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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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One of the most daring, creative, and influential minds in nonfiction television, Arthur Smith draws on the most exciting moments of his pioneering career as a producer to show how far you can go when you reach for your dreams.
Arthur Smith is famous for his innovation and audacity, and as the man behind some of the longest-running unscripted series in television history. His groundbreaking hit Hell's Kitchen forged the modern food competition reality...
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A television producer's memoir of the golden age of the variety show… A humble Canadian boy who grew up to create iconic American TV shows featuring the Hollywood celebrities of the day, Frank Peppiatt made his breakthrough by developing the rock TV show Hullabuloo with his partner, John Aylesworth. That led to a writing gig for Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé-and then to the long-running smash hit Hee-Haw. In this autobiography, he recounts a career...
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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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Encounter the John Stanley who hosted Creature Features in the Bay Area (1979-84) and meet the John Stanley who covered movie and TV celebrities for the San Francisco Chronicle (1960-1993). Together, they take you into the incredible worlds of sci-fi/fantasy/horror!
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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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Quite simply, Last of the Summer Wine is the longest-running comedy programme in the world. It premiered 37 years ago, in 1973, and, after 31 series it finally came to an end last year — even though all its original protagonists — Compo, Foggy, even Nora Batty — are now dead.
Remarkably, for a series of such longevity and international appeal, it is all about elderly people, has little action or plot, and is set and filmed in and around 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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Mae Murray (1885-1965), popularly known as "the girl with the bee-stung lips," was a fiery presence in silent-era Hollywood. Renowned for her classic beauty and charismatic presence, she rocketed to stardom as a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies, moving across the country to star in her first film, To Have and to Hold, in 1916. An instant hit with audiences, Murray soon became one of the most famous names in Tinseltown.
However, Murray's moment in the...
11) Young Winstone
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Ray Winstone's amazing talent for bringing out the humanity buried inside his often brutal screen characters - violent offender in Scum, wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, retired blagger in Sexy Beast - has made him one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. But how do these uncompromising and often haunting performances square with his off-duty reputation as the ultimate salt-of-the-earth diamond geezer? The answer lies in the East End of his...
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Thirty-Nine Years of Short-term Memory Loss is a seriously funny and irreverent memoir that gives an insider's view of the birth and rise of Saturday Night Live, and features laugh-out-loud stories about some of its greatest personalities: Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Michael O'Donoghue, and Chris Farley. Tom Davis's voice is rich with irony and understatement as he tells tales of discovery, triumph, and loss...
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Blending mythology and memory, Saga Boy follows a young Black immigrant's vibrant personal metamorphosis.
Growing up as a clever, willful boy in a tiny village in the tropical forests of Trinidad-raised by his indomitable grandmother, Miss Excelly, and her King James Bible-Antonio Michael Downing is steeped in the legacies of his scattered family, the vibrant culture of the island, and the weight of its colonial history. But following Miss Excelly's...
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Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was known not only as the world's first international movie star, but as a comedian, a film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than the last. In this animated biography of Chaplin, Joyce...
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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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There is no profanity in this book. While serving his sentence, this man obtained a diploma in SBM by corresponding with Huntington Health Science. He also obtained a personalized diploma for general contracting/construction management. With the underworld being all he knew, he challenged himself to change. Inside is a compelling story about his process. Since being released in February 2016, he now works as an independent contractor for a prestige...
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Finding H2OM3 is a story that follows a young boy into adulthood, not knowing what God has in store for him. As he grows in his faith and his wisdom, he EVENTUALLY realizes exactly what God had planned for him. His journey takes him all over the world, where he encounters many situations and obstacles through his life but never loses hope. His belief that his life is meant for something GREATER is realized when he puts all the pieces of the puzzle...
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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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The Bennetts: An Acting Family is a chronicle of one of the royal families of stage and screen. The saga begins with Richard Bennett, a small-town Indiana roughneck who grew up to be one of the bright lights of the New York stage during the early twentieth century. In time, however, Richard's fame was eclipsed by that of his daughters, Constance and Joan, who went to Hollywood in the 1920s and found major success there. Constance became the highest-paid...
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