The first major biography of the most influential, powerful, and controversial film critic of the twentieth centuryPauline Kael was, in the words of Entertainment Weekly's movie reviewer Owen Gleiberm
A lively and colorful biography of Hollywood’s first superagent—one of the most outrageous showbiz characters of the 1960s and 1970s whose clients included Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal, Faye Dunaway,
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The first biography of The New Yorker's influential, powerful, and controversial film critic. A decade after her death, Paul
The Bennetts chronicles the rise of a royal family of stage and screen. Brian Kellow writes a saga that begins with Richard Bennett, a small-town Indiana roughneck who grew up to be one of the bright
More than twenty years after her death, Ethel Merman continues to set the standard for American musical theater. The stories about the supremely talented, famously strong-willed, fearsomely blunt, and
“To call Sue Mengers a ‘character’ is an understatement, unless the word is written in all-caps, followed by an exclamation point and modified by an expletive. And based on Brian Kellow’s assessment i
This biography of comedienne Charlotte Greenwood (1890-1978) is based on her unpublished memoir, Never Too Tall. Hayter-Menzies, an art and music critic, describes Greenwood's early health problems, s
