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"The crazy, sexy Kardashian clan lives life in the Hollywood fast lane with Kim, a paparazzi favorite, as leader of the pack. See what happens when the family celebrates their parents' wedding anniversary (with strippers and facelifts!), the girls orchestrate a scandalous "Girls gone wild" photo shoot in Puerto Vallarta, and Kim bares all for the cover of Playboy."--Container.
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"A collection unlike any other, Letters from Hollywood reproduces rare correspondence between some of the most notable and talented film industry names of all time--from the silent era to the Golden Age and up through the pre-email days of the 1970s. Culled from university libraries, archives, and personal collections, by filmmaker Rocky Lang and archivist Barbara Hall, this is the first time most of these letters, memos, and telegrams have been printed...
25) Party animals: a Hollywood tale of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll starring the fabulous Allan Carr
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Allan Carr was Hollywood's premier party-thrower during the town's most hedonistic ear-- the cocaine-addled, sexually indulgent 1970s. Get a sizzling, candid, behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood's most infamous period.
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With a year in Los Angeles under their belts, Lauren and her friends Heidi, Audrina and Whitney are learning that being young women in the big city isn't as easy as they thought. The girls are older, wiser and now single, facing new challenges at work and school. But this year, when new boys force them to make tough choices, Lauren and the girls are about to find out that not even friendship can be taken for granted.
27) Half the picture
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Women and men attend film schools in equal numbers, but women direct only four percent of top grossing feature films in the US. Why are women largely shut out of this prestigious, lucrative and culturally influential profession? High profile women directors including Ava DuVernay (A Wrinkle In Time), Lena Dunham (Girls), Jill Soloway (Transparent), offer candid, unfiltered and often humorous tales of their careers in Hollywood.
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"Murder is shocking. The savagery of Elizabeth Short's (also known as the Black Dahlia) slaying was beyond anything Los Angeles, indeed the U.S., had experienced. Short would not be the only young woman in Los Angeles during the 1940s to suffer at the hands of a brutal and sadistic killer, a killer who was never caught. Senseless murder, rape, and robbery were a common thread throughout the streets of Los Angeles of the mid-twentieth century. Men...
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"Due to rapid technological change, economic challenges facing media industries, and the writers' strike of 2007-08, screenwriting has been changing dramatically. While industry professionals in LA are still writing screenplays, what the studios want is changing, and there are new players in the market. Larger studios have become more conservative about the 'tentpole' pictures they need to make their bottom lines work, relying more on sequels, remakes,...
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The blacklist. The Hollywood Ten. These words, evocative as they are, do not reveal that, from 1933 through 1947, Hollywood was the focal point of progressive political activity in the United States. Nor do they convey that the imprisonments and blacklistings were not an isolated outbreak of Cold War hysteria, but rather the successful conclusion of two decades of efforts by conservative and reactionary forces to curtail political activism in Hollywood....
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