Barbra Streisand: Walls

CD mit 11 Tracks, € 19.99
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Sony
Darauf mussten ihre Fans lange warten: Mit »Walls« präsentiert Barbra Streisand nun ihr erstes Album mit neuen Stücken seit 13 Jahren. »Walls« ist das 38. Studioalbum der US-amerikanischen US-Schwulenikone und Nachfolger ihres Musical-Albums »Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway«. Immerhin drei Songs ihres neuen Albums hat Streisand selbst komponiert. Ansonsten wartet auf der Platte eine Auswahl besonderer Coversongs, die sich alle ... Weiterlesen

Cher: Dancing Queen

10 Tracks, € 19.99
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Warner
Fünf Jahre mussten Fans auf ein neues Album von Cher warten. In ihrem 26. Studioalbum interpretiert die US-Diva 10 ABBA-Songs - u.a. das titelgebende »Dancing Queen« - daneben auch »Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!«, »SOS«, »Mamma Mia«, »The Name of the Game«, »Fernando« und »The Winner Takes It All« - Chers unverwechselbare Stimme verleiht den ABBA-Songs völlig neue, teils überraschende Nuancen. Die ... Weiterlesen

Nina Wiener: Barbra

Streisands frühe Jahre in Hollywood 1968 - 1976. D 2016, 336 S. mit zahlreichen Abb., geb., € 49.99
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Taschen Verlag
Ein Buch über den kometenhaften Aufstieg der Barbra Streisand - der vielleicht letzten großen Diva unserer Zeit. Dieser fabelhafte Aufstieg wurde über Jahre hinweg von den Starfotografen Steve Schapiro und Lawrence Schiller dokumentiert. Der prächtige Bildband zeigt eine Fülle noch nie zuvor veröffentlichter Aufnahmen von Barbra Streisand, begleitet von den Erinnerungen Schapiros und Schillers an diese Jahre. Die Dreharbeiten zu ... Weiterlesen- Bilder ansehen

Tamar Jeffers McDonald: Doris Day Confidential

Hollywood, Sex, and Stardom. UK/USA 2013, 262 pp., brochure, € 21.95
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I.B. Tauris
Doris Day was a major star during the 1950s and 1960s. Even now many years after her final film and years since her last regular TV appearances, the star's name retains currency: she is often invoked as shorthand for a kind of sexuality now felt outmoded, with virginity firmly maintained until marriage. Although this assumption is widespread, close attention to ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: Hello, Gorgeous

Becoming Barbra Streisand. USA 2012, 566 pp. with b/w photographs, hardbound, € 26.95
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
In 1960, she was a 17-year-old Brooklyn kid with plenty of talent but no connections, and certainly no money. Her mother brought her soup to make sure she stayed fed as she took acting classes and scraped out a living. Just four years later, Barbra Streisand was the top-selling female recording artist in America and the star of one of ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Hansford: Dressing Marilyn

How a Hollywood Icon was Styled by William Travilla. USA 2012, 192 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 27.95
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Hal Leonard
In the history of Hollywood, has any image ever titillated the public's imagination as much as the iconic one of Marilyn Monroe in »The Seven Year Itch«, her white dress blowing up to reveal, well, pretty much everything? That moment remains indelible to movie fans and glamour addicts, William Travilla, one of Hollywood's most sought-after costume designers, created not ... Weiterlesen

M.G. Lord: The Accidental Feminist

How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice. USA 2012, 213 pp., hardbound, € 21.49
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Walker
Countless books have chronicled the life of Elizabeth Taylor, but rarely has her career been examined from the point of view of her on-screen persona. That persona has repeatedly introduced a broad audience to feminist ideas. In her breakout film, »National Velvet«, Taylor's character challenges gender discrimination: forbidden because she is a girl to ride her beloved horse in an ... Weiterlesen

Barbara Eden and Wendy Leigh: Jeannie Out of the Bottle

USA 2011, 274 pp. with numerous photographs, brochure, € 14.29
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Three Rivers
Barbara Eden's memoir is a thrilling insider's look at the glittery life in showbiz, which takes us behind the scenes of NBC's iconic TV series »I Dream of Jeannie« as well as Barbara Eden's dozens of other stage and screen performances. But it is also a deeply intimate memoir of personal tragedy, from a stillborn child and a verbally abusive, ... Weiterlesen

Ricky Martin: Me

USA 2010, 292 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Throughout a career spanning nearly three decades, Ricky Martin drew a clear line between the person within and the one he shared with the world, choosing to keep his deepest emotions to himself. In »Me«, he shares defining memories of his early childhood, his family's sacrifices to support his dreams, and coming-of-age experiences in the famed boy band Menudo - ... Weiterlesen

Tom Santopietro: Considering Doris Day

USA 2008, 388 pp., brochure, € 12.39
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The biggest female box-office attraction in Hollywood history, Doris Day remains unequaled as the only entertainer who has ever triumphed in movies, radio, recordings, and a multi-year weekly TV series. America's favorite girl next door may have projected the kind of wholesome image that led Oscar Levant to quip, »I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin«. Day's acting ... Weiterlesen

Cindy de la Hoz: Lucy at the Movies

USA 2007, 368 pp., hardbound, € 23.20
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The world knows her as the First Lady of Television, but Lucille Ball's star also shined on the silver screen in over 80 films spanning five decades, most from Hollywood's glamorous golden age of the 1930s and '40s. »Lucy at the Movies« is a long- overdue showcase for the star's extensive career in cinema, offering behind-the-scenes stories and essential information ... Weiterlesen

Tom Santopietro: Considering Doris Day

USA 2007, 388 pp., hardbound, € 24.89
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The biggest female box-office attraction in Hollywood history, Doris Day remains unequaled as the only entertainer who was ever triumphed in movies, radio, recordings, and a multi-year weekly TV series. America's favorite girl next door may have projected the kind of wholesome image that led Oscar Levant to quip, »I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin«. Day's acting ... Weiterlesen

David Bret: Joan Crawford

USA 2007, 299 S., hardback, € 24.89
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Biographer David Bret tells of Joan Crawford's rags-to-riches climb, from working in a Kansas City laundry to collecting an Oscar , and on to her devotion to Christian Science and reliance to vodka. He discusses the star's legendary relationship with Clark Gable, her countless love affairs, her marriages - three of them to gay men - and her obsession with ... Weiterlesen

James Robert Parish: Katharine Hepburn - The Untold Story

USA 2005, 328 pp., hardcover, € 25.30
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One of the most singular performers of the 20th century, Hepburn was known as a no-nonsense woman who flouted the rules of stardom. Yet her biographer believes her mannish attitudes, attire, and manners were far more indicative of her sexual nature than a reflection of her role as a pioneering feminist. According to the biographer, Hepburn's offstage image as a ... Weiterlesen

Darwin Porter: Katharine the Great

A Lifetime of Secrets Revealed. USA 2004, 569 pp., brochure, € 16.59
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»The Advocate« had thrown down the gauntlet for someone willing to go behind the carefully constructed public persona Hepburn protected throughout her years in film. Celebrity expose author Darwin Porter accepted the challenge, and released »Katherine the Great«, a mammoth volume presenting a wealth of evidence that the late, great Kate was not necessarily straight. »Katharine the Great« takes an ... Weiterlesen

Emily W. Leider: Dark Lover

The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino. USA 2004, 514 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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In the 5 years between his meteoric rise to fame in the silent epic »The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse« and his untimely death at age 31, Rudolph Valentino managed to leave an indelible imprint on our ideas of romance and sexuality that resonates to this day. In this thoughtful retelling of Valentino's short and tragic life the author looks ... Weiterlesen

Will Brooker: Batman Unmasked

USA 2002, 358 pp., brochure, € 23.95
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Like James Bond, Robin Hood and Dracula, Batman stands as a cultural icon whose malleability from era to era reveals much about our changing social preoccupations. This heavily footnoted volume - which will appeal to avid students of pop culture and comics, as well as to a gay cult audience - allows Brooker to examine the famed DC Comics character ... Weiterlesen