Tag: Memoir

After Frank Biondi died, his daughter helped write his memoir

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Frank Biondi

In an industry teeming with publicity-hungry executives, the late Frank Biondi stood apart. An architect of modern-day Hollywood, he quietly shaped media companies into creative powerhouses. Biondi led HBO in its early years. He helped […]

Tamera Mowry-Housley’s Memoir: Interview | POPSUGAR Entertainment

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Tamera Mowry

Two pivotal pop culture debuts changed this mixed-race millennial. The first was in 1990, when a fresh-faced Mariah Carey sang “Vision of Love” on “MTV Unplugged.” And the second came in a newspaper ad about […]

A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E Grant review – Tigger and his one true love | Autobiography and memoir

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Richard E Grant with his late wife, Joan Washington, at a party in Richmond, London, in 2010

When Richard E Grant’s wife, Joan Washington, was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer just before Christmas 2020, she didn’t really want anyone to know. “It won’t cure me!” she said. But Grant and their daughter, […]

Jann Wenner dishes on his new memoir ‘Like a Rolling Stone’

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Black and white photo of a man in a suit walking in a city

On the Shelf Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir By Jann WennerLittle, Brown: 592 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support […]

Paper Cuts by Ted Kessler review – ode to the glory days, and slow demise, of the music press | Autobiography and memoir

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The author’s younger brother, Daniel Kessler of Interpol

Those of us who cut our teeth on the weekly music press are, by nature, bullishly nostalgic for the days when NME and Melody Maker sold hundreds of thousands of copies, reputations and heated pub […]

Good Pop, Bad Pop: An Inventory by Jarvis Cocker review | Autobiography and memoir

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Soap in a box from the collection.

The first memoir from the former lead singer of Pulp would have been better titled A History of Jarvis in 100 Objects. That’s what it is: an illustrated guide to the things that make Cocker […]