Sam Wasson
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Now in time for the 60th anniversary of the film version ‘Breakfast at Tiffany's’, the New York Times bestseller and first-ever complete account of Audrey Hepburn and the making of the film.
With a cast of characters that includes Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote, and Gerald Clarke, this book offers a slice of social history seen through the lens of one of America's most iconic films
The images of Breakfast at Tiffany's are branded into our collective...
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Granted total and unprecedented access to the Academy Award-winning director's archives, the author, drawing on hundreds of interviews with the artist and those who have worked closely with him, chronicles his attempt to reimagine the entire pursuit of moviemaking though his production company American Zoetrope.
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In this richly reported, scene-driven narrative, Sam Wasson charts the meteoric rise of improv from its unlikely beginnings in McCarthy-era Chicago. We witness the chance meeting between Mike Nichols and Elaine May, hang out at the after-hours bar where Dan Aykroyd hosted friends like John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner, and go behind the scenes of cultural landmarks from The Graduate to The Colbert Report. Along the way, we befriend pioneers...
4) Fosse
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Now the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams with Lin-Manuel Miranda executive producing.
"Wasson is a smart and savvy reporter, and his book abounds with colorful firsthand tales." - Janet Maslin, New York Times
"Fascinating . . . Wasson has taken complete control of his subject." - Wall Street Journal
The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year, Bob Fosse revolutionized...
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Entre roman noir et enquête, une œuvre fièvreuse dans le Hollywood de 70s!
Chinatown est le Graal du cinéma des années 1970. Sa fin surprenante est la plus célèbre de tout le cinéma américain, et sa dernière réplique, la plus obsédante. Ce livre révèle, pour la première fois, l'incroyable genèse de ce projet.
Sam Wasson nous conte cette histoire mettant en scène des personnages hauts en couleurs, sur fond de mutation spectaculaire...
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Before “Breakfast at Tiffany's” Audrey Hepburn was still a little-known actress with few film roles to speak of; after it—indeed, because of it-she was one of the world's most famous fashion, style and screen icons. It was this film that matched her with Hubert de Givenchy's "little black dress". Meanwhile, Truman Capote's original novel is itself a modern classic selling huge numbers every year, and its high-living author of perennial interest.
Now,...
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2020.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece. Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful...
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"From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present day. Gleaned from nearly three thousand interviews, involving four hundred voices from the industry, Hollywood: The Oral History, lets a reader 'listen in' on candid remarks from the biggest names in front of the camera—Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Harold Lloyd—to the biggest behind it—Frank...
10) Fosse Verdon
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[2019]
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Bob Fosse is a visionary filmmaker and one of theater's most influential choreographers and directors. Gwen Verdon is the greatest Broadway dancer of all time. Fosse/Verdon will tell the story of these two brilliant, complicated individuals and the love they shared, the art they created, and the price they paid in the pursuit of greatness.