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"From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the...
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An artist of the air re-creates his six-year plot to pull off an act of incomparable beauty and imagination. One late-summer day, a feat of unimaginable audacity was perpetrated on the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The year was 1974. A hundred thousand people gathered on the ground to watch in awe as twenty-four-year-old high wire artist Philippe Petit made eight crossings between the all-but-completed towers, a quarter mile above the earth,...
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Get the Summary of Kyle Scheele's How to Host a Viking Funeral in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How to Host a Viking Funeral" by Kyle Scheele is a narrative about the author's personal journey of self-discovery and letting go of the past. Scheele decides to mark the end of his twenties with a Viking funeral, constructing a massive cardboard ship to symbolize the transition. Despite initial skepticism from his...
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In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning...
6) Thank You
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BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live, the network's flagship Saturday morning programme, has been on the air since 2006 and is hugely popular, with 1.8 million weekly listeners. Since 2013 it has featured a slot called 'Thank You', for which members of the public phone in to thank people for kind acts they have done for them in the past—sometimes decades and decades ago—and who they didn't get a chance to thank at the time. It's a lovely, heartwarming...
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An expanded glossary of movie clichés from the Pulitzer Prize—winning film critic.
The popular film critic offers a compilation of witty and wise observations about the film lexicon, including "Fruit Cart," a chase scene through an ethnic or foreign locale, or "The Non-Answering Pet," referring to a dead pet in a horror movie.
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Theater Careers is designed to empower aspiring theater professionals to make savvy, informed decisions through a concise overview of how to prepare for and find work in the theater business. Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson offer well-researched information on various professions, salary ranges, educational and experience requirements, and other facets certain to enlighten students contemplating a theater career, as well as inform counselors, teachers,...
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Get the Summary of Tom Segura's Id Like to Play Alone Please in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Tom Segura's book "I'd Like to Play Alone, Please" offers a candid look into his life, family, and career as a comedian. His father, a retired Marine Corps Captain, is known for his abrupt social exits and explicit discussions about his digestive health, while his mother, a Peruvian immigrant, is polite yet direct. Tom's...
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A new movie written and directed by Paul Auster, starring David Thewlis, Irene Jacob, Michael Imperioli, and Sophie Auster.
From The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions and Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster is one of America's most spectacularly inventive novelists. Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge established him as an award-winning filmmaker. The Inner Life of Martin Frost brings together his talents as a novelist and...
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Get the Summary of Richard Ayoade's Ayoade on Top in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Ayoade on Top" by Richard Ayoade is a detailed critique of the 2003 film "View from the Top," starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Ayoade humorously likens reading his book to an airplane journey, as he delves into the film's narrative and its personal impact on him. He describes his meticulous preparation for watching the film and defends...
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Get the Summary of Dave Itzkoff's Robin in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Robin" by Dave Itzkoff is a comprehensive biography of Robin Williams, tracing his life from a lonely childhood in Michigan to his rise as a comedic genius and his tragic death. Williams grew up in a wealthy family, with a practical father and a whimsical mother, both of whom influenced his complex character. Despite frequent relocations...
13) Sex Power Money
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Following her hit book Animal, Sara Pascoe decides to confront her fear of the male libido, and turns her attention to the things that really matter to humans, delving into such questions as:
Why don't people care about the welfare of the people they masturbate to?
Why is there such stigma around those who work in the sex industry… when some women still want men to buy them dinner?
In this comedic and educational hopscotch over anatomy, the history...
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The screenplay edition of the major motion picture adaptation, starring Maggie Smith, of Alan Bennett's acclaimed story "The Lady in the Van"
From acclaimed author and playwright Alan Bennett, whose smash hit The History Boys won a Tony Award for Best Play, comes the screenplay of The Lady in the Van-soon to be a major motion picture starring Dame Maggie Smith.
The Lady in the Van is the true story of Bennett's experiences with an eccentric homeless...
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What do we mean by the term "animation" when we are discussing film? Is it a technique? A style? A way of seeing or experiencing "a world" that has little relation to our own lived experience of "the world"? In Animated Worlds, contributors reveal the astonishing variety of "worlds" animation confronts us with. Essays range from close film analyses to phenomenological and cognitive approaches, spectatorship, performance, literary theory, and digital...
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50%-FRAUENQUOTE IN DER THEATERREGIE: DAS ENDE DER KUNST? Als die Leiterin des renommierten Berliner Theatertreffens Yvonne Büdenhölzer im Jahr 2019 die 50%-Frauenquote einführte, wurde sie scharf kritisiert. Schließlich verleitet die Quote geradezu reflexhaft zum Widerspruch: Trifft die eingeladenen Regisseurinnen nicht der Generalverdacht, dass sie es nur aufgrund der Frauenquote ins Rampenlicht geschafft haben? Ist bei so einer Vorgabe sogar...
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The latest fabulous edition of Memory Lane is the Summer 2022, Issue 215 (publication date: 4th February 2022). Features in this issue include Eric Whitley and Teddy Joyce, Ernest Ritte, Dance Bands at the 1938 Empire Exhibition, Duke Ellington in the UK, Sam Browne, Ord Hamilton, Jan Ralfini, Sid Buckman and Syd Kyte. Additionally, there are CD reviews, readers' letters and plenty more. As usual this issue is profusely illustrated.
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Stand-Up Stories brings you tales that you will not find anywhere else, all told by someone who made a living headlining clubs across the country for 16 years. It is the ultimate insider's look backstage. The glimpses into the world of comedy will have you laughing out loud from cover to cover.
The 1980s were the golden age of stand-up comedy, the first time that professional funny people from television came to stages in towns all across America....
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Animation-Art and Industry is an introductory reader covering a broad range of animation studies topics, focusing on both American and international contexts. It provides information about key individuals in the fields of both independent and experimental animation, and introduces a variety of topics relevant to the critical study of media-censorship, representations of gender and race, and the relationship between popular culture and fine art. Essays...
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