Download or read book The Boy From Beverly Hills written by Rafael Moscatel and published by JIA Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A secret adoption. Arranged by an infamous attorney for a celebrated composer. And hidden by TV's biggest stars. In The Boy From Beverly Hills, author Rafael Moscatel shares that heartbreaking true story of being abandoned by a renowned family of musicians, a decades-long odyssey to tear down the web of lies that kept him from uncovering their lurid past, and his inspiring journey back home—to a place he could finally feel comfortable in his own skin. This poignant and whimsical memoir begins in 1977, after a notorious lawyer buries the secret of Rafael's origin, placing him with an eccentric, well-connected family from Beverly Hills. Worried he might find out and run away, his adopted mother convinces her friends, including television's biggest star, Michael Landon, to help conceal the truth. But when Rafael begins to catch on to her lie, he's discouraged from asking more questions. He bravely embarks on an impossible quest to discover what happened, only to find himself at the center of an old Hollywood scandal that was never meant to see the light of day. An artful, empathetic, and moving account of a boy, then a man, trying to find himself, The Boy From Beverly Hills reminds us of our spiritual strength. It is a testament to the power of hope, forgiveness, and redemption. In unmasking and facing the monsters that once haunted him, Rafael shows us it's never too late to overcome abandonment, learn to forgive, and find the love we deserve.
Download or read book Beverly Hills Diary a Journey Through the Mind of a Boy written by A. D. Grill and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you can't find happiness at home, where can you go? Beverly Hills Diary: A Journey Through The Mind Of A Boy is the story of Julian, a boy growing up in Beverly Hills in the 60s. Growing up in a dysfunctional home, Julian's life is far from the idealized Beverly Hills perfection portrayed in the media. His only comfort comes from his three closest friends - the Beverly Hills version of a street gang - but he craves a love outside of his circle of friends. As a young child fed up with his life, Julian runs away from home to seek relief from his day-to-day anguish. While stowing away on a cargo train, young Julian befriends a drifter, but finds that this wanderer cannot offer the stability he craves. After returning home, teenage Julian is shipped off to a remote island reform school - could this be an even worse hardship than remaining at home? Will Julian ever return home to find the love he longs for? Or will he remain a vagabond, forever searching for something better?
Download or read book From Jerusalem to Beverly Hills written by Eitan Gonen and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a riveting story of the authors journey for survival as a war refugee and overcoming poverty. The story begins in Jerusalem as the British Empire crumbles and World War II ends. The ensuing turmoil in Palestine lead to Israels War of Independence and the Arab siege of Jerusalem that shaped Eitans childhood and the journey he travelled as a construction laborer, shepherd in a kibbutz, Top Gun fighter pilot in Israel Air Force, engineer for the Space Shuttle and a businessman in Beverly Hills. On his quest for independence and justice he endured family displacement, hunger, personal loss, and a government corruption scandal that nearly unraveled all he had worked to create. This compelling story, however, is ultimately one of triumph. Jerusalem, at once provincial and cosmopolitan, where lives of Christians, Jews and Arabs intermingle, is the colorful ground for a true story of a boy growing up during the tumultuous waning years of the British rule. The author describes scenes from the Arab-Israeli war, from a rare vantage point of a little boy, turned refugee in the ravaged city. As a teenager, he becomes a member of a socialist youth movement and joins his friends to establish a kibbutz. Toiling as a shepherd in the hills of Judea, and disappointed by the communal system, he leaves to join the Israel Air Force and becomes a fighter pilot. At the age of 22, he takes Dina, his wife, to Africa to create the newly independent Ghana Air Force. Fulfilling his lifelong dream, the author goes to America, but tragedy drives his young family back to Israel for eleven years. Following the Yom Kippur War, his keen sense of justice compels him to expose government corruption that inevitably teaches him that no good deed goes unpunished, but at the end of the day makes him victorious. A memorable scene aboard an El Al flight provides an emotional end. Visit jerusalemtobeverlyhills.com
Download or read book We Will Always Live in Beverly Hills written by Ned Wynn and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ned Wynn is the son of movie actor Keenan Wynn and the grandson of the immortal comedian Ed Wynn. His story is the male counterpart to the female-dominated literature of Hollywood childhoods, from Haywire to Mommie Dearest. 32 black-and-white photographs.
Download or read book Where a Man Stands written by Carter Paysinger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Beverly Hills High School welcomed a skinny boy from the other side of the tracks, no one knew just how life-changing the decision would be, not just for Carter Paysinger but for all of Beverly Hills. Carter grew up hearing his parents say, “Don’t just strive to be good. Always strive to be great.” He dreamed of finding greatness in playing professional baseball or becoming a black Donald Trump, but fate had different plans and, ultimately, he found his calling as a teacher and coach at the school that once embraced him, becoming a rock for the innumerable kids who came seeking an ear to listen or a shoulder to cry on. One such kid, a scrappy Jewish boy from a prominent family, would change the course of Carter’s life. His name was Steven Fenton. Twenty years later, as Beverly Hills High fell into disarray—with principals hired and fired and families fleeing the school—as well as his own life coming apart, Carter ran into Steven Fenton again. Together, they found renewed passion and hope to fight for their school and test the limits of what community means. But when Steven convinced Carter to throw his hat into the ring as principal, the progressive Beverly Hills suddenly thought that its winningest and most beloved coach didn’t fit the profile for the Beverly Hills image. It was the beginning of a long road, but Carter could hear his father saying, “Don’t listen to those voices. Do what you have to do.” Filled with hope, triumph, and the struggles that come to define us, Where a Man Stands is a beautiful fish-out-of-water story about the families formed in unlikely places and how, in the end, where you stand, and with whom, and for what, matters as much as anything.
Download or read book This boy s life written by Tobias Wolff and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolff's account of his boyhood and the process of growing up includes paper routes, whiskey, scouting, fistfights, friendship, and betrayal in 1950s America.
Download or read book The Prince of Beverly Hills written by Stuart Woods and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brash detective Rick Barron enters the infamous Hollywood fast lane in this thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series. Los Angeles, 1939. It’s Hollywood’s Golden Age, and Rick Barron is a suave and sharp detective on the Beverly Hills force. After a run-in with his captain, he finds himself demoted, but soon lands a job on the security detail for Centurion Pictures, one of the hottest studios. The white knight of such movie stars as Clete Barrow, the British leading man with a penchant for parties, and Glenna Gleason, a peach of a talent on the verge of superstardom, Rick is dubbed “the Prince of Beverly Hills” by society columnists. But when he unearths a murder cover-up and a blackmail scam, he finds himself up against West Coast wise guys whose stakes are do-or-die...
Download or read book Slumlords written by Steve O. and published by Omgi Media Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is stealth investing? Who is Shmengey Mignone? Does a breathalyzer work for someone with only one lung? What is an ass-dentist? What is the perfect job for someone with no sense of smell? Where is the little old lady from unit #B? These secrets and others are finally revealed for the very first time anywhere in this epic tale of dreams come true and ambitions gone awry, a story so candid and so shocking, that it literally blows the lid off the apartment business. Slumlords is the story of Steve Schafer, an ambitious young man in his early thirties, who unwittingly becomes the "front-man" for a powerful group of investors from Beverly Hills.
Download or read book Logic of Demons written by H. A. Goodman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if the love of your life was murdered by a deranged killer? Would you become a vigilante and seek retribution? And would this revenge affect those you care for in the afterlife? LOGIC OF DEMONS The Quest for Nadine's Soul takes you on a journey inside the psyches of men and women forced to deal with the spiritual consequences of their decisions. Through the lives of a demon, two Angels, and a mysterious teenage girl, a plethora of politically and socially relevant issues ranging from the roots of genocide and sex trafficking to child conscription and religious fundamentalism are addressed in this fantasy thriller. Life as well as the afterlife converge in this novel to explain certain peculiarities of the human condition. Whether you are a God fearing individual or an atheist, LOGIC OF DEMONS The Quest for Nadine's Soul addresses moral and theological issues of interest for people of all backgrounds.
Download or read book The Battle for Beverly Hills written by Nancie Clare and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the untold history of Beverly Hills, examining the glamour, fame, gossip and politics of a city that the stars fought to keep from the clutches of an avaricious Los Angeles, building the foundation for celebrity influence and political power.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Television Shows 1925 through 2010 2d ed written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 1331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated and expanded edition covers over 10,200 programs, making it the most comprehensive documentation of television programs ever published. In addition to covering the standard network and cable entertainment genres, the book also covers programs generally not covered elsewhere in print (or even online), including Internet series, aired and unaired pilot films, erotic series, gay and lesbian series, risque cartoons and experimental programs from 1925 through 1945.
Download or read book The TV Guide Book of Lists written by The Editors of TV Guide and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you curious to know: The 50 Greatest TV Shows of all time? The 50 Worst? The 25 Greatest Commercials? The 10 Strangest Moments in Sports? . . . Then you'll be reading the right book! Here's a trivia book as entertaining as the TV shows it celebrates. Get lost in the greatest moments from classic television, right up to the must-see TV of today. Enjoy 50 years and 175 lists of pure trivia gold that covers TV themes, episodes, stars, celebrities, and even commercials. TV Guide has covered them all, and now they open their vault to bring all the favorite lists they've written over the years to a single fun volume!
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Download or read book Reel Bad Arabs written by Jack G. Shaheen and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous history dating from cinema’s earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature machine-gun wielding and bomb-blowing "evil" Arabs Award-winning film authority Jack G. Shaheen, noting that only Native Americans have been more relentlessly smeared on the silver screen, painstakingly makes his case that "Arab" has remained Hollywood’s shameless shorthand for "bad guy," long after the movie industry has shifted its portrayal of other minority groups. In this comprehensive study of over one thousand films, arranged alphabetically in such chapters as "Villains," "Sheikhs," "Cameos," and "Cliffhangers," Shaheen documents the tendency to portray Muslim Arabs as Public Enemy #1—brutal, heartless, uncivilized Others bent on terrorizing civilized Westerners. Shaheen examines how and why such a stereotype has grown and spread in the film industry and what may be done to change Hollywood’s defamation of Arabs.
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Film Themes Settings and Series written by Richard B. Armstrong and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first editon was called "the most valuable film reference in several years" by Library Journal. The new edition published in hardcover in 2001 includes more than 670 entries. The current work is a paperback reprint of that edition. Each entry contains a mini-essay that defines the topic, followed by a chronological list of representative films. From the Abominable Snowman to Zorro, this encyclopedia provides film scholars and fans with an easy-to-use reference for researching film themes or tracking down obscure movies on subjects such as suspended animation, viral epidemics, robots, submarines, reincarnation, ventriloquists and the Olympics ("Excellent" said Cult Movies). The volume also contains an extensive list of film characters and series, including B-movie detectives, Western heroes, made-for-television film series, and foreign film heroes and villains.
