Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg
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One was a tough junkman's son, the other a cosseted mama's boy, but they dreamed the same mighty dream: that the right movies could make a profit and change both the culture and individual lives. Sharing a religion and an evangelical zeal for film, Louis B. Mayer (1884-1957) and Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) were unlikely partners in one of the most significant collaborations in movie history. Over the course of their decade-long relationship, as key players at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and major players in Hollywood, they joined forces in redefining and mastering the template for the film industry.
Mayer, older by more than a dozen years, was the business-minded face of the studio, while Thalberg worked closely with the creative corps, especially writers; together they rarely set a foot wrong. And while Mayer initially viewed Thalberg as the son he never had, the two would go from passionate friends to near enemies before Thalberg's shocking death at the age of thirty-seven.
In the first joint biography of the two men in fifty years, film critic Kenneth Turan traces their fraught relationship while examining the complicated history of Jewish identity in Hollywood.
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General4 out of 5 stars 3
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Philip Norman’s biography of the Beatles is the definitive work on the world's most influential band—a beautifully written account of their lives, their music, and their times. Now brought completely up to date, this epic tale charts the rise of four scruffy Liverpool lads from their wild, often comical early days to the astonishing heights of Beatlemania, from the chaos of Apple and the collapse of hippy idealism to the band's acrimonious split.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Highly critical and overly general
- De Patrick King en 04-04-25
De: Philip Norman
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Leonardo da Vinci
- An Untraceable Life
- De: Stephen J. Campbell
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in his extensive writings, yet countless pages have been written about him that assign him an identity: genius, entrepreneur, celebrity artist, outsider. Addressing the ethical stakes involved in studying past lives, Stephen J. Campbell shows how this invented Leonardo has invited speculation from figures ranging from art dealers and curators to scholars, scientists, and biographers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Anti-Biography
- De Tbaley en 03-04-25
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After Disney
- Toil, Trouble, and the Transformation of America's Favorite Media Company
- De: Neil O'Brien
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Walt Disney left behind big dreams when he died in 1966. Perhaps none was greater than the hope that his son-in-law, Ron Miller, would someday run his studio. Under Miller’s leadership, Disney expanded into new frontiers: global theme parks, computer animation, cable television, home video, and video games. Despite these innovations, Ron struggled to expand the Disney brand beyond its midcentury image of wholesome family entertainment, even as times and tastes evolved.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating history
- De Nikki en 05-05-25
De: Neil O'Brien
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Tinseltown
- Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
- De: William J. Mann
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,905
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,913
By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence; yet Hollywood's glittering ascendancy was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies - including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everybody's a dreamer...
- De Steven en 01-08-15
De: William J. Mann
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Woody Allen
- A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham
- De: Patrick McGilligan
- Narrado por: Seth Lews
- Duración: 34 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
Across nearly nine eventful decades, Woody Allen’s life has been full of surprises. Writing jokes got him a gig as the youngest writer of Sid Caesar’s television dream team. As a rising comic, he boxed a kangaroo on TV. He made a blank-check deal with a major studio for terms unmatched in Hollywood apart from early titans like Chaplin and Welles. All before Annie Hall. Yet despite once being one of the most consequential American cultural figures, Allen is now persona non grata.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Final Impressions (after First Impressions)
- De Buretto en 02-08-25
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Michael Curtiz
- A Life in Film
- De: Alan K. Rode
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 25 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Academy Award-winning director Michael Curtiz—whose best-known films include Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, and White Christmas—was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his 27-year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, Westerns, musicals, war epics, romances, historical dramas, horror films, tearjerkers, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces. In the first biography of this colorful, instinctual artist, Alan K. Rode illuminates the life and work of one of the film industry's most complex figures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Comprehensive
- De MikeEC en 04-28-22
De: Alan K. Rode
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The Autobiography Collection
- Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, and More
- De: Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla, Theodore Roosevelt, y otros
- Narrado por: Jim D Johnston, Gregory T Luzitano
- Duración: 86 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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Featuring a rich collection of personal memoirs, letters, notes, and reflections from some of America’s greatest figures, The Autobiography Collection brings together real historical documents for contemporary listeners in a stylish and accessible edition that brings history to life.
De: Benjamin Franklin, y otros
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A Man on Fire
- The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- De: Douglas R. Egerton
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
Few Americans covered as much ground as Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 to a family descended from Boston's Puritan founders, he attended Harvard, like all the men in his family, and prepared for the settled life of a minister. Instead, he rejected both privilege and convention, and embraced radical causes, attaching himself to nearly every major reform movement of the day, from women's rights to abolitionism. More than merely a fellow traveler, Higginson was a proponent of direct action.
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Daughter of Daring
- The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman
- De: Mallory O'Meara
- Narrado por: Mallory O'Meara
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in Pictures," Helen emerged in the early days of the twentieth-century silent film scene as a rodeo rider, background actor, stunt double, and eventually one of the era’s biggest action stars. Her exploits on motorcycles, train cars, and horseback were as dangerous as they were glamorous, featured in hundreds of films and serials—yet her legacy was quickly overshadowed by the increasingly hypermasculine and male-dominated evolution of cinema in the decades that would follow her.
De: Mallory O'Meara
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Legends and Soles
- The Memoir of an American Original
- De: Sonny Vaccaro
- Narrado por: Armen Keteyian, Sonny Vaccaro, Ari Fliakos, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 19
Written in collaboration with six-time New York Times bestselling author Armen Keteyian, Legends and Soles provides context and truth to the sensational media stories and headlines. Filled with in-depth stories and photos illuminating some of Sonny’s most treasured career memories, Legends and Soles is the long-awaited memoir of a giant of American sports.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sonny’s career
- De Brent Markley en 04-18-25
De: Sonny Vaccaro
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Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli
- The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather
- De: Mark Seal
- Narrado por: Phil Thron
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 955
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 815
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 811
The story of how The Godfather was made is as dramatic, operatic, and entertaining as the film itself. Over the years, many versions of various aspects of the movie’s fiery creation have been told - sometimes conflicting, but always compelling. Mark Seal sifts through the evidence, has extensive new conversations with director Francis Ford Coppola and several heretofore silent sources, and complements them with colorful interviews with key players including actors Al Pacino, James Caan, Talia Shire, and others.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great book that draws from many, many sources
- De DARBY KERN en 04-11-22
De: Mark Seal
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Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill
- The Complete Critical Companion to Better Call Saul
- De: Alan Sepinwall
- Narrado por: Brian P. Craig
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5
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Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill: The Better Call Saul Critical Companion collects chief TV critic at Rolling Stone Alan Sepinwall's critical essays on every episode of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated series. Sepinwall covered Better Call Saul from start to finish, and conducted exhaustive interviews with creator Vince Gilligan and stars Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seahorn, reproduced here alongside new interviews with series cocreator Peter Gould.
De: Alan Sepinwall
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The Fixer
- Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn
- De: Josh Young, Manfred Westphal
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays, Manfred Westphal
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 194
During the height of Hollywood’s golden age, one man lorded over the city’s lurid underbelly of forbidden sin and celebrity scandal like no other: Fred Otash. An ex-Marine turned L.A.P.D. vice cop, Otash became the most sought-after private detective and fixer to the stars by specializing in the dark arts that would soon dominate the entertainment industry. The Fixer delves into the extraordinary life of Hollywood’s most infamous private detective and “fixer” to the stars, revealing newly discovered shocking revelations from his never-before-seen investigative files.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For Hollywood gossip lovers!
- De Janna Wong Healy en 06-01-24
De: Josh Young, y otros
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The Prosecutor
- One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
- De: Jack Fairweather
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11
At the end of the Nuremberg trials in 1946, some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The Allies were ready to overlook their pasts as the Cold War began, and the legacy of the Holocaust was in danger of being forgotten. In The Prosecutor, Jack Fairweather brings to life the heroic story of Fritz Bauer who survived the Nazis as a gay Jewish man to force his countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story
- De janine en 03-25-25
De: Jack Fairweather
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Just Beyond the Light
- Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head
- De: D. Randall Blythe
- Narrado por: D. Randall Blythe
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 67
In his gripping, bestselling debut memoir Dark Days, Lamb of God vocalist D. Randall (Randy) Blythe unflinchingly wrote about some of the most harrowing episodes of his past. Now, in his highly anticipated follow-up Just Beyond the Light, Blythe shares how he works daily to maintain positivity in a world that feels like it is spinning out of control. In his own words, Just Beyond the Light is a "tight, concise roadmap of how I have attempted to maintain what I believe to be a proper perspective in life, even during difficult times."
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5 out of 5 stars
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There's Something for Everyone
- De andreas en 05-06-25
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Spare Me
- De: Anthony Cumia, Johnny Russo - foreword
- Narrado por: Anthony Cumia
- Duración: 3 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
You won't want to miss the explosive insights and unfiltered perspective in legendary broadcaster Anthony Cumia’s latest book. In his much-anticipated second book, Spare Me, radio personality and podcaster Anthony Cumia returns, unleashing a scorching and unapologetic commentary that spans the spectrum from politics to entertainment, while sparing no particular individual deserving of his legendary wrath.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great listen!
- De free thinker. en 02-19-25
De: Anthony Cumia, y otros
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Son of Southtown
- My Life Between Two Worlds
- De: Sonny Sandoval, Jon Foreman - foreword
- Narrado por: Sonny Sandoval
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 52
Born and raised on the streets of Southtown, two exits from the Mexico border, Sonny Sandoval was always going to go his own way. And as frontman of the platinum selling nu metal band P.O.D.—a group too Christian for the world and too secular for the church—he has broken every mold, defied every expectation, and reached into the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of people who wanted to belong to something but never felt like they fit in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I could not stop listening!
- De Du Wayne Denton en 03-31-25
De: Sonny Sandoval, y otros
Lives of two Hollywood Giants
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