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Book I M SORRY I MISSED YOU

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glenn G. Tucker
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2005-07-13
  • ISBN : 1420861158
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book I M SORRY I MISSED YOU written by Glenn G. Tucker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-07-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosalie “Lucky” Lucknaur, was hired by Midtown Skating Rink to be the producer of a skating show. She selects Cathy Vann and Tim Drake as skating partners in the production. Both Tim and Cathy are at first unwilling as they dislike each other. As they practiced for the Skating Vanities of 1942, Cathy and Tim came to an armed truce and finally come to like and respect each other, eventually falling in love. Tim joins the navy and when he comes home on leave they sleep together. Tim purchases an engagement ring to be given to Cathy at Christmas. On Christmas Eve an event occurred between Tim and Lucky Lucknaur. Lucky’s husband was killed on D-Day but she refused to accept it. At a party for the returning veterans Lucky finally accepts the fact her husband was not returning home at a party and suffers a breakdown. Tim, who is home on leave, takes her home as she loses contact with reality. Believing Tim to be her husband, she seduced him This was witnessed by Cathy and she told Tim to get the hell out of her life. Cathy, in an effort to get even with Tim, married a jerk. Lucky informed Tim she was carrying his child when Tim is discharged and he married her at the Midtown Rink. Cathy finally came to her senses and divorced her abusive husband. Cathy finally realized that what occurred between Lucky and Tim was a twist of fate between two unwitting sexual partners. In 1950 Cathy, now attending the University of Iowa marries Carl, an ROTC student. Lucky died of cancer in 1952, leaving Tim with two young sons. Cathy, although happy in her marriage wondered if she were still single would she and Tim have gotten together. Tim married Alice, a widow and friend of both Cathy and Tim Cathy had twins and a month after their birth Cathy’s husband, is shot down in Korea. Tim is now married and Cathy is again single. Cathy becomes phobic when she and Tim are both married to others, something will happen to the other’s spouse and she became afraid if she were to marry, something would happen to Alice. At the age of 53, she finally marries a retired navy captain. Five years later Alice, Tim’s wife dies. Cathy is now convinced she and Tim are under a curse brought about by her stubbornness in 1946. In 1989 Cathy’s husband Jed dies. Cathy is now 59 and Tim is 61. For the first time in 42 years both Cathy and Tim are single at the same time.

Book The Fully Authorised History of I m Sorry I Haven t A Clue

Download or read book The Fully Authorised History of I m Sorry I Haven t A Clue written by Jem Roberts and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It's a great missing piece of the jigsaw - people go on endlessly about Python and Peter Cook, which is all well and good but there's basically this great corpus of work stretching for decades - and consistently good ... A major piece of work, and universally loved.' So says John Lloyd, brains behind Blackadder, QI, Spitting Image, and so much besides - all shows with a massive debt to I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Together they form a body of work stretching across five decades, from Cambridge in 1960 to today's world-beating Antidote to Panel Games, a laughter-bringer which has inspired unparalleled adoration in millions over fifty series. This book tells the whole story, from Footlights to Broadway to the ferret-filled madness of Radio Prune - comedy's answer to the rock & roll revolution of the sixties. Offering an exhaustive guide to the comedy world that brought us Mornington Crescent, besides episode guides, glossaries and rare facsimiles, Jem Roberts will take the story right up to the present day, celebrating the lives of Willie Rushton, Sir David Hatch and of course, the irreplaceable Humphrey Lyttelton. With exclusive input from the Teams, plus Bill Oddie, Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey, Neil Innes and many more, this is the long-overdue authoritative, entertaining and, above all, very silly lasting celebration of an unsung comic legacy that both shows so richly deserve.

Book CHOREOGRAPHER S HANDBOOK

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Burrows
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2010-06-10
  • ISBN : 113697458X
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book CHOREOGRAPHER S HANDBOOK written by Jonathan Burrows and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned dancer, choreographer and teacher Jonathan Burrows explains how to navigate a course through the complex process of creating dance. He provides choreographers with an active manifesto and shares his wealth of experience of choreographic practice to allow each artist and dance-maker to find his or her own aesthetic process.

Book The Buisness of Dance

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  • Author : Courtney Miller Jr.
  • Publisher : The Business of Dance
  • Release : 2009-12-19
  • ISBN : 0615341632
  • Pages : 121 pages

Download or read book The Buisness of Dance written by Courtney Miller Jr. and published by The Business of Dance. This book was released on 2009-12-19 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Jackson and Jennifer Lopez choreographers, Courtney Miller Jr. and Tim Stevenson teach you "The Business Of Dance - Everything dancers and parents should know about the dance industry". Their book is an honest, straightforward resource on how the business really works.

Book Sleeping Beauty  a Legend in Progress

Download or read book Sleeping Beauty a Legend in Progress written by Tim Scholl and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999 the Maryinsky (formerly Kirov) Ballet and Theater in St. Petersburg re-created its 1890 production of Sleeping Beauty. The revival showed the classic work in its original sets and costumes and restored pantomime and choreography that had been eliminated over the past century. Nevertheless, the work proved unexpectedly controversial, with many Russian dance professionals and historians denouncing it. In order to understand how a historically informed performance could be ridiculed by those responsible for writing the history of Russian and Soviet ballet, Tim Scholl discusses the tradition, ideology, and popular legend that have shaped the development of Sleeping Beauty. In the process he provides a history of Russian and Soviet ballet during the twentieth century. A fascinating slice of cultural history, the book will appeal not only to dance historians but also to those interested in the arts and cultural policies of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods.

Book Ted Shawn

Download or read book Ted Shawn written by Paul A. Scolieri and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Shawn (1891-1972) is the self-proclaimed "Father of American Dance" who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into theatrical art. In the process, he made dancing an acceptable profession for men and taught several generations of dancers, some of whom went on to become legendary choreographers and performers in their own right, most notably his prot�g�s Martha Graham, Louise Brooks, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman. Shawn tried for many years and with great frustration to tell the story of his life's work in terms of its social and artistic value, but struggled, owing to the fact that he was homosexual, a fact known only within his inner circle of friends. Unwilling to disturb the meticulously narrated account of his paternal exceptionalism, he remained closeted, but scrupulously archived his journals, correspondence, programs, photographs, and motion pictures of his dances, anticipating that the full significance of his life, writing, and dances would reveal itself in time. Ted Shawn: His Life, Writings, and Dances is the first critical biography of the dance legend, offering an in-depth look into Shawn's pioneering role in the formation of the first American modern dance company and school, the first all-male dance company, and Jacob's Pillow, the internationally renowned dance festival and school located in the Berkshires. The book explores Shawn's writings and dances in relation to emerging discourses of modernism, eugenics and social evolution, revealing an untold story about the ways that Shawn's homosexuality informed his choreographic vision. The book also elucidates the influences of contemporary writers who were leading a radical movement to depathologize homosexuality, such as the British eugenicist Havelock Ellis and sexologist Alfred Kinsey, and conversely, how their revolutionary ideas about sexuality were shaped by Shawn's modernism.

Book A Talent For Murder

    Book Details:
  • Author : R.T. Jordan
  • Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • Release : 2010-05-01
  • ISBN : 0758267215
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book A Talent For Murder written by R.T. Jordan and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polly Pepper's been hired to be the "nice" judge on "I'll Do Anything to Become Famous," the latest reality T.V. show to hit the airwaves, in which contestants have to prove that they'll go for another's jugular in order to get their names in the headlines. But someone takes the show's theme literally when Thane Cornwall, the relentlessly critical and universally hated British judge on the panel, is found dead with a ten-inch knife in his back. . . If there's one thing Polly's learned over the years, it's that nothing in Hollywood is ever as it seems. Now she'll have to get to the bottom of this mystery before her star on the Walk of Fame may soon be put out by a cunning killer. . . "Bubbly. . . Fans of comic whodunits will be rewarded." --Publishers Weekly

Book Inside Reporting

Download or read book Inside Reporting written by Tim Harrower and published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Surely You Can t Be Serious

Download or read book Surely You Can t Be Serious written by David Zucker and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy classic Airplane! by the legendary writers and directors of the hit film. Airplane! premiered on July 2nd, 1980. With a budget of $3.5 million it went on to make nearly $200 million in sales and has influenced a multitude of comedians on both sides of the camera. Surely You Can’t Be Serious is the first-ever oral history of the making of Airplane! by the creators, and of the beginnings of the ZAZ trio (Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker) – charting the rise of their comedy troupe Kentucky Fried Theater in Madison, Wisconsin all the way to premiere night. The directors explain what drew them to filmmaking and in particular, comedy. With anecdotes, behind the scenes trivia, and never-before-revealed factoids – these titans of comedy filmmaking unpack everything from how they persuaded Peter Graves to be in the movie after he thought the script was a piece of garbage, how Lorna Patterson auditioned for the stewardess role in the back seat of Jerry’s Volvo, and how Leslie Nielsen’s pranks got the entire crew into trouble, to who really wrote the jive talk. The book also features testimonials and personal anecdotes from well-known faces in the film, television, and comedy sphere – proving how influential Airplane! has been from day one. Four decades after its release, Airplane! continues to make new generations laugh. Its many one-liners and visual gags have worked their way into the mainstream culture. This fully organic expansion of the ZAZ trio’s fan-base, prompted solely by word-of-mouth, comes as no surprise to longtime fans. When all around us is in flux – laughter is priceless.

Book The Boys in the Boat  Movie Tie In

Download or read book The Boys in the Boat Movie Tie In written by Daniel James Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney—exclusively in theaters December 25, 2023! The #1 New York Times bestselling true story about the American rowing triumph of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin—from the author of Facing the Mountain For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world. Drawing on the boys’ own journals and vivid memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man’s personal quest.

Book By fall of night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Graeme
  • Publisher : Michael Graeme
  • Release : 2024-04-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 558 pages

Download or read book By fall of night written by Michael Graeme and published by Michael Graeme. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When news breaks of an incoming asteroid, newly met lovers Tim and Rebecca find themselves with an unexpected front seat view of the end of the world - but that doesn't mean there can't be a happy ending - it all depends on how you look at life. A jaded, cynical high-school teacher and part time shaman, Tim has a peculiar way with dreams. Rebecca persuades him they should use their remaining days to explore the strange and highly improbable world of shared lucid dreaming. As a former dancer, now suffering from injury, it's the only way she can think of dancing again - literally in her dreams. But as they explore ever deeper layers of this strange alternate reality, they discover they might also be on the verge of realising the key to survival. Does this really mean that even the end of the world isn't everything it's cracked up to be? Follow Tim and Rebecca on this mysterious and romantic journey, a journey quite unlike any other. But must their, and our, survival really come at the cost of never having met in the first place?

Book The Journal for Stage Directors   Choreographers

Download or read book The Journal for Stage Directors Choreographers written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Officer Says  I Do

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeanette Murray
  • Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Release : 2012-07-01
  • ISBN : 1402265417
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Officer Says I Do written by Jeanette Murray and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's a Marine...she grew up on a commune. He always puts duty first...she's a free spirit with an unshakable belief in Fate. He loves routine and order...she brings chaos and creativity wherever she goes. They're going to balance each other perfectly—or drive each other completely, utterly insane... On a wild pre-deployment celebration in Las Vegas, Captain Timothy O'Shay encounters free-spirited beauty Skye McDermott, and for once lets down his guard. Now his life is about to take off in directions he never could have imagined... "Like a cup of hot chocolate, The Officer Says I Do is warm, sweet, and spicy."—Mary Margaret Daughtridge, bestselling author of SEALed Forever

Book Rapture s Witness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim F. LaHaye
  • Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1414334850
  • Pages : 772 pages

Download or read book Rapture s Witness written by Tim F. LaHaye and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three nonbelievers and a pastor search for answers when people suddenly disappear and three-quarters of the world fall to disease and natural disaster as a world leader, who might be the Antichrist, comes to power.

Book Temper

    Book Details:
  • Author : Layne Fargo
  • Publisher : Gallery/Scout Press
  • Release : 2020-04-14
  • ISBN : 1982112506
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Temper written by Layne Fargo and published by Gallery/Scout Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of the high-stakes tension of the New York Times bestsellers Luckiest Girl Alive and The Lying Game, comes “a brilliantly paced thriller that gets under your skin in the best possible way” (Megan Collins, author of The Winter Sister) about female ambition and what happens when fake violence draws real blood. After years of struggling in the Chicago theater scene, ambitious actress Kira Rascher finally lands the role of a lifetime. The catch? The mercurial Malcolm Mercer is the director and he’s known for pushing his performers past their limits—on stage and off. Kira’s convinced she can handle Malcolm, but the theater’s cofounder, Joanna Cuyler, is another story. Joanna sees Kira as a threat—to her own thwarted artistic ambitions, her twisted relationship with Malcolm, and the shocking secret she’s keeping about the upcoming production. But as opening night draws near, Kira and Joanna both come to the realization that Malcolm’s dangerous extremes are nothing compared to what they’re capable of themselves. An edgy, addictive, and fiendishly clever tale of ambition, deceit, and power suited for fans of the film Black Swan, Temper “revels in its mind games, delivering twist after twist as it races toward a Shakespearian climax. The final page will leave you gasping” (Amy Gentry, author of Last Woman Standing).

Book Oklahoma

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Carter
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-07-31
  • ISBN : 0190665238
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Oklahoma written by Tim Carter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2007, "Oklahoma!": The Making of an American Musical tells the full story of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Author Tim Carter examines archival materials, manuscripts, and journalism, and the lofty aspirations and mythmaking that surrounded the musical from its very inception. The book made for a watershed moment in the study of the American musical: the first well-researched, serious musical analysis of this landmark show by a musicologist, it was also one of the first biographies of a musical, transforming a field that had previously tended to orient itself around creators rather than creations. In this new and fully revised edition, Carter draws further on recently released sources, including the Rouben Mamoulian Papers at the Library of Congress, with additional correspondence, contracts, and even new versions of the working script used - and annotated - throughout the show's rehearsal process. Carter also focuses on the key players and concepts behind the musical, including the original play on which it was based (Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs) and the Theatre Guild's Theresa Helburn and Lawrence Langner, who fatefully brought Rodgers and Hammerstein together for their first collaboration. The crucial new perspectives these revisions and additions provide make this edition of Carter's seminal work a compulsory purchase for all teachers, students, and lovers of musical theater.

Book Seven Minutes to Noon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katia Lief
  • Publisher : Blue Table Books
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0983499012
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Seven Minutes to Noon written by Katia Lief and published by Blue Table Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE DAY SEEMS PERFECTLY ORDINARY...UNTIL LAUREN DOESNT COME HOME. " Alice Halpern waits for her best friend at the playground where they always meet with their children in their comfortable Brooklyn neighborhood. But when Lauren fails to pick her son up from school, a normal day turns into a nightmare-and Alice begins to realize that nothing will ever be ordinary again. The police desperately search for Lauren, who is nearly nine months pregnant. Alice, herself pregnant, realizes she's being followed and has the creeping fear that she and her unborn twins are in danger. As the investigation intensifies, Alice is shocked as her familiar world begins to unravel. And as new life grows within her, she must fight to save her family-and herself... Praise for international bestseller Katia Liefs novels: "Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner "Nail-biting suspense." --Richard Montanari "Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly "A new force to reckon with in...suspense." --Donna Anders "Suspense at a high level." --Midwest Book Review "Readers will want to read more of this talented writers work." --New York Journal of Books".