Professor David Zimmer is drinking himself to death over the death of his family in a plane crash when one night he sees a clip from a film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Mann vanished in 1929, but his films have begun to reappear anonymously in film archives around the wor…
Professor David Zimmer is drinking himself to death over the death of his family in a plane crash when one night he sees a clip from a film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Mann vanished in 1929, but his films have begun to reappear anonymously in film archives around the wor…
As far back as he can remember James Corden has only ever wanted to be in one place: in front of you, doing something to make you cry, shout, scream or giggle uncontrollably. He knew where he wanted to be and he'd keep on trying until he got there. This is the story of how it al…
An investigative reporter chronicles the offstage life of John Belushi as he rose to popularity and concurrently developed a drug habit that he could not control.
"Abandoned as a boy in Kansas, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle found adulation first in vaudeville, and then in the new medium of the cinema. In his day, during the second decade of the 1900s, Fatty was more popular than Chaplin; he became the first screen actor to make a million dollar…
From renowned journalist Bill Zehme, author of the New York Times bestselling The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin', comes the first full-fledged biography and the only complete story of the late comic genius Andy Kaufman. Based on six years of rese…
"Confined to the Welsh airwaves, cable TV, bit parts and an endless xuccession of voiceovers, for many years it looked like all we'd hear of award-winning actor, writer, comedian and presenter Rob Brydon was his remarkable, gifted voice. [Here], he tells his story of how a young…
The longest-tenured cast member of "Saturday Night Live" delves into the darkest corners of his life, on both sides of the camera, with brutal honesty and a fierce comic wit.