Friday, July 9, 2010

The New Comedy Writing Step by Step


  • ISBN13: 9781884956669
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Three-time Emmy Award-winner Gene Perret’s Comedy Writing Step by Step has been the manual for humor writers for 25 years. In this new book, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the selling of one’s work. Perret covers all aspects of comedy writing in his uniquely knowledgeable and anecdotal fashion.... More >>

The New Comedy Writing Step by Step

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Mrs. Warren's Profession



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An unabridged edition of the four acts, to include the complete author's apology written prior to the play's first performance (1902) at the New Lyric Club, London.... More >>

Mrs. Warren's Profession

Monday, July 5, 2010

Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus


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ACTIONS: The Actors' Thesaurus is a vital companion for actors in rehearsal—a thesaurus of action words to revitalize performance. Actors need actions. Actors cannot ‘act’ adjectives, they need verbs. Verbs are an aim to achieve, an action to perform. ‘Actions’ are active verbs. ‘I tempt you.’ ‘You taunt me.’ In order to perform an action truthfully--and therefore convincingly-- an actor needs to find exactly the right action to suit that ... More >>

Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus

Saturday, July 3, 2010

The Art of Acting


  • ISBN13: 9781557833730
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Stella Adler was one of the 20th Centuryƃ•s greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro. The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties, but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly caught and encapsulated by Howard K... More >>

The Art of Acting

Saturday, June 26, 2010

The Monkey Wrench Gang



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Edward Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang a "comic extravaganza," which it is, although one with a clear, serious message: to protect the American wilderness from the forces of commercial enterprise. The story centers on George Hayduke, an ex-Green Beret and Vietnam vet, who returns to the Southwestern desert after the war to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a whitewater rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins... More >>

The Monkey Wrench Gang

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers


  • ISBN13: 9781580625500
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As an aspiring screenwriter, you dream of one day seeing the fruits of your vision splashed across the big screen. Whether you believe great screenwriters are made or born, you'll be on the fast track to finding your Muse after tuning in to the secrets of fourteen of Tinseltown's top screenwriters, including Ron Bass (Rain Man), Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), Amy Holden Jones (Indecent Proposal), and Steven DeSouza (Die Hard). Author Karl Iglesias, Hollywood story anal... More >>

The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Importance of Being Earnest



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(Description From Wikipedia) The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde. It premiered on February 14, 1895 at the St. James's Theatre in London.

Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. It is replete with witty dialogue and satirizes some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian society. It has proved Wilde's mos... More >>

The Importance of Being Earnest

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Understanding Movies



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  Updated in a new 12th edition , this book is organized around the elements of film and provides readers valuable insight into how movies communicate and convey meaning to their audiences.

This book engages readers in the fascinating language of film and helps further their appreciation and understanding of why and how movie watchers respond as they do to different films. From Slumdog Millionaire to Transformers. this book provides readers with a new way ... More >>

Understanding Movies

Thursday, June 17, 2010

The Laramie Project


  • ISBN13: 9780375727191
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On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and it’s they we hear in this stunningly effective theater piece, a deeply complex portrait of a community.... More >>

The Laramie Project

Monday, June 14, 2010

An Actor Prepares


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Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.Amazon.com Review
So much mystery and veneration surrounds the writings of the great Russian teacher and director Stanislavski that perhaps the greatest surprise awaiting a first-time reader of An Actor Prepares is how conversational, commonsensical, and even at times funny this legendary book is. After ma... More >>

An Actor Prepares

Sunday, June 6, 2010

The Fifth Elephant



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A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels



Commander Vimes is sent to wild, wintry and Transylvania-like Uberwald to establish trade links with the King of the Dwarfs but he ends up trying to stop and inter-species war. On his side though, is a talking dog, a reformed vampyre and a self-made man. You can tell he's self-made because the stitches still show.

Vimes may have arrived as Ankh-Morpork's ambassador but he soon fin... More >>

The Fifth Elephant

Friday, June 4, 2010

Macbeth



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The shortest of Shakespeare's tragedies, Macbeth is compressed, complex and ambiguous and has been interpreted in various ways. This Introduction describes major productions and performers that include David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and Laurence Olivier. A detailed commentary accompanying the play's text describes how specific episodes and passages have been interpreted in the theater.... More >>

Macbeth

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Methods in Behavioral Research



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"Methods in Behavioral Research" is a concise introduction to research methods for psychology and behavioral science courses. It has been the best selling title in this course for at least fifteen years, and is considered by many to be the most student-friendly text for research methods - the one that students will read.... More >>

Methods in Behavioral Research

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Proof



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This Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winning play is about an enigmatic young woman, her manipulative sister, their brilliant father, and an unexpected suitor, all pieces of a puzzle within the search for the truth behind the mysterious mathematical proof. Directed by Jenny Sullivan. Starring: Robert Foxworth, Anne Heche, Kaitlin Hopkins, and Jeremy Sisto... More >>

Proof

Monday, May 17, 2010

Respect for Acting


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Respect for Acting

"This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she [taught], and an explanation of the means to the end."
--Publishers Weekly

"Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience, skill, and a sense of personal and pr... More >>

Respect for Acting

Doubt: A Parable



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Now a major motion picture! Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley from his Pulitzer Prizewinning play.The best new play of the season. That rarity of rarities, an issue-driven play that is unpreachy, thought-provoking, and so full of high drama that the audience with which I saw it gasped out loud a half-dozen times at its startling twists and turns. Mr. Shanley deserves the highest possible praise... More >>

Doubt: A Parable

Lord of the Dance


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As the spirited step dancer and international star of Riverdance, Michael Flatley shattered records, silenced doubters, revolutionized an ancient dance form, and brought joy to millions of people worldwide. After finding his calling at the age of eleven, when he was "dragged by the ears" to dance school, Michael went on to become the first American to win the World Irish Dancing Championship. In this no-holds-barred autobiography, Michael explains what really happen... More >>

Lord of the Dance

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Les Miserables: Vocal / Piano Selections


  • 80 pagesSize: 12" x 9"Composer: Claude-Michel SchƶnbergISBN: 881885770

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This terrific songbook features 14 vocal selections from the beloved Broadway musical: At the End of the Day * Bring Him Home * Castle on a Cloud * Do You Hear the People Sing? * Drink with Me (To Days Gone By) * Empty Chairs at Empty Tables * A Heart Full of Love * I Dreamed a Dream * In My Life * A Little Fall of Rain * Master of the House * On My Own * Stars * Who Am I?. Also includes beautiful full-color photos from the production.Amazon.com Review
The... More >>

Les Miserables: Vocal / Piano Selections

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part


  • ISBN13: 9780802772404
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The casting director for Chicago, Pippin, Becket, Gypsy, The Graduate, the Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar tells you how you can find your dream! Absolutely everything an actor needs to know to get the part is here: What to do that moment before, how to use humour; create mystery; how to develop a distinct style; and how to evaluate the place, the relationships and the competition. In fact, Audition is a necessary guide to dealing with all the "auditions" ... More >>

Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

Monday, May 10, 2010

Deliverance: A Screenplay



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“The writing of the screenplay became an intense and extremely stimulating sort of game in which, with a camera in the hands of God rather than any mortal cinemaphotographer, I wrote the scenes one after the other as I would like to have them be.”—from the Afterword This is the original screenplay that Dickey submitted to Warner Brothers. He had begun it with the idea of creating a work that would stand on its own as a work of art and still enhance and deepen... More >>

Deliverance: A Screenplay

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Mcteague



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An early example of American realism, "McTeague" was considered truly shocking when first published at the turn of the century. This searing portrait of the downfall of a slow-witted dentist and his avaricious wife embodies Frank Norris' powerful insights into conflicting forces of heredity and social conditioning. It is a novel of compelling narrative force, resounding with a sense of life as epic. As Kevin Starr points out in his introduction, "McTeague" continues... More >>

Mcteague

Saturday, May 8, 2010

My Booky Wook



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In 2006 Russell Brand exploded onto the international comedy scene. He has been named Time Out’s Comedian of the Year, Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards, and Most Stylish Man at GQ’s Men. His UK stand-up tour was sold out and his BBC Radio 6 show became a cult phenomenon, the second most popular podcast of the year. Before the fame, however, Russell’s life was anything but glamorous. His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at age ... More >>

My Booky Wook

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Interesting Times



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Hilarious stage adaptation of a best-selling Pratchett novel.Amazon.com Review
Marvelous Discworld, which revolves on the backs of four great elephants and a big turtle, spins into Interesting Times, the 17th outing in Terry Pratchett's rollicking fantasy series. The gods are playing games again, and this time the mysterious Lady opposes Fate in a match of "Destinies of Nations Hanging by a Thread." --Blaise Selby... More >>

Interesting Times

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Sanford Meisner on Acting


  • ISBN13: 9780394750590
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This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Throughout these pages Meisner is delight--always empathizing with his students and urging them onward, provoking emotion, laughter, and growing technical mastery from his charges. With an introduction by Sydney P... More >>

Sanford Meisner on Acting

Caesar and Cleopatra



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Caesar and Cleopatra satirizes Shakespeare’s use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaw’s own time, but the undertone of melancholy makes it one of his most affecting plays.... More >>

Caesar and Cleopatra

Monday, May 3, 2010

Just a Geek



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Wil Wheaton has never been one to take the conventional path to success. Despite early stardom through his childhood role in the motion picture "Stand By Me", and growing up on television as Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", Wil left Hollywood in pursuit of happiness, purpose, and a viable means of paying the bills. In the oddest of places, Topeka, Kansas, Wil discovered that despite his claims to fame, he was at heart Just a Geek.

In this ... More >>

Just a Geek

Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats



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This Halcyon Classics collection contains dozens of works by William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th-Century English-language poetry, drama, and literature. Yeats (1865-1939) is best known for his poetry, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, the first Irish writer so honored.

Yeats was born and educated in Dublin, studying poetry in his youth. From an early age he was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occu... More >>

The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition



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A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. In this stunning phenomenon that has swept the nation, Eve Ensler gives us real women's stories of intimacy, vulnerability, and sexual self-discovery.

Celebrated as the bible for a new generation of women, The Vagina Monologues has been performed in cities all across America and at hund... More >>

The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition

Absolute Power: The Screenplay



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When a routine burglary in an elegant, upscale Virginia mansion goes awry, career thief Luther Whitney finds himself witness to a brutal murder involving none other than Alan Richmond, the youthful, charming, and thoroughly corrupt President of the United States. Torn between fear for his life and devotion to his family and country, Luther must make a decision that will change not only his own destiny, but the destiny of the world as we know it. Based on the best-se... More >>

Absolute Power: The Screenplay

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The Tempest



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Each edition includes:• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play• Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play• Scene-by-scene plot summaries• A key to famous lines and phrases• An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language• An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play• Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare booksEss... More >>

The Tempest

Monday, April 26, 2010

A Raisin in the Sun



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Drama / 7m, 3f, 1 boy / Int. This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Ma... More >>

A Raisin in the Sun

No Exit and Three Other Plays


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4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.... More >>

No Exit and Three Other Plays

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived


  • ISBN13: 9780060929510
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Spanning several decades and three continents, Modoc is one of the most amazing true animal stories ever told. Raised together in a small German circus town, a boy and an elephant formed a bond that would last their entire lives, and would be tested time and again; through a near-fatal shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, an apprenticeship with the legendary Mahout elephant trainers in the Indian teak forests, and their eventual rise to circus stardom in 1940s New York Ci... More >>

Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived

Glass Menagerie



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Set in St Louis during the depression, the glass menagerie is one of Tennessee Williams' most powerful and moving plays. Abandoned by her husband when he 'fell in love with long distances', Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious, life in blue mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace. Laura, her s... More >>

Glass Menagerie

Friday, April 23, 2010

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest



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The Importance of Being Earnest is both Oscar Wilde's most important and funniest play. As the subtitle suggests there is more to this play than its farcical nature suggests. Wilde calls into question the nature of identity while poking fun at proper British manners and the aristocracy. Even after one hundred years, The Importance of Being Earnest continues to be the standard by which all other farces are judged. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of o... More >>

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators



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The definitive working manual on animation, from the triple Academy Award winning Director of Animation of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Animation is one of the hottest and most creative areas of film-making today-- and the master animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard Williams. During his more than forty years in the business, Williams has been one of the true innovators, and serves as the link between the golden age of animation by hand a... More >>

The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Julius Caesar



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William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" is the first of three Roman history plays that Shakespeare would write. Closely based on actual events as chronicled in Plutarch's "Lives", it is the story of the tragic downfall of Julius Caesar and of those who conspire against him. At the beginning of the play it is feared that Julius Caesar wishes to make himself the King and thus dictator of Rome. From this fear a plan to kill him is hatched. Some of Shakespeare's most memo... More >>

Julius Caesar

Monday, April 19, 2010

For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf


  • ISBN13: 9781451624205
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From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New... More >>

For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

Sunday, April 18, 2010

The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks



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Those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

From the Stone Age to the information age, the undead have threatened to engulf the human race. They’re coming. They’re hungry.

Don’t wait for them to come to you!

This is the graphic novel the fans demanded: major zombie attacks from the dawn of humanity. On the African savannas, against the legions of ancient Rome, on the high seas with Francis Drake . . . every civilizati... More >>

The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks

Friday, April 16, 2010

Mao's Last Dancer



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Li Cunxin grew up in a remote commune village in China. His life was one of daily hardships - there was never enough food for him or his six brothers and his only entertainment, especially during the harsh winters, was being told Chinese fables by his father. His life seemed mapped out - he was "the frog at the bottom of the well" who would have to be content with being able to see only a small patch of sky. Then in 1971, at the age of 10, Li was chosen to train as ... More >>

Mao's Last Dancer

Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet


  • ISBN13: 9781400060603
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One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year

For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps and gesture... More >>

Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet

Confessions of a Video Vixen


  • ISBN13: 9780060892487
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Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry—from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life—to the excessive use of drugs, sex and bling. Once the sought-after video girl, this sexy siren has helped multi-platinum artists, such as Jay-Z, R. Kel... More >>

Confessions of a Video Vixen

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Hamlet



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This text is part of a series of selected Shakepeare texts designed for student use. The introduction provides criticsim, covering themes, characters and dramatic structure, and helpful notes are provided at the right level on every page, facing the text.... More >>

Hamlet

Monday, April 12, 2010

Dancing Lessons: How I Found Passion and Potential on the Dance Floor and in Life



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The inside story of the life of Cheryl Burke, professional dancer, choreographer, and two-time champion on the top-rated TV hit series Dancing with the Stars Cheryl Burke has been dancing since the age of four and competing since she was thirteen years old. Over several exciting seasons, she has captivated audiences of Dancing with the Stars with her incredible dance performances, Emmy-nominated choreography, high energy, and bright smile. In Dancing Lessons,... More >>

Dancing Lessons: How I Found Passion and Potential on the Dance Floor and in Life

I Was a Dancer



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From one of America’s finest, and most celebrated, classical dancers; former principal dancer for more than three decades with the New York City Ballet—the irresistible story of an exhilarating life in dance.

He writes of the New York City Ballet and those at its center: Lincoln Kirstein; Jerome Robbins; George Balanchine (“With Robbins, you were amplified; with Balanchine, you were transformed”), as well as the ballerinas who were Balanchine’s muse... More >>

I Was a Dancer

Friday, April 9, 2010

Here We Go Again: My Life in Television



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A warm and intimate look into the life and work of one of television's most beloved stars offers Betty White's own revealing stories about her marriages, friendships, The Golden Girls, and much more. Reprint."... More >>

Here We Go Again: My Life in Television

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Born Standing Up



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In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away." Emmy and Grammy Award winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been awriter. His memoir of his yea... More >>

Born Standing Up

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Winters Tale: Applause First Folio Editions



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If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts.The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes... More >>

The Winters Tale: Applause First Folio Editions

Monday, April 5, 2010

Mildred Pierce



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    Albert J. LaValley's through and insightful guide to Mildred Pierce at once tells us much about the making of this complex film, the problems and process of transferring the story to the screen, the specific and important roles of the producer, director, and set designer, and how the film relates to broad trends within the industry. It is without a doubt the most thorough treatment of this important American motion picture.... More >>

Mildred Pierce

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Phantom of the Opera



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The thrilling story of the 'Opera Ghost', legendary for making performers at the Paris Opera House apprehensive when they sit in their dressing-rooms or walk alone in the building's corridors. But it isn't until the triumphant performance the sensual Christine and her startling disappearance that a sense of dread begins to pervade. In an ever increasing pattern of fear and violence, the phantom of the opera begins to strike, but always with the beautiful young singe... More >>

Phantom of the Opera