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From the Hood to Hollywood

Author : Debra J Carroll
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781726196413
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book From the Hood to Hollywood written by Debra J Carroll and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mark Wahlberg shot to stardom in 1991, his buddy Donny Carroll was right there along the way. They grew up in Dorchester, a tough inner city neighborhood in Boston, where friendships were tight. Donny worked as Mark's personal assistant since the beginning of Mark's Hollywood career. Being part of Mark's real life entourage is what inspired Donny's original idea "to do a show about the entourage." "If Mark's fans only knew some of the things they did!"This story is about how Mark Wahlberg betrayed his 'so-called' best friend Donny Carroll. This is my attempt to set the record straight so that people will know the real story behind the "Entourage."Donny, aka "Donkey" was the inspiration for Entourage's 'Turtle' character, yet he never received any credit or the recognition he deserved for his creative role in the hit series. Hollywood is not all glitz and glamour. There is a dark side that one can only learn about firsthand.

From Hood to Hollywood

Author : Sasha Raye
Publisher : Urban Books
ISBN 13 : 9781601625366
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book From Hood to Hollywood written by Sasha Raye and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Demi Rodriquez enjoys a lavish lifestyle. Unfortunately, she gets a taste of poverty when her drug-dealing boyfriend gets sent to prison. Soon, every day becomes a struggle and an emotional battleground - until she meets a handsome film producer from Los Angeles who thinks she has the sex appeal needed to make it to the top. Her chances of becoming an A-list actress diminish when she befriends a slick-talking woman who dabbles in everything from drugs and prostitution. Demi soon finds herself in the wrong end of the business?

From the Hood to Hollywood

Author : Chukwuemeka Nwaopara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735354309
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book From the Hood to Hollywood written by Chukwuemeka Nwaopara and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a first generation Nigerian-American, Chukwuemeka notices that many of his peers were not taught the difference between an asset and a liability. In his new book "From the Hood to Hollywood", Chukwuemeka gives the reader a chance to understand the difference between the producer and consumer mindset.It's time we control our financial destiny and build generational wealth. It's time to understand how to be self-sufficient and keep our dollar circulating in our community. In this short but powerful read, Chukwuemeka breaks down many heavy topics: assets and liabilities, consumers and producers, real estate and land, generational wealth, family businesses, and much more.

Hollywood Exiles in Europe

Author : Rebecca Prime
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813570867
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Exiles in Europe written by Rebecca Prime and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Prime documents the untold story of the American directors, screenwriters, and actors who exiled themselves to Europe as a result of the Hollywood blacklist. During the 1950s and 1960s, these Hollywood émigrés directed, wrote, or starred in almost one hundred European productions, their contributions ranging from crime film masterpieces like Du rififi chez les hommes (1955, Jules Dassin, director) to international blockbusters like The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, screenwriters) and acclaimed art films like The Servant (1963, Joseph Losey, director). At once a lively portrait of a lesser-known American “lost generation” and an examination of an important transitional moment in European cinema, the book offers a compelling argument for the significance of the blacklisted émigrés to our understanding of postwar American and European cinema and Cold War relations. Prime provides detailed accounts of the production and reception of their European films that clarify the ambivalence with which Hollywood was regarded within postwar European culture. Drawing upon extensive archival research, including previously classified material, Hollywood Exiles in Europe suggests the need to rethink our understanding of the Hollywood blacklist as a purely domestic phenomenon. By shedding new light on European cinema’s changing relationship with Hollywood, the book illuminates the postwar shift from national to transnational cinema.

Reading Race

Author : Norman K Denzin
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803975453
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Reading Race written by Norman K Denzin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful book, one of America's leading commentators on culture and society turns his gaze upon cinematic race relations, examining the relationship between film, race and culture. Acute, richly illustrated and timely, the book deepens our understanding of the politics of race and the symbolic complexity of segregation and discrimination.

From Hood to Hollywood

Author : Sasha Raye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934230800
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book From Hood to Hollywood written by Sasha Raye and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every female raised in Harlem develops glamorous goals and big dreams, but Demi Anderson tops the cake. Her dreams of becoming an A-List actress set her above the rest, and opens the door for a fruitful future. Will she make it to the top or lose everything while trying?

Hollywood High

Author : Ni-Ni Simone
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758278950
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood High written by Ni-Ni Simone and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They're the daughters of celebrities--the kind all the teen mags gossip about! But the It Girls of Hollywood High are about to discover that fame has a price. And no friendship--or romance--is safe. . . London Phillips will diet as her mother demands. She'll even date the billionaire her mother has chosen for her. But she won't give up her secret hottie, Justice Banks. She and Justice plan to elope--right after he becomes a hip-hop superstar. All he has to do is seduce a media mogul's darling daughter, Rich Montgomery, and a record deal is his! But he better remember London is really his girl. . . Rich is so lucky to have a BFF like London. It was London who introduced her to dreamy Justice. Little does she know that her new heartthrob is about to cause a media explosion that will change this spoiled princess's life forever. . . Spencer Ellington hates to see a billionaire go to waste. That's why she's hooking up with London's boyfriend, Anderson Ford. London may not be in love with Anderson, but she believes he'll do anything for her. Just wait till she finds out the only thing Anderson is doing is Spencer. . . Heather Cummings wants in with the It Girls to secure the spotlight for her actress mother. But when she stumbles upon a secret about the father she never knew, she discovers she has ties to the clique so scandalous it may just bring Hollywood High's in-crowd to their knees! "Simone tells authentic stories of teen life in the 'hood better than any other author currently writing contemporary YA street lit." --Library Journal on Teenage Love Affair (starred review)

Blue-Collar Hollywood

Author : John Bodnar
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 080188537X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Blue-Collar Hollywood written by John Bodnar and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 From Tom Joad to Norma Rae to Spike Lee's Mookie in Do the Right Thing, Hollywood has regularly dramatized the lives and struggles of working people in America. Ranging from idealistic to hopeless, from sympathetic to condescending, these portrayals confronted audiences with the vital economic, social, and political issues of their times while providing a diversion—sometimes entertaining, sometimes provocative—from the realities of their own lives. In Blue-Collar Hollywood, John Bodnar examines the ways in which popular American films made between the 1930s and the 1980s depicted working-class characters, comparing these cinematic representations with the aspirations of ordinary Americans and the promises made to them by the country's political elites. Based on close and imaginative viewings of dozens of films from every genre—among them Public Enemy, Black Fury, Baby Face, The Grapes of Wrath, It's a Wonderful Life, I Married a Communist, A Streetcar Named Desire, Peyton Place, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Coal Miner's Daughter, and Boyz N the Hood—this book explores such topics as the role of censorship, attitudes toward labor unions and worker militancy, racism, the place of women in the workforce and society, communism and the Hollywood blacklist, and faith in liberal democracy. Whether made during the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, or the Vietnam era, the majority of films about ordinary working Americans, Bodnar finds, avoided endorsing specific political programs, radical economic reform, or overtly reactionary positions. Instead, these movies were infused with the same current of liberalism and popular notion of democracy that flow through the American imagination.

The Mother of Black Hollywood

Author : Jenifer Lewis
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062410423
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Mother of Black Hollywood written by Jenifer Lewis and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Club Conference ‘Book of the Year’ Award Winner From her more than three hundred appearances for film and television, stage and cabaret, performing comedy or drama, as an unforgettable lead or a scene stealing supporting character, Jenifer Lewis has established herself as one of the most respected, admired, talented, and versatile entertainers working today. This “Mega Diva” and costar of the hit sitcom black-ish bares her soul in this touching and poignant—and at times side-splittingly hilarious—memoir of a Midwestern girl with a dream, whose journey took her from poverty to the big screen, and along the way earned her many accolades. With candor and warmth, Jenifer Lewis reveals the heart of a woman who lives life to the fullest. This multitalented “force of nature” landed her first Broadway role within eleven days of her graduation from college and later earned the title “Reigning Queen of High-Camp Cabaret.” In the audaciously honest voice that her fans adore, Jenifer describes her transition to Hollywood, with guest roles on hits like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Friends. Her movie Jackie’s Back! became a cult favorite, and as the “Mama” to characters portrayed by Whitney Houston, Tupac Shakur, Taraji P. Henson, and many more, Jenifer cemented her status as the “Mother of Black Hollywood.” When an undiagnosed menatl illness stymies Jenifer’s career, culminating in a breakdown while filming The Temptations, her quest for wholeness becomes a harrowing and inspiring tale, including revelations of bipolar disorder and sex addiction. Written with no-holds-barred honesty and illustrated with more than forty color photographs, this gripping memoir is filled with insights gained through a unique life that offers a universal message: “Love yourself so that love will not be a stranger when it comes.”

Superman Vs. Hollywood

Author : Jake Rossen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1556527314
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Superman Vs. Hollywood written by Jake Rossen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superman has fought for nearly seven decades to conquer radio, television, and film--but his battles behind the scenes have proved a far greater threat than any fictional foe. For the first time, one book unearths all the details of his turbulent adventures in Tinseltown. Based on extensive interviews with producers, screenwriters, cast members, and crew, Superman vs. Hollywood spills the beans on Marlon Brando's eccentricities; the challenges of making Superman appear to fly; the casting process that at various points had Superman being played by Sylvester Stallone, Neil Diamond, Nicolas Cage, Ashton Kutcher, and even Muhammad Ali; and the Superman movies, fashioned by such maverick filmmakers as Kevin Smith and Tim Burton, that never made it to the screen.

Bringing Up Daddy

Author : Stella Bruzzi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838714731
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Bringing Up Daddy written by Stella Bruzzi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad, looking at important Hollywood fathers and discussing films from many genres, this book adopts a multi-faceted theoretical approach, making use of psychoanalysis, sociology and masculinity studies and contextualising the father figure within both Hollywood and American history.

From Tinseltown to Bordertown

Author : Celestino Deleyto
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814339867
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book From Tinseltown to Bordertown written by Celestino Deleyto and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles is a global metropolis whose history and social narrative is linked to one of its top exports: cinema. L.A. appears on screen more than almost any city since Hollywood and is home to the American film industry. Historically, conversations of social and racial homogeneity have dominated the construction of Los Angeles as a cosmopolitan city, with Hollywood films largely contributing to this image. At the same time, the city is also known for its steady immigration, social inequalities, and exclusionary urban practices, not dissimilar to any other borderland in the world. The Spanish names and sounds within the city are paradoxical in relation to the striking invisibility of its Hispanic residents at many economic, social, and political levels, given their vast numbers. Additionally, the impact of the 1992 Los Angeles riots left the city raw, yet brought about changing discourses and provided Hollywood with the opportunity to rebrand its hometown by projecting to the world a new image in which social uniformity is challenged by diversity. It is for this reason that author Celestino Deleyto decided to take a closer look at how the quintessential cinematic city contributes to the ongoing creation of its own representation on the screen. From Tinseltown to Bordertown: Los Angeles on Film starts from the theoretical premise that place matters. Deleyto sees film as predominantly a spatial system and argues that the space of film and the space of reality are closely intertwined in complex ways and that we should acknowledge the potential of cinema to intervene in the historical process of the construction of urban space, as well as its ability to record place. The author asks to what extent this is also the city that is being constructed by contemporary movies. From Tinseltown to Bordertown offers a unique combination of urban, cultural, and border theory, as well as the author’s direct observation and experience of the city’s social and human geography with close readings of a selection of films such as Falling Down, White Men Can’t Jump, and Collateral. Through these textual analyses, Deleyto tries to situate filmic narratives of Los Angeles within the city itself and find a sense of the “real place” in their fictional fabrications. While in a certain sense, Los Angeles movies continue to exist within the rather exclusive boundaries of Tinseltown, the special borderliness of the city is becoming more and more evident in cinematic stories. Deleyto’s monograph is a fascinating case study on one of the United States’ most enigmatic cities. Film scholars with an interest in history and place will appreciate this book.

Once Upon a Time in America

Author : Harry Grey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780747531869
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Time in America written by Harry Grey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the Robert De Niro film, this story spans three generations of a family of Jewish immigrants to the United States. A gang of friends discover - through trust, hard work and brutality - the true meaning of the American Dream.

Kevin Costner

Author : Kelvin Caddies
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780859652391
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Kevin Costner written by Kelvin Caddies and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenal success of films like 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves', 'Dances With Wolves' and 'JFK', made Kevin Costner the Hollywood success story of the nineties. In this first extensively researched, illustrated biography of Costner, journalist Kelvin Caddies explores the unique charisma of this self-effacing star, whilst also revealing the darker side of 'the boy next door'.

Clear by Fire

Author : Joshua Hood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150113616X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Clear by Fire written by Joshua Hood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunted by his former comrades and labeled a traitor after he refuses to murder an innocent Afghan family, Mason Kane works to unravel a conspiracy that reaches all the way up to the highest levels of the government.

Aviators in Early Hollywood

Author : Shawna Kelly
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738559025
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Aviators in Early Hollywood written by Shawna Kelly and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood's leading aviators were heroic knights of the sky on the screen as well as in real life. These leading aviators performed aerial stunt sequences and acted, plus some wrote and directed motion pictures. Directing giant Cecil B. DeMille was so enthralled with aviation that he owned three airfields. Charlie Chaplin's family airfield also doubled as a motion-picture set. Thomas H. Ince, the famous producer who invented the studio system, owned Ince Airfield, which became the hub of Hollywood aviation. Eternal legends Rudolph Valentino, Oliver Hardy, Harry Houdini, and Mary Pickford performed in aerials. Many aviators gave their lives making motion pictures; three fatalities were incurred for Howard Hughes's great air epic, Hell's Angels. Hughes himself broke records within aircraft and film production. Aviators brought their screen work to life between films through barnstorming. The roaring in 1920s Hollywood was often aviators soaring beyond limits.

Upper Cut

Author : Carrie White
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501142577
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Upper Cut written by Carrie White and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shampoo meets You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again in a rollicking and riveting memoir from the woman who for decades styled Hollywood's most celebrated players. I was living a hairdresser’s dream. I was making my mark in this all-male field. My appointment book was filled with more and more celebrities. And I was becoming competition for my heroes... Behind the scenes of every Hollywood photo shoot, TV appearance, and party in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, there was Carrie White. As the “First Lady of Hairdressing,” Carrie collaborated with Richard Avedon on shoots for Vogue, partied with Jim Morrison, gave Sharon Tate her California signature style, and got high with Jimi Hendrix. She has counted Jennifer Jones, Betsy Bloomingdale, Elizabeth Taylor, Goldie Hawn, and Camille Cosby among her favorite clients. But behind the glamorous facade, Carrie’s world was in perpetual disarray and always had been. After her father abandoned the family when she was still a child, she was sexually abused by her domineering stepfather, and her alcoholic mother was unstable and unreliable. Carrie was sipping cocktails before her tenth birthday, and had had five children and three husbands before her twenty-eighth. She fueled the frenetic pace of her professional life with a steady diet of champagne and vodka, diet pills, cocaine, and heroin, until she eventually lost her home, her car, her career—and nearly her children. But she battled her way back, getting sober, rebuilding her relationships and her reputation as a hairdresser, and the name Carrie White was back on the door of one of Beverly Hills’s most respected salons. An unflinching portrayal of addiction and recovery, Upper Cut proves that even in Hollywood, sometimes you have to fight for a happy ending.