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Book Yul Brynner Photographer

Download or read book Yul Brynner Photographer written by Victoria Brynner and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy, Bess, and George are enrolled in a summer program called Park Pals to learn about birds, trees, and even bugs. But when a rare bird escapes from the park aviary, and one of the boys in the group brags that he'll be the one to find it, the girls rise to the challenge.

Book Bring Forth the Children

Download or read book Bring Forth the Children written by and published by New York : McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1960 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by the former actor and UNHCR Good-will Ambassador, Yul Brynner, is a personal report on the suffering of some of the refugees and their children who, after the end of World War 2, remained in the refugee camps in Europe up until the early 1960s. He recounts their years of frustration and hopelessness and the situation of thousands of children born in the camps. In the second part of the publication, the author gives his impressions of life in Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East, following an extensive tour made for the UN in early 1960.

Book Yul Brynner

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michelangelo Capua
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2014-06-26
  • ISBN : 9780786480357
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Yul Brynner written by Michelangelo Capua and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the bald cowboy in The Magnificent Seven and the sexy, charismatic male lead in The King and I, Yul Brynner was a Hollywood paragon of masculinity. Beyond his distinctive appearance and distinguished acting career was a life of intrigue and concocted tales surrounding his youth. Born Youl Bryner in Russia, he played gypsy guitar and worked as a trapeze clown until a severe injury motivated him to pursue his interest in theater. This biography takes readers through Brynner’s formative years in Russia, France and China and describes his journey from sweeping stages in Parisian theaters to a versatile career in theater, television and film, reaching a stardom that began and ended with the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I. With accounts of his personal and professional successes and failures, the book includes his four marriages, his numerous and notorious affairs with such stars as Judy Garland, Joan Crawford and Ingrid Bergman, and his 1985 death from lung cancer. A filmography details his movies and plays, and appendices outline his work in documentaries, music and soundtracks, radio programs and television.

Book Naked Men

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  • Author : David Leddick
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780316644815
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Naked Men written by David Leddick and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary book documents a fascinating moment in the history of American culture - a period in the 1930s, '40s and '50s that give birth to a new notion of male beauty and desire, and to a new type of male icon. Long before Stonewall and the gay pride movement, a small group of daring men - photographers and the models who sat for them - helped pave the way for male sexual liberation. Led by the photographer George Platt Lynes and featuring men such as Jean Marais, Yul Brynner, Paul Cadmus and Tennessee Williams, this group of men - straight as well as gay - shattered taboos surrounding the artistic representations of the male figure. Their ground-breaking work remains as relevant and evocative today as it did half a century ago and its influence can be seen in the work of modern masters such as Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Book Anatole Litvak

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  • Author : Michelangelo Capua
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2015-01-28
  • ISBN : 1476618704
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Anatole Litvak written by Michelangelo Capua and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his 40-year career, director-producer Anatole Litvak (1902-1974) made films of all genres in Russia, Germany, England, France and the United States. His rootless background was cited by critics lamenting his lack of consistent style, but it also added to his mystique as a chameleon-like realisateur. Litvak directed Hollywood greats like Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield, Kirk Douglas, Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh, Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Olivia de Havilland, Yul Brynner, Burt Lancaster, Barbara Stanwick and many others. He was twice nominated for Best Director by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences for The Snake Pit (1948) and for Decision Before Dawn (1951). These films--along with Mayerling (1936), Sorry, Wrong Number (1946) and Anastasia (1956)--are considered classics, but his pictures don't offer many clues about Litvak the man. Apart from passing references to his wartime service as combat documentarian, he never discussed his life in print, allowing only brief interviews relating exclusively to his work. This biography fills that void, providing the first detailed portrait of an artist described by film historian Richard Schickel as "an adept, adaptable and prolific man; the kind of director that Hollywood likes best."

Book Periodical Photographs

Download or read book Periodical Photographs written by Dan Winters and published by Aperture Direct. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Periodical Photographs, the long-awaited first monograph from top editorial photographer Dan Winters, provides an overview of his assignment work as a contributor to some of Americas most prestigious magazines, including New York, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times Magazine. With an emphasis on his iconic portraiture, this volume considers the body of work of a photographer whose unique sensibility is both adaptable and instantly recognizable. Winters is responsible for the definitive portraits of some of Hollywoods most photographed A-listers (Gwyneth Paltrow, Denzel Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio) and music superstars (Bono, Eminem, Willie Nelson). His voracious passion for the quirky and the creative also draws him to visual artists, scientists, architects, and everyday, extraordinary Americans. Designed by Scott Dadich, the award-winning creative director of Wired magazine, Periodical Photographs showcases a photographer at the top of his game.

Book Italia Mia

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Italia Mia written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Yul Brynner Cookbook

Download or read book The Yul Brynner Cookbook written by Yul Brynner and published by Stein & Day Pub. This book was released on 1982-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of two hundred gourmet recipes representing the best of international cuisine and including a wide range of dishes from appetizers to desserts

Book The Grand Surprise

Download or read book The Grand Surprise written by Leo Lerman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable life and a remarkable voice emerge from the journals, letters, and memoirs of Leo Lerman: writer, critic, editor at Condé Nast, and man about town at the center of New York’s artistic and social circles from the 1940s until his death in 1994. Lerman’s contributions to the world of the arts were large and varied: he wrote on theater, dance, music, art, books, and movies for publications as diverse as Mademoiselle and The New York Times. He was features editor at Vogue and editor in chief of Vanity Fair. He launched careers and trends, exposing the American public to new talents, fashions, and ideas. He was a legendary party host as well, counting Marlene Dietrich, Maria Callas, and Truman Capote among his intimates, and celebrities like Cary Grant, Jackie Onassis, Isak Dinesen, and Margot Fonteyn as part of his larger circle. But his personal accounts and correspondence reveal him also as having an unusually rich and complex private life, mourning the cultivated émigré world of 1930s and 1940s New York City, reflecting on being Jewish and an openly homosexual man, and intimately evoking his two most important lifelong relationships. From a man whose literary icon was Marcel Proust comes an unparalleled social and emotional history. With eloquence, insight, and wit, he filled his journals and letters with acute assessments, gossip, and priceless anecdotes while inimitably recording both our larger cultural history and his own moving private story.

Book The King and I

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Rodgers
  • Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
  • Release : 2021-09-13
  • ISBN : 9780573824272
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book The King and I written by Richard Rodgers and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1862 in Siam when an English widow, Anna Leonowens, and her young son arrive at the Royal Palace in Bangkok, having been summoned by the King to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. The King is largely considered to be a "barbarian" by those in the West, and he seeks Anna's assistance in changing his image, if not his ways. With both keeping a firm grip on their respective traditions and values, Anna and the King grow to understand and respect one another in a truly unique love story.

Book Stark Naked

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  • Author : Graham Stark
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781842260128
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book Stark Naked written by Graham Stark and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham's unique autobiography reveals, through personal anecdote and his own collection of exclusive and intimate photos, the numerous and often surprising stories that have occurred behind and in front of the camera.

Book Dorothy Wilding

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terence Pepper
  • Publisher : National Portrait Gallery
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Dorothy Wilding written by Terence Pepper and published by National Portrait Gallery. This book was released on 1991 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Written in Stone

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  • Author : Katherine Orrison
  • Publisher : Vestal Press
  • Release : 1999-03-30
  • ISBN : 1461734819
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Written in Stone written by Katherine Orrison and published by Vestal Press. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From concept stage through production in Egypt to release of the film: Katherine Orrison carefully recreates the behind-the-scenes story of Cecil B. DeMille's beloved epic.

Book Sal Mineo

Download or read book Sal Mineo written by Michael Gregg Michaud and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sal Mineo is probably most well-known for his unforgettable, Academy Award–nominated turn opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and his tragic murder at the age of thirty-seven. Finally, in this riveting new biography filled with exclusive, candid interviews with both Mineo’s closest female and male lovers and never-before-published photographs, Michael Gregg Michaud tells the full story of this remarkable young actor’s life, charting his meteoric rise to fame and turbulent career and private life. One of the hottest stars of the 1950s, Mineo grew up as the son of Sicilian immigrants in a humble Bronx flat. But by age eleven, he appeared on Broadway in Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo, and then as Prince Chulalongkorn in the original Broadway production of The King and I starring Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence. This sultry-eyed, dark-haired male ingénue of sorts appeared on the cover of every major magazine, thousands of star-struck fans attended his premieres, and millions bought his records, which included several top-ten hits. His life offstage was just as exhilarating: full of sports cars, motor boats, famous friends, and some of the most beautiful young actresses in Hollywood. But it was fourteen-year-old Jill Haworth, his costar in Exodus—the film that delivered one of the greatest acting roles of his life and earned him another Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe win—with whom he fell in love and moved to the West Coast. But by the 1960s, a series of professional missteps and an increasingly tumultuous private life reversed his fortunes. By the late sixties and early seventies, grappling with the repercussions of publicly admitting his homosexuality and struggling to reinvent himself from an aging teen idol, Mineo turned toward increasingly self-destructive behavior. Yet his creative impulses never foundered. He began directing and producing controversial off-Broadway plays that explored social and sexual taboos. He also found personal happiness in a relationship with male actor Courtney Burr. Tragically, on the cusp of turning a new page in his life, Mineo’s life was cut short in a botched robbery. Revealing a charming, mischievous, creative, and often scandalous side of Mineo few have known before now, Sal Mineo is an intimate, moving biography of a distinctive Hollywood star.

Book From Farms to Incubators

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  • Author : Amy Wu
  • Publisher : Craven Street Books
  • Release : 2021-04-20
  • ISBN : 9781610355759
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book From Farms to Incubators written by Amy Wu and published by Craven Street Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting look at how women entrepreneurs are transforming agriculture through high technology. 21st-century agriculture is now on the cutting edge of technological innovation. Drones, AI, sophisticated soil sensors, data analytics, blockchain, and robotics are transforming agriculture into the growing field of agtech. And women entrepreneurs are the driving spirits making this transformation happen. From Farms to Incubators presents inspiring stories of how women entrepreneurs from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds are leading the agtech revolution. Each agribusiness leader profiled in From Farms to Incubators tells her own story of how she used agtech innovation to solve specific business problems and succeed. These business cases demonstrate the influence of female innovation, the new technologies applied to agribusiness problems, and the career opportunities young women can find in agribusiness. From Farms to Incubators also documents the sweeping changes happening in American food production. Growers in the United States and around the world face rising challenges, including climate change, limited water and land supply, uncertainties in immigration policy, a severe labor shortage, and the problem of feeding a rising population estimated at 9 billion in 2050. The entrepreneurs profiled in From Farms to Incubators are the new leaders in tackling these problems through tech innovation. The women profiled speak frankly on the advantages and drawbacks of technological solutions to agriculture and offers lessons in making technology productive in real work. Offering both exhilarating role models for young women seeking high technology careers and a provocative glimpse into the future of food production, From Farms to Incubators documents how women leaders are profitably disrupting the world's oldest industry.

Book Yul Brynner

Download or read book Yul Brynner written by Jhan Robbins and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1987 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth biography distinguishes the real from the myth in the solid accomplishments of world-famous Yul Brynner. 16 pages of photographs.

Book Ultimate Warrior

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathon Dabell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-12-16
  • ISBN : 9781673491944
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Ultimate Warrior written by Jonathon Dabell and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonorous voice, shaven head, enigmatic good looks - Yul Brynner was among the most distinctive, charismatic performers of his era. He was a circus acrobat, nude model, cabaret performer and television director before opting to pursue a career in acting. His rise to stardom in the '50s was nothing short of meteoric: a Tony Award for his stage role in The King and I, and an Oscar for its screen equivalent, sealed his reputation as one of the most hotly sought stars in the business. The Ten Commandments, Anastasia, The Brothers Karamazov, The Magnificent Seven, Taras Bulba and Westworld are just some of the highlights of a career which spanned three decades and forty films. Brynner acted alongside the biggest names in the business - Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando, Kirk Douglas, Noël Coward, Steve McQueen, Christopher Plummer, Eli Wallach and more. Leading ladies included some of the greats - Deborah Kerr, Ingrid Bergman, Maria Schell, Joanne Woodward, Gina Lollobrigida, Kay Kendall, Romy Schneider and Katharine Hepburn among them.In Ultimate Warrior: The Complete Films of Yul Brynner, Dawn and Jonathon Dabell examine every Brynner film, offering contextual background, cast and crew information and detailed analysis and evaluation for each. Every chapter is accompanied by an extensive image gallery.Turbo Sloth Publications is proud to present the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of Brynner's entire filmography, from the crime potboiler Port of New York (1949) to the 'poliziottesco' Death Rage (1976).