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ABRAMS
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2023
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From the writer crowned one of the smartest, funniest voices in modern America, this hotly anticipated debut collection of essays offers "a precious glimpse into how Ziwe's uniquely fearless mind functions" (New York Magazine)
Ziwe made a name for herself by asking guests like Alyssa Milano, Fran Lebowitz, and Chet Hanks direct questions. In Black Friend, she turns her incisive perspective on both herself and the culture at large. Throughout the...
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"Cutting the Cord" is an essential guidebook for anyone looking to break free from the high costs of cable television without sacrificing their favorite shows and channels. This practical guide provides a comprehensive look at the myriad of alternatives available in the rapidly evolving world of digital streaming and on-demand services.Starting with a historical perspective on the rise and decline of traditional cable TV, the book then navigates the...
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La fábrica de sueños de Hollywood atraviesa una pesadilla de restricciones. La cultura woke y sus políticas de identidad parecen enloquecer, estableciendo nuevas reglas que muchos ven como una lamentable pérdida de libertad. Las consignas se introducen en guiones y películas que pugnan por obtener un Oscar, y también en televisión, hasta constituir una verdadera revolución en el modo de mostrar sus contenidos.
El galardonado crítico de cine...
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Let's play a video game online! There are many different kinds of online games, and they can be played on types of different devices. Explore the world of gaming, then learn some helpful tips on how to stay safe online. Colorful illustrations paired with bright photos help young readers gain digital literacy.
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This guide is formulated to help you get started with using your iPhone in as little time as possible. You can start using the iPhone as soon as you start using this book rather than have to wait to finish the guide before starting. That is not even all, this guide was purposely written to serve as an iPhone guide in a non-formal and too techy language except where it cannot be avoided, even then, a lot of efforts has been put in to ensure the language...
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One of the most daring, creative, and influential minds in nonfiction television, Arthur Smith draws on the most exciting moments of his pioneering career as a producer to show how far you can go when you reach for your dreams.
Arthur Smith is famous for his innovation and audacity, and as the man behind some of the longest-running unscripted series in television history. His groundbreaking hit Hell's Kitchen forged the modern food competition reality...
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A television producer's memoir of the golden age of the variety show… A humble Canadian boy who grew up to create iconic American TV shows featuring the Hollywood celebrities of the day, Frank Peppiatt made his breakthrough by developing the rock TV show Hullabuloo with his partner, John Aylesworth. That led to a writing gig for Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé-and then to the long-running smash hit Hee-Haw. In this autobiography, he recounts a career...
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He aquí las memorias de Elvis Costello, uno de los personajes más singulares y auténticos en la cultura popular contemporánea. Costello no es una estrella en el sentido convencional del término: quizá deberíamos decir que hace treinta años fue un astro del pop y que luego se convirtió en un músico extraordinario. En las páginas de "Música infiel" descubrimos al individuo que desde los 13 años se sintió fascinado no sólo por la música,...
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Ray Winstone's amazing talent for bringing out the humanity buried inside his often brutal screen characters - violent offender in Scum, wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, retired blagger in Sexy Beast - has made him one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. But how do these uncompromising and often haunting performances square with his off-duty reputation as the ultimate salt-of-the-earth diamond geezer? The answer lies in the East End of his...
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For the first time EVER, global superstars One Direction are releasing their 100% official autobiography, offering a new, intimate insight into their lives as never before seen or heard! In their first in-depth autobiography, pop sensations Niall, Zayn, Liam, Harry and Louis tell the story of their lives. From nervously auditioning for the X Factor and meeting each other for the first time, to filming their hit movie This Is Us and releasing their...
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A Three-part series of booklets looking back at the career of Windsor, Ontario's legendary The Chantones.This booklet is Part 1. The Early Years 1954-1957 covers the quartet from their beginnings to the release of their #1 Canadian hit record "Ann Marie". Features interviews with The Chantone's Jack Grenier and Jim Nantais.Future booklets will be: Part 2 The History of The Chantones - Jack Scott and more success - 1958-61 and the final booklet will...
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The story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and survived - just about - to tell the tale...
Chris Evans's extraordinary career has seen him become one of the country's most successful broadcasters and producers. From The Big Breakfast to Don't Forget Your Toothbrush and TFI Friday, Chris changed the TV landscape during the '90s; and on Manchester's Piccadilly Radio, BBC Radio 1's Breakfast show and as owner of Virgin Radio...
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Mae Murray (1885-1965), popularly known as "the girl with the bee-stung lips," was a fiery presence in silent-era Hollywood. Renowned for her classic beauty and charismatic presence, she rocketed to stardom as a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies, moving across the country to star in her first film, To Have and to Hold, in 1916. An instant hit with audiences, Murray soon became one of the most famous names in Tinseltown.
However, Murray's moment in the...
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Douglas, living a humdrum life in Spokane, Washington, yearning to escape working as an accountant, borderline suicidal, leaves his life behind to pursue his dream of working in entertainment. Hollywood, full of sin, seduces Douglas, distracting him in many ways. The men in the town are quite intoxicating and he exposes some pretty explicit parts of his life while making the transition to Hollywood. Douglas finds his way to cope living with the craziness...
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The son of a deranged Italian immigrant, Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837) was the most celebrated of English clowns. The first to use white-face make-up and wear outrageous coloured clothes, he completely transformed the role of the Clown in the pantomime with a look as iconic as Chaplin's tramp or Tommy Cooper's magician. One of the first celebrity comedians, his friends included Lord Byron and the actor Edmund Kean, and his memoirs were edited by the...
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A serious and in-depth look at one of the great legends of Hollywood by the London film critic and author of Audrey: Her Real Story. Elizabeth Taylor was perhaps the most "public" of the great stars: an Oscar-winning actress who lived her entire life in the glare of the spotlights. Much has been written about her, but now-with the readability, sensitivity, and thoroughness that have made his previous biographies bestsellers-Alexander Walker explores...
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Quite simply, Last of the Summer Wine is the longest-running comedy programme in the world. It premiered 37 years ago, in 1973, and, after 31 series it finally came to an end last year — even though all its original protagonists — Compo, Foggy, even Nora Batty — are now dead.
Remarkably, for a series of such longevity and international appeal, it is all about elderly people, has little action or plot, and is set and filmed in and around the...
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If They Move . . . Kill 'Em! is the first major biography of David Samuel Peckinpah. Written by the film critic and historian David Weddle, this fascinating account does critical justice to an important body of cinema as it spins the tale of Peckinpah's dramatic, overcharged life and the turbulent times through which he moved. Sam Peckinpah was born into a clan of lumberjacks, cattle ranchers, and frontier lawyers. After a hitch with the Marines,...
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Blending mythology and memory, Saga Boy follows a young Black immigrant's vibrant personal metamorphosis.
Growing up as a clever, willful boy in a tiny village in the tropical forests of Trinidad-raised by his indomitable grandmother, Miss Excelly, and her King James Bible-Antonio Michael Downing is steeped in the legacies of his scattered family, the vibrant culture of the island, and the weight of its colonial history. But following Miss Excelly's...
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Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was known not only as the world's first international movie star, but as a comedian, a film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than the last. In this animated biography of Chaplin, Joyce...
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