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A SPLURCH IN THE KISSER - The Movies of by WASSON SAM
Category: Fiction | Series: Wesleyan Film
This title offers a detailed and hilarious look at the art and life of a legendary Hollywood filmmaker. With one of the longest and most controversial careers in Hollywood history, Blake Edwards is a phoenix of movie directors - full of hubris, ambition, and raving comic chutzpah. In films like "Breakfa ...Show more
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. : Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson
Category: Biography | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The Sleeper Hit of the Summer... Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey -- dainty, immaculate -- is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complet ...Show more
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson
Category: BIOGRAPHY
“So smart and entertaining it should come with its own popcorn”—PeopleCoinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the film version of Truman Capote’s Breakast at Tiffany’s, the acclaimed, New York Times bestseller that is the definitive account of Audrey Hepburn and the making of the cultural landmark f ...Show more
Fifth Avenue 5AM: Audrey Hepburn by Sam Wasson
Category: Fashion
The images of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" are branded into our collective memory: we can see Audrey Hepburn stepping out of that cab on the corner of 57th and 5th, and we can picture her again with George Peppard, huddled in an alleyway and wrapped in a kiss, as the rain pours down around them. Those momen ...Show more
Fosse by Sam Wasson
Category: Biography
We see Bob Fosse's legacy everywhere--from Broadway to "Billy Jean" to Beyonce's moves in the "Single Ladies" video. Yet in spite of Fosse's deep cultural significance, no biography has ever brought him fully to life, unveiling the man behind the bowler hat and the swaggering sex appeal. Now, acclaimed ...Show more
Fosse by Sam Wasson
Category: Biography
Wasson is a smart and savvy reporter, and his book abounds with colorful firsthand tales. Janet Maslin, "New York Times" Fascinating . . . Wasson has taken complete control of his subject. "Wall Street Journal" The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year, Bob Fosse revoluti ...Show more
Fosse: The Biography by Sam Wasson
Category: Biography
Don't dance for the audience. Dance for yourself.The basis for a lavish new drama series from Hamiltoncreator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Fosseis the definitive book on one of Broadway's and Hollywood's most complex and dynamic icons.The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy and Tony awards in the same year, Bob ...Show more
Hollywood: The Oral History by Jeanine Basinger, Sam Wasson
Category: Film & Tv
The greatest cocktail party ever thrown in Hollywood. Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century. What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history is that it is the history of an art form through the words of those peop ...Show more
Hollywood: The Oral History by Sam Wasson, Jeanine Basinger
Category: Performing Arts
The greatest cocktail party ever thrown in Hollywood. 'Essential . . . thrilling . . . invaluable.' - Irish Times'Absorbing . . . rippling with fun and atmosphere.' - Sight & Sound 'Hollywood's ultimate oral history.' - New Yorker From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique pic ...Show more
The Big Goodbye by Sam Wasson
Category: Film & Tv
Sight & Sound's #1 Film Book of 2020 Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the definin ...Show more
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson
Category: Biography
'A multifaceted dissection of the infamous noir film ... good reading for any American cinema buff' Kirkus Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true sto ...Show more