She received two Emmy Awards as the irrepressible Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moor Show . . .she won an Oscar for her supporting role as a frustrated housewife in The Last Picture Show . . .she delighted audiences with her deliciously villainous turns as Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein and Nurse Diesel in High Anxiety . . .and she earned even more award nominations playing a hard-drinking grandmother in Spanglish. Now, for the first time, ...
Peter Zheutlin's thoroughly researched account will make you wish you'd been around to catch a glimpse of the extraordinary woman as she went wheeling by. –Bill Littlefield, National Public Radio's Only A Game Until 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement deals, and no young mothers with the chutzpah to circle the globe on a bicycle. Annie Londonderry changed all of that. When Annie left Boston in June ...
I SPENT MY ENTIRE LIFE PLAYING NERDS. . .—Barry LivingstonA true Hollywood survivor, Barry Livingston is one of the few child stars who turned early success into a lifelong career. As «Ernie» on the 1960s sit-com My Three Sons —which also featured his real-life brother Stanley as «Chip»—Barry become instantly recognizable for his horn-rimmed glasses and goofy charm. Five decades later, after working on TV shows like Mad Men and Desperate Hou ...
The Shocking Truth Behind Marilyn's Death–Revealed at LastShe was an icon, a sex symbol, and a living legend. But when she was found naked and dead on the morning of August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe became the subject of a mystery that has fascinated and perplexed the world for generations. Was her death an accident? Suicide? Or murder? In this riveting account, private investigators Gregory and Speriglio uncover startling evidence that may s ...
Wer steckt wirklich hinter dem Fall der Mauer? Wie kam Papst Johannes Paul II. auf den Heiligen Stuhl? Und warum ist es padagogisch wertvoll, bei Rot uber die Stra?e zu gehen? Dieter Nuhr stellt unsere Geschichtsschreibung auf den Kopf und offenbart sich als heimlicher Hintermann des Weltgeschehens. Von der Entwicklung des Computers uber die Eurokrise bis zur WM-Vergabe, uberall hat er seine Finger im Spiel, um die Menschheit in eine gluckliche ...
Worauf kommt es an im Leben? Was ist wichtig, was weniger? 102 Jahre alt ist Elisabeth Heller, und langsam, so sagt sie in den Gesprachen, die sie mit ihrem Sohn Andre in den vergangenen Monaten gefuhrt hat, geht es ans Verabschieden. «Innerlich sieht man sich noch jung und klettert auf Berge und segelt uber den Wolfgangsee, freut sich auf den nachsten Tag», sagt die alte Dame, die geboren wurde, als der Erste Weltkrieg ausbrach und mit 18 den S ...
