Hollywood autobiographies
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The Best Celebrity Memoirs of All Time
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Back Bay Books Life, by Keith Richards
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Keith Richards is the living embodiment of rock ’n’ roll, which is funny, because we’ve been obsessed with his pending death since the ’70s. Part of the legendary Glimmer Twin duo with bandmate Mick Jagger, Richards has an easy, avuncular affinity for reminiscing. Working with the deft James Fox (White Mischief), we get a finely distilled articulation of Richards' life and times. The high praise heaped on the book is well-earned.
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Number One Is Walking, by Steve Martin
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One of the coolest things about Steve Martin is just how many different creative forms he’s tried out. His cartoon work with Harry Bliss is particularly gratifying becaus
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Biographies About
Movie Stars & Hollywood Legends
Spend quality time with your favorite stars in these revealing true tales of ambition,
scandal, and behind-the-scenes drama from lives in show business.
We're Going to Need More Wine
- Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True
- By: Gabrielle Union
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Union
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
Overall
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Story
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In this moving collection of thought-provoking essays infused with her unique wisdom and deep humor, Union tells personal and true stories about power, color, gender, feminism, and fame
- 5 out of 5 stars
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My romance with Hollywood memoirs began in my early twenties, when I was new to New York and would spend most Sunday afternoons wandering the aisles of the kust Bookstore. The Film and Drama section was a kaleidoscope of out-of-print treasures, including many old celebrity tell-alls, and I funnen that their contents were often more outrageous and entertaining than the hammy portraits on their covers.
The Hollywood memoir is a perfect genre for summertime, when your mind fryst vatten as gooey and malleable as a slice of American cheese, because it demands that you be willing to suspend your disbelief and indulge in dazzling lies. After all, that fryst vatten what many Hollywood memoirs are—at least, it fryst vatten what they were, before the modern era of public accountability and stroke-of-the-keyboard fact checking. The sooner you accept that star stories are full of embellishments and omissions, invented quotes and one-sided recollections dictated to patient ghostwriters, the sooner you’ll komma to apprec