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De Niro - A Life by Shawn Levy
Category: Biography
REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ICON There s little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest screen actors of his generation, perhapsof all time--if not, in fact, "the "greatest.His work, particularly in the first 20 years of his career, is unparalleled. "Mean Streets, the Godfather Part II, Taxi Dr ...Show more
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
Category: Popular History
From the ashes of the Second World War, Rome in the 1950s was reborn as the epicentre of film, fashion, tabloid media and bold-faced libertinism that made 'Italian' a global synonym for style and flair. A confluence of cultural contributions created a bright, burning moment in history: it was the heyday ...Show more
Dolce Vita Confidential - Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
Category: REM Cinema
From the ashes of World War II, Rome was reborn as the epicenter of film, fashion, creative energy, tabloid media, and bold-faced libertinism that made "Italian" a global synonym for taste, style, and flair. A confluence of cultural contributions created a bright, burning moment in history: it was the h ...Show more
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
Category: Film & Tv
'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times'Teeming with satisfying gossipy details' Guardian'Exalts the intoxicating, beguiling dreaminess of Rome in its celluloid heyday' TLS1950s Rome. From the ashes of war, the Eternal City is reborn as the epicentre of film, sty ...Show more
Paul Newman: A Life by Shawn Levy
Category: Film & Tv
Paul Newman wasn't just the famously blue-eyed Hollywood actor who turned in some of the great performances in modern cinema in films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Color of Money, The Hustler and Cool Hand Luke. He was that rare contradiction: a humble celebrity, and also, in the rest of ...Show more
Ready, Steady, Go! Swinging London and the Invention of Cool by Shawn Levy
Category: Anthologies
For a few years in the 1960s, London was the coolest city on earth: a spontaneous, dizzying stew of pop music, fashion, film, scandal, drugs & sex, crime, the avant garde underground and the tabloid obsession with fame. The rest of the world watched in awe. Snaking through it are such eminent swingi ...Show more
Ready, Steady, Go! The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London by Shawn Levy
Category: Performing Arts
It's the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes, br ...Show more
The Castle on Sunset - Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy
Category: Biography
The definitive--and salacious--history of the iconic hotel that Hollywood stars have called a home away from home for almost a century. Since 1929, Hollywood's brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second home. Perched above the Sunset Strip like a fairytale castle, the Cha ...Show more
The Castle on Sunset - Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy
Category: Biography
For nearly ninety years, Hollywood's brightest stars have favoured the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. Filled with deep secrets but hidden in plain sight, its evolution parallels the growth of Hollywood itself. Perched above the Sunset Strip like a fairy-tale castle, the Chateau seems to come ...Show more
The Last Playboy : The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa by Shawn Levy
Category: Biography Memoir
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