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"No star burned more ferociously than Judy Garland. And nobody witnessed Garland's fierce talent at closer range than Stevie Phillips. During the Mad Men era, Stevie Philips was a young woman muscling her way into the manscape of Manhattan's glittering office towers. After a stint as a secretary, she began working for Freddie Fields and David Begelman at Music Corporation of America (MCA) under the glare of legendary über-agent Lew Wasserman. When...
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"While working at the Newark Star-Ledger, Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall created a popular column debating the merits of then-current television. Eventually they went on to successful careers as critics elsewhere, but the debate raged on and now comes to an epic conclusion in TV (THE BOOK). Alan and Matt have established The Pantheon of top TV shows using a complex, obsessively all-encompassing ranking system by which to order and stack them...
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In this lively, carefully argued, and well-documented book, Hyde brings the past to bear on present matters, shedding fresh light on everything from the Human Genome Project to Bob Dylan's musical root, revealing a vision of how to reclaim the commonwealth of art and ideas that we were meant to inherit.--Book jacket.
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Beautiful idols volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
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When a Hollywood it-girl goes missing amid dangerous secrets, Layla, Aster and Tommy struggle to clear their names and identify the source of sinister messages while the tabloids explode with rumors.
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My weirder school volume 12
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For A.J. and the gang at Ella Mentry School, weirdness and fun are all part of the routine. In this twelfth book in the outrageously funny My Weirder School series, Principal Klutz hires a talent coach, Mrs. Lane, to help the kids prepare for the Ella Mentry School talent show. But what will A.J.'s talent be? And what happens when Mrs. Lane tries to steal the show?
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"Henry Fonda's performances--in The Grapes of Wrath, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Lady Eve, 12 Angry Men, On Golden Pond--helped define "American" in the twentieth century. He worked with movie masters from Ford and Sturges to Hitchcock and Leone. He was a Broadway legend. He fought in World War II and was loved the world over. Yet much of his life was rage and struggle. Why did Fonda marry five times--tempestuously to actress Margaret Sullavan, tragically...
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"There are 83 copies of the First Folio in a vault beneath Capitol Hill, the world's largest collection. Well over 150 Indian movies are based on Shakespeare's plays-more than in any other nation. If current trends continue, there will soon be more high-school students reading The Merchant of Venice in Mandarin Chinese than in early-modern English. Why did this happen-and how? Ranging ambitiously across four continents and 400 years, Worlds Elsewhere...
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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...
11) Dance challenge
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Thea Stilton. Mouseford Academy volume 4
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The Thea Sisters are thrilled about the new performing arts program being offered at Mouseford Academy. That is, until they meet the head of the department--the demanding and strict Professor Ratyshnikov. The mouselets will have to audition just to get into her class! On top of the that famouse ballerina is an old friend of Headmaster de Mousus, but the two no longer get along. It's up to the Thea Sisters to find out why. -- Back cover.
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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...
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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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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...
17) Psicología para creativos: Primeros auxilios para conservar el ingenio y sobrevivir en el trabajo
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Cumplir con los plazos de un proyecto, estar a la altura de las expectativas del cliente, trabajar en casa de forma disciplinada, trabajar por cuenta ajena sin perder la motivación, lograr jornadas laborales que no se extiendan hasta altas horas de la madrugada, priorizar y ordenar acertadamente el trabajo pendiente... ¿Eres diseñador, ilustrador o creativo y te has enfrentado alguna vez a cualquiera de estas situaciones? Los psicólogos definen...
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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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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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Get the Summary of Ingrid Fetell Lee's Joyful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In "Joyful," Ingrid Fetell Lee explores the transformative power of color and light on human emotions and behaviors. She recounts how Edi Rama, the former mayor of Tirana, Albania, revitalized the city by painting buildings in bright colors, leading to positive changes in the community. Lee connects this to the universal happiness bright...
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