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Author: Jaylen Florian Publisher: Jaylen Florian ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 123
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Four attractive people with secret lives and hidden desires converge at a decadent old apartment complex, just steps away from Hollywood Boulevard. Each, in his or her own way, dares to strive for personal fulfillment in a ruthless, unpredictable, and enchanted town. But an unexpected chain of events could uncover all of their lies and transform their lives. Ryan, an earnest young security guard, encounters diverse tenants as he begins a weekend patrol job. Enticed by a temptress after she beds other men, Ryan may finally discover the courage to explore his bisexuality. Kaylani, an ambitious and secretive woman, shrewd from surviving ten years in a fast-paced Los Angeles lifestyle, clandestinely continues to pursue her dream of finding fame and fortune in the entertainment industry. Miguel excels at his package delivery job, earning promotions and prized delivery routes. But the seduction of dirty money and instant wealth threatens his serious romantic relationship, employment, and freedom. Valentina seeks true, healthy love and longs for a life partnership so she can attain a family and happiness. She has gambled with her future by forsaking her attraction to other women in the hope of securing a conventional marriage. Their quests converge on a fateful and revealing night at a flamboyant Halloween party. Secrets are exposed, relationships form or crumble, and friendships strengthen. Gratification, for some, may finally be at hand. “Hollywood Tease” is an original work of fiction with elements of mystery, drama, and romance. The novella features gay, lesbian, and straight characters and includes content intended for mature audiences.
Author: Jaylen Florian Publisher: Jaylen Florian ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 123
Book Description
Four attractive people with secret lives and hidden desires converge at a decadent old apartment complex, just steps away from Hollywood Boulevard. Each, in his or her own way, dares to strive for personal fulfillment in a ruthless, unpredictable, and enchanted town. But an unexpected chain of events could uncover all of their lies and transform their lives. Ryan, an earnest young security guard, encounters diverse tenants as he begins a weekend patrol job. Enticed by a temptress after she beds other men, Ryan may finally discover the courage to explore his bisexuality. Kaylani, an ambitious and secretive woman, shrewd from surviving ten years in a fast-paced Los Angeles lifestyle, clandestinely continues to pursue her dream of finding fame and fortune in the entertainment industry. Miguel excels at his package delivery job, earning promotions and prized delivery routes. But the seduction of dirty money and instant wealth threatens his serious romantic relationship, employment, and freedom. Valentina seeks true, healthy love and longs for a life partnership so she can attain a family and happiness. She has gambled with her future by forsaking her attraction to other women in the hope of securing a conventional marriage. Their quests converge on a fateful and revealing night at a flamboyant Halloween party. Secrets are exposed, relationships form or crumble, and friendships strengthen. Gratification, for some, may finally be at hand. “Hollywood Tease” is an original work of fiction with elements of mystery, drama, and romance. The novella features gay, lesbian, and straight characters and includes content intended for mature audiences.
Author: Mick Wall Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1429987030 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 483
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Their roots lie in the heavy rock of 70s groups like Deep Purple. The music they played—heavy metal mixed with punk attitude—became its own genre: thrash. Their bassist died and they survived to became the biggest-selling band in the world. As grunge threatened to overtake them, they reinvented themselves. Then their singer went into rehab and they almost fell apart. They are Metallica, the most influential heavy metal band of the last thirty years. As Led Zeppelin was for hard rock and the Sex Pistols were for punk, Metallica became the band that defined the look and sound of 1980s heavy metal. Inventors of thrash metal—Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth followed—it was always Metallica who led the way, who pushed to another level, who became the last of the superstar rockers. Metallica is the fifth-largest selling artist of all time, with 100 million records sold worldwide. Their music has extended its reach beyond rock and metal, and into the pop mainstream, as they went from speed metal to MTV with their hit single "Enter Sandman". Until now there hasn't been a critical, authoritative, in-depth portrait of the band. Mick Wall's thoroughly researched, insightful work is enriched by his interviews with band members, record company execs, roadies, and fellow musicians. He tells the story of how a tennis-playing, music-loving Danish immigrant named Lars Ulrich created a band with singer James Hetfield and made his dreams a reality. Enter Night follows the band through tragedy and triumph, from the bus crash that killed their bassist Cliff Burton in 1986 to the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster, and on to their current status as the leaders of the Big Four festival that played to a million fans in Britain and Europe and continues in the U.S. in 2011. Enter Night delves into the various incarnations of the band, and the personalities of all key members, past and present—especially Ulrich and Hetfield—to produce the definitive word on the biggest metal band on the planet.
Author: Nigel Goodall Publisher: Andrews UK Limited ISBN: 184989485X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 167
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From her Hollywood debut at the age of 19 to her latest venture, this biography traces the events and circumstances that have shaped Demi Moore's extraordinary character and propelled her from aspiring model to movie superstar. The book describes Demi's troubled childhood and her crusade to quit high school to find a career in modelling, as well as the trauma of her stepfather's suicide two years later. It reveals the truth behind her relationship with actor Emilio Estevez and why she broke off their engagement, her up-and-down relationship with husband Bruce Willis and her alleged affair with Leornardo DiCaprio. It also: relates how Demi's drug and alcohol addiction almost led to her departure from the set of "St Elmo's Fire"; looks at the history behind her nude appearances both on and off screen; and details behind-the-scenes information from the sets of her movies past and present, including her roles in "Indecent Proposal", "Striptease" and Woody Allen's "Deconstructing Harry".
Author: Monica Flegel Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350148652 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 209
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The reactionary Comicsgate campaign against alleged “forced” diversity in superhero comics revealed the extent to which comics have become a key battleground in America's Culture Wars. In the first in-depth scholarly study of Marvel Comics' most recent engagement with progressive politics, Superhero Culture Wars explores how the drive towards greater diversity among its characters and creators has interacted with the company's commercial marketing and its traditional fan base. Along the way the book covers such topics as: · Major characters such as Miles Morales's Spider-man, Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel, Jane Foster's Thor, Sam Wilson's Captain America and the Secret Empire series' turncoat Captain America · Creators such as G. Willow Wilson, Jason Aaron, Nick Spencer and Michael Bendis · Marketing, the Marvel Universe, and online fan culture Superhero Culture Wars demonstrates how the marketing of Marvel comics as politically progressive has both indelibly shaped its in-world universe and characters, and led to conflicts between its corporate interests, its creators, and it audience.
Author: Amanda Maciel Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062305328 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 198
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If you gulped through reading or streaming 13 Reasons Why, Tease is the book for you. Provocative, unforgettable, and inspired by real-life incidents, Amanda Maciel's highly acclaimed debut novel Tease is the story of a teenage girl who faces criminal charges for bullying after a classmate commits suicide. With its powerful narrative, unconventional point of view, and strong anti-bullying theme, this coming-of-age story offers smart, insightful, and nuanced views on high school society, toxic friendships, and family relationships. Emma Putnam is dead, and it's all Sara Wharton's fault. At least, that's what everyone seems to think. Sara, along with her best friend and three other classmates, has been criminally charged for the bullying and harassment that led to Emma's shocking suicide. Now Sara is the one who's ostracized, already guilty according to her peers, the community, and the media. In the summer before her senior year, in between meetings with lawyers and a court-recommended therapist, Sara is forced to reflect on the events that brought her to this moment—and ultimately consider her own role in an undeniable tragedy. And she'll have to find a way to move forward, even when it feels like her own life is over.
Author: Steven Cohan Publisher: ISBN: 0190865784 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 285
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The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their coherence as a distinctive genre, Steven Cohan argues in Hollywood by Hollywood, is their fascination with the mystique of Hollywood as a geographic place, a self-contained industry, and a fantasy of fame, leisure, sexual freedom, and modernity. Yet by the same token, if backstudio pictures have rarely achieved blockbuster box-office success, what accounts for the film industry's interest in continuing to produce them? The backstudio picture has been an enduring genre because, aside from offering a director or writer a chance to settle old scores, in branding filmmaking with the Hollywood mystique, the genre solicits consumers' strong investment in the movies. Whether inspiring the "movie crazy" fan girls of the early teens and twenties or the wannabe filmmakers of this century heading to the West Coast after their college graduations, backstudios have given emotional weight and cultural heft to filmmaking as the quintessential American success story. But more than that, a backstudio picture is concerned with shaping perceptions of how the film industry works, with masking how its product depends upon an industrial labor force, including stardom, and with determining how that work's value accrues from the Hollywood brand stamped onto the product. Cohan supports his well theorized and well researched claims with nuanced discussions of over fifty backstudios, some canonical and well-known, and others obscure and rarely seen. Covering the hundred-year timespan of feature length film production, Hollywood by Hollywood offers an illuminating perspective for considering anew the history of American movies.
Author: Phil Collen Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476751668 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 240
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A revelatory, redemptive, and “wild...juicy” (Rolling Stone) memoir from the lead guitarist of the legendary hard rock band Def Leppard—the first ever written by one of its members—chronicling the band’s extraordinary rise to superstardom and how they maintained it for three decades. Meet Phil Collen. You may know him as the lead guitarist in Def Leppard, whose signature song “Pour Some Sugar on Me” is still as widely enjoyed as when it debuted in 1988. Maybe you’ve heard of him as the rock star that gave up alcohol and meat more than twenty-five years ago. Most likely you’ve seen him shirtless—in photos or in real life—flaunting his impeccably toned body to appreciative female fans. But it wasn’t always like this. Collen worked his way up from nothing, teaching himself guitar from scratch and slogging it out in London-based pub bands for years; that is, until Def Leppard formed and transformed from unknowns to icons, from playing openers in near-empty arenas to headlining in those same stadiums and selling them out every night. But as Collen discovered, true overnight success is a myth. Like the other band members, he had to struggle and fight his way to the top; in the end, he says, “our work ethic saved us.” Just as it still does. Adrenalized is an amazing underdog tale featuring a bunch of ordinary working-class lads who rose to mega-stardom, overcoming incredible obstacles—such as drummer Rick Allen losing an arm in a car crash and the tragic death of guitarist Steve Clark, Phil’s musical soul mate. Featuring personal, never-before-seen photos of Collen and his band mates on stage and off, Adrenalized is a fascinating account of the failures, triumphs, challenges, and rock-solid dedication it takes to make dreams come true.
Author: Steve Binnie Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 132652514X Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 242
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1980 was an important year for Top of the Pops: it was the year it began to transform from a light entertainment show into essential viewing for pop music aficionados. The transition didn't happen overnight, but when a Musicians' Union strike forced the programme off air for the whole of June and July, producer Michael Hurll took the opportunity to restructure the show. As a result the latter half of 1980 was often bizarre, occasionally quite grim, but always fascinating as Hurll threw all sorts of new formats at the screen to see what would stick. This transitional year is documented here. Hopefully you will find it a breathtaking rollercoaster of good and bad decisions made in the pursuit of television excellence. Or maybe it will just inspire you to dig out some old records you'd forgotten. Either's good.
Author: Jaylen Florian
Author: Jaylen Florian
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