Download or read book Divas Inc written by Donna Hill and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diva (n.): an extremely arrogant or temperamental woman. Delicious Diva Tip #13: When in doubt, just do it anyway. Tiffany Lane and Chantal Hollis are bonafide divas-in every sense of the word. They've also been Margaret Drew's best friends since they were children. Margaret has always been the plain Jane of the threesome, living vicariously through the exploits of her friends. But when Tiffany and Chantal head to Europe on an extended vacation, leaving Margaret to tend their apartments, Margaret decides to see how the other half lives. Co-opting their apartments, their boyfriends (current and past), their fabulous lifestyles and Tiffany's very savvy pooch, Virginia, Margaret finally feels like she has found the life she has always wanted and deserved. But her double living begins to catch up with her and Margaret might soon be homeless, manless, and friendless all in one swoop.
Download or read book Diva Tize written by Kathy O'Leary and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divas can get by in hard times and can establish and/or maintain a Diva lifestyle on a lower budget. Kathy O'Leary has written this book to provide useful information, offer suggestions and creative ideas, to reiterate common sense behaviours, and to give readers (Divas or not) a reason to smile and laugh. This book contains tips, ideas and experiences from Divas of all ages throughout the country and from all walks of life. The information in this book comes from real ladies who are experiencing the same economic troubles as you or I, living in rural or urban environments, cottages or even inner-city public housing. It doesn't matter where you live, but the mindset with which you live. Divas are everywhere!
Download or read book Fabulous Divas Part 1 written by Alexander Doty and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Josephine Baker to Judy Garland to Elton John, the figure of the diva occupies a fascinating place in American culture. This special issue of Camera Obscura explores the impact of divas (and divos) in film and popular culture and considers their fraught psychic and social positioning. Contributors examine how divas are frequently portrayed as both victims and villains and how they can be figures of worship as well as of ridicule for their attempts to confront, transcend, or carve a new space within the patriarchal dominant culture. This collection looks at how divas cause "category trouble" by refusing to stay in their proper culturally assigned roles--gender, race, and class--in order to live life on their own terms, making them important figures for other groups at the margins of the dominant culture. The contributors to Fabulous! Divas I (the first in a two-part series) address how Baker's dual image as sexualized black woman and multicultural mother has been used to question and invert stereotypes, how the diva witches in the Broadway musical Wicked have developed a cult following among adolescent girls, and how fans mix irony and sincerity in their admiration of daytime soap divas. One contributor explores the cultural work of camp, while another considers hair as a fetish item for diva devotees. Among the diva appreciations are a look at the life of the cross-dressing black disco diva Sylvester, a reading of Garland as a lesbian diva par excellence, an examination of Courtney Love as a martyr diva, and a consideration of how loving Julie Andrews can make people queer. Contributors. Alexander Doty, Brett Farmer, Joshua Gamson, Chuck Jackson, Ramon Lobato, Edward R. O'Neill, Ann Pellegrini, Julie Levine Russo, Nick Salvato, Jeanne Scheper, Edward Baron Turk, Stacy Wolf
Download or read book The Marqu s the Divas and the Castrati written by Louise K. Stein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, author Louise K. Stein analyzes early modern opera as appreciated and produced by Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán (1629-87), Marqués de Heliche and del Carpio and a distinguished patron of the arts in Madrid, Rome, and Naples. It also reveals his lasting legacy in the Americas during a crucial period for the growth and development of opera and the history of singing.
Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-04-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
Download or read book Hollywood Divas written by James Robert Parish and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the birth of the silver screen, "It Girls" laid down a sequined trail of self-indulgence and scandalous bad behavior. "Hollywood Divas" traces that glittering path from legendary icons to today's most high-maintenance celebrities of film and TV. 70 photos.
Download or read book Catwalk written by Deborah Gregory and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN Catwalk, DEBORAH GREGORY creates a new YA series that takes her famously upbeat urban voice and combines it with the appeal of Project Runway and America’s Next Top Model. Catwalk follows Pashmina, Felinez, Angora, and Aphro, four best friends at Manhattan’s Fashion International High School who are about to enter the contest of their lives. Each year, students split up into Fashion Houses and compete to design, produce, and show fully original fashion lines. The winner gets a scholarship, a professional show, and a real shot at a career in fashion. Bouncy, smart, and nearly irresistible, Catwalk is a fierce introduction to a fashion world where fabulosity trumps waist size, and there truly is room for everyone.
Download or read book American Diva Extraordinary Unruly Fabulous written by Deborah Paredez and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned homage to the divas who shake up our world and transform it with their bold, dazzling artistry. What does it mean to be a “diva”? A shifting, increasingly loaded term, it has been used to both deride and celebrate charismatic and unapologetically fierce performers like Aretha Franklin, Divine, and the women of Labelle. In this brilliant, powerful blend of incisive criticism and electric memoir, Deborah Paredez—scholar, cultural critic, and lifelong diva devotee—unravels our enduring fascination with these icons and explores how divas have challenged American ideas about feminism, performance, and freedom. American Diva journeys into Tina Turner’s scintillating performances, Celia Cruz’s command of the male-dominated salsa world, the transcendent revival of Jomama Jones after a period of exile, and the unparalleled excellence of Venus and Serena Williams. Recounting how she and her mother endlessly watched Rita Moreno’s powerhouse portrayal of Anita in West Side Story and how she learned much about being bigger than life from her fabulous Tía Lucia, Paredez chronicles the celebrated and skilled performers who not only shaped her life but boldly expressed the aspiration for freedom among brown, Black, and gay communities. Paredez also traces the evolution of the diva through the decades, dismayed at the mid-aughts’ commodification and juvenilizing of its meaning but finding its lasting beauty and power. Filled with sharp insights and great heart, American Diva is a spirited tribute to the power of performance and the joys of fandom.
Download or read book Skiing written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diva s Mouth written by Susan J. Leonardi and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the divine, divas, it seems, are omnipresent. From the sirens to Madonna, from castrati to Callas, from opera stage to drag shows to TV commercials, from George Eliot to writers of detective fiction, the diva has been worshipped, feared, maligned, parodied, and appropriated. The Diva's Mouth: Bodies, Voice, and Prima Donna Politics examines how and why, from the eighteenth century to the present, divas have been talked about with so much passion and written up, down, and over with so much ambiguity and contradiction. The book explores the myriad roles the diva plays in masculinist, feminist, and queer imaginations--in opera itself and in other fictions, films, and fantasies, including the divas' (and the authors') own. Finally, it examines how and why pop and "pomo" singers, like Madonna, Annie Lennox, and Diamanda Galas, in very explicit ways both flirt with and fling off the fantasy of the woman with a voice. In this very witty and highly readable book, the authors tell everything you always wanted to know and make you want to know even more about the diva.
Download or read book The Diva s Guide to Selling Your Soul written by Kathleen O'Reilly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't hate me because I'm beautiful... Call me V. I used to be a nobody, just a girl from New Jersey who was probably going to hell anyway -- or worse, mediocrity and a size 14. Now I get whatever I desire just by casting a little spell....a flawless body, a luxury penthouse, and a Fifth Avenue shop where rich women clamor for my overpriced handbags. Even better, I have power. I can taunt my ex-husband, break hearts without guilt, and love every minute of it. My secret? I lost the one thing I never needed in the first place: my soul. I sold it. And you'll never guess who's got it now. She's a devil in disguise. You know her as the dishiest gossip columnist in the city's trashiest tabloid. I call her Lucy. And our deal is this: the more clients I recruit for her Life Enrichment Program, the greater my rewards. But just between us, my fast track to heartless apathy has hit a few speed bumps -- lately, I've had the totally annoying impulse to do things that are...good. First there was rescuing a kid in the park. Then there was the date with the handsome, decent guy who wasn't even a celebrity. What's next, giving to charity or something? All I know is Lucy doesn't like it, not one little bit. And when she finds out, there will be hell to pay...
Download or read book Total Divas Mad Libs written by Laura Marchesani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get to know your favorite WWE Divas in a whole new way by filling in the blanks of this Mad Libs! WWE Total Divas Mad Libs features 21 original stories all about the most popular WWE Divas, like Nikki Bella, Paige, and Eva Marie. You'll feel like you're in the ring with the Divas when you fill out the blanks of the laugh-out-loud funny stories inside this book.
Download or read book Diva written by Stanley Clay and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lights! Camera! Murder!Beautiful, talented Ida Lake was known as "The Diva" to her millions of fans when she reigned as Hollywood's black acting and singing sensation of the 1940s. Her career--and her sanity--collapsed after the suspicious deaths of the husband she adored and the daughter she worshiped and, haunted by rumors of "Un-American" activities, Ida took refuge abroad. Two decades later, she has been coaxed into a comeback as the star of a Broadway musical. But tragedy stalks Ida Lake once again as a mysterious web of intrigue, sex scandal and murder envelops the show.In Diva award-winning author Stanley Bennett Clay captures the glamour and suspense of show business, where drama wasn't only on stage!
Download or read book Part the Curtain written by Richard Mousseau and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Second collection of theatre plays by Richard Mousseau. Plays are suitable for amateur and professional theatre groups. Sparse or elaborate sets will enhance plays. Some plays are adaptable to a radio play format. Range of acceptance is general public. All plays are generated from the aspect of the common person, and all audiences will be amused by the drama and comedy."--
Download or read book The Soulful Divas written by David Nathan and published by New York : Billboard Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal portraits of over a dozen divine divas, from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, and Diana Ross to Patti LaBelle, Anita Baker, and Natalie Cole. 40 illustrations.
Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Woof There It Is written by Deborah Gregory and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hip, contemporary paperback series for black girls continues, featuring a singing group of five feisty teens.
