Shawn Levy, Author . Fourth Estate $24.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-00-717059-3
Even readers who find the idea of a "playboy" somewhat questionable won't be able to put down Levy's biography of Porfirio Rubirosa (1909– 1965). For one thing, there's delicious gossip: the women he courted (Eartha Kitt,...
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Shawn Levy, Author . Harmony $29.99 (490p) ISBN 978-0-307-35375-7
Film critic and biographer Levy (Rat Pack Confidential
) embarks on a respectful, thoroughgoing survey of Newman's long life (1925–2008) and massive film career without lingering on emotional and psychological factors. A kind of...
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Shawn Levy. Crown/Archetype, $32.50 (608p) ISBN 978-0-307-71678-1
The famously laconic, chameleon actor, gets a respectful treatment by journalist and film critic Levy (Paul Newman: A Life). As the only son of New York bohemian artists who separated and left "Bobby" largely to his own devices, De Niro recognized...
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Shawn Levy. Norton, $27.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-393-24758-9
In this fast-paced, detailed study, film critic Levy (Rat Pack Confidential) turns his attention to Rome in the 1950s and ’60s—a city that, he argues, became the standard for every other cultural hub in the world. This is a grandiose claim, but Levy
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Shawn Levy. Doubleday, $28.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-54316-3
Levy (Rat Pack Confidential) recounts the evolution of Chateau Marmont from bohemian haven to glitterati hot spot in this engrossing account of the L.A. hotel’s 90-year history of decadence. Weaving together historical research and firsthand...
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Shawn Levy. Doubleday, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-54578-5
“The women in these pages are heroes,” writes film critic Levy (King of Comedy) in this riveting cultural history of women’s stand-up comedy between WWII and the 1970s. Revisiting a dispiriting time when “a funny woman who wanted to tell jokes was...
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Shawn Levy. Mariner, $35 (560p) ISBN 978-0-06-325102-1
Film critic Levy (King of Comedy) argues in this sharp biography that Clint Eastwood is “an inkblot in whom we see a variety of opposing ideas at once.” Eastwood was born in San Francisco in 1930, and after performing in a school play as an eighth...
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