Dennis Hopper: Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel - Peter L. Winkler - £18.99
"Well researched, well written, and highly entertaining, Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel is an engrossing look at one of Hollywood's most colorful legends." Warren Beath, author of The Death of James Dean
From Hopper's early days in Hollywood, where he had an affair with 16-year-old Natalie Wood and took acting lessons from James Dean while making Rebel Without a Cause and Giant, his '60s head trips and the making of Easy Rider, the crushing failure of The Last Movie and his lost years in Taos, to his recovery and political right turn in the '80s, Dennis Hopper unsparingly documents his journey from a self-destructive bad boy to a reformed member of the Hollywood establishment and iconic survivor of the counterculture.
Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman - Patricia Bosworth - £20
“Nothing about Fonda’s life escapes the keen eye of Patricia Bosworth, who tells the life story of a cinema icon, one of the most intriguing women of our era. You will be enthralled from start to finish.”
Kitty Kelley
As actress, activist, businesswoman, wife and mother, Jane Fonda has pushed herself to the limit, attempting to please all, excel in every arena, be everything. We’ve read her version of her controversial life, yet nothing prepares you for this genuinely revelatory account of Jane’s engrossing, and often shocking journey. Supplemented by the psychiatric records of her suicidal, bipolar mother, Fonda’s FBI file, and interviews with her intimates, this perceptive portrait strips away hype and the subject’s own mythmaking.
Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant - Dyan Cannon - £18.99
“Dyan Cannon has written a complex and captivating memoir…an unqualified success.”
New York Journal of Books
Dyan Cannon wasn’t looking for romance when she sat down for lunch with Cary Grant in the studio canteen; she was a young actress on the outskirts of Hollywood just hoping for her big break. What she found was a star-crossed soul mate – a man who fell instantly in love with her, pursued her relentlessly and eventually persuaded her to love him back equally.
Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon were a glamorous and popular celebrity couple, the epicentre of chic and swinging 1960s Hollywood. For a few brief years their romance flourished; they married and had a daughter. Their romance played out like one of Grant’s movies – bold, witty, full of dramatic gestures, and equally tender moments. When the love died, however, it ended in the same way it had started: dramatically, on courthouse steps and on the front page of every newspaper in the world.
Tales of an Actor's Life - Steven Berkoff - £14.99
Long considered the enfant terrible of the British theatre — both as actor, director, and writer — and famous for his villainous roles in films such as A Clockwork Orange, Rambo and Octopussy, Steven Berkoff is original in everything he does. He is a man of whom one should never expect the expected. Now, in this captivating book, he shares scenes from his own colourful theatrical life, thinly disguising them on occasion to protect the guilty but never being less than entertaining and forthright in his accounts.
Romantic though an actor’s life may seem to be to the general public, clearly it is often tough and often laced with tears. But there is laughter too, and camaraderie and in these tales, Berkoff gives the reader a real insight and feeling of what it is like to tread the boards, and the passion, work, and intuition that goes into creating a role.
Tales I've Never Told - Michael Winner - £16.99
Michael Winner’s life as a movie director, food critic and general mover and shaker has brought him into contact with many of the most famous people in the world. In his
acclaimed autobiography he told some stories but kept back a wealth of others up to the present time which are entertainingly recounted here with his customary wit, humour and indiscretion.
The extraordinary cast of Tales I Never Told! includes Simon Cowell, Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway, Sophia Loren, Charles Bronson, Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Orson Welles, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Robert Mitchum, Oliver Reed, Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine, Alain Delon, Leslie Caron, Frank Sinatra.