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Book Fading Into The Limelight

Download or read book Fading Into The Limelight written by Peter Sallis and published by Orion. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Peter Sallis, the brilliant actor best known for his roles as the voice of Wallace and as Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine For more than 30 years, Peter Sallis has played Clegg in 'Last of the Summer Wine', the world's longest-running sitcom. With his dry, cynical wit and cautious nature, Clegg has been taken to the hearts of the nation. Now the man behind this creation, and the voice of Wallace in Wallace & Gromit, is telling his story. From his early days in the RAF in the Second World War, through an extraordinary theatrical career that saw him perform alongside the likes of Joan Collins, John Gielgud and Orson Welles, to the fame that came to him late in his career, Peter Sallis has a wonderful, heartwarming story to tell. Packed with brilliant stories and amusing anecdotes, this is a memoir that will appeal to Peter Sallis's millions of fans, as he looks back over his career with a warm glow of nostalgia.

Book Kenneth Williams  Born Brilliant

Download or read book Kenneth Williams Born Brilliant written by Christopher Stevens and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth Williams was the stand-out comic actor of his generation. Beloved as the manic star of Carry On films and as a peerless raconteur on TV chat shows, he was also acclaimed for serious stage roles. Born Brilliant includes previously unseen material from Williams's candid daily journal and also draw on rare in-depth interviews with friends and colleagues. Since the publication of edited extracts from his diaries, much controversy has surrounded Williams's personal and professional lives. This biography traces the complex contradictions that characterised an extraordinary life and presents the first full portrait of a star who was born brilliant.

Book Offbeat

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julian Upton
  • Publisher : SCB Distributors
  • Release : 2013-04-18
  • ISBN : 1909394041
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Offbeat written by Julian Upton and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics may sing from an over familiar hymn sheet of so-called ‘cult films’, but there remains an epoch of British cinema still awaiting discovery that is every bit as provocative and deserving of attention. And there could be no finer guide to these uncharted domains than OFFBEAT. This is the book for the more intrepid cinema lover. A passionate, irreverent and informative exploration of British cinema’s secret history, from the buoyant leap in film production in the late fifties to the dying embers of popular domestic cinema in the early eighties. So, move over Peeping Tom, Get Carter and The Wicker Man -- it’s time to make way for The Mark, Unearthly Stranger, The Strange Affair, The Squeeze, Sitting Target, Quest for Love, and a host of forgotten gems. OFFBEAT features in-depth reviews of more than 100 films, plus interviews and eye-opening essays that together tell the wider story of film in Britain, its neglected cinematic trends and its unsung heroes. The last great British B-movies Anti-swinging London films Sexploitation The British rock’n’roll movie CIA-funded cartoons Madness in British film The Children’s Film Foundation The short as supporting feature The forgotten journeymen Non-horror Hammer, and more!

Book Summer Wine and Other Stories

Download or read book Summer Wine and Other Stories written by Peter Sallis and published by Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public performances.

Book Money

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lois M Rodden
  • Publisher : American Federation of Astr
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0866905642
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Money written by Lois M Rodden and published by American Federation of Astr. This book was released on 2006 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money: How to Find it with Astrology addresses everyday down-to-earth concerns about work, career and money. Where is the spotlight on sucess? How is the wealth potential activated? What career holds the most promise? When is the best time to implement decisions? The planets, signs and houses of astrology are examined in terms of the commercial life. The vocational indicators are considered to determine what kind of job is most suitable to fulfill the earning potential, where and when optimmum opportunities exist, how to guard against financial loss, gain success in the mundane environment and realize satisfaction in the work place. Money: How to Find It with Astrology explores the maximum options in the horoscopes of how to live the good life with the most successful results.

Book Audio Control Handbook

Download or read book Audio Control Handbook written by Robert S. Oringel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audio Control Handbook (1989) employs a step-by-step approach to prepare students for audio work in the broadcast industry, covering real-life principles, tools and procedures. It uses clear, nontechnical language to look at the effective use of standard audio equipment, from basic microphones and control boards to digital signal processors and tape recorders.

Book Orson Welles  Volume 3  One Man Band

Download or read book Orson Welles Volume 3 One Man Band written by Simon Callow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • The third volume of Simon Callow’s acclaimed Orson Welles biography, covering the period of his exile from America (1947–1964), when he produced some of his greatest works, including Touch of Evil In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic and all-inclusive four-volume survey of Orson Welles’s life and work, the celebrated British actor Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex, contradictory artists of the twentieth century, whose glorious triumphs (and occasional spectacular failures) in film, radio, theater, and television introduced a radical and original approach that opened up new directions in the arts. This volume begins with Welles’s self-exile from America, and his realization that he could function only to his own satisfaction as an independent film maker, a one-man band, in fact, which committed him to a perpetual cycle of money raising. By 1964, he had filmed Othello, which took three years to complete; Mr. Arkadin, the most puzzling film in his output; and a masterpiece in another genre, Touch of Evil, which marked his one return to Hollywood, and like all too many of his films was wrested from his grasp and reedited. Along the way he made inroads into the fledgling medium of television and a number of stage plays, of which his 1955 London Moby-Dick is considered by theater historians to be one of the seminal productions of the century. His private life was as spectacularly complex and dramatic as his professional life. The book reveals what it was like to be around Welles, and, with an intricacy and precision rarely attempted before, what it was like to be him, answering the riddle that has long fascinated film scholars and lovers alike: Whatever happened to Orson Welles?

Book Leading the Launch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kim Wallace
  • Publisher : Solution Tree Press
  • Release : 2021-09-03
  • ISBN : 1952812704
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Leading the Launch written by Kim Wallace and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do schools and districts make true progress? One step at a time. Leading the Launch offers a ten-stage initiative implementation process proven to help you lead the charge for change with ingenuity, flexibility, responsiveness, and passion. Ideal for a team book study, this resource includes strategies, tools, case studies, and end-of-chapter action plans and checklists to guide your work. Learn how to research and develop new school initiatives following an effective, systematic plan. Communicate with stakeholders and school personnel to ensure everyone is on the same page with new initiatives. Analyze data to help determine whether to move forward with a proposed initiative. Explore how to seamlessly implement new systems and initiatives into schools and districts. Sustain and balance new initiatives with current systems to guarantee long-term success. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Stage 1--Begin Research and Planning Chapter 2: Stage 2--Pitch the Proposal Chapter 3: Stage 3--Determine Priorities Chapter 4: Stage 4--Design the Prototype and Pilot Chapter 5: Stage 5--Build Stakeholder Engagement Chapter 6: Stage 6--Gather and Analyze Data Chapter 7: Stage 7--Make a Decision Chapter 8: Stage 8--Plan and Deliver Professional Development Chapter 9: Stage 9--Implement the Initiative Chapter 10: Stage 10--Provide Ongoing Support Epilogue: Balancing Acts References and Resources Index

Book The Book Of Phenomenal  Hidden  Mysterious Scriptural Secrets

Download or read book The Book Of Phenomenal Hidden Mysterious Scriptural Secrets written by Jan Hershberger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is my desire, through all the joys and hardships I have faced and shared during my life time and which became a great contributing benefactor to this book, these may help another to overcome the very obstacles which keep them from learning the truth. In this sense I have dedicated my life’s work to all who choose to accept the mercies of God rather than mans. It is a direction which is not unimaginable to accede to though you have been led to believe so. Most of what I have learned from birth until now is contained within and thus becomes a testimony of given knowledge, time, and eff orts toward God and Mankind.

Book Limelight  Rush in the    80s

Download or read book Limelight Rush in the 80s written by Martin Popoff and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part two of the definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North — covering Rush’s most iconic and popular albums, Moving Pictures and Power Windows Includes two full-color photo inserts, with 16 pages of the band on tour and in the studio In the follow-up to Anthem: Rush in the ’70s, Martin Popoff brings together canon analysis, cultural context, and extensive firsthand interviews to celebrate Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart at the peak of their persuasive power. Rush was one of the most celebrated hard rock acts of the ’80s, and the second book of Popoff’s staggeringly comprehensive three-part series takes readers from Permanent Waves to Presto, while bringing new insight to Moving Pictures, their crowning glory. Limelight: Rush in the ’80s is a celebration of fame, of the pushback against that fame, of fortunes made — and spent … In the latter half of the decade, as Rush adopts keyboard technology and gets pert and poppy, there’s an uproar amongst diehards, but the band finds a whole new crop of listeners. Limelight charts a dizzying period in the band’s career, built of explosive excitement but also exhaustion, a state that would lead, as the ’90s dawned, to the band questioning everything they previously believed, and each member eying the oncoming decade with trepidation and suspicion.

Book Armchair Nation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joe Moran
  • Publisher : Profile Books
  • Release : 2013-08-22
  • ISBN : 1847654444
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book Armchair Nation written by Joe Moran and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no TV. It's a good question: since its beginnings during WW2, television has assumed a central role in our houses and our lives, just as satellite dishes and aerials have become features of urban skylines. Television (or 'the idiot's lantern', depending on your feelings about it) has created controversy, brought coronations and World Cups into living rooms, allowed us access to 24hr news and media and provided a thousand conversation starters. As shows come and go in popularity, the history of television shows us how our society has changed. Armchair Nation reveals the fascinating, lyrical and sometimes surprising history of telly, from the first demonstration of television by John Logie Baird (in Selfridges) to the fear and excitement that greeted its arrival in households (some viewers worried it might control their thoughts), the controversies of Mary Whitehouse's 'Clean Up TV' campaign and what JG Ballard thought about Big Brother. Via trips down memory lane with Morecambe and Wise, Richard Dimbleby, David Frost, Blue Peter and Coronation Street, you can flick between fascinating nuggets from the strange side of TV: what happened after a chimpanzee called 'Fred J. Muggs' interrupted American footage of the Queen's wedding, and why aliens might be tuning in to The Benny Hill Show.

Book Blue Monday

Download or read book Blue Monday written by Danny Gallagher and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue Monday: one of the most unforgettable days in Canadian baseball history. Danny Gallagher leads readers up to that infamous day in October 1981 when Rick Monday of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit a home run off of Montreal Expos pitcher Steve Rogers in the ninth inning, giving the Dodgers a berth in the World Series. Readers will be taken back to 1976 when a five-year plan for winning the National League championship was set in place by the Expos with the hiring of experienced manager Dick Williams. Gallagher examines old narratives about Blue Monday and talks to all the key players involved in the game, unearthing secrets and stories never before told.

Book The Birth of British Television

Download or read book The Birth of British Television written by Mark Aldridge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the BBC launched the world's first regular, high-definition television service on 2 November, 1936 it was the culmination of decades of technological innovations. More than this, however, the service meant that the principle of television had finally found its place. The Birth of British Television – A History traces the early history and development of television, from the experiments of amateurs to the institutionalised developments that led to the world's first regular, high definition television service. Author Mark Aldridge provides a clear, in-depth and accessible introduction for those either exploring the period for the first time or seeking new insights into the beginnings of the industry. In tracing the origins and development of television, Aldridge focuses on a number of important factors including the attitude of the press towards early television and examines the way that expectations of television changed over time prior to its official launch. Utilising new research, this illuminating study examines how the aims for a new television service developed, and the extent to which content and technology were linked. The Birth of British Television approaches this formative period from several perspectives, from private individuals to the BBC and government, while also examining the broader opinions at the time towards the new medium through press reports and feedback from the general public. Also included is an assessment of early programming, which helps to offer a new and profound evaluation of the development of early television. Mark Aldridge is a Lecturer in Film and TV Studies at Southampton Solent University, UK. He specialises in British television and both film and television history. His previous publications include T is for Television (2008), an analysis of the work of Russell T. Davies, co-written with Andy Murray.

Book Until Death

    Book Details:
  • Author : MJ Green
  • Publisher : NaomiAoki
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book Until Death written by MJ Green and published by NaomiAoki. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alberto Tomasi and Giovanni Beltrame were... Childhood sweethearts who’d vowed to always be together. Men adored by their cousins and revered by their siblings. Internationally acclaimed classical musicians. Mafia heirs who’d do anything to protect their family. And they were two men who simply wanted to get married... Except for that to happen, the marriage laws needed to change, and they need to convince the priest at their family’s church to marry them. It was only fair after all... their parents, grandparents had been married in that church. At least that’s what Alberto and Giovanni thought, and not even the reluctance of the priest to perform the ceremony would stop them... because in the end they wouldn’t give him a choice. But the Church’s dogma wasn’t the only obstacle in the way of Alberto and Giovanni getting the wedding they wanted with an unknown enemy continuing to dog their every step. Until Death can be read as a standalone book but will be best enjoyed when read in conjunction with at least Rough Sketches (House of Bolton 3). It is a 56k MM Mafia Romance featuring two lovable childhood sweethearts who love performing classical music as much as they do taking out their family’s enemies.

Book The Chicken Sisters

    Book Details:
  • Author : KJ Dell'Antonia
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2020-12-01
  • ISBN : 0593085159
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book The Chicken Sisters written by KJ Dell'Antonia and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—NOW A HALLMARK+ ORIGINAL SERIES! A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “A charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds & rivalries only sisters can share. Also, a great present for your sister for the holidays!!”—Reese Witherspoon Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state—and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has lasted just as long. No one feels the impact more than thirty-five-year-old widow Amanda Moore, who grew up working for her mom at Mimi's before scandalously marrying Frank Pogociello and changing sides to work at Frannie's. Tired of being caught in the middle, Amanda sends an SOS to Food Wars, the reality TV restaurant competition that promises $100,000 to the winner. But in doing so, she launches both families out of the frying pan and directly into the fire. . . The last thing Brooklyn-based organizational guru Mae Moore, Amanda's sister, wants is to go home to Kansas. But when her career implodes, helping the fading Mimi's look good on Food Wars becomes Mae's best chance to reclaim the limelight—even if doing so pits her against Amanda and Frannie's. Yet when family secrets become public knowledge, the sisters must choose: Will they fight with each other, or for their heritage?

Book Last of the Summer Wine

Download or read book Last of the Summer Wine written by Andrew Vine and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s look at story behind the longest running situation comedy in British television history. Quite simply, Last of the Summer Wine is the longest-running comedy programme in the world. It premiered thirty-seven years ago, in 1973, and, after thirty-one series it finally came to an end—even though all its original protagonists—Compo, Foggy, even Nora Batty—are now dead. Remarkably, for a series of such longevity and international appeal, it is all about elderly people, has little action or plot, and is set and filmed in and around the small Yorkshire town of Holmfirth. Now, Andrew Vine, the deputy editor of Yorkshire’s daily newspaper, has written the definitive history of this television phenomenon. It covers the show’s inauspicious beginnings, with low ratings, its endless reinvention as participants like Bill Owen, Michael Bates, Brian Wilde and Kathy Staff retired or died, the appearance of a string of guest stars from John Cleese and Norman Wisdom to Thora Hird and Russ Abbott (both of whom soon found themselves fixtures in the cast), and the ingenious plot contrivances as the protagonists became too old and frail to attempt any of the slapstick stunts with runaway prams—indeed any outdoor action. The town of Holmfirth is now a year-round tourist attraction, and the endless availability of the show via streaming, ensures that Last of the Summer Wine, and the book it inspired, will live on for generations of fans.

Book Reflective Practice in the Sport and Exercise Sciences

Download or read book Reflective Practice in the Sport and Exercise Sciences written by Brendan Cropley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the experiences of scientists, researchers, practitioners and teachers in a wide range of sport and exercise settings, this book explores contemporary issues in reflective practice and considers the way that reflective practice impacts upon applied practice, on research methodology and on professional development. It includes chapters on the use of reflective practice in areas as diverse as: delivering coach education sport psychology support working in sports physiology developing young players in sport exercise-related interventions physiotherapy working inside a professional football club student skills and the physical activity and health curriculum Based on multi-disciplinary work in education and the health sciences, and exploring the crucial interface between learning and practice, this book is important reading for all sport and exercise scientists and any professional working in sport and exercise looking to become more effective practitioners.