The Hollywood Wrap

When it comes to eating on the run, it's not always easy to make smart choices. In her new book, celebrity fitness trainer and nutrition expert Nancy Kennedy introduces her foolproof solution for weight-conscious dining at home or away with 100 recipes for sleek and sexy wraps. You can put together these nutritious, low-calorie meals in minutes and pack them along wherever your busy day takes you. In The Hollywood Wrap, you'll find: • Quick and easy recipes for energy-boosting breakfast wraps, plus light and luscious lunch, snack, and dinner wraps • 4 weeks of meal plans to help you lose weight—and keep it off • Healthy cooking, shopping, and kitchen-stocking tips • The workout moves that keep Kennedy's Hollywood clientele fit and red-carpet ready Stylish, sassy, and designed to help you manage your diet even on a hectic schedule, The Hollywood Wrap will ensure that you always have a satisfying, balanced meal on hand—whenever and wherever hunger strikes.

In this professional memoir, Hollywood veteran Paul A. Helmick candidly shares the joys, woes, and surprises of his more than fifty years in motion pictures, from his first studio job as copy boy and runner in 1934, to his role as assistant director on major blockbusters starring John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe. He's got the true insider's account of the directors, actors, and crew members on films like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Rio Bravo, and Funny Girl. This unique behind-the-scenes view features anecdotes and memories from Helmick as he worked tirelessly for directors like Howard Hawks and Otto Preminger, and often thanklessly, to make their pictures successful. Photographs behind the scenes of Helmick's many movies are included, along with a filmography of Helmick's many projects. An index allows easy reference to the many people and pictures featured in this remarkable account of the often funny, always changing, life of an assistant director for some of the most important studios in the business.

Hollywood is placeless, timeless, and iconic, a key fabricator and forger of American cultural myths and stories. How, then, will the history of Hollywood be written?

As a movie extra, actor and comedy screenwriter, I’ve been on more movie sets than you’ve had hot lunches. My classmates were Ed O’Neill, Married with Children (Fox) and Terry McDonnell, Emmy Award-winning producer, Ben Stein’s Money (Comedy Central). You could say that I’m Ohio University’s least-celebrated graduate. Working alongside acting luminaries like Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep has taught me some of the survival tricks of the acting trade, to keep you going while you chase your own celluloid and digital dreams. Riding the Hollywood Glacier is a cutting-edge comedic look at breaking into the movies. Fasten your seats belts; it’s going to be a roller coaster ride of a read. Rolling. Speed. Action... Denny Dormody Denny Dormody- I hope you become a much better writer! Kirk Douglas Riding the Hollywood Glacier is a hilarious Tale of Two Cities: Hollywood and LA and surviving both. Elayne Blythe Film Advisory Board Comedy writers Denny Dormody & Michael Conley have inked with Irv Tenenbaum at Loeb & Loeb. The Hollywood Reporter

Since the earliest days of cinema the law has influenced the conditions in which Hollywood films are made, sold, circulated or presented – from the talent contracts that enable a film to go into production, to the copyright laws that govern its distribution and the censorship laws that may block exhibition. Equally, Hollywood has left its own impression on the American legal system by lobbying to expand the duration of copyright, providing a highly visible stage for contract disputes and representing the legal system on screen. In this comprehensive collection, international experts offer chapters on key topics, including copyright, trademark, piracy, antitrust, censorship, international exhibition, contracts, labour and tax. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, Hollywood and the Law provides readers with a wide range of perspectives on how legal frameworks shape the culture and commerce of popular film.