Actor & Entertainer Biographies

Rockstar’s Vulnerable, Transformative Journey from Debauchery to Redemption

The subtitle for Ben Mason’s memoir Sex, Trucks, and Rock ‘N Roll is “a Spiritual Journey,” but that’s much too tidy for this book. “It’s four in the morning,” starts chapter one, “and I’m still wired.” So starts this headstrong story of the life of a musician, songwriter and free-thinking…

Sherri DaleyMarch 21, 2024

BooksToScreen Nonfiction Pop Culture

Unflinching Examination of the Legendary Play and Film, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Author Philip Gefter has written a gossipy sparkler of a book not to be missed by theater fans and movie buffs called Cocktails with George and Martha, subtitled Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Bloomsbury Publishing). This work of nonfiction, in the words of Cole Porter…

Linda HitchcockFebruary 29, 2024

My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand | BookTrib

Nonfiction Pop Culture

Barbra Streisand’s Striking Memoir Captures Remarkable Career of Actor and Musical Icon

Who better than Barbra Streisand to write her memoir and accurately convey her inner feelings and true story? How many millions of words have been devoted to this living legend by the tabloids along with legitimate and speculative magazine articles in a career that has spanned more than six decades?…

Linda HitchcockDecember 18, 2023

Madame of Music Row by Gina Jones | BookTrib

Nonfiction Recommended

Overture of Resilience & Redemption From Musician With Dark Past

Get ready for an unprecedented look into the life of Gina Jones with her book, Madame of Music Row, a tale that transcends the glitz of the entertainment world to reveal the struggles and triumphs, as well as the enduring power of hope. In this heartbreaking, albeit compelling memoir, Jones…

Monique SnymanDecember 18, 2023

Nonfiction

Engrossing Account of the Dazzling Actresses in Hitchcock’s Legendary Films

Searching for gift ideas for an upcoming holiday, birthday or a film awards show party? Look no further as vaunted best-selling nonfiction and biography author Laurence Leamer has penned a gem with Hitchcock’s Blondes (G.P. Putnam's Sons). It’s subtitled The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director’s Dark Obsession. If there…

Linda HitchcockNovember 6, 2023

Nonfiction Pop Culture

Britney Spears’ Powerful, Emotional Memoir is a Cultural Reckoning

Two, maybe even three, generations had lived for and loved Britney Spears over the past couple of decades. Her music is the soundtrack to many lives; her life is what sold millions of tabloids to little girls and boys — now women and men — who worship her. We were…

Monique SnymanOctober 25, 2023

Nonfiction

Charles Busch’s Memoir Recounts His Life as Playwright, Actor and Drag Legend

Since Charles Busch is witty, distinctive and unforgettable – as a writer, actor, impresario and in drag –reading his new book, Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy, is a form of being inner sanctum. Full disclosure, while I’ve always been a fan and gone to anything written…

Susan Shapiro BarashOctober 3, 2023

Nonfiction

Life Lessons from America’s Golden Girl, Betty White

Betty White’s award-winning career spanned seven decades. From the early days of television on the game show circuit to her unforgettable roles on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls, and Hot in Cleveland, she was the first lady of television. With her irreverent wit and comedic timing, Betty…

BookTribDecember 13, 2022

Nonfiction Pop Culture

Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville Pens Laugh-Out-Loud Memoir

Hugh Bonneville is a talented, skilled, versatile, well-established, working actor, neither a diva nor a flavor of the month celebrity whose memoir Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru (Other Press) is perfectly smashing! It has a ready-made audience with Downton Abbey aficionados who already admire his character…

Linda HitchcockDecember 1, 2022

Book Club Network Nonfiction

Legendary Entertainment Executive Alan Shayne Chronicles Coming of Age in Memoir

Sometimes it’s easy for people to tell that you are truly in love — you find a way, whether intentional or not, to work your lover’s name into every conversation or practically every sentence. In Alan Shayne’s poignant and immensely readable memoir, The Rain May Pass (Rand-Smith LLC), once he meets…

Sherri DaleySeptember 29, 2020

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An Author and Playwright Reflects on Her Origins in Brooklyn and How Far Life’s Taken Her

A childhood in Brooklyn. A struggle to become published. A heart-pounding encounter with spies in Romania. It’s all in author and playwright Edith Tarbescu’s book Beyond Brooklyn: A Memoir (Adelaide Books). Chronicling her journey through life, this memoir gives an inside look into the struggles of a first-generation New Yorker…

BookTribOctober 24, 2022

Actor & Entertainer Biographies

Rockstar’s Vulnerable, Transformative Journey from Debauchery to Redemption

Overture of Resilience & Redemption From Musician With Dark Past

Legendary Entertainment Executive Alan Shayne Chronicles Coming of Age in Memoir

An Author and Playwright Reflects on Her Origins in Brooklyn and How Far Life’s Taken Her

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