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Closing Credits: A Novel of Golden-Era Hollywood : Hollywood's Garden of Allah Novels, Book 9 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 615min
Have you ever wanted to climb into a time machine and visit Hollywood during its heyday? Sometimes the end is only the beginning. Kathryn Massey thought a long-forgotten secret was dead and buried - just like the 1950s are about to be - but when a mysterious list circulating Screenland ignites salacious rumors about the gossip columnist, it's her life that now falls under the magnifying glass. Marcus Adler is a rare survivor of the Hollywood blacklist. Beset by writer's block, he's intrigued by an abandoned box in the basement of the Garden of Allah Hotel. Its contents could rejuvenate his career - but cost him his reputation. Gwendolyn Brick stumbled into the blossoming television industry. No fan of the spotlight, she's conflicted by the opportunities coming her way. Things are about to change, and when she teams up with Lucille Ball, she won't let the network stop the rapid march to progress. On busy backlots and in quiet basements, secrets and lies dance with fame and failure amid Hollywood's dying golden era. Nobody knows how this movie's going to end...but it'll be one for the ages. Closing Credits is the ninth and final installment in Martin Turnbull's Hollywood's Garden of Allah saga. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Price Waldman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/141748/bk_acx0_141748_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Making of Alien
A comprehensive and definitive volume telling the complete story of how Alien was made, featuring new interviews with Ridley Scott and other production crew, and including many rarely-seen photos and illustrations from the Fox archives. In 1979 a movie legend was born, as Twentieth Century-Fox and director Ridley Scott unleashed Alien - and gave audiences around the world the scare of their lives. To celebrate the movie's fortieth anniversary, author J.W. Rinzler (The Making of Star Wars) tells the whole fascinating story of how Alien evolved from a simple idea in the mind of writer Dan O'Bannon into one of the most memorable sci-fi horror thrillers of all time. With brand new interviews with Ridley Scott and other key members of the original production crew, and featuring many never-before-seen photographs and artworks from the archives, The Making of Alien is the definitive work on this masterpiece of popular cinema.- Shop: buecher
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Waterloo - Making an Epic (hardback)
History has thrown up few events as dramatic and decisive as the four-day campaign that culminated in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. In 1970, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis spent $25 million to re-stage Napoleon's tumultuous encounter with Wellington, portrayed by Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer. It was directed by Sergei Bondarchuk who deployed almost 20,000 Soviet soldiers in a noble attempt to tell the story "faithfully." Author Simon Lewis celebrates the extraordinary effort taken to recreate the ghastly beauty of Napoleonic warfare for the cameras. His exhaustive account details almost every aspect of the immense production, which ranged from Rome to the vast battlefield set in Ukraine. The book also explores several of the movie's myths; including the existence of a four-hour version. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 photographs, most never-before-seen, Waterloo - Making An Epic will thrill fans of this much-loved, if flawed, movie giant.- Shop: buecher
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In Bed with Susie Bright 369: How to Three-Way Your Way Thru College, Hörbuch, Digital, 32min, (USK 18)
Susie starts off today's show with a sexual-political reflection on the issues surrounding the new movie Milk. The film chronicles the life of San Francisco Mayor Harvey Milk, who in the 1970s was the first openly gay politician. The movie's release has coincided with a new round of anti-gay legislation. Gay fear just doesn't seem to go away! Next, Susie has found a church that might be of interest to those couples looking for the go-ahead to have more sex. Pastor Ed Young from the evangelical Fellowship Church in Texas is asking all married couples in the congregation to have sex every day, for God's sake. This super-church reverend plans to wipe out extra-marital affairs, addiction, and pornography, all of which he claims causes couples to fall apart. Instead, his flock will be spending time together getting it on. Then, in the "Try This at Home" mailbag, Susie responds to an extra long letter from a listener who talks about his very successful three-way encounters. We'll learn some of his secrets to finding the hottest partners, best places, and most exciting holidays for trying group sex! You can send your confidential questions - plus requests for free samples and blog banners! - to susie@susiebright.com. (Episode 369, December 12, 2008) Explicit Language Warning: You must be 18 years or older to purchase this program. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Bright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/suzy/081212/pf_suzy_081212_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Her Hollywood Daddy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 296min, (USK 18)
Hollywood starlet Marissa Sparks' career teeters on the brink of implosion. Her mansion is nearly under foreclosure, her rock star boyfriend left her for a supermodel, and her habits of partying all night, drinking to excess, and abusing prescription drugs get her fired from her current picture. Her only hope is to convince Joel Sutherland, her costar and one of the movie's producers, to give her another chance. Joel knows Marissa has talent and a sweet, submissive nature but believes her mother and sister are a terrible influence. All she needs is a strict daddy to take her in hand and give her some firm over-the-knee discipline and loving guidance. When she shows up at his door begging for his help, he agrees to advocate for her return to the movie on one condition: She must move in with him and live as his little girl until filming is complete. Marissa submits to Joel's dominance and seems to thrive under his structure and protection, but he isn't sure if it's all a ploy to stay in the movie. She is, after all, a talented actress and could be faking everything. At the end of filming, she might just pick up and walk out his front door, taking his heart with her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: M. C. Arthur. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/039917/bk_acx0_039917_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Friends with Multiple Benefits , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 532min
The Friends are back in book six, the final chapter in the Friends with Benefits series. When newlyweds Jim and Victoria return from their Vegas wedding, Victoria dives full swing back into her sex therapy practice. With the addition of a new, let's call him, unique client along with a couple of old surprise visitors, there is never a dull moment in the naughty professional's home office. While Brian and Jillian are in full expectant parent mode, and with twins no less, Jillian's movie opens to great success. Just when the famous author thinks she's gotten Amanda Joseph out of her and, more importantly, her husband's hair, the A-list actress returns and in a big way. With the continuation of Jillian's series of novels heading to the small screen, she's looking forward to the promise of a huge financial windfall, but will the price tag be too much to bear? Will Jim and Victoria survive her new clients? Will Brian and Jillian have boys or girls or one of each? And will Jillian's movie's box office triumph be the end of her career or her marriage or both? Find out in Friends with Multiple Benefits. Featuring expanded Ian Dalton scenes, this audiobook is also the continuation of the steamier Victoria Wilde version of the series. The optional Ian scenes are easily skipable by listeners who prefer the Luke Young variety. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Summer Morton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023845/bk_adbl_023845_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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American Legends: The Life of Solomon Northup , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 96min
Having been born a freeman, and for more than 30 years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State - and having at the end of that time been kidnapped and sold into Slavery, where I remained, until happily rescued in the month of January, 1853, after a bondage of 12 years - it has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public. (Solomon Northup) A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In 2013 the release of the critically acclaimed 12 Years a Slave once again shined the spotlight on slave narratives. The movie's depiction of Solomon Northup's slave narrative pushed him front and center in the public consciousness. Northup's life was quite unique because he was born a free African-American in the state of New York, and he spent the first 33 years of his life living as a free man there. However, in 1841, he was tricked into traveling to Washington, DC, with the promise of employment as a violinist, only to be subsequently sold into slavery and forced to work as a slave on a plantation in Louisiana. For 12 years he endured the plight of being a slave. So when he gained his freedom in 1853, he was well positioned to write an account that poignantly described the barbaric system of slavery in the Deep South. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colleen Patrick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035316/bk_acx0_035316_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success - as a work of art, as a creative 'property' exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; and as a model for aspiring auteurist film-makers - changed Hollywood forever. Jon Lewis's study of The Godfather begins with a close look at the film's audacious visual style (the long, theatrical set pieces; the chiaroscuro lighting, the climactic montage paralleling a family baptism with a series of brutal murders). The analysis of visual style is paired with a discussion of the movie's principal themes: Vito and Michael's attempt to balance the obligations of business and family, their struggle with assimilation, the temptations and pitfalls of capitalist accumulation, and the larger drama of succession from father to son, from one generation to the next. The textual analysis precedes a production history that views The Godfather as a singularly important film in Hollywood's dramatic box-office turnaround in the early 1970s. And then, finally, the book takes a long hard look at the gangster himself both on screen and off. Hollywood publicity attending the gangster film from its inception in the silent era to the present has endeavoured to dull the distinction between the real and movie gangster, insisting that each film has been culled from the day's sordid headlines. Looking at the drama on screen and the production history behind the scenes, Lewis uncovers a series of real gangster backstories, revealing, finally, how millions of dollars of mob money may well have funded the film in the first place, and how, as things played out, The Godfather saved Paramount Studios and the rest of Hollywood as well.- Shop: buecher
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The Godfather (eBook, ePUB)
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success - as a work of art, as a creative 'property' exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; and as a model for aspiring auteurist film-makers - changed Hollywood forever. Jon Lewis's study of The Godfather begins with a close look at the film's audacious visual style (the long, theatrical set pieces; the chiaroscuro lighting, the climactic montage paralleling a family baptism with a series of brutal murders). The analysis of visual style is paired with a discussion of the movie's principal themes: Vito and Michael's attempt to balance the obligations of business and family, their struggle with assimilation, the temptations and pitfalls of capitalist accumulation, and the larger drama of succession from father to son, from one generation to the next. The textual analysis precedes a production history that views The Godfather as a singularly important film in Hollywood's dramatic box-office turnaround in the early 1970s. And then, finally, the book takes a long hard look at the gangster himself both on screen and off. Hollywood publicity attending the gangster film from its inception in the silent era to the present has endeavoured to dull the distinction between the real and movie gangster, insisting that each film has been culled from the day's sordid headlines. Looking at the drama on screen and the production history behind the scenes, Lewis uncovers a series of real gangster backstories, revealing, finally, how millions of dollars of mob money may well have funded the film in the first place, and how, as things played out, The Godfather saved Paramount Studios and the rest of Hollywood as well.- Shop: buecher
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The Godfather (eBook, PDF)
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success - as a work of art, as a creative 'property' exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; and as a model for aspiring auteurist film-makers - changed Hollywood forever. Jon Lewis's study of The Godfather begins with a close look at the film's audacious visual style (the long, theatrical set pieces; the chiaroscuro lighting, the climactic montage paralleling a family baptism with a series of brutal murders). The analysis of visual style is paired with a discussion of the movie's principal themes: Vito and Michael's attempt to balance the obligations of business and family, their struggle with assimilation, the temptations and pitfalls of capitalist accumulation, and the larger drama of succession from father to son, from one generation to the next. The textual analysis precedes a production history that views The Godfather as a singularly important film in Hollywood's dramatic box-office turnaround in the early 1970s. And then, finally, the book takes a long hard look at the gangster himself both on screen and off. Hollywood publicity attending the gangster film from its inception in the silent era to the present has endeavoured to dull the distinction between the real and movie gangster, insisting that each film has been culled from the day's sordid headlines. Looking at the drama on screen and the production history behind the scenes, Lewis uncovers a series of real gangster backstories, revealing, finally, how millions of dollars of mob money may well have funded the film in the first place, and how, as things played out, The Godfather saved Paramount Studios and the rest of Hollywood as well.- Shop: buecher
- Price: 10.95 EUR excl. shipping