Download or read book Boris and Elvira written by Sean C. Harewood and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boris and Elvira By: Sean C. Harewood Sean C. Harewood’s imagination brings together his daughter with his nieces and nephews in this adventure novel that contains an amalgamation of frightful, humorous, fantastic, and fun emotions and elements. This engaging fantasy tale develops around young adults with great responsibility in the future of their world, where together they encounter adventure, danger, love, and lots of laughter as they care for one another.
Download or read book One More Story written by Ingo Schulze and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A literary event” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung): thirteen new stories from one of Germany’s finest writers. New Year’s Eve 1999, Berlin. At a party to kick off the twenty-first century, Frank Reichert meets Julia, his lost love. Since their separation in the fall of 1989, he’s drifted through life like an exile, remaining apathetic toward the copy-shop business he started even as it flourishes apace. Nothing has the power to move him now: his whole life lies under the shadow of Julia, of the idea that things could have worked out differently. But as night draws on to day, the promised end becomes an unexpected new beginning. Ingo Schulze introduces us to characters as they stray outside the confines of East Germany into other, newer lives—into Egypt, where the betrayal of a lover turns an innocent vacation into a nightmare; into Vienna, where life starts to mimic art; into Estonia, where we meet a retired circus bear in an absurd (and absurdly hilarious) dilemma—or as they simply stay put, struggling to maintain their sense of themselves as the world around them changes. Mixed in with these tragicomic tales are some of the most beautiful love stories ever to feature cell phones. And throughout, Schulze’s masterfully controlled style conceals an understated, but finally breathtaking, intricacy.
Download or read book Vampira and Her Daughters written by Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Vampira to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, female horror movie hosts have long been a staple of late-night television. Broadcast on local stations and cable access channels, characters such as Moona Lisa, Stella, Crematia Mortem and Tarantula Ghoul brought an entertaining blend of macabre camp and after-prime-time sexuality to American living rooms in the 1950s through 1990s. Despite a near total lack of local programming today, the tradition continues on the Internet and Roku and other modern media. Featuring exclusive interviews and rare photographs, this book covers dozens of "dream ghouls" with alphabetical entries, from Aunt Gertie to Veronique Von Venom.
Download or read book Strategies of Humor in Post Unification German Literature Film and Other Media written by Jill Twark and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen chapters in this anthology feature original analyses of contemporary German-language literary texts, films, political cartoons, cabaret, and other types of performance. The artworks display a wide spectrum of humor modes, such as irony, satire, the grotesque, Jewish humor, and slapstick, as responses to unification with the accompanying euphoria, but also alienation and dislocation. Kerstin Hensel’s Lärchenau, Christoph Hein’s Landnahme, and vignette collections by Jakob Hein (Antrag auf ständige Ausreise und andere Mythen der DDR) and Wladimir Kaminer (Es gab keinen Sex im Sozialismus) are interpreted as examples of the grotesque. The popular films Lola rennt, Sonnenallee, Herr Lehmann, NVA, Alles auf Zucker!, and Mein Führer—Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler are reexamined through the lens of traditional and more recent humor or comic book theories. The contributors focus on how each artwork enriches four prominent postwall German cultural trends: post-unification identity reconstruction, Vergangenheitsbewältigung (including Hitler humor), New German Popular Literature (Christian Kracht’s ironic subtexts), and immigrant perspectives (a “third voice” in the East-West binary reflected here pointedly in Eulenspiegel cartoons). To date, no other scholarly work provides as comprehensive an overview of the diverse strategies of humor used in the past two decades in German-speaking countries.
Download or read book Yours Cruelly Elvira written by Cassandra Peterson and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story filled with intimate bombshells—told by the bombshell herself. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good. But she survived. Burned and scarred, the impact stayed with her and became an obstacle she was determined to overcome. Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror. While her sisters played with Barbie dolls, Cassandra built model kits of Frankenstein and Dracula, and idolized Vincent Price. Due to a complicated relationship with her mother, Cassandra left home at 14, and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. Run-ins with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tom Jones helped her grow up fast. Then a chance encounter with her idol Elvis Presley, changed the course of her life forever, and led her to Europe where she worked in film and traveled Italy as lead singer of an Italian pop band. She eventually made her way to Los Angeles, where she joined the famed comedy improv group, The Groundlings, and worked alongside Phil Hartman and Paul "Pee-wee" Reubens, honing her comedic skills. Nearing age 30, a struggling actress considered past her prime, she auditioned at local LA channel KHJ as hostess for the late night vintage horror movies. Cassandra improvised, made the role her own, and got the job on the spot. Yours Cruelly, Elvira is an unforgettably wild memoir. Cassandra doesn't shy away from revealing exactly who she is and how she overcame seemingly insurmountable odds. Always original and sometimes outrageous, her story is loaded with twists, travails, revelry, and downright shocking experiences. It is the candid, often funny, and sometimes heart-breaking tale of a Midwest farm girl's long strange trip to become the world's sexiest, sassiest Halloween icon. Instant New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, Publishers Weekly Bestseller A New York Times Best Books to Give This Season selection
Download or read book Soap Elvira s Mega Barney Miller Goonies Twister Batman Blazing Hood Gromit Big China Young Frankenstein written by Jim Fenn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-17 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the hilarious adventures of the cop, Nice Boob, of 'Ride Along;' the 'Soap' stars, Jezebel Taint, Belly Taint, Chorine, Heinous, Dapper and Butt Camel. The boys at the old One Three; Barmy Muller, Whoa Joe, and the dapper, Harris Tweed. Many bits by Elmira, Mistress in the Park. From Peppermint Twister, They call him Dill "The Extremist" Lastname. Her name is Jaw "Clenched" Harder. His new fiancee is Melinda "We Got Cows" Sex Therapist. From 'The Jerk, ' Naive Johnson. Many versions of Batty Man with or without Tweety, the Boy Wormer. The tough private eye, Wriggly Rear of 'Dead Men Wear No Tails.' A serious documentary of the Old West, Blazing Saddles. Robbing Good and his maid, Marrying, of 'Robbing Good: Many Times.' And finally Dr. Franks-n-Weenies of 'Yon Frankenstein.' Plus many lesser known gems.
Download or read book Drawing and Cartooning Monsters written by Tony Tallarico and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides step-by-step instructions for making drawings and cartoons of monsters, both simple and sophisticated.
Download or read book Sarah Caldwell written by Daniel Kessler and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of the musician, conductor, and director Sarah Caldwell, an indomitable force for opera in America, and the first woman to conduct at the Metropolitan Opera.
Download or read book Annals of the Metropolitan Opera written by Gerald Fitzgerald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-11 with total page 1343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reluctant Traveler written by Paul Katzaroff and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a must-read for World War II buffs! The narrative was written from the perspective of an Eastern European youngster growing up on the losing side of the conflict during the war years. This is a saga that spans Paris in the 1930s to Sofia, Bulgarias capital, in May 1940, just prior to the victorious Nazi armies that paraded in Paris on June 14, 1940. At the time of their arrival in Sofia, Bulgaria remained neutral. On March 1, 1941, Bulgaria joined the Axis and later on declared war on the USA and Great Britain. That action invited the systematic bombing of Sofia, resulting in the family having to relocate to a safer location. The chosen location was in what used to be Northern Greece, a city called Serres, where the family lived until the fall of 1944 when the German armies were forced to retreat, which meant that the family had to move back to Sofia. At the end of the war, the family decided to leave Bulgaria as soon as possible. In spite of many obstacles, the family was able to reunite in Prague and, from there, spent some time in a couple of displaced persons (DP) camps in Rome and Naples. Eventually, they sailed from Naples to Buenos Aires and five years later, flew to New York City, the final desired destination.
Download or read book The Pharmaceutical Era written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ernani Yesterday and Today written by Pierluigi Petrobelli and published by EDT srl. This book was released on 1989 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Download or read book Better Homes Husbands written by Valerie Ann Leff and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 980 Park, a fictional, pre-war co-op on the Northwest corner of Park Avenue and 83rd Street, houses the rich and famous-Sidney Sapphire, the blonde anchorwoman of ABC News, Angela Somoza, the gorgeous Nicaraguan jet-setter, Bob Horowitz, the former chairman of the United Jewish Appeals, and the usual collection of banking and industrial CEO's, Wall Street magnates, and white-haired philanthropists. The Brooklyn-born doorman, Vinnie Ferretti, joins the ranks when he becomes a major fashion designer. The building's board, rich as clotted cream, sips gin in the afternoons and devises ways to keep out anyone deemed "inappropriate." Stifled resentments come to a head when the French baroness in the penthouse dies, and two Jewish families in the building suspect the co-op board of more discrimination with regard to prospective buyers than might be legal. Better Homes and Husbands is a stylish, richly woven novel about class and caste feuds, played out with ferocity and etiquette in a posh New York apartment building during the tumultuous period of social change between 1970 and 2000.
Download or read book More Legendary Voices written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the delectable Conchita Supervia (who made her debut at fourteen!) to the divine Maria Callas; from the gentle Elisabeth Schumann to the fiery Maria Jeritza (adored by the public, feared by several leading tenors and spat at by a fellow diva); from the giant Lauritz Melchior to the versatile Richard Tauber - More Legendary Voices mixes biography, anecdote, opinion, and penetrating analysis of each singer's strengths and weaknesses. Once more Nigel Douglas, the international tenor and well-known radio presenter, brings to this collection his professional knowledge of the world of opera, his infectious enthusiasm for the subject, and a natural gift for distilling the essence of a singer's life and career into one entertaining and instructive chapter.
Download or read book Courage and Misfortune written by Mountaineers Books (Firm) and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mountaineers Books publishes the best in climbing literature, boasting a list of books chronicling the greatest climbing adventures ever pursued. Courage & Misfortune contains gripping accounts of expeditions that encountered violent forces of nature or tragic accidents.
Download or read book Zublinka Among Women written by Robert Wexelblatt and published by KenArnoldBooks, LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zublinka is a beloved friend, author, and philosopher who, at the age of 70, lives a rich and varied life of the mind and spirit. The warm and witty novel shows that goodness is possible and seldom unalloyed.
