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Author : Peter Sallis
Publisher : Orion
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1409105725

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The autobiography of Peter Sallis, the brilliant actor best known for his roles as the voice of Wallace and as Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine For more than 30 years, Peter Sallis has played Clegg in 'Last of the Summer Wine', the world's longest-running sitcom. With his dry, cynical wit and cautious nature, Clegg has been taken to the hearts of the nation. Now the man behind this creation, and the voice of Wallace in Wallace & Gromit, is telling his story. From his early days in the RAF in the Second World War, through an extraordinary theatrical career that saw him perform alongside the likes of Joan Collins, John Gielgud and Orson Welles, to the fame that came to him late in his career, Peter Sallis has a wonderful, heartwarming story to tell. Packed with brilliant stories and amusing anecdotes, this is a memoir that will appeal to Peter Sallis's millions of fans, as he looks back over his career with a warm glow of nostalgia.

Author : Christopher Stevens
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 184854460X

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Kenneth Williams was the stand-out comic actor of his generation. Beloved as the manic star of Carry On films and as a peerless raconteur on TV chat shows, he was also acclaimed for serious stage roles. Born Brilliant includes previously unseen material from Williams's candid daily journal and also draw on rare in-depth interviews with friends and colleagues. Since the publication of edited extracts from his diaries, much controversy has surrounded Williams's personal and professional lives. This biography traces the complex contradictions that characterised an extraordinary life and presents the first full portrait of a star who was born brilliant.

Author : Julian Upton
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1909394041

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Critics may sing from an over familiar hymn sheet of so-called ‘cult films’, but there remains an epoch of British cinema still awaiting discovery that is every bit as provocative and deserving of attention. And there could be no finer guide to these uncharted domains than OFFBEAT. This is the book for the more intrepid cinema lover. A passionate, irreverent and informative exploration of British cinema’s secret history, from the buoyant leap in film production in the late fifties to the dying embers of popular domestic cinema in the early eighties. So, move over Peeping Tom, Get Carter and The Wicker Man -- it’s time to make way for The Mark, Unearthly Stranger, The Strange Affair, The Squeeze, Sitting Target, Quest for Love, and a host of forgotten gems. OFFBEAT features in-depth reviews of more than 100 films, plus interviews and eye-opening essays that together tell the wider story of film in Britain, its neglected cinematic trends and its unsung heroes. The last great British B-movies Anti-swinging London films Sexploitation The British rock’n’roll movie CIA-funded cartoons Madness in British film The Children’s Film Foundation The short as supporting feature The forgotten journeymen Non-horror Hammer, and more!

Author : Lois M Rodden
Publisher : American Federation of Astr
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
ISBN : 0866905642

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Money: How to Find it with Astrology addresses everyday down-to-earth concerns about work, career and money. Where is the spotlight on sucess? How is the wealth potential activated? What career holds the most promise? When is the best time to implement decisions? The planets, signs and houses of astrology are examined in terms of the commercial life. The vocational indicators are considered to determine what kind of job is most suitable to fulfill the earning potential, where and when optimmum opportunities exist, how to guard against financial loss, gain success in the mundane environment and realize satisfaction in the work place. Money: How to Find It with Astrology explores the maximum options in the horoscopes of how to live the good life with the most successful results.

Author : Robert S. Oringel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1003819648

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Audio Control Handbook (1989) employs a step-by-step approach to prepare students for audio work in the broadcast industry, covering real-life principles, tools and procedures. It uses clear, nontechnical language to look at the effective use of standard audio equipment, from basic microphones and control boards to digital signal processors and tape recorders.

Author : Kim Wallace
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1952812704

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How do schools and districts make true progress? One step at a time. Leading the Launch offers a ten-stage initiative implementation process proven to help you lead the charge for change with ingenuity, flexibility, responsiveness, and passion. Ideal for a team book study, this resource includes strategies, tools, case studies, and end-of-chapter action plans and checklists to guide your work. Learn how to research and develop new school initiatives following an effective, systematic plan. Communicate with stakeholders and school personnel to ensure everyone is on the same page with new initiatives. Analyze data to help determine whether to move forward with a proposed initiative. Explore how to seamlessly implement new systems and initiatives into schools and districts. Sustain and balance new initiatives with current systems to guarantee long-term success. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Stage 1--Begin Research and Planning Chapter 2: Stage 2--Pitch the Proposal Chapter 3: Stage 3--Determine Priorities Chapter 4: Stage 4--Design the Prototype and Pilot Chapter 5: Stage 5--Build Stakeholder Engagement Chapter 6: Stage 6--Gather and Analyze Data Chapter 7: Stage 7--Make a Decision Chapter 8: Stage 8--Plan and Deliver Professional Development Chapter 9: Stage 9--Implement the Initiative Chapter 10: Stage 10--Provide Ongoing Support Epilogue: Balancing Acts References and Resources Index

Author : Jan Hershberger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1469142716

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It is my desire, through all the joys and hardships I have faced and shared during my life time and which became a great contributing benefactor to this book, these may help another to overcome the very obstacles which keep them from learning the truth. In this sense I have dedicated my life’s work to all who choose to accept the mercies of God rather than mans. It is a direction which is not unimaginable to accede to though you have been led to believe so. Most of what I have learned from birth until now is contained within and thus becomes a testimony of given knowledge, time, and eff orts toward God and Mankind.

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0698195531

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• A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • The third volume of Simon Callow’s acclaimed Orson Welles biography, covering the period of his exile from America (1947–1964), when he produced some of his greatest works, including Touch of Evil In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic and all-inclusive four-volume survey of Orson Welles’s life and work, the celebrated British actor Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex, contradictory artists of the twentieth century, whose glorious triumphs (and occasional spectacular failures) in film, radio, theater, and television introduced a radical and original approach that opened up new directions in the arts. This volume begins with Welles’s self-exile from America, and his realization that he could function only to his own satisfaction as an independent film maker, a one-man band, in fact, which committed him to a perpetual cycle of money raising. By 1964, he had filmed Othello, which took three years to complete; Mr. Arkadin, the most puzzling film in his output; and a masterpiece in another genre, Touch of Evil, which marked his one return to Hollywood, and like all too many of his films was wrested from his grasp and reedited. Along the way he made inroads into the fledgling medium of television and a number of stage plays, of which his 1955 London Moby-Dick is considered by theater historians to be one of the seminal productions of the century. His private life was as spectacularly complex and dramatic as his professional life. The book reveals what it was like to be around Welles, and, with an intricacy and precision rarely attempted before, what it was like to be him, answering the riddle that has long fascinated film scholars and lovers alike: Whatever happened to Orson Welles?

Author : Martin Popoff
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1773055852

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Part two of the definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North — covering Rush’s most iconic and popular albums, Moving Pictures and Power Windows Includes two full-color photo inserts, with 16 pages of the band on tour and in the studio In the follow-up to Anthem: Rush in the ’70s, Martin Popoff brings together canon analysis, cultural context, and extensive firsthand interviews to celebrate Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart at the peak of their persuasive power. Rush was one of the most celebrated hard rock acts of the ’80s, and the second book of Popoff’s staggeringly comprehensive three-part series takes readers from Permanent Waves to Presto, while bringing new insight to Moving Pictures, their crowning glory. Limelight: Rush in the ’80s is a celebration of fame, of the pushback against that fame, of fortunes made — and spent … In the latter half of the decade, as Rush adopts keyboard technology and gets pert and poppy, there’s an uproar amongst diehards, but the band finds a whole new crop of listeners. Limelight charts a dizzying period in the band’s career, built of explosive excitement but also exhaustion, a state that would lead, as the ’90s dawned, to the band questioning everything they previously believed, and each member eying the oncoming decade with trepidation and suspicion.

Author : Joe Moran
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1847654444

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But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no TV. It's a good question: since its beginnings during WW2, television has assumed a central role in our houses and our lives, just as satellite dishes and aerials have become features of urban skylines. Television (or 'the idiot's lantern', depending on your feelings about it) has created controversy, brought coronations and World Cups into living rooms, allowed us access to 24hr news and media and provided a thousand conversation starters. As shows come and go in popularity, the history of television shows us how our society has changed. Armchair Nation reveals the fascinating, lyrical and sometimes surprising history of telly, from the first demonstration of television by John Logie Baird (in Selfridges) to the fear and excitement that greeted its arrival in households (some viewers worried it might control their thoughts), the controversies of Mary Whitehouse's 'Clean Up TV' campaign and what JG Ballard thought about Big Brother. Via trips down memory lane with Morecambe and Wise, Richard Dimbleby, David Frost, Blue Peter and Coronation Street, you can flick between fascinating nuggets from the strange side of TV: what happened after a chimpanzee called 'Fred J. Muggs' interrupted American footage of the Queen's wedding, and why aliens might be tuning in to The Benny Hill Show.