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The renowned director talks to Cameron Crowe about 30 years at the very heart of Hollywood. Wilder's distinct voice provides a fascinating insider's view of the film industry past and present.
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Published to commemorate the influential band's twentieth anniversary, an illustrated portrait covers their achievements while sharing reproductions of rare archival memorabilia, personal photos, and tour notes.
The writer-director of Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous returns with the screenplay to his glorious new movie starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. After mistakenly causing a financial catastrophe at the Oregon shoe company where he works, designer Drew Baylor (Bloom) is fired - and then promptly dumped by his girlfriend. Hours later, Drew, on the verge of suicide, learns of his father Mitch's sudden death - and, as the only child, he is summoned back to his family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown. On the flight there, Drew meets a quick-witted stewardess, Claire Colburn (Dunst), who will help him navigate the rough waters ahead, so proving that amazing things happen when you least expect them...
A promising young athlete must learn to come to terms with the tragedy that destroys his career and with the pain, responsibility, and love that are an essential part of life itself
"’Reggae got soul,’ Toots Hibbert sang in one of his best-known songs, and Kim Gottlieb-Walker's remarkable photographs coax that soul out of shadow and light. Her images from Jamaica capture the rough environment that shaped and challenged these artists, and the unquenchable joy that filled their music. They're the next-best thing to listening.” — Richard Cromelin During 1975 and 1976, renowned underground photo-journalist Kim Gottlieb, and her husband, Island publicity head Jeff Walker, documented what is now widely recognized as the Golden Age of reggae. Over two years of historic trips to Jamaica and exclusive meetings in Los Angeles, Kim took iconic photographs of the artists wh...
The inside story of one of the greatest American rock bands, told in their own words, both before and after the horrific 1977 airplane crash that claimed three of the band members' lives.
'Shooting live music performances is something few photographers do really well. I just happened to discover one day that I was pretty good at it.' Neal Preston is one of the greatest rock photographers of all time. Exhilarated and Exhausted is a no-holds-barred complete retrospective of his more than 40-year career. Produced in collaboration with Neal, it is introduced by a foreword by Neal's close friend, the renowned writer and director Cameron Crowe, and an introduction by photo editor Dave Brolan. Neal's photographs vibrate with a palpable and inimitable intensity. As Crowe observes, 'You can feel the music, the audience, the desperate need to find a place in the world, all of it, in these photos because they were curated by the guy who felt it all when he pressed the button on the camera. They're snapshots of what's most elusive - truth and fun and for that one moment, on that one night, the thrill of belonging.' This exceptional volume is a who's who of rock royalty. Neal was
Music legend, photographer, and artist Graham Nash reflects on more than fifty years of an extraordinary life in this extensive collection of personal photographs, paintings, and mixed-media artwork. In this curated collection of art and photography from his personal archive, Graham Nash’s life as a musician and artist unfolds in vivid detail. Best known as a founding member of the Hollies and supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, Graham developed a love of photography from the time he was a child. Inspired by his father, Nash began taking pictures at 10 years old and would go on to take his camera with him ever since—on tour with the Hollies and later CSN and CSNY, among friends at Laurel Canyon and abroad. Many of his photographs depict intimate moments with family and friends, among them Joni Mitchell, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young. This volume presents these images alongside Nash’s own reflections, telling the story behind the pictures and giving insight into the life of one of the greatest musicians of all time.
Jerry Maguire is the story of a sports agent who is brought to a point of crisis in his life when he chooses to be honourable. The film follows his comedic journey to redemption through an unlikely alliance with a young female accountant and the least-important client on his once-full roster.Modern romantic comedy is rarely as inventive as writer-director Cameron Crowe's 1996 portrait of contemporary life. Noted for his immensely readable screenplays, with this film Crowe further strengthened his reputation as one of our most valuable and humorous social observers. This volume also includes Cameron Crowe's witty account of the making of the film and Jerry Maguire's twenty-two page Mission Statement, referred to throughout the film, and penned prior to production by the writer-director.