Googoosh with Nazanin Boniadi

By Live Talks LA | December 4, 2025
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Thursday, December 4, 2025, 8pm
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Googoosh
in conversation with Nazanin Boniadi

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discussing her memoir,
Googoosh: A Sinful Voice

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Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center
at Vista Del Mar
3200 Motor Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90034
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Thursday, December 4, 8pm
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Thursday, December 11, 6pm PT/9pm ET
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Before there was Madonna or Beyoncé, there was Googoosh. For the first time, one of the world’s biggest pop stars of the 20th century tells her remarkable story in her new memoir, “Googoosh: A Sinful Voice”—her rise to fame in pre-revolution Iran, her arrest and imprisonment, her twenty-year exile, and finally, her triumphant return to the global stage.
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Born Faegheh Atashin in 1950, Googoosh is Iran’s first and biggest popstar. She lives in Los Angeles.
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In this lyrical and moving memoir, she takes us through her difficult upbringing in Iran’s tumultuous 1950s and ’60s to her stardom in the ’70s—and what it was like to reach the peak of her career during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Seemingly overnight, she went from being on magazine covers, at film premieres and fashion shows, and constantly on the radio, to targeted by religious clerics. What followed is a harrowing tale of oppression, intimidation, and exile.
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Now, inspired by the brave women of Iran on the front lines fighting for their freedoms, Googoosh finally tells her full story, and with it, the story of a country once again on the brink.
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Nazanin Boniadi is an Iranian-born actress and renowned human rights advocate. Her television credits include Homeland, How I Met Your Mother, and Counterpart.’On the big screen, she won acclaim for her memorable role in Bombshell and her leading role in Hotel Mumbai. As an activist, she has partnered with various charitable organizations to campaign for the rights of disenfranchised populations across the world, with a focus on the unjust conviction and treatment of Iranian youth, women and prisoners of conscience.  Her thought leadership has been featured in major global media outlets, and her advocacy work has taken her to the halls of power around the world. 
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Padma Lakshmi with Molly Baz

By Live Talks LA | November 19, 2025
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 8pm
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Padma Lakshmi
in conversation with Molly Baz

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discussing her cookbook,
Padma’s All American: Tales, Travels, and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond: A Cookbook


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Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
at New Roads School
3131 Olympic Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90404
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Wednesday, November 19, 8pm
$60 General Admission Section Ticket + Signed Book
$85 Two General Admission Tickets + One Signed Book
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$60 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on November 25 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..

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Based on the award-winning Hulu series Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi.
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Padma Lakshmi is an Emmy-nominated food expert, television producer, and bestselling author. She is the creator of the critically-acclaimed Hulu series, Taste the Nation. She’s served as host and executive producer of Bravo’s Top Chef. She is co-founder of the Endometriosis Foundation of America and an ACLU Artist Ambassador for immigrants’ rights and women’s rights.
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Molly Baz is the New York Times bestselling cookbook author of Cook This Book (2021) & More is More (2023), recipe developer, and video host whose number one goal in life is to convince the world that cooking is fun, and not that hard to do if you’re properly set up. When she’s not writing books, Molly hosts a subscription digital recipe club, The Club, where she drops new recipes weekly for her fans. 
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“Padma pushes past the familiar borders of American cooking, telling the immigrant stories that season the nation’s table. It’s American food in its truest form. . . . borderless, fearless, and extraordinarily delicious.”—Yotam Ottolenghi 
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Padma Lakshmi’s newest book is a love letter to the people who create and evolve American cuisine every day—a road map to the foods that give America its vibrant, kaleidoscopic palate.
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When Lakshmi arrived in New York City in the 1970s, she witnessed firsthand the cuisines of the immigrant communities around her: uniquely their own and yet quintessentially American. 
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Padma’s All American: Tales, Travels and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond is the result of seven years of traveling and tasting, listening and observing. The book includes dozens of mouth-watering recipes from the immigrant and Indigenous communities she has visited, as well as many from her own family, showing us what really comprises American cuisine.
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This is a joyful book—a reflection of who we truly are as a nation, from one of our most essential culinarians.

 

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Bobbi Brown

By Live Talks LA | November 12, 2025
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 8pm
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An Evening with
Bobbi Brown

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discussing her memoir,
Still Bobbi

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Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
at New Roads School
3131 Olympic Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90404
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Wednesday, November 12, 8pm
$50 General Admission ticket + signed book
$25 General Admission ticket
$115 Reserved Section Seat + Pre-event Reception (6:30-7:30pm) + signed book
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Wednesday, November 19, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on November 19 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..

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“She didn’t just change how people wear makeup—she changed how they see themselves” (Charlamagne tha God, for the Time 100 Most Influential People list). Bobbi Brown, beauty mogul and visionary, opens up in her first memoir about the true story: reinvention, resilience, and the power of staying real.
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Bobbi Brown is a beauty industry titan, world-renowned makeup artist, bestselling author, sought-after speaker, serial entrepreneur, and the founder of her eponymous beauty brand and Jones Road Beauty. Born in Chicago and a graduate of Emerson College, Bobbi was named one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in 2021 and in 2022, was named one of Forbes “50 Over 50” Most Influential Women. Brown has received the Glamour Woman of the Year Award, the Fashion Group International Night of Stars Beauty Award, and the Jackie Robinson Foundation’s ROBIE Humanitarian Award. She was appointed by President Obama to serve on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation and was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. She holds honorary doctorates from Montclair State University, Fashion Institute of Technology, Monmouth University, and Emerson College.
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“Feeling stuck? You need to read this book. This isn’t another pep talk—it’s proof that small steps actually work. Bobbi Brown didn’t wait for the perfect plan to build her beauty empire; she figured it out as she went along. Let her powerful story be your reminder that you don’t need permission and you don’t have to feel ready. You just have to start.” —Mel Robbins, bestselling author of The Let Them Theory and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Bobbi Brown is a trailblazer —the founder of her namesake beauty brand, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, and her four-year-old clean beauty brand, Jones Road. In her captivating new memoir, Still Bobbi, she shares her personal journey, including the integral relationships that inspired her to revolutionize the beauty industry despite numerous challenges.
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Brown has written nine makeup tutorial books but has never before written about her life. Transcending a typical suburban childhood, academic challenges, and a wonderfully complicated and glamorous mother, Brown discovered and refined her own view of beauty: That real faces are beautiful. She talked her way into New York’s beauty and fashion scene in the 1980s, found the love of her life, built her namesake brand into a billion-dollar worldwide business, sold control of the brand, and built another —all while raising a family and remaining true to herself. 

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In sharing a lifetime of intimate stories, hard-won practical wisdom, tips, and business savvy, she urges readers to embrace their own potential and pursue their dreams with confidence and clarity of purpose.


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Sir Roger Deakins with Barry Jenkins

By Live Talks LA | November 11, 2025
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 8pm
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Sir Roger Deakins
in conversation with Barry Jenkins

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discussing his visual memoir,
Reflections: On Cinematography

 

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Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center
at Vista Del Mar
3200 Motor Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90034
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Tuesday, November 11, 8pm
$60 General Admission Ticket + Signed Book*
$25 General Admission Ticket
*a visual memoir coffee table book 
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$60 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on November 19 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..

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From a two-time Academy Award winner widely regarded as the greatest cinematographer of all time—a one-of-a-kind visual memoir, telling his life’s story by way of his iconic, beloved films.
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Sir Roger A. Deakins is widely regarded as the greatest cinematographer of all time. Roger has been nominated for 16 Academy Awards, winning twice for Blade Runner 2049 and 1917. He has also been nominated 11 times for the BAFTA award, winning on five occasions. Roger has been awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American Society of Cinematographers, the British Society of Cinematographers, and the National Board of Review. He is also the sole cinematographer to have been honored with a CBE, in 2013, and a knighthood, in 2021. Roger splits his time between England and California, with his wife and longtime collaborator, James. You can follow them here.
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Acclaimed filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ feature film debut, Medicine for Melancholy, was hailed as one of the best films of 2009 by The New York Times and was nominated for numerous awards. Jenkins shared an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his second feature, Moonlight, which was also awarded Best Picture in 2017.  Jenkins is also known for his work in television, including the Amazon Video limited series The Underground Railroad, for which he received a Peabody. In 2017, he made Time’s annual list of the most influential people in the world. 
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Cinematography is both an art and science—capturing motion requires a combination of skill, ingenuity, and artistic genius. Lighting, camera movement, and framing are just a few of the important components in the process of turning words on a page into unforgettable moving images. Over the course of a brilliant 50-year career, Sir Roger Deakins has proven to be the greatest artist & visionary that the craft of cinematography has ever known.
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In Reflections: On Cinematography, Deakins offers his fans and film enthusiasts a one-of-a-kind look into his life and improbable road to Hollywood immortality. Readers will discover how “the boy from Torquay, England” overcame a troubled childhood to enter his way into art school; his fortuitous entry into world of documentary filmmaking (including a yacht race around the world); to shooting groundbreaking music videos such as Herbie Hancock’s “Rock It,” to his singular film career, including his longtime collaborations with the Coen Brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve. 
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Filled with never-before-seen storyboards, sketches, and diagrams, Rogers shows readers how he created some of the most iconic scenes in the most beloved films of all time. Through candid, lyrical prose, Deakins reflects on his life and each of his projects; how he helped shape them, and how they shaped him.
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A truly unique visual memoir, Reflections is for film fans and general readers alike, and for anyone looking to find inspiration, beauty, and creativity by looking through the singular lens with which Roger views the world.
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Werner Herzog with Larry Wilmore (virtual event)

By Live Talks LA | November 11, 2025
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Werner Herzog
in conversation with Larry Wilmore

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discussing his book,
The Future of Truth

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Tuesday, November 11, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on October 21 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..

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From legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog, a compact, effervescent, and deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested questions: What is truth—and how to find it in our “post-truth” era?
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Werner Herzog was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He made his first film in 1961 at the age of nineteen. Since then, he has produced, written, and directed more than seventy feature and documentary films, including Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Nosferatu the Vampyre; Fitzcarraldo; Little Dieter Needs to Fly; My Best Fiend; Grizzly Man; Encounters at the End of the World; and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog has published more than a dozen books of prose and directed as many operas. 
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For over half a century, Werner Herzog has challenged, enriched, and expanded our understanding of the truth. His films and books have mixed fiction and nonfiction, documentary and drama, reality and imagination. Invariably, Herzog goes beyond the appearance of what is true in search of a higher truth, or what he has often referred to as the “ecstatic truth.” In The Future of Truth, a great artist essays an answer to one of humanity’s deepest, most eternal questions. At a moment when deepfake AI videos are proliferating, and most people have simply thrown up their hands in despair at the ubiquity of what we now know as fake news—not to mention the constant lying and propagandizing from certain public figures—Herzog seeks a remedy. Mixing memoir, history, politics, poetry, science, and fierce opinion, he writes with dazzling originality and panache, urging readers to be unflagging and imaginative in the pursuit of truth, endless though the quest may be:
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“I don’t think truth is some kind of polestar in the sky that we will one day get to. It’s more like an incessant striving. A movement, an uncertain journey, a seeking full of futile endeavor. But it is this journey into the unknown, into a vast twilit forest, that gives our lives meaning and purpose; it is what distinguishes us from the beasts in the fields.”
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Larry Wilmore has been a television producer, actor, comedian, and writer for more than 25 years. He can currently be heard as host of Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air on The Ringer Podcast Network. the show weighs in on the issues of the week and he interviews guests in the worlds of politics, entertainment, culture, sports, and beyond. Film and TV credit include: Jerry and Margo Go Large, alongside Bryan Cranston and Annette Benning on Paramount+; Reasonable Doubt for Hulu’s Onyx Collective; Amend: The Fight for America on Netflix;   The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central; Insecure on HBO;  Black-ish on ABC; The Daily Show with Jon Stewart;  In Living Color, The Office and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He also served as creator, writer, and executive producer of The Bernie Mac Show, which earned him a 2002 Emmy Award for “Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series” and a 2001 Peabody Award.

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Elyse Myers

By Live Talks LA | November 10, 2025
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Monday, November 10, 2025, 8pm
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An Evening with
Elyse Myers*

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discussing her book,
That’s a Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You
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*interviewer to be announced

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Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
at New Roads School
3131 Olympic Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90404
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Monday, November 10, 8pm
$115 Reception* (6:30-7:30pm) + Reserved Section Seat + Signed Book
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*Reception includes wine, hors d’oeuvres, photo op and personalized book
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Writer and comedian Elyse Myers gets real about life’s awkward moments in her bold, funny, and unfiltered debut book.
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Elyse Myers is a writer and comedian who’s known to her twelve million followers as “The Internet’s Best Friend,” sharing relatable stories and comedic sketches and serving as an advocate for topics such as neurodivergence, impostor syndrome, body image, and more. Elyse lives in the Midwest with her husband, two sons, and her pillow pet named Wallace.
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Whether she’s making people laugh with stories of disastrous dates or giving a voice to that awkward internal monologue many of us have, she has three simple goals behind everything she makes: To make people feel known, loved, and like they belong. She hopes that by sharing her authentic and unfiltered self with the world, others will feel comfortable doing the same.
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In That’s a Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You, Elyse delivers a debut collection of deeply personal stories and hand-drawn illustrations, offering even more intimate reflections beyond what fans have seen on her social media, including: Spending 7 Minutes in Heaven accidentally friend-zoning her crush; How Lucy, the Magic 8 Ball keychain, changed her life by accident; Moving from California to Australia to Texas to Nebraska to like (maybe even love!) herself; How to Fold Hospital Corners in 10 EASY STEPS!—a practical guide and a rumination about…everything; The “meat cute” when she met her smoke show of a husband at a butcher’s counter in Australia—and how she revealed herself to be an emotional runner.
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Plus, tales involving bad dates and is-this-a-dates; the tempting yet futile urge to reinvent yourself, panic attacks and escape hatches, and favorite pens and systems to use them, all while loving and letting yourself be loved, preferably at the same time.

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