"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--

Here is Humphrey Bogart: the pro's pro on the set and the Hollywood renegade off it, the man's man, the ladies' man, the hard worker, and the man who liked to drink too much, the husband in three roller-coaster marriages and finally one perfect match, the proud father and absentee parent, the good friend and even better enemy. Writing with the encouragement of his famous mother, Lauren Bacall, Stephen calls on his memories as well as the access he...

Presents a biography of Marilyn Monroe from early childhood to beyond her death in 1962.

"When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she had kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved--plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1976, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar. With these...

Presents a biography of Katharine Hepburn, based on conversations between the actress and the author. Details her career and her relationships with Spencer Tracy and Howard Hughes.

In the six decades since he took to the stage and screen, Kirk Douglas has starred in eighty-three films, nine plays, written seven books, and made a remarkable commitment to humanitarian causes world-wide. Now in My Stroke of Luck, his vivid and very personal reflection upon his extraordinary life, Kirk Douglas finally completes his story by offering a candid and heartfelt memoir of where it all went right.

Written in his own words, Kirk

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The definitive biography of one of America's brightest stars. Hers was a brief life that still fascinates the world. Marilyn Monroe was born in obscurity and deprivation, and rose to become a legend of her century, a great actress, and a lover of the most famous men in America, only to die young and under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind a mystery that remains unsolved to this day.   Anthony Summers interviewed more than six hundred people,...