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Last Tango in Brooklyn

Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780446516952
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Last Tango in Brooklyn written by Kirk Douglas and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, his most satisfying novel so far, Kirk Douglas exhibits the brilliant versatility that he has showcased so vividly in his many decades as an actor. Here he tells the story of two ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances - circumstances that wait right around the corner for each one of us. Ellen, a small-town girl from upstate New York, is trying to make it as a modern woman in the big city. She is doing well in her career as the librarian of a large Brooklyn hospital, but her personal life is a mess. Her boyfriend, Richard, a world-renowned heart transplant specialist, is unfaithful. Her roommate has moved out leaving her with a mountain of unpaid bills. She is broke. Then she meets Ben at a screening of Last Tango in Paris. Ben, a fitness instructor, is twice her age, but he is a vigorous man able to challenge and out-perform men young enough to be his sons. A recent widower, Ben is frantically scrambling to find a temporary place to live, because his house in Flatbush has sold much faster than he expected. Ellen rents Ben a room, but what begins as friendly business relationship slowly turns into something more. Ben feels a surge of vitality in which passion knows no age and no limits. Ellen, full of life spirit, and mischief, seems his perfect match. Yet Ellen and Ben's startling and consuming affair faces a gulf even wider than the gap that separates May and December. Ellen's best friend is appalled, Ben's daughter, a psychologist, condemns their relationship as a Freudian nightmare. A terrible accident and then a mysterious death - which could be murder - threaten to doom their love. Soon, life's expectations shatter on the rocks of the unexpected. Roleschange in astonishing ways. Yet, ultimately, Ellen and Ben's love will prove stronger than reason - in a powerful finale than will haunt the reader long after he or she has closed the book.

Last Tango in Brooklyn

Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099890904
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Last Tango in Brooklyn written by Kirk Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1996-02-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen's boyfriend is unfaithful and her flatmate has gone, leaving a mountain of unpaid bills, but at a screening of Last Tango in Paris Ellen meet Ben. He's twice her age, recently widowed, and needs somewhere to live, and what begins as a business relationship turns into something much more.

Midnight Taxi Tango

Author : Daniel José Older
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698166817
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Midnight Taxi Tango written by Daniel José Older and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of Half-Resurrection Blues returns in a new Bone Street Rumba Novel—a knife-edge, noir-shaded urban fantasy of crime after death. The streets of New York are hungry tonight... Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As an agent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New York’s ghostlier problems. This time it’s a string of gruesome paranormal accidents in Brooklyn’s Von King Park that has already taken the lives of several locals—and is bound to take more. The incidents in the park have put Kia on edge. When she first met Carlos, he was the weird guy who came to Baba Eddie's botánica, where she worked. But the closer they’ve gotten, the more she’s seeing the world from Carlos’s point of view. In fact, she’s starting to see ghosts. And the situation is far more sinister than that—because whatever is bringing out the dead, it’s only just getting started.

Climbing the Mountain

Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743214382
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Climbing the Mountain written by Kirk Douglas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-10-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the simple power and astonishing candor that made his 1988 autobiography, The Ragman's Son, a number one international bestseller, Kirk Douglas now shares his quest for spirituality and Jewish identity -- and his heroic fight to overcome crippling injuries and a devastating stroke. On February 13, 1991, at the age of seventy-four, Kirk Douglas, star of such major motion-picture classics as Champion, Spartacus, and Paths of Glory, was in a helicopter crash, in which two people died and he himself sustained severe back injuries. As he lay in the hospital recovering, he kept wondering: Why had two younger men died while he, who had already lived his life fully, survived? The question drove this son of a Russian-Jewish ragman to a search for his roots and on a long journey of self-discovery -- a quest not only for the meaning of life and his own relationship with God, but for his own identity as a Jew. Through the study of the Bible, Kirk Douglas found a new spirituality and purpose. His newfound faith deeply enriched his relationship with his own children and taught him -- a man who had always been famously demanding and impatient -- to listen to others and, above all, to hear his own inner voice. Told with warmth, wit, much humor, and deep passion, Climbing the Mountain is inspirational in the very best sense of the word.

Promise the Infinite

Author : Robert Richart
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365097544
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Promise the Infinite written by Robert Richart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an annotated bibliography of English language novels which feature libraries or librarians from the 18th to the 21st century. It includes descriptions and quotes from the text. It includes novels, mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, and romance.

Spy

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spy written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart. Funny. Fearless."It's pretty safe to say that Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s. It might have remade New York's cultural landscape; it definitely changed the whole tone of magazine journalism. It was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all. There's no magazine I know of that's so continually referenced, held up as a benchmark, and whose demise is so lamented" --Dave Eggers. "It's a piece of garbage" --Donald Trump.

Marked Women

Author : Russell Campbell
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029921253X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Marked Women written by Russell Campbell and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-04-05 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Roberts played a prostitute, famously, in Pretty Woman. So did Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, Jane Fonda in Klute, Anna Karina in Vivre sa vie, Greta Garbo in Anna Christie, and Charlize Theron, who won an Academy Award for Monster. This engaging and generously illustrated study explores the depiction of female prostitute characters and prostitution in world cinema, from the silent era to the present-day industry. From the woman with control over her own destiny to the woman who cannot get away from her pimp, Russell Campbell shows the diverse representations of prostitutes in film. Marked Women classifies fifteen recurrent character types and three common narratives, many of them with their roots in male fantasy. The “Happy Hooker,” for example, is the liberated woman whose only goal is to give as much pleasure as she receives, while the “Avenger,” a nightmare of the male imagination, represents the threat of women taking retribution for all the oppression they have suffered at the hands of men. The “Love Story,” a common narrative, represents the prostitute as both heroine and anti-heroine, while “Condemned to Death” allows men to manifest, in imagination only, their hostility toward women by killing off the troubled prostitute in an act of cathartic violence. The figure of the woman whose body is available at a price has fascinated and intrigued filmmakers and filmgoers since the very beginning of cinema, but the manner of representation has also been highly conflicted and fiercely contested. Campbell explores the cinematic prostitute as a figure shaped by both reactionary thought and feminist challenges to the norm, demonstrating how the film industry itself is split by fascinating contradictions.

Good Grief God!

Author : O. Chuck Olsen
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453573836
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Good Grief God! written by O. Chuck Olsen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lets face itlosing a loved one stinks! To encourage, enlighten, and entertain those who have lost a loved one

The Cumulative Book Index

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 2248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.

Three Hollywood Stalwarts in Literature

Author : Henryk Hoffmann
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648893392
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Three Hollywood Stalwarts in Literature written by Henryk Hoffmann and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the perception of the names, personae, performances and films of three Hollywood megastars, Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and William Holden, as presented in the references and allusions encountered in American and foreign literature. Its secondary aim is to establish the ‘impact factor’ of the three actors and their major films and provide extensive data for further studies on the complex and bilateral relationships between film and literature. The pertinent quotations in ‘Three Hollywood Stalwarts in Literature: A Study in Film Perception Through References to Peck, Mitchum and Holden’ have been extracted from nearly 220 works by about 140 authors. The majority of the works were written by acclaimed authors; amongst them are some well-known American mainstream writers such as John Updike, John Irving, Fannie Flagg and Anne Tyler; some leaders of the mystery genre include Martha Grimes, Stuart Kaminsky, Elmore Leonard, Sara Paretsky; and a few masters of other popular genres, such as Stephen King and Dean Koontz. The global flavor of the citations is provided by international authors (e.g., Julio Cortázar, Elizabeth Hay, Henri Charrière, Sebastien Japrisot) and authors born to first-generation U.S. immigrants (e.g., Oscar Hijuelos). Almost seventy films referenced in world literature are discussed in the book, and those mentioned in the biggest number of works include ‘Sunset Boulevard’, ‘The Wild Bunch’, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, ‘Roman Holiday’, ‘Spellbound’, ‘The Guns of Navarone’, and ‘Duel in the Sun’, among others. This book will appeal to college professors and students interested in film studies, specifically film analysis and criticism, film perception, and film genres. It will also hold interest for the general reader interested in biographies of movie personalities and the careers of the three actors, movie and stage actors, and fans of the western, film noir, and war genres.

Cue

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cue written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

First Tango in Paris

Author : Shelley Thrasher
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1626391165
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book First Tango in Paris written by Shelley Thrasher and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacqueline "Jaq" BergeronÑNew Orleanian, suffragist, freethinkerÑdrove an ambulance on the battlefields of Europe during the Great War. She returns home and finds herself isolated in rural East Texas, keeping house for her war-hero husband as she awaits his promised divorce and plans her escape. But then she meets Molly. Molly Russell lives for her music, which sustains her as she cares for her son and husband, and suffers her mother-in-law. When she meets Jaq, a world she never imagined opens to herÑa world entirely out of reach. With the storm of war still raging in Europe and other battles to be fought at home, can two women bound by the land and family ties find the freedom to love and build a life together?

Brooklyn Life

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Brooklyn Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Obscene Profits

Author : Frederick S. Lane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135115702
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Obscene Profits written by Frederick S. Lane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-07-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex sells. Already a ten-billion dollar business-and growing-most sex businesses require relatively low start-up costs and minimal equipment. No wonder retired porn stars, homemakers, college students, and entrepreneurs of every stripe are eager to jump on the smut band wagon. Following the money trail, or in this case, the telecom routes, the author reveals how some big phone companies are cashing in too. Obscene Profits offers a startling and entertaining new look at this very old business, and shows why pornography, in all of its variations--videos, magazines, phone-sex, spy cameras, etc.-- is one of the most profitable and popular new careers to come out of the electronic age.

World War II Veterans in Hollywood

Author : Art Evans
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476639671
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book World War II Veterans in Hollywood written by Art Evans and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiling World War II veterans who became famous Hollywood personalities, this book presents biographical chapters on celebrities like Audie Murphy, "America's number one soldier"; Clark Gable, the "King of Hollywood"; Jimmy Stewart, combat pilot; Gene Autry, the "singing cowboy," who flew the infamous Hump; the amorous Mickey Rooney; Jackie Coogan, "the Kid" who crashed gliders in the jungle; James Arness, who acquired his Gunsmoke limp in the mountains of Italy; Tony Bennett, who discovered his voice during the Battle of the Bulge; and Lee Marvin, a Marine NCO who invaded 29 islands. Profiles of these and 21 others include little-known stories and details.

The Price of Illusion

Author : Joan Juliet Buck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476762961
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Price of Illusion written by Joan Juliet Buck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris and “one of the most compelling personalities in the world of style” (New York Times) comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris—“If you loved The Devil Wears Prada, you’ll adore The Price of Illusion” (Elle). In a book as rich and dramatic as the life she’s led, Joan Juliet Buck takes us into the splendid illusions of film, fashion, and fame to reveal, in stunning, sensual prose, the truth behind the artifice. The only child of a volatile movie producer betrayed by his dreams, she became a magazine journalist at nineteen to reflect and record the high life she’d been brought up in, a choice that led her into a hall of mirrors where she was both magician and dupe. After a career writing for Vogue and Vanity Fair, she was named the first American woman to edit Vogue Paris. The vivid adventures of this thoughtful, incisive writer at the hub of dreams across two continents over fifty years are hilarious and heartbreaking. Including a spectacular cast of carefully observed legends, monsters, and stars (just look at the index!), this is the moving account of a remarkable woman’s rocky passage through glamour and passion, filial duty and family madness, in search of her true self.

The Hateful and the Obscene

Author : Leonard W. Sumner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442631554
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Hateful and the Obscene written by Leonard W. Sumner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-11-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of landmark decisions since 1990, Canadian courts have shaped a distinctive approach to the regulation of obscenity, hate literature, and child pornography. Missing from the debate, however, has been any attempt to determine whether the legal status quo can be justified by reference to a framework of moral/political principles. The Hateful and the Obscene is intended to fill that gap. L.W. Sumner brings philosophical depth and theoretical rigour to some of the most important and difficult questions concerning free expression. Building on a framework set out by J.S. Mill – that a legal restriction of expression is justified only when the expression in question is harmful to others and when the benefits of the restriction will exceed its costs – Sumner shows how the Canadian courts have replicated Mill's framework in their interpretation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Hateful and the Obscene is a compelling interpretation of freedom of expression that combines serious philosophical thought with a focus on Canadian law, thus maintaining the breadth to deal with both obscenity and hate literature.