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|  | | Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood’s Real-Life Tough Guy
The first biography of the infamous movie tough guy, whose promising start as the star of Dillinger (1945) was soon curtailed by his addiction to alcohol, violent behavior, bar fights, assaults, and arrests.
span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Author Burt Kearns traces Tierney's storied life from his days as Dillinger, to his clash with Quentin Tarantino at the end of his film career, to his final public appearances. The first official biography of the late actor, the book draws on the writings of Hollywood reporters and gossip columnists who first reported on Tierney's antics, and exclusive interviews with surviving colleagues, friends, family members―and victims. Through their word | |  | | Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel
How the greatest actor of the 20th century helped lead the world into the 21st.
span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Over the last eighty years, Marlon Brando has become such an object of fascination, buried under so many accreted layers of mythos and half-truth, that it is all but impossible to see the man behind the icon. As we approach the centennial of this undisputed American legend, Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel is a revelatory biography that tells its story the same way the man himself approached a role: from the inside/span>
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The rise and fall of tabloid television
Published 1999 Celebrity Books
| |  | | The Show Won’t Go On
The first comprehensive study of a bizarre phenomenon -- performers who died onstage -- is an entertaining, often humorous celebration of show business lives and careers.
span style="font-family: Helvetica;">From the comedy magician who dropped dead on live television to the amateur thespian who expired during a play called /span>i>span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The Art of Murder/span>/i>span style="font-family: Helvetica;">, i>The Show Won’t Go On/i> by Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns is a celebration of lives both famous and obscure, as well as a dramatic and accurate recounting of events leading to the moments they died "doing what they loved." /span>span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The Show Won't Go On cov |
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