Resultados para "La Lista" en Celebridades del entretenimiento

Alba Carrillo es una fuente inagotable de ingenio y buen humor, pero detrás de los focos las ha vivido de todos los colores. En Lista para la vida se abre como nunca y nos deja conocer a una mujer libre, con una fuerza única y una gran sensibilidad. Entre anécdotas desternillantes, poderosas lecciones de vida y verdades nunca dichas sobre su carrera profesional, Alba Carrillo nos contagia sus fervientes ganas de vivir sin miedo a nada, venga lo que venga y, sobre todo, siendo siempre fieles a nosotros mismos.

Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the 21st century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right, from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump. Mean Girl follows Rand’s trail through the 20th century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes.

A must-read for anyone who cares why so many celebs are sporting "bumps", or whether they are really "just like us", this guide - nay, rulebook - lays down the law on what you need to know to play Hollywood in a simple and concise manner.

The inside story of San Francisco's burgeoning gay history and Hollywood's trials and tribulations. Marc Huestis' showbiz memoir is an entertaining and personal retelling of his coming out in the streets of San Francisco in the early ’70s, his relationship with Harvey Milk, his award-winning early AIDS documentary work, and 20 years of memorable experiences and behind the scenes secrets of screen icons - including Debbie Reynolds, John Waters, Patty Duke, and Tony Curtis - honored at his grand singular extravaganzas at the world-renowned Castro Theater. 

Ronnie Gilbert had a long and colorful career as a singer, actor, playwright, therapist, and independent woman. Her lifelong work for political and social change was central to her role as a performer. Raised in Depression-era New York City by leftist, working-class, secular Jewish parents, Gilbert is best known as a member of the Weavers, the quartet of the 1950s and '60s that survived the blacklist and helped popularize folk music in America.

Leonardo DiCaprio. Alex Rodriguez. Tobey Maguire. Affleck. Damon. Cassavetes. What do these people have in common? Not just fame and fortune; all these men are also alumni of the ultra-exclusive, high-stakes poker ring that inspired Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-nominated film, Molly's Game. But Houston Curtis, the card shark who co-founded the game with Tobey Maguire, knows that Sorkin's is the whitewashed version. In Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist, Curtis goes all-in, revealing the true story behind the game.

They've traded punches in knockdown brawls, crashed biplanes through barns, and raced to the rescue in fast cars. They add suspense and drama to the story, portraying the swimmer stalked by the menacing shark, the heroine dangling 20 feet below a soaring hot air balloon, or the woman leaping nine feet over a wall to escape a dog attack. Only an expert can make such feats of daring look easy, and stuntwomen with the skills to perform - and survive - great moments of action in movies have been hitting their mark in Hollywood since the beginning of film.

Long before drag queens dominated the media, before gender-bending, before punk, even before Stonewall, there was Jayne County. From the 60s to the 90s she was the craziest, the most extreme queen ever to hit a rock 'n' roll stage. She's known and worked with Warhol, Bowie, and Derek Jarman, been an actress, a singer and a prostitute. She's the world's original rock 'n' roll trans star, crossing the genders in the full glare of publicity. 

In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy - the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age 32 from the effects of an eating disorder.   

A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legendary but underappreciated musician, composer, and poet. Paul Youngquist explores and assesses Sun Ra’s wide-ranging creative output - music, public preaching, graphic design, film and stage performance, and poetry - and connects his diverse undertakings to the culture and politics of his times, including the space race, the rise of technocracy, the civil rights movement, and even space-age bachelor-pad music.

This hilarious, whip-smart collection of essays from a top writer and producer of Six Feet Under crisscrosses from the highly personal (conflating her own loss of virginity and the Kobe Bryant accusations), to the political (what she has in common with Monica and Chandra), to the outrageously Los Angelean (why women wear huge diamonds and what they must do to get them). Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants is a genre-defying combination of personal essay and memoir, or a hilarious, unruly and unapologetic evaluation of society, religion, sex, love, and - best of all - Jill Soloway.

In John Prine, Eddie Huffman traces the long arc of Prine’s musical career, beginning with his early, seemingly effortless successes, which led paradoxically not to stardom but to a rich and varied career writing songs that other people have made famous. He recounts the stories, many of them humorous, behind Prine’s best-known songs and discusses all of Prine’s albums as he explores the brilliant records and the ill-advised side trips, the underappreciated gems and the hard-earned comebacks that led Prine to found his own successful record label, Oh Boy Records.

Award-winning indie film director Jay Duplass is "Josh", music producer and middle Pfefferman child. Here, he discusses his character's difficulty adjusting to his father's transition and what it's like to go from relaxed dude to chair-throwing rage in under 60 seconds.

Music supervisor Bruce Gilbert (Orange is the New Black, Children's Hospital) reveals the back story of how music became a critical element for the evolution of Transparent. He goes into detail on how he chooses the right song for the right scene, the importance of creating playlists and mixtapes for the cast and crew, and his early childhood attempts at music supervision that paved the way for his future.

Series creator, director, and writer Jill Soloway (Six Feet Under, The United States of Tara) shares the very personal story of how her own father inspired Transparent’s germination. Next, Jill describes shooting a particularly controversial sex scene that subverted cinema’s traditional “male gaze” into her own pioneering female perspective/

Jim Frohna, Transparent’s veteran Director of Photography, shares uncommon insight into what it’s like to literally step into a dramatic character’s shoes with a camera on your back. Frohna also describes those thrilling moments when it seems like the universe is perfectly aligned and the perfect shot is created by circumstance.

Amy Landecker is "Sarah", the oldest Pfefferman child, who rethinks her family life and her sexuality when she reconnects with her old girlfriend Tammy.

Nisha Ganatra is a consulting producer who took the director’s chair for Episodes 4, 5, and 9, when creator Jill Soloway asked Nisha to take some of their most controversial scenes up a notch, whether it was in the bedroom or the powder room.

Groundbreaking transgender actress Alexandra Billings is “Davina”, Maura Pfefferman’s mentor, inspiration, and best friend. Alexandra discusses her own experiences while transitioning in the late 1970s, what it was like to be the first trans woman to play a transgender character on TV, and how an episode of The Phil Donahue Show may well have saved her life.

Through personal essays and interviews, punk musician and cultural icon Lydia Lunch claws and rakes at the listener's conscience in this powerful, uninhibited feminist collection.