The Sound of Music CompanionThe definitive book on the world's most beloved musical, TheSound of Music Companion charts the incredible and enduring story of Maria von Trapp and her story over the last hundred years from Maria's birth in Vienna in 1905 to the 50th anniversary of the film's release in 2015. The book details every step in the evolution of this masterwork from real life to page to stage to film to international phenomenon. It profiles every creative artist who has

unnecessary surgery

He noticed that the rocks he was excavating were arranged in layers

or The Wrath & the Dawn

both on the sets of Roman Holiday

her daughter away from her

propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth

Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution

and prickly

From sensuous poetry to voluptuous sculptures

he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of the next decade inside the projects under JT's protection

In this award-winning biography

the tragedy of war