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Bob Dylan and Philosophy: It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Thinking)
by Peter Vernezze Carl J. PorterIn Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan's ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial attitudes toward religion.
The Making of the Wizard of Oz
by Aljean HarmetzThe classic work on everything Oz, reissued to coincide with the 60th anniversary re-release of "The Wizard of Oz" in December 1998.
The Portable Radio in American Life
by Michael Brian SchifferHistory of the development of the portable radio over the years.
Annabel the Actress, Camping It Up
by Ellen ConfordAnnabel is dead set on becoming a famous actress. When the camp play calls for auditions, she is only too happy to try out for the big part. Annabel clinches it with her blood-curdling screams, and she thinks this gig just might be her big break. But soon she learns there's more to the acting life than fame and fortune. And when a garden snake worms his way onstage opening night, it's up to Annabel to make sure that the show must go on!
On Stage & In Shadows: a career memoir
by Marie Wallace"Broadway veteran Marie Wallace provides an intimate. informative, often humorous look behind the scenes of some stage classics. And her Dark Shadows fans will learn fun new facts about the Gothic soap opera."
Grihadaha
by Sharat Chandra ChattopadhyayAnother classic of Sharat Chandra's novels. An intense story of friendship, love and betrayal. A story depicting the bygone era and the society of the times. Many things are still relevant as the human nature never changes. A must read for the lovers of literature and a soup for soul.
A Girl and Five Brave Horses
by Sonora Carver Elizabeth LandSonora Carver, when she was 16 never dreamed that she would be in show business doing an act that was amazing and exciting. But when she ran into Dr. Carver, and saw the Diving Horses act, she fell in love. Sonora had a great life traveling the country, riding and doing shows, and loving the horses she worked with. Klataw, John the Baptist, Juda, Red Lips, Snow, and Lightning, all were her family and her friends. Then one day Red Lips did a very dramatic nose dive and Sonora hit the water with her eyes open and face first. Her life changed after that day and this is her story. This book was the inspiration for the movie "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken".
Movie Trivia Quiz Book
by The Editors at Ventura BooksHundreds of questions (and answers) about movies made before 1981.
Film Genere Holywood And Beyond
by Barry LangfordThe overall approach of Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond situates genres in their historical - primarily, cultural and (film) industrial contexts; the overarching context of the book is the transition from the ‘classical’ Hollywood system to a ‘post-classical’ mode that extends to the present day. In making this separation, I neither explicitly challenge nor endorse arguments about the extent to which ‘post-classical’ Hollywood represents a qualita¬tively different set of visual stylistics in Hollywood film.
M*A*S*H Goes to London
by Richard Hooker William E. ButterworthFurther misadventures of Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan and Hawkeye Pierce, only this time in Merry Old England.
The Winner!
by Florence Aquino KaufmanThe Winner! was first performed in 1965 at the Clinton Youth Center in New York City. Since then, it has toured schools, churches, and community centers, mostly in the New York area. The cast has always been multi-racial and consisted of amateurs who have participated in the Knickerbocker Creative Theatre workshops
Requiem for a Heavyweight and Other Plays
by Reginald Rose Jerome Ross Herbert Gardner Rod SerlingIncludes; Tragedy in a Temporary Town by Reginald Rose, The White Cane by Jerome Ross, The Elevator by Herbert Gardner and Requiem for a Heavyweight by Rod Serling.
Twelve Angry Men and Other Plays
by Paddy Chayefsky Carroll Howe Budd Schulberg Reginald RoseThis Scope Play Series book has four plays: The Big Deal by Paddy Chayefsky, The Long Fall by Carroll Howe, On the Waterfront by Budd Schulberg, and Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose.
The Old Time Radio Book
by Ted Sennett"This book is a collection of articles, quizzes, and photographs which attempts to recapture radio's golden years and provide entertainment for those who lived through them. The articles deal with many of the popular programs and versatile people of old-time radio; the quizzes should challenge even the longest memories, and the photographs- well, there were actual people behind all those voices, and they are seen here doing their jobs and doing them well." Bookshare offers many other books about old-time radio.
Jack Benny: An Intimate Biography
by Irving A. FeinFein joined Benny in 1947 as publicity and advertising director of his company, which was sold to CBS. Fein then became executive producer of Benny's programs, winning an Emmy in 1961.
Japan: It's Now All Raw Fish
by Don MaloneyHumorist Don Maloney describes life as a Westener living in Japan.
The Church Cantatas of J. S. Bach
by Alec RobertsonFor nearly every Sunday from 1723 to 1728, J S Bach composed and his young orphan boy-students performed, a half-hour cantata in the Lutheran church services of the Saint Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany. A cantata usually began with a chorus, contained recitatives (narrative) and arias (meditations) and closed with a hymn (chorale). Bach's cantatas contain more than 1500 movements, filling 67 compact discs in today's recordings. They contain dozens of magnificent choruses and hundreds of deeply-felt and spectacular arias and chorales. Alec Robertson analyzes 173 of Bach's roughly 210 extant cantatas. He organizes them according to the Lutheran church year, starting with Advent and ending with the Reformation Festival of October 30. He introduces each Sunday and feast day with the Biblical citations which were usually the basis for the cantatas. He discusses each movement, even listing the instrumentation. Bach's cantatas are at the pinnacle of western classical music. Not only do they give spiritual nourishment to Christians and non-Christians but they are studied the world over by amateur and professional musicians for their penetrating pictorialization, harmonizations, counterpoint and beautiful melodies. They contain great choruses, arias for all types of singers, plus some duets and trios. Whether you are an amateur or serious musician, this book will help you to understand and appreciate these works. Cantatas not discussed in this book are those intended for special occasions such as weddings, funerals, birthdays of prominent persons, civic events such as town council inaugurations, those with secular themes and those originally included in the Bach canon but which modern scholarship has determined not to have been his compositions (de-established). Accordingly, the following cantatas are not discussed: 11, 15 (deest.), 29, 50, 53 (deest), 54, 71, 97, 106, 117, 118, 119, 120, 131, 141 (deest.), 142 (deest.), 150, 160 (deest.), 189 (deest.), 191, 192, 193, 195, 196, 197, 198 and 200-215. In this braille file, German words are shown using Braille grade 2 English contractions. If you download the DAISY file, you will get the German words uncontracted. Note: an excellent internet source for all things Bach cantatas is http://bach-cantatas.com/ .
Brighton Beach Memoirs
by Neil SimonFourteen-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin, Nora. Eugene's comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty, illness and the growing Nazi threat to relatives in Europe.
The Lucille Ball Story
by James GregoryHer life in public, in private, her triumphs and her troubles, with a never-before-published interview with the famous actress.
Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War
by Howard KurtzDan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings: They were on a first-name basis with the country for a generation, leading viewers through moments of triumph and tragedy. But now that a new generation has succeeded them, the once-glittering job of network anchor seems unmistakably tarnished. In an age of instantaneous Internet news, cable echo chambers and iPod downloads, who really needs the evening news? And, by extension, who needs Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and Charlie Gibson?
Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner
by Nina MunkA carefully explained business debacle.
Sex, Death and Money
by Gore Vidal26 articles by Vidal on a wide range of subjects - pornography, television, several fellow writers...
Images of Blind and Visually Impaired People in the Movies, 1913-1985: An Annotated Filmography with Notes
by Wendy Erickson Diane WolfeListed in this book are the titles and other information about movies that include characters who are blind or visually impaired.