Download or read book Money Movies Mayhem written by Charles W. Foerg and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When the Mob Ran Vegas Stories of Money Mayhem and Murder written by Steve Fischer and published by Berkline Press. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about Las Vegas that captivates us? Is it how the skim worked at the Stardust and how millions of dollars walked out the door uncounted? Or what really happened when Frank Sinatra threw a chair at the casino boss of the Sands? Did you ever hear the story about how some very bad Vegas guys rigged the gin rummy games at the Friars Club and took a bunch of famous people to the cleaners? Howard Hughes had some weird notions about the Silver Slipper and put his money where his paranoia was. It's all Vegas, and it is fascinating history. Vegas in the '50s and '60s was indeed another world. Those were the days when small-time gamblers like me, in town with my wife for a weekend of shows and great food, could ride down the elevator at one of the Strip hotels with Lucille Ball, have an A table at the Versailles Room at the Riviera to see Rowan and Martin, with Edie Adams opening, and laugh until it hurt when Buddy Hackett played the old Congo Room at the Sahara. Behind the scenes, the Mob ran Vegas in those days. And stories abound. Through years of study and interviews and just talking to people from all strata of Las Vegas comes this book, a glimpse into the money, mayhem, and murders of early Vegas.
Download or read book Money Murder Mayhem written by Sean Branch and published by Sean Branch. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warrior State of Mind Winning the War Within invites you into the author's mind, heart and soul as she battles her own private war within. Sanjo's previous 5 books have all shared small pieces of herself with the world and encouraged many to empty their lives of all that didn¿t serve them in living their best life. This book will help others identify, confront and conquer the silent war that rages inside of most of us. You may not enter the battlefield of the mind with a Warrior State of Mind but you will definitely develop one as you slay your own thoughts and inner obstacles.
Download or read book Crude Awakening written by Amanda Coyne and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of the Alaskan oil industry, revealing political corruption, the FBI's investigation, and how these events will influence American politics.
Download or read book Solving Maths Problems for Years 3 4 written by Anita Green and published by Ready-Ed Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solving Maths Problems for Years 3-4 contains a series of open-ended engaging Maths problems which revolve around creatively written stories. The stories tell of situations in which the students are likely to find themselves – so the problems are placed in real life everyday contexts. Support and extension questions are provided in Solving Maths Problems for Years 3-4 to help and challenge students of different abilities. This book belongs to the Solving Maths Problems series, consisting of three books and is linked closely to the new v8.1 Australian curriculum.
Download or read book King of Cannes written by Stephen Walker and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Walker filmed a documentary offering an inside peek at filmmaking, he followed four ambitious and unknown filmmakers in their quest for fame and glory at the Cannes film festival. His hilarious, uncensored diary of that process takes readers on a wild romp through the glamor and the excesses of the movie business.
Download or read book Mayhem and Madness written by J. A. Dauber and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bailey never meant to be the bad guy in the bulletproof robotic suit, but with every mission he gets closer to finding his father . . . and he can't stop now. Bailey is a pretty average sixteen-year-old in a pretty average town. He runs track, gets decent grades, and has an unrequited crush. So what is a super-powered flying suit of computerized armor doing twenty feet under his boring suburban home? Bailey needs to know where it came from, if it belonged to his long-missing father, and most importantly, if it can be used to bring his dad back. This lightning-fast adventure inspired by classic comic book tales pushes a good kid to his limits and questions the difference between a hero and a villain. One day he's getting beat up by the captain of the football team, the next day he's robbing banks on Fifth Avenue, stealing diamonds from Tiffany's, and zooming through aerial dogfights. But how much bad is Bailey willing to do to bring his dad home safely? For fans of Iron Man, superhero stories, and dark humor. An ILA-CBC Young Adults' Choice!
Download or read book Counterpoint Point written by Jim Davis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are Satan and his minions active around mankind through the world, the flesh, and the devil? Is the enmity between his seed and the seed of the woman real and on display? Can humans do anything to protect themselves from this real threat? Does God provide protection and answers for these threats? Join Jim Davis, in the style of C.S. Lewis and Frank Peretti, in exploring and answering all these questions with a year-long daily review of actual Yahoo News headlines of 2023 presenting this spiritual warfare examination with the face of the reality of evil and the promises and hope of a Savior.
Download or read book Violent Screen written by Stephen Hunter and published by Bancroft Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gun buff, movie critic and bestselling author of Dirty White Boys, Stephen Hunter takes aim at 13 years of violence on the big screen, hitting the highlights and the lowlifes, the thrills, the chills, and the kills, with deadly precision, explosive prose and devastating good humor.
Download or read book King of Cannes written by Stephen Walker and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Walker filmed a documentary offering an inside peek at filmmaking, he followed four ambitious and unknown filmmakers in their quest for fame and glory at the Cannes film festival. His hilarious, uncensored diary of that process takes readers on a wild romp through the glamor and the excesses of the movie business.
Download or read book Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Political Film written by Beverly Merrill Kelley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Political Film, Beverly Merrill Kelley examines more than a century of political movie history, providing a thorough historical background for diametrically opposed political ideologies in order to facilitate debate and dialectical learning. Kelley explores 185 American political movies (categorized by ideological themes and presented in chronological order) in order to illustrate the history of film as well as the history of the specific political ideology. Each chapter includes a case study which provides an in-depth analysis of the single film that best illustrates the ideology at hand, including: The Candidate (populism), Wall Street (elitism), The Godfather (fascism), All the President's Men (anti-fascism), Patton (interventionism), and M*A*S*H (isolationism). Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Political Film establishes a paradigmatic analysis of political films that details the cyclical nature of ideological dialectic throughout American history and identifies the values, attitudes, and beliefs of the voters who choose not to affiliate with Republicans and Democrats, and who often determine the outcomes of elections. The text also includes an extensive ideological filmology spanning more than 100 years of American cinema. This study represents a bold investigation of the political and social values of American film, and is an essential text in the study of the relationship between culture and politics.
Download or read book Show Me the Money written by Fred L. Reed and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movie Money is often one of the key factors in cinema plots. Characters on screen fight for it, lie for it, marry for it, steal it, counterfeit it, bet with it, burn it-just as many of us do in real life. But movie money, like its counterpart in the real world, is more than dollar signs and electronic blips on bank accounts. The "green stuff"' must be seen, smelled, fondled and caressed. To fill that important role film after film, Hollywood's storytellers have produced a wealth of imitation greenbacks, which has become a diverse, colorful and eminently collectible series. Describing what is available, what is rare and what is valuable, the author demonstrates here just how graphically interesting these theatrical prop notes are in their own right. Based on ground-breaking research and interviews with insiders, including prop masters, set decorators and prop note masters themselves, this work catalogs and illustrates more than 270 types of motion picture and other theatrical prop money-including nearly 2,000 sub-varieties. A multitude of photographs and illustrations add to this unique study.
Download or read book Firestorm written by Stephen Prince and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed. While the production of these films did ebb, the full impact of the attacks on Hollywood's creative output is still taking shape. Did 9/11 force filmmakers and screenwriters to find new methods of storytelling? What kinds of movies have been made in response to 9/11, and are they factual? Is it even possible to practice poetic license with such a devastating, broadly felt tragedy? Stephen Prince is the first scholar to trace the effect of 9/11 on the making of American film. From documentaries like Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) to zombie flicks, and from fictional narratives such as The Kingdom (2007) to Mike Nichols's Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Prince evaluates the extent to which filmmakers have exploited, explained, understood, or interpreted the attacks and the Iraq War that followed, including incidents at Abu Ghraib. He begins with pre-9/11 depictions of terrorism, such as Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (1936), and follows with studio and independent films that directly respond to 9/11. He considers documentary portraits and conspiracy films, as well as serial television shows (most notably Fox's 24) and made-for-TV movies that re-present the attacks in a broader, more intimate way. Ultimately Prince finds that in these triumphs and failures an exciting new era of American filmmaking has taken shape.
Download or read book Money Women and Guns written by Douglas Brode and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of the modern American crime film includes a critical introduction and analyses of fifty notable films.
Download or read book Naked Hollywood written by Nicolas Kent and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lords of Chaos written by Michael Moynihan and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "* * * * * *! The most incredible story in the history of music a?| a heavyweight book."-Kerrang! "An unusual combination of true crime journalism, rock and roll reporting and underground obsessiveness, Lords of Chaos turns into one of the more fascinating reads in a long time."-Denver Post A narrative feature film based on this award-winning book has just gone into production.
Download or read book American Mythmaker written by Mark J. Dworkin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta are fixed in the American imagination as towering legends of the Old West. But that has not always been the case. There was a time when these men were largely forgotten relics of a bygone era. Then, in the early twentieth century, an obscure Chicago newspaperman changed all that. Walter Noble Burns (1872–1932) served with the First Kentucky Infantry during the Spanish-American War and covered General John J. Pershing’s pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. However history-making these forays may seem, they were only the beginning. In the last six years of his life, Burns wrote three books that propelled New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid, Tombstone marshal Wyatt Earp, and California bandit Joaquín Murrieta into the realm of legend. Despite Burns’s remarkable command of his subjects—based on exhaustive research and interviews—he has been largely ignored by scholars because of the popular, even occasionally fictional, approach he employed. In American Mythmaker, the first literary biography of Burns, Mark J. Dworkin brings Burns out of the shadows. Through careful analysis of The Saga of Billy the Kid (1926), Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest (1927), and The Robin Hood of Eldorado: The Saga of Joaquín Murrieta (1932) and their reception, Dworkin shows how Burns used his journalistic training to introduce the history of the American West to his era’s general readership. In the process, Burns made his subjects household names. Are Burns’s books fact or fiction? Was he a historian or a novelist? Dworkin considers these questions as he uncovers the story behind Burns’s mythmaking works. A long-overdue biography of a writer who shaped our idea of western history, American Mythmaker documents in fascinating detail the fashioning of some of the greatest American legends.
