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3) Mindy Kaling
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Mindy was a little girl, she loved TV comedy sketches; in particular, Saturday Night Live. At college, she studied theatre and met a friend with whom she created her first off-Broadway production. It was there she was spotted by the writer and producer of The Office (US) for the role of Kelly Kapoor. Mindy went on to write and executive produce hilarious episodes of The Office. She then went on to create The Mindy Project, and Never Have I Ever,...
6) Jordan Peele
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Comedian Jordan Peele won an Oscar for his movie Get Out. Read more about how he became the first African American screenwriter to win this award!"-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Nora Ephron: A Biography is the first comprehensive portrait of the Manhattan-born girl who forged a path of her own, earning accolades and adoration from critics and fans alike. Author Kristin Marguerite Doidge explores the tremendous successes and disappointing failures Ephron sustained in her career as a popular essayist turned screenwriter turned film director. She redefined the modern rom-com genre with bestselling books such as Heartburn and...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this dazzling memoir, the acclaimed writer behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Marvel's Thor reveals how the power of creativity and imagination enabled him to overcome the horrors of his youth and a dysfunctional family haunted by madness, murder and a terrible secret."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty. In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains' keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner. Larry McMurtry: A Life traces his origins as one of the last American writers...
Author
Publisher
HarperDesign, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A memoir from the screenwriter, animator, visionary film director, and founding member of Monty Python describes his life through recollections, anecdotes, and never-before-seen photographs and artwork.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and political activist, a candid, vivid, powerfully resonant memoir about growing up as a gay Mormon in Texas that is, as well, a moving tribute to the mother who taught him about surviving against all odds. Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, but as an LGBTQ+ activist he has unlikely origins. Raised in a military,...
14) Everywhere an oink oink: an embittered, dyspeptic, and accurate report of forty years in Hollywood
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies. David Mamet went to Hollywood on top-a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the luminaries of old Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants like Paul Newman, Mike...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Hollywood Ending of an Adrenaline-Filled and, By Turns, Harrowing and Funny Odyssey of Crime and Redemption in America's War on Drugs Smuggler's Blues, the first book in Richard Stratton's memoir of his criminal career, detailed his years as a kingpin in the Hippie Mafia. Kingpin, the second book, traced his eight-year journey through the criminal justice system, through two federal trials and myriad jails and prisons, and culminating in his...
Author
Publisher
Race Point Publishing, A division of Quarto Publishing Group USA, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Hughes allegedly wrote Ferris Bueller's Day Off in four days, Planes, Trains and Automobiles in three days, The Breakfast Club in two days, and Vacation in a week. He never went to film school or studied cinema. And he spent most of his incredible career in the Midwest, far from the Hollywood Hills. John Hughes was indeed one of the most prolific and successful filmmakers in Hollywood history. He helped launch the careers of Andrew McCarthy, Molly...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But back in 1987, Ron Shelton was a first-time director and no one was willing to finance a movie about baseball-especially a story set in the minors. The jury was still out on Kevin Costner's leading man potential, while Susan Sarandon was already a has-been. There were doubts. But something miraculous happened, and...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War ll. Hollywood was created by its "others"; that is, by women, Jews, and immigrants. Salka Viertel was all three and so much more. She was the screenwriter for five of Greta Garbo's movies and also her most intimate friend. At one point during the Irving Thalberg years,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
David Mamet went to Hollywood on top, a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the luminaries of old Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants like Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Bob Evans, and Sue Mengers. Over the next forty years, Mamet wrote dozens of scripts, was fired off dozens of movies, and directed eleven himself. He revels of the taut and gag-filled professionalism...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A Hollywood love story, a Hollywood memoir, a dual biography of two of Hollywood's most famous figures, whose golden lives were lived at the center of Hollywood's golden age, written by their daughter, an acclaimed writer and producer. Fay Wray was most famous as the woman--the blonde in a diaphanous gown--who captured the heart of the mighty King Kong, the twenty-five-foot, sixty-ton gorilla, as he placed her, nestled in his eight-foot hand, on...
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