Leben und in seine Kochtöpfe schauen.

Set against the vibrant backdrop of the Black Power era, their story begins at Dingbats—a premier disco nightclub and restaurant on the Gold Coast—where they work as bouncers and quickly rise to local fame. Together, they build businesses, chase big dreams, and live large in a world filled with energy, danger, and opportunity. But when trust is broken and boundaries are crossed, their once-solid brotherhood begins to crumble, revealing the painful cost of betrayal.

El 22 de octubre de 1950 tuvo lugar en la Crystal Room del Hotel Beverly Hills de Los Ángeles una de las reuniones más importantes y desconocidas de la historia del cine. A lo largo de varias horas los mejores directores del cine americano discuten sobre si deben o no firmar un juramento de lealtad propuesto por Cecil B. DeMille. Es la época de la Caza de Brujas. Las ideas están enfrentadas. Algunos están dispuestos a firmar, otro no. Las diferentes posturas se van sucediendo.

John Lennon necesitó solo cuarenta años de vida para cambiar la historia de la música y, a partir de su música, cambiar al mundo. Su sociedad con Paul McCartney estuvo en el corazón de The Beatles, la banda más importante para el rock, el pop y todos los géneros populares de las últimas seis décadas. Desde su infancia en la Liverpool de posguerra hasta su asesinato en Nueva York, Lennon tuvo un recorrido impredecible.

Doom Guy: Life in First Person is the long-awaited autobiography of gaming’s original rock star and the cocreator of DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein—some of the most recognizable and important titles in video game history. Credited with the invention of the first-person shooter, a genre that continues to dominate the market today, he is gaming royalty. Told in remarkable detail, a byproduct of his hyperthymesia, Romero recounts his storied career.

Through a series of interviews with a wide range of people connected to Pink Floyd in their earliest days (including Nick Mason, Peter Jenner, Jenny Fabian, Storm Thorgerson, Duggie Fields and Peter Whitehead), John Cavanagh paints a vivid picture of how this remarkable debut album was created. He brings to life the stories behind each track, as well as Pink Floyd's groundbreaking live performances of the time.

Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is John Irving's candid memoir of his twin careers in writing and wrestling. The award-winning author of best-selling novels from The World According to Garp to In One Person, Irving began writing when he was 14, the same age at which he began to wrestle at Exeter. He competed as a wrestler for 20 years, was certified as a referee at 24, and coached the sport until he was 47.

Vous allez enfin tout savoir sur Paris Hilton, la célèbre jet setteuse, chanteuse, mais aussi femme d'affaire...

Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafes and at the university. Moving to Vienna at the age of 21 to study with Haydn, he gained renown as a brilliant pianist and innovative composer. In that conservative city, capital of the Hapsburg empire, authorities were ever watchful to curtail and punish overt displays of radical political views. Nevertheless, Beethoven avidly followed the meteoric rise of Napoleon.

Elton John is as much loved for his outrageous personality and witty outspokenness as for his music. Such shamelessness and sheer silliness rivals anything uttered by punk rockers, yet it is so typically Elton: honest and intemperate. Tragedy and heartbreak have played a large part in his life. Behind the parties, the hedonism, the lavish stage costumes, and silly glasses lies a more somber story. Between disputes with managers, legal wranglings, public breakups, and divorce, John has been faced with serious health problems and drug addictions.

From his humble beginnings in sketch comedy with the Toronto branch of Second City, to his rise to fame in SCTV and Hollywood film classics like Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Great Outdoors, and Uncle Buck, John Candy captivated audiences with his self-deprecating humor, emotional warmth, and gift for improvisation. Now, for the first time since Candy's tragic death, bestselling biographer Paul Myers tells the full story of the man behind the laughs.

John Mayall has played with them all: Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Andy Fraser, and the list goes on. Now in his 80s, John continues to tour all over the world and perform to sold-out crowds. With an incredible blues career spanning over 50 years, rightly earning him the title the "Godfather of British Blues", John shares his experiences and encounters in what will be a must-listen autobiography for any true blues fans.

John Barleycorn is an autobiographical work written by American author Jack London in 1913. Much of the book discusses alcholol and its influence on his life.

In John Prine, Eddie Huffman traces the long arc of Prine’s musical career, beginning with his early, seemingly effortless successes, which led paradoxically not to stardom but to a rich and varied career writing songs that other people have made famous. He recounts the stories, many of them humorous, behind Prine’s best-known songs and discusses all of Prine’s albums as he explores the brilliant records and the ill-advised side trips, the underappreciated gems and the hard-earned comebacks that led Prine to found his own successful record label, Oh Boy Records.

In the 1920s, the burgeoning movie industry was starting to come into its own, and virtually no actor was as famous - or infamous - as John Barrymore. Like many other film stars his age, Barrymore’s career had started in other forms of entertainment, in his case theater. By the time movies were becoming popular, Barrymore was one of the world’s foremost Shakespearean actors.

In his nearly 30-year career, trainer John Petrelli has coached some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, from Grammy Award-winning recording artists to A-list Hollywood actors. Not bad, when you consider the fact that at 18, John seemed bound for prison...or the morgue. Now—with his own blend of brutal honesty, startling vulnerability, and old-school humor—John tells the story of how he escaped a life dominated by violence and fear and forged a new one helping to transform the lives of thousands, all while working steadily to transform his own.

Er ist Musikgenie, Paradiesvogel und einer der erfolgreichsten Künstler aller Zeiten. "Your Song", "Tiny Dancer" und "Candle in the Wind" sind nur einige von unzähligen Hits seiner beispiellosen Karriere. Erstmals erzählt Pop-Legende Elton John jetzt die Geschichte seines wechselhaften Lebens. Von seinen Anfängen als Musikstudent und seinem Coming-out, vom Höhepunkt seiner Karriere in den 70ern, von seiner Freundschaft zu John Lennon und Prinzessin Diana, von seiner jahrelangen Drogensucht und vom lang ersehnten persönlichen Glück.

Distinguished theater critic John Lahr brings unique perspective to the life of Arthur Miller, the playwright who almost single-handedly propelled twentieth-century American theater into a new level of cultural sophistication. Organized around the fault lines of Miller’s life—his family, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism, Elia Kazan and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Marilyn Monroe, Vietnam, and the rise and fall of Miller’s role as a public intellectual—this book demonstrates the synergy between Arthur Miller’s psychology and his plays.

ESTE É UM EPISÓDIO DA OBRA "CARTA PARA O MEU JOVEM EU", DE JANE GRAHAM, QUE APRESENTAM CARTAS PARA JOHN LYDON E PAUL GIAMATTI MAIS JOVENS. SE QUISER LER TODAS AS CARTAS LEIA A OBRA COMPLETA. Se a viagem no tempo fosse uma possibilidade, o que você diria ao seu eu adolescente, caso o encontrasse? Em Carta Para Meu Jovem Eu, personalidades das mais diversas áreas refletem sobre o que teria sido bom saber antes. Elas também lembram aqueles momentos mágicos que gostariam de reviver. O livro inclui a participação especial de personalidades brasileiras.