Writen by Donna Zakowska, the costume designer for the Amazon streaming series, Madly Marvelous gives a detailed look at the behind the scenes costuming that goes into producing a 50’s set television show. Madley Marvelous is not based on conventional memoir or pop culture critique. Within its pages Zakowska gives an overview of her approach…
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The Office BFFs
Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There Authors: Jenna Fischer & Angela Kinsey Both Fischer & Kinsey are multi-hyphenates including actors, authors and podcast hosts. As the name indicates the authors are most well-known for the NBC sitcom The Office which ran from 2005 – 2013. The two wrote the book…
Full Circle From Hollywood to Real Life and Back Again
Andrea Barber played Kimmy Gibbler, the quintessential neighbor and sidekick with clashing wardrobe choices, on the TV show and streaming series Full House Synopsis Full Circle details Barber’s career as a child actor playing Carrie Brady on Days of Our Lives. When that role ended, she was cast as Kimmie Gibbler on Full House which…
You Should Sit Down For This
Mowry-Housley is former child star and current working actress. Viewers may know her from; ‘Sister, Sister’ which ran from 1994 to 1999 as part of the TGIF Friday lineup on ABC, the TV movie ‘Twitches’, the Lifetime TV show ‘Strong Medicine’, ‘Tia and Tamera’ the reality TV show she starred in with her sister, and…
I Choose Myself
Deepti Vempati was a contestant on season 2 of the Netflix series “Love is Blind”, a reality show in which contestants date sight unseen through a “pod”, get engaged, then have 30 days to see if they can make it in the real world before getting married. Her story took a dramatic turn when the…
How to Win the Bachelor
So what does it take to write a book on ‘The Bachelor’? The research process itself is daunting. The American version of the show spans double-digit seasons across multiple decades. So to research their subject the journalists undertook a process called the hyperbinge, watching all seasons over 72 days at 2x speed, documenting the strategies…
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