DescriptionBecoming rich and famous is the American dream. But even the most famous people have obstacles to overcome and disappointments to survive. From Thomas Jefferson and Charles Lindbergh to Mariah Carey and Michael J. Fox, this audio program explores some of the challenges that the most celebrated - and most fascinating - people have had to face. You'll discover how famed aviator Charles Lindbergh almost lost his status as an American hero; what Robert Redford does when he's not starring in Hollywood movies; how family hardships affected the lives of divas Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, and Celine Dion and singer Tony Bennett; how Michael J. Fox copes with his Parkinson's disease, and more.
DescriptionClassy septuagenarian Charlotte Graham, famous both as an actress and a sleuth, attends a gala marking the 50th anniversary of the loss of the Normandie, which sank after a suspicious wartime fire in New York Harbor. When Charlotte, who won an Oscar for the 1939 film The Normandie Affair, is reunited with Eddie Norwood, the piano player she fell in love with during her crossing on the doomed ship, she doesn't want the evening to end. But when society jeweler Paul Feder is found stabbed to death, the gala's elite guest list becomes a suspect list. There's fashion designer Marianne Montgomery, who was jealous of his attentions to her daughter, Dede. There's Lydia Collins, who had the second-oldest motive in the book. And then there's Eddie, who confides to Charlotte that he has a plan to ferret out the Fifth Columnists responsible for the Normandie 's loss.
DescriptionThe eminent detective Hercule Poirot is relaxing at a picturesque seaside resort where the rich and famous take their holidays. There, duty calls when the body of beautiful and flirtatious actress Arlena Marshall is found strangled to death. Everyone on the island is a suspect, and the crime presents Poirot with one of the most baffling and surprising puzzles of his career. Agatha Christie never wrote a more cleverly woven story than this grim-yet-delicious revelation of evil under the sun.
DescriptionAlisa Valdes-Rodriguez's first novel caused a sensation when it was published last year. Listeners flocked to the story of six friends in Boston because Valdes-Rodriguez created utterly fresh voices and characters. In Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's delicious…
DescriptionAt age 10, Tatum O'Neal became the youngest Oscar winner in history for her performance in the film classic Paper Moon . As the sidekick to her father, Ryan O'Neal, she became a fixture at the most glamorous Hollywood parties and counted celebrities…
DescriptionOn January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history. In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.
