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Inventing Troy Donahue - The Making of a Movie Star (hardback)In 1960, Troy Donahue won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Male Newcomer. By 1962, he was a top box office star, received 7,000 fan letters a week, and won the Photoplay Magazine Award for the Most Popular Male Star. In 1971, he...
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The Lost Decade: Altman, Coppola, Friedkin and the Hollywood Renaissance Auteur in the 1980sProvides an analysis of Hollywood from a fresh viewpoint that shows the careers of Robert Altman, Francis Coppola, William Friedkin, and others in the 1980s as far from conforming to a monolithic pattern of decline, but rather as diverse and complex responses to political...
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Daisy's Extraordinary Ordinary DayDaisy loves birds. She loves to listen to their songs. She loves to watch them play. She loves to draw beautiful pictures of them. One afternoon, as Daisy is busy birdwatching, her very ordinary day becomes something quite extraordinary when she hears a tiny...
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Lego Star Wars Visual Dictionary (Library Edition): Updated EditionCelebrate 25 years of LEGOⓇ Star Wars(TM)! Tour the LEGOⓇ Star Wars(TM) galaxy in this fully updated edition! Discover every detail of best-loved sets and vehicles including the Mos Eisley Cantina and the Millennium Falcon. Find out about your favorite LEGO Star Wars minifigures--from...
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A Tribute to The Golden Girls (hardback): From Sharing Cheesecake to Relaxing on the LanaiCan't get enough of The Golden Girls? It's been 38 years since the show first aired and became an instant cult classic. Viewers quickly became enamored with the extraordinary cast of female characters. A Tribute to The Golden Girls: From Sharing Cheesecake to Relaxing...
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The FBI DossierThe mission of the FBI is to protect the innocent and identify the enemies of the Government of the United States.The proclamation above opened many episodes of The FBI, Quinn Martin's longest running television series (airing nine seasons on ABC, from 1965 to 1974),...
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Opera AndyAndy lives in a BIG city and works for a large bank. Andy sings to his biggest fans, his cats: Ben and Max. Andy auditions for the opera, but will he become a famous opera singer?Beautiful hand-painted illustrations in watercolor by artist Phelan Harris;...
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Irving the Theater Nut!As a squirrel, Irving has learned his job is to gather nuts, but he wants nothing more than to join the children rehearsing inside the nearby theater. After weeks of watching them, will Irving get a chance to fulfill his dream? "Irving the Theater...
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Justified and Philosophy: Shoot First, Think LaterThe sharp-shooting authors in Justified and Philosophy take aim at many of the same philosophical problems that the Justified TV series grapples with. For instance, is Tim Olyphant's character, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, morally justified in using his Wild-Wild-West-style vigilante tactics to clean...
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Wild BoyMurder mystery meets carnival flair in a rollicking Victorian adventure centered on a boy with a unique appearance -- and unique gifts. In the seedy underworld of Victorian London, a boy is born and abandoned. Snatched up by an unscrupulous and abusive showman, Wild...
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Someday DancerA ballerina tale with a thoroughly modern twist Casey Quinn has got more grace in her pinkie toe than all those prissy ballet-school girls put together, even if you'd never guess it from the looks of her too-long legs and dirty high-top sneakers. It's...
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The Theban Plays of SophoclesA new and welcome translation of Sophocles' great Oedipus cycle, by one of the distinguished translators of our era In this needed and highly anticipated new translation of the Theban plays of Sophocles, David R. Slavitt presents a fluid, accessible, and modern version for...
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Das Theater, Das Uns Verändert: Essays Über Oper, Kunst Und PolitikDas den Themenbl cken Politik , Kunst und Literatur sowie Oper gewidmete Buch kann als Mortiers Verm chtnis gelesen werden. Es zeigt einen leidenschaftlichen Europ er, der sich eine europ ische Kultur nur als eine vielsprachig demokratische vorstellen kann, der aber auch wei ,...
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You Can Be a Ballerina/You Can Be a Gymnast (Barbie)Double the fun with two Barbie: You Can Be Step into Reading leveled readers in one--featuring two popular sports careers: gymnast and ballerina! This deluxe Step into Reading book features two leveled careers readers in one! Children ages 4 to 6 can read about...
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The WordsThe World thought he was a good... But I knew the truth. He was the talented bad boy everyone wanted. I was the irrelevant geek everyone hated. He was the sun...drawing all of us in. I was a black hole...taking up space. He was...
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The White RibbonExplores Haneke's historically complex film as a reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child-rearing. White ribbons and black pedagogy - Michael Haneke's award-winning film The White Ribbon (2009) is a multilayered reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child rearing. In this tense black-and-white whodunit,...
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The Life and Times of Betty Boop: The 100-Year History of an Animated IconAlthough Amazon.com is now selling more than 3,000 commercial products bearing Betty Boop's image, including calendars, tote bags, coffee mugs, and books about how young women can be more like Betty, no one has ever published a book about Betty herself. The first biography...
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The Crooked Mirror: Plays from a Modernist Russian CabaretAn anthology of plays from the Crooked Mirror, the leading Russian cabaret of the Silver Age "Don't blame the mirror if your mug is crooked!" Parody dominated early twentieth-century Russian cabaret, but the Crooked Mirror extended its lampooning to theatrical practice itself. Eclectic in...
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The Continental Philosophy of Film ReaderThe first collection of its kind, The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader is the essential anthology of writings by continental philosophers on cinema, representing the last century of film-making and thinking about film, as well as all of the major schools of Continental thought:...
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The Bell Witch in Myth and Memory: From Local Legend to International FolktaleApparently, slumber parties in the mid-South 1970s were plied with a strange ritual. At midnight attendees would gather before a mirror and chant "I don't believe in the Bell Witch" three times to see if the legendary spook would appear alongside their own reflections--a...
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