Michael Schulman

"The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, chronicling the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama"-- "America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes have chased the elusive Oscar. What began as an industry...

A collection of the greatest scenes and monologues ever written - ranging from Elizabethan to Tony Award-winning plays - this comprehensive anthology spans more than five hundred years of theater. From classic plays by such notable authors as Edith Wharton and Bernard Shaw to the best in contemporary theater, including Margaret Edson's Wit, this book has it all. --

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog in the 1920s