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Box Office Poison

Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

de Tim Robey ...

*****A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK OF NOVEMBER 2024***"A wild success." —** Publishers Weekly**"A surefire hit." —Library Journal STARRED review"A brilliant star turn." —Andrew O’HaganA riotous and revealing story of Hollywood’s most spectacular flops and how they ended careers, bankrupted studios and changed film history."Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag…”* ... Leer más

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*****A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK OF NOVEMBER 2024***"A wild success." —** Publishers Weekly**"A surefire hit." —Library Journal STARRED review"A brilliant star turn." —Andrew O’HaganA riotous and revealing story of Hollywood’s most spectacular flops and how they ended careers, bankrupted studios and changed film history."Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag…”*
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Box Office Poison

Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

de Tim Robey ...

Narrado por Tim Robey ...

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8 hora 57 minutos

"A wild success." — Publishers Weekly**"A surefire hit." —Library Journal STARRED review"A brilliant star turn." —Andrew O’HaganA riotous and revealing story of Hollywood’s most spectacular flops and how they ended careers, bankrupted studios and changed film history."Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag…”**From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

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"A wild success." — Publishers Weekly**"A surefire hit." —Library Journal STARRED review"A brilliant star turn." —Andrew O’HaganA riotous and revealing story of Hollywood’s most spectacular flops and how they ended careers, bankrupted studios and changed film history."Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag…”**From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous
... Leer más

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Notorious

Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech

de Maureen Dowd ...

Narrado por Maureen Dowd ...

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16 hora 51 minutos

“Juicy. . . . Dowd has a knack for asking questions that go right up to the edge of intrusion but instead yield thoughtful, intimate insights.”—Los Angeles Times“A pleasure. . . . Throughout, her experienced journalist’s knack for colorful quotes moves her subjects beyond their talking points. She seasons the pieces with additional reporting by those in her subjects’ orbits.”—Kirkus ReviewsA sly ... Leer más

$39.99 USD

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“Juicy. . . . Dowd has a knack for asking questions that go right up to the edge of intrusion but instead yield thoughtful, intimate insights.”—Los Angeles Times“A pleasure. . . . Throughout, her experienced journalist’s knack for colorful quotes moves her subjects beyond their talking points. She seasons the pieces with additional reporting by those in her subjects’ orbits.”—Kirkus ReviewsA sly
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The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024

de Padma Lakshmi, Jaya Saxena ...

Narrado por Eunice Wong, Soneela Nankani, Ali Nasser, Cary Hite, Chanté McCormick, Shaun Taylor-Corbett ...

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9 hora 58 minutos

A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi.“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning.” The essays in this year’s Best ... Leer más

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A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi.“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning.” The essays in this year’s Best
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The Book-Makers

A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

de Adam Smyth ...

Narrado por Adam Smyth ...

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12 hora 12 minutos

The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them.**“Smyth breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life.” —**Financial TimesAn Economist Book of the YearBooks have transformed humankind, yet we know little about the individuals who brought these fascinating objects into existence. Who were these renegade bo... ... Leer más

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The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them.**“Smyth breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life.” —**Financial TimesAn Economist Book of the YearBooks have transformed humankind, yet we know little about the individuals who brought these fascinating objects into existence. Who were these renegade bo...
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Woody Allen

A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham

de Patrick McGilligan ...

Narrado por Seth Lews ...

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34 hora 6 minutos

Woody Allen was once made a knight commander by France, but he didn’t know because the paperwork got lost in the mail.A decade later, he found out about the award by reading about it in the New York Times.Across nearly nine eventful decades, Allen’s life has been full of surprises. Writing jokes got him a gig as the youngest writer of Sid Caesar’s television dream team. As a rising comic, he boxed ... Leer más

$52.99 USD

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Woody Allen was once made a knight commander by France, but he didn’t know because the paperwork got lost in the mail.A decade later, he found out about the award by reading about it in the New York Times.Across nearly nine eventful decades, Allen’s life has been full of surprises. Writing jokes got him a gig as the youngest writer of Sid Caesar’s television dream team. As a rising comic, he boxed
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Thunderclap

A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

de Laura Cumming ...

Narrado por Laura Cumming ...

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7 hora 39 minutos

Named a Top 100 Must-Read Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker * Winner of the 2024 Writers**’** Prize for Nonfiction * Shortlisted for the Inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction * Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje PrizeNew York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt memoir” (The Washington Post) in this fascinating, ... Leer más

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Named a Top 100 Must-Read Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker * Winner of the 2024 Writers**’** Prize for Nonfiction * Shortlisted for the Inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction * Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje PrizeNew York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt memoir” (The Washington Post) in this fascinating,
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Comedy Samurai

Forty Years of Blood, Guts, and Laughter

de Larry Charles ...

Narrado por Larry Charles ...

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16 hora

From Peabody, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award-winning writer and director Larry Charles, a rollicking journey through modern American comedy, as he shares behind-the-scenes stories from his life's work.To tell Larry Charles's life story is to tell the story of modern American comedy. Over the last 40 years, few comedians have been a part of so many iconic, beloved projects. Larry was one of the ... Leer más

$38.99 USD

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From Peabody, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award-winning writer and director Larry Charles, a rollicking journey through modern American comedy, as he shares behind-the-scenes stories from his life's work.To tell Larry Charles's life story is to tell the story of modern American comedy. Over the last 40 years, few comedians have been a part of so many iconic, beloved projects. Larry was one of the
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20th Century-Fox

Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studio

de Scott Eyman ...

Narrado por Suehyla El-Attar ...

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8 hora 57 minutos

From New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, this is the story one of the most influential studios in film history, from its glory days under the leadership of legendary movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck up to its 2019 buyout by Disney.March 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a century before that historic date, Twentieth ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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From New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, this is the story one of the most influential studios in film history, from its glory days under the leadership of legendary movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck up to its 2019 buyout by Disney.March 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a century before that historic date, Twentieth
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The Future Was Now

Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982

de Chris Nashawaty ...

“Hollywood boldly went where it hadn’t gone before and Nashawaty chronicles the journeys.” —Los Angeles Times ("Books You Need To Read This Summer")“Written with a fan’s enthusiasm . . . An important inflection point in Hollywood filmmaking.” —New York Times ("Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer")In the summer of 1982, eight science fiction films were released within six weeks of one another. E.T ... Leer más

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“Hollywood boldly went where it hadn’t gone before and Nashawaty chronicles the journeys.” —Los Angeles Times ("Books You Need To Read This Summer")“Written with a fan’s enthusiasm . . . An important inflection point in Hollywood filmmaking.” —New York Times ("Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer")In the summer of 1982, eight science fiction films were released within six weeks of one another. E.T
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The Ambassador

Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940

de Susan Ronald ...

Narrado por Victor Bevine ...

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12 hora 57 minutos

Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's shockingly controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II.On February 18, 1938, Joseph P. Kennedy was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James. To say his appointment to the most prestigious and strategic diplomatic post in the world shocked the Establishment was an ... Leer más

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Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's shockingly controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II.On February 18, 1938, Joseph P. Kennedy was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James. To say his appointment to the most prestigious and strategic diplomatic post in the world shocked the Establishment was an
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Dark City Dames

The Women Who Defined Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition)

de Eddie Muller ...

Narrado por Eddie Muller, Natalie Naudus ...

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13 hora 1 minutos

In this revised and expanded edition of his essential volume Dark City Dames, Eddie Muller—Turner Classic Movies host and author of Dark Cityand Noir Bar—offers a uniquely intimate look at the women who defined film noir, now featuring updated text and 10 new star profiles.Film noir was the dark side of the movies’ happily-ever-after mythology. Sinister and sexy, it forged a new icon: the tough, ... Leer más

$31.99 USD

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In this revised and expanded edition of his essential volume Dark City Dames, Eddie Muller—Turner Classic Movies host and author of Dark Cityand Noir Bar—offers a uniquely intimate look at the women who defined film noir, now featuring updated text and 10 new star profiles.Film noir was the dark side of the movies’ happily-ever-after mythology. Sinister and sexy, it forged a new icon: the tough,
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