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Hollywood 1969... comme si vous y étiez ! Rick Dalton – Il fut un temps, Rick avait son propre feuilleton télé. Aujourd'hui, c'est un acteur rincé, condamné à jouer les crapules à la petite semaine, qui noie son chagrin dans les whisky sour. Un coup de fil de Rome : sauvera-t-il son destin ou le scellera-t-il ? Cliff Booth – Doublure cascade de Rick, il est l'homme à la réputation la plus sulfureuse de tous les plateaux de tournage – car il est le seul à avoir (peut-être) commis un meurtre et à s'en être tiré.

Paris, Hôtel Meurice. Marianne Corvo, journaliste dans un hebdo culturel parisien, se prépare à interviewer son idole absolue, objet de tous ses fantasmes depuis l’adolescence : l’acteur mondialement connu Ben Whyte. Mais une fois devant LE beau gosse du cinéma, la malheureuse, perdant tous ses moyens, enchaîne les gaffes et provoque l’hilarité de la star, charmé par sa maladresse. C’est le début d’une histoire d’amour savoureuse et semée d’embûches, entre Paris et Hollywood... Une comédie romantique rafraîchissante et pleine de charme, portée par l'humour et l'énergie de Zita Hanrot.

Dans leur poubelle, Chien Pourri et Chaplapla passent le temps : Chaplapla compte les peaux de bananes et Chien Pourri feuillette hot-dog magazine pour tous les chiens qui aiment le 7e art et les saucisses. Justement, à côté d'eux est tourné le dernier 00 Sec avec la star Brave Pit dans le rôle principal. Chien Pourri croise alors la route du réalisateur Pascal Truffe qui l'engage pour le faire jouer dans Le chien des rues, un drame réaliste... Chien pourri obtiendra-t-il l'Oscar du meilleur chien étranger ?

Michael Palin's bestselling diaries of the 1980s. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life...

Cassie Carroll came to Hollywood with big dreams that never materialized. Acting isn’t even on the back burner anymore—it’s completely off the stove. Working for a third-rate agent, Cassie hopes to land a new job that will give her credibility, as well as help pay the rent. Late to her interview, she swerves to avoid hitting a dog—and totals the car of Hollywood’s leading action superstar. Surprisingly, she walks away from their encounter with a job—as the sexiest man alive’s personal assistant.

The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Harold Lloyd, and nearly four hundred others, assembled from the American Film Institute’s treasure trove of interviews, reveals a fresh history of the American movie...

Ronald Colman, the silent film star, who showed a generation of actors how to perform for the talkies, remained Hollywood’s gentleman hero for more than two decades. He appeared with many of the screen’s leading ladies, including Lillian Gish, Joan Bennett, Kay Francis, Loretta Young, Ida Lupino, Greer Garson, Jean Arthur, and Ginger Rogers. As the epitome of the Hollywood gentleman, he immortalized the self-sacrificing hero in his signature role of Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities.

An actress practically since birth, Grace Durand has finally made it in Hollywood. When a photo of her in a seeming compromising situation with another woman is plastered all over the tabloids, she fears for her career as a lead in romantic movies. Desperate for a publicist who’ll convince America that she’s straight, Grace hires Lauren Pearce, one of Hollywood’s leading PR agents, not knowing that she’s a lesbian.

Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream. It’s also one long in-joke about the movie industry and those who made it great - and who were, in turn, destroyed by it. One of the most critically admired films of the 20th century, Sunset Boulevard is also famous as silent-star Gloria Swanson’s comeback picture.

Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, returns, revelling in his eternal penchant for booze, women, and horse-racing as he makes the precarious journey from poet to screenwriter. Based on Bukowski's experiences when working on the film Barfly, the absurdity and egotism of the film industry are laid bare in this deadpan, touching, and funny glimpse into the endless negotiations and back-stabbings of la-la land. Hollywood is an irreverent jaunt that serves up the beating heart of Hollywood with razor-sharp humour.

There's one rule you don't break—don't fall for your best friend's daughter. But I'm done playin' by the rules. One wrong text from Winter, and my control went up in flames. She's too young. Off-limits. Hands-off. But now she's all I want. That tight little body, those wide, innocent eyes—girl's makin' me lose my damn mind. I tried to let it ride, act like that message didn't set me off. But I ain't built for pretendin'. Now, her old man's screw-up put her in the crosshairs. They think they can use her to get to me? They got no clue who they're messin' with.

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios). Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar...

In a super follow-up to Hollywood Station, Wambaugh returns to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a darkly funny ride-along with a cast of flawed LAPD cops and eccentric lowlifes you won't forget. When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell...

Avec Un château pour Hollywood, Olivier Minne signe un roman saisisant sur le plus mythique hôtel d'Hollywood. Une ode passionnée au cinéma américain. "Abigail s'avançait le long du boulevard quand elle devina devant elle, comme découpées dans le noir, les formes à la fois franches et imaginaires d'un château." Los Angeles, été 1958. Abigail Fairchild, ancienne directrice du Chateau Marmont, décide soudainement d'y reparaître après des années de retrait et de solitude.

Another gripping true story from Terry Moogan takes listeners deeper into his life of crime. It reveals fresh details about how a difficult, poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool, England, led to extraordinary armer robberies that no one had ever attempted before and spectacular escapes. His ingenious mind came up with a way to sail for free on the luxurious Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship.

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It’s aspiring actress meeting photographer, femme meeting butch in this light-hearted lesbian romance set in Hollywood. Aspiring actress Amanda Clark and photographer Michelle Osinski are two women burned by love and not looking to test the fire again. And even if they were, it certainly wouldn’t be with each other. Amanda has never been attracted to a butch woman before, and Michelle personifies the term butch. Having just landed a role on a hot new TV show, she’s determined to focus on her career and doesn’t need any complications in her life.

Ignoring the systemic racial inequalities in film is losing the industry $10 billion a year. Yet, parity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental issues that the Oscar Awards are only just beginning to address. In this book, award-winning writer, broadcaster, model, and fashion designer, Ben Arogundade, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about Hollywood - documenting the stories and struggles of black artists within the movie industry that have so far been left out of the canon.

It was supposed to be just a one-night stand. After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, 25-year-old Jill Corrigan takes herself off the romantic market. Not wanting to become a burden to a potential partner, she focuses on her career as an actress instead. On the set of a disaster movie, she meets stunt woman Kristine “Crash” Patterson, whose easy smile instantly makes Jill wish things were different.

From the triumphant “Main Title” in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores—while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominations. This updated and revised edition of Emilio Audissino’s groundbreaking volume takes stock of Williams’s creative process and achievements in music composition, including the most recent sequels in the film franchises that made him famous. Audissino details his lasting impact and cements his legacy as one of the most important composers in movie history.