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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBorn Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Steve Martin · 216 pages
The author shares the stories of his years in stand-up comedy in a humorous memoir that recalls a first job selling guidebooks at Disneyland, his early magic and comedy act, his years of honing his craft, and the sacrifice, discipline, and originality it took to take him to the top.
And Furthermore
Judi Dench · 294 pages
From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the York Mystery Plays it was clear that acting would be her career. Trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama it was her performance in her twenties as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's memorable Old Vic production that turned her into a star. But it is her role as 'M' in six James Bond films beginning with GOLDENEYE in 1995 that has g
Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond
Florence Henderson · 304 pages
The Fry Chronicles
Stephen Fry · 448 pages
The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
Gypsy: Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper
Gypsy Rose Lee · 350 pages
The memoir, which Gypsy began as a series of pieces for The New Yorker, contains photographs and newspaper clippings from her personal scrapbooks and an afterword by her son, Erik Lee Preminger. At turns touching and hilarious, Gypsy describes her childhood trouping across 1920s America through her rise to stardom as The Queen of Burlesque in 1930s New York—where gin came in bathtubs, gangsters we
David Jason: My Life
David Jason · 400 pages
Anything Goes
John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowman · 256 pages
From his Glaswegian childhood and American adolescence to his starring role in the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood, this memoir traces the life and career of actor John Barrowman. John made a name for himself with remarkable West End achievements, including an Olivier Award nomination and success in the movies The Producers and De-Lovely. Television success was also assured when Torchwood won a Best
In the Frame
Helen Mirren · 272 pages
This beautifully illustrated book contains some of Helen's private photographs, recording professional encounters with, among others, Michael Gambon, Liam Neeson, Peter Hall, Linda La Plante and Julie Walters. This is the personal album of a woman who is, in the words of the Sunday Times, 'a British institution'.
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman · 469 pages
Memoirs
Tennessee Williams · 268 pages
Long self-identified as a gay man, America's greatest playwright Williams' candour in his book about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself. Here, more than thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed.
Are You Anybody?: A Memoir
Jeffrey Tambor · 304 pages
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Alan Alda · 247 pages
On the heels of his acclaimed memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, beloved actor and bestselling author Alan Alda has written Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, an insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions he's asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?)Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off-
Bossypants
Tina Fey · 277 pages
Tina Fey’s new book *Bossypants* is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on Saturday Night Live, Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funnie
And Then One Day: A Memoir
Naseeruddin Shah · 328 pages
Autobiography of an Indian motion picture actor.
Dancing on My Grave
Gelsey Kirkland, Greg Lawrence · 363 pages
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
Alec Guinness · 224 pages
Over the last few years Sir Alec Guinness has been keeping a diary, small portions of which have been appearing in the "Spectator". The diary is the basis of this book, though Guinness has taken the opportunity to go back and expand and revise his entries.
Lucky Bastard: My Life, My Dad, and the Things I'm Not Allowed to Say on TV
Joe Buck · 295 pages
"In his debut memoir, Joe Buck talks about his life, his career, and his memorable relationship with his father, legendary sportscaster Jack Buck"--Baker & Taylor.
Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Hope Edelman · 428 pages
In this remarkable dual memoir, film legend Martin Sheen and accomplished actor/filmmaker Emilio Estevez recount their lives as father and son. In alternating chapters -- and in voices that are as eloquent as they are different -- they tell stories spanning more than fifty years of family history, and reflect on their journeys into two different kinds of faith.
Him & Me
Jack Whitehall, Michael Whitehall · 320 pages
700 Sundays
Billy Crystal · 187 pages
To support his family, Billy Crystal's father, Jack, worked two jobs, having only one day a week to spend with his family. Based on Crystal's one-man Broadway show of the same name, "700 Sundays"--referring sadly to the time shared by an adoring father and his devoted son--offers a heartfelt, hilarious memoir. Photos throughout.
Without You
Anthony Rapp · 314 pages
Actor Rapp recounts his life-changing experience in the original cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent. Rapp had a special feeling about Jonathan Larson's rock musical from his first audition, so he was thrilled when he landed a starring role. When Rent opened to thunderous acclaim off Broadway, the cast members knew that something extraordinary had taken shape. But even as friends and f