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Author: Chris Van Wyk Publisher: ISBN: 9780636027923 Category : Children's literature, African Languages : en Pages : 62
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This volume is part of a series of stories featuring a group of friends who have all sorts of exciting adventures. Suitable for the intermediate phase, the stories are written at different levels of ability.
Author: Chris Van Wyk Publisher: ISBN: 9780636027923 Category : Children's literature, African Languages : en Pages : 62
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This volume is part of a series of stories featuring a group of friends who have all sorts of exciting adventures. Suitable for the intermediate phase, the stories are written at different levels of ability.
Author: Lisa Jakub Publisher: Beaufort Books ISBN: 0825307007 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 292
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At the age of twenty-two, Lisa Jakub had what she was supposed to want: she was a working actor in Los Angeles. She had more than forty movies and TV shows to her name, she had been in blockbusters like Mrs. Doubtfire and Independence Day, she walked the red carpet and lived in the house she bought when she was fifteen. But something was missing. Passion. Purpose. Happiness.Lisa had been working since the age of four, after a man approached her parents at a farmer’s market and asked her to audition for a commercial. That chance encounter dictated the next eighteen years of her unusual— and frequently awkward—life. She met Princess Diana... and almost fell on her while attempting to curtsy. She filmed in exciting locations... and her high school asked her not to come back. She went to fancy parties... and got kind of kidnapped that one time. Success was complicated.Making movies, traveling the world, and meeting intriguing people was fun for a while, but Lisa eventually realized she was living a life based on momentum and definitions of success that were not her own. She battled severe anxiety and panic attacks while feeling like she was living someone else’s dream. Not wanting to become a child actor stereotype, Lisa retired from acting and left L.A. in search of a path that felt more authentic to her.In this funny and insightful book, Lisa chronicles the adventures of growing up in the film industry and her difficult decision to leave behind the only life she had ever known, to examine her priorities, and write the script for her own life. She explores the universal question we all ask ourselves: what do I want to be when I grow up?
Author: Yael Kohen Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374287236 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 338
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Kohen assembles America's most prominent comediennes to piece together an oral history about the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy.
Author: Gillian Roberts Publisher: Untreed Reads ISBN: 1611877261 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 217
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Marin County is famous for its affluent pleasures and the beauty of its beaches, mountains and redwood forests. In Time and Trouble, a teen-aged runaway, a yellow hearse, an insurance scam, a heart-shaped talisman, a baby’s skeleton in a meadow, and something ugly and odd going on in a Sausalito houseboat all converge there to provide the first—and nearly last—case for Billie August, the new hire of seasoned P.I. Emma Howe. Billie, a single parent with no practical job skills, desperately needs the job, and Emma, whose personality has caused most of her employees to head for the hills, hires the sure-to-fail inexperienced young woman out of her own desperation. An unlikely, antagonistic pair, both find out that things are seldom as they seem, and appearances—in and out of crime and investigation—can be dangerously deceiving.
Author: Mimi Kennedy Publisher: Smith & Kraus ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 280
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Actress Mimi Kennedy's face may be more familiar than her name, but she has racked up over 20 years of show business credits, including a stint in the original production of Grease and lead roles in several TV shows. Kennedy knew early on she wanted to be an actress, and it didn't hurt that her cousin by marriage was actress Ruth Warwick (Phoebe on the soap All My Children). After graduating from Smith College, Kennedy followed the usual rocky road to New York. This isn't just a gossipy film memoir, though there are plenty of humorous anecdotes involving "names." It is the candid, self-effacing story of an American girl of the Baby Boom generation who just happened to want to be an actress, and there is much here beyond the theater that anyone of that generation can appreciate. This is an especially well-written, funny, and insightful work, especially regarding the machinations of breaking into the theater.
Author: Charlotte Chandler Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 9781557837516 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 356
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(Applause Books). Joan Crawford (1908-1977) was best known for her starring roles in The Women , Grand Hotel , Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, Johnny Guitar , and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Charlotte Chandler's fascinating and intimate portrait includes interviews with Crawford; her first husband, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Bette Davis; and Myrna Loy, and is perhaps her finest biography yet.
Author: J. E. Smyth Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190840846 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 329
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Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM behind the scenes, over a dozen women worked as producers, a woman headed the Screen Writers Guild three times, and press claimed Hollywood was a generation or two ahead of the rest of the country in terms of gender equality and employment. The first comprehensive history of Hollywood's high-flying career women during the studio era, Nobody's Girl Friday covers the impact of the executives, producers, editors, writers, agents, designers, directors, and actresses who shaped Hollywood film production and style, led their unions, climbed to the top during the war, and fought the blacklist. Based on a decade of archival research, author J.E. Smyth uncovers a formidable generation working within the American film industry and brings their voices back into the history of Hollywood. Their achievements, struggles, and perspectives fundamentally challenge popular ideas about director-based auteurism, male dominance, and female disempowerment in the years between First and Second Wave Feminism. Nobody's Girl Friday is a revisionist history, but it's also a deeply personal, collective account of hundreds of working women, the studios they worked for, and the films they helped to make. For many years, historians and critics have insisted that both American feminism and the power of women in Hollywood declined and virtually disappeared from the 1920s through the 1960s. But Smyth vindicates Bette Davis's claim. The story of the women who called the shots in studio-era Hollywood has never fully been told-until now.
Author: Chris Van Wyk
Author: Chris Van Wyk
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Author: Yael Kohen
Author: Gillian Roberts
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Author: Charlotte Chandler
Author: J. E. Smyth