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Magnificent Monologues for Kids (Hollywood 101)

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It's so fun!!!
The Best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It Got Me To HOLLYWOOD!!
Thumbs up from a working teen in Hollywood!!!!
Chambers knows his stuff!

Magnificent Monologues for Kids (Hollywood 101)
Chambers Stevens
Manufacturer: Sandcastle Publishing
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Book Description

Magnificent Monologues for Kids provides 5-12 year-olds with performable age-appropriate comedic and dramatic monologues, all 100% kid tested. Chambers Stevens, Los Angeles' #1 kids acting coach, introduces young actors to the joys and how-to's of performing monologues in preparation of auditions. More than 50 kid-friendly monologues are incorporated. Each monologue is named and subtitled for quick content perusal. A glossary of up-to-date industry terms, index and bibliography of magnificent performances by child actors in film are also included as a study and motivation aid. In the foreword, Steven Woolf, renowned repertory theater director, discusses the role of monologues in the development of today's actor. Monologues in the book are easy to read, easy to understand, require a minimum of props and work in impromptu settings. Perfect for teachers of theater arts, parents, counselors, troop leaders interested in increasing the self-confidence and self esteem of young people through the performance arts. Great for classroom, variety talent shows, parties, competitions, and ultimately, auditions.

Customer Reviews:

It's so fun!!!.......2006-10-29

When I heard of the book Magnificent monologues for kids, I begged and begged my father to get it for me. he wants me to keep going with my goal in life, to be an actress when I grow up. He bought it for me after he thought about it. To tell you the truth, when I first saw it I was a little bit disappointed. But every time I read it I got a little more exited. Chambers Steven's monologues are fantasic, and if you are a teenager and you want to pursue acting, then get Magnificent Monologues for teens!!! - Sara

The Best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-08-19

This monologue book is by far the best of them all. there are monologes for boy or girls of all ages. there are all kinds of different monologes. sad, happy, or funny. Whatever kind you are looking for you can find it all in this monologue book.

It Got Me To HOLLYWOOD!!.......2006-08-15

Magnificent Monologues for Kids is truely magnificent!! I have used several monologues from the book in my auditions and they worked. Some are hilarious and others dramatic but all very fun to perform. After meeting Chambers, it is easy to see that his high energy level carries over into his books and it is easy to get energy from them.

Thumbs up from a working teen in Hollywood!!!!.......2006-04-07

I am a 14-year-old actress and I know for a fact that it is extremely difficult to find monologues that are relevant to today's kids and teens. Chambers books are current and up to date with today's television shows and feature films.
There are many children's monologue books on the market but none are so commercial and efficient as this one. When I am asked to prepare a monologue for auditions, agents, or general meetings they usually ask you to be sure that it's under a minute. In the past this had me rewriting monologues or even worse being stopped after the allotted time. These monologues are fast, commercial and packed with marketable and cast-able energy. Which is why I confirm as a working teen in Hollywood that Chambers books are incredible.

Chambers knows his stuff!.......2006-02-22

He makes acting fun. Besides discovering my kid, he has been an invaluable resource with both his books and his coaching! My son has learned a lot from him! All his books are highly recommended.

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Really really liked this one
Excellent writer
I would have given it 5 stars...
MY FAVOURITE "HOLLYWOOD" BOOK
Those rotten spoiled Hollywood kids....

Hollywood Kids
Jackie Collins
Manufacturer: Pocket
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Wherever there's money and glamour, trouble can't be too far behind. In

Hollywood Kids Jackie Collins takes her readers back to the Hollywood Hills for

another absorbing page-turner of sex, ambition, and deadly revenge.

At the novel's core is the Hollywood Five, a clique of jaded twenty-somethings

whose parents (all major players) thought that child-rearing ended with naming

their offspring after themselves. Jordanna Levitt is the wildly beautiful

daughter of a powerful producer and legendary movie star mother. Even though

she flaunts a coltish bad-girl image, Jordanna yearns for more than lounging

behind the velvet ropes in chi-chi clubs and existing on a diet of Midnight

Cowboys. Jordanna's best friend, Cheryl Landers, is a sassy, leggy redhead, who

is equally idle. Cheryl fills her days doing lunch and buying up Rodeo Drive

until a Hollywood Madam asks her to mind shop while she's out of town.

Pandering to the rich and famous goes so smoothly that she can't resist turning

a trick herself. Grant Lennon, Jr., the son of the last generation's wildly

handsome icon, is a junior agent at International Artists Agents. Not satisfied

with the number of starlets he can get on his own, he agrees to "test-run"

women for Cheryl's fledgling entrepreneurial venture for a fee. Marjory

Sanderson is a dreamy-eyed head case. Barely recovered from anorexia, she

invents one phobia fast on the heels of the last one in order to keep her

television magnate father's attention. Shep Worth, the effeminately beautiful

son of a sex-symbol mother, who won't publicly acknowledge her age, is a man

who won't publicly acknowledge his alternative sexual preference.

"The group had grown up together, sharing the experience of too much too soon,"

Collins writes. When you've got your family's great looks, and you're always

driving next year's hottest sportscar, and work isn't necessary because you've

got a wallet filled with the sky's-the-limit credit cards -- why fight it?

These Hollywood kids have been given everything money can buy except a

raison d'être. Though their attitudes are large enough to fill any

room, these offspring of privilege are all desperately trying to figure out

what to do with themselves. However, life among the rich means life among the

damned. A recently released psycho-killer, erotically propelled by blood-lust,

is determined to wreak havoc and revenge on the kids' lives.

Interwoven into this central drama are the strong stories of a supporting cast

of characters: Michael Scorsinni, the street-smart ex-NYPD detective who is

doomed to traverse the country until he finds his kidnapped daughter; Bobby

Rush, the ambitious and talented actor/producer, who only has his Hollywood

Royalty lineage working against him; Kennedy Chase, the blonde and brilliant

young widow and journalist who puts the pieces together before the cops and

felicitously learns in the process that she's still capable of falling in love;

Luca Carlotti, the dandy mob kingpin with the cobra's smile and a weakness for

classy call-girls; and finally there's Charlie Dollar, the stoned movie-star

savant, perpetually on the prowl for women to fulfill his fantasy of a

polygamous idyll.

Not since best-selling superstar Jackie Collins created Hollywood Wives,

the book which established a whole new standard for novels of the American

dream in the extreme, has she dealt so incisively and so revealingly with

tinseltown, and with the people who live and die there. Jackie Collins is back

doing what she does best, chronicling the lives of the rich, famous and

infamous with devastating accuracy. Hollywood Kids is Jackie Collins at

her suspenseful roller coaster ride best.

Customer Reviews:

Really really liked this one.......2003-11-23

i still think that all her books, are just so good and you cant put them down. Im addicted to all her books. I think this one is my favorite Hollywood book. I really love the character Jordanna, and her strengths and flaws. Good book, please read!

Excellent writer.......2003-02-28

Jackie Collins is an excellent writer. Her books so fun to read. You really get wrapped up in them before you know what hit you. They're like soap opera's.

I'd recommend this book if you like Collins or her style of writing. I think you'll be pleased.

I would have given it 5 stars..........2002-06-13

If I was still in the 11th grade. I used to love her novels, and her writing style is still on point, however, at 20 I feel too grown up for the same old same old. Like I said I loved it at 17 but now it seems too much like everything else she wrote. And she was kind of out of touch with the reality of people, and that is the heart of a novel, the reality of a person is what readers want to understand.

MY FAVOURITE "HOLLYWOOD" BOOK.......2001-03-09

Dynamite. Jackie Collins has done it again. A book you will enjoy. Full of witty dialogue and sizzling sex, the way only Jackie Collins can deliver. One of her best books.

Those rotten spoiled Hollywood kids...........2000-09-15

Jackies done it again with a true to life Hollywood book. She's already hit the husbands and wives. Now those snotty little kids of Hollywood got a whole book to themselves. I love it.

The Sundance Kids: How the Mavericks Took Back Hollywood

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The Sundance Kids: How the Mavericks Took Back Hollywood
James Mottram
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An appreciation of the young turks who took hold of Hollywood in the nineties: from P. T. Anderson to Spike Jonze to the godfather of them all, Steven Soderbergh

Hollywood is undergoing a renaissance, spawned by a vanguard of auteurs who for more than a decade have managed to turn La-La Land upside down. With films like Boogie Nights, Rushmore, Being John Malkovich, and Memento, young filmmakers have in many ways forced the major studios to march to the beat of their very different drummer.

In Sundance Kids, James Mottram paints a vibrant portrait of Hollywood as it stands today. Focusing on writers and directors who made their debuts in the nineties, Mottram takes a close look at how these mavericks have impacted the cinematic landscape. He explores the current state of the Hollywood studios; what it can mean now to be “independent” in the wake of mini-majors like Miramax and New Line; the particular influence of uncompromising artists like Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino; the unique platform provided them by the Sundance Film Festival; the contribution of British filmmakers like Sam Mendes to the mix; and how, for the first time since Paddy Chayefsky, writers such as Charlie Kaufman are becoming household names while playing a key part in the new Hollywood.

The Ultimate Commercial Book for Kids And Teens: The Young Actors' Commercial Study-guide! (Hollywood 101)

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Fantastic Audition Prep Book!
Great Book!!
Totally awesome!
Fabulous tool for professionals and non-professionals-
Whether you are honing your skills as an young actor or public speaker--this book is for you.

The Ultimate Commercial Book for Kids And Teens: The Young Actors' Commercial Study-guide! (Hollywood 101)
Chambers Stevens
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Fantastic Audition Prep Book!.......2006-08-11

The Ultimate Commercial Book for Kids And Teens is an amazing resource for all ages who want to break in to the commercial business. The commercials in this book really allow me to get into so many different characters.Chambers is a genius for writing this book. By reading the information in this book anyone can tell that he knows what he's doing.

Great Book!!.......2006-02-18

Chambers book is fun, funny and full of surprises. It really helps you prepare for all of your auditions!

Totally awesome! .......2006-02-17

Its a valuable source in preparing for commerical auditions. The book is easy to read and fun to work with. The commercials that Chambers had created were real life ones, and very clever situations. Its easy to pick up on them.

Fabulous tool for professionals and non-professionals- .......2006-02-16

My daughter enjoyed memorizing a commercial a day from 24-Carat Commercials for Kids which got her "in shape" for auditions. The Ultimate Commercial Book for Kids and Teens provides more great material for learning and training-

Whether you are honing your skills as an young actor or public speaker--this book is for you........2006-02-16

Another great book in Stevens' series for teens. My daughter found "Sensational Scenes for Kids" very helpful in her speech class. Her teacher kept a copy in the classroom. Students found the scenes fun to learn, with timely topics, and language they could relate to. "Ultimate Commercials" will be a useful tool for aspiring actors or teens working on public speaking.

Kids in the Biz: A Hollywood Handbook for Parents

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A very basic primer
Great Resource!

Kids in the Biz: A Hollywood Handbook for Parents
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Youve heard the horror stories about stage parents fumbling away their childs career through ill-informed decisions or alienating their children from the industry by being behind-the-scenes tyrants. So how do you avoid becoming that stage parent while keeping your child happy, healthy, and working? Troy Rutter has helped establish some of Hollywoods best-known child actors, and in Kids in the Biz, he tells you exactly how to concentrate on getting your kid that big break without breaking up your family life.

Kids in the Bizwalks you through the entire process of building your youngsters acting career - from local commercial work, to getting an agent, to getting into Hollywood. Each step of the way Rutter gives you industry-smart advice and psychological insights to help you make decisions that build a resume and avoid burnout. Perhaps most important of all, he focuses a chapter on the often tricky financial workings of the acting business, giving you real-world facts and figures about how much your child can really expect to make in show business and how you can safeguard their earnings by avoiding scams. Plus, he includes examples of all the forms, contracts, letters, and other documents youll need to get going, make connections, and support your childs career.

So whether you think that your sons smile would be perfect for television or that Hollywood should bronze your daughters star for the Walk of Fame today, read Kids in the Biz before your family takes that first step into the world of child acting.

Customer Reviews:

A very basic primer.......2007-06-16

I wish I could have searched inside this book before purchasing. In this book you will get the most basic information needed to make the move. The author also sites contributors with questionable backgrounds regarding children.

I would easily recommend passing on this book.

Great Resource!.......2005-04-20

If you're a parent and have a child who wants to be in "the biz", then this is the book for you. We don't live in LA and were desperate for information that could help us understand the industry and make good choices. This book has been a tremendous asset that we consult quite often. Everyone knows the saying that "you don't know what you don't know." Thanks to this book, we are now "in the know" about how to best help our son pursue his Hollywood dream. Thanks Troy!

24-Carat Commercials for Kids: Everything Kids Need to Know to Break into Commercials (Hollywood 101)

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Chambers makes it easy!
Great book
Best Kept Secrets
A lot of good info
A Definite Recommend

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24-Carat Commercials for Kids: Everything Kids Need To Know to Break into Commercials, written by Chambers Stevens, Los Angeles' #1 kids acting coach, is packed with detailed descriptions of just what kids must do to win a career in commercials. This includes basic requirements for training + preparation, presentation materials such as resumes for beginners/pros (with examples) and photos (with examples), instructions for obtaining a work permit and 101 commercials for practice. Interviews are presented with three Hollywood commercial industry heavyweights - a casting director, an agent and a commercial director- discussing current industry requirements for young actors. Also included: Chambers' commercial audition Do's and Don'ts, a glossary of industry terms, a chapter on how to get an agent, names and addresses of top commercial agencies for young actors within active industry regions around the US, storyboard example and an index. The book is written for children to read and understand. The incorporated commercials require a minimum of props and work in impromptu settings. Great for classroom, variety talent shows, parties, competitions, and ultimately, auditions.

Customer Reviews:

Chambers makes it easy!.......2006-02-22

Besides discovering my kid, he has been an invaluable resource with both his books and his coaching! He makes acting fun and easy to learn for kids! All his books are highly recommended.

Great book.......2006-02-20

This book really helped my auditioning skills. Just learn a commercial each day and you will be ready to book.

Best Kept Secrets.......2006-02-18

Reading this book has greatly enhanced my auditioning skills. After working some of the commercials from this book, I was able to book a national public service announcement! I had the opportunity to train in person with Chambers Stevens and believe he is an acting genius. This book includes all the secrets on how to land commercial jobs and has worked wonders for my career. I would highly recommend this book to any aspiring actor who wishes to master the art of performing a commercial.

A lot of good info.......2006-02-18

When my son started acting he was nervous going to an audition.
The good thing about this book is the author shows you what happens at an audition.
He takes you through the process step by step.
The author's style of writing is very funny. My son and I were laughing and then when he got his first audition we found it happening just like in the book.

A Definite Recommend.......2006-02-17

I bought this for my son, as well as the scene book for kids, and he hasn't put them down! They're a really good resource for kids who are interested in acting. I've also noticed that his memorization skills have improved since I got him these books. If you have a child interested in acting, I highly recommend both books.

Sensational Scenes for Kids: The Scene Study-Guide for Young Actors (Hollywood 101, 5)

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Awesomest Book Ever.
Chambers is a genius!
Great book
My Son Loves It
Teriffic!!!!!!!!

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Customer Reviews:

Awesomest Book Ever........2006-08-15

This is a great book to help you learn lines, build reading skills, and give you quick easy tips when performing. Its helped us so much to accelerate our acting skills. It's also a fun thing to use at sleepovers or parties.
to put it simply...it rocks.

Chambers is a genius!.......2006-02-22

Besides discovering my kid, he has been an invaluable resource with both his books and his coaching! He has a great sense of humor! Highly recommended.

Great book.......2006-02-20

I used this book to get started in acting. This book is perfect if your looking for a variety of fun scenes.

My Son Loves It.......2006-02-17

My son is interested in acting and theatre so I bought him this book and the commercial book. He has really loved both of them. When he gets a little older I plan to get him the teen books. I definitely recommend the two that I bought!

Teriffic!!!!!!!!.......2006-02-17

This is the perfect book for kid actors! The comedic scenes are hilarious while the dramatic scenes are touching. New or veteran actors can benefit from this book.

Hollywood Jock: 365 Days, Four Screenplays, Three TV Pitches, Two Kids, and One Wife Who's Ready to Pull the Plug

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wonderful book
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Wild, uneven ride into Hollywood weirdness

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Rob Ryder made that pledge to his wife, and he was determined to stick to it. As technical consultant on blockbuster sports films, he had seen up close how the film business works and what kind of chaos can, and usually does, ensue. And now he was ready to take it on!

Hollywood Jock is the suspenseful, dramatic, outrageous, and honest true story of the year when Rob Ryder, screenwriter, laid it all on the line -- and kicked, scratched, wheeled, dealed, and fought like hell to hit the Tinseltown big time. It is a chronicle of schmoozing producers, shopping screenplays, corralling sports legends, and dodging irate actors -- a fascinating perspective on the highs, the very lows, and the behind-the-scenes madness that makes the world of Hollywood so endlessly compelling . . . and infamously brutal.

Customer Reviews:

wonderful book.......2007-05-07

I LOVED THIS BOOK! All right, so the author went to Princeton, where he played on the basketball team. We won't hold that against him, especially since the team he played on almost beat #1UCLA in the NCAA's(lost by a point.) Perhaps that near victory prepared him for life as a Hollywood screenwriter, where he suffers the "plight of intermittent reinforcement": every once in a while he'll get a rat's pellet of reward, just enough to keep him "bashing his head into a cinder-block wall."

See the way I'm quoting the author? This is the kind of book where you underline all the time. (Mine is NOT a library copy, I own it.) Some samples:
Comparing how men and women cross a dance floor differently when they're drunk. A man will "do these flanking motions, like a sailboat tacking upwind, stumbling left...then heading back right, like you improve your odds of finding your destination by covering more territory somehow..." A woman will cross "like she's on a mission, walking that straight line.. putting one foot in front of the other, steps short and quick, knowing as long as she keeps leaning forward and staying focused she's gonna finally get there."
Or his example of "due diligence:" "When people are young, they sleep together before getting married to find out how good the sex is gonna be. Second time around, it's to find out how bad's the snoring. Due diligence."
Quoting a teacher friend of his: "Moviemaking is the slow disintegration of a good idea."
Quoting another friend's mother: "Closed mouths don't get fed."
Quoting a doctor on why his friend developed a lump in his scrotum (non-malignant--this book is for laughs, not for downers): "Forget firefighters, forget steelworkers. Writing's the worst--high stress, constant rejection, alcoholism, drug abuse, heart disease, phlebitis, self-contempt, you name it, plus you sit around on your balls all day."

Part of the book is based on columns the author wrote for espn.com. That means he writes short, snappy chapters, which make it an easy read. He also puts in web addresses that will help writers and others with their work. And he's not afraid to personalize the book, be it his relationship with his wife (Where did he find such an angel?!), his sons, or his genuine feelings about our troops in Iraq (sadly, though the book chronicles the year 2005, the troops are still there.) But mainly it's funny. Who knew watching some other guy face constant rejection could be so entertaining?

Finally, Ryder actually had me hooked so much that I HAD TO KNOW what happened to the one screenplay he finally managed to sell. What's the exciting climax? I won't tell you, because you'll have such a great time finding out yourself. You'll also learn a whole lot about the in's and out's of the screen trade, viewed through the lens of a sports consultant, but, most enjoyably, as seen through the eyes of a sensitive, funny, compassionate writer who's been there, done that. If you're anything like me, once you've finished this book, you'll quickly give it to someone you care about so they can love it, too.

Hollywood Jock is worth a read.......2006-10-29

Hollywood Jock is an easy read, filled with the amusing adventures that Ryder has encountered in his quest to write screenplays of interest in Hollywood. Anyone even remotely interested in sports and show business will find the book entertaining and funny. This book seems like a natural premise for a TV sitcom. Maybe Ryder will get lucky and HBO will agree.

Most honest book about the Hollywood writer experience.......2006-10-23

This book is a gem!

HOLLYWOOD JOCK should be mandatory reading in every college Screenwriting class. Every starry-eyed writer heading to Los Angeles needs to know what to expect, and Rob Ryder's experience is what so many LA scriptwriters confront. Had I read Ryder's eloquent book before spending my dozen years in Hollywood, I would at least have been prepared for the experience.

What's most instructive is that Ryder has such a masterful command of both story and prose -- and deep insight into sport. His so his insider story of how Hollywood actually works at the script level helps explain why we see so few quality studio films.

But most of all, HOLLYWOOD JOCK is simply a crackling great read, whether or not you plan to be a Hollywood writer. It's the real deal about Hollywood, and it's about time someone told that story and so well. Kudos to Rob Ryder!

Hollywood Jock Scores With Readers.......2006-07-06

Hollywood Jock is the kind of book that needed to be written. Most other books are by better known screenwriters that only highlight the ups of their careers, while Hollywood Jock reviews it all. At times you just wish someone would drop some money into his lap to see what he can do, and by the end you're surfing the net finding out what he's up to now. If you're intrested in movies and the people behind the camera, pick up this book. If you don't care at all, still, read this book. The stories alone are worth the read.

Wild, uneven ride into Hollywood weirdness.......2006-07-06

If "Hollywood Jock" were a movie, the log line would run: "A sports-mad writer gets a shot at redemption when his wife gives him a year to sell a project to Hollywood."

This book collects the 34 "Hollywood Jock" columns written wrote for ESPN.com, and another 19 that continues the story of Rob Ryder, Hollywood Hustler. We follow him as he tries to sell anyone he can get ahold of on the merits of scripts such as "Zulu Wave," about a black surfer in apartheid-era South Africa, "94 Feet of Hell" that takes you inside a fictional college basketball game; and businesses such as a 4-on-4 summer pro basketball league. He's calls on agents for pro athletes who want to get into producing, directors he has worked with (such as Rob Shelton, who directed "Bull Durham" and "Tin Cup"), production companies, money managers, agents, anyone who knows anyone with two cents to rub together who might be able to get a movie launched.

When he's telling his war stories, Ryder is a genial companion, and you can sympathize with his struggles to get his projects off the ground.

But "Hollywood Jock" is also a mess, a shapeless diary that's as chaotic as the way Hollywood puts together movies. The "wife gives him a year to make good" conceit holds no drama or emotion -- and once he loses his paying gig at ESPN.com, the chapters move away from the look at Hollywood and pro sports and becomes a recitation of e-mails, meetings, appointments and cancellations, writing sessions and what Elmore Leonard would call stuff readers would skip over.

If you can handle that, "Hollywood Jock" is a good example of how Hollywood works and how it doesn't.

The Keystone Kid: Tales of Early Hollywood

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An Excellent Picture of Early Hollywood
For students and enthusiasts of early movies

The Keystone Kid: Tales of Early Hollywood
Jr., Coy Watson
Manufacturer: Santa Monica Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Coy Watson, Jr., made his motion picture debut in 1912 when he was nine months old. Before he could walk or talk, Watson had appeared in several of Mack Sennett’s popular “Keystone Cop” comedies, earning him the nickname “Keystone Kid.” From 1912 to 1930, Watson acted in over 60 movies, including The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Puttin’ on the Ritz, I’m No Angel, and State’s Attorney. Here Watson shares his beautiful memories of the early days of Hollywood and of being raised as a member of “the First Family of Hollywood.” Watson and his five brothers and three sisters were featured in over one thousand movies, and their father acted alongside the biggest stars of popular Westerns before becoming the first special effects man—and the first animal trainer—in Hollywood. Watson’s marvelous tales are illustrated with several hundred photographs featuring behind-the-scenes images of such movie stars and directors as Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Jackie Coogan, Fatty Arbuckle, Lon Chaney, John Barrymore, D. W. Griffith, King Vidor, and Frank Capra.

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An Excellent Picture of Early Hollywood.......2002-09-28

Coy Watson's story of early Hollywood provides an excellent picture of what life was like when the movies were being born. Watson is part of the famed Watson family (Dad worked for the studios and even rigged Fairbanks flying carpet and all the kids had parts in the early films - the most famous Watson is brother Bobs who appeared in Boys Town as Pee Wee and On Borrowed Time as Pud). This book lets you know how informal things were in the early days of Hollywood and how films were made before the studios were taken over by the moguls. It is a great history of early Hollywood.

For students and enthusiasts of early movies.......2002-01-14

The Keystone Kid: Tales Of Early Hollywood is the personal autobiography and fascinating memoir of Coy Watson, Jr. Coy was Hollywood's first authentic child star, who started appearing in the popular "Keystone Cop" comedies before he could walk or talk. Black-and-white photographs add images and reminiscence to the warm, thoughtful, memories detailed on the pages. Within these pages are wonderful anecdotes of such "birth of Hollywood" greats as Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Fatty Arbuckle, Lon Chaney, Gloria Swanson, Tom Mix, Mabel Normand, Jackie Coggan, the Keystone Cops, Mack Swain, Lillan Gish, William S. Campbell, Mack Sennett, D.W. Griffith, King Vidor, Frank Capra, and others. The Keystone Kid is enthusiastically recommended reading for students and enthusiasts of early movies, cinema history, and especially for fans of Coy Watson, Jr.

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Hollywood Kids
Jackie Collins
Manufacturer: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994
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