Download or read book And This Is My Friend Sandy written by Deborah Philips and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates the production of The Boy Friend and the Players' Theatre in the context of a post-war London and reads The Boy Friend, and Wilson's later work, as exercises in contemporary camp. It argues for Wilson as a significant and transitional figure both for musical theatre and for modes of homosexuality in the context of the pre-Wolfenden 1950s. Sandy Wilson's The Boy Friend is one of the most successful British musicals ever written. First produced at the Players' Theatre Club in London in 1953 it transferred to the West End and Broadway, making a star out of Julie Andrews and gave Twiggy a leading role in Ken Russell's 1971 film adaptation. Despite this success, little is known about Wilson, a gay writer working in Britain in the 1950s at a time when homosexuality was illegal. Drawing on original research assembled from the Wilson archives at the Harry Ransom Center, this is the first critical study of Wilson as a key figure of 1950s British theatre. Beginning with the often overlooked context of the Players' Theatre Club through to Wilson's relationship to industry figures such as Binkie Beaumont, Noël Coward and Ivor Novello, this study explores the work in the broader history of Soho gay culture. As well as a critical perspective on The Boy Friend, later works such as Divorce Me, Darling!, The Buccaneer and Valmouth are examined as well as uncompleted musical versions of Pygmalion and Goodbye to Berlin to give a comprehensive and original perspective on one of British theatre's most celebrated yet overlooked talents.

Download or read book My Friend Sandy written by Jane Duncan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janet and 'Twice' Alexander break new ground in the island of St. Jago, British West Indies-a setting as far removed from the Highlands of Scotland as a calypso from a lament. But it takes more than a planter's punch compounded of island feuds, jealousies and intrigues to put out the exuberant Alexanders-as this further sparkling episode in the now-famous saga shows, through an unexpected drama provides a startling climax.

Download or read book Dear Friend written by Sandy Beach and published by Hotchkiss Publishing.com. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Friend provides weekly meditation readings. The only book ever published by Sandy Beach, speaker best know for his talk "Drop the Rock".?Sandy? Richard Beach graduated from Yale University in 1954 and joined the U.S. Marine Corps at the tail end of the Korean War. He began a career as a jet fighter pilot - - a career that was ultimately shattered by 14 years of chronic alcoholism. In his struggle for sobriety, he experienced malnutrition, delirium tremens, and a six-month stay in a locked psychiatric ward. On December 7,1964, Pearl Harbor Day, he was shown a spiritual path to recovery and has gained his insights and perspective from 50 years on the path of the Twelve Steps. For more than 45 years, he delivered spiritual lectures and workshops across America as well as in a number of foreign countries.

Download or read book Choices written by Jeff Edwards and published by Sid Harta Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dan Travers is faced with the prospect of losing his job in humiliating circumstances, and possibly going to jail, he makes a desperate choice. A choice that will affect not only his future but will have dire repercussions for all those around him. How did this dedicated surfer and family man find himself in such a dilemma? Why would he contemplate such a wild scheme? Bombings and murders in Bali combine with drug wars on the streets of Sydney to draw Dan ever deeper into the hell he created with a few simple words. Once the choice has been made how can Dan return to a normal life, and who will be made to pay the price for his foolishness?

Download or read book Been Here All Along written by Sandy Hall and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gideon always has a plan. It includes running for class president, becoming head of the yearbook committee, and having his choice of colleges. It does NOT include falling head over heels for his best friend, Kyle. It’s a distraction, it’s pointless—Kyle is already dating the head cheerleader, Ruby—and Gideon doesn’t know what to do. Kyle finally feels like he has a handle on life. He has a wonderful girlfriend, a best friend willing to debate the finer points of Lord of the Rings, and social acceptance as captain of the basketball team. So when both Ruby and Gideon start acting really weird, just as his spot on the team is threatened, Kyle can’t quite figure out what he did wrong. Sandy Hall, the author of A Little Something Different, is back with her signature wit in this quirky and heartfelt LGBT YA novel.

Download or read book My Husband My Friend written by Neile Adams McQueen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY HUSBAND, MY FRIEND THE REAL STEVE McQUEEN - FROM ABANDONED CHILD TO GLITTERING SUPERSTAR TO HAUNTED MAN.... Now his wife of 15 and a half years, Neile, who rode the dazzling Hollywood roller coaster with him, reveals A Steve McQueen no one knew his good side, his crazy side, his dark side....

Download or read book Greasepaint Puritan written by Maya Cantu and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greasepaint Puritan details the life and work of Bradford Ropes, author of the bawdy 1932 novel 42nd Street, on which the classic film and its stage adaptation are based. Inspired by Ropes’s own experiences as a performer, 42nd Street “reads less like a novel than like a documentary about the lives of New York’s theatre people and, above all, about the practicalities, the personalities, and the sexual politics that go into the making of a show,” according to Richard Brody in The New Yorker. Why did Ropes’s body of work--which included a trilogy of backstage novels--and consequently his biographical footsteps, disappear into obscurity? Descended from Mayflower Pilgrims, Ropes rebelled against the “Proper Bostonian” life, in a career that touched upon the Jazz Age, American vaudeville, and theater censorship. Greasepaint Puritan follows Ropes’s successful career as both a performer and the author of the backstage novels 42nd Street, Stage Mother, and Go Into Your Dance. Populated by scheming stage mothers, precocious stage children, grandiose bit players, and tart-tongued chorines, these novels centered on the lives and relationships of gay men on Broadway during the Jazz Age and Prohibition era. Rigorously researched, Greasepaint Puritan chronicles Ropes’s career as a successful screenwriter in 1930s and ’40s Hollywood, where he continued to be a part of a dynamic gay subculture within the movie industry before returning to obscurity in the 1950s. His legacy lives on in the Hollywood and Broadway incarnations of 42nd Street—but Greasepaint Puritan restores the “forgotten melody” of the man who first envisioned its colorful characters.

Download or read book Hello Darkness My Old Friend written by Sanford D. Greenberg and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a bitterly cold February in 1961, and Sandy Greenberg lies in a hospital bed in Detroit, newly blind. A junior at Columbia University from a Jewish family that struggled to stay above the poverty line, Sandy had just started to see the world open up to him. Now, instead of his plans for a bright future—Harvard Law and politics—Sandy faces a new reality, one defined by a cane or companion dog, menial work, and a cautious path through life. But that’s not how this story ends. In the depth of his new darkness, Sandy faces a choice—play it “safe” by staying in his native Buffalo or return to Columbia to pursue his dreams. With the loving devotion of his girlfriend (and now wife) Sue and the selflessness of best friends Art Garfunkel and Jerry Speyer, Sandy endures unimaginable adversity while forging a life of exceptional achievement. From his time in the White House working for President Lyndon B. Johnson to his graduate studies at Harvard and Oxford under luminaries such as Archibald Cox, Sir Arthur Goodhart, and Samuel Huntington, and through the guidance of his invaluable mentor David Rockefeller, Sandy fills his life and the lives of those around him with a radiant light of philanthropy, entrepreneurship, art, and innovation.

Download or read book Uncommon Friends written by Darlene J. Forbes and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncommon Friends By: Darlene J. Forbes From an outsider’s perspective, it would be easy to assume that the five women would have nothing in common. That would be wrong. As the Napa Valley women are about to discover, friendship is not limited to similar age groups, but formed through joy, heartbreak, and life’s trauma.

Download or read book Signs Point to Yes written by Sandy Hall and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane, a superstitious fangirl, takes an anonymous babysitting job to avoid an unpaid internship with her college-obsessed mom. The only problem? She's babysitting the siblings of her childhood friend and new crush, Teo. Teo doesn't dislike Jane, but his best friend Ravi hates her, and is determined to keep them apart. So Teo's pretty sure his plans for a peaceful summer are shot. His only hope is that his intermittent search for his birth father will finally pan out and he'll find a new, less awkward home. Meanwhile, at Jane's house, her sister Margo wants to come out as bisexual, but she's terrified of how her parents will react. In a summer filled with secrets and questions, even Jane's Magic 8 ball can't give them clear answers, but Signs Point to Yes.

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Download or read book The Glaswegian written by Kenny Adamson and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Glaswegian: Part One is a captivating international thriller that's the first book in a trilogy by Kenny Adamson. After performing terrible retribution on the twin brothers he believes brutally murdered his heavily pregnant young wife Janette, Sandy MacLeod joins the army and is seconded into the Intelligence Corps. While on leave to Saudi Arabia during training he meets Osama bin Laden through another cadet. MacLeod's first assignment takes him to Pakistan to help train the Afghan Mujahideen to fight the Russians. There he discovers a halfway house in Islamabad, owned and run by his friend bin Laden, who he travels with to Afghanistan to fight in the battle of Jaji. On their return bin Laden tells Sandy he believes Saddam Hussein in Iraq will attack Kuwait. Back in London he grows disgusted when his intelligence is ignored and he is put on leave. After traveling to Tanzania to help a friend avenge another murder and reclaim his rightful property, MacLeod receives an email from his brother, proving he killed the wrong men for the murder of his wife. Resigning his commission, he heads for Glasgow to deal with the real murderers. There he purchases a castle near Pitlochry where something very strange happens! Kenny Adamson was born in Glasgow, Scotland and currently lives in Swindon in England. Now retired after a career in the debt collection industry, the author devotes as much of his time to writing as possible. The Glaswegian: Part One is his first book as well as the first in a trilogy. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/KennyAdamson

Download or read book Oh It s On Mother Trucker written by Missy Ryckman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-09-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandy continues traveling America's highways as a happy, over-the-road truck driver. She commits to her company's training program with the required amount of experience under her belt. As a newly minted certified CDL instructor, Sandy finds herself in a position of enthusiasm and uncertainty as she starts her training career. Not only does she find like-minded women entering the industry with the same passion as herself, but she also finds the polar opposite. While training a new student, a sudden injury happens, forcing Sandy to question all her life decisions. Sandy ventures into a new life of uncertainty and healing.

Download or read book Reappraising Jane Duncan written by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish novelist Jane Duncan's semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed by postwar critics as lightweight, at a time when a coterie of "angry young men" monopolized the attention of the British publishing establishment. Yet deeper themes are at play in the 19 novels. Modern readers will recognize feminist motifs, a wide-ranging examination of women's education and work in the 20th century, a woman's view of the rising societal tensions of the 1920s and 1930s, and an outsider's perspective on the racial divide in the soon-to-be-independent West Indies. This book explores Duncan's body of work, out of print for decades, though sought by loyal fans. Her characters run the gamut--drunken tinkers, Lowland housewives, Irish miners, members of the London fast set and English marchionesses, all portrayed with telling detail. Her novels--two of them recently reprinted for a new generation--reveal a charming and perceptive recorder of the changes Great Britain underwent in the past century.

Download or read book Is There Bacon in Heaven written by Ali Hassan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Russell Peters, Trevor Noah, and Mark Critch comes a hilarious debut memoir about family, pursuing our passions, and figuring out who we are, by stand-up comedian and popular CBC host, Ali Hassan. Growing up, Ali Hassan was a chameleon. His friends came from many different backgrounds and religions—Trinidadian, Parsi, Goan, Hindu, Christian, Sikh. And as a hockey-playing, Crock-Pot–using young man who also knew the words to at least ten Blue Rodeo songs, he could blend in everywhere. But the world has a funny way of reminding you who you are, and Hassan’s Muslim Pakistani family and community did, too. In this heartfelt and funny memoir, based on his hit stand-up comedy, Hassan shares his lifelong journey to becoming a “cultural Muslim”—learning to walk the line of embracing his heritage while following his passions and being true to himself. From failing to learn Arabic—or much of anything—in Sunday school and visiting family in Pakistan who mocked him relentlessly, to discovering the wonders of pepperoni as a teenager and being a celebrity judge at Ribfest, he finds himself in compromising situations that challenge his beliefs and identity. Now, as a father of four, he has to answer his children’s questions and try to explain his point of view. But he can’t just “give them” an identity as a cultural Muslim. Sharing his story is the next best thing. With the perfect blend of humour and insight, Is There Bacon in Heaven? explores the deep need to belong that exists in everyone.

Download or read book Neural Nets written by Bruno Apolloni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-31 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 14th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, WIRN VIETRI 2003, held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy in June 2003. The 41 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and improved during two rounds of selection and refereeing. The papers are organized in topical sections on models for neural computation; architectures and algorithms; image and signal processing; applications; bioinformatics and statistics; and formats of knowledge: words, images, and narratives.

Download or read book For the Glory of God written by Shirley Johnston and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a story of Shirley Johnstons life. There is a lot of messages and lessons to be learn from it. One message is that the Master, requested that I write it. So I could still tell everybody about Him. That even 2000 years, He is still a Miracle working God. Just in this half of my life, God has delivered me from 4 fires, 2 floods, and 1 hurricane. That is to name a few disasters that Sweet Jesus has brought me through. Some of the other events, most people could only imagine surviving. Another message is that others can learn from all I have went through. That God truly is the answer, to any and all problems no matter how big or little the problem is. The lessons is that we dont have to live in nightmares and messes that we get ourselves into. That if we hold onto Gods Unchanging Hand. He truly is a Rewarder of those who dilgently seek Him. So you see God did have other plans for my life.