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Chronicling the remarkable, sprawling history of the Academy Awards and the personal dramas that have played out on the stage and off camera, this entertaining exploration of the Oscars features a star-studded cast of some of the most powerful Hollywood players of today and yesterday.
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University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and space aliens like the Transformers share a surprising connection along with James Bond, Indiana Jones, and Rocky Balboa. These beloved icons played active roles in movie and television projects set in the state of Nevada. Long time state film commissioner and movie reviewer Holabird explores the blending of icons and Nevada, along with her personal experiences of watching movies, talking with famous people, and...
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Wishin' and hopin' volume 2
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life--Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin' and Hopin'--and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women. I'll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting...
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"Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it's her job. But when her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage's collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it's picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. When former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, is cast as her ne'er...
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Abrams
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Fun City Cinema gives readers an in-depth look at how the rise, fall, and resurrection of New York City was captured and chronicled in ten iconic Gotham films across ten decades: The Jazz Singer (1927), King Kong (1933), The Naked City (1948), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Taxi Driver (1976), Wall Street (1987), Kids (1995), 25th Hour (2002), and Frances Ha (2012). A visual history of a great American city in flux, Fun City...
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Blackstone Publishing
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2022.
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English
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Lights. Feeling her stardom fading, struggling soap-actress Adele Rafferty is ready to give up on her dreams when she gets a last-minute offer to play the lead in upcoming horror film Final Draft. Could this be her big break? Will she have redemption for what happened the last time she was on a film set? Adele doesn't think twice before signing the dotted line. Camera. Adele quickly makes her way to set, deep into the isolated and wintry woods of...
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies'and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality.
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"In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he...
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Eros International
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©2006.
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Hindi
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Tells the moving story of love, loss, friendship, hope and redemption. It is a tale of two women from two different worlds. The emphasis is on spirit and emotions.
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Dresden files volume 6
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English
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While going undercover on the set of an adult film to investigate the mysterious deaths of several actresses, Chicago wizard Harry Dresden unexpectedly learns the shocking truth about his vampire friend Thomas.
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Eros International
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℗2012
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Hindi
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Aladin Chatterjee (Riteish Deshmukh) lives in the fictional city of Khwaish, an orphan who is bullied by Kasim and his gang members since his childhood. But his life changes when Jasmine (Jacqueline Fernandez) gives him a magic lamp - because it lets loose the genie Genius (Amitabh Bachchan). Desperate to grant him three wishes and to seek the end of his contract with the magic lamp, the rock-star Genius makes Aladin's life difficult until the real...
18) The Hollywood book of love: an irreverent guide to the films that raised our romantic expectations
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Contemporary Books
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c2003
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English
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Pilot Film & Television Productions
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[2015]
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English
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Arriving via the Czech border town of Czermna, Megan visits the skull-laden crypt of a church once served by a young Pope John Paul II. Then, in Wroclaw she goes hunting for "krasnale" (dwarves), albeit of the sculpture kind. North to Kashubia, she discovers the unique Kashubian language and people before heading to the Pomeranian coast to go hunting for amber, or "Baltic Gold".
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