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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare (Yesterday's Classics)Twenty stories from Shakespeare retold in lively prose. The author makes the complex language of Shakespeare's greatest plays accessible to young children by relating the stories that form the core of the plays. Her graceful, vivid retellings are the perfect introduction to Shakespeare's works.Author:...
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They Live: A Novel Approach to Cinema"One of the cleverest, most accessibly in-depth film books released this year . . . a smart-ass novelist exploring a cheesy-cheeky '80s sci-fi flick."--Hartford Advocate Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh approach. Take the smartest, liveliest writers in contemporary...
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Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell, Commemorative Reprint of the ClassicMargaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own imagination-indeed, it is the basis for the legend she created. Gone With the Wind took the American reading public...
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I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden EraIn the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from all across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new home of Johnny Carson's Tonight...
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Motion, Emotion, and Love: The Nature of Artistic PerformanceDynamically transforming the elements of any performing artist's craft, this practical guide is a must-have for musicians, dancers, and actors. The handbook shows how artistic performance is embodied in the unification of three critical elements--motion, emotion, and love--demonstrating how it offers experiences and opportunities...
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The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of MoviesThis cinefile's guidebook covers the horror genre monstrously well! Find reviews of over 1,000 of the best, weirdest, wickedest, wackiest, and most entertaining scary movies from every age of horror! Atomic bombs, mad serial killers, zealous zombies, maniacal monsters lurking around every corner, and...
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Fifty More Professional Scenes and Monologs for Student Actors: A Collection of Short One-And Two-Person ScenesThe success of Fifty Professional Scenes for Student Actors prompted us to offer a new theatre book of winning audition material -- this time including monologs! The emphasis of these monologs and scenes is on believable characters, not caricatures. Designed for professional actors seeking...
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The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on ShakespeareExquisite... enthralling... This short, modest and brilliant book does more than many more grandiose tomes to renew the reader's fascination with the plays, and the theatre-goer's wonder at the extraordinary and diverse sensations locked up inside the First Folio. It should be required reading...
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Caroline, or Change"Caroline is a breakthrough--a story so grounded in the ordinary details of life that it almost seems to have discovered a new genre." -Richard Zoglin, Time "Acute, smart and witty: a telling snapshot focusing with sharp clarity on characters captured at a fraught turning...
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The Reel Art: Waste Into Wealth: The New Energy RevolutionThe decades between 1910 and 1950 were the golden age of the American movie poster, an era when films were promoted through the talents of illustrators like Thomas Hart Benton and Norman Rockwell. A selection of these posters, many never before published, is presented...
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Evenings with Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him BestCharming, witty, effortlessly debonair, and elegant, Cary Grant was the ultimate leading man, a silver screen icon who seemed to embody all that a movie star should be. But beneath the glamour was a real and complicated man - surprisingly vulnerable, unabashedly romantic, often...
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The Battle of Brazil: Terry Gilliam v. Universal Pictures in the Fight to the Final CutThe totally restored, revamped and researched blow-by-blow recounting of the most spectacular title bout in the blood-soaked history of Hollywood. "This book documents in rare detail the back-room haggling and the attempted ego-bashing that is part of the movie business." - Gene Siskel; "Told...
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum LibrettoBook by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart Introduction by Larry Gelbart This brazenly retro Broadway musical, inspired by Plautus, is as timeless as comedy itself. -Vincent Canby, The New York Times The most urbane and literate musical comedy text ever conceived. -John Simon, New...
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The Life of the Drama"Eric Bentley's radical new look at the grammar of theatre...is a work of exceptional virtue... The book justifies its title by being precisely about the ways in which life manifests itself in the theatre...This is a book to be read again and again." -...
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Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital DramaHow dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it. Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high...
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Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TVCNN correspondent Brian Stelter reveals the dark side of morning television with exclusive material about current and past morning stars, from Matt Lauer to Katie Couric. When America wakes up with personable and charming hosts like Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos, it's hard to...
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Charley's Aunt: A PlayTwo students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil. The play was first performed at the Theatre Royal, in February 1892. It broke all historic records for plays of any kind, with an original London...
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Pearl Goes to PreschoolPearl loves to dance But will she love preschool, too? Pearl loves attending dance classes at her mother's ballet school. Even though Pearl is the youngest and smallest ballerina, she knows how to count her poses and follow along. When her mom suggests that...
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Fast BreakIn the sixth book in the New York Times bestselling middle grade series inspired by the life of iconic New York Yankee Derek Jeter, young Derek bites off more than he can chew when he decides to enter the school talent show and try...
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Movie Studios of Culver CityAfter watching pioneer filmmaker Thomas Ince film one of his famous Westerns on Ballona Creek, city founder Harry Culver saw the economic base for his city. Culver announced plans for the city in 1913 and attracted three major movie studios to Culver City, along...
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