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My Horizontal Life: a Collection of One-night Stands by Chelsea Handler Publisher Comments In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand. You've either done it or know... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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You'll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again: One Woman's Painfully Funny Quest to Give It Up by Heather Mcdonald Publisher Comments "Can’t a girl dress like a hooker, dance like a stripper, and kiss like a porn star and still be a nineteen-year-old virgin?" You’ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again is the laugh-out-loud story of an attractive Los Angeles woman who found... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Movie Icons: Audrey Hepburn by F. X. Feeney Publisher Comments The Tiffany princess in the little black dress An unrivaled document of one of the 20th century's touchstone beauties, by one of Hollywood's greatest studio photographers. This Collector’s Edition is limited to 1,000 copies, numbered and signed by... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $9.99 Sale - Flexible
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Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters Publisher Comments Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package." And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood by Teri Garr Publisher Comments The driven comedian tells (almost) all [and] shes as dizzily funny as ever. Entertainment Weekly Garr sticks to the truth whether its hysterically funny, or, at times, heart wrenching. Read this book, its a lesson in courage. Mel... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Movie Monsters by David Baird Synopsis An unforgettable collection of the scariest and most intriguing monsters the world of film has ever produced. Old favourites such as Frankenstein, Dracula, Godzilla and King Kong appear alongside more modern versions of the monstrous-from Norman Bates to... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $2.25 Sale - Hardcover
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My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up by Russell Brand Publisher Comments Russell Brand learned early on to make a joke of fear and failure. From a troubled childhood in industrial Essex, England, to his descent into addictions to alcohol, drugs, and sex in the seamy underbelly of London, Brand has seen his share of both and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Kotter's Back: E-Mails from a Faded Celebrity to a Bewildered World by Gabe Kaplan Publisher Comments When fifty-eight-year-old Gabe Kaplan, perhaps best known for his performance in the title role of the popular seventies sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, got an e-mail asking him to participate in a show called Celebrity Boxing, he couldn't resist the urge... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Television Without Pity: 752 Things We Love to Hate (and Hate to Love) about TV by Tara Ariano and Sarah Bunting Publisher Comments Shut Up, TV! In Television Without Pity, the founders of the popular TV-recap Web site TelevisionWithoutPity.com pay snarky tribute to 752 of the shows, characters, actors, clichés, plot devices, memorable moments, and catchphrases that... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dogville Vs. Hollywood by Jake Horsley Publisher Comments Using Lars von Trier's 2003 film Dogvilleas a launchpad for his ideas, Jake Horsley aims to discuss the conflict between "artistic"and "commercial"movie-making that he believes exists in the film industry today. He proposes that the term "independent... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Kate the Woman Who Was Katharine Hepburn by William Mann Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year One of Publishers Weekly's 100 Best Books of the Year Katharine Hepburn was her own creation--an ambitious, vulnerable woman who charmed the public with the image of an East Coast aristocrat, wearing... (read more) Your price: $3.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Uncharted Territori by Tori Spelling Publisher Comments Welcome to Los Angeles, birthplace and residence of Tori Spelling. Its not every Hollywood starlet whose name greets you on a Virgin Airways flight into la-la land. But Tori Spelling has come to accept that her life is a spectacle. Her name is her brand,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy by Mark A Vieira Publisher Comments With her astounding beauty and enigmatic persona, Greta Garbo is the ultimate Hollywood icon. Though many books have tried to unlock the mystique of the Swedish Sphinx by focusing primarily on her personal life, "Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy" is the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $22.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Have You Seen . . . ?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films by David Thomson Publisher Comments In 1975, David Thomson published his Biographical Dictionary of Film, and few film books have enjoyed better press or such steady sales. Now, thirty-three years later, we have the companion volume, a second book of more than 1,000 pages in one voice&#... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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American Movie Critics: An Anthology the from Silents Until Now by Phillip Lopate Publisher Comments An anthology of unparalleled scope, American Movie Critics charts the rise of movies as art, industry, and mass entertainment. Here are the great movie critics who forged a forceful new vernacular idiom for talking about the new art,?Otis Ferguson, James... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Directory of World Cinema: American Independent by John Berra Publisher Comments With high-profile Academy Award nominations and an increasing number of big-name actors eager to sign on to promising projects, independent films have been at the forefront in recent years like never before. But the roots of such critical and commercial... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema: Resonance Between Realms by James Walters Publisher Comments Alternative worlds in films such as The Wizard of Oz, It's a Wonderful Life, Donnie Darko and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind offer similarities and resonances to our world, but provide a way for filmmakers to address the human condition by forming... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia De Rossi Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the New York Times bestselling memoir from Portia de Rossi explores the truth of her long battle to overcome anorexia and bulimia—“an unusually fresh and engrossing memoir of both Hollywood and modern womanhood&rdquo... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody Publisher Comments A “serious-minded and meticulously detailed . . . account of the lifelong artistic journey” of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age (The New York Times) When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Art Cinema by Paul Young Publisher Comments Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. —Jean-Luc Godard Debate over cinema’s credibility as an art form is as old as the medium itself, and largely defined in terms of formal, psychological... (read more) Your price: $29.99 Sale - Hardcover
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