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This is more than a biography of the great humorist from Niles, Michigan. In a penetrating full-length portrait, Donald Elder has explored Ring Lardner's whole world-the vibrant and inventive times in which he lived, the unforgettable people who surrounded him, and the impudent words that came from his typewriter. At the height of Lardner's fame in the middle twenties he was known simultaneously as a baseball reporter unlike any the world had ever...
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Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) was an early pop icon and a sex symbol of the 1920's, having starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik, and he became known as the "Latin lover" or simply "Valentino." His sudden death at just 31 years of age unleashed mass hysteria among his female fans and further propelled him into iconic status. This biography...
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Mark Hellinger, beloved newspaperman, whose Broadway column was read daily by 22,000,000 people, and whose years as a Hollywood producer were marked by such outstanding successes as "High Sierra," "The Killers," and "Naked City," died in 1947 in his forty-fifth year. In this book, Jim Bishop, who was his secretary, takes us behind the scenes to live again, the life of a man who "went everywhere, saw everything, and did everything-without exultation...
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Décryptez l'art de Jan Van Eyck en moins d'une heure !
Grâce à la technique novatrice de la peinture à l'huile et à la minutie dont il fait preuve dans ses toiles, Jan Van Eyck a su s'imposer comme une figure emblématique de la peinture flamande du XVe siècle. Son œuvre, flirtant à la fois avec le gothique et le style renaissant, place l'homme au cœur de la composition. Il révolutionne ainsi l'univers pictural de son époque en signant...
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This heartwarmingly funny book provides an idealized depiction of American comedian and actor Wally Cox's childhood. In the author's own words, "Nothing has been left to the imagination. The raw truth about such things as catching colds, geography class, and box tops is laid out in embarrassing detail."
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THE ACCUSED IS ENTITLED TO A DEFENSE. Jerry Giesler believed the accused is entitled to a good defense. What he delivered, consistently, was a brilliant defense. Here are some of the people he defended: Errol Flynn-charged with statutory rape on two counts; Clarence Darrow-charged with attempted bribery of a jury; Lily St. Cyr-charged with indecent exposure; Charles Chaplin-charged with violation of the Mann Act; Robert Mitchum-charged with illegal...
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In these warm, happy memoirs of one of America's most beloved radio, television, and stage stars, a woman who has delighted millions of people tells her own wonderful story, from the arrival of her grandfather in this country to her triumph in the Broadway hit A Majority of One.
Her story really begins with Grandpa Mordecai Edelstein, who came to America, as she proudly explained to the grandchildren, before the Statue of Liberty.
Young "Tillie,"...
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Décryptez l'art de Sandro Botticelli en moins d'une heure!
Artiste phare de la Renaissance italienne, Botticelli s'avère par de nombreux aspects de sa production en avance sur son temps. Il fait notamment de la mythologie l'un des thèmes centraux de son œuvre à une époque o la religion reste la principale source d'inspiration des artistes. Mais il explore également toutes les possibilités de la perspective, une découverte majeure de l'époque.
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The difficult early years…The truth about her and Desi…What's behind I Love Lucy…First published in 1954, this is the full story of the actress who struggled to achieve stardom in the savagely competitive world of Hollywood and then went on to top place in television. And the story of the woman who won the harder battle of preserving the things she loved-marriage, home, and family-against the unceasing demands of success.
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Des pensées couchées sur papier comme un acte libérateur
Dans la Lettre à Menétrey, Michel Bühler s'adresse à un ami, mort il y a deux ans. Bilan d'une vie et d'une amitié. Portrait aussi d'un « pays qui dort » (la Suisse) et, en pointillé tout au long du récit, un voyage dans les Territoires Occupés, en Palestine. Une fois de plus, Michel Bühler frappe par sa générosité, sa façon pudique, mais ferme, de dire les choses de la vie....
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Décryptez l'art de Bramante en moins d'une heure!
Peintre de formation, Bramante est dès ses débuts fascinépar la représentation de l'espace. S'installant à Milan à la fin des années1470, il se tourne vers l'architecture et participe à divers projets, mais sansparvenir à s'imposer. C'est lorsqu'il arrive à Rome, en 1500, que sa carrièreprend son véritable essor: influencé par l'art antique, il conçoit désormaisses constructions dans...
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Experience the wonder of child prodigy Akaine Kramarik's divinely inspired artwork firsthand.
Akiane's nonreligious parents were bewildered when their four-year-old daughter started sharing her dreams of angels, heaven, and Jesus. Her spiritual insight quickly expressed itself through impressive sketches, drawings with oil crayons, paintings, and eventually poetry, and her artwork began a conversation that brought her whole family to Christianity...
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Décryptez l'art de Titien en moins d'une heure!
Chef de file de la peinture vénitienne au XVIe siècle, Titien participe au rayonnement culturel de la cité des Doges. Mais sa renommée dépasse largement ce cadre: les plus grands de toute l'Europe se pressent pour commander une œuvre à ce portraitiste de génie. Il est également admiré de ses pairs pour ses représentations religieuses et mythologiques dans lesquelles la couleur et ses contrastes...
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Rembrandt is indisputably the greatest artist of the seventeenth century, and many would say the greatest artist of all time. His mastery of composition, paint, and line-he was a superlative etcher-over a lifetime's work has rarely been emulated, let alone surpassed. At a time when other artists specialized, his themes covered history, pastoral and Biblical scenes, group paintings, and most celebrated of all, portraits. Although excruciately little...
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Décryptez l'art de Fra Angelico en moins d'une heure!
Dans l'Italie prospère du quattrocento, l'heure est au renouveau: la Renaissance marque un tournant artistique sans précédent, révolutionnant les arts et les lettres. Le mot d'ordre? Le retour à l'Antiquité. C'est dans ce contexte propice à la création qu'un frère dominicain, Fra Angelico, ébauche une œuvre emblématique de l'époque. Puisant aux sources du gothique international,...
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A WAYWARD QUEST, which was first published in 1960, is the autobiography of a woman who for forty years was one of the most important figures in the American theater-and who loved every minute of it. Small, vivacious, imaginative, Theresa Helburn was a wonderfully attractive person who at one time or another knew most of the great talents of the century-from Gertrude Stein and Isadora Duncan (her youthful heroines during a sojourn in Paris) to G....
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Extrait : "La petite cour des ducs de Lorraine avait eu pendant la fin du seizième siècle sa physionomie particulière : Charles III, gendre du roi de France Henri II, l'avait su rendre brillante et joyeuse. Fière de son autonomie, de ses coutumes spéciales, largement dotée de fabriques et d'industries de tous genres, la Lorraine formait un petit royaume o la noblesse trouvait à guerroyer, o les artistes avaient aussi la part assez belle."
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Décryptez l'art de Giotto en moins d'une heure!
Célébré par Dante comme une figure incontournable de l'art du trecento, Giotto est en quelque sorte le prophète de la Renaissance italienne. Rompant avec la tradition byzantine et son art conventionnel, il confère à ses personnages des traits plus humains et les fait évoluer dans des paysages et des architectures complexes novatrices pour l'époque. Son impact sur ses contemporains est immense...
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Décryptez l'art de William Blake en moins d'une heure!
Dans les soubresauts révolutionnaires qui agitent l'Europe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, William Blake crée un art sans précédent. Unique, l'univers de Blake l'est sans le moindre doute: il se sert des visions qui l'habitent depuis l'enfance pour créer une œuvre ténébreuse aux accents fantastiques. Avec un style qui lui est également propre, il explore le Ciel et l'Enfer, mais aussi...
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In his foreword, Jim Bishop says of Jackie Gleason that when the comedian read the manuscript for the Fust time "he did not ask that anything be either omitted or altered. And yet there were parts of this biography that made him wince." For The Golden Ham is candid biography. To it Mr. Bishop brought his painstaking interest in detail, his reporter's curiosity, his layman's interest in the world of the theater, and his detachment. And most important,...
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