Libros de Actores, página 19 de 62

Struck with Parkinson's - a debilitating, degenerative disease - at the height of his fame, Michael J. Fox has taken what some might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions.In Always Looking Up, Michael's Sunday Times bestselling memoir, he writes with warmth, humour and incredible honesty about the journey he has undertaken since he came to terms with his condition.

Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday TimesIn December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinary career.When he first started out in the late sixties, Billy played the banjo in the folk clubs of Scotland. Between songs, he would improvise a bit, telling anecdotes from the Clyde shipyard where he'd worked. In the process, he made all kinds of discoveries about what audiences found funny, from his own brilliant mimes to the power of speaking irreverently about politics or explicitly about sex. He began to understand the craft of great storytelling. Soon the songs became shorter and the monologues longer, and Billy quickly became recognised as one of the most exciting comedians of his generation.Billy's routines always felt spontaneous. He never wrote scripts, always creating his comedy freshly on stage in the presence of a live audience. A brilliant comic story might be subsequently discarded, adapted or embellished. A quick observation or short anecdote one night, could become a twenty-minute segment by the next night of a tour.Billy always brought a beautiful sense of the absurd to his shows as he riffed on his family, hecklers, swimming in the North Sea or naked bungee jumping. But his comedy can be laced with anger too. He hates pretentiousness and calls out hypocrisy wherever he sees it. His insights about the human condition have shocked many people, while his unique talent and startling appearance on stage gave him license to say anything he damn well pleased about sex, politics or religion.Billy got away with it because he has always had the popular touch. His comedy spans generations and different social tribes in a way that few others have ever managed.Tall Tales and Wee Stories brings together the very best of Billy's storytelling for the first time and includes his most famous routines including, The Last Supper, Jojoba Shampoo, Incontinence Pants and Shouting at Wildebeest. With an introduction and original illustrations by Billy throughout, it is an inspirational, energetic and riotously funny read, and a fitting celebration of our greatest ever comedian.

Un viaje lleno de emociones que te atrapa de principio a fin. Un actor que mientras busca su sueño de trabajar en la industria de Hollywood le suceden multitud de historias, situaciones, personajes y anecdotas divertidas, raras, extravagantes y surrealistas mientras hace un analisis personal de un pais. Este libro nos presenta una mirada fresca y original de Norteamerica desde la experiencia personal del autor.

Stanislavski, Strasberg, Meisner, Adler, Berghoff, Hagen, Mamet . . . now Batson. In TRUTH, the most sought after acting guru in Hollywood and on Broadway distills her half century's experience as an actor, director, teacher, and personal coach into a step by step process for creating a character fr...

From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and mind-bending stunts. In 2016-after fifty-six years in the industry, over 200 films, and many broken bones-he received an honorary Academy Award for his lifetime achievement in film. But at 64 years-old, Jackie is just getting started. Now, in Never Grow Up, the global superstar reflects on his early life, including his childhood years at the China Drama Academy (in which he was enrolled at the age of six), his big breaks (and setbacks) in Hong Kong and Hollywood, his numerous brushes with death (both on and off film sets), and his life as a husband and father (which has been, admittedly and regrettably, imperfect). Jackie has never shied away from his mistakes. Since The Young Master in 1980, Jackie's films have ended with a bloopers reel in which he stumbles over his lines, misses his mark, or crashes to the ground in a stunt gone south. In Never Grow Up, Jackie applies the same spirit of openness to his life, proving time and time again why he's beloved the world over: he's honest, funny, kind, brave beyond reckoning and-after all this time-still young at heart.

No es de extrañar la admiración inalterable de ciertos aficionados al cine musical por el arte de Fred Astaire. Definir a este genial bailarín es sencillamente imposible: los genios, en cualquier manifestación, caminan solos. Pero Fred Astaire no solo era bailarín, era mucho más. Fue uno de esos personajes que aparecen y desaparecen y tras el, nadie sabe que ha ocurrido, ni como pudo suceder. Se llamaba Frederick Austerlitz, Jr.

Los admiradores de Sarah Bernhardt y los aficionados al teatro o, simplemente, al mundo del espectáculo están de suerte, porque ésta es, por fin, la biografía definitiva de la primera superestrella internacional, la mujer que acabo siendo -incluso antes de la existencia de Hollywood- tan enormemente popular en America e Inglaterra como en Francia, su pais natal. En ella estan inspiradas obras maestras como La dama de las camelas, de Alejandro Dumas, y Salome, de Oskar Wilde, y su rostro, compendio del modernismo de la epoca, resplandece en docenas de ilustraciones de Alphonse Mucha. En 1923, el año de su muerte, estaba haciendo una pelicula con Sacha Guitry, que la adoraba tanto como Victor Hugo, Jean Cocteau y Marcel Proust. Su feroz sensualidad fascino a Sigmund Freud y a D. H. Lawrence, y es la unica actriz en la historia que ha triunfado a la vez en los papeles de Ofelia y de Hamlet, gracias sin duda a su modernisimo estilo de interpretacion, que dio lugar al naturalismo que predomina en la actualidad... Despues de investigar durante años y años todo este rompecabezas, Robert Fizdale y el recientemente fallecido Arthur Gold han atravesado las capas de la leyenda y la ficcion -creadas en gran parte por la propia Sarah Bernhardt- y nos han proporcionado un glorioso retrato de la actriz basado en sus mismos escritos, en muchas cartas ineditas, en los recuerdos y juicios criticos de amigos y admiradores, etc., etc., consiguiendo, asi, como resultado final, una de las biografias mas apasionantes que se hayan escrito jamas sobre el mundo del teatro.

Amy Schumer irrumpió en la escena del stand-up norteamericano como un terremoto tras años de duro aprendizaje en los escenarios de oscuros clubs de comedia neoyorquinos. Su humor escatológico y procaz ha reinventado la comedia de microfono abierto. Ahora

Manolo Medina. Un hombre solo, sin punto com, ni ná... es la biografía del actor, del promotor artístico, del cazatalentos, del cantante, del cómico... pero, también, al mismo tiempo, es la historia de un ser humano que ha sabido conquistar el corazon de todo aquel que, por suerte, llega a conocerle.En este libro se refleja la vida de alguien que ha batido record de permanencia sobre los escenarios de los teatros de todo el pais, con una misma obra, ininterrumpidamente, durante casi dos decadas, algo que, en cualquier otra parte del mundo, seria motivo de alabanza, reconocimiento perpetuo, prestigio, homenaje y orgullo patrio. Manolo Medina es el trabajo y el esfuerzo, la constancia y la sencillez, el amor y la verdad, pero, sobre todo, la ilusion de un hombre solo, sin punto com... ni na, superandose a si mismo. Ese amigo entrañable que todos necesitamos, alguien dispuesto siempre a regalarnos una sonrisa, incluso en el peor de los momentos de nuestras vidas.