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EL PERSONAJECríticos, expertos, historiadores y espectadores coinciden en afirmar que Marlon Brando es el más grande actor en la historia del cine, el más completo, el más renovador, el más influyente sobre varias generaciones de actores, y tambien el mas misterioso.

Una conversación entre el periodista Javier Tolentino y la actriz y escritora argentina Norma Aleandro, en la que hablan sobre sus padres -ambos actores-, su educación, sus comienzos en el teatro y, por supuesto, las peliculas en las que ha trabajado (La tregua, La historia oficial, Un toque de infidelidad o El hijo de la novia, entre muchas otras). El libro se complementa con textos y poemas de Norma Aleandro y fichas de todos sus creditos en teatro y cine (fundamentalmente como actriz, pero tambien como guionista y directora), asi como la relacion de sus premios.

Estrella cosmopolita que vivió su existencia con apasionado anticonvecionalismo; con una conciencia tan plena de su propia leyenda, que dicidió pasar el final de sus días en absoluta reclusión, para no permitir que sus admiradores presenciasen su decadencia.

Ava Gardner es sin duda una de las grandes estrellas del cine y una de las mujeres más bellas y fascinantes del siglo XX. Un grupo de expertos analizan en El universo de Ava Gardner todos sus films, sus compañeros de reparto, sus directores. Todas las constantes de su vida y obra.

For more than a quarter century, Al Pacino has spoken freely and deeply with acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Lawrence Grobel on subjects as diverse as childhood, acting, and fatherhood. Here, for the first time, are the complete conversations and shared observations between the actor and the writer; the result is an intimate and revealing look at one of the most accomplished, and private, artists in the world.Pacino grew up sharing a three-room apartment in the Bronx with nine people in what he describes as his New York Huckleberry Finn childhood. Raised mostly by his grandparents and his mother, Pacino began drinking at age thirteen. Shortly after he was admitted to the renowned High School for Performing Arts, his classmates nicknamed him Marlon, after Marlon Brando, even though Pacino didn''t know who Brando was. Renowned acting coach Charlie Laughton saw Pacino when he was nineteen in the stairwell of a Bronx tenement, and the first words out of Laughton''s mouth were You are going to be a star. And so began a fabled, lifelong friendship that nurtured Al through years of not knowing where his next meal would come from until finally -- at age twenty-six -- he landed his first salaried acting job.Grobel and Pacino leave few stones unturned, touching on the times when Pacino played piano in jazz clubs until four a.m. before showing up on the set of Scarecrow a few hours later for a full day''s work; when he ate Valium like candy at the Academy Awards; and when he realized he had been in a long pattern of work and drink.As the pivotal character in The Godfather trilogy and the cult classic Scarface, Pacino has enshrined himself in film history. He''s worked with most of Hollywood''s brightest luminaries such as Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, Michael Mann, Norman Jewison, Brian De Palma, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hilary Swank, and Robin Williams, among many others. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards before winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in Scent of a Woman. Pacino still seems to prefer his work onstage to film and, if he''s moved by a script or play, is quick to take parts in independent productions.Al Pacino is an intensely personal window into the life of an artist concerned more with the process of his art than with the fruits of his labor, a creativ

Greta Garbo (1905-1990) is as famous for her reclusiveness as for starring in such enduring classics as Flesh and the Devil, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, and Ninotchka. In this richly illustrated volume, renowned biographer Barry Paris offers the definitive biography of this fascinating and complex woman -- from her hardscrabble childhood in Sweden to her arrival in Hollywood at the age of nineteen, from her meteoric rise to stardom to her unintentional retirement from filmmaking at the height of her fame, from the new life she crafted for herself to her surprising, and failed, plans for a comeback. Drawing on hitherto unavailable material, including one hundred hours of tape-recorded conversations, fifty years of correspondence, and interviews with Garbo's surviving friends and family, Paris reveals the real woman behind the enigma.

V Premio Chano Piñeiro. Escrito con rigor e habelencia narrativa polo novelista e crítico cinematográfico Miguel Anxo Fernández, A Bela Otero, pioneira do cine e o resultado dun intenso traballo de investigacion que enche un baleiro importante na historia do cinema galego ao situar a Carolina Otero como a primeira estrela cinematografica no contexto do cine español.