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"Cutting the Cord" is an essential guidebook for anyone looking to break free from the high costs of cable television without sacrificing their favorite shows and channels. This practical guide provides a comprehensive look at the myriad of alternatives available in the rapidly evolving world of digital streaming and on-demand services.Starting with a historical perspective on the rise and decline of traditional cable TV, the book then navigates the...
2) Gaming
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Let's play a video game online! There are many different kinds of online games, and they can be played on types of different devices. Explore the world of gaming, then learn some helpful tips on how to stay safe online. Colorful illustrations paired with bright photos help young readers gain digital literacy.
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If They Move . . . Kill 'Em! is the first major biography of David Samuel Peckinpah. Written by the film critic and historian David Weddle, this fascinating account does critical justice to an important body of cinema as it spins the tale of Peckinpah's dramatic, overcharged life and the turbulent times through which he moved. Sam Peckinpah was born into a clan of lumberjacks, cattle ranchers, and frontier lawyers. After a hitch with the Marines,...
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The son of a deranged Italian immigrant, Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837) was the most celebrated of English clowns. The first to use white-face make-up and wear outrageous coloured clothes, he completely transformed the role of the Clown in the pantomime with a look as iconic as Chaplin's tramp or Tommy Cooper's magician. One of the first celebrity comedians, his friends included Lord Byron and the actor Edmund Kean, and his memoirs were edited by the...
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A serious and in-depth look at one of the great legends of Hollywood by the London film critic and author of Audrey: Her Real Story. Elizabeth Taylor was perhaps the most "public" of the great stars: an Oscar-winning actress who lived her entire life in the glare of the spotlights. Much has been written about her, but now-with the readability, sensitivity, and thoroughness that have made his previous biographies bestsellers-Alexander Walker explores...
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The classic study of a man who redrew the boundaries of art Andy Warhol's work and personality changed American visual culture forever, making him an international superstar. His rise to global fame, his entanglement with the seedy New York sexual underground, and the shocking assassination attempt that almost ended his life are chronicled in Stephen Koch's indispensible classic Stargazer. In this must-read volume, Stephen Koch provides unprecedented...
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Este libro es un monumento a la rabia y la risa. Instigado por Hugh Hefner (que iría publicando cada entrega en la revista Playboy), Lenny Bruce escribió su autobiografía entre 1963 y 1965, cuando un sonoro juicio por obscenidad y la implacable persecución de los virtuosos ya lo habían convertido en el paria más célebre de Estados Unidos. Fue su último cartucho para ajustar cuentas con los guardianes del orden que lo había acosado desde los...
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Desde sus primeros recuerdos en la estepa canadiense, al pináculo de la gloria pasando por algunos infiernos, muy pocas santidades y muchas patologías: la narración de una vida inenarrable.
Ácidos, copas, escándalos, mujeres, acordes inextinguibles, desacuerdos. Regresos, vueltas y revueltas. Ésas son las claridades, ¿pero qué hay detrás o debajo de las sombras?
Neil Young es una leyenda en ejercicio, una figura clave del canon roquero desde...
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Get the Summary of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley's Elvis and Me in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Elvis and Me" is the personal memoir of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, chronicling her life and relationship with Elvis Presley. The book begins with the somber news of Elvis's death, reflecting on their deep bond despite their divorce. Priscilla recounts her conservative upbringing, her parents' influence, and the revelation...
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For the first time EVER, global superstars One Direction are releasing their 100% official autobiography, offering a new, intimate insight into their lives as never before seen or heard! In their first in-depth autobiography, pop sensations Niall, Zayn, Liam, Harry and Louis tell the story of their lives. From nervously auditioning for the X Factor and meeting each other for the first time, to filming their hit movie This Is Us and releasing their...
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Help Wanted: Adults Wanted For Local Talent AgencyRequirements: Secure, Confident, Uninhibited, and Dependable To be a successful stripper a person would need to be secure, confident, uninhibited, and dependable. It's no wonder why I never found success working inside of the G-string nation as a male stripper. Weekend after weekend, the phrase, "The stripper is here!!!" produced more fear and anxiety inside of me every time I knocked on a door. Often...
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The story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and survived - just about - to tell the tale...
Chris Evans's extraordinary career has seen him become one of the country's most successful broadcasters and producers. From The Big Breakfast to Don't Forget Your Toothbrush and TFI Friday, Chris changed the TV landscape during the '90s; and on Manchester's Piccadilly Radio, BBC Radio 1's Breakfast show and as owner of Virgin Radio...
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Es "la verdadera historia" porque su autor emplea este libro como ariete para demoler las fábulas pueriles que circulaban sobre su vida. Zappa nos cuenta el arranque, el nudo y el desenlace de su accidentada experiencia musical, narra a cuchillada limpia sus debates con el puritanismo censor y denuncia las patrañas que mandamases arrojan sin descanso a la credulidad pública. Su agudo olfato detectó siempre el olor a boñiga.
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Art Linson has had a hand in producing some of the most unforgettable films of the past half-century-Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Untouchables, Fight Club-and has worked with some of America's finest actors and directors. In what the Los Angeles Times calls "a breezy anatomy of ritual humiliation," his memoir gives us a brutally honest, funny, and comprehensive tour through the horrors of Hollywood.
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Whicker's War and Journey of a Lifetime in one eBook for the first time.
Alan Whicker joined the Army Film and Photo Unit as an 18-year-old army officer, following the Allied advance through Italy, from Sicily to Venice. He filmed the troops on the front line, met Montgomery, and other military luminaries, filmed the battered body of Mussolini after his execution and accepted the surrender of the SS in Milan. This is remarkable account of the Italian...
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La biografía definitiva del más controvertido de los cineastas.
La tragedia y la polémica han marcado la vida de Roman Polanski. A principios de los 80, Polanski escribió unas memorias prematuras que ahora, treinta años después, ha decidido completar y matizar desde una perspectiva mucho más madura. Un libro nuevo en el que Polanski nos habla de la vida y de su vida, de los hechos que la han marcado y de las polémicas que lo han acorralado....
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NATHANAEL WEST-novelist, screenwriter, playwright, devoted outdoorsman-was one of the most gifted and original writers of his generation, a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities of modern life proved prophetic. He is famous for two masterpieces, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939). Seventy years later, The Day of the Locust remains the most penetrating novel ever written about Hollywood. EILEEN MCKENNEY-accidental...
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Know the Brilliant Entrepreneur who Lives Life to the Fullest and Makes Waves Wherever He Goes As he left school, Richard Branson's headmaster commented that he would either go to jail or become a millionaire. He was right about the latter. Today, Branson is worth billions, $4.5 billion to be exact. He is the founder of the Virgin Group which controls over 400 companies in various sectors. At the core of his business philosophy is the idea of service....
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When he was seventeen years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so he could enlist in the Army and help defeat the Nazis. When he was nineteen, he single-handedly turned back the German Army at the Battle of Colmar Pocket by climbing on top of a tank with a machine gun, a moment immortalized in the classic film To Hell and Back, starring Audie himself. In the first biography covering his entire life-including his severe PTSD and his tragic...
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