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MY LIFE IN THREE ACTS

By: Hayes, Helen

Price: ¥600.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1991

Seller ID: RWARE0000005515

ISBN: 0671735373

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Thanks to freelance writer Hatch's unobtrusive collaboration, Hayes's voice is practically audible in this candid, humorous and deeply moving story. B orn with the century in Washington, D.C., Hayes first appeared on stage at age six. The shy and quiet future star's career was managed by her mother u ntil she met roistering, boozy Charles MacArthur, whom she wed in 1928, the year the MacArthur-Ben Hecht play, The Front Page , opened on Broadway. Th e "mismatch" lasted until MacArthur's death in 1956, enduring the starkly d escribed loss of their 19-year-old daughter Mary to polio. In other cha...
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ME: STORIES OF MY LIFE

By: Hepburn, Katharine

Price: ¥900.00

Publisher: Knopf: 1991

Seller ID: RWARE0000051405

ISBN: 0679400516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Admired and beloved by movie audiences for over sixty years, four-time Acad emy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn is an American classic. Now Miss Hepburn breaks her long-kept silence about her private life in this absorbing and provocative memoir. A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the Year.
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THE DARK SIDE OF THE SCREEN: FILM NOIR (A DA CAPO PAPERBACK)

By: Hirsch, Foster

Price: ¥800.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press: 1983

Seller ID: RWARE0000051433

ISBN: 0306802031

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Foster Hirsch's Dark Side of the Screen is by far the most thorough and entertaining study of the themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, directors, and films in this genre ever published. From Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk, Robert Aldrich, and Howard Hawkes to Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, and Paul Schrader, the noir themes of dread, paranoia, steamy sex, double-crossing women, and menacing cityscapes have held a fascination. The features tha...
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THE UNABRIDGED MARILYN

By: Hitchins, Neal

Price: ¥1,400.00

Publisher: Bantam Press: 1988

Seller ID: RWARE0000029366

ISBN: 0552993085

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

MIDNIGHT MOVIES (DA CAPO PAPERBACK)

By: Hoberman, J.

Price: ¥6,000.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press: 1991

Seller ID: RWARE0000051418

ISBN: 0306804336

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps audiences coming back to see them over and over; an exploration of the connections between subversive film and the subcultures from which it emerges. Supp...
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JAMES DEAN: A BIOGRAPHY

By: Howlett, John

Price: ¥1,500.00

Publisher: Plexus Publishing: 1994

Seller ID: RWARE0000009634

ISBN: 085965012X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A highly collectible 5th impression, tight clean copy, no markings througho ut; Five decades after the death of James Dean, he is still revered as a distan t myth and remains an enigma to a generation that hardly knows him. Yet it is this generation that has made him the most idolized actor of all time. W hile his film career lasted only sixteen months, it produced three cinemati c greats: East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. John Howlett conducted extensive research and interviews with actors and di rectors who knew Dean, to produce a revealing portrait of a complex and tra gic ma...
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MORE PLEASE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

By: Humphries, Barry

Price: ¥850.00

Publisher: Viking: 1992

Seller ID: RWARE0000049231

ISBN: 0670840084

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This is the first volume of a duet that charts Barry Humphries' life and career. Nostalgic, the book reveals much about a man who has kept his private life private, overshadowed by, among others, his most monstrous creation, Dame Edna Everage.
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MY LIFE AS ME: A MEMOIR

By: Humphries, Barry

Price: ¥700.00

Publisher: Michael Joseph (Imprint of P.: 2002

Seller ID: RWARE0000049263

ISBN: 0718145410

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

'When I was nine, my mother gave all my books to the Salvation Army. I was distraught. "But you've read them, Barry," laughed my mother as if it were the height of self-indulgence to retain books after a first perusal. "I hop e you're not going togrow up to be a selfish little boy." Sadly, I did.' Here begins Barry's new book and also a lifelong struggle against occasional savage bouts of bibliomania. Elegant, wistful, utterly readable and memorably funny MY LIFE AS ME once again shows us that his career as a performer has been a mere preliminary before he fulfils his true vocation as one of ...
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THEY WENT THATAWAY: REDEFINING FILM GENRES A NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITI CS VIDEO GUIDE

By: Jameson, Richard T.

Price: ¥600.00

Publisher: Mercury House: 2000

Seller ID: RWARE0000051415

ISBN: 1562790552

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Members of the National Society of Film Critics examine movies that have de fined or redefined movie genres, including Unforgiven, The Crying Game, Res ervoir Dogs, Rear Window, Star Wars, The Grifters, Aliens, Platoon, The Sil ence of the Lambs, Fatal Attraction, Heathers, Ghostbusters, Thelma & Louis e, and lesser-known film.
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A HISTORY OF MOVIE MUSICALS

By: John, Kobal

Price: ¥5,000.00

Publisher: London: 1988

Seller ID: RWARE0000051444

ISBN: 0600559289

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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TRACY AND HEPBURN

By: KANIN, GARSON

Price: ¥350.00

Publisher: Bantam: 1972

Seller ID: RWARE0000010756

Binding: Paperback

THE FILM ENCYCLOPEDIA

By: Katz, Ephraim

Price: ¥5,000.00

Publisher: Crowell: 1979

Seller ID: RWARE0000048936

ISBN: 0690012047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

More than seven thousand entries cover all aspects of world cinema: biograp hies and film credits for directors, producers, writers, and actors, awards , technical terms, major studios, and schools of film.
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THE SOUND OF LAUGHTER

By: Kay, Peter

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Arrow: 2007

Seller ID: RWARE0000028056

ISBN: 009950555X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A memoir filled with the unique brand of humour for which his TV series has made him so popular - endearing characters who rejoice in, not politics or sex, but far funnier areas of life: elderly relatives and answering machin es, Dads dancing at weddings, Mom's HRT. From the Hardcover edition.
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DANCING ON MY GRAVE

By: Kirkland, Gelsey

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Jove: 1987

Seller ID: RWARE0000052237

ISBN: 051509465X

Binding: Mass Market Pa

Condition: Fair

The shattering story of a dream which became a heartbreaking nightmare for one of America's most famous ballerinas, Gelsey Kirkland, who chronicles he r brilliant start as a dancer with George Balanchine, her legendary partner ship with Mikhail Baryshnikov, her agonizing descent into drugs, and her st ruggles to rise again.
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HORIZONS WEST: DIRECTING THE WESTERN FROM JOHN FORD TO CLINT EASTWOOD (FILM CLASSICS S.)

By: Kitses, Jim

Price: ¥1,000.00

Publisher: British Film Institute: 2007

Seller ID: RWARE0000051426

ISBN: 1844570509

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. When first published in 1969, Horizons West was immediately recognised as the definitive critical account of the Western film and some of its key directors. This greatly expanded new edition is, like the original, written in a graceful, penetrating and absorbingly readable style.
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RADIO WAVES: LIFE AND REVOLUTION ON THE FM DIAL

By: Ladd, Jim

Price: ¥2,000.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: 1992

Seller ID: RWARE0000009705

ISBN: 0312077866

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

This copy is signed by the author, and has what seems to be a coffee stain on the ffep,and to the page edges o/w a good readable copy, of this rare si gned copy; Not ony is Ladd, a L.A. disc jockey for more than 20 years, trapped in a 19 60s-1970s time warp, the golden age of rock, but he seems to be unaware of his own hype. He views pre-rock tunes as bubblegum music and those written after 1980 as corporate music for yuppiedom. He ascribes a nobility of moti ve, a power of intellect and virtually limitless talent to the top rockers, arguing that John Lennon, for one, "created some of the mos...
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CARLA'S SONG

By: Laverty, Paul

Price: ¥600.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: 1997

Seller ID: RWARE0000001339

ISBN: 0571191622

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Carla's Song tells the story of the relationship between George, a feckless Scottish bus driver, and Carla, a refugee from Nicaragua, adrift in Glasgo w. It is 1987 and in Carla's home country the US-backed Contra rebels are m ounting their final lethal assault against the Sandinista government. At fi rst, Carla resists George's attentions. But he persists, fascinated both by her beauty and by the traumatic mystery that he senses in her past. Embold ened by her love for George, Carla returns with him to Nicaragua and to the turmoil which has engulfed her country. Carla's Song reflects on the b...
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WOODY ALLEN: A BIOGRAPHY

By: Lax, Eric

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Audio Renaissance: 1991

Seller ID: RWARE0000027473

ISBN: 1559271825

Binding: Audio, Cassett

Condition: Very Good

Few celebrities are as instantly recognizable as Woody Allen. Few are as no toriously shy. And perhaps none are as elusive: Is Woody Allen a comedian w ho wants to be taken seriously? Or is he a serious artist whose films happe n to be funny? The very fact that Eric Lax was granted access to Woody for four years in order to research this biography must be counted as a triumph . And what Lax has produced is a marvel of intimacy and insight: a book tha t traces Allen's career from his precocious start as a gag writer to his ap otheosis as a genuine auteur; a book that takes readers behind the sc...
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CITIZEN KANE : THE FIFTIETH-ANNIVERSARY ALBUM

By: Lebo, Harlan

Price: ¥1,500.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 1990

Seller ID: RWARE0000051439

ISBN: 0385414730

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The film Citizen Kane smashed all of Hollywood's filmmaking conventions, setting standards for visual style and storytelling that are still unmatched today. Here are rare photographs, letters, production sketches and behind-the-scenes stories from the seminal film by Orson Welles that made Rosebud a household word. 109 photos.
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST SIGHT AND SOUND EDITION

By: Lehman, Ernest

Price: ¥400.00

Publisher: Faber Faber Inc: 2000

Seller ID: RWARE0000010070

ISBN: 057120564X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

The first publication of the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's romantic thr iller Made in 1959, North by Northwest is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most beloved thrillers, an enticing cocktail of suspense, comedy, eroticism, and danger. In the film, Cary Grant is a suave but stiff-necked executive who finds himself mistaken for a United States intelligence agent and, as a result, is forced into a series of life-threatening encounters with the villainous James Mason. Grant's consolation is that he also becomes involved with the elegant female spy played by Eva Marie Saint. But the game of internat...
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