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Book Bringing Up Oscar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Debra Ann Pawlak
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-01-12
  • ISBN : 1605982164
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Bringing Up Oscar written by Debra Ann Pawlak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the innovative pioneers who helped make movies the preeminent art form of the twentieth century. The founders of the now infamous Academy were a motley crew as individuals, but when they first converged in Hollywood, then just a small town with dirt roads, sparks flew and fueled a common dream: to bring artistic validity to their beloved new medium. Who were these movers and shakers who would change movies forever? And what about Oscar, their famous son? He is fast approaching his hundredth birthday and is still the undisputed king of Hollywood. Yet with such dynamic parents, what else could we expect?

Book Bring Oscar

Download or read book Bring Oscar written by Lance Friedman and published by Husky Heart Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever taken a road trip with a dog? Or, wondered about traveling with your pet? Ride with Lance Friedman and his canine best friend, Oscar, as they traverse the United States and Canada. See the quirky sites and popular attractions they discovered in small towns and big cities. The stories and photos in Bring Oscar describe moments that will resonate for any traveler or dog lover. And, their travel experience will provide inspiration to start your journey.

Book Oscar the Mouse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sam Baker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022
  • ISBN : 9781734684131
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Oscar the Mouse written by Sam Baker and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar the Mouse is a joyful story about a mischievous little mouse, who becomes a little girl's first pet, and the adventures they share.Mimi teaches Oscar the importance of inclusion and acceptance, while Oscar helps Mimi overcome her fear of the Boogeyman. Together they have tons of fun and many laughs.This book was created to make reading fun for young children preK to 3rd grade and "help them engage their imagination and creativity," says Sam Baker, the 99-year-old author.

Book Black Oscars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederick Gooding
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2020-05-24
  • ISBN : 1538123738
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Black Oscars written by Frederick Gooding and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely exploration of Oscar-nominated Black actors and the complicated legacy of the Academy Awards. In Black Oscars: From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us about African Americans, Frederick W. Gooding Jr. draws on American, African American, and film history to reflect on how the Oscars have recognized Black actors from the award’s inception to the present. Starting in the 1920s, the chapters provide a thorough overview and analysis of Black actors nominated for their Hollywood roles during each decade, with special attention paid to the winners. Historical patterns are scrutinized to reveal racial trends and open the question of whether race relations have truly changed substantively or only superficially over time. Given the Oscars’ presence and popularity, it begs the question of what these awards reflect and reinforce about larger society. In the meticulously-researched Black Oscars, we see how the Academy Awards are an indispensable guide to understanding race in mainstream Hollywood and beyond.

Book Bringing Up Oscar  The Story of the Men and Women Who Founded the Academy

Download or read book Bringing Up Oscar The Story of the Men and Women Who Founded the Academy written by Debra Ann Pawlak and published by Pegasus. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the innovative pioneers who helped make movies the preeminent art form of the twentieth century by founding the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The founders of the now infamous Academy were a motley crew as individuals, but when they first converged in Hollywood, then just a small town with dirt roads, sparks flew and fueled a common dream: to bring artistic validity to their beloved new medium. Today, movies are so ingrained in our culture it is hard to imagine a time when former cowpunchers, prospectors, vaudevillians, even junk dealers made up the rules as they went along. Prohibition and the Great Depression were keeping everyone on edge, and the business was rife with murders and drug scandals. Something had to happen. And so on January 11th, 1927, thirty-six members of Hollywood's elite and not-so-elite came together at the behest of MGM chief Louis B. Mayer. From Cecil B. DeMille to Mary Pickford, Harry M. Warner, who owned a bike shop before launching the revolutionary “talkie” The Jazz Singer, even Joseph M. Schenck, freed from jail just in time to discover Marilyn Monroe—each guest was more colorful than the last. Although they didn’t know it yet, these thirty-six achievers and dreamers gave birth to a golden child. Who were these movers and shakers who would change movies forever? And what about Oscar, their famous son? He is fast approaching his 100th birthday, and is still the undisputed king of Hollywood. Yet with such dynamic parents, what else could we expect?

Book Bringing Up Baby

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerald Mast
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780813513416
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Bringing Up Baby written by Gerald Mast and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing Up Baby (1938) is the essence of thirties screwball comedy. It is also quintessential Howard Hawks, treating many of the director's favorite themes, particularly the loving war between the sexes. Bringing Up Baby features Katharine Hepburn as a flaky heiress and Cary Grant as an absentminded paleontologist, roles in which they come into their own as stars and deliver particularly fine comic performances. Pauline Kael has called the film the "American movies' closest equivalent to Restoration comedy." The comparison is based on the quick repartee and witty dialogue, a hallmark of Hawks's work and well conveyed here by Gerald Mast's transcription from the screen.

Book And the Loser is  A History of Oscar Oversights  2nd Edition

Download or read book And the Loser is A History of Oscar Oversights 2nd Edition written by Aubrey Malone and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of its kind. Aubrey Malone has gone back to the start of the Oscar ceremonies and discovered that mistakes have been made every year in the choice of what has been deemed “best” in the categories of acting, directing, producing and the subsidiary awards. He has identified all the great stars (Garbo, Montgomery Clift, Peter O’Toole, Barbara Stanwyck, etc.) who never held Oscars in their hands, and also iconic directors like Stanley Kubrick who were never thus honored. Why were some people over-rewarded by the Academy and why did others fall below the radar? The author outlines all of the extraneous factors leading to voting choices, and how Oscar pariahs have often been subsequently (or even posthumously) awarded for the wrong films to make up for omissions in a given year. With both wit and wisdom he has written an “alternative” history of the Oscars that will be required reading for both academics and film buffs alike. It tells the story behind the story. “If there were Oscars for research, Aubrey Malone would be right up there with the best of them.” (Film Ireland)

Book Oscar Arias S  nchez

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  • Author : Vicki Cox
  • Publisher : Infobase Learning
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1438147422
  • Pages : 149 pages

Download or read book Oscar Arias S nchez written by Vicki Cox and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Óscar Arias Sánchez was awarded the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the civil unrest raging in several Central American countries at that time.

Book Behind the Oscar   the Secret History of the Academy Awards

Download or read book Behind the Oscar the Secret History of the Academy Awards written by Anthony Holden and published by Viking. This book was released on 1993 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clothed in Nothingness

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  • Author : Leonard M. Hummel
  • Publisher : Fortress Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9781451412949
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Clothed in Nothingness written by Leonard M. Hummel and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothed in Nothingness provides practical and theological considerations for pastoral care and insights from the Lutheran tradition for coping with suffering.

Book Multiamory

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  • Author : Dedeker Winston
  • Publisher : Cleis Press
  • Release : 2023-05-23
  • ISBN : 1627785337
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Multiamory written by Dedeker Winston and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationships aren't "one-size-fits-all" so why should relationship advice be? Multiamory offers practical, research-based communication tools for the full spectrum of modern relationships. When Multiamory authors Dedeker Winston, Emily Sotelo Matlack, and Jase Lindgren started producing their advice show about polyamory and other non-traditional relationships, they received dozens of questions from listeners about all sorts of relationship quandaries and communication stalemates. They quickly found out that existing relationship tools weren’t up to the task, and that conventional wisdom is sorely lacking for modern relationships. Many of the primary resources for relationship advice are frustratingly religious, unapproachable and academic, or alienating to anyone who falls outside the mainstream of heterosexual monogamy. Over the course of many years and hundreds of episodes, they have spent hours nerding out over research, reading up on evidence-based relationship advice, and listening to the personal struggles of hundreds of couples and individuals. They have re-tooled commonplace communication frameworks to fit modern-day relationships, and when there was no existing tool that fit, they put on their inventor hats and developed their own. This has led to the creation of Multiamory: Essential Tools for Modern Relationships, a curated collection of the most popular communication tools, advice, and wisdom from the Multiamory podcast that have helped thousands of listeners improve their communication and create healthy relationships. In this book, you’ll learn how to: Get what you need out of conversations with your partner with the Triforce of Communication Create Microscripts that will interrupt old patterns, diffuse tension, and form better communication habits. Process and reconnect after an argument with Repair SHOP Determine your unique processing style, and how it may be clashing with your partner’s Set up a regular RADAR check-in to support the long-term health of all of your relationships And more!

Book Integrated Care for Complex Patients

Download or read book Integrated Care for Complex Patients written by Steven A. Frankel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents case-based descriptions of models for the inclusive, multispecialty and multidisciplinary clinical care of complex cases. Cases range from primary care patients with complex systemic medical and psychiatric comorbidity, to those requiring specialty care, to those with potentially terminal illnesses. While each category and case has its unique requirements often necessitating different models of care, the commonalities in approaching complex clinical situations is underscored. Extended case narratives written by the treating physicians, summarizing both the course of clinical care and physicians' reflections on the challenges of managing complex patients, comprise the bulk of the book. Five additional chapters on systems issues associated with care of complex patients, together with a chapter on end of life considerations, a narrative analysis of the physicians reflections about complex patients, and a concluding chapter are prominently included to anchor the case narratives. Written by experts in the field, these descriptions form unique models for assessing and treating complex cases. Integrated Care for Complex Patients is a useful guide for all health practitioners and health administrators who are responsible for clinically complex cases, including physicians in primary care and psychiatry, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and psychologists.

Book Holding Out for a Hero

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pamela Tracy
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2017-04-01
  • ISBN : 1488012180
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Holding Out for a Hero written by Pamela Tracy and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is more than just a case… Every instinct Oscar Guzman honed in the military and the police academy is telling him that Shelley Brubaker is hiding something. It's not just a secret; he's sure of that. It's something darker, more dangerous. And the only way to protect her is to convince her to open up to him. But Shelley isn't about to let him get that close. Oscar knows that with her con-man ex still at large and probably threatening her, Shelley is suspicious of everyone. But he also knows that at eight months pregnant with a toddler to raise, she's in no shape to fight this battle alone. And he's not about to let her!

Book For the Love of Oscar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Roberts
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-03
  • ISBN : 9781913543129
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book For the Love of Oscar written by Sarah Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Oscar was diagnosed with Down Syndrome at birth, Sarah had to come to terms with her new normal. In In For the Love of Oscar the author describes how, for a while, she grieved for the baby she always believed and hoped she'd have and how she suddenly found herself on a different path to the one she'd always seen herself on. For the Love of Oscar will take you on a journey of the very raw and real emotions she experienced, a journey both heart warming and funny in parts. She talks candidly about the ups and downs of not only parenthood but also parenting a child who happens to have additional needs. About people's attitudes towards her and her child and the ridiculous things some say. She talks about the choices she faced when she made the decision she'd like to go on and have more children. The hospital appointments, the therapy sessions, the mountains of paperwork, the tantrums, the tears and the really stinky nappies.

Book Oscar   S Snippets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joy Buckley
  • Publisher : Archway Publishing
  • Release : 2017-03-16
  • ISBN : 1480841404
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Oscar S Snippets written by Joy Buckley and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar is a cat with a very long name. When he is not seeking out new adventures, he enjoys his job as manager of a home. He is always working, making sure everything is in its place, that mealtime occurs at the same time every day, and begs for hugs on a regular basis. Oscar, who is the paragon of patience and persistence, waits like a statue while the prodigious procurer of tuna opens a can. But Oscar does not just like tuna: he also has a hunger for shower curtains, grocery bags, tissues, and toilet paper. His owner is convinced that her sensitive cat who loves piggyback rides more than anything in the world is special and unique. But then again, arent all felines? Oscars Snippets is a collection of poetry and writings that charmingly reveal a glimpse into a lovable cats life as he searches for adventures and provides unconditional love.

Book The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies written by Rosamund Davies and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the growing field of screenwriting research and is essential reading for both those new to the field and established screenwriting scholars. It covers topics and concepts central to the study of screenwriting and the screenplay in relation to film, television, web series, animation, games and other interactive media, and includes a range of approaches, from theoretical perspectives to in-depth case studies. 44 scholars from around the globe demonstrate the range and depths of this new and expanding area of study. As the chapters of this Handbook demonstrate, shifting the focus from the finished film to the process of screenwriting and the text of the screenplay facilitates valuable new insights. This Handbook is the first of its kind, an indispensable compendium for both academics and practitioners.

Book Sometimes There Were Heroes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas C. Jones
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 2005-09-30
  • ISBN : 1557288070
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book Sometimes There Were Heroes written by Douglas C. Jones and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arkansas native Douglas C. Jones (1924-1998) ranks right up there with Larry McMurtry, A.B. Guthrie, and Ron Hansen. Author of nineteen historical Westerns, including The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer, which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, Arrest Sitting Bull, and Elkhorn Tavern, Jones was a three-time recipient of the Golden Spur Award, and in 1993, he received the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contribution and Achievement from the Western Writers of America. His final novel, Sometimes there Were Heroes, originally published in 2000 and now in paperback, is the riveting tale of the brave and driven men and women of early Texas, told against the color backdrop of Bexar, the tiny Spanish mission that would later become San Antonio. As witnessed through the unforgettable characters of the "Mexican Gringo" Paco Salazar, a German immigrant named Sophie, and the young Oscar Schiller, this history is made rich with intrigue, danger, murder and love as disparate cultures clash and bond on the American frontier. Tonkawa Indians and Bavarian settlers, Mexicans and Texicans, Comanches and Angelos all mingle memorably in this riveting drama. Here are Sam Houston and Santa Ana, the Alamo, the founding of the Republic of Texas, the Texas Rangers, the forty-Niner Gold Rush, and the Civil War, all seamlessly woven into a suspenseful and colorful tale. The author's own pencil and charcoal drawings further enliven the novel. From prologue to epilogue, this is a suspenseful book that will be hard to put aside until it is finished.