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1) L.A. times
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After turning a film student's directorial debut into a hit movie, New York mobster and movie fanatic Vinnie Callabrese takes off for the bright lights of Hollywood, where he begins a new life as Michael Vincent, Producer. A natural born wheeler-dealer, he lands not only a major studio deal, but also a gorgeous actress girlfriend.
It isn't long before Michael Vincent is one of the most successful producers in town, given his knack for bringing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side...
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Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.
7) Lucky stars
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Stacey's acting career is on the rise, she can feel it. After leaving Cleveland for the glamour of Hollywood, she knows she's on the path to becoming a star. The big screen is calling her.
Well, it could be. With her mother buzzing her cellphone every twenty minutes, it's really easy to lose a casting callback among all the smothering. Helen is a good mother, but she just can't resist checking up on her baby at all hours. After all, Hollywood is...
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I funny volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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As the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic finals near, Jamie faces a whirlwind of attention at school and in the media and the fame starts to go to his head, but in Hollywood with Uncle Frankie, some of his fellow comedians quickly show him what competition and pressure are all about.
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Lucky Santangelo series volume 3
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1990]
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English
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The dangerously beautiful Lucky - returns in Lady Boss. And this time the shockingly sensual, ruthlessly clever Lucky is out to conquer Hollywood!. She is the star of two of Jackie Collins' previous smash, international number one bestsellers, Chances and Lucky. In Chances, Lucky grew up in a top crime family. In Lucky, she was married three times. And now, in Lady Boss, she takes on Hollywood and wins! Panther Studios is the prize and Lucky wants...
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Rick Barron mysteries volume 1
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1990]
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English
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Thought-provoking, riveting, and erotic, Dance with the Devil is the debut novel of legendary actor Kirk Douglas. Hollywood can be a tough town, but it's been awfully good to Danny Dennison. At 55, he's wealthy, successful, and respected throughout the film world. But Danny has been living a lie. Haunted by his past, he longs to find peace and answers. His true identity is buried halfway around the world in the ruins of a Nazi concentration camp....
14) One extra corpse
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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May, 1924. When renowned film director Ernst Zapolya calls Emma Blackstone - companion to Hollywood movie star Kitty Flint - and demands to see Kitty at once, Emma's not surprised. Until, that is, he adds that lives depend on it. Emma and Kitty investigate, and after a shocking discovery, the lives on the line soon include their own...
15) The wedding
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English
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In a compelling portrait of real people in an unreal world, Hollywood is used as a backdrop to reveal the dreams, the fears, and the expectations of a ceremony that unites us all--from movie stars to long-married couples to nervous teenagers--and changes the lives of real men, women, and families forever.
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Detective Renee Ballard is working the graveyard shift again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck in and is rifling through old file cabinets.The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but eventually Bosch persuades her to help and she relents. Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old...
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University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"No one steps up to life's banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, "Grief, please!" Yet as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. But every buffet line has a dessert section, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It's good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always lived by her wits has a real chance of making a living...
18) Do tell: a novel
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A glittering debut novel set in the golden age of Hollywood, following a former actress whose new career in gossip journalism grants her more power on the page than she ever commanded in front of the camera"--
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