The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood`s Chateau Marmont, Levy Shawn

Автор: Levy, Shawn
Название: Castle on sunset
ISBN: 1474611842 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474611848
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: The intoxicating story of Hollywood, as seen from the suites and bungalows of its most iconic hotel

Автор: Levy, Shawn
Название: Ready, Steady, Go!
ISBN: 0767905881 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767905886
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Levy, Shawn
Название: She`s A Riot
ISBN: 1984899279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781984899279
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Shawn Levy
Название: Ready, Steady, Go!
ISBN: 1841152269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841152264
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: Shawn Levy, author of `Rat Pack Confidential` brings alive London in the swinging Sixties with a gripping, groovy story of those who created the scene that changed the world.

Автор: Shawn Levy
Название: Last Playboy, The
ISBN: 0007171072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007171071
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: A scandalous story of money, drugs, fast cars, high politics, lowly crime, hundreds of beautiful woman and one man, Porfirio Rubirosa from the celebrated author of "Rat Pack Confidential". The Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa died at 8:00 am on July 5, 1965, when he smashed his Ferrari into a tree in Paris. He was 56 years old and on his way home to his 28-year-old fifth wife, Odile Rodin, after a night's debauch in celebration of a victorious polo match. In the previous four decades, Rubirosa had on four separate occasions married one of the wealthiest women in the world, and had slept with hundreds of other women including Marilyn Monroe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ava Gardner, and Eva Peron. He had worked as aide-de-camp to one of the most vicious fascists the century ever knew. He had served as an ambassador to France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Argentina and Vichy. He had been a jewel thief, a forger, a shipping magnate, a treasure hunter. He had held his own with the world's most powerful and notorious men including John F. Kennedy, Josef Goebbels and Juan Peron. He ran comfortably celebrity circles, counting among his friends Frank Sinatra, Ted Kennedy, David Niven, Sammy Davis Jr., an He lived for the moment and, at his death, faded without a legacy: no children, no fortune, no entity -- financial, cultural, even architectural - that bore his name. There will never be anyone else like Porfiro Rubirosa. Indeed, the really amazing thing is that there ever was. Shawn Levy - celebrated author of "Rat Pack Confidential", and "Ready, Steady, Go" - has been given unique access to primary material including FBI and CIA files in his search for the last playboy.

Автор: Levy Shawn
Название: Paul Newman: A Life
ISBN: 0307353761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307353764
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict, The Color of Money, and Nobody’s Fool. But Newman was also an oddity in Hollywood: the rare box-office titan who cared about the craft of acting, the sexy leading man known for the staying power of his marriage, and the humble celebrity who made philanthropy his calling card long before it was cool.

The son of a successful entrepreneur, Newman grew up in a prosperous Cleveland suburb.

Despite fears that he would fail to live up to his father’s expectations, Newman bypassed the family sporting goods business to pursue an acting career. After struggling as a theater and television actor, Newman saw his star rise in a tragic twist of fate, landing the role of boxer Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me when James Dean was killed in a car accident. Though he would joke about instances of “Newman’s luck” throughout his career, he refused to coast on his stunning boyish looks and impish charm.

Part of the original Actors Studio generation, Newman demanded a high level of rigor and clarity from every project. The artistic battles that nearly derailed his early movie career would pay off handsomely at the box office and earn him critical acclaim.

He applied that tenacity to every endeavor both on and off the set.

The outspoken Newman used his celebrity to call attention to political causes dear to his heart, including civil rights and nuclear proliferation. Taking up auto racing in midlife, Newman became the oldest driver to ever win a major professional auto race. A food enthusiast who would dress his own salads in restaurants, he launched the Newman’s Own brand dedicated to fresh ingredients, a nonprofit juggernaut that has generated more than $250 million for charity.

In Paul Newman: A Life, film critic and pop culture historian Shawn Levy gives readers the ultimate behind-the-scenes examination of the actor’s life, from his merry pranks on the set to his lasting romance with Joanne Woodward to the devastating impact of his son’s death from a drug overdose.

This definitive biography is a fascinating portrait of an extraordinarily gifted man who gave back as much as he got out of life and just happened to be one of the most celebrated movie stars of the twentieth century.