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Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California

Alexandra Hoffman thinks she has it all together. She lives with her work-obsessed husband Jason and their three challenging children in upscale Los Angeles. She never meant to %22friend%22 her old boyfriend%2c Matt Daniels. She hasn%27t seen him in twenty years. But as Alex%27s fortieth birthday approaches%2c she finds herself re-connecting with Matt online-and re-reading […]

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Spike Lee signing Spike Lee: Do The Right Thing

Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California

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T Bone Burnett: A Life in Pursuit

Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California

T Bone Burnett is a unique%2c astonishingly prolific music producer%2c singer-songwriter%2c guitarist%2c and soundtrack visionary. Renowned as a studio maven with a Midas touch%2c Burnett is known for lifting artists to their greatest heights%2c as he did with %3ci%3eRaising Sand%3c/i%3e%2c the multiple Grammy Award winning album by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss%2c as well as […]

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The Far Shore

Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California

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The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention

Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California

For readers of Anne Lamott%2c Abigail Thomas%2c and Ayelet Waldman%2c a lusty%2c kickass* post-divorce memoir%2c one woman%27s story of starting over at 60 in youth-obsessed%2c beauty-obsessed Hollywood. %3cbr%3e %3cbr%3eDesignHTMLWords: 27   Characters: 178

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The Price of Illusion: A Memoir

Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California

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The Zero and the One

Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California

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We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie

Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California

%3cp%3e%3cem%3eCasablanca%3c/em%3e was first released in 1942%2c just two weeks after the city of Casablanca itself surrendered to American troops led by General Patton. Featuring a pitch-perfect screenplay%2c a classic soundtrack%2c and unforgettable performances by Humphrey Bogart%2c Ingrid Bergman%2c and a deep supporting cast%2c Casablanca was hailed in the %3cem%3eNew York Times%3c/em%3e as a picture that […]

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Tryin’ to Tell a Stranger ‘Bout Rock & Roll

Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California

Gene Sculatti was there experiencing and expressing his thoughts on Sixties %28and post-Sixties%29 music and popular culture in real time. Here are his on-the-ground reports on the dawn of psychedelia and the birth of punk%2c a long out-of-print 1973 John Lennon interview%2c and Q%26amp%3bA%27s with Dion%2c Ben E. King and Brian Wilson collaborator Gary Usher.DesignHTMLWords: […]

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True South: Henry Hampton and “Eyes on the Prize,” the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement

Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California

Henry Hampton%27s 1987 landmark multipart television series%2c %3ci%3eEyes on the Prize%3c/i%3e%2c an eloquent%2c plainspoken chronicle of the civil rights movement%2c is now the classic narrative of that history. Before Hampton%2c the movement%27s history had been written or filmed by whites and weighted heavily toward Dr. King%27s telegenic leadership. %3ci%3eEyes on the Prize%3c/i%3e told the story […]

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