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Download or read book American Prince written by Tony Curtis and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary actor chronicles his odyssey from a hard-knock childhood as the son of immigrant parents to Hollywood success, detailing his days as a tinseltown playboy, the film industry during Hollywood's Golden Era, and his life as an artist at the age of eighty.
Book Synopsis Introduction to Tony Curtis by : Gilad James, PhD
Download or read book Introduction to Tony Curtis written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Curtis was an American actor and film producer who was born on June 3, 1925, in the Bronx, New York City. Curtis was known for his handsome looks and charming personality which made him one of the most popular actors of his time. He started his acting career in 1948 and appeared in over 100 films throughout his long career timeline. Some of his notable films include "The Defiant Ones," "Spartacus," and "Some Like It Hot." Curtis received several awards for his acting skills and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the movie "The Defiant Ones." Apart from acting, Curtis was also an accomplished painter and sculptor. He had a passion for art and produced several artworks throughout his life. Curtis also wrote a memoir called "American Prince" which made it to the New York Times Best Seller list. Tony Curtis passed away on September 29, 2010, at the age of 85 in Las Vegas after suffering a heart attack. Despite his untimely death, his legacy as one of the greatest actors of his generation and his contribution to the film industry will never be forgotten. In conclusion, Tony Curtis was not just an actor, but also a painter, sculptor, writer and an accomplished artist. His contribution to the film industry is still remembered and cherished by many people to this day. He was a charming and talented man who lived a full and exciting life both on and off the screen. Tony Curtis will always be remembered as one of the most respected and beloved actors of his time.
Book Synopsis Introduction to Perfumery by : Anthony Curtis
Download or read book Introduction to Perfumery written by Anthony Curtis and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tony Curtis written by Tony Curtis and published by William Morrow & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uncensored, anecdotal memoirs of a Hollywood legend chronicles Curtis's journey from the streets of New York, to worldwide success, to the insanity of alcohol and drug abuse, to a new life. 125,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.
Book Synopsis The Kid from the Bronx by : Michael Munn
Download or read book The Kid from the Bronx written by Michael Munn and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Defiant One written by Aubrey Malone and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-09-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new biography contains excerpts from interviews and articles by and about Curtis all the way from his teens in the Bronx to his death at 85 in 2010. Many of these are little known and provide insights into his complex relationship with fame, family and females, the three obsessions of his life. The book also documents his many struggles with substance abuse, his disenchantment with Hollywood when it failed to take him seriously, the violent deaths of his two brothers, the failure of four of his marriages, a heart attack, the death of a son from a drug overdose and, most importantly, the manner in which his resilient spirit saw him through these challenges and tragedies. It's a revisionist biography which adds significantly to the received wisdom on his life and times, not only through personal interviews but also revelations from two recent books not yet available in English, one written by his daughter Allegra and the other by his ex-wife Christine Kaufmann.
Book Synopsis Introduction to Tony Curtis by : Gilad James, PhD
Download or read book Introduction to Tony Curtis written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Curtis was an American actor and film producer who was born on June 3, 1925, in the Bronx, New York City. Curtis was known for his handsome looks and charming personality which made him one of the most popular actors of his time. He started his acting career in 1948 and appeared in over 100 films throughout his long career timeline. Some of his notable films include "The Defiant Ones," "Spartacus," and "Some Like It Hot." Curtis received several awards for his acting skills and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the movie "The Defiant Ones." Apart from acting, Curtis was also an accomplished painter and sculptor. He had a passion for art and produced several artworks throughout his life. Curtis also wrote a memoir called "American Prince" which made it to the New York Times Best Seller list. Tony Curtis passed away on September 29, 2010, at the age of 85 in Las Vegas after suffering a heart attack. Despite his untimely death, his legacy as one of the greatest actors of his generation and his contribution to the film industry will never be forgotten. In conclusion, Tony Curtis was not just an actor, but also a painter, sculptor, writer and an accomplished artist. His contribution to the film industry is still remembered and cherished by many people to this day. He was a charming and talented man who lived a full and exciting life both on and off the screen. Tony Curtis will always be remembered as one of the most respected and beloved actors of his time.
Download or read book Tony Curtis written by Michael Munn and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2011 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a poor Hungarian family living in the Bronx, all Tony Curtis ever wanted to be was a movie star. As a young boy he lived in fear of anti-semitic beatings and abuse, but the child who began life as Bernard Schwartz went on to conquer Hollywood and live his dream. By the time he died, he was a legend with more than a hundred and twenty movies and TV dramas to his name. Here is the full story of a man plucked from obscurity to become the ultimate movie star; someone who skyrocketed to success via the Studio System. Nobody’s perfect covers his inauspicious start - struggling during the Depression then serving on a wartime submarine and witnessing the Japanese surrender at Tokyo Bay. The book goes on to describe Curtis’s days as one of the top movie stars of the 1950s and 60s, his five marriages and life-or-death struggle with drugs and alcohol. With his thick black hair, long eyelashes and trademark good looks, Tony was the heart throb who became a Hollywood survivor. At the height of Curtis’ fame, the star of Some Like It Hot and Spartacus ran with the Rat Pack, and counted the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin amongst his close friends. Extremely popular with the starlets of the day, he was pursued by Marilyn Monroe day, who, pregnant with his child until she tragically miscarried, was obsessed with marrying him. His elopement with Janet Leigh, meanwhile, made Curtis half of one of Hollywood’s earliest power couples. But while his professional life was at its peak, his private life was beginning to fall apart. By the mid-1950s he was seeing a psychiatrist three times a week and soon succumbed to the lure of drugs. When his father was dying, agonisingly of lung cancer, Curtis supplied him with marijuana to ease his suffering. This biography by Michael Munn, who met Curtis several times and interviewed him at length, tells the definitive story of the one of the last matinée idols from the Golden Age of Hollywood, a heart-throb who, when asked what he wanted on his epitaph, replied, fittingly, ‘Nobody's perfect.’
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Book Synopsis Discovering Cosmetic Science by : Stephen Barton
Download or read book Discovering Cosmetic Science written by Stephen Barton and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to this ‘novice’s guide’. At last a book that explains the real science behind the cosmetics we use. Taking a gentle approach and a guided journey through the different product types, we discover that they are not as superficial as often thought and learn that there is some amazing science behind them. We shall uncover some of the truths behind the myths and point out some interesting facts on our way. Did you know? Vitamin E is the world’s most used cosmetic active ingredient. At just 1mm thick, your amazing skin keeps out just about everything it’s exposed to – including your products! A ‘chemical soup’ of amino acids, urea, mineral salts and organic acids act as ‘water magnets’ in the skin keeping it naturally moisturised. Discovered centuries ago, iron oxides (yes, the same chemicals as rust) are still commonly used inorganic pigments in foundations. A lipstick is a fine balance of waxes, oils and colourants to keep the stick stable and leave an even gloss on your lips.
Download or read book Jackie Wilson written by Tony Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To his many fans, he was known simply as "Mr. Excitement," a singer whose music and stage presence influenced generations of performers, from Elvis Presley to Michael Jackson. Jackie Wilson: Lonely Teardrops looks at the life and career of this deeply troubled artist. Published briefly in a limited edition in the United Kingdom, this Routledge edition makes available this definitive biography for Wilson's legions of fans. Also includes two 8-page photo inserts.
Download or read book Full Throttle written by Robert Edelstein and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A superbly researched and engagingly written biography” of NASCAR legend Curtis Turner, known as the Babe Ruth of stock car racing (Sports Illustrated). Curtis Turner’s life embodied everything that makes NASCAR the biggest spectator sport in American history; the adrenaline rush of the races, the potential for danger at every turn, and the charismatic, outrageous personality of a winner. Turner created drama at the racetrack and in his personal life, living the American Dream several times over before he died a violent and mysterious death at the age of forty-six. In gripping prose, and with access to the files of Turner’s widow, sports writer and author of NASCAR Generations Robert Edelstein offers the first complete chronicle of Turner’s life. From his days as a teenage moonshine runner in Virginia, through millions earned in fearless finance deals, to his incredible comeback after four years of being banned from the NASCAR circuit, Full Throttle lets you ride shotgun with the legend.
Download or read book Love Actually written by Richard Curtis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-12-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious new screenplay from the writer of "Four Weddings and a Funeral"is coming to the big screen in November 2003.
Book Synopsis Tony Curtis by : Phaistos Publishers
Download or read book Tony Curtis written by Phaistos Publishers and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shining shoes as a boy, shining on-screen as a star, shining even among the blinding bright lights of Las Vegas that became his adopted home, Tony Curtis was never less than a megawatt personality, one that always seemed lit by a childlike glow of wonderment." Start naming superstars from the enchanted Golden Age of Hollywood, and chances are that Tony Curtis shared a marquee with them-and when it comes to many of the women, he also shared a bed. Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Burt Lancaster? Yup. Marilyn Monroe, Janet Leigh, Natalie Wood? Yup. Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin? Yup. Debbie Reynolds, Yvonne De Carlo...well, you get the idea. Curtis appeared in more than 100 movies, dozens of television series, and on countless talk, variety, and game shows, but despite a prolific career spanning six decades in the ficklest business of all, Curtis could never shake the feeling that he was on the outside looking in. He always had a beautiful woman at his side, but he had trouble committing to one. He mingled with the movers and shakers in the realms of entertainment and politics, but when his phone inevitably stopped ringing, he fell hard into drug and alcohol abuse. He fathered six children, but when his end neared, he bequeathed them nothing. This book profiles how Curtis climbed from the darkest depths of poverty, reached Hollywood's dizzying heights of fame and fortune, and clung to his pedestal through five marriages, drug, alcohol, and sex addiction, and the tragic death of a son.
Book Synopsis The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini by : Joe Posnanski
Download or read book The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini written by Joe Posnanski and published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Posnanski enters the colorful world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans to explore the illusionist’s impact on global culture—and why his legacy endures to this day. Nearly a century after Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926, he feels as modern and alive as ever. The name Houdini still leaps to mind whenever we witness a daring escape. The baby who frees herself from her crib? Houdini. The dog who vanishes and reappears in the neighbor’s garden? Houdini. Every generation produces new disciples of the magician, from household names in magic like David Copperfield and David Blaine to countless other followers whose lives have been transformed by the power of Houdini. In rural Pennsylvania, a thirteen-year-old girl finds the courage to leave a violent home after learning that Houdini ran away to join the circus; she eventually becomes the first female magician to saw a man in half on television. In Australia, an eight-year-old boy with a learning impediment feels worthless until he sees an old poster of Houdini advertising “Nothing on earth can hold Houdini prisoner,” and begins his path to becoming that nation’s most popular magician. In California, an actor and Vietnam War veteran finds purpose in his life by uncovering the secrets of his hero. But the unique phenomenon of Houdini was always more than his death-defying stunts or his ability to escape handcuffs and straitjackets. It is also about the power of imagination and self-invention. His incredible transformation from Ehrich Weiss, humble Hungarian immigrant and rabbi’s son, into the self-named Harry Houdini has won him a slice of immortality. No one has withstood the test of time quite like Houdini. Fueled by Posnanski’s personal obsession with the magician—and magic itself—The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini is a poignant odyssey of discovery, blending biography, memoir, and first-person reporting to trace Houdini’s metamorphosis into an iconic figure who has inspired millions.
Download or read book Dark Places written by Barry Curtis and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where the evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. These mysterious spaces foment the terror at the heart of horror movies, empowering the ghastly creatures that emerge to kill and torment. With Dark Places, Barry Curtis leads us deep inside these haunted spaces to explore them – and the monstrous antagonists who dwell there. In this wide-ranging and compelling study, Curtis demonstrates how the claustrophobic interiors of haunted spaces in films connect to the ‘dark places’ of the human psyche. He examines diverse topics such as the special effects – ranging from crude to state-of-the-art – used in movies to evoke supernatural creatures; the structures, projections and architecture of horror movie sets; and ghosts as symbols of loss, amnesia, injustice and vengeance. Dark Places also examines the reconfiguration of the haunted house in film as a motel, an apartment, a road or a spaceship, and how these re-imagined spaces thematically connect to Gothic fictions. Curtis draws his examples from numerous iconic films – including Nosferatu, Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Shining – as well as lesser-known international works, which allow him to consider different cultural ideas of ‘haunting’. Japanese horror films and their Hollywood remakes – such as Ringu and The Ring, or Juon and The Grudge – come under particular scrutiny, as he explores Japanese cinema’s preoccupation with malevolent forces from the past. Whether you love the splatter of blood or prefer to hide under the couch, Dark Places cuts to the heart of why we are drawn to carnage.
Book Synopsis Touching From a Distance by : Deborah Curtis
Download or read book Touching From a Distance written by Deborah Curtis and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Includes a foreword by Jon Savage and an introduction by Joy Division drummer, Steven Morris. Revered by his peers and idolized by his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy rich in artistic genius. Mesmerizing on stage but introverted and prone to desperate mood swings in his private life, Curtis died by his own hand on 18 May 1980. Touching from a Distance documents how, with a wife, child and impending international fame, Curtis was seduced by the glory of an early grave. Regarded as the essential book on the essential icon of the post-punk era, Touching from a Distance includes a full set of Curtis's lyrics and a discography and gig list.
