Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life of Shailene Woodley and Theo James - Famous Stars


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Ever wondered how Shailene Woodley and Theo James rose to stardom? You may not be familiar with Shailene Woodley’s name, but you’re sure to have seen her face, At only 23 years old, the young actress has been featured on the covers of young adult novels, on posters in department stores across America, and even in the form of an action figure. Despite her youth, she’s already been featured in a variety of different roles, including Divergent (2014) and its subsequent sequels as well as the film adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars (2014) by John Green. Ever since her breakthrough role on the hit ABC Family series The Secret Life of The American Teenager, there has been one defining characteristic that links her work. Back in the golden age of Hollywood, it wasn’t just a bonus for an actor to be able to sing and dance, it was expected. The very first films were silent, but technological advances soon allowed for widely released films to incorporate synchronized sound by the late 1920’s. Once actors’ voices could be dubbed into films, montages of musical numbers, dance routines, and comedic scenes that required poise, versatility, and a great degree of skill became popular. In order to be successful on a large scale, actors and actresses needed to be highly trained in all three performance arts, as leading roles required a soaring voice, an agile body, and the chops to act in both dramatic and comedic roles. For more interesting facts you must read the biographies. Grab Your biography books now!




Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life Of Theo James - Famous Actors


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Ever wondered how Theo James rose to stardom? The actor known as Theo James was born Theodore Peter James Kinnaird Taptiklis on December 16th, 1984. This makes his astrological sign Sagittarius. Individuals born under this sign are thought to be particularly charming and outgoing, both important traits for actors to possess. He is of Greek ancestry on his father’s side. His father, whose name is Phillip, was born in Greece, though his grandfather immigrated to New Zealand sometime afterwards. Even though Theo James was born in England, he is proud of his Greek heritage and has spoken of his affinity for Peloponnese, the region of Greece where his ancestors hail from. For more interesting facts you must read his biography. Grab your biography book now




Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life of Shailene Woodley and Joseph Gordon Levitt - Famous Star


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Ever wondered how Shailene Woodley and Joseph Gordon Levitt rose to stardom? You may not be familiar with Shailene Woodley’s name, but you’re sure to have seen her face, At only 23 years old, the young actress has been featured on the covers of young adult novels, on posters in department stores across America, and even in the form of an action figure. Despite her youth, she’s already been featured in a variety of different roles, including Divergent (2014) and its subsequent sequels as well as the film adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars (2014) by John Green. When Joseph Gordon-Levitt first burst onto the screen as a bubbly, precocious, and slightly nerdy child star, very few audiences could have predicted that he would become one of the most respected and innovative presences in Hollywood. Starting off at an extremely young age, Gordon-Levitt grew up around the lights, cameras, and buzz of show business. Though his first big break was on television, as he matured as an actor, Gordon-Levitt began searching out more challenging film roles that demonstrated his skills as a dramatic actor. For more interesting facts you must read the biographies. Grab Your biography books now!




Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life Of Shailene Woodley - Famous Actors


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Ever Wondered how Shailene Woodley rose to stardom? Shailene Woodley was born in Simi Valley, CA on November 15th 1991. Upon becoming a child model at the age of four, she went on to begin acting by the time she was five. After guest starring in a variety of different critically acclaimed prime time television shows, she went on to be featured in a handful of different made for TV movies. Her first major role started in 2008, when she was cast as pregnant teen mom Amy Juergens in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager. For more interesting facts you must read her biography. Grab your biography book now!




Becoming Divergent


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Shailene Woodley and Theo James are two stars on the rise. Playing Tris Prior and Tobias 'Four' Eaton respectively, they are set to take Hollywood by storm on the release of Divergent.




Elvis Is King


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An explosive, groundbreaking album that crowned a new king of rock in just 33 minutes Before Elvis Costello was one of Rolling Stone's greatest artists of all time, before he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he was Declan P. McManus, an office drone with a dull suburban life and a side gig in a pub rock band. In 1976, under the guidance of legendary label Stiff Records, he transformed himself into the snarling, spectacled artist who defied the musical status quo to blaze the trail for a new kind of rock star with his debut album, My Aim Is True. In Elvis Is King, Richard Crouse examines how the man, the myth, and the music of this arrestingly original album smashed the trends of the era to bridge the gap between punk and rock 'n' roll.




Raising Hell


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Following the 2012 release of The Devils, Raising Hell examines the film from its inception through its reception.




Heat 2


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NOW A NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Michael Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat and Miami Vice, teams up with Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann’s first crime novel, an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat – an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the film.




The Echo Chamber


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'His relish is infectious' Times 'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Rankin 'Funny, rumbustious, unstinting and wonderfully Hogarthian' The Observer 'Sharp, funny, and beautifully written... a brilliant reflection on the landscape we now live in' Joanna Cannon _______________ What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words), his wife Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like), and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen. Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the proscribed path. Powered by John Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone. The new novel by John Boyne, WATER, is available for pre-order now.




Hairspray


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'Hairspray', the hit musical, is based on John Waters' affectionately subversive homage to his Baltimore youth and the biggest hit musical on Broadway. This is a complete book of lyrics from the Broadway musical.