Behind The Candelabra

Author : Marc Tyler Nobleman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399174435
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chupacabra Ate the Candelabra written by Marc Tyler Nobleman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its hilarious dialogue, trio of bumbling goats, and fantastically zany villain, this unique, laugh-out-loud story based on a legendary monster is sure to crack up kids and grown-ups alike. Like most goats, Jayna, Bumsie, and Pep’s greatest fear is being eaten for dinner by the legendary chupacabra—it’s common knowledge that goats are a chupacabra’s favorite food! One night, tired of living in fear, the impetuous goats whip out their trusty candelabra and head off to find the beast and scare it away before it can find them. Little do they know that candelabras are the chupacabra’s third-favorite food . . . and he isn’t about to stop there. This chupacabra has quite the appetite, and the goats are in for a big surprise!

Author : Rob Lowe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451685750
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Life written by Rob Lowe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the heels of his New York Times bestselling Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe is back with an entertaining collection that “invites readers into his world with easy charm and disarming frankness” (Kirkus Reviews). After the incredible response to his acclaimed bestseller, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe was convinced to mine his experiences for even more stories. The result is Love Life, a memoir about men and women, actors and producers, art and commerce, fathers and sons, movies and TV, addiction and recovery, sex and love. Among the adventures he describes in these pages are: · His visit, as a young man, to Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion, where the naïve actor made a surprising discovery in the hot tub. · The time, as a boy growing up in Malibu, he discovered a vibrator belonging to his best friend’s mother. · What it’s like to be the star and producer of a flop TV show. · How an actor prepares, for Californification, Parks and Recreation, and numerous other roles. · His hilarious account of coaching a kid’s basketball team dominated by helicopter parents. · How his great, great, great, great, great grandfather may have inspired everything from his love of The West Wing to his taste in classic American architecture. · His first visit to college, with his son, who is going to receive the education his father never got. · The time a major movie star stole his girlfriend. Linked by common themes and his philosophical perspective on love—and life—Lowe’s writing “is loaded with showbiz anecdotes, self-deprecating tales, and has a general sweetness” (New York Post).

Author : Connie Furr Soloman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062202561
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberace Extravaganza! written by Connie Furr Soloman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for his spectacular performances, the magnificent Wladziu Valentino Liberace was a world-renowned star in the entertainment industry for more than four decades, and his dazzling, often outrageous costumes are what made him most memorable. In Liberace Extravaganza! the entertainer's sequined, bejeweled, and rhinestone-studded outfits, as well as his extravagant collection of furs, feather capes, sparkling bow ties, and custom-made shoes are exhibited in book form for the very first time. These mesmerizing costumes grew from Liberace's humble beginnings when, as a young man, he would perform in his brother's hand-me-downs. From there, his suits, worth as much as twenty-four thousand dollars, featured layers of silk and satin ruffles, Swarovski crystal rhinestones, and fourteen-karat white-gold, diamond-encrusted buttons, culminating in his "electric" costumes with four thousand light bulbs weighing more than twenty-five pounds. Michael Travis, Liberace's principal designer, has written the foreword for this breathtaking volume. Jim Lapidus, another of Liberace's designers, furrier Anna Nateece, and Ray Arnett, his producer, have contributed original sketches used to design Liberace's costumes. The result is a book that is one of a kind: a celebration of the legendary performer and a visual feast of the most extraordinary costumes ever created. With more than 260 full-color photographs

Author : Bob Thomas
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312913526
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberace written by Bob Thomas and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profile of the performer's public persona, and career accompanies a look at Liberace's private personality--a hopelessly romantic homosexual secretly seeking pleasure at the risk of ruining his career

Author : Liberace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780352300102
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberace written by Liberace and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scott Thorson
Publisher : Tantor Media Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781618030955
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Candelabra written by Scott Thorson and published by Tantor Media Incorporated. This book was released on 2013-05-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the "world's greatest entertainer"revealed by the man most qualified to disclose it, his longtime live-in lover.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the candelabra written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Before Elvis, before Elton John, Madonna and Lady Gaga, there was Liberace: virtuoso pianist, outrageous entertainer and flamboyant star of stage and television. A name synonymous with showmanship, extravagance and candelabras, he was a world-renowned performer with a flair that endeared him to his audiences and created a loyal fan base spanning his 40 year career. Liberace lived lavishly and embraced a lifestyle of excess both on and off stage. In summer 1977, handsome young stranger Scott Thorson walked into his dressing room and, despite their age difference and seemingly different worlds, the two embarked on a secretive five-year love affair." -- Container. | Performed by Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Dan Ackroyd, Scott Bakula, Rob Lowe, Debbie Reynolds. | Casting by Carmen Cuba; Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick; Music supervisor Evyen J. Klean; Music adapted by Marvin Hamlisch; Production designer Howard Cummings; Executive producer Gregory Jacobs, Susan Ekins, Michael Polaire; Produced by Jerry Weintraub; Based on the book by Scott Thorson with Alex Thorleifson; Screenplay by Richard LaGravenese; Directed by Stephen Soderbergh. | In English; English captions for the hearing impaired; English audio description for the vision impaired. | Region 4; PAL. | Rated M: Suitable for mature audiences 16 years and over. Note: contains sex scenes, offensive language and drug use.

Author : Darden Asbury Pyron
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022611712X
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberace written by Darden Asbury Pyron and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More people watched his nationally syndicated television show between 1953 and 1955 than followed I Love Lucy. Even a decade after his death, the attendance records he set at Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl, and Radio City Music Hall still stand. Arguably the most popular entertainer of the twentieth century, this very public figure nonetheless kept more than a few secrets. Darden Asbury Pyron, author of the acclaimed and bestselling Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell, leads us through the life of America's foremost showman with his fresh, provocative, and definitive portrait of Liberace, an American boy. Liberace's career follows the trajectory of the classic American dream. Born in the Midwest to Polish-Italian immigrant parents, he was a child prodigy who, by the age of twenty, had performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Abandoning the concert stage for the lucrative and glittery world of nightclubs, celebrities, and television, Liberace became America's most popular entertainer. While wildly successful and good natured outwardly, Liberace, Pyron reveals, was a complicated man whose political, social, and religious conservativism existed side-by-side with a lifetime of secretive homosexuality. Even so, his swishy persona belied an inner life of ferocious aggression and ambition. Pyron relates this private man to his public persona and places this remarkable life in the rapidly changing cultural landscape of twentieth-century America. Pyron presents Liberace's life as a metaphor, for both good and ill, of American culture, with its shopping malls and insatiable hunger for celebrity. In this fascinating biography, Pyron complicates and celebrates our image of the man for whom the streets were paved with gold lamé. "An entertaining and rewarding biography of the pianist and entertainer whose fans' adoration was equaled only by his critics' loathing. . . . [Pyron] persuasively argues that Liberace, thoroughly and rigorously trained, was a genuine musician as well as a brilliant showman. . . . [A]n immensely entertaining story that should be fascinating and pleasurable to anyone with an interest in American popular culture."—Kirkus Reviews "This is a wonderful book, what biography ought to be and so seldom is."—Kathryn Hughes, Daily Telegraph "[A]bsorbing and insightful. . . . Pyron's interests are far-ranging and illuminating-from the influence of a Roman Catholic sensibility on Liberace and gay culture to the aesthetics of television and the social importance of self-improvement books in the 1950s. Finally, he achieves what many readers might consider impossible: a persuasive case for Liberace's life and times as the embodiment of an important cultural moment."—Publishers Weekly "Liberace, coming on top of his amazing life of Margaret Mitchell, Southern Daughter, puts Darden Pyron in the very first rank of American biographers. His books are as exciting as the lives of his subjects."—Tom Wolfe "Fascinating, thoughtful, exhaustive, and well-written, this book will serve as the standard biography of a complex icon of American popular culture."—Library Journal

Author : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119554799
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Biopic written by Deborah Cartmell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive reference text of theoretical and historical discourse on the biopic film The biopic, often viewed as the most reviled of all film genres, traces its origins to the early silent era over a century ago. Receiving little critical attention, biopics are regularly dismissed as superficial, formulaic, and disrespectful of history. Film critics, literary scholars and historians tend to believe that biopics should be artistic, yet accurate, true-to-life representations of their subjects. Moviegoing audiences, however, do not seem to hold similar views; biopics continue to be popular, commercially viable films. Even the genre’s most ardent detractors will admit that these films are often very watchable, particularly due to the performance of the lead actor. It is increasingly common for stars of biographical films to garner critical praise and awards, driving a growing interest in scholarship in the genre. A Companion to the Biopic is the first global and authoritative reference on the subject. Offering theoretical, historical, thematic, and performance-based approaches, this unique volume brings together the work of top scholars to discuss the coverage of the lives of authors, politicians, royalty, criminals, and pop stars through the biopic film. Chapters explore evolving attitudes and divergent perspectives on the genre with topics such as the connections between biopics and literary melodramas, the influence financial concerns have on aesthetic, social, or moral principles, the merger of historical narratives with Hollywood biographies, stereotypes and criticisms of the biopic genre, and more. This volume: Provides a systematic, in-depth analysis of the biopic and considers how the choice of historical subject reflects contemporary issues Places emphasis on films that portray race and gender issues Explores the uneven boundaries of the genre by addressing what is and is not a biopic as well as the ways in which films simultaneously embrace and defy historical authenticity Examines the distinction between reality and ‘the real’ in biographical films Offers a chronological survey of biopics from the beginning of the 20th century A Companion to the Biopic is a valuable resource for researchers, scholars, and students of history, film studies, and English literature, as well as those in disciplines that examine interpretations of historical figures

Author : Paul S. Bruckman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456878956
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) : Purgatorio written by Paul S. Bruckman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book of a trilogy. Click on the links below to view the other two volumes of the trilogy. LA DIVINA COMMEDIA (THE DIVINE COMEDY) : Inferno LA DIVINA COMMEDIA (THE DIVINE COMEDY) : Paradiso