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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (Barron's Book Notes)(more) »rank: 1373931by: Arthur Miller, Liza McAlister Williams, Kent Paul
Our review: :A guide to reading 'Death of a Salesman' with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. Review:Arthur Miller's 1949 Death of a Salesman has sold 11 million copies, and Willy Loman didn't make all those sales on a smile and a shoeshine. This play is the genuine article--it's got the goods on the human condition, all packed into a day in the life of one self-deluded, self-promoting, self-defeating soul. It's a sturdy bridge between kitchen-sink ... Detail |
A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce(more) »rank: 12791by: Alec Baldwin
Our review: :“I have been through some of the worst of contentious divorce litigation,” Alec Baldwin declares in A Promise to Ourselves. Using a very personal approach, he offers practical guidance to help others avoid the anguish he has endured.An Academy and Tony Award nominee and a 2007 recipient of Golden Globe, SAG, and Television Critics Association Awards for best actor in a comedy, Alec Baldwin is one of the best-known, most successful actors in the world. His relationship with Kim Basinger, the Academy Award–winning actress, lasted nearly a decade. They have a daughter named Ireland, and for a time, theirs seemed ... Detail |
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead(more) »rank: 417853by: Tom Stoppard
Our review: :Two minor characters from 'Hamlet' offer a novel view of the melancholy Dane. Detail |
The Apostle(more) »rank: 576788by: Robert Duvall
Our review: :Two minor characters from 'Hamlet' offer a novel view of the melancholy Dane. Detail |
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How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale(more) »rank: 7592by: Jenna Jameson, Neil Strauss
Our review: : When the stewardess brought me off the plane in a wheelchair, I lowered my head. I was too scared to even look at my father. I didn't want to see the disappointment and horror on his face. All that hate I had accumulated for him over the years, all the resentment against him for not understanding what I was going through, just released with the tears. 'So, where are your parents?' the stewardess asked me after a few minutes. 'I can't wait here with you much longer.' I looked up and wiped my eyes. My father was standing ten ... Detail |
The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts(more) »rank: 7672by: Tom Farley, Tanner Colby
Our review: :A biography of the Saturday Night Live star as told by his friends and familyNo one dominated a stage the way Chris Farley did. For him, comedy was not a routine; it was a way of life. He could not enter a room unnoticed or let a conversation go without making someone laugh. Fans knew Chris as Saturday Night Live’s sweaty, swaggering, motivational speaker; as the irresistible Chippendales stripper; and as Tommy Callahan, the underdog hero of Tommy Boy. His family knew him as sensitive and passionate, deeply religious, and devoted to bringing laughter into others’ lives. But Chris did ... Detail |
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Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself(more) »rank: 15523by: Alan Alda
Our review: :Picking up where his bestselling memoir Never Have Your Dog Stuffed left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–beloved actor and acclaimed author Alan Alda offers an insightful and funny look at some impossible questions he’s asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?) Here, Alda listens in on things he’s heard himself saying at critical points in his life–from the turbulence of the sixties, to his first Broadway show, to the birth of his children, to the ache of ... Detail |
When The Shooting Stops ... The Cutting Begins: A Film Editor's Story (Da Capo Paperback)(more) »rank: 11236by: Ralph Rosenblum, Robert Karen Ph.D.
Our review: :The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking—film editing—is here told by one of the wizards, Ralph Rosenblum, whose credentials include six Woody Allen films, as well as The Pawnbroker, The Producers, and Goodbye, Columbus. Rosenblum and journalist Robert Karen have written both a history of the profession and a personal account, a highly entertaining, instructive, and revelatory book that will make any reader a more aware movie-viewer. Detail |
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In the Blink of an Eye Revised 2nd Edition(more) »rank: 6593by: Walter Murch
Our review: :In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought-provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question - Why do cuts work? - Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of cutting film. Along the way, he offers his unique insights on such subjects as continuity and discontinuity in editing, dreaming, and reality; criteria for a good cut; the blink of the eye as an emotional cue; digital editing; and much more. In this second edition, Murch reconsiders and completely revises ... Detail |
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor(more) »rank: 13840by: Bruce Campbell
Our review: :Okay, so at least you're interested enough to pick up this book and look inside. I think you and I are going to get along just fine. Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not to buy the autobiography of a mid-grade, kind of hammy actor. Am I supposed to know this guy? you think to yourself.No, and that's exactly the point. Bookstores are chock full of household name actors and their high stakes shenanigans. I don't want to be a spoilsport, but we've all been down that road before. Case in point: look to your ... Detail |