45 Results for : lampoon
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Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes About the Stars and Legends of the Movies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 673min
At high noon on a cold November day in 1974, sixty-seven-year-old John Wayne faced off with the staff of the Harvard Lampoon on the famous campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The students had issued their challenge by calling the beloved American icon a fraud. Wayne, who had his new movie McQ to promote, responded by saying he would be happy to show his film in the pseudo-intellectual swamps of Harvard Square. After the screening, without writers, the former USC footballer delivered a classic performance. When one smart young man asked where he got his phony toupee, Wayne insisted the hair was real. It wasn't his, but it was real. The appreciative underclassmen loved him and after the Q and A session, they all sat down to dinner. Later Wayne, who was suffering greatly from both gout and the after effects of lung cancer (sadly the Duke only had five years to live), said that day at Harvard was the best time he ever had. Just when you thought you've heard everything about Hollywood comes a totally original new book. Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes About the Stars and Legends of the Movies by Stephen Schochet contains a timeless treasure trove of colorful vignettes featuring an amazing all-star cast of icons including John Wayne, Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Jack Nicholson, Johnny Depp, Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Errol Flynn and many others both past and contemporary. A special blend of biography, history and lore, Hollywood Stories is full of humorous tales often with unexpected endings. What makes the book unique is that the listener can find a completely engaging and illuminating yarn with every listen. Sometimes people won't realize that they are hearing about The Three Stooges or Popeye the Sailor until they come to the end of the story. A professional tour guide in Hollywood, Stephen Schochet has researched and told thousands of entertaining anecdotes for ov ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chaz Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/006456/bk_acx0_006456_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Murders of Crows , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1284min
Three complete novels.Judged: Vietnam vet and uber litigator John Cotta's legal career ends once taking on a federal judge leads to very unexpected consequences. A story of how the elite meet defeat when they hit concrete as Big Law rolls into 21st-century America.Bad Law: From Oscar Wilde to Thomas Wolfe to Jack Kerouac, the roman à clef has been a sturdy literary tradition. In Bad Law, Will Nathan takes the genre to new territory in his second novel populated by the thinly veiled icons of the local Bar and judiciary. With a cast of characters to rival War and Peace, Nathan runs the gamut from delicious lampoon to brutal assault, as he mercilessly sketches many of the characters he has encountered in several decades of white-shoe business law and civil litigation. The central character, a towering sociopath who personifies the late-millennial Gold Rush mentality that took hold at one of the city's oldest and best established firms, leading to its downfall, is presented in a relentlessly scathing portrait of hubris run amok.Book of Business: It's the summer of 1994, and Gus Bondoc is going under. One of the best civil-defense lawyers in San Francisco, he's survived by sheer cunning and strict control. But when everything goes wrong at once - when a jury hits his biggest client with a $12 million penalty just after an entry-level employee helps a foreign government wrest $16 million from the most dangerous man he's ever worked for and then sets out to seduce him - Bondoc falls back on his worst instincts and the wrong people. With his business and his life at risk, with plenty of enemies and few friends, he begins the grim process of preserving himself at all costs. A raw portrait of the dark side of high-stakes civil-law practice, Book of Business is a frightening look at a shadowy world that many imagine but only true insiders ever see. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Seth Podowitz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/121785/bk_acx0_121785_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Best of the Harvard Lampoon
The Best of the Harvard Lampoon - 140 Years of American Humor: ab 13.12 €- Shop: ebook.de
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National Lampoon Live: New Faces 1
For more than two decades the hilarious antics of the National Lampoon films have been the sophomoric comedy gold standard, from Animal House to Vegas Vacation. Now Frank Caliendo hosts a no-hold's-barred performance starring the comic stars of tomorrow. 2004/color/NR/widescreen.- Shop: odax
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