Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition
Author : Jacqueline Susann
Publisher : Tiger L.L.C.
Release Date : 2016-06-22
ISBN 10 : 9780996317832
Pages : 496 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (996 users)
Download or read book Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition PDF or another Format written by Jacqueline Susann and published by Tiger L.L.C.. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann's All-Time Pop-Culture Classic! At a time when women were destined to become housewives, Jacqueline Susann let us dream. Anne, Neely, and Jennifer become best friends as struggling young women in New York City trying to make their mark. Eventually, they climb their way to the top of the entertainment industry only to find that there’s no place left to go but down, into the Valley of the Dolls.
Valley of the Dolls
Author : Jacqueline Susann
Publisher : Newmarket Press
Release Date : 1981-10
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015005782340
Pages : 460 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)
Download or read book Valley of the Dolls PDF or another Format written by Jacqueline Susann and published by Newmarket Press. This book was released on 1981-10 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story concerns three women in show business
New York Magazine
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Publisher :
Release Date : 1997-09-29
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 108 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( users)
Download or read book New York Magazine PDF or another Format written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-09-29 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!
Author : Stephen Rebello
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2020-06-02
ISBN 10 : 9780525505297
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (525 users)
Download or read book Dolls! Dolls! Dolls! PDF or another Format written by Stephen Rebello and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A blissful treasure trove of gossipy insider details that Dolls fans will swiftly devour." --Kirkus Reviews The unbelievable-but-true, inside story of Jacqueline Susann's pop culture icon Valley of the Dolls--the landmark novel and publishing phenomenon, the infamous smash hit film ("the best worst movie ever made"), and Dolls's thriving legacy today Since its publication in 1966, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls has reigned as one of the most influential and beloved pieces of commercial fiction. Selling over thirty-one million copies worldwide, it revolutionized overnight the way books got sold, thanks to the tireless and canny self-promoting Susann. It also generated endless speculation about the author's real-life models for its larger-than-life characters. Turned in 1967 into an international box-office sensation and morphing into a much-beloved cult film, its influence endures today in everything from films and TV shows to fashion and cosmetics tributes and tie-ins. Susann's compulsive readable exposé of three female friends finding success in New York City and Hollywood was a scandalous eye-opener for its candid treatment of sex, naked ambition, ageism, and pill-popping, and the big screen version was one of the most-seen and talked-about movies of the time. Dolls! Dolls! Dolls! digs deep into the creation of that hugely successful film--a journey nearly as cut-throat, sexually-charged, tragic, and revelatory as Susann's novel itself--and uncovers how the movie has become a cherished, widely imitated camp classic, thanks to its over-the-top performances, endlessly quotable absurd dialogue, outré costumes and hairdos, despite the high aspirations, money, and talent lavished on it. Screenwriter-journalist-film historian Stephen Rebello has conducted archival research and new interviews to draw back the velvet curtain on the behind-the-scenes intrigue, feuds and machinations that marked the film's production. In doing so, he unveils a rich, detailed history of fast-changing, late 1960s Hollywood, on screen and off.
The Making of a Bestseller
Author : Arthur T. Vanderbilt
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 1999-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0786406631
Pages : 244 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (46 users)
Download or read book The Making of a Bestseller PDF or another Format written by Arthur T. Vanderbilt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's career itself is a metaphor for the vagaries of book publishing. If Fitzgerald would have had his way, we would today refer to The Great Gatsby as either Gold-Hatted Gatsby, Trimalchio in West Egg, or The High-Bouncing Lover. A few years before Gatsby, Fitzgerald had become a literary sensation at the age of 23; Helen Hooven Santmyer, a contemporary of Fitzgerald's, would not have a successful novel published until she was 88 and living in a nursing home. In this book, the author explores that mysterious place in publishing where art and commerce can either clash, mesh, or both. Along the way, a wide range of authors--from the literary greats to today's commercial superstars--editors, agents and publishers share their thoughts, insights and experiences: What inspires writers? (John Steinbeck, for example, wrote every novel as if it were his last, as if death were imminent.) Why are some books successful and appreciated, while others fall into oblivion? The answers are often elusive, never absolute, but the stories and anecdotes are always fascinating.
Making the List
Author : Michael Korda
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Release Date : 2001
ISBN 10 : 0760725594
Pages : 264 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (725 users)
Download or read book Making the List PDF or another Format written by Michael Korda and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the annual hardcover best seller lists from "The Bookman" and then "Publishers Weekly," examines twentieth-century American social, cultural, and historical trends through the lens of popular literature.
Fearless Vulgarity
Author : Ken Feil
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-29
ISBN 10 : 9780814346051
Pages : 319 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (814 users)
Download or read book Fearless Vulgarity PDF or another Format written by Ken Feil and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring queer feminist engagement with Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline Susann's camp comedy legacy.
Our Blessed Rebel Queen
Author : Linda Mizejewski
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-05
ISBN 10 : 9780814346877
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (814 users)
Download or read book Our Blessed Rebel Queen PDF or another Format written by Linda Mizejewski and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration of Carrie Fisher as star, author, comedian, and iconic personification of Princess Leia.
Lives of the Novelists
Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-27
ISBN 10 : 9780300182439
Pages : 896 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (3 users)
Download or read book Lives of the Novelists PDF or another Format written by John Sutherland and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction—from gothic, penny dreadful, and pornography to fantasy, romance, and high literature. Each author was chosen, Professor Sutherland explains, because his or her books are well worth reading and are likely to remain so for at least another century. Sutherland presents these authors in chronological order, in each case deftly combining a lively and informative biographical sketch with an opinionated assessment of the writer's work. Taken together, these novelists provide both a history of the novel and a guide to its rich variety. Always entertaining, and sometimes shocking, Sutherland considers writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe, Henry James, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Archer, and Jacqueline Susann. Written for all lovers of fiction, Lives of the Novelists succeeds both as introduction and re-introduction, as Sutherland presents favorite and familiar novelists in new ways and transforms the less favored and less familiar through his relentlessly fascinating readings.
Rosemarie Trockel
Author : Rosemarie Trockel
Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015063175502
Pages : 202 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)
Download or read book Rosemarie Trockel PDF or another Format written by Rosemarie Trockel and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Brigid Doherty, Silvia Eiblmayr, Barbara Engelbach and Gregory Williams.
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009
Author : Roger Ebert
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Release Date : 2009-06-15
ISBN 10 : 9780740792168
Pages : 944 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (74 users)
Download or read book Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 PDF or another Format written by Roger Ebert and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody has been more important in telling Americans why we should love film than Roger Ebert. --Michael Shamberg, Editor and Publisher Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert presents more than 650 full-length critical movie reviews, along with interviews, essays, tributes, film festival reports, and Q and As from Questions for the Movie Answer Man. Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 collects more than two years' worth of his engaging film critiques. From Bee Movie to Darfur Now to No Country for Old Men, and from Juno to Persepolis to La Vie en Rose, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 includes every review Ebert has written from January 2006 to June 2008. Also included in the Yearbook, which boasts 65 percent new content, are: * Interviews with newsmakers, such as Juno director Jason Reitman and Jerry Seinfeld, a touching tribute to Deborah Kerr, and an emotional letter of appreciation to Werner Herzog. * Essays on film issues, and tributes to actors and directors who died during the year. * Daily film festival reports from Cannes, Toronto, Sundance, and Telluride. * All-new questions and answers from his Questions for the Movie Answer Man columns.
Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers
Author : Graydon Carter
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2016-10-25
ISBN 10 : 9781101993019
Pages : 432 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (11 users)
Download or read book Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers PDF or another Format written by Graydon Carter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of beloved authors on beloved writers, including Martin Amis on Saul Bellow, Truman Capote on Willa Cather, and Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens, as featured in Vanity Fair What did Christopher Hitchens think of Dorothy Parker? How did meeting e.e. cummings change the young Susan Cheever? What does Martin Amis have to say about how Saul Bellow’s love life influenced his writing? Vanity Fair has published many of the most interesting writers and thinkers of our time. Collected here for the first time are forty-one essays exploring how writers influence one another and our culture, from James Baldwin to Joan Didion to James Patterson.
New York Magazine
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Publisher :
Release Date : 1997-09-29
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 108 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( users)
Download or read book New York Magazine PDF or another Format written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-09-29 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Cashiers du Cinemart 18
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
Release Date : 2014-03-28
ISBN 10 : 9781304989291
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (34 users)
Download or read book Cashiers du Cinemart 18 PDF or another Format written by Various Authors and published by Lulu Press, Inc. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cashiers du Cinemart #18 marks the 20th anniversary issue of the infamous Detroit film zine. Featuring reviews, interviews, and essays on films from the sublime to the obscure. Regular contributors Skizz Cyzyk, Rich Osmond, Mike Malloy, and Mike Sullivan are back with looks at Corrupt, Eye of the Tiger, Earl Owensby, and casting decisions that almost were. Jim Donahue, Calum Syers, Scott Lefebvre, and Andrew Leavold have returned to give us pieces about Michael Powell, Ulli Lommel, Anthony Matthews, and Eddie Romero. Joshua Gravel provides another batch of movie reviews that go beyond the usual thumbs up/down tripe. This issue also features articles by first-time contributors Jay A. Gertzman, Heather Drain, Greg Goodsell, Marisa Young Mike Dereniewski, Ryan Sarnowski, Jared Case, Joe "Woodyanders" Wawrzyniak, and David Bertrand.
Valley of the Dolls
Author : Dorothy Kingsley
Publisher :
Release Date : 1967
ISBN 10 : OCLC:952423
Pages : 260 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (95 users)
Download or read book Valley of the Dolls PDF or another Format written by Dorothy Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Cult Movies in Sixty Seconds
Author : Soren McCarthy
Publisher : Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW
Release Date : 2002-11-01
ISBN 10 : 9781783724659
Pages : 169 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (783 users)
Download or read book Cult Movies in Sixty Seconds PDF or another Format written by Soren McCarthy and published by Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of cult films from the past 50 years of filmmaking.
New York Magazine
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Publisher :
Release Date : 1997-09-29
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 108 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( users)
Download or read book New York Magazine PDF or another Format written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-09-29 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
