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Christina Aguilera
was born on Staten Island. Christina Aguilera is a pop phenomenon!
Here is everything you want to know about Christina, from her
early years on Star Search to her career on The New Mickey Mouse
Club to her makeover as a major pop talent. What does she love,
what does she hate? Who's she seeing now? Where's she going next?
Filled with spicy details and great photos, this is the photo-bio
every Christina fan must have!
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Joan Baez
Folk singer born on Staten Island. She lived on Maine Avenue in
Westerleigh until she was two years old. A biography of the Mexican
American folk singer who became a political activist and who wrote
and sang songs that inspired people to make the world better.
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| Marcia Clark
She is a graduate of Susan Wagner High School, Staten Island New
York. Marcia Clark is the prosecuting attorney in the O.J. Simpson
trial. But who is she? Linedecker examines Clark's sheltered
religious upbringing, her dreams of the theater, her troubled
first marriage to a gambler, her career, her makeover for the O.J.
trial, her custody battle for her children and much more. Includes
16 pages of photos both in and out of court. |
| Alyssa Milano
grew up in Great Kills, Staten Island. This biography traces the
career of an Italian-American entertainer who made it big as a
child and then again, as an adult TV star. At seven years old,
Alyssa told her parents she wanted to be on stage when she saw the
musical Annie on Broadway in 1980. To their surprise, she actually
landed a part in the touring company, and they allowed her to
travel for one year away from home in Brooklyn. Her big break came
at age eleven when she got the part as Samantha in the TV show
Who's the Boss. She became an instant hit in the series, which
lasted for eight years. But the show's cancellation left her
struggling for parts in B movies until she was rediscovered by
Aaron Spelling, who cast her in Melrose Place and then Charmed,
where she currently stars. Some interesting facts, like her brief
marriage, are revealed. She recorded five song albums that went
platinum in Japan but were never released in America. But readers
will want more about Alyssa's life behind the scenes in order to
understand what made her successful. Publicity photos, a
filmography, a chronology and an index are included. |
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Samuel I. Newhouse
started his empire with the purchase of the Staten Island Advance. A
ferryboat is named for him. He was born on Staten Island. Newhouse
is the first full-scale biography of the turbulent life and business
career of Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr., who could arguably be described
as the most powerful private citizen in America. Controlling a
fortune estimated to be in excess of thirteen billion dollars, Si
and his brother Donald are richer than the Queen of England, or Bill
Gates, or Ross Perot, or any of the Kennedys, Rockefellers, or
Hearsts. But Newhouse is not primarily about the accumulation of
money by a family that two generations ago was literally
impoverished. Rather, it is a book about power.
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