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Group Biographies
 The New Biographical Dictionary of Film - Completely Updated and Expended
David Thomson
This new Fifth Edition wiith more than 100 new entries, to total almost 1500 on over 1000 pages is more than worthy of the description of an advance review as "the finest refernce book ever written about movies:. It is crammed with Thomson's trademark humour and passionate, provocative, and daring opinions. This is the one book that every filmmaker and film buff will want. Cloth, $48.00. October.
 Hollywood Hellraisers
Robert Sellers
Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson: they're the baddest bad asses Hollywood has ever seen. These are men for whom rules did not apply, men for whom normal standards of behaviour were simply too wearisome to worry about. This book is a whistle-stop tour of jaw-dropping sexual activity, misbehaviour of an Olympic standard, all-out excess and genuine madness. Softcover, 322 pp. $21.95.
 Artists in Exile
Joseph Horowitz
Decades of war and revolution in Europe forced an intellectual migration during the last century, relocating thousands of artists and thinkers to the United States. For many if Europe's premier performing artists, America proved to be a destination both strange and opportune. Artists in Exile explores the impact that these newcomers had on American cukturem and that America had on them. Softcover, 458 pp. $22.99.
 501 Movie Stars
Edited by Stephen Jay Schneider
501 Movie Stars is a comprehensive guide to the brightest lights in cinema history. lavishly illustrated with portraits, film stills, and behind-the-scenes shots, and bursting with engrossing facts, this volume is indispensable to film students, moviegoers, and lovers of popular culture alike. Hardcover, 639 pp. $29.99.
 Leading Ladies: The 50 Most Unforgettable Actresses of the Studio Era
Various authors
Produced by Turner Movie Classics, Leading Ladies celebrates
the lives and careers of fifty great actresses of the studio era.
Fresh and thoroughly researched, each actress profile includes an
insightful career overview, annotated list of essential films, style notes,
behind-the-scenes facts, Academy Award nominations and wins, and trivia,
along with film stills, posters, and glamorous publicity shots. Softcover,
231 pp. $21.95.
 Black Directors in Hollywood
Melvin Donaldson
This book provides the first comprehensive look at the work of black
directors in Hollywood, from pioneers such as Gordon Parks, Melvin Van
Peebles,
and Ossie Davis to current talents including Spike Lee, John Singleton,
Kasi
Lemmons, and Carl Franklin. Assessing the meanings and messages in
their films, Melvin Donaldson convincingly demonstrates that black
directors are balancing Hollywood's demand for box office success
with artistic
achievement
and responsability to ethnic, cultural, and gender issues.
Softcover, 375 pp. $31.95.
 Street Smart: The New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese, and Lee
Richard A. Blake
New York City's heterogeneous economic and ethnic districts -- where people live,
work, shop, worship, and go to school -- often bear little relation to the image
of the city created by the movies. In Street Smart, Richard
A. Blake examines the cultural influences of New York's neighborhoods on the
work of four quintessentially New York filmmakers: Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen,
Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee. Hardcover, 335 pp. $50.50.
 Quinlan's Character Stars: Revised and Expanded New Edition
David Quinlan
A bountiful A-Z brimming with over 1200 representatives of the finest character
actors from the British and American film industry. Each actor is given a full
entry, complete with a brief biographical sketch, a photograph, and a definitive
listing of all their movie performances. Film enthusiasts will not want to
be without this indispensable guide. Hardcover, 471 pp. $52.95.
 Honky Tonk Parade: New Yorker Profiles of Show People
John Lahr
Here is John Lahr at his trenchant best, reinventing the celebrity profile. His
gift is his ability to get inside the art and the artist, to show how the work
and the life intersect. Honky Tonk Parade illuminates some of
the most compelling, elusive, and important artist of our time, who talk to Lahr
with rare candor. Softcover, 308 pp. $28.00.
 The Bennetts: An Acting Family
Brian Kellow
Through the story of a strong-willed father and his three daughters, this
family biography captures the drama and excitement of living and
working under the lights of Broadway. The Bennetts is a fascinating
chronicle of
the rise of this royal family of stage and screen. Hardcover,
530 pp. $65.95.
 Arts and Letters
Edmund White
In these 39 lively essays and profiles, best-selling novelist and
biographer Edmund White draws on his wide reading and his sly good
humour to illuminate some of the most influencial writer, artists and
cultural icons of the past century, among them, Marcel Proust, Catherine
Deneuve, George Eliot, Andy Warhol, Andre Gide, David Geffen, and Robert
Mapplethorpe. Softcover, 360 pp. $19.95.
 Who the Hell's In It?Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors
Peter Bogdonavich
In this companion piece to Who the Devil Made It?, Peter Bogdanovich
draws upon a lifetime of experience, observation and understanding of acting,
to write these portraits of the actors that he worked with, befriended, or simply
admired from afar. James Cagney, Boris Karloff, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe,
River Phoenix, Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, and Stella Adler are but a few
of the subjects whom Bogdanovich spotlights in these 25 engaging tributes. Softcover,
528 pp. $23.95.
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Beaton Portraits
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