Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Entertainment & Performing Arts

“I remember Sarah asking me, when I’d just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man. After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it. ‘Hair,’ I blurted. ‘He has to have hair.’” Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for her...

John Ford and John Wayne, two titans of classic film, made some of the most enduring movies of all time. The genre they defined—the Western—and the heroic archetype they built still matter today. For more than twenty years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team...

From the Emmy-winning writer and creator of All My Children, One Life to Live, and Loving, a memoir of her trailblazing rise to the top of the television industry, including behind-the-scenes stories from some of the most beloved soaps of all time Before there was Erica Kane, Adam Chandler, or...

Dennis Miller is back, and he is Ranting Again in this hilarious compendium of wit, wisdom, and righteous outrage. This is good news for all of us who fume at the country's lack of common sense, and seethe at the absurdity of the daily headlines. Setting his sights higher and wider than ever...

Once again there's good news for those of us who rage at the evening news, shake our heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom helplessly between political crises and sex scandals: Dennis Miller is back with his third installment of hilarious observations, I Rant...

Wie man verheiratet und trotzdem glücklich bleibt. Muss man verrückt sein, um heutzutage zu heiraten? Das Zusammenleben funktioniert schließlich auch ohne Trauschein. So dachten Amelie Fried und Peter Probst auch einmal. Dann haben sie geheiratet. 20 Jahre später schreiben sie nun ein wunderbares und sehr zeitgemäßes Buch über die Ehe. Herrlich selbstironisch und höchst unterhaltsam schildern sie die Herausforderungen des alltäglichen Zusammenlebens und beleuchten die Ehe von allen romantischen und unromantischen Seiten. Eine Liebeserklärung an die Ehe!

Jeder, der auch nur eine Pause auf einem Schulhof verbracht hat, weiß: Man muss mitreden können. Beziehungsweise: nachquatschen...

Ach, Du liebes Deutschland: Falsche Doktoren erklimmen höchste Staatsämter, Verfassungsschützer sehen keine Gefahr...

“Whatever you have read or heard about me through articles or gossip, forget it. I am nothing like that Warren Beatty. I am nothing like what you have read.” —Warren Beatty Warren Beatty guarded his privacy even before he became a movie star, when he burst onto the screen in 1961 as the...

The world of comedy and comedians of the last five decades. By the man the New York Times calls "a comic institution himself," the only comedian (twenty-six years in stand-up) to have made Elie Wiesel laugh, as well as having appeared on The Tonight Show (140 times, second only to Bob Hope, but...

From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film--an essential work on the preeminent, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged, and continues to forge, the landscape of modern film. Directors operate behind the scenes, managing...

Herman J. (1897–1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture’s only Academy Award. Joe earned the second pair of his four Oscars for writing and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive biography of a vulnerable and talented actress, now with explosive new chapters and insider details of her tragic death, the cover-ups, and the reopened investigation. An ID Book Club Selection “Impressive, disturbing, and revelatory...

Exploring the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world, from the physics of an ice wall to the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters. Game of Thrones is a fantasy that features a lot of made-up science--fabricated climatology (when is winter coming?), astronomy, metallurgy...

Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara began performing together in coffehouses in Greenwich Village in the 1960's, and then as frequent guests on The Ed Sullivan Show. They based their standup characters on exaggerated vrsions of themselves, especially in the irrepressible commercials for Blue Nun wine...

REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ICON There's little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, screen actors of his generation, perhaps of all time. His work, particularly in the first 20 years of his career, is unparalleled. Mean Streets, the Godfather Part II, Taxi...

What would my mother say? How would she want me to handle this situation? How can I make this tough decision and stay true to myself? What would my mother say? Sam Haskell still asks himself these questions every day. When Haskell was young, his devoted mother, Mary, instilled in her son the...

Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque. His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before...

Die Popularität Elke Heidenreichs beginnt mit der Rundfunkfigur Else Stratmann, jener Metzgersgattin aus dem Ruhrgebiet, die seit Anfang der 80er Jahre 11 Jahre lang auf diversen Sendern zu hören war. Die besten Geschichten der Kodderschnauze aus Wanne-Eickel werden hier noch einmal auf diesem Hörbuch veröffentlicht.

Ob nun "Big Brother", "Girlscamp" oder "House of Love", es ist alles von derselben klaustrophobischen Belanglosigkeit. Indem Dieter Hildebrandt die Spaßkultur abstraft, bekommt jeder sein Fett weg: Kirch und Kogler, die Medienbeauftragten der Parteien und Kirchen, Fliege, Christiansen und Stefan Raab. Und die Politiker sowieso. "Meine Frau und ich leben in der Küche, da wir sämtliche Zimmer vermietet haben", sagt Hildebrandt. "Das hat damit zu tun, dass eine Alterssicherung nicht mehr zu bezahlen ist."