Download or read book Interviews with Dead Celebrities written by Adam Avitable and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darkly humorous, usually sarcastic, and always profane and offensive, Interviews with Dead Celebrities tears apart the pillars upon which we place celebrities, politicians, and entertainers with sharp social commentary in the form of interviews that are relentless in their pursuit of the raw, honest, (albeit completely fictional) truth. Written by humorist and comedian Adam Avitable, this book asks the questions you've always wanted to know. Why did Whitney Houston throw away her good will for drugs? Did Osama bin Laden really hate America? Can Steve Jobs tell a joke? Does Joe Paterno care about children? Would John Hughes have written a sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off? With over fifty posthumous interviews written entirely by Avitable, Interviews with Dead Celebrities will make you laugh, make you gasp, and may make you write him an angry letter telling him that he's evil for making you laugh. Read interviews with the following celebrities and public figures: Peter Graves, Lucille Ball, Adolf Hitler, Phil Hartman, Ed McMahon, Zelda Rubinstein, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Sherman Hemsley, Jack Kevorkian, Barbara Billingsley, Corey Haim, Helen Keller, Leonard Stern, Osama bin Laden, Anna Nicole Smith, Gary Coleman, Heath Ledger, Patrick Swayze, Aaliyah, Tony Curtis, Greg Giraldo, Leslie Nielsen, Billy Mays, Brittany Murphy, George Carlin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bob Guccione, Amy Winehouse, Roy Scheider, Dick Clark, Mark Twain, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Novak, John Lennon, John Hughes, Amelia Earhart, Dennis Hopper, Michael Jackson, Oral Roberts, Farrah Fawcett, Walter Cronkite, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Jack LaLanne, Kim Jong Il, Whitney Houston, Andy Rooney, Ted Kennedy, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Joe Paterno, Nora Ephron, JD Salinger, Ray Bradbury, Princess Diana, and Steve Jobs. Adam Avitable is a blogger who has been writing at Avitable.com for thirteen years. He is a lawyer, a stand-up comedian, and a sucker for redheads. He loves bacon and chocolate but would give those up in a heartbeat just to make the world laugh until it collectively peed itself.
Download or read book Interviews with Famous Dead People written by Susanne B. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with Famous Dead People is a captivating collection of inspirational conversations with well-know people who now reside in other realms. Each etheric being offers a rare glimpse of life from the other side. They introduce unique spiritual concepts while supporting a diversity of religious expression. They also demystify the death experience, and vouch for the immortality of the soul. In addition, many of these notable individuals encourage a new zeal for living by promoting creative Self-expression, fostering service to humanity, and reaffirming God's all-encompassing love.
Download or read book I Hate the Internet written by Jarett Kobek and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York in the middle of the twentieth century, comic book companies figured out how to make millions from comics without paying their creators anything. In San Francisco at the start of the twenty-first century, tech companies figured out how to make millions from online abuse without paying its creators anything. In the 1990s, Adeline drew a successful comic book series that ended up making her kind-of famous. In 2013, Adeline aired some unfashionable opinions that made their way onto the Internet. The reaction of the Internet, being a tool for making millions in advertising revenue from online abuse, was predictable. The reaction of the Internet, being part of a culture that hates women, was to send Adeline messages like 'Drp slut ... hope u get gang rape.' Set in a San Francisco hollowed out by tech money, greed and rampant gentrification, I Hate the Internet is a savage indictment of the intolerable bullshit of unregulated capitalism and an uproarious, hilarious but above all furious satire of our Internet Age.
Download or read book We Are The Dead written by Mike Shackle and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in The Last War series: a debut epic fantasy full of crunching revolutionary action, twisted magic, and hard choices in dark times. The war is over. The enemy won. Jia's people learned the hard way that there are no second chances. The Egril, their ancient enemy, struck with magic so devastating that Jia's armies were wiped out. Now terror reigns in the streets, and friend turns on friend just to live another day. Somehow Tinnstra - a deserter, a failure, nothing but a coward - survived. She wants no more than to hide from the chaos. But dragged into a desperate plot to retake Jia, surrounded by people willing to do anything to win the fight, this time Tinnstra will need to do more than hide. If Jia is to get a second chance after all, this time she will need to be a hero. With all the grit of Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence and Ed McDonald, this is fantasy with the sharpest of edges. * * * * * * * * * * 'The next Game of Thrones' Glen Cook, author of The Black Company 'Tarantino crossed with David Gemmell' Peter McLean, author of Priest of Bones 'A powerful debut' Gavin Smith, author of The Bastard Legion
Download or read book Interviews with Famous Dead People written by Paul Kocak and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to interview a famous person -- a famous dead person? Putting logistical hurdles aside, what might you ask a notable figure from history? Would the person answer your queries? Would they be offended or flattered? This entertaining and provocative present-day compilation takes a leap into the past. Five questions are posed to each personage. Whether shamefully or heroically, all the interviewees made an imprint on the faded pages of history, some more notably than others. The five questions vary from subject to subject. The answers seek to capture the personality of the person being interviewed. Many names will be familiar to all readers; others will be obscure, previously unknown to the eavesdropping reader. (It's a quirky and expansive list: from Mae West to Mary Magdalene, Soupy Sales to St. Francis, Torquemada to Tony Dow, Larry Doby to Dorothy Day. How about: Mikhail Gorbachev, Madame Chiang-Kai Shek, Claes Oldenburg, Johannes Vermeer, Buddha, George Balanchine, Marco Polo, Phil Ochs, Notorious B.I.G., Stanley Kubrick, Ernst Lubitsch -- and more!) Some interviewed luminaries (there are 33, give or take) see the conversation as an opportunity to redress a grievance, correct a wrong, or deliver a message. These imaginary dialogues with shades of yesteryear make no claim of historical accuracy. But who's to say? Who doesn't deserve or desire a mulligan, a do-over, to set the record straight? So, buckle up for a rollicking ride through a portal into the past. Perhaps this venture will spark your curiosity, sending you to a library or a search engine to learn more. Alternatively, your perspective toward a notable traveler to the other shore might be disturbed. Such provocations might prove unsettling, or enlightening. No matter. You're welcome to engage in your own conversations, assuming you can get through and assuming the deceased will engage in conversation. Let us know.
Download or read book Everyone Loves You When You re Dead written by Neil Strauss and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Strauss can uncover the naked truth like nobody else. With his groundbreaking book The Game, Strauss penetrated the secret society of pickup artists. Now, in Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, the Rolling Stone journalist collects the greatest moments from the most insane music interviews of all time. Join Neil Strauss, "The Mike Tyson of interviewers," (Dave Pirner, Soul Asylum), as he Makes Lady Gaga cry, tries to keep Mötley Crüe out of jail & is asked to smoke Kurt Cobain's ashes by Courtney Love Shoots guns with Ludacris, takes a ride with Neil Young & goes to church with Tom Cruise and his mother Spends the night with Trent Reznor, reads the mind of Britney Spears & finds religion with Stephen Colbert Gets picked on by Led Zeppelin, threatened by the mafia & serenaded by Leonard Cohen Picks up psychic clues with the CIA, diapers with Snoop Dog & prison survival tips from Rick James Goes drinking with Bruce Springsteen, dining with Gwen Stefani & hot tubbing with Marilyn Manson Talks glam with David Bowie, drugs with Madonna, death with Johnny Cash & sex with Chuck Berry Gets molested by the Strokes, in trouble with Prince & in bed with . . . you'll find out who inside. Enjoy many, many more awkward moments and accidental adventures with the world's number one stars in Everyone Love You When You're Dead.
Download or read book My Interviews with Famous Dead People written by D. R. Hann and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book in the „Writer Don‟ book series. The first book was titled „Satan‟s Authorized Biography.‟ In the first book, Writer Don was hit by lightning, which enabled him the capability of seeing and hearing deadpeople. I have tried to capture each famous person to the best of my ability.
Download or read book The Role of Science Fiction written by Stefan Weihampel and published by Diplomica Verlag. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The role of Science Fiction in selected works of Isaac Asimov and Kurt Vonnegut" the author elaborates upon important similarities and differences between the use of science fiction motives in selected works of Isaac Asimov and Kurt Vonnegut. The analysis includes Asimov's Foundation and Robots and Empire and Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan and Galapagos.
Download or read book The Descent of Alette written by Alice Notley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decent Of Alette is a rich odyssey of transformation in the tradition of The Inferno. Alice Notley presents a feminist epic: a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds herself underground, deep beneath the city, where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways, not allowed to live in the world above. Traveling deeper and deeper, she is on a journey of continual transformation, encountering a series of figures and undergoing fragmentations and metamorphoses as she seeks to confront the Tyrant and heal the world. Using a new measure, with rhythmic units indicated by quotations marks, Notley has created a "spoken" text, a rich and mesmerizing work of imagination, mystery, and power.
Download or read book The Age of Spectacular Death written by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores death in contemporary society – or more precisely, in the ‘spectacular age’ – by moving beyond classic studies of death that emphasised the importance of the death taboo and death denial to examine how we now ‘do’ death. Unfolding the notion of ‘spectacular death’ as characteristic of our modern approach to death and dying, it considers the new mediation or mediatisation of death and dying; the commercialisation of death as a ‘marketable commodity’ used to sell products, advance artistic expression or provoke curiosity; the re-ritualisation of death and the growth of new ways of finding meaning through commemorating the dead; the revolution of palliative care; and the specialisation surrounding death, particularly in relation to scholarship. Presenting a range of case studies that shed light on this new understanding of death in contemporary culture, The Age of Spectacular Death will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and media studies, psychology and anthropology with interests in death and dying.
Download or read book 25 Years of Celebrity Interviews from Vaudeville to Movies to TV Reel to Real written by David Fantle and published by Badger Books Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of 25 years of interviews with stars ranging from vaudeville to Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston and Bob Hope with rare photos taken by the authors themselves.
Download or read book The Celebrity Interview Book written by Nadja Sayej and published by ArtStars* Books. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Celebrity Interview Book" is a collection of 21 interviews with some of the world's biggest stars who dish their deepest tales. These interviews were conducted by entertainment journalist Nadja Sayej and this is her greatest hits from the past seven years. Her first book, there are photos of the stars from the writer's personal archive, an introduction explaining what it's like meeting them alongside the uncut interview. For this first volume of interviews, she spoke with Susan Sarandon on spending Christmas with refugees in Greece, Jean Paul Gaultier on making his childhood dream come true, Yoko Ono philosophizing about turning 80, James Franco on making art and Wyclef Jean on the political fate of America. There are also interviews with Dita Von Teese, Faith Evans and Bill Nye, among others.This book is filled with anecdotes of sneaking into VIP parties (as well as sneaking out of boring ones), speaking up, shouting out, shutting up and letting the bizarre quirks of the rich and famous speak for themselves. They were all possible by going the unconventional route. As Katherine Hepburn once said: "If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."
Download or read book Dead Interviews written by Dan Crowe and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These ingenious interviews will amuse, provoke and delight. Veering from the intensely serious to the wildly silly, Dead Interviews grants writers the chance to sit down with their heroes and flex their cerebral muscles, or simply indulge in some bookish gossip with a deceased icon. Pitch-perfect mimesis meets razor sharp literary criticism in the book that refuses to let dead writers lie. The contributors: Rick Moody on Jimi Hendrix, Cynthia Ozick on Henry James, Douglas Coupland on Andy Warhol, Sam Leith on John Berryman, Geoff Dyer on Friedrich Nietzsche, A. M. Homes on Richard Nixon, David Mitchell on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, John Burnside on Rachel Carson, ZZ Packer on Monsieur de Saint-George, Michel Faber on Marcel Duchamp, Rebecca Miller on the Marquis de Sade, Ian Rankin on Arthur Conan Doyle and Joyce Carol Oates on Robert Frost.
Download or read book The Dead Celebrity Cookbook written by Frank DeCaro and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects recipes from famous deceased celebrities, including Michael Jackson's sweet potato pie, Gary Coleman's chicken vegetable soup, Mae West's fruit compote, and Katharine Hepburn's brownies.
Download or read book Dead Celebrities Living Icons written by John David Ebert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth series of literary portraits studies celebrities who died in famous and tragic ways—ways that still resonate as archetypal death scenarios in present day. We know their likes and dislikes, admire their talents, envy them for daring to be what we can't or what we won't. When they are snatched from us, we feel a personal loss and an unwillingness to let go. And so we transform these mere human beings into icons whose stars often shine in death even more brilliantly than in life. Dead Celebrities, Living Icons: Tragedy and Fame in the Age of the Multimedia Superstar explores this phenomenon through a series of essays on 14 men and women who are, arguably, the most famous people of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The book covers the epoch of the celebrity beginning in the 1930s with Howard Hughes and Walt Disney and continues to the present day with the life and death of Michael Jackson. Far more than just a collection of biographies, Dead Celebrities, Living Icons documents the philosophical importance and significance of the contemporary cult of the celebrity and analyzes the tragic consequences of a human life lived in the glare of the media spotlight.
Download or read book Before Botox written by Arlene Peck and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arlene Peck’s living room walls are filled with hundreds of pictures of famous people she has known over a period of almost 40 years, during which she interviewed hundreds of celebrities on her television talk show in Los Angeles and engaged with others as a journalist, an active participant in the “in crowd” scenes, a supporter of Jewish causes, and a frequent traveler to the Middle East and other locales. In Before Botox, Arlene shares her experiences with dozens of these celebrities, including TV and movie stars, singers, writers, politicians, and activists. Funny, heartwarming, and informative, this book tells the story of an intriguing woman who has seen a lot and who “knew them when,” providing a unique insight into the lives of the rich and famous, and even the infamous, as they parry her questions, laugh at her humor, and share with her their personal stories. A must read for any celebrity enthusiast and for those who want to see how famous people engage with an entertaining woman who is proud to be politically incorrect. Arlene Peck knows where all the bodies are buried. Unfortunately she’s responsible for most of them. But she’s a damn good writer. Ed Asner, actor
Download or read book America Again written by Stephen Colbert and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book store nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness. But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day return window. Look around--we don't make anything anymore, we've mortgaged our future to China, and the Apologist-in-Chief goes on world tours just to bow before foreign leaders. Worse, the L.A. Four Seasons Hotel doesn't even have a dedicated phone button for the Spa. You have to dial an extension! Where did we lose our way?! It's high time we restored America to the greatness it never lost! Luckily, America Again will singlebookedly pull this country back from the brink. It features everything from chapters, to page numbers, to fonts. Covering subject's ranging from healthcare ("I shudder to think where we'd be without the wide variety of prescription drugs to treat our maladies, such as think-shuddering") to the economy ("Life is giving us lemons, and we're shipping them to the Chinese to make our lemon-flavored leadonade") to food ("Feel free to deep fry this book-it's a rich source of fiber"), Stephen gives America the dose of truth it needs to get back on track.
