Download or read book The Playboy Interview written by G. Barry Golson and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty memorable Playboy interviews collected over the past eighteen years reveal the ideas and personalities of such public figures as Jimmy Carter, Malcolm X, Timothy Leary, Albert Schweitzer, and Mae West
Download or read book The Playboy Interviews written by Stephen Randall and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Calvin Coolidge once said, the business of America is business. Yet no matter what that business is, only a handful of individuals control it. With vision, determination, and passion, these men and women have bent the world to their wills. Some were millionaires from birth; others have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. From computers to shoes to cars, their hands have shaped the fabric of everyday life. Here, 15 of the most important men and women of the last 45 years of American business -- including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Donald Trump, Ted Turner, Hugh Hefner, Leona Helmsley, Barry Diller, and Calvin Klein -- speak candidly about their rises to power. First published in the no-holds-barred pages of "Playboy," the interviews are in many cases the most thoughtful and direct these men and women ever gave. All represent an intimate visit with the entrepreneurs who have moved America forward and have shaken the foundations of who Americans believe themselves to be.
Download or read book The Playboy Interview written by G. Barry Golson and published by Putnam Adult. This book was released on 1981 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Playboy Interview II written by G. Barry Golson and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1983 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Christmas Story written by Jean Shepherd and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox. The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street. This edition of A Christmas Story gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humor that Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring film. Here is young Ralphie Parker’s shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and father’s pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie’s duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie’s unstoppable campaign to get Santa—or anyone else—to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid”? The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously published in the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories, coalesce in a magical fashion to become an irresistible piece of Americana, quite the equal of the film in its ability to warm the heart and tickle the funny bone.
Download or read book All We Are Saying written by John Lennon and published by Pan. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, conducted by New York Times bestselling author David Sheff, featuring a new introduction that reflects on the fortieth anniversary of Lennon's death. Originally published in Playboy in 1981 just after John Lennon's assassination, All We Are Saying is a rich, vivid, complete interview with Lennon and Yoko Ono, covering art, creativity, the music business, childhood beginnings, privacy, how the Beatles broke up, how Lennon and McCartney collaborated (or didn't) on songs, parenthood, money, feminism, religion, and insecurity. Of course, at the heart of the conversation is the deep romantic and spiritual bond between Lennon and Ono. Sheff's insightful questions set the tone for Lennon's responses and his presence sets the scene, as he goes through the kitchen door of Lennon and Yoko's apartment in the Dakota and observes moments at Lennon's famous white piano and the rock star's work at the stove, making them grilled cheese sandwiches. Sheff's new introduction looks at his forty-year-old interview afresh, and examines how what he learned from Lennon has resonated with him as a man and a parent. This is a knockout interview: unguarded, wide-ranging, alternately frisky and intense.
Download or read book Oscar Micheaux The Great and Only written by Patrick McGilligan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, one of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the most talented and complex figures in the history of American entertainment. The son of freed slaves, Micheaux grew up in Metropolis, Illinois, then roamed America as a Pullman porter before making his first mark as a homesteader in South Dakota. Disaster and defeat there led him to forge a career publishing a successful series of autobiographical novels. Ever the entrepreneur, when Hollywood failed to bid high enough for film rights to his stories, he answered by forming his own film production company. Going on to produce or direct twenty-two silent and fifteen sound films in his lifetime, Micheaux became the king of the "race cinema" industry at a time when black-produced films had to scrounge for venues in a segregated society. In this groundbreaking new biography, award-winning film historian Patrick McGilligan offers a vivid and fascinating portrait of this little-known pioneer. Part visionary, part raffish Barnum-like showman, Micheaux was both a maverick filmmaker and an inveterate hustler who used every weapon at his disposal to break the color barrier and thrive in a profession he helped to invent. He made a fortune and lost it again, and launched repeated con games that were followed by public arrests and bankruptcies. He eagerly took credit for the work of others—including his unsung-heroine wife. In his desperate later years, he even sunk to plagiarizing his final novel—a discovery McGilligan reveals here for the first time. In this searching exploration, McGilligan tracks down long-lost financial records, unpublished letters, and unmarked pauper's graves, pinpointing Micheaux's birthplace, his tangled personal life, and the circumstances of his tragic death. The result is an epic that bridges a fascinating period in American history, and offers lessons for anyone who would understand the role of black America in forming the culture of our time.
Download or read book The Playboy Interviews written by Stephen Randall and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movies are the common language of the world, speaking to us all on an emotional and intellectual level that almost no other art form can. While there have been many great films, only a few directors have raised the motion picture to its highest level. In THE DIRECTORS fourteen of the most widely respected and creative filmmakers discuss what drives them and inspires them in their craft, with revealing, thought-provoking and highly personal discussions that range from Roman Polanski's thoughts on the murder of his wife in the nightmarish Manson Family massacre to Oliver Stone's frank discussions about the challenges he faced in creating his memorable films and many others. THE DIRECTORS provides a window into the creative minds of some of cinema's true artists
Download or read book The Playboy Interviews written by Stephen Randall and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents fourteen interviews of celebrities that appeared in Playboy magazine between February 1963 and July 1982, including those of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Walter Cronkite, and John Wayne.
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Download or read book The Playboy Interviews written by Alex Haley and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows Alex Haley as the world-renowned author of the international bestseller ROOTS, and as the writer who collaborated with Malcolm X on his historic autobiography. What many people don't know is that Alex Haley began his professional writing career as a journalist. It was his experience in this arena that earned him the plum assignment as Playboy's first -- and foremost -- interviewer. Witness Haley's work with the pre-Ali Cassius Clay, in which the posture of the young rebel fell away and a sensitive, intelligent young man emerged. He lured Malcolm X beyond his scathing Black Muslim rhetoric to reveal the agile, perceptive mind of a charismatic leader. With Johnny Carson, Haley revealed the man behind the mask of a charming television raconteur. And, in a devasting interview with George Lincoln Rockwell, the self-appointed fuhrer of the American Nazi Party, Haley deftly exposed the frightening heart and soul of the twisted man and his racist ideology. A fascinating slice of recent history, an extraordinarily candid collection of celebrity interviews and personal reminiscences, ALEX HALEY: THE PLAYBOY INTERVIEWS anthologizes for the first time a gifted writer's finest work at its controversial and informative best.
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Download or read book The Playboy Interviews written by Stephen Randall and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, "Playboy's" interviews have set the gold standard for their frank, in-depth profiles of major public personalities. Few celebrities in any field have been able to resist this forum, despite the magazine' s deserved reputation for not pulling punches. This book collects many of the best-- dating from the 1960s through the 1980s-- some appearing for the first time since their original magazine publication. Several of the interviews catch some of the last century's most influential people at the height of their fame. Others find them looking back on a long career. Interviewees range from Frank Sinatra in his early ' 60s Rat Pack days to the Beatles in ' 65 to Hank Aaron and Walter Cronkite in the ' 70s. Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali appear in two interviews conducted more than a decade apart. "The Playboy Interviews: Larger than Life" offers a unique look at some of the culture's most memorable moments through the words of those who helped create them.
Download or read book Mr Playboy written by Steven Watts and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spans from Hefner's childhood to the launch of Playboy magazine and the expansion of the Playboy empire to the present Puts Hefner's life and work into the cultural context of American life from the mid-twentieth-century onwards Contains over 50 B/W and color photos, including an actual fold-out centerfold
Download or read book The Playboy Interview written by Playboy Enterprises, Inc. Staff and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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