A Star is Found 2006, Harcourt Inc. 307 pages. $25.00 Janet Hirshenson and Jane Jenkins, with Rachel Kranz Many different aspects of filmmaking have been documented in books but this is the first one I’ve seen that focuses primarily on […]

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The View from the Bridge 2009, Viking Press.  263 pages.  $25.95 Nicholas Meyer   This book intrigued me for many reasons, some having to do with the Star Trek movies written and directed by author Nicholas Meyer (the best of the […]

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My Extraordinary Ordinary Life 2012, Hyperion.  271 pages.  $26.99 Sissy Spacek, with Maryanne Vollers.   As the studio system crumbled in the 1960s movies became more democratic, telling a wider variety of stories and featuring actors who probably wouldn’t have […]

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Shirley Jones: A Memoir 2013, Gallery Books.  291 pages.  $27.00 Shirley Jones, with Wendy Leigh.   Singer and actress Shirley Jones has written, in collaboration with Wendy Leigh, a candid memoir regarding her life and career.  It is, by turns, […]

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Ernie: The Autobiography 2008, Citadel Press.  256 pages, $24.95 Ernest Borgnine   Ernest Borgnine recounts the highlights and important episodes in his long career in his new autobiography titled, simply, Ernie.  It is an easy read, for Borgnine is a […]

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Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller 1995, Harmony Books.  208 pages.  $22.00 1995, Pavilion Books  (UK).  208 pages.  £12.99 Janet Leigh with Christopher Nickens.   Having received her only Academy Award nomination for Psycho, which was Alfred Hitchcock’s […]

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There Really Was a Hollywood 1984, Doubleday & Company.  324 pages.  $15.95 Janet Leigh   Janet Leigh’s autobiography mainly covers her first sixteen years in Tinseltown, 1947 – 1962.  The early part of her life is also discussed, somewhat uncomfortably, […]

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