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Top 10 Classic Hollywood Action Movies.
1.Speed A morally ambivalent cop must remove a bomb planted under a bus that’s triggered to explode when its speed drops below 50 mph. 2.The Die Hard series A New York City cop gets trapped in a Los Angeles high-rise occupied by terrorists on Christmas Eve. While in its sequel Die Harder, New York City policeman John McClaine tries to stop an elite commando group from kidnapping a big-time drug dealer and taking him to the Caribbean. In Die Hard With A Vengeance,things aren’t going well for John McClane: his marriage is breaking up, he’s been suspended from the force and now the brother of Hans Gruber, the German terrorist he threw off a building a few years back, is threatening to blow up a school if McClane doesn’t run around the city solving his demeaning and dangerous puzzles. With the help of Zeus, a Harlem electrician, McClane discovers Gruber’s plot to distract the NYPD while he clears the federal bank of billions of dollars of gold. d.An attack on the vulnerable United States computer infrastructure begins to shut down the entire nation. The mysterious figure behind the shattering scheme has figured out every digital angle – but he never figured an old-fashioned, “analog” fly-in-the-ointment: John McClane. 3. Fist Blood After being arrested for a crime which he did not commit, a Green Beret survivor of the Vietnam War begins having terrible nightmares. This gripping, action-packed tale demonstrates the tragic psychological consequences of armed struggle. A classic action movie-war film, RAMBO spawned 2 successful sequels. RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II (1985) RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II (1985John Rambo who is now in prison after the ruckus he caused in the previous movie, is approached by his former superior, Colonel Trautman. It seems that the government’s looking for American MIA’s in Vietnam, that are still being held there. Now the man in charge of the mission, Murdock, tells Rambo that his job is to go in, confirm their presence by taking photographs. Rambo senses that Murdock is not what he seems. Rambo goes in takes the photographs, but also takes one of the prisoners with him. When Murdock learns of this, he orders the chopper that’s suppose to pick him up to pull out. Rambo is then captured. Obviously Murdock’s desire was not to find anyone. Trautman warns him that Rambo’s going to come after him. And that’s what Rambo’s going to do but first he is going after the Vietnamese and Russians, who brutalized him. 4. Con Air When a group of the most dangerous and notorious prisoners in the United States penal system are transferred to a new super-maximum security facility, parolee Cameron Poe hitches a ride on their Con Air transport flight only to find himself embroiled in a meticulously planned mid-air hijacking masterminded by Cyrus “The Virus” Grissom. 5. Transformers The Earth is caught in the middle of an intergalactic war between two races of robots, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, which are able to change into a variety of objects, including cars, trucks, planes and other technological creations. 6. Terminator Terminator: In the year 2029, the rulers of Earth, to ensure their success, decide to reshape the future by changing the past. They send The Terminator back in time to destroy Sarah Connor, who doesn’t realize the awesome role her unborn child will play in the decades to come. Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The sequel to the sci-fi adventure about a near-indestructible cyborg. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines A decade has passed since John Connor helped Judgement Day and save mankind from mass destruction. Now, 25, Connor lives “off the grid”–no home, no credit cards, no cell phone and no job. Connor has no record of his existence. There is no way he can be traced by Skynet–the highly developed network of machines that once tried to kill him and wage war on humanity. Until, out of the shadows of the future steps the T-X, Skynet’s most sophisticated cyborg killing machine yet. Sent back through time to complete the job left unfinished by her predecessor, namely the T-1000, the determined T-X is a machine that is as relentless, as is her human guise beautiful. Now Connor’s only hope for survival is to annex with the Terminator, T-101, his mysterious former assassin. Together they must triumph over the technologically superior T-X and forestall the looming threat of Judgement Day–or face the apocalypse and the fall of civilization as we know it. 7. Mr. & Mrs. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Smith” – A sexy, action-packed thrill ride about a bored married couple who discover that they are enemy assassins. John and Jane Smith are an ordinary suburban couple with an ordinary, lifeless suburban marriage. But each of them has a secret — they are actually both legendary assassins working for competing organizations. When the truth comes out, John and Jane end up in each other’s cross-hairs. John and Jane Smith are an ordinary suburban couple with an ordinary, lifeless suburban marriage . But each is hiding something the other would kill to know: Mr. and Mrs. Smith are actually highly paid, incredibly efficient assassins, and they work for competing organizations. Mr. and Mrs. Smith discover a new source of excitement in their marriage, when they’re hired to assassinate each other … and that’s when the real fun starts. The result is the ultimate action spectacle, as Mr. and Mrs. Smith put their formidable skills to work and their marriage to the ultimate test. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie star in MR. AND MRS. SMITH, a sexy action adventure, filled with globetrotting action, state-of-the-art special effects and incredible stunts. It’s also a comedy with extraordinary characters having some ordinary problems. 8. Face/Off Relentless FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must go dangerously undercover to investigate the location of a lethal biological weapon planted by his arch rival, the sadistic terrorist-for-hire Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). After undergoing a radical surgical procedure, Archer literally “borrows” Troy’s face and identity to carry out his mission. But things go awry when Troy, emerging from a coma, transforms into Archer and wreaks havoc upon his life, both at work and at home. As the bomb continues to tick and the tension mounts, it becomes a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse as both Archer and Troy, ironically trapped in their enemy’s body, try to save face their own. 9. The Rock A group of U.S. marines, under command of a renegade general, take over Alcatraz and threat San Francisco Bay with biological weapons. A chemical weapons specialist and the only man to have ever escaped from the Rock are the only ones who can prevent chaos. 10. True Lies. Harry Tasker leads a double life. At work he is a government agent with a license to do just about anything, while at home he pretends to be a dull computer salesman. He is on the trail of stolen nuclear weapons that are in the hands of fanatic terrorists when something more important comes up. Harry finds his wife is seeing another man because she needs some adventure in her life. Harry decides to give it to her, juggling persuit of terrorists on one hand and an adventure for his wife on the other while showing he can Tango all at once.
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Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Vol. 6 $27.97 Genre: AnimationRating: NRRelease Date: 21-OCT-2008Media Type: DVD… |
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It Came From Outer Space $5.96 A meteor crashes in the desert near a small Arizona town, and research scientist John Putnam (Richard Carlson) thinks it’s a spaceship, but no one will believe him except his girlfriend, Ellen (Barbara Rush). Strange evidence begins to back up his theory however, from the strange behavior of some of the locals, to the slime trails, the ghostly noises in the phone lines, and the apparitions of hide… |
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Londons Times Funny Panel Hollywood Cartoons – Say It Ain t So Joe – Light Switch Covers – 2 plug outlet cover $13.95 Say It Ain t So Joe Light Switch Cover is new and handcrafted utilizing unique process resulting in a stunning high gloss ceramic-like finish. SET OF MATCHING SCREWS IS INCLUDED giving it a perfect finishing touch. Made of durable metal material…. |
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& Then It Got Ugly $8.71 Back with their first studio album in 12 years, Rhino Bucket tips its hat to the boogie, rock roots of Bon Scott-era AC/DC with ragged vocals, pounding riffs and grooving back beats that proves them to be a vibrant and vital rock band at the top of their game.Recorded at Sound Face Studios in Hollywood and produced by Stefen Sigerson, And Then It Got Ugly is every bit as cookin’ as their past efforts. One listen to tracks like Hammer & Nail, Invisible, and Monkey Boy Highway, and you’ll realize Rhino Bucket are back and stronger than ever. |
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‘Pulp Fiction’ Movie Memorabilia $43.29 LGT1169: The drama and tension in ‘Pulp Fiction’ is palpable. This Tarantino masterpiece is a classic and now you can bring the fiction into your home. The ‘Pulp Fiction’ Movie Memorabilia picture is a great piece of wall art that will bring a touch of Hollywood to any room. It features photos of John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson from the movie in addition to a small sized advertisement from the film’s release. Its medium size makes it great for the office, a game room or even a living room! Features: -2 Color photographs from the movie -Placed on cream background with brown trim -Set in high-quality wooden brown frame -Overall Dimensions: 14 x 11 |
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100 Film Noirs $19.95 This BFI Screen Guide provides an accessible, richly-illustrated introduction to 100 key noir films, from Hollywood classics such as Double Indemnity to more recent titles such as Sin City, as well as examples from Europe, Japan, India and Mexico, together with an editorial overview of the genre and its key debates. |
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100 Westerns $11.62 Addresses the perennial appeal of the Western, exploring its 19th century popular culture, and its relationship to the economic structure of Hollywood. This work considers the defining features of the Western and traces its main cycles, from the epic Westerns of the 1920s and singing cowboys of the 1930s to the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s. |
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15 Minutes of Fame $0.01 How ordinary people become famous. Everyone gets a shot at the spotlight. Since its launch in 2005, YouTube has been a hub for users to upload and share their most interesting, intimate, exciting, or embarrassing moments with viewers all over the world. But how does one take advantage of YouTubeas far-reaching resources and get a video seen? Here, Hollywood producer Frederick Levy addresses the interests and needs of the casual YouTube user as well as the serious web enthusiasts and video-makers who are looking to explore YouTube and its social and networking aspects in greater depth. Loaded with advice from established Hollywood gurus whoave abeen there, done that, a this is the must-have guide for the wired and connected audiences of YouTube, MySpace, and Metacafe. Readers will learn how to: a[ Upload videos from a mobile phone a[ Capture video directly to the site from a Webcam a[ Embed videos into personal web pages or blogs, and much, much more! |
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2007 Hollywood Reporter Blu Book Production Directory $44.6 The Hollywood Reporter Blu-Book Production Directory is a comprehensive directory for professionals in the production and post-production industries. Major tabbed sections are devoted to camera, lights and sounds, location and transportation services, production equipment and services, post-production services, special effects, major studios and production companies, and distribution and marketing services. The directory also contains a special section on premier below-the-line craft professionals and the most complete and detailed stage charts (including New York stages) to be found in any directory of its kind. |
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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (Eco-Friendly Packaging) $4.58 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection is the most successful greatest hits series in Canada. Since its launch in 1999, the series has sold over 7 million albums and has grown to include over 400 titles. The albums in the 20th Century Masters series feature both single artist and multi-artist compilations and cover genres from jazz to rock, from gospel to soul and much more.These packages are perfect for first-time listeners who want to experience a new artist or sound at a great low price. With all the different types of music and artists represented throughout the line, we know you will find something that you will absolutely have to own!Track Listing1. Celebration2. Jungle Boogie3. Ladies Night4. Joanna5. Get Down on It6. Hollywood Swinging7. Cherish8. Fresh9. Too Hot10. Take My Heart (You Can Have It if You Want It)11. Big Fun |
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3D Toons: Creative 3D Design for Cartoonists and Animators $5.06 back cover] 3D Toons shows you how to master cartoon 3D graphics and animation Read the history of traditional and 3D cartoons. Discover how 3D Toons are put together. Learn the conventions, styles, and characters that populate the 3D cartoon world. Develop your own cartoons and characters, from original concept to a basic working model. Understand the secrets of modeling, texturing and rigging cartoon characters. Learn how to breathe life into your 3D Toons by creating characters that walk, talk, and move in ways that convey mood and emotion. Shoot your 3D Toons, using lighting, composition, and the secrets of the cinema to create professional quality stills and shorts. Explore different 3D Toon styles and see how traditional animation techniques still have a place in the digital world. Browse the 3D Toon Gallery, a showcase of the best in 3D toons, with thoughts and advice from the artists who created them. [flap copy] A new breed of animation is grabbing headlines. From Toy Story through Shrek to The Incredibles, 3D cartoons are becoming the hottest thing in Hollywood, and they’re also taking over TV. While big-name feature films take years and cost millions to make, amateurs with talent and imagination can take part in this exciting new art form. Using a standard PC and the right 3D software, small studios and independent artists are making their own 3D toons–and here’s the book that shows how you too can join them. Its authors–successful professionals with over a decade of experience in the field–reveal the secrets of how 3D characters and sets are brought to life incartoons, graphic novels, and computer-animated short films. Even if you’re a newcomer, you’ll benefit from their clear, non-technical discussions of body and facial design, texturing, rigging, lighting, and posing. Beautifully illustrated spreads take you from the first steps to the final work. |
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A Brief History of the End of the World $3.8 Most people’s concept of the ‘end of the world’ comes from the book of Revelation. Today, there are an estimated 25 million Christian fundamentalists in the US who believe it will come with the ‘Rapture;’ others point to an ecological catastrophe, the AIDS pandemic, nuclear and biological warfare. With the benefit of a vast historical canvas, Pearson examines both apocalyptic theory (biblical literature, art, and popular culture) and practice (politics, cults, war, and revolution), from its Biblical beginnings to the Branch Davidians, via the Vikings, the French Revolution, the Pilgrim Fathers, Hitler’s Apocalyptic rhetoric, asteroids, Hollywood and suicide bombers. Pearson’s illuminating study shows how our pictures of the end of the world have evoked and converged–and are still very much on the agenda. |
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A Companion to Michael Haneke $204.95 A Companion to Michael Haneke is a definitive collection of newly-commissioned work that covers Haneke’’s body of work in its entirety, catering to students and scholars of Haneke at a time when interest in the director and his work is soaring. Introduces one of the most important directors to have emerged on the global cinema scene in the past fifteen yearsCaters to students and scholars of Haneke at a time when interest in the director and his work is soaringIncludes exclusive interviews with Michael Haneke, including an interview discussion of his most recent film, The White Ribbon Considers themes, topics, and subjects that have formed the nucleus of the director’’s life’’s work: the fate of European cinema, Haneke in Hollywood, pornography, alienation, citizenship, colonialism, and the gaze of surveillanceFeatures critical examinations of La Pianiste, Time of the Wolf, Three Paths to the Lake and Cache, amongst others |
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A Fiddler’s Tale: How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me $26.95 This fascinating memoir, written by one of the greatest American violinists of the twentieth century, recounts an extraordinary life in music. Once called by the New York Times a violinist’s violinist and a musician’s musician, Louis Kaufman was born in 1905 in Portland, Oregon. He studied violin with Franz Kneisl at New York’s Institute of Musical Art. He was the original violist of the Musical Art Quartet (1926-1933) and won the Naumburg Award in 1928, the year of his American solo recital debut in New York’s Town Hall. During these early years, he played chamber music with Pablo Casals, Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Gregor Piatigorsky, and Efrem Zimbalist, among others. After performing the violin solos for Ernst Lubitsch’s 1934 film The Merry Widow, Kaufman became the most sought after violin soloist in Hollywood, playing in some 500 films, including Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, The Diary of Anne Frank, Wuthering Heights, The Grapes of Wrath, and Spartacus. He worked closely with Robert Russell Bennett, Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Miklos Rozsa, Max Steiner, Franz Waxman, and Victor Young. Extraordinary as it seems today, Kaufman was largely responsible for bringing the once-forgotten music of Antonio Vivaldi to its current popularity worldwide among both classical musicians and the general population of music lovers. |
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A Guide to Historic Hollywood $7.98 Nestled between Palm Beach’s exclusive boutiques and the lavish lifestyle of Miami’s South Beach rests the charming city of Hollywood, Florida. The charismatic land developer J.W. Young first envisioned this prosperous and well-appointed town in the early twentieth century, and within in a few short decades carved an elegant resort town from a veritable wilderness. Divided into two parts, A Guide to Historic Hollywood by local historian Joan Mickelson?the daughter of a city founder?provides a history of Hollywood’s formative years as well as a guide through the historic streets of this beautiful Florida city. From the roaring twenties to the post-war fifties, Mickelson highlights the buildings, people and events vital to the history of this now thriving coastal landmark. A Guide to Historic Hollywood brings to life Hollywood’s characters and pioneers, which have shaped the city through its long and diverse history. |
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A Guide to the Must See Places in the World: The Districts, Museums, Parks, and Other Attractions in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada $18.75 Vancouver is a coastal city located in British Columbia, Canada. The city attracts many tourists for its cultural diversity, its great restaurants, and very dynamic lifestyle. Hollywood has also migrated that way as many movies are now being filmed in Vancouver. The book focuses on Museums, parks, bridges, and districts to visit while you are in that area.This book was created and put into distribution by a team of dedicated editors using open source and proprietary publishing tools. One of the advantages to the way we publish books is that our content is up to date and written by dedicated subject matter experts from all over the world. By adding a layer of screening and curatorial attention to this material, we are able to offer a book that is relevant, informative and unique. |
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A Seminole Legend: The Life of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper $24.95 With A Seminole Legend, Betty Mae Jumper joins the ranks of Native American women who are coming forward to tell their life experiences. This collaboration between Jumper and Patsy West, an ethnohistorian who contributes general tribal history, is a rare and authentic account of a pioneering Florida Seminole family. It will take its place in Seminole literature, historical and anthropological studies, Florida history, women’s history, and Native American studies.Betty Mae Tiger was born in 1923 to a Seminole Indian mother and a French trapper father, a fair-skinned half-breed who was nearly put to death at age five by tribal medicine men. Her inspiring autobiography is the story of the most decorated member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida — a political activist, former nurse, and alligator wrestler, who today has her own web site.Jumper is also a beloved story-teller, renowned for passing along tribal legends. In this book she describes her family’s early conversion to Christianity and discusses such topics as miscegenation, war and atrocities, the impact of encroaching settlement on traditional peoples, and the development of the Dania/Hollywood Reservation. She became the first formally educated Florida Seminole, attending a government boarding school in Cherokee, North Carolina, where at age 14 she learned to speak English. |
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A Star Is Corn: An Edible Film Odyssey $0.01 An irreverent and wildly funny take on the movies, featuring hilarious vegetable sculptures that resemble characters from Tinseltown’s best films. It is about time that vegetables get some credit–movie credits, that is. A Star is Corn takes us on a tour of Hollywood with its more than 30 elaborate vegetable sculptures placed in scenes and movie posters from Pinocchio, Titanic, The Elephant Man, and Star Wars, just to name a few. Who would have thought that a new potato with eggplant and redish features would be a dead ringer for Marlon Brando’s character in Apocalypse Now? Or that a honeydew melon could be the spitting image of Dr. Evil? |
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A Thing That Is $14.95 Robert Lax is one of the most original and at important American poets of this century. His work is firmly rooted in the American avant garde tradition, a generation of artists that includes John Cage, William Burroughs and the Abstract Expressionist painters. Much as Bowles chose Tangier, Lax chose the Greek islands. After working in the 40s and 50s as an editor for The New Yorker, a film critic for Time and a Hollywood screenwriter, Robert Lax left the U.S. for permanent residence abroad, where for 35 years he has written the abstract poetry that has won him acclaim among an ever-widening circle of artists and writers around the world. A early and continuing practitioner of abstract, minimalist and experimental concrete poetry, he has not wavered in his vision of creating a body of work with a purity that is radical in its asceticism and singleness of purpose. This is his first volume of all new poems to be published in America since the 60s. |
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A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago $15 In 1921, Ben Hecht wrote a column for the Chicago Daily News that his editor called journalism extraordinary; journalism that invaded the realm of literature. Hecht’’s collection of sixty-four of these pieces, illustrated with striking pen drawings by Herman Rosse, is a timeless caricature of urban American life in the jazz age. From the glittering opulence of Michigan Avenue to the darkest ruminations of an escaped convict, from captains of industry to immigrant day laborers, Hecht captures 1920s Chicago in all its furor, intensity, and absurdity. The hardboiled audacity and wit that became Hecht’’s signature as Hollywood’’s most celebrated screen-writer are conspicuous in these vignettes. Most of them are comic and sardonic, some strike muted tragic or somber atmospheric notes. . . . The best are timeless character sketches that have taken on an added interest as shards of social history. –L. S. Klepp, Voice Literary Supplement |
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AF Lighting 6740-6H Candice Olson Pendent $999 XAF1078: Reflecting the glamour of Hollywood in its heyday, the Garbo 6 Light Pendant is clearly as stylish as it is practical. The beautiful pleated shade is given definition by mirror accents. With its tiered effect, this pendant ceiling light is comfortably contemporary. Features: -Six light pendant. -Candice Olson Design. -Garbo collection. -Black poly silk shade. -Three adjustable poles. -Hard wire. -Antique mirror. -Assembly required. Specifications: -Accommodates (6) 40W candelabra base bulb. -Manufacturer provides 90 days limited warranty. -Overall dimensions: 29 H x 30.5 D. |
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Ablutions $13.95 In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with the cast of variously pathological regulars. But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to serve himself more often than his customers, and the moments he lives outside the bar become more and more painful: he loses his wife, his way, himself. Trapped by his habits and his loneliness, he realizes he will not survive if he doesn”t break free. And so he hatches a terrible, necessary plan of escape and his only chance for redemption. Step into Ablutions and step behind the bar, below rock bottom, and beyond the everyday take on storytelling for a brilliant, new twist on the classic tale of addiction and its consequences. |
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Ablutions $1.32 In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with the cast of variously pathological regulars. But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to serve himself more often than his customers, and the moments he lives outside the bar become more and more painful: he loses his wife, his way, himself. Trapped by his habits and his loneliness, he realizes he will not survive if he doesn”t break free. And so he hatches a terrible, necessary plan of escape and his only chance for redemption. Step into Ablutions and step behind the bar, below rock bottom, and beyond the everyday take on storytelling for a brilliant, new twist on the classic tale of addiction and its consequences. |
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Ace in the Hole $39.95 One of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker, Academy Award-winner Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole is legendary for both its cutting social critique and its status as a hard-to-find cult classic. Kirk Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter caught in dead-end Albuquerque who happens upon the story of a lifetime-and will do anything to ensure he gets the scoop. Wilder’s follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a no-holds-barred expose that anticipated the rise of the American media circus. |
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Acting for the Camera $14.99 Culled from Tony Barr’s 40 years’ experience as a performer, director and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when performing in front of the camera. This updated edition includes plenty of new exercises for honing on-camera skills; additional chapters on imagination and movement; and fresh material on character development, monologues, visual focus, playing comedy and working with directors. Inside tips on the studio system and acting guilds make it particularly helpful for people new to the business, and numerous anecdotes from actors such as Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins and examples from current movies illustrate its many lessons. It is perfect for acting classes, workshops, all actors who work in front of the camera– and all those who want to. |
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Action Speaks Louder $27.95 For more than 30 years, the action movie has been the film genre that most represents Hollywood to the world, as action films find blockbuster success at box offices internationally. Still, the genre seldom receives the critical attention it deserves. Studying its trends, key components, and visual excesses, this new and expanded edition of Action Speaks Louder traces the genre’s evolution to reveal how it has come to assume its place of prominence in American culture. With scores of in-depth case studies–including films such as Dirty Harry, RoboCop, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Armageddon, Spider-Man, War of the Worlds, and The Incredibles–author Eric Lichtenfeld draws on film analysis, production histories, critical responses, studio marketing materials, and original filmmaker interviews. Up-to-date and comprehensive, Action Speaks Louder is the definitive study of the movies’ most kinetic form of fun. |
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Actor, Ideologue, Politician $106.47 This new anthology rounds out Ronald Reagan’s rhetorical persona and fills a major gap in the literature about the man by offering an unbiased and a multi-dimensional picture of his public speeches during all phases of his political life. The 52 speech texts are arranged, with short introductions, into six topical chapters covering his Hollywood years, his eight years as governor of California, his presidential campaigns of 1976 and 1980, and his two terms as president. This compact reference will be handy for professionals and students at all levels who are looking for a well-rounded collection of both obscure and well-known speeches which offers Reagan’s views on major issues at different times throughout his career. The short volume is suitable for college, university, professional, and public libraries. This representative collection shows Ronald Reagan speaking as an actor, an ideologue, and a pragmatic politician, illustrating his diverse communication styles. The anthology contains both good and bad speeches–some that are famous and others that are little-known–and includes patriotic messages, views on citizenship, politics, and governance and on important issues at different stages in his career. This handy reference is uncompromising in its impartial selection of speeches. A short bibliography points to major sources and important studies, and a full index makes the reference completely accessible. |
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Adorno in America $70.09 The German philosopher and cultural critic Theodor W. Adorno was one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, and between 1938 and 1953 he lived in exile in the United States. In the first in-depth account of this period of Adorno’s life, David Jenemann examines Adorno’s confrontation with the burgeoning American culture industry and casts new light on Adorno’s writings about the mass media. Contrary to the widely held belief–even among his defenders–that Adorno was disconnected from America and disdained its culture, Jenemann reveals that Adorno was an active and engaged participant in cultural and intellectual life during these years. From the time he first arrived in New York in 1938 to work for the Princeton Radio Research Project, exploring the impact of radio on American society and the maturing marketing strategies of the national radio networks, Adorno was dedicated to understanding the technological and social influence of popular art in the United States. Adorno carried these interests with him to Hollywood, where he and Max Horkheimer attempted to make a film for their Studies in Prejudice Project and where he befriended Thomas Mann and helped him craft his famous novel Doctor Faustus. Shuttling between insightful readings of Adorno’s theories and a rich body of archival materials–including unpublished writings and FBI files–Jenemann paints a portrait of Adorno’s years in New York and Los Angeles and tells the cultural history of an America coming to grips with its rapidly evolving mass culture. Adorno in America eloquently and persuasively argues for a more complicated, more intimate relationship between Adorno and Americansociety than has ever been previously acknowledged. What emerges is not only an image of an intellectual in exile, but ultimately a rediscovery of Adorno as a potent defender of a vital and intelligent democracy. David Jenemann is assistant professor of English at the University of Vermont |
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Adorno in America $16.47 The German philosopher and cultural critic Theodor W. Adorno was one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, and between 1938 and 1953 he lived in exile in the United States. In the first in-depth account of this period of Adorno’s life, David Jenemann examines Adorno’s confrontation with the burgeoning American culture industry and casts new light on Adorno’s writings about the mass media. Contrary to the widely held belief–even among his defenders–that Adorno was disconnected from America and disdained its culture, Jenemann reveals that Adorno was an active and engaged participant in cultural and intellectual life during these years. From the time he first arrived in New York in 1938 to work for the Princeton Radio Research Project, exploring the impact of radio on American society and the maturing marketing strategies of the national radio networks, Adorno was dedicated to understanding the technological and social influence of popular art in the United States. Adorno carried these interests with him to Hollywood, where he and Max Horkheimer attempted to make a film for their Studies in Prejudice Project and where he befriended Thomas Mann and helped him craft his famous novel Doctor Faustus. Shuttling between insightful readings of Adorno’s theories and a rich body of archival materials–including unpublished writings and FBI files–Jenemann paints a portrait of Adorno’s years in New York and Los Angeles and tells the cultural history of an America coming to grips with its rapidly evolving mass culture. Adorno in America eloquently and persuasively argues for a more complicated, more intimate relationship between Adorno and Americansociety than has ever been previously acknowledged. What emerges is not only an image of an intellectual in exile, but ultimately a rediscovery of Adorno as a potent defender of a vital and intelligent democracy. David Jenemann is assistant professor of English at the University of Vermont |
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African Film $23.82 In African Film: Re-imagining a Continent, Josef Gugler provides anintroduction to African cinema through an analysis of 15 films made by Africanfilmmakers. These directors set out to re-image Africa; their films offer Westernviewers the opportunity to re-imagine the continent and its people. As a point ofcomparison, two additional films on Africa — one from Hollywood, the other fromapartheid South Africa — serve to highlight African directors” altogether differentperspectives. Gugler’’s interpretation considers the financial andtechnical difficulties of African film production, the intended audiences in Africaand the West, the constraints on distribution, and the critical reception of thefilms. |
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America at War $121.33 Radio Spirits proudly presents the patriotic radio broadcasts that helped unite America during its darkest hours and celebrated the United States’ greatest victories against the enemies of democracy. We offer this collection as a tribute to American heroes who gave of themselves, often with their lives, to keep our nation free. These one-of-a-kind collection includes radio dramas, comedies and variety shows–all with a patriotic theme–featuring such Hollywood greats as Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Stewart, Rita Hayworth, Jimmy Durante, Clark Gable and Bette Davis. This 20-hour collection also includes historic wartime newcasts and speeches by General Douglas MacArthur and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, as well as FDR’s dramatic Day of Infamy speech. |
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American Cinema of the 1990s: Themes and Variations $71.53 With the U.S. economy booming under President Bill Clinton and the cold war finally over, many Americans experienced peace and prosperity in the nineties. Digital technologies gained popularity, with nearly one billion people online by the end of the decade. The film industry wondered what the effect on cinema would be.The essays in American Cinema of the 1990s examine the big-budget blockbusters and critically acclaimed independent films that defined the decade. The 1990s” most popular genre, action, channeled anxieties about global threats such as AIDS and foreign terrorist attacks into escapist entertainment movies. Horror films and thrillers were on the rise, but family-friendly pictures and feel-good romances netted big audiences too. Meanwhile, independent films captured hearts, engaged minds, and invaded Hollywood: by decade’’s end every studio boasted its own art film affiliate. |
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American Classic Screen Features $50 In American Classic Screen Features, editors John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh have assembled some of the most significant and memorable essays and critical pieces written for the magazine over its ten-year history. This collection contains fascinating accounts of Hollywood history including articles on Marilyn Monroe’’s first screen test, John Ford’’s favorite film, Olivia De Havilland’’s lawsuit against Warner Bros., Walt Disney’’s unfinished projects, and Stanley Kubrick’’s early noir classics. This volume also contains in-depth examinations of classic films, including Birth of a Nation, The Big Parade, The Jazz Singer, King Kong, and Citizen Kane. This compendium of essays recaptures the spirit and scholarship of that time and will appeal to both scholars and fans who have an abiding interest in the American motion picture industry |
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American Justice-Donnie Braso $24.95 In 1976, as America planned its bicentennial, FBI special agent Joseph Pistone was preparing to give up his freedom and go into deep cover. He would soon infiltrate the Bonnano crime family as jewel thief Donnie Brasco.AMERICAN JUSTICE traces the story of the operation that has been immortalized in a bestselling book and a movie starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp. Extensive interviews with Pistone trace the progress of the investigation, which was planned to last six months but ended up taking nearly five years. It is a tale of a world that is just as dangerous as the Hollywood portrayals, but not nearly so glamorous. Meet undercover contacts who are still in place for a unique look at the double life they lead, and see how Pistone’s investigation led to the arrest and conviction of numerous Mafia heavies.DONNIE BRASCO is a riveting tale of infighting, petty theft, nickel-and-dime schemes and a life suspended between two contrary worlds.System Requirements:Running Time 50 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE |
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American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years Volume III: From 1900 to 1984 $184.7 This volume focuses on developments in the music business in the twentieth century, including vaudeville, music boxes, the relationship of Hollywood to the music business, the fall and rise of the record business in the 1930s, new technology (TV, FM, and the LP record) after World War II, the dominance of rock-and-roll and the huge increase in the music business during the 1950s and 1960s, and finally the changing music business scene from 1967 to the present, especially regarding government regulations, music licensing, and the record business. |
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An American Theatre (Deluxe Box Edition): The Story of Westport Country Playhouse, 1931-2005 $190.66 For 75 years, Westport Country Playhouse has faithfully reflected the story of American theatre. Founded by Lawrence and Armina Langner in 1931, it has never been more than a summer stock theatre, yet it has an astonishing pedigree. George Bernard Shaw and Noel Coward gave world premieres there; so did Leonard Gershe and A. R. Gurney in more recent times. Playwrights Eugene O’Neill and S. N. Behrman were closely linked to it, and talents as diverse as Jane Wyatt, Gene Kelly, Stephen Sondheim, and Liza Minnelli performed there early in their careers. The aristocracy of the acting profession and the giants of Hollywood appeared — Ethel Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Paul Robeson, Groucho Marx, Tyrone Power, Olivia de Havilland. And the Playhouse can claim a role in the creation of two of the American theatre’s greatest musicals — Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady. This fascinating and lavishly illustrated book traces the entire story of Westport Country Playhouse from its beginnings in the midst of the Depression to its 75th anniversary renovations and rejuvenation. Filled with colorful characters and lively anecdotes, it is a story that will appeal to everyone who has ever been enchanted by the magic of a live theatre performance. |
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An Evening with Marilyn $121.13 Perhaps it was her girlish, whispery voice; or the way her eyes danced when she smiled; or how she seemed to have an unearthly glow about her. Whatever the reason, Marilyn Monroe remains one of the most glamorous, seductive, and charming women in Hollywood history. Worshipped for her sexuality, adored for her vulnerability and innocence, Marilyn is a celebrated movie icon whose persona continues to enthrall and delight her loyal fans. Marilyn’s ethereal beauty and irrepressible charisma are captured here in a sequence of sensual portraits taken over the course of one extraordinary evening in 1961 when she was thirty-five, just a year before her tragic death. On assignment for Look magazine to photograph the movie star for its twenty-fifth anniversary cover, Douglas Kirkland shot Marilyn in the intimate confines of an unmade bed. The result is a series of some of the most spontaneous and flirtatious photographs ever taken of this film legend. Moody, grainy, and evocative, these images are accompanied by Kirkland’s own recounting of the story behind the photo shoot. Together his words and pictures tell the seductive tale of a brief and unforgettable encounter between a handsome freshman photographer and the sexiest woman in Hollywood history. |
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Apple Valley $19.99 From its earliest days, the entrepreneurs who created Apple Valley found treasure lying beneath its surface of sand. Just two years after gold was discovered in neighboring Holcomb Valley, the Homestead Act of 1862 ushered in a new population to Apple Valley. Max F. Ihmsen, publisher of the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper, moved to the area in 1915 and made his fortune in apple farming. News of his great success spread quickly, enticing a steady migration of Southern California residents to relocate to the nearby desert. The rich and famous, as well as the colorful and inspired, flocked to Apple Valley. Clark Gable, Carol Lombard, Gregory Peck, and Joe Louis all visited area guest ranches. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Desi Arnaz, and Roy Rogers frequented celebrityrich parties at the Apple Valley Inn. In less than 100 years, Apple Valley earned itself a unique reputation in Hollywood history and became suburban America to many famous residents. |
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Arizona’s Little Hollywood $60 Having played host to more than 60 Hollywood productions–from the early years of cinema through the 1970s–Sedona, Arizona’’s impact on the film industry is revealed here for the first time. Detailing its role as a silent but stunning backdrop to all types of movies, this volume covers the silent films, B westerns, World War II propaganda, and film noirs filmed on location in Arizona. Lavishly illustrated, this reference tells the story behind an anti-American Nazi propaganda western; the true history of filmmaking in Monument Valley; the first-ever inclusive guide to the location filming of Stagecoach; and descriptions of each Arizona production from conception through reception by critics and audiences, with plot summaries and complete details of cast and crew. |
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Artists in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism $5.09 Gone with the Wind an inspiration for the American avant-garde? Mickey Mouse a crucial source for the development of cutting-edge intellectual and aesthetic ideas? As Greg Taylor shows in this witty and provocative book, the idea is not so far-fetched. One of the first-ever studies of American film criticism, Artists in the Audience shows that film critics, beginning in the 1940s, turned to the movies as raw material to be molded into a more radical modernism than that offered by any other contemporary artists or thinkers. In doing so, they offered readers a vanguard alternative that reshaped postwar American culture: nonaesthetic mass culture reconceived and refashioned into rich, personally relevant art by the attuned, creative spectator.Artists in the Audience shows how vanguard film criticism was pioneered, in particular, by Manny Farber and Parker Tyler. Farber represents the cultist approach — the discovery of expressive vitality in the work of lesser-known artists — both in New York and in the neglected nooks and crannies of Hollywood. Tyler represents a camp approach — where the critic completes the work creatively, by reworking and augmenting its material into a new aesthetic form. By employing the cult and camp strategies, cultural consumers could become cultural producers in their own right, asserting the aesthetic utility of America’s truly vibrant pop culture. Taylor places this transformation in historical context, bringing out the relationship between Oscar Wilde’s proto-vanguard idea of the Critic as Artist and such modern cultural products as cable television’s Mystery Science Theatre 3000.Taylor traces how Farber and Tyler, in turn, influenced AndrewSarris, Annette Michelson, Jonas Mekas, and Pauline Kael. Artists in the Audience explores the strategies and impact of these critics as a means of understanding and appraising not simply our peculiar conception of film art, but the thoroughly vanguard America that has emerged in their |
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Asteroid Strikes $20.4 Whether it’s the earthquakes shaking southern California or hurricanes whipping up and down the East Coast, natural disasters demand our attention, whether we like it or not — and for good reason. Within a single moment, they can change our lives, without much effort. But why do these strange phenomena occur? Can they be predicted? Young readers will be intrigued by Natural Disasters as they discover for themselves how likely Earth is to be hit by an asteroid, how earthquakes are detected, and how plagues are created. Written in a simple prose style coupled with stunning photographs, this series accomplishes its purpose of answering the multitude of questions that fill children’s heads when they hear about natural disasters.For the past few years, Hollywood has been bombarding our theaters with movies about asteroids: asteroids that hit New York and asteroids that will destroy Earth. Young readers will learn why asteroids sometimes end up on Earth, and what, if anything, can be done to prevent them. No matter what the questions, they’re sure to be answered in Asteroid Strikes. |
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Ava Gardner $113.77 Men literally had to support themselves against buildings when she walked by–she was that beautiful. Ava Gardner was the greatest sex symbol of her time, and also a bad girl who became the obsession of many of the biggest names of her day–including Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, and Howard Hughes. She drank, fought, and slept around with the best of them. She married some, too. Mickey Rooney, the biggest star on the MGM lot, was her first husband; he’d chased her from the moment he saw her, fresh off the train from North Carolina by way of Manhattan, with her sister as her chaperone. Second husband Artie Shaw, the charismatic, cold-blooded bandleader, played Pygmalion to Ava, but also never let her forget that he considered her his inferior. Then there was Sinatra, whose jealousy she battled–often physically–from the Cocoanut Grove to Palm Springs, but whose dreams she haunted for the rest of his life. Ava Gardner: Love Is Nothing paints a fresh, stylish portrait of an actress who starred in The Killers, The Sun Also Rises, and The Night of the Iguana and who was the original Barefoot Contessa. It also repositions the talented star as more than just tabloid fodder. The most alluring woman of the 1950’s, a famously conservative time, lived life like a man–drinking, brawling, moving around the world to pursue her passions for lovers and other cultures. Her love of bullfighting–and bullfighters–led to a dramatic stint in Spain, which culminated in being thrown out of the Ritz in Madrid and a fall from a bull that permanently scarred that famous face. Gardner’s last years were spent in London; Server’s chapters about that solitary time in her life, when disease sprangup and attention died down, are raw and moving. A rich biography of a woman at the peak of her powers, Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing is prodigiously researched and laced with fascinating details of a life, as well as of a time and a universe that encompasses Hollywood in its he |
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Ava Gardner $29.95 I always felt like a prisoner of my own image… A lavishly illustrated biography of Ava, the actress who earned herself the epithet of the most beautiful animal in the world ; the story of an extraordinary, glamorous rebel who refused to bow down to Hollywood and its star system. More than of a woman, this is the story of a myth. |
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Baadasssss! $5.51 Critics and audiences alike have gotten behind Mario Van Peebles’ candid portrait of his father Melvin’s struggle as a young, black director during the society-shifting early ’70s. Determined to make a film that matters, Melvin (played by son Mario) deals with two-faced backers, a rag tag crew, threatening creditors and various shades of Hollywood hypocrisy. Obsessed and with everything on the line, including his failing eyesight and family, his only choice is to stick to his guns and do whatever it takes to get his neo-blaxploitation epic Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song to the audience for which it was envisioned. The real-life father and son dynamic brings an intimacy to this inspiring and often hilarious tribute to the father of black cinema. The result is a seamless layering of entertaining drama and poignant documentary that mirrors itself from every angle and never loses its edge. |
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Bailey Lamp Table in Espresso Luxe $754.99 BEM1014: Enjoy the allure of British Colonialism with the Caribbean-inspired design of the Bailey Lamp Table. This table s three open bottom shelves offer an abundance of display and storage opportunities, while its clean rectangular top adds the perfect touch of classic style. Features: -Lamp table. -Espresso luxe finish. -African sapele veneers. -Asian hardwood solid construction. -Forties Hollywood style. -Caned shelves. -English dovetail drawers. -Double dovetail drawer guides. -One drawer. -Raw materials compliant with Lacey Act, which requires environmentally responsible harvesting of lumber materials. -Manufacturer provides two years warranty. |
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Beachglass $15.99 When Delia entered treatment for drug and alcohol addiction at age seventeen, her life changed completely: she immersed herself in AA, began to heal old family wounds, and developed a whole new outlook on herself, on spirituality, on relationships. Out of the rubble, she built a life for herself that any recovering woman would be proud of: a loving husband, a beautiful daughter, her own brand of hard-won wisdom. But her long-term sobriety is put to the test when she receives a phone call from her gay best friend, Timothy. Fulfilling a pact they made a decade prior, Delia tears herself away from her new life in Seattle and rushes home to Los Angeles, to Timothy’s bedside, facing the one thing she fears her sobriety cannot survive–losing him. Back in LA, Delia begins to encounter familiar people, places, and temptations…a barrage of memories that makes her stop and sort through her past, looking for the courage she knows she needs now more than ever. As her past catches up with her present, she sees that she has not merely survived her losses and mistakes, but has been made stronger because of them. This understanding comes to her in full as she holds a piece of beachglass in her hand and realizes that it is its scuffs and scrapes that give it its quiet splendor, its imperfections that give it its beauty and individuality, and that it is from being tossed and tumbled that it no longer shatters–and she knows the same goes for her too. Set against a backdrop of West Hollywood in the late 1980s, populated by a drag queen and a stripper, beautiful boys and artists, and told by a narrator with equal doses of self-deprecating humor, old-soul awareness, fallibility, and brutalhonesty, Beachglass is a gritty and uplifting story of recovery, a journey that presents a fresh look into the world of AA and offers a convincing rendering of the constant struggle to go into recovery and stay there–no matter what. In this stunning debut novel, Wendy Blackburn writ |
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Beachglass: A Novel of Recovery $3.23 When Delia entered treatment for drug and alcohol addiction at age seventeen, her life changed completely: she immersed herself in AA, began to heal old family wounds, and developed a whole new outlook on herself, on spirituality, on relationships. Out of the rubble, she built a life for herself that any recovering woman would be proud of: a loving husband, a beautiful daughter, her own brand of hard-won wisdom. But her long-term sobriety is put to the test when she receives a phone call from her gay best friend, Timothy. Fulfilling a pact they made a decade prior, Delia tears herself away from her new life in Seattle and rushes home to Los Angeles, to Timothy’s bedside, facing the one thing she fears her sobriety cannot survive–losing him. Back in LA, Delia begins to encounter familiar people, places, and temptations…a barrage of memories that makes her stop and sort through her past, looking for the courage she knows she needs now more than ever. As her past catches up with her present, she sees that she has not merely survived her losses and mistakes, but has been made stronger because of them. This understanding comes to her in full as she holds a piece of beachglass in her hand and realizes that it is its scuffs and scrapes that give it its quiet splendor, its imperfections that give it its beauty and individuality, and that it is from being tossed and tumbled that it no longer shatters–and she knows the same goes for her too. Set against a backdrop of West Hollywood in the late 1980s, populated by a drag queen and a stripper, beautiful boys and artists, and told by a narrator with equal doses of self-deprecating humor, old-soul awareness, fallibility, and brutalhonesty, Beachglass is a gritty and uplifting story of recovery, a journey that presents a fresh look into the world of AA and offers a convincing rendering of the constant struggle to go into recovery and stay there–no matter what. In this stunning debut novel, Wendy Blackburn writ |
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Beautiful Lie $18.98 When rock bands include a Hollywood actor among their ranks, more often than not the results are mediocre vanity projects. However, 30 Seconds to Mars proves to be an exception to this rule, with Jared Leto (renowned for roles in FIGHT CLUB and LORD OF WAR) capably fronting this intense pop-metal outfit. On the group’s second album, A BEAUTIFUL LIE, Leto is a remarkably versatile vocalist and the band’s sole songwriter, leading the quartet through potent tracks that recall A Perfect Circle and Deftones. For those who like emotive, high-energy alt-metal, 30 Seconds to Mars is sure to strike a chord, regardless of its famous connections. |
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BeautyBlender Make Up Sponge Kit 1 Sponge + Cleanser $34.95 Modernize the way you make upKit Contains:Make Up Sponge Applicator – The Ultimate Make Up Sponge Applicator. Now you can look like a movie star without the pricey services of a major make up artist. Introducing Beautyblender, the ultimate make up sponge applicator. Invented by top Hollywood make up artists Rea Ann Silva and Veronica Lorenz, Beautyblender has been created to leave you with a professional finish and a flawless complexion. Silva and Lorenz know that the key to a perfect face is simple: a perfect blend. So forget your fingers or sharp-edged triangular sponges, these application methods waste make up and can leave visible streaks. Beautyblender’s patent-pending elliptical shape makes application foolproof by allowing you to access hard-to-reach areas with stunning ease. Its suede texture is sensual to the touch and its unique curves fit the contours of your face, leaving your make up dazzling and undetectable. Beautyblender is latex free, non-allergenic and odor free. Blendercleanser (5.0 fl oz / 150 ml) – The Ultimate Make Up Sponge Cleanser. You wouldn’t eat dinner without first washing your hands, so don’t use your Beautyblender repeatedly without first cleaning it. Hygiene is a must when it comes to keeping your skin fresh and healthy. Oil and dirt from your face will stay on your applicators if you don’t take a moment to properly clean them. That’s why Silva and Lorenz offer Blendercleanser, the perfect hygienic companion for your Beautyblender. Blendercleanser is a lightly lavender-scented cleanser that’s free of dyes and skin irritants. Its soothing soy-based, low-suds formula breaks down rapidly, making it earth-friendly and fun to use. Soy has the added benefit of being one of nature’s finest moisturizers, so by all means, clean up with class and do it often.Made in USA |
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Bee $12.09 How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour / and gather honey all the day from every opening flower! This famed Isaac Watts verse reveals the enduring fascination that bees have held for humans: bees have long been admired for their remarkable socialization and architectural skills, and since the earliest times they have carried profound symbolic meanings. Claire Preston’s Bee offers a comprehensive survey of the natural and cultural history of the bee and explores the impressive body of literature that has grown out of man’s search for honey.From The Publisher:Claire Preston’s Bee follows the natural and cultural history of our relationship with the bee and the development of these legends, from ancient political descriptions of the bee to Renaissance debates about monarchy, and the accompanying scientific discoveries about insects, to the modern conversion of the virtuous, civil bee into the dangerous swarm of the Hollywood horror flick, and finally to the melancholy recognition that the scientific study of bee behavior gives us a warning to beware our own awful technologies of destruction.Written in a lively, engaging style, and containing many fascinating bee facts, anecdotes, fables, and images, Bee is also a wide-ranging, highly-illustrated meditation on the natural and cultural history of this familiar and much-admired insect. It will appeal to a wide audience: those who work with bees and in honey production; those who appreciate this industrious creature and its intricate, miniature society; and those too who have an interest in the way animals such as the bee have woven themselves into the fabric of our culture.About The Author:Claire Preston is Fellow and Lecturer in English, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. |
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Bella Coola $27.31 The Bella Coola Valley lies in the misty heart of British Columbia s West Coast, where the Pacific spills into forest-clad cracks in the Coast Mountains. Though the human footprint here is 11,000 years old, it remains modest–about 2,500 hardy souls populate the remote valley. Nature, by contrast, has thrown herself wantonly upon the area. The waters of the Central Coast are dappled with lush islands and teem with life, including all five species of salmon. To the east and south Tweedsmuir Provincial Park–the largest in BC–sprawls between the coast and the Chilcotin Plateau. Between the sea and mountains, fog shrouds the Great Bear Rainforest, 5 million hectares of old-growth forest, including a protected area twice the size of Yellowstone Park. The rugged terrain barred road access to the valley until 1953, when the resourceful residents bulldozed their own Freedom Road up a dizzying pass that roughly follows the ancient Nuxalk grease trail to the Chilcotin. Along with their concise and knowledgeable accounts of the area s natural and economic history, authors Mike Wigle and Hans Granander introduce you to some of the valley s free spirits, from the Nuxalk to the Norwegians who began farming around Hagensborg in 1894, to the canners and loggers of the 20th century. There s Ralph Edwards, who established a homestead at Lonesome Lake in 1912 and became famous for nursing its swans through hard winters. Rancher and outdoorsman Clayton Mack was guide and storyteller to Hollywood stars. Margaret Siwallace earned academic honours for her translations of Nuxalk lore. There are two kinds of West Coast travellers: those impatient to make their firstpilgrimage to Bella Coola, and those yearning to return to it. Whichever you are, here s your ticket. |
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Best Gay Erotica 2010 $15.95 Writers clamor to get into the Best Gay Erotica series because it sets the bar for the highest quality of sexy, gay stories. Richard Labonte is an icon in the field of erotic and romantic writing who has a knack for finding seductive, literary talent. Blair Mastbaum, author, editor, producer, and actor, selected this year’’s crop, picking top-notch stories that are unparalleled in hotness and excellence. Best Gay Erotica 2010 is the biggest page-turner of them all, with stories running the gamut of gay male sexual experiences, from first times to one-night stands, from long-time lovers to explosive group get-togethers. In A Beautiful Place, a young male ingenue brings Hollywood to its knees, literally. The Suburban Boy reveals that the real magic kingdom in central Florida, where every erotic wish comes true. Contributors include Simon Sheppard, Rachel Kramer Bussel, David Holly, Nick Hudson, Marvin Partridge, Thom Wolf, and Jamie Freeman. |
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Best Years of Flying $24.95 Working for Howard Hughes and TWA was a job to be envied in the 1950′’s. Dee Merian tells of her high flying adventures during the reign of this airline and its famous owner. From the best hotels in Europe to The Plaza in New York, Hughes treated his crew first class as they flew passengers to major cities around the world. In the 1940′’s and 1950′’s career choices were slim for women. Author Dee Merian, influenced by Hollywood movies of airplanes stories as a young girl, grabbed her brass ring to see the world aboard a Trans World Airlines airplane. Thousands applied for this new job and few were chosen; follow the adventures of one such young woman who met movie stars and famous entertainers as she pursued her dreams. |
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