Individual actors Books
Primedia eLaunch LLC Paris Nights: My Year at the Moulin Rouge
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Alan Ayckbourn in Chekhov's Footsteps. A Study of
Book SynopsisMustafa Kirca explores the dark sides of Alan Ayckbourn's comedy by comparing the playwright's characters with those of Chekhov's drama and drawing a parallelism in the character portrayal of both artists. The significance of Ayckbourn's plays, following Chekhov's footsteps, particularly lies in his vivid portrayal of characters from everyday life with psychological depth. Kirca shows that the fine mix of comedy and tragedy in Ayckbourn's drama is conveyed through his realistic characterization contrary to the farcical style of his plays. This kind of character portrayal in Ayckbourn's plays brings him very close to Chekhov and establishes the known equilibrium between comedy and tragedy in his theatre. The study covers Ayckbourn's Absent Friends, Just Between Ourselves, Joking Apart, Season's Greetings, Woman in Mind, A Small Family Business, and Henceforward. From Chekhov's drama, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard are included to define the general Chekhovian character traits. The book is especially interesting for teachers, students, and for general readers who are interested in modern 'human comedies'.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Beckett, Lacan and the Voice
Book SynopsisThe voice traverses Beckett's work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside the narrators and characters, while permeating the very words they utter, it proves to be incessant. It can alternatively be violently intrusive, or embody a calming presence. Literary creation will be charged with transforming the mortification it inflicts into a vivifying relationship to language. In the exploration undertaken here, Lacanian psychoanalysis offers the means to approach the voice's multiple and fundamentally paradoxical facets with regards to language that founds the subject's vital relation to existence. Far from seeking to impose a rigid and purely abstract framework, this study aims to highlight the singularity and complexity of Beckett's work, and to outline a potentially vast field of investigation.
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HarperCollins Publishers The Hardest Working Man in Showbiz
Book SynopsisThe incredible, uncensored full story of the number one male porn star and legend, told in his own words.Trade ReviewBook of the Month in the April issue of Boys Toys ‘Explosive’Sunday World ‘It's fun to read… my opinion of the 'Hedgehog' was considerably raised.' Desire magazine
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Yale University Press I Maya Plisetskaya
Trade Review“A compelling story about perseverance, hardship, craftiness and, ultimately, a kind of seething acceptance of the system that virtually imprisoned her, even as she found that she couldn’t live without it.”—Sarah Kaufman, Washington Post“Like the swans she danced so often—800 performances of ‘Swan Lake’ and unnumbered renderings of the Dying Swan—Maya Plisetskaya, one of the great ballerinas of the last century, mingled beauty and fierceness. . . . She has much to be angry about and, as the Bolshoi’s prima ballerina assoluta for decades and celebrated worldwide, quite a bit to be grateful for. . . . The Plisetskaya memoir is a moving success. Here is the woman, I proclaims, and we see her—not entirely polished but overwhelming—as if she were dancing.”—Richard Eder, New York Times“The fascinating story of how this artist of implacable will confronted and defied the Soviet regime—and eventually had her way. . . . I, Maya Plisetskaya has the virtues of candor and directness, and it has a real story to tell.”—Robert Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times Book Review“A riveting account of pursuing artistic excellence under Soviet oppression. . . . Plisetskaya doesn’t just tell an incredible story. She also lays bare the hard work and uncertainty involved in putting it all in a book. . . . Reading this memoir feels like listening to a wonderfully strong-willed friend.”—Boston Globe“Almost everything about Plisetskaya, now 76, seemed larger than life. And as her wonderfully intimate and detailed new autobiography reveals, that is the result of both her innately bold, born-to-be-a-diva personality, and of the often perilous Soviet political environment in which she forged her career. . . . This is a fascinating memoir, steeped in ambivalence.”—Chicago Sun-Times“I, Maya Plisetskaya isa memoir of the Terror, the Gulag and the very fertile Soviet arts, by the athletic prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet.”—Washington Post Book World“[A]n autobiography that is also a searing indictment of Soviet Russia, of communism and of the blind naiveté with which the Isadoras of this world have often approached her country. . . . Plisetskaya’s memoirs invariably describe a life in dance. But the book’s biggest value lies in being much more than that. I, Maya is social history written by a dancer who transcends the mute language of her art to tell a universal story of suffering and endurance. The thud of irony continually disrupts the mellifluous strains of Tchaikovsky that sounds in the background of a career that spanned 50 years. . . . [A] deliciously subversive book.”—Deirdre Kelly, Toronto Globe & MailSelected as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Hachette Books Confess
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Da Capo Press How to American
Book SynopsisStandup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO''s Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood. I turned down a job in finance to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. My dad thought I was crazy. But I figured it was better to disappoint my parents for a few years than to disappoint myself for the rest of my life. I had to disappoint them in order to pursue what I loved. That was the only way to have my Chinese turnip cake and eat an American apple pie too. Jimmy O. Yang is a standup comedian, film and TV actor and fan favorite as the character Jian Yang from the popular HBO series Silicon Valley. In How to American, he shares his story of growing up as a Chinese immigrant who pursued a Hollywood career against the wishes of his parents: Yang arrived in Los Angeles from Hong Kong at age 13, learned English by watching BET RapCity for three hours a day, and worked as a strip club DJ while pursuing his comedy career. He chronicles a near deportation episode during a college trip Tijuana to finally becoming a proud US citizen ten years later. Featuring those and many other hilarious stories, while sharing some hard-earned lessons, How to American mocks stereotypes while offering tongue in cheek advice on pursuing the American dreams of fame, fortune, and strippers.
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Crown De Niro
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Back Bay Books Lou Reed
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Little, Brown & Company Miss D and Me
Book SynopsisFor ten years Kathryn Sermak was at Bette Davis''s side--first as an employee, and then as her closest friend--and in Miss D and Me she tells the story of the great star''s harrowing but inspiring final years, a story fans have been waiting decades to hear.Miss D and Me is a story of two powerful women, one at the end of her life and the other at the beginning. As Bette Davis aged she was looking for an assistant, but she found something more than that in Kathryn: a loyal and loving buddy, a co-conspirator in her jokes and schemes, and a competent assistant whom she trained never to miss a detail. But Miss D had strict rules for Kathryn about everything from how to eat a salad to how to wear her hair...even the spelling of Kathryn''s name was changed (adding the y) per Miss D''s request. Throughout their time together, the two grew incredibly close, and Kathryn had a front-row seat to the larger-than-life Davis''s career renaissance in her later years, as well
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Little, Brown & Company Andy Kaufman Revealed
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ReadHowYouWant Leonardo DiCaprio The Biography 16pt Large Print Edition
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Random House USA Inc Room to Dream
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Tricks of the Trade
Book SynopsisThroughout the 1980s, Dario Fo, Italy's best known and most provocative satirical playwright, and his wife Franca Rame, conducted a series of performance-seminars around the world on the subject of acting. This book traces the life of the comic performer back to the itinerant jongleur and the skillful improvisations of commedia dell'arte troupes.Trade Review"'A scintillating compendium, erudite and refreshing...' Observer * '...an angular, uncomfortable, disquieting aid inspirational account of an art in which there are no more universal performers and recorders than Dario Fo and Franca Rame' Independent * 'Fo's work is brimful with dialect, with harsh humour, with the wit of the bar-room racounteur...' Guardian"
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Little, Brown & Company Adventures in the Screen Trade
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Crown Archetype The Keys A Memoir
Book SynopsisFrom Snapchat sensation, business mogul, and recording artist DJ Khaled, the book They don't want you to read reveals his major keys to success. - Stay away from They- Don’t ever play yourself- Secure the bag- Respect the code- Glorify your success- Don’t deny the heat- Keep two rooms cooking at the same time - Win, win, win no matter what
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Random House Publishing Group His Way The Unauthorized Biography of Frank
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With a new afterword by the author in honor of Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday This is the book that Frank Sinatra tried—but failed—to keep from publication, and it’s easy to understand why. This unauthorized biography goes behind the iconic myth of Sinatra to expose the well-hidden side of one of the most celebrated—and elusive—public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching government documents (Mafia-related material, wiretaps, and secret testimony) and interviewing more than 800 people in Sinatra’s life (family, colleagues, law-enforcement officers, friends). The result is a stunning, often shocking exposé of a man as tortured as he was talented, as driven to self-destruction as he was to success. Featuring a new afterword by the author, this fully documented, highly detailed biography—filled with r
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Faber & Faber Let Me Play the Lion Too
Book SynopsisHow do you prepare for your first day on the set? Why might a bad audition lead to a good job offer? How should you research? What''s the effect of a long tour on your love-life? Can you have a glass of wine before a matinee? What''s the difference between transitive and intransitive corpsing? What is stage fright?In Michael Pennington''s highly personal guide and memoir there are sections on rehearsals, on television then and now, on who does what on a film set, on the disciplines and rewards of musical theatre, and five directors discuss why the scenery is better on radio. Disability and racial bias in the theatre are discussed and we sometimes hear from other, younger voices who are following parallel paths. Infectiously enthusiastic, both conversational and profound, Let Me Play the Lion Too draws on the author''s fifty years of experience to celebrate the deadly serious, sometimes hilarious, often misunderstood but infinitely enriching life
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Isbn-13: 978-0-578-55015-2 Punk Snot Dead
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Paul Salley Little Wing
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iUniverse Big Lou The Life and Career of Actor Louis Edmonds
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iUniverse My Friend MoeMemories of a Stoogeboomer
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iUniverse Inside My Prison of Darkness Understanding PostTraumatic Stress Disorder
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iUniverse The Difference in Butterflies A Chinese dancers memoir of her flight from inner and outer tyranny
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iUniverse A Place Like This A Memoir
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iUniverse Kids Hollywood Magic Insider Tips And Tricks To Get Your Child Into Show Business
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iUniverse Not Now Lord Ive Got Too Much to Do
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Big Toast Entertainment Improvise Freely
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Ausxip Publishing Xena Their Courage Changed Our World
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AuthorHouse Disco Momma
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Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) My First Five Husbands
Book SynopsisRue McClanahan, best known for her portrayal of Blanche Devereaux on the Emmy-award winning series The Golden Girls reveals her life in and out of the spotlight in a laugh-out-loud funny memoir about love, marriage, men, and getting older that is every bit as colorful as the characters she played. Raised in small-town Oklahoma in a house “thirteen telephone poles past the standpipe north of town,” Rue developed her two great passions—theater and men—at an early age. She arrived in New York City in 1957 with two-weeks worth of money in her pocket, hustled her way into a class with the legendary Uta Hagen, and began working her way up in the acting world against the vibrant, free-spirited backdrop of the sixties. That’s when she met and married Husband #1—a handsome rogue of an aspiring actor who quickly left her with a young son. Still, she was determined to make it on the stage and screen—and in the years that follo
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Hyperion Home
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John Wiley & Sons Duke The Life and Image of John Wayne
Book SynopsisMore than an actor, John Wayne is a cultural icon whose stature seems to grow with the passage of time. In this illuminating biography, Ronald Davis focuses on Wayne's human side, portraying a complex personality defined by frailty and insecurity as well as by courage and strength.
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Wildside Press Olympians of the Sawdust Circle A Biographical Dictionary of the Nineteenth Century American Circus 18 Clipper Studies in the Theatre
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Random House USA Inc One More Time
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Onstage with Martha Graham
Book SynopsisWhen World War II was over, a young bomber pilot with an itch for movement and action hung up his cap and learned another way to fly. Onstage with Martha Graham is the story of Stuart Hodes, a versatile and influential dancer who got his start with Martha Graham, an icon of modern dance.Table of Contents Foreword Preface 1. Airborne 2. Moves 3. Dance Lessons 4. The Green Tours 5. TKO'd in Paris and London 6. Drink the Sky 7. With Watchers 8. The Grand Tour 9. Asia 10. A Dancing Fool 11. Post-Martha Syndrome Afterword Acknowledgments Index
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University Press of Florida Being a Ballerina
Book SynopsisInspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a person to study dance; the balance that dancers navigate between hardship and joy; and the dancer's continual quest to discover who they are.Trade Review“A luminous new memoir. . . . Poignant . . . Both a personal account and a universal take on the life of a professional ballet dancer.”—New York Times“"There is power and perfection in this captivating memoir - the power of personal experience and the perfection of writing that carefully captures the life of a dancer … In this memoir Larsen is writing full out, and we are the lucky audience of her performance. Balletomanes, dance students, and aspiring dancers will applaud this absorbing account."—Library Journal“A personal chronicle of a professional dancing life that is as accessible as it is engaging.”—Christian Science Monitor“Being a Ballerina floats along like a lovely adagio solo; we both feel a dancer’s constant pain and share the magical soar of a perfect lift. Reading it is a reminder that words can dance too.”—Seattle Times
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University Press of Kentucky You Aint Heard Nothin Yet Interviews with Stars
Book SynopsisJournalists James Bawden and Ron Miller spent their careers interviewing the greatest stars of Hollywood's golden age. In You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet, Bawden and Miller return with a new collection of rare interviews with iconic film stars including Henry Fonda, Esther Williams, Buster Keaton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, and many more.Trade ReviewThese interviews break through the silver screen and pull the reader into a privileged world. Bawden and Miller showcase the art of the interview."" - Robert Crane, coauthor of Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder"" You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet presents stimulating, informative interviews with a fascinating assortment of stars and leading character players from Hollywood's Golden Age."" - James Robert Parish, author of Hollywood Divas
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Stagedoor Publishing The Timeless James Dean
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Smoking Gun Books I Was Benny Hills Toy Boy A Life in Variety
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Firestormpublishing Hollywood Stars in Southport
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Vesper Hawk Publishing WHATS THE PLAY AND WHERES THE STAGE A Theatrical Family of the Regency Era
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Aurora Metro Publications Not a Number
Book SynopsisWhen Patrick McGoohan first hit UK screens starring as the Danger Man in 1960 audiences were immediately impressed by his fiery persona and on-screen charisma. By the time he took on the role of Number 6 in cult show The Prisoner his fanbase was global, Hollywood beckoned and many of the actors and directors that he worked with regarded him as enigmatic genius. But who was this man who had worked variously as a chicken farmer and bank clerk before launching a hugely successful acting career simply by chance? In NOT A NUMBER Rupert Booth reveals the true character of a man known for his peculiar off-screen behaviour as much for his acting, directing and writing abilities. Why was he so puritanical, refusing to even kiss a woman for any part he played? Why did he identify so greatly with the individual's need to assert himself in the face of suppression and mediocrity and how has he become an icon of subversion? A timely exploration of the man whose declaration 'I will not be Trade Review‘Many people have tried to reach a conclusion about the sort of person that Patrick McGoohan really was. For the first time, Rupert Booth may well have found the answer.’ Rick Davy, The Unmutual Prisoner website ‘...at last an in-depth exploration of a controversial character who can teach us all to say “no” at a time when we need to...’ Dazed & Confused “A genuinely good read and the author must be congratulated. Booth has a very warm writing style, and in telling a personal story of Patrick McGoohan and his devotion to wife Joan, sprinkled with film/TV along the way, he has approached the subject matter in a more attractive way than a simple “screenography” approach. As a result we do get a view on what sort of MAN he was rather than just what sort of ACTOR he was.” – The UnmutualTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION Meeting the Man 7 CHAPTER 1 An Actor is Formed 14 CHAPTER 2 Rising Star, New Romance 39 CHAPTER 3 Not a Brand 62 CHAPTER 4 Danger Man, Risk Taker 104 CHAPTER 5 The Prisoner Arrives 145 CHAPTER 6 The Prisoner: Obsession 184 CHAPTER 7 Fall-out: The USA 221 CHAPTER 8 Kings and Desperate Men 241 CHAPTER 9 An Enigmatic Legacy 268 LIST OF IMAGES 297 REFERENCES 298
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