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In a smart and funny novel by the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed “big-hearted, charming” (The Washington Post) Small Admissions, a family’s move to New York City brings surprises and humor.Allison Brinkley—wife, mother, and former unflappable optimist—discovers that her decision to pack up and move her family from suburban Dallas to the glittery chaos of Manhattan may have been more complicated than she and her husband initially thought. New York is more unruly and bewildering than she expected, defying the notions she developed from romantic movies and a memorable childhood visit. After a humiliating call from the principal’s office and the loss of the job she was counting on, Allison begins to accept that New York may not suit her after all. When she has a fender-bender, witnessed by a flock of mothers at her son’s new school, she is led to the penthouse apartment of a luxurious Central Park West building and encounters a spoiled, hungover, unsupervised teenager who looks familiar. It doesn’t take long to recognize him as Carter Reid—a famous pop star who has been cast in a new Broadway musical. Through this brush with stardom, Allison embraces a unique and unexpected opportunity that helps her find her way in the heart of Manhattan. “A tribute to Broadway, teen celebrity life, and a mother who has now seen it all, this work is tough love at its finest and a great read for those wanting a ride on the wild side” (Booklist, starred review).

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TEACH YOURSELF ACCENTS--NORTH AMERICA: A HANDBOOK FOR YOUNG ACTORS AND SPEAKERS

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TEACH YOURSELF ACCENTS--THE BRITISH ISLES: A HANDBOOK FOR YOUNG ACTORS AND SPEAKERS

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Charles Spencer Chaplin was a stage performer before he was a filmmaker, and it was in English music hall that he learned the rudiments of his art. The last film he made in the United States, ""Limelight"", was a tribute to the music hall days of his youth. As a parallel to Chaplin's past, the film was set in 1914, the year he left the musical revue stage for a Hollywood career. This collection of essays examines ""Limelight"", and the history of English music hall. Featuring contributions from the world's top Chaplin and music hall historians, as well as previously unpublished interviews with collaborators who worked on ""Limelight"", the book offers new insight into one of Chaplin's most important pictures, and the British form of entertainment that inspired it. Essays consider how and why Chaplin made ""Limelight"", other artists who came out of English music hall, and the film's international appeal, among other topics. The book is filled with rare photographs, many published for the first time, sourced from the Chaplin archives and the private collections of other performers and co-stars.

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In the Limelight is the official Why Don’t We autobiography, full of never-before-seen photos and behind-the-scenes info about one of today’s hottest bands.When five guys decided to form a band, they never imagined that they would go from playing music online to playing tours across the world so quickly. Why Don’t We has been together for less than two years, and they’ve already headlined sold out shows, played at Madison Square Garden, and amassed millions of fans. And this is all just the beginning.This is the official Why Don’t We story, full of never-before-seen photos and everything you need to know about Corbyn, Daniel, Zach, Jonah, and Jack. Find out the secrets they’ve never shared with fans before, their embarrassing childhood stories, what they look for in a girlfriend, and how it felt to have their lives completely changed by this incredible journey.

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“Not many people are aware of the drama of Ivy League basketball. Outside the Limelight is a wonderful tribute to one of the most undervalued conferences in college basketball. I know. I've got the tuition bills.” —Tony Kornheiser, ESPN “Growing up, I was very impressed with Bill Bradley, Jim McMillian, and Heyward Dotson. They fueled my interest in going to an Ivy League school. I hoped we as a team could duplicate the success they had at their schools. Kathy Orton introduces college basketball fans to the Ivy League beyond the well-known names and tells the story of the joys and sorrows of a season.” —James Brown, CBS Sports and Showtime studio host “In my book, there is no such thing as an Ivy League player. There is such a thing as a basketball player who happens to play in the Ivy League. As Outside the Limelight reveals, when they come out of the locker room and step across the white line, they are basketball players, period.” —Pete Carril, former Princeton coach and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member

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'A book to cancel plans for' BELLA'An ode to sisterhood and sexuality... Utterly refreshing' HEAT'Daisy Buchanan writes about all the chaos and conflict of being a young woman' RedThis good girl is naked on the internet...By day, Frankie lives an ordinary life: doting daughter, supportive sister, adoring aunt and (mostly) capable colleague. The only trouble is that she also feels invisible.So by night, Frankie creates her alter ego, uploading risque photos to a small community of online fans. She becomes sexy, confident and, most importantly, anonymous.That is, until Frankie's two worlds collide and she finds herself thrust into the limelight, along with her secret.Overnight, she becomes both a feminist icon and a target; wanted and worthless; powerful and petrified. Suddenly all eyes are on her....but is she ready to bare it all?Limelight is a funny, touching and provocative tale of sisterhood, sexuality and self-esteem. What would you gain - and lose - by being yourself, instead of who everyone wants you to be?'Daisy Buchanan has that special something that makes a wonderful popular fiction writer - acute observational skills, huge empathy and a perfect balance of light and shade.' Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel'Buchanan works through big themes of power, sexuality, friendship and purpose with truly interesting and recognisable characters' Stylist'Daisy Buchanan brings characters to life like no other writer' Lucy Vine, author of Seven Exes

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'A book to cancel plans for' BELLA'An ode to sisterhood and sexuality... Utterly refreshing' HEAT'Daisy Buchanan writes about all the chaos and conflict of being a young woman' RedThis good girl is naked on the internet...By day, Frankie lives an ordinary life: doting daughter, supportive sister, adoring aunt and (mostly) capable colleague. The only trouble is that she also feels invisible.So by night, Frankie creates her alter ego, uploading risqué photos to a small community of online fans. She becomes sexy, confident and, most importantly, anonymous.That is, until Frankie's two worlds collide and she finds herself thrust into the limelight, along with her secret.Overnight, she becomes both a feminist icon and a target; wanted and worthless; powerful and petrified. Suddenly all eyes are on her....but is she ready to bare it all?Limelight is a funny, touching and provocative tale of sisterhood, sexuality and self-esteem. What would you gain - and lose - by being yourself, instead of who everyone wants you to be?'Daisy Buchanan has that special something that makes a wonderful popular fiction writer - acute observational skills, huge empathy and a perfect balance of light and shade.' Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel'Buchanan works through big themes of power, sexuality, friendship and purpose with truly interesting and recognisable characters' Stylist'Daisy Buchanan brings characters to life like no other writer' Lucy Vine, author of Seven Exes

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'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily Mirror Larry Logan is a small-time TV star with a mile-wide ego. Gutted when his latest show is axed, he's less than impressed when the only work he can get is fronting a fake game show - actually an undercover police sting to entrap criminals.His reluctance evaporates when the show rockets his career back to prime time stardom. And when lovely, shy Stephanie enters his life he thinks he finally has it made.But Larry doesn't know how dangerous those criminals are. He has shafted some dangerous men - and they want revenge. 'A cracking read that will chill you to the bone' Sun on Two-Faced'Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel' Martina Cole on Forget-Me-Not

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This good girl is naked on the internet... By day, Frankie lives an ordinary life: doting daughter, supportive sister, adoring aunt and (mostly) capable colleague. The only trouble is that she also feels invisible. So by night, Frankie creates her alter ego, uploading risqué photos to a small community of online fans. She becomes sexy, confident and, most importantly, anonymous. That is, until Frankie's two worlds collide and she finds herself thrust into the limelight, along with her secret. Overnight, she becomes both a feminist icon and a target; wanted and worthless; powerful and petrified. Suddenly all eyes are on her. ...but is she ready to bare it all? Limelight is a funny, touching and provocative tale of sisterhood, sexuality and self-esteem. What would you gain - and lose - by being yourself, instead of who everyone wants you to be?

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At the heart of fame is the tricky business of image management. Over the last 115 years, the celebrity autobiography has emerged as a popular and useful tool for that project. In Limelight, Katja Lee examines the memoirs of famous Canadian women like L. M. Montgomery, Nellie McClung, the Dionne Quintuplets, Margaret Trudeau, and Shania Twain to trace the rise of celebrity autobiography in Canada and the role gender has played in the rise to fame and in writing about that experience.Arguing that the celebrity autobiography is always negotiating historically specific conditions, Lee charts a history of celebrity in English Canada and the conditions that shape the way women access and experience fame. These contexts shed light on the stories women tell about their lives and the public images they cultivate in their autobiographies. As strategies of self-representation change and the pressure to represent the private life escalates, the celebrity autobiography undergoes distinct shifts - in form, function, and content - during the period examined in this study. Limelight: Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography is the first book to explore the history and development of the celebrity autobiography and offers compelling evidence of the critical role of gender and nation in the way fame is experienced and represented.

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Who has not, in a favored moment, 'stolen the limelight', whether inadvertently or by design? The implications of such an act of display - its illicitness, its verve, its vertiginous reversal of power, its subversiveness - are explored in this book. Narrative crafting and management of such scenarios are studied across canonical novels by Gide, Colette, Mauriac, and Duras, as well as by African Francophone writer Oyono and detective novelist Japrisot. As manipulated within narrative, acts of display position a viewer or reader from whom response (from veneration or desire to repugnance or horror) is solicited; but this study demonstrates that display can also work subversively, destabilising and displacing such a privileged spectator. As strategies of displacement, these scenarios ultimately neutralise and even occult the very subject they so energetically appear to solicit. Powered by gendered tensions, this dynamic of display as displacement works toward purposes of struggle, resistance or repression.

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Eichner was a fixture of 1990s New York City nightlife and served as both its official and unofficial photographer in an era before cellphones and selfies. In this book, readers go beyond the velvet ropes and into the spaces that witnessed some of the decade’s most incredible and sought-after parties. Previously unpublished, these intoxicating full-color photographs capture the over-the- top costumes, non-stop dancing, glitter, confetti, sex, drugs, and music that made 90s New York unlike any other place. Celebrities abound, from Leonardo DiCaprio, Dennis Hopper, and Tupac to Joan Rivers, Michael Musto, and Donald Trump. Eichner takes you to many of the city’s hot spots, including the Limelight, the Tunnel, Webster Hall, Club Expo, and Club USA. Texts by famous club owner Peter Gatien and BuzzFeed photo essay editor Gabriel H. Sanchez offer a historic and cultural perspective on an era when New York City was more affordable and every night saw artists, bankers, drag queens, musicians, and poets reveling together.

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Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a major influence, shaping his style of acting and the films he made, most famously Limelight, which tells the story of a failing variety performer and which evoked painful memories of his own past. Chaplin was horrified to see how performers' lives were ruined when their audience turned against them and he was relieved to exchange the stresses of live performance for screen comedy. Barry Anthony here tells the story of the lives and careers of Chaplin's family and their music-hall circle - from 'dashing' Eva Lester to the great Fred Karno and from Chaplin's parents Hannah Hill and Charles Chaplin to 'The Great Calvero' himself. He reveals the difficult and often-tragic lives of London's variety community in the late-Victorian and Edwardian years, a time of great change in the music hall and entertainment scene, and in doing so sheds important new light on the inspiration behind Chaplin's genius, providing a fascinatingly fresh perspective on this popular cultural icon of the twentieth century.

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ACCENTS A MANUAL FOR ACTING AUDIO ONLINE REVISED EDITION

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Award-winning independent filmmaker Glenn Berggoetz shares all he knows about making a marketable feature film for $2 000. While most books on independent filmmaking talk about how to make a film with a budget of anywhere from $50 000 to half a million dollars or more the reality of the indie film world is that most filmmakers rarely have more than a few thousand dollars at their disposal for making their film. This book is written specifically for those filmmakers and for filmmakers who would typically waste years trying to raise tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to make their film simply because they're not aware that there's another more efficient way to go about it.

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In this essential study of film noir editors Alain Silver and James Ursini select the most significant and influential articles on the movement from their highly respected Film Noir Reader series and assemble them into a single convenient heavily illustrated volume. Still included of course are many rare early articles and such seminal essays as Borde and Chaumeton's Towards a Definition of Film Noir from ÊPanorama du Film Noir AmericainÊ Paul Schrader's Notes on Film Noir and Paint It Black: the Family Tree of the Film Noir by Raymond Durgnat. With newer studies such as Lounge Time by Vivian Sobchack Manufacturing Heroines in Classic Noir Films by Sheri Chinen Biesen and Voices from the Deep: Film Noir as Psychodrama J. P. Telotte this collection of over 30 articles probes this most influential American film movement from varying angles: formalist feminist structuralist sociological and stylistic; narrative-thematic historical and even from the point of view of a pure aficionado. There is something in this volume for every student or devotee of film noir. Plus like the readers that have proven an invaluable tool for academics planning a syllabus it can serve as the most complete core text for any of the myriad of film noir courses taught throughout the world.

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ÊA Quick Guide to Film DirectingÊ provides the reader with a concise and comprehensive overview of this creative and exciting occupation. Written in a fast-paced easy-to-understand fashion the book addresses such topics as what film direction is; the history of the profession; how to become a director; the creative and practical duties and challenges of a film director in the three stages of making a movie (preproduction production and postproduction); working with actors; working with the members of the technical crew (cinematographers editors production designers etc.); the director's support team (assistant director production manager and so on); and the business of being a film director. It also offers a brief look at some of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of the cinema.

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ÊA Quick Guide to Television WritingÊ is the ultimate reference manual to the art craft and business of writing for the small screen. In a series of brief but comprehensive segments the book covers the entire process of creating a professional television script from conceiving the initial idea to polishing the final draft. Covered topics include: the three main types of teleplays; an overview of dramatic storytelling; adapting a dramatic story to the specific demands of television storytelling; the techniques of television storytelling; teleplay style and formatting; how to create a television series; important T.V. writing dos and don'ts: the business of television writing including an overview of the many jobs and positions available to T.V. writers; and how to bring your work to the attention of the industry. Written in smart reader-friendly prose the book is chock full of the vital information helpful tips and keen advice that will help you make your teleplay the best it can be.

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A critic and writer on dance for well over twenty years Barbara Newman has gone in search of teachers and coaches directors choreographers and stagers ä former dancers who had turned the focus of their own experience on others ä to explain the state of ballet today. Among leaders of the dance world the author interviewed were Suki Schorer Helgi Tomasson Mark Morris Violette Verdy and 14 other artists whose work she knew and respected most of them active outside of New York and London. Newman is not interested in dance as an aesthetic abstraction and the people who answered her questions were not speaking theoretically. On the contrary her speculation and their responses bring an elusive subject down to earth illuminating a process that reaches back in history and forward to today though its dreams are of a world no one can imagine.

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A star of two well-remembered television series The FBI and 77 Sunset Strip Efrem Zimbalist Jr. looks back on the many different roads he has traveled in his lifetime and recreates his most memorable experiences in the prose of a true stylist. The son of two legendary musical talents the violinist Efrem Zimbalist and the operatic soprano Alma Gluck Efrem Jr. grew up on an estate in the Connecticut countryside. Long before he was a recognized actor Zimbalist broke a show business barrier as coproducer of Gian Carlo Menotti's operatic double bill ÊThe MediumÊ and ÊThe TelephoneÊ on Broadway. Its critical and (surprising) commercial success led to Zimbalist's coproduction of Menotti's next opera ÊThe ConsulÊ also on Broadway and also with gratifying results including the Pulitzer Prize.

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ÊThe Complete Guide to Writing Producing and Directing a Low-Budget Short FilmÊ is a comprehensive step-by-step overview of how to complete and promote a low-budget short film. It begins with how to write a short script keeping in mind the goal of shooting it in one or at most two days. It discusses how to finalize your script by getting feedback and then preparing it for production through doing a scene breakdown and possibly a storyboard. It describes how to direct the film yourself or work with a director audition the actors and cast the short plan for and participate in the shoot and work with an editor to finish your film. Finally it discusses how to get your film shown including entering it in festivals and concludes with an extensive list of resources and references including books articles script and storyboard software conferences expos festivals and more.

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This book isn't about methods. It's not another how-to book. It's a revelation: a shared collection of actors' trade secrets ä tricks of the trade divulged by professionals in an experimental workshop that lasted nearly a year. You'll discover what actually sells you more than talent. You'll find out how powerful body language can be and even how influential color is in the audition room. You'll learn what keeps a photo on a casting director's desk and what keeps a casting director on your side. In short you'll have 101 innovative ways to get what you've always wanted: more of the parts you deserve.

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This newest edition will track the form's evolution from such 1970s reinventions as ÊCount Yorga VampireÊ and ÊBlaculaÊ ÊThe HungerÊ and ÊVampire's KissÊ in the Eighties ÊInterview with the VampireÊ ÊBram Stoker's DraculaÊ and the ÊBladeÊ series in the Nineties through Ê30 Days of NightÊ ÊI Am LegendÊ and the ÊUnderworldÊ series in the first decade of the 21st century. All these films plus celebrated international examples such as ÊThirstÊ and ÊLet the Right One InÊ and the hit television series ÊBuffy the Vampire SlayerÊ ÊNew AmsterdamÊ ÊAngelÊ ÊThe Vampire DiariesÊ and ÊTrue BloodÊ are covered in this long-awaited completely revised expanded and redesigned fourth edition that follows the vampire figures both male and female through the millennium and beyond.

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Despite a glut of black and white filters the digital revolution in videography has all but abandoned the art science beauty and power of cinematic lighting that literally illuminated the Golden Age of motion pictures. ÊFilm Noir Light and ShadowÊ explores an era before CGI ä a time when every photon mattered and the lighting of a set served a grander purpose than simply rendering its subjects visible. Edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini the duo behind numerous critically acclaimed studies of other aspects of noir this anthology presents a series of essays that examine the visual style of the filmmakers of cinema's classic period. Some focus on individual pictures or directors; others discuss elements of style or sub-groups of movies within the movement. All are sharply focused on what makes the noir phenomenon unique in American ä and global ä cinematic history. Aside from highlighting the innovative work of its editors and their late colleague Robert Porfirio ÊFilm Noir Light and ShadowÊ also shares its light with a bevy of contributors who have written and edited their own books on the subject ä a list of luminaries that includes Sheri Chinen Biesen Shannon Clute and Richard Edwards Julie Grossman Delphine Letort Robert Miklitsch R. Barton Palmer Homer Pettey Marlisa Santos Imogen Sara Smith and Tony Williams. As befits the topic this volume is lavishly illustrated with 500 images that capture the richness and breadth of the classic period's imagery making it an ideal companion for students of the genre film historians sprocket fiends and the retrospectively inclined.

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Originally conceived as a workbook for young directors ÊThe Little Blue Book for FilmmakersÊ has become a handbook for easy reference with all the information a student director/actor/producer needs to create a film from inception through production to sales distribution and exhibition.ÞThe book discusses issues faced by all beginning filmmakers with a historical perspective that explains problems and solutions that reach back to the invention of movies at the turn of the last century and stretch forward to include new digital technology and the popularization of videography as global self-expression. A valuable addition to the shelves of all film school instructors who've not had years of practical experience working in the trade it's also a syllabus in itself and can be the foundation for a course schedule. More important it's something every film student will want to own as a reference and guide.

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Jerome Hines has interviewed 40 singers a speech therapist and a throat specialist to provide this invaluable collection of advice for all singers. This collection includes the commentary of Licia Albanese Franco Corelli Placido Domingo Nicolai Gedda Marilyn Horne Sherrill Milnes Birgit Nilsson Luciano Pavarotti Rose Ponselle Beverly Sills Joan Sutherland and many others.Þ Probably the best book on the subject. ÞÊPublishers WeeklyÊ

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This book offers 18 of the best walking tours you'd ever want to take of the greatest venues of movie scenes in New York City. In one volume Katz updates the two best-selling Limelight Editions guidebooks ÊManhattan on FilmÊ and ÊManhattan on Film 2Ê to include films released over the past six years as well as changes to New York City neighborhoods especially lower Manhattan. Each tour is illustrated with photos from each film shot along its route and includes maps and travel tips. No tour takes more than two hours. A list of the films with page references provides an easy guide for those who want to quickly look up their favorite movies.

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