What I Learned From 50 Celebrities

What I Learned From 50 Celebrities
Author: Farrell Hirsch
Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books LLC
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2018-05-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1626014590

Farrell Hirsch has lived more lives than any dozen of the proverbial rejuvenating cats you've heard about. Not many people can say they've launched multiple national radio networks, worked with the coaching staff of a major league sports team, executive produced star-studded awards shows, been the co-creator of high-tech start up, written a play that played at Lincoln Center, optioned a TV pilot to major production company, and been the CEO of a nationally recognized not-for profit. Hirsch was one of the people who founded The Ovation Awards, LA's answer to The Tonys. Writing, producing, and lining up talent for those shows for seven years brought him into contact with stars like Charlton Heston, Annette Bening, Carol Burnett, Neal Patrick Harris, Stephen Sondheim, Nathan Lane, Danny Glover, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, and hundreds more. And then, for no particular reason, since he hadn't really ever worked in radio, he was hired to launch national radio networks, on SiriusXM. The first of these was taking on the inimitable task of turning the world's most visual brand, Playboy, into something viable in the world's least visual medium, radio. The endless drudgery of having to spend countless evenings at The Playboy Mansion parties, of recording Bill Cosby, Etta James, Elvis Costello at the Playboy Jazz Festival, having celebrities like Carmen Electra, Donald Trump, Fleetwood Mac come in the studio, hanging at the Super Bowl with Warren Moon and Lil John was exhausting. These are his stories…

Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter

Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
Author: Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0062953826

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback—from tragic personal loss to thriving businessman and cable’s highest-paid executive—in this unique self-help guide, his first since his blockbuster New York Times bestseller The 50th Law. In his early twenties Curtis Jackson, known as 50 Cent rose to the heights of fame and power in the cutthroat music business. A decade ago the multi-platinum selling rap artist decided to pivot. His ability to adapt to change was demonstrated when he became the executive producer and star of Power, a high-octane, gripping crime drama centered around a drug kingpin’s family. The series quickly became “appointment” television, leading to Jackson inking a four-year, $150 million contract with the Starz network—the most lucrative deal in premium cable history. Now, in his most personal book, Jackson shakes up the self-help category with his unique, cutting-edge lessons and hard-earned advice on embracing change. Where The 50th Law tells readers “fear nothing and you shall succeed,” Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter builds on this message, combining it with Jackson’s street smarts and hard-learned corporate savvy to help readers successfully achieve their own comeback—and to learn to flow with the changes that disrupt their own lives.

What Celebrities Collect!

What Celebrities Collect!
Author: Michele Karl
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9781589801424

An insider's view into the secret treasures of America's most beloved celebrities.

50 Things Every Guy Should Know How to Do

50 Things Every Guy Should Know How to Do
Author: Daniel E. Kline
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2006
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780452286658

Celebrities and experts representing a wide variety of fields--including Gene Upshaw, Carson Kressley, Amarillo Slim, Joe Lieberman, and Kevin O'Connor--share their insights and wisdom on everything from making a business deal or running for political office to dressing for a date and making home repairs. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Interview Magazine

Interview Magazine
Author: Bob Colacello
Publisher: Assouline
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2019-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781614288558

In 1969, Andy Warhol launched Interview, an underground film journal that quickly transformed into an iconic symbol of New York City culture and style. The monthly's expansive conversations and irreverent approach opened doors to the intimate circles of society and became a launchpad for creative talents such as André Leon Talley and Fran Lebowitz. With a vibrant mix of rising celebrities including Madonna and Leonardo DiCaprio, alongside the legendary presence of Elizabeth Taylor and Steven Spielberg, the magazine became known as "The Crystal Ball of Pop." Now, fifty years since its inception, dive into the extraordinary archives of Interview and rediscover the columns, photography and voices that collectively tell the history of American culture decade by decade.

Draw 50 Famous Faces

Draw 50 Famous Faces
Author: Lee J. Ames
Publisher: Broadway
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1978
Genre: Biography
ISBN: 9780385234320

Presidents and baseball players, movie stars and pioneers are all on the drawing board in this unique book of art instruction.

Being in the Room

Being in the Room
Author: Rob Giardinelli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692852064

How do you find your voice and learn from experiences where you feel like a fish out of water? Join Rob Giardinelli, a technology executive-turned-expert social chronicler as he navigates the world of million dollar high society galas and celebrity soirées. Covering the high-flying Texas social world for The Society Diaries magazine, he's found himself thrust into situations he'd never imagined. Giardinelli learns to be comfortable in unfamiliar spaces, ultimately learning how to gain incredible insight around well-known, influential figures and chronicling their high-flying lifestyles in the process. Encountering remarkable personalities - including socialites, celebrities and corporate tycoons - Giardinelli learns from their unfiltered authenticity and distills those experiences into lessons for everyday life. As with many books featuring notable and successful people, pseudonyms have been used to these well-known personalities. Whether poignant, pragmatic or simply outrageous, each insight is gained by following the fundamental principle: the best lessons are learned by putting yourself in places you'd never expect. By being in the moment... by Being in the Room.

A Short History of Celebrity

A Short History of Celebrity
Author: Fred Inglis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400834392

A history of celebrity from Byron to Beckham Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life—and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's Hollywood. Vividly written and brimming with fascinating stories of figures whose lives mark important moments in the history of celebrity, this book explains how fame has changed over the past two-and-a-half centuries. Starting with the first modern celebrities in mid-eighteenth-century London, including Samuel Johnson and the Prince Regent, the book traces the changing nature of celebrity and celebrities through the age of the Romantic hero, the European fin de siècle, and the Gilded Age in New York and Chicago. In the twentieth century, the book covers the Jazz Age, the rise of political celebrities such as Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin, and the democratization of celebrity in the postwar decades, as actors, rock stars, and sports heroes became the leading celebrities. Arguing that celebrity is a mirror reflecting some of the worst as well as some of the best aspects of modern history itself, Inglis considers how the lives of the rich and famous provide not only entertainment but also social cohesion and, like morality plays, examples of what—and what not—to do. This book will interest anyone who is curious about the history that lies behind one of the great preoccupations of our lives. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Sensational Chocolate

Sensational Chocolate
Author: Paul A. Young
Publisher: Clearview
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-10-10
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781908337344

Master chocolatier Paul A. Young has assembled a glittering array of celebrities to share their secret chocolate recipes for this book including Rob Lowe, Gordon Ramsay, and Wolfgang Puck. The book features stunning photography of all the glorious recipes and a proportion of the proceeds of the book sales will be donated to charity. Paul A. Young's first book, Adventures with Chocolate, won the World's Best Chocolate Book at the Gourmand Cookbook Awards in Paris and in 2014 Paul was named Outstanding British Chocolatier by the International Chocolate Awards. Paul appears regularly on TV, with appearances in the United States on the Nate Berkus Show.

In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks

In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks
Author: Adam Carolla
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2011-05-17
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0307717380

A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar. It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills. He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I overheard the young guy with the earring behind the bar asking him if he had ID. At first the old sea captain just laughed. But the guy with the twinkle in his ear asked again. At this point it became apparent that he was serious. Dan Haggerty's dad fired back, "You've got to be kidding me, son." The bartender replied, "New policy. Everyone has to show their ID." Then I watched Burl Ives reluctantly reach into his dungarees and pull out his military identification card from World War II. It's a sad and eerie harbinger of our times that the Oprah-watching, crystal-rubbing, Whole Foods-shopping moms and their whipped attorney husbands have taken the ability to reason away from the poor schlub who makes the Bloody Marys. What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we now settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers. Adam Carolla has had enough of this insanity and he's here to help us get our collective balls back. In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks is Adam's comedic gospel of modern America. He rips into the absurdity of the culture that demonized the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, turned the nation's bathrooms into a lawless free-for-all of urine and fecal matter, and put its citizens at the mercy of a bunch of minimum wagers with axes to grind. Peppered between complaints Carolla shares candid anecdotes from his day to day life as well as his past—Sunday football at Jimmy Kimmel's house, his attempts to raise his kids in a society that he mostly disagrees with, his big showbiz break, and much, much more. Brilliantly showcasing Adam's spot-on sense of humor, this book cements his status as a cultural commentator/comedian/complainer extraordinaire.