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Book Sassy Dames

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shannon Finch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-08-19
  • ISBN : 9781536847437
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Sassy Dames written by Shannon Finch and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SASSY: Lively, bold, and full of spirit; Cheeky. Shannon Finch (a.k.a Shannanigan) has been creating vintage inspired pin-up girls and illustrations for nearly two decades. This is her first foray into the wild and crazy world of adult coloring! This book contains a potpourri of original Pin-Up Girl art for you to color. Characters inspired by the Victorians through to the Mid 20th Century, with some mythical ladies thrown in for good measure! In addition to those plucky gals, each page is chock full of details to color. You are going to want to turn on your imagination and keep your pencil sharpener handy. 24 Pin-Up Girl illustrations with full backgrounds to color. Pages are 8.5 x 11 inches, single sided. No perforation, but each image has a wide inside margin for easy removal. Paper is best with colored pencils or other dry media. Extra pages are included to use between while coloring. We cannot guarantee "Sassy Dames" will be calming or relaxing to color... but it will be fun!

Book Texas Dames

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carmen Goldthwaite
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2012-04-01
  • ISBN : 1614237093
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Texas Dames written by Carmen Goldthwaite and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the Texas Dames, women who sallied forth to run sprawling ranches, build towns, helm major banks and shape Lone Star history. These "Dames" broke gender and racial barriers in every facet of life. Some led the way as heroines, while others slid headlong into notoriety, but nearly all exhibited similar strands of courage and determination to wrest a country, a state and a region from the wilds. From Angelina of the Hasinai, interpreter for the Spanish, and sharpshooter Sally Scull to Dr. Claudia Potter, America's first female anesthesiologist, and Birdie Harwood, first female mayor in the United States, historian Carmen Goldthwaite has been profiling Texas women and their accomplishments in her popular "Texas Dames" column. Here are their stories, from early Tejas to the twentieth century.

Book Sassy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa Clark
  • Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
  • Release : 2012-09-16
  • ISBN : 1846945208
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Sassy written by Lisa Clark and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SASSY The Go-For-It Girl Guide to becoming Mistress Of Your Destiny Do you have any idea what it is like to be that girl? The girl who is totally badass, speaks her truth, makes money, follows her heart and has crazy-mad adventures? The girl who people stop in the street and ask hey, g-friend, what is your secret? When you are that girl, there is no secret. You are SASSY. SASSY, from the creatrix of www.sassyology.com, is a rather deliciously delightful cocktail of womanly arts, make-life-betterness and magickal chutzpah that will switch your I am awesome levels to maxim-o. You will find ways to seek passion and pleasure, to dig on your sweet self and to know your fabulosity. You will be inspired beyond measure by interviews and insights from divine Daring Dames like Pleasure Provocateur, Sam Roddick and Queen of Burlesque, Immodesty Blaize, and most importantly, you will learn how to conjure up and invoke whatever it is you want in life, all while dancing to your very own beat and wearing completely inappropriate footwear.

Book Fast talking Dames

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maria DiBattista
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300099034
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Fast talking Dames written by Maria DiBattista and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed book, DiBattista paints vivid portraits of the grandest fast-talking dames of the 1930s and 1940s movie era including Katharine Hepburn, Irene Dunne, and Barbara Stanwyck. 39 illustrations.

Book New York Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989-01-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book Aces and Eights

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ralph Estes
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2021-03-01
  • ISBN : 1493049631
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Aces and Eights written by Ralph Estes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our images of the big names and places of the Old West often come from the tales of gunfights and violence that were sensationalized by dime novels and yellow journalism in the 19th century and the myths that came from those stories live on today. But in reality many of these fabled characters of the Wild West were gamblers first and gunfighters second— more invested in poker than in the momentary fury of the shootout. Aces and Eights tells story of the role of poker in the lives of these legends, and offers a portrait of the places where they lived and frequently died. This book offers both the “facts” of these lives and the true tales of the game and the gamblers—and the entertaining “tall tales” that have survived to this day.

Book To Space and Back

Download or read book To Space and Back written by Mark Goddard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What made Mark Goddard kidnap a wooden Indian? Why was he arrested for carrying a Colt 45 in Boston? How did he deal with his infant daughter's disappearance? "Danger, danger Will Robinson" is a phrase Mark Goddard often heard in his role as Major Don West in the 1960's hit television series Lost in Space. During his real life, the phrase he should have heeded was "Danger, danger Mark Goddard." This memoir maps Goddard's roundtrip journey from a small town boy to a TV star and back again recounting humorous anecdotes about co-stars and celebrities like Billy Mumy, Peter Fonda, Buddy Hackett, and Jim Brown. This trip gets bumpy along the way, though, with two failed marriages and a career nosedive before Goddard has the realization that changes his life. Told with humor and candor, To Space and Back gives the reader a roller coaster ride equal to any side trip the Jupiter II took on its way to Alpha Centauri.

Book Insight Guides  New York City Guide

Download or read book Insight Guides New York City Guide written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City must be the world's top urban destination: whether you're after great theatre, fascinating museums, luxurious hotels, history, nightlife, sumptuous dining or just city energy, you'll find it here. The newly updated Insight City Guide New York is a comprehensive full-colour travel guide to this exciting destination. From seeing the iconic sights such as the Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty, to finding the most secluded parts of Central Park or the hippest bars in Greenwich Village, this book will make sure you go home having had the quintessential New York experience. Features by local writers explore every facet of the city, from the street-eats scene to the silver screen, with a special focus on the city's fabulous museums. Colour maps, plus floorplans of all the major museums, help you navigate with ease, while evocative photography brings New York to life. The detailed Travel Tips are full of practical advice plus our independent selection of the best hotels and restaurants.

Book Nancy Meyers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah Jermyn
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2017-07-27
  • ISBN : 1628921765
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Nancy Meyers written by Deborah Jermyn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Meyers is acknowledged as the most commercially successful woman filmmaker of all time, described by Daphne Merkin in The New York Times on the release of It's Complicated as "a singular figure in Hollywood – [she] may, in fact, be the most powerful female writer-director-producer currently working". Yet Meyers remains a director who, alongside being widely dismissed by critics, has been largely absent in scholarly accounts both of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and of feminism and film. Despite Meyers' impressive track record for turning a profit (including the biggest box-office return ever achieved by a woman filmmaker at that timefor What Women Want in 2000), and a multifaceted career as a writer/producer/director dating back to her co-writing Private Benjamin in 1980, Meyers has been oddly neglected by Film Studies to date. Including Nancy Meyers in the Bloomsbury Companions to Contemporary Filmmakers rectifies this omission, giving her the kind of detailed consideration and recognition she warrants and exploring how, notwithstanding the challenges authorship holds for feminist film studies, Meyers can be situated as a skilled 'auteur'. This book proposes that Meyers' box-office success, the consistency of style and theme across her films, and the breadth of her body of work as a writer/producer/director across more than three decades at the forefront of Hollywood, (thus importantly bridging the second/third waves of feminism) make her a key contemporary US filmmaker. Structured to meet the needs of both the student and scholar, Jermyn's volume situates Meyers within this historical and critical context, exploring the distinctive qualities of her body of work, the reasons behind the pervasive resistance to it and new ways of understanding her films.

Book Dynamic Dames

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sloan De Forest
  • Publisher : Running Press Adult
  • Release : 2019-07-02
  • ISBN : 0762465506
  • Pages : 490 pages

Download or read book Dynamic Dames written by Sloan De Forest and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate 50 of the most empowering and unforgettable female characters ever to grace the screen, as well as the artists who brought them to vibrant life! From Scarlett O'Hara to Thelma and Louise to Wonder Woman, strong women have not only lit up the screen, they've inspired and fired our imaginations. Some dynamic women are naughty and some are nice, but all of them buck the narrow confines of their expected gender role -- whether by taking small steps or revolutionary strides. Through engaging profiles and more than 100 photographs, Dynamic Dames looks at fifty of the most inspiring female roles in film from the 1920s to today. The characters are discussed along with the exciting off-screen personalities and achievements of the actresses and, on occasion, female writers and directors, who brought them to life. Among the stars profiled in their most revolutionary roles are Bette Davis, Mae West, Barbara Stanwyck, Josephine Baker, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood, Barbra Streisand, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Joan Crawford, Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, Dorothy Dandridge, Katharine Hepburn, Pam Grier, Jane Fonda, Gal Gadot, Emma Watson, Zhang Ziyi, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Lawrence, and many more.

Book The Red Hat Society Cookbook

Download or read book The Red Hat Society Cookbook written by The Red Hat Society and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2006-09-03 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cheery cookbook is the brainchild of the Red Hat Society, a nationwide organization of women who like to wear silly hats, enjoy each other's company, and eat dessert first. "Life is short; eat dessert first," says Sue Ellen Cooper, Exalted Queen Mother of the Red Hat Society, which is the most fun phenomenon to happen to women over 50 in this century. This cookbook has more than 250 desserts at the beginning of a collection of more than 1,000 recipes. Red Hat editors selected the best recipes, stories, and photographs submitted by members from all over the world. In The Red Hat Society Cookbook, you’ll find recipes including: Cantaloupe Chiffon Pie Ice Cream Crunch Torte Cookie Dough Cream Cheese Puffs Strawberry Yaya Cake Popcorn Candy Cake Their compilation has the feel of an enormous community cookbook, with the same lack of focus, mixed bag of recipes, and overriding spirit of goodwill.

Book Bluebeard s Castle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Biller
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2023-10-10
  • ISBN : 1804291862
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Bluebeard s Castle written by Anna Biller and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluebeard gets a feminist Gothic makeover in this subversive take on the famous French fairy tale — from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, and for fans of Jane Eyre When the successful British mystery writer Judith Moore meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a birthday party on the Cornish coast, his love transforms her from a bitter, lonely young woman into a romance heroine overnight. After a whirlwind honeymoon in Paris, he whisks her away to a secluded Gothic castle. But soon she finds herself trapped in a nightmare, as her husband’s mysterious nature and his alternation between charm and violence become increasingly frightening. As Judith battles both internal and external demons, including sexual ambivalence, psychological self-torture, gaslighting, family neglect, alcoholism, and domestic abuse, she becomes increasingly addicted to her wild beast of a husband. Why do women stay in abusive relationships? The answer can be found in the tortured mind of the protagonist, whose richly layered fantasy life parallels that of the female Gothic romance reader. Filled with dark humor and evocative imagery, Bluebeard’s Castle is a subversive take on modern romance and Gothic erotica.

Book Three Stooges FAQ

    Book Details:
  • Author : David J. Hogan
  • Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
  • Release : 2011-09-01
  • ISBN : 1557839328
  • Pages : 648 pages

Download or read book Three Stooges FAQ written by David J. Hogan and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). This entertaining and informative study of the Three Stooges focuses on the nearly 190 two-reel short comedies the boys made at Columbia Pictures during the years 1934-59. Violent slapstick? Of course, but these comic gems are also peerlessly crafted and enthusiastically played by vaudeville veterans Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, and Joe arguably the most popular and long-lived screen comics ever produced by Hollywood. Detailed production and critical coverage is provided for every short, plus information about each film's place in the Stooges' careers, in Hollywood genre filmmaking, and in the larger fabric of American culture. From Depression-era concerns to class warfare to World War II to the cold war to rock-and-roll the Stooges reflected them all. Seventy-five stills, posters, and other images many never before published in book form bring colorful screen moments to life and help illuminate the special appeal of key shorts. Exclusive sections include a Stooges biographical and career timeline; a useful, colorful history of the structure and behind-the-camera personnel of the Columbia two-reel unit; and personality sidebars about more than 30 popular players who worked frequently with the Stooges. Also included is a filmography that covers all 190 shorts, plus a bibliography, making this the ultimate guide for all Three Stooges fans!

Book THE RED HAT SOCIETY

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sue Ellen Cooper
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2008-11-16
  • ISBN : 044654874X
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book THE RED HAT SOCIETY written by Sue Ellen Cooper and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering marriage, children, grandparents, careers, retirement, and more, this is the official book of The Red Hat Society, a craze that is sweeping the nation. Two-color text & illustrations throughout.

Book New York

    Book Details:
  • Author : Apa Publications
  • Publisher : Insight Guides
  • Release : 2006-07-15
  • ISBN : 9789812585158
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book New York written by Apa Publications and published by Insight Guides. This book was released on 2006-07-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compact Guide New York City includes a chapter detailing New York City's history and culture, 10 itineraries and excursions taking in sights ranging from the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty to the outer boroughs of Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island, leisure-time suggestions, and a comprehensive information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. This guide also contains detailed maps and many remarkable photographs.

Book Urban Animals  A Comic Field Guide

Download or read book Urban Animals A Comic Field Guide written by Mireille Silcoff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ve seen them before. They’re in your home, in your office, on the street. You’ve encountered them at some fine and not-so-fine establishments. They’re the new urban animals, and now they’ve been classified. You know you’ve met Every Mother’s Worse Nightmare (“So what if it says ‘Pussy’ on the front, Mom? There’s a picture of a cat under the word”) and The Simpsons Quoter (Natural habitat: His own private Springfield, no further description necessary). From That Young Literary Guy, who has just published a novel, half of which is comprised of footnotes, to The Condescending Vegetarian, who misses the nineties, when it was more acceptable to call a hamburger evil just as a dining companion was about to attack one, this book takes a biting look at the creatures that inhabit our everyday urban world laugh-out-loud portraits, with a touch of the tragically comic. Beware, you might find yourself in here.

Book Fast Talking Dames

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maria DiBattista
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 030013388X
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book Fast Talking Dames written by Maria DiBattista and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is nothing like a dame", proclaims the song from South Pacific. Certainly there is nothing like the fast-talking dame of screen comedies in the 1930s and '40s. In this engaging book, film scholar and movie buff Maria DiBattista celebrates the fast-talking dame as an American original. Coming of age during the Depression, the dame -- a woman of lively wit and brash speech -- epitomized a new style of self-reliant, articulate womanhood. Dames were quick on the uptake and hardly ever downbeat. They seemed to know what to say and when to say it. In their fast and breezy talk seemed to lie the secret of happiness, but also the key to reality. DiBattista offers vivid portraits of the grandest dames of the era, including Katharine Hepburn, Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell, Barbara Stanwyck, and others, and discusses the great films that showcased their compelling way with words -- and with men. With their snappy repartee and vivid colloquialisms, these fast-talkers were verbal muses at a time when Americans were reinventing both language and the political institutions of democratic culture. As they taught their laconic male counterparts (most notably those appealing but tongue-tied American icons, Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, and James Stewart) the power and pleasures of speech, they also reimagined the relationship between the sexes. In such films as Bringing Up Baby, The Awful Truth, and The Lady Eve, the fast-talking dame captivated moviegoers of her time. For audiences today, DiBattista observes, the sassy heroine still has much to say.