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| hit the floor full cast: Where Is Happily Ever After Christopher B. Scharping, 2012-07-18 Christopher Scharping is beginning his fourth career. After a long Air Force career, fi rst as a medic and then as an Air Force Historian for the majority of his 20+ years of active duty, he worked for the US Postal Service in Buffalo, NY for a decade before becoming a History and Language Arts teacher in Florida. Now, he has turned his talents to his own writing. Since childhood in a small town in western New York State near Buffalo, he had always dreamed of traveling around the world and of fi nding a true love that would lead to “Happily Ever After”. The Air Force provided the means for world travel, which is prolifi cally illustrated in this book and in the next. The “love” proved to be much more diffi cult to attain and keep. He and his lovely wife Catherine currently live in Panama City, Florida and dream of returning to Colorado one day to live there again. As John Muir once said, “The Mountains Are Calling; I Must Go!” |
| hit the floor full cast: All in God’S Glory Curtis Cliff Kell, 2014-06-02 This book takes you on a life long journey from being adopted by two loving people to the College Football Hall Of Fame. Along the way you will read adout all the trials and tribulations of a record setting athlete trying to make life defining decisions plus having to deal with a premature, unexpected, unprepared, career ending injury. |
| hit the floor full cast: A Year with the Producers Jeffry Denman, 2014-01-27 A behind-the-scenes story with more than a touch of theatrical magic about it, A Year with The Producers is a book for actors and theater fans everywhere. |
| hit the floor full cast: Romance Rich Zubaty, 2011-04-23 Rich Zubaty relates his adventures living and loving his way through 25 countries. Romance is glorious and frightening, stimulating and enervating, loud and quiet – a rare atmosphere beyond pleasure and pain. Romance is not about feeling, it is about being. It is about cooking monkeys on a balsa fire in the Peruvian jungle, catching sharks in a too-small boat, landing on uninhabited coral atolls, scraping bat droppings from your hair in a Honduran cave, cooking a slab of tuna on a beach in Marseilles, having raw animal sex with Asian girls in Paris and Thailand, singing Christian hymns with brown kids on the shore of a turquoise lagoon. Forgoing food and drink, radio, TV, speech, smoke – any and all sense distractions – on a ten day forest retreat in a Thai/Buddhist monastery – coming face to face with your demons. Romance is watching kangaroos scamper away from the lush grass around your garden when you go to pick tomatoes in New South Wales, burning your draft card and leaving the country when your government has lied to you, watching a young girl herding geese from your train window rolling across the golden plains of Slovakia, watching the swallows swarm around medieval castle turrets on the cliffs of Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.Romance is escaping Prague hours before a Russian invasion, watching the birth of your son in a wood stilt hospital in Hawaii, and watching your daughter born on a mattress on the floor of the house you made with your own hands – a house you built with your brother, sleeping in a tent in the mud and rain, during the months of construction. Planting her placenta beneath a lime tree seedling and watching it, and her, swell with life.Romance is living with petty thieves in Paris and London, working as a ticket-taker in a strip club in Soho, stealing carrots from the Covent Garden market to survive, ordering a burger at Wimpy’s then sneaking out without paying, living with an English woman with a black baby who rips off all your money in a hash deal gone awry, flying from London to Toronto and sneaking across the U.S. border knowing the F.B.I. is looking for you.Romance is tracking rabbits in the snow, catching a live pheasant with your hands when it thought it was hiding, huddled in a clump of grass. Romance is catching a tail-dancing 200 pound blue marlin off the Kona coast of Hawaii, and another one off Bimini.Romance is falling in love again and again and again, so many times that it becomes obvious you don’t know what love is. And don’t care. Romance is being married to a woman who eats your soul...And then there's more. |
| hit the floor full cast: Nod's Limbs Charles Ogden, 2007-02-27 It's all out war with the Knightleigh family, and Edgar and Ellen are rapidly losing ground. But then everyone's attention is diverted by the ghostly hand of fortune: Augustus Nod has launched a treasure hunt from beyond the grave. Suggested level: primary, intermediate. |
| hit the floor full cast: Built for Speed John McGuinness, 2017-05-04 Go on the ride of your life with the racing legend himself **with a thrilling NEW CHAPTER on John’s dramatic 2017 crash** ‘Then I was there myself, just another face in the crowd, watching the bikes fly by. The smells, the noise and the speed were all there for me to experience. It was like a massive injection in my head and it just blew my mind. I knew within seconds that I was going to be a TT racer. I didn’t know how or what I was going to have to do to achieve this, and my dad wasn’t going to be keen. Everyone around me was aware of the dangers, but from that moment I knew I had to do it.’ John McGuinness is one of the all-time giants of road racing, with a huge host of victories to his name. But his easy humour and down-to-earth attitude off the bike have always kept people guessing: what’s the truth about the man inside the helmet, that has kept him at the top of such a sport for over 20 years? His autobiography tells the whole story, from his humble beginnings in Morecambe and getting his first bike at the age of 3, to working as a bricklayer and cockle fisherman before deciding to follow his dream, and finally to his many victories in the most dangerous sporting event on the planet. He tells of what it takes to be a champion in such an exacting sport, and to keep winning even though all logic tells you to stop – and when so many of your fellow racers are paying the ultimate price for doing it. This thrilling autobiography gets into the head of the man who stares death in the face, and doesn’t even flinch. |
| hit the floor full cast: Lord of the Barnyard Tristan Egolf, 2000 A manic, inventive, and painfully funny debut novel, Lord of the Barnyard is about a town's dirty laundry--and a garbagemen's strike that lets it all hang out. . . . A tornado of almost biblical proportion (Le Monde). |
| hit the floor full cast: The Ghost Robert Harris, 2007-10-23 From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Imperium comes The Ghost Writer, an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder—now a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not to uncover the truth. But what happens when the client is a major political figure, and the truth could change the course of history? Adam Lang, the controversial former prime minister of Britain, is writing his memoirs. But his first ghostwriter dies under shocking circumstances, and his replacement—whose experience lies in portraying aging rock stars and film idols—knows little about Lang’s inner circle. Flown to join Lang in a secure house on the remote shores of Martha’s Vineyard in the depths of winter, cut off from everyone and everything he knows, he comes to realize he should never have taken the job. It’s not just his predecessor’s mysterious death that haunts him, but Adam Lang himself. Deep in Lang’s past are buried shocking secrets. Secrets with the power to alter world politics. Secrets with the power to kill. |
| hit the floor full cast: You Can't Fall Off the Floor Harris Katleman, Nick Katleman, 2019-06-25 A studio executive’s “superb memoir” of his years in the industry, filled with hilarious stories and hard-earned wisdom (Library Journal). From watching his colleague get shot in the testicles by a jealous producer to running Hollywood’s most successful TV studio, Harris Katleman had a front row seat in the development of the television industry. A classic account of the business side of entertainment, this book shares what really happened in the early careers of Hollywood stars and the development of iconic programs. Through a number of funny behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Katleman shares his journey from office boy to talent agent to television producer, and finally to studio head at both MGM and Twentieth Century Fox. Along the way, we meet industry giants including Rupert Murdoch, Bob Iger, Barry Diller, Marvin Davis, Kirk Kerkorian, Mark Goodson, and Lew Wasserman. This memoir goes beyond the story of a life in Hollywood. It is the story of crucial developments—how motion picture film libraries were opened for television licensing, how The Simpsons was birthed, and much more. “Not only does this book show his leadership in the television business, it shows how strongly he fought for groundbreaking shows that transformed the industry.”—David E. Kelley “A worthy entry in the lexicon of books chronicling Hollywood of yesteryear.”—Booklist |
| hit the floor full cast: Love Devotion Hell C.T. Andersen, 2018-09-15 God has a reason for each and every one of us. I was thought to be destroyed before I even was. Much like the verse in 1 Corinthians 1:28, God chose what is lowly and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are. As in Matthew 10:21, You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. God has a purpose for all of us. No demon was too big for me to handle even at a young age, for I followed the voice within me. God has been by my side from the moment my parents tried to end my life, before I was even born. God has given me the gift of seeing the demons within the human race and allowing me not to pick up any of that which will hurt me in the end. He has made me strong within his love and has made me passionate within her will. I was put here to tell others who are like me, You made the right choice by not giving in to the bullies and knowing that you are loved even if that love comes from within yourself because God loves us all. Yes, despite the demons within us and around us, we all return to God. |
| hit the floor full cast: The Crystal Pumpkin Crystal Arlene Kuykendall, 2023-07-10 The Crystal Pumpkin is an upbeat, uplifting, compelling story which takes the reader on an emotional, historical journey through eighteen years in the life of the author. The book captures the essence of the culture, experiences, struggles, music, entertainment, art, poetry, religion, charm, and nuances of Black life, Black love, and Black survival. Importantly, the author provides a riveting portrayal of events in local and national history as seen through the lens of a young Black girl who grows into adulthood in Chicago. The characters are real, and their lives, like their stories, are unforgettable. The lessons provided are universal, and the messages are moving and memorable. This delightful semi-autobiography has adventure, mystery, intrigue, shock, comedy, crime, drama, tragedy, and a scintillating love story. It provides a factual account of an era that featured struggles for individual and collective identity, purpose, and social justice during an earlier and simpler time. The stories unfold as the book, divided into three parts, explodes with historical developments and personal triumphs born of tragedies. The author explores the dawning of her identity amid self-doubt, family secrets, childhood fantasies, the specter of racism, and her educational and professional challenges as a public-school teacher and university faculty. Her pursuit of education and her explorations of social justice, civil rights, and antiwar endeavors are chronicled in her experiences of a new day when she comes of age during a tumultuous time. Her activism, high school and college experiences, and travels to the Bahamas and Western Europe mold her dedication before shocking and tragic developments alter the trajectory of her life. The reader will experience the educational, social, and personal challenges, struggles, setbacks, and victories of main characters during an unforgettable era. The treasured stories and sentiments shared are unique and timeless. |
| hit the floor full cast: The Greatest Novel Ever Written Howard Camner, 2021-10-25 In one breath: Banished intergalactic outlaws are brought back into action to try and stop the annihilation of the universe by The Evil One while a mob underboss / hitman turned actor gets trapped in a bizarre desert town and reprises his role as a B-movie monster to escape while the world’s greatest detective and his partner try to solve a muddled mystery and salad monsters terrorize a post-apocalyptic city while the B-movie monster becomes a seething sensation and one of the intergalactic outlaws is sent back in time to the days of Greek mythology where he deals with gods and titans as the world’s greatest detective takes on an escaped criminal mastermind and two bug-eyed aliens from the square planet Digby are sent to Earth to recover a mysterious orb with a mind of its own and this very aggravated author tries to juggle it all. |
| hit the floor full cast: What Fresh Lunacy is This? Robert Sellers, 2013-06-13 Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as James Bond - but he is an august member of that small band of people, like George Best and Eric Morecambe, who transcended their chosen medium, became too big for it even, and grew into cultural icons. For the first time Reed's close family has agreed to collaborate on a project about the man himself. The result is a fascinating new insight into a man seen by many as merely a brawling, boozing hellraiser. And yet he was so much more than this. For behind that image, which all too often he played up to in public, was a vastly complex individual, a man of deep passions and loyalty but also deep-rooted vulnerability and insecurities. Why was a proud, patriotic, intelligent, successful and erudite man so obsessed about proving himself to others, time and time again? Although the Reed myth is of Homeric proportions, he remains a national treasure and somewhat peculiar icon. Praise for other books by Robert Sellers: Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed: 'So wonderfully captures the wanton belligerence of both binging and stardom you almost feel the guys themselves are telling the tales.' GQ. Vic Armstrong: The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman: 'This is the best and most original behind-the-scenes book I have read in years, gripping and revealing.' Roger Lewis, Daily Mail. Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down: '...a rollicking good read... Sellers has done well to capture a vivid snapshot of this exciting time.' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times. |
| hit the floor full cast: Fly Fisher's Playbook 2nd Edition Duane Redford, 2015-01-15 Improve your nymphing by developing a playbook to overcome trout defenses and employing a systematic approach to planning, rigging, and fundamental skills and techniques. • Based on five years of detailed notes and a lifetime of fishing, teaching, and coaching experience • How to fish to your strengths and overcome your weaknesses • Simplified gear choices to fit your needs, fishing style, and budget • Consistent, effective drifting techniques • Tips for reading water in a wide range of conditions |
| hit the floor full cast: The Pittsburgh Hamlet Ron Shafer, 2020-02-14 After Jude Hepler and his girlfriend Cory Mohney unwittingly stumble onto the zealously guarded secrets of the highly intelligent Abe Badoane (as narrated in the prequel The Rose and the Serpent), the enraged Abe vows revenge. To advance his scheme, he dupes fellow mine employee Duke Manningham into an attempted heart-stopping rape of the beautiful Cory and ultimately enlists Duke's aid to rid the mushroom mine of Jude forever. To frame Jude, Abe lulls a stooge into sabotaging Duke's gem '57 Chevy. Upon seeing Jude's fingerprints on his car, Duke errantly deduces that Jude is guilty and, to regain Cory's favor, agrees to join Abe at a live production of Hamlet in Pittsburgh. Brilliant and cunning as Hannibal Lecter, Abe Badoane smugly sits in the theater with the incriminating fingerprint evidence, but unbeknown to him, Jude and Cory have plotted a dangerous mid-peformance scheme to trap him. Who will win the battle between these towering intellects, wherein the compelling Cory and Jude story of love, faith, and gripping heroism runs parallel toand actually intermeshes withShakespeare's masterpiece, Hamlet? Do Jude and Cory actually think they can take down the ingenious Abe Badoane during the live performance of the famous tragedy? Who will survive this epic white-knuckle clash? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The subtle interweaving and ingenious double-plotting of The Pittsburgh Hamlet--stirring, sustained, and stunning--culminates in a breath-taking climax that is one of the extraordinary milestones in modern American fiction.--Corbin Wyant, former publisher, Naples Daily News Masterful! The most moving novel I have read in yearsI couldn't put it down. Dr. Coral A. Norwood, Lee University |
| hit the floor full cast: Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s Richard Fotheringham, James Smith, 2013-11-01 Whether catching Australian theatre during the 2000s or catching up now, this volume provides the reader with an overview of the decade. It reveals how Australian theatre continues to reflect the major political and social concerns of our time. Each contribution explores an important area of Australian performance so that the volume provides crucial background and insightful analysis for current theatre practice. The contributions cover political theatre, Indigenous theatre, playwrights concerned with cultural identity, key Shakespearean productions, the impact of funding and arts policy on theatre, dramaturgy and innovative projects, leading directors on rehearsal processes, theatre for young people, regional theatre including the Northern Territory, and physical theatre and Circus Oz. The book confirms the consolidation of previous artistic achievement over the decade and identifies the emergence of new trends and creative practices. |
| hit the floor full cast: Upbeat David Amram, 2015-12-22 David Amram-composer, jazz artist, conductor, and world music pioneer-has been described by the Boston Globe as the Renaissance man of American music. From early collaborations with Kerouac and Sinatra, chosen by Leonard Bernstein as the New York Philharmonic's first composer in residence, Amram's artistry has taken him from concerts with Willie Nelson to jamming with the Massai tribe of Kenya. In Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat, Amram recounts his extraordinary adventures in the many worlds of music he calls home, all told in a rollicking anecdotal style that makes you feel that you are at home around the world. He writes, Everywhere I have been in the world, music transcends politics. As musicians, we were able to go beyond all that and just be fellow human beings. Threading through Amram's tale of music, hard work, respect, and friendship are unforgettable stories of fellow great artists-Dizzie Gillespie, Hunter S. Thompson, Janet Gaynor, George Plimpton, Lyle Lovett, Zoe Caldwell, Willie Nelson, and many more. |
| hit the floor full cast: A Dog in the Manger and Other Christmas Stories Jim Simons, 2014-11-20 This charming collection of Christmas stories by longtime Episcopal Rector Jim Simons illuminate the true spirit of Christmas, as the citizens of the fictional town Evergreen navigate health crises, Christmas pageants, and errant pets, gleaning deep lessons from simple scenes. |
| hit the floor full cast: Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography Victoria Price, 2018-10-17 The inside story of the legendary actor's 65-year career — from radio to classic movies and horror films to Broadway — and his family life. Entertaining and touching. — The New York Times. |
| hit the floor full cast: Rigatoni Jeffery F Dow, 2021-02-12 Sarah Bartlett was an Academy Award-nominated film star, an Emmy-nominated television actress and a Tony-nominated stage performer. She was also awarded her very own Varsity Jacket by the former director of the US Department of Music’s Federal Hip Hop Administration. Appearing in over 20 films (including Hearts of Sorrow, Hearts of Celery; Perkwit’s Secret Bramboráky (the fourth installment of the Blurg movies); and Shadow of the Fish), she also starred on stage in such shows as Howling at the Moon: The Dog Musical; Billiard Balls of Death; and Dreadful About Those Shock Treatments, Eh? The woman was also an accomplished musician who performed guitar and baglama not only with her own group (Zooey’s Lampshade) but also with the Hattiesburg Symphony Orchestra and Industrial Pole Bean Outlet; with the Palm Frond and Banana Spider Symphony Orchestra; and with the ’56 Elvis Quintet at the Memphis in November: From Too Cool to Too Cold Music, Art and Law Practice Festival). There were other sides to Sarah, sides that she preferred people not know much about, sides involving Queen Victoria costumes, drinking way too many sodas at one sitting, and that whole ceramic curry serving bowl (from 2400 BCE) incident, which she knew would greatly upset anthropologists all over the world. Here, for the first time, is the entire story of Sarah Bartlett’s life, including her children, her husband, her boyfriend, her shoes, her Toyota Cadberry, and her dreams (some of them involving picture frames made of cheese; some of them involving the Poky Little Puppy; some of them involving Gloria Swanson wearing a miniskirt, a pair of orange flip-flops and a T-shirt with a picture of Andy Warhol and the phrase “Hey, look, I’m a can of soup” on it; some of them involving cats with lobster claws for legs; and some of them involving copious amounts of Ranch Dressing). The book also includes over 150 illustrations, and some of them actually make sense. If you’re looking for a book that offers the best ratio of cost per laugh, look no further. Further? Farther? Wait, let’s think this through. Uhh, farther has an a in it, and measure has an a in it, so farther relates to distance. So, yeah, further is the right adjective to use. The Seattle Drainpipe Gazette says, “Rigatoni is to books as cat hair is to dogs.” The Farmington Inquirer calls Rigatoni “unobtrusive,” “mildly trapezoidal,” and “looks great under some flowerpots.” And the Tucson Rock Trader says, “If we crowdfund, we can raise enough money to get this author the serious help he so obviously needs. This isn’t a cry for help, this is a sustained scream through a set of Peavey Dark Matter DM 118 Powered PA Subwoofer Speakers.” |
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| hit the floor full cast: The Principles and Practice of Modern House-construction G. Lister Sutcliffe, 1899 |
| hit the floor full cast: Girl Sleuth Melanie Rehak, 2006-09-05 The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is “a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing” (The Seattle Times). An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year The plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930—and eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women’s libbers) to enter the pantheon of American culture. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers’ lives. Here, in a narrative with all the page-turning pace of Nancy’s adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to icon? The brainchild of children’s book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy was brought to life by two women: Mildred Wirt Benson, a pioneering journalist from Iowa, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a well-bred wife and mother who took over her father’s business empire as CEO. In this century-spanning, “absorbing and delightful” story, the author traces their roles—and Nancy’s—in forging the modern American woman (The Wall Street Journal). “It’s truly fun to see behind the scenes of the girl sleuth’s creation.” —Publishers Weekly “As much a social history of the times as a book about the popular series . . . Those who followed the many adventures of Nancy Drew and her friends will be fascinated with the behind-the-scenes stories of just who Carolyn Keene really was.” —School Library Journal “Sheds light on perhaps the most successful writing franchise of all time and also the cultural and historic changes through which it passed. Grab your flashlights, girls. The mystery of Carolyn Keene is about to begin.” —Karen Joy Fowler |
| hit the floor full cast: Challenged Steve Grieger, 2012-09 PRAISE for CHALLENGED: A TRIBUTEInspiring, encouraging, and a few surprises. Challenged is a well-written story that makes you laugh, cry and reflect on the good old days and the many positive changes in our field over the past 30 years. Steve Grieger has seen it all... Sharing his successes and challenges of everyday life!--Mark R. Klaus, Executive Director, Home of Guiding HandsFunny and deeply honest. As the mother of a child with Down syndrome, anyone who has ever loved or cared for someone with special needs will find it transcendent.--Patricia Connolly, parent and advocateMr. Grieger's witty and insightful book speaks to the heart of the human spirit. Through a series of eye-opening adventures it presents a unique and fascinating world, one that deserves recognition, filled with the joys and heartbreaks of self-discovery... It is an important contribution to the field of intellectual disabilities and other allied professions, and would make a wonderful addition to any classroom or home library.--Dr. Tomeka S. Williams, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, BA Center for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities |
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| hit the floor full cast: Billboard , 2003-02-15 In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends. |
| hit the floor full cast: One Thing After Another Rose Marie Arthur, 2019-04-16 This book is my true story about dealing with many life-changing events at the same time. It is about feeling like you cannot catch a break no matter how hard you try. The book reflects the process of experiencing one thing after another and trying to just keep going and finding out that the Lord is catching it all for you. It is packed with much emotional and physical pain from experiencing grief and loss, a bad marriage, taking on new responsibilities, and illnesses. It shows the struggles of trying to find a way through it all, and how God showed Himself in so many remarkable and wonderful ways. God is so very real. |
| hit the floor full cast: A Girl's Gotta Eat Michelle Valentine, 2013-11-26 A slick talking, cunning sex siren, Remmi comes from humble beginnings and a tragic past, but is determined to make it in the male-dominated, dog-eat-dog world of Hollywood—using any and every one to make her dreams a reality. Only associating with those who can assist her climb up the success ladder, Remmi encounters a slew of suitors, each who in some way, have a hand in helping her. Remmi takes L.A. by storm, quickly joining the ranks of Hollywood's elite and becoming one of its most sought after new talents. But as she navigates through the Hollywood scene, she leaves a trail of deception in her path. The film world embraces her but all is not necessarily forgotten. History eventually catches up to Remmi, threatening to snatch everything she's worked so hard to get away from her. In an effort to save her career, her image and ultimately her own skin, Remmi is willing to get down, dirty and scandalous. After all, a girl's gotta eat... |
| hit the floor full cast: Billboard , 2007-02-10 In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends. |
| hit the floor full cast: When Broadway Went to Hollywood Ethan Mordden, 2016-11-01 When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart, among many others - were enticed westward by Hollywood studios' promises of national exposure and top dollar success. But what happened when writers native to the business of Broadway ran into the very different business of Hollywood? Their movies had their producer despots, their stacking of writing teams on a single project, their use of five or six songs per story where Broadway fit in a dozen, and it seemed as if everyone in Hollywood was uncomfortable with characters bursting into song on the street, in your living room, or in a cottage small by a waterfall. Did the movies give theater writers a chance to expand their art, or did mass marketing ruin the musical's quintessential charm? Is it possible to trace the history of the musical through both stage and screen manifestations, or did Broadway and Hollywood give rise to two wholly irreconcilable art forms? And, finally, did any New York writer or writing team create a film musical as enthralling and timeless as their work for the stage? In When Broadway Went to Hollywood, writer and celebrated steward of musical theatre Ethan Mordden directs his unmistakable wit and whimsy to these challenging questions and more, charting the volatile and galvanizing influence of Broadway on Hollywood (and vice versa) throughout the twentieth century. Along the way, he takes us behind the scenes of the great Hollywood musicals you've seen and loved (The Wizard of Oz, Gigi, The Sound of Music, Chicago, West Side Story, The Music Man, Grease) as well as some of the outrageous flops you probably haven't. The first book to tell the story of how Broadway affected the Hollywood musical, When Broadway Goes to Hollywood is sure to thrill theatre buffs and movie lovers alike. |
| hit the floor full cast: The Music of Space Chris Carberry, 2024-02-22 Since the early days of motion picture production, film scores have helped define our emotional and aesthetic perception of stories on screen--particularly with space movies and television. The music from The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and others has helped define the public's awareness of space almost as much as the films themselves. In some cases, they have redefined the norms of film music. Star Wars not only revived the popularity of orchestral film scores but also helped stimulate an increased public interest in classical orchestral music around the world. This work explores the music and the composers who have helped define the sound of space for over a century, transforming how we perceive space and even inspiring greater interest in space exploration. This book also details how music has been performed and played in space since the early days of the space race. |
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| hit the floor full cast: Doris Humphrey Naomi Mindlin, 1998 The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return. His lost realm will be regained, and his shattered dream of an ideal world will, at last, be realized. This collection of original essays explores the issue of return in the modern Arthurian legend. With an Introduction by noted scholar Raymond H. Thompson and 13 essays by authors from the fields of literature, art history, film history, and folklore, this collection reveals the flexibility of the legend. Just as the modern legend takes the form current to its generation, the myth of return generates a new legend with each telling. As these authors show, return can come in the form of a noble king or a Caribbean immigrant, with the mystery of an art theft or a dying boy's dream. |
| hit the floor full cast: Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes Mary Beltrán, 2009 A penetrating analysis of the construction of Latina/o stardom in U.S. film, television, and celebrity culture since the 1920s |
| hit the floor full cast: American Musician , 1902 |
| hit the floor full cast: Once Is Not Enough Jacqueline Susann, 2015-11-02 The spectacular bestseller from the author of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. Once upon a time, the entertainment industry was a world that never slept. Magazine editors, models, pop stars and all the rest visited “vitamin doctors” to get the shots that would allow them to stay up all night and then work all day—in offices decorated with beanbag chairs and Calderesque mobiles… In this world, January Wayne goes from poor-little-rich-girl to grown-up swinger, as she searches New York and Los Angeles for a guy just like Mike Wayne, the glamorous movie producer, who also happens to be her father… “SPECTACULARLY SUCCESSFUL. There are plane crashes, drug orgies, motorcycle accidents, mass rapes, attempted abortions, suicide, evil doctors and other assorted activities; and I couldn’t put the damned thing down.” —Library Journal “[Susann’s] pulp poetry resonates to this day. WITH HER FORMULA OF SEX, DRUGS, AND SHOW BUSINESS, Susann didn’t so much capture the tenor of her times as she did predict the Zeitgeist of ours.”—Detour |
| hit the floor full cast: The Keeper Chronicles: The Complete Collection (The Keeper Chronicles, Books 1-5) Kester James Finley, 2019-06-17 Supernatural evil and magic collide as the Keepers are pulled into an epic struggle to protect the veil between two worlds from unseen forces threatening to doom them all in this complete five book spell-slinging, darkness chasing, devilishly haunting adventure fantasy set in the modern world. Join Truddie Mae, Gordy, Niles, and a complete cast of superpowered individuals as they battle a nefarious plot to destroy the universe as secrets uncover lies and friends turn to enemies. Danger lurks around every corner and, as the stakes are raised, the Keepers will need to join forces to face the greatest threats ever to slip into their reality. As the war rages on, will a thrown-together family save the day, or will sinister plans finally prevail? *Included in this set are all five complete eBooks of The Keeper Chronicles series as listed below. * Bitter Awakenings (Book 1): Southern charm meets devilish intent. Pulled from her tranquil existence by the veil’s calling out for assistance, Truddie Mae will once again dive headfirst into terror forcing her to reawaken old wounds and explore old haunts. Against a ticking monstrosity of devouring darkness, will she and the others stop new this threat, or will time run out for them all? Twisted Reunions (Book 2): Three people can keep a secret if two are dead. A simple excursion leads to a discovery threatening the Keepers on every level. Forced to act as leader, Truddie Mae must rally remaining teammates and dig deeper into the mystery of their magical lives. New threats and unseen forces strike back, this time with more bite. Sometimes the past rises to the top no matter how deep you bury the bodies. Struggling to maintain the veil while dodging a conspiracy, will her group unearth the agenda meant to end them before it finally does? Withering Haunts (Book 3): Danger has never been so close to home... safety never so far away. With everyone a possible threat, fear, and suspicion rule the day. Driven by duty to protect the veil, doubts soon become ominous when a late-night phone call of panic ends up being the tip of an even darker iceberg waiting to sink them all. New threats emerge, foes become friends, and truths become lies. A new global menace looms on the horizon. Can the remaining Keepers thwart the increasing danger or will nefarious plans finally bear fruit and force their magical lives to wither away? Jagged Remains (Book 4): Sometimes, to stop unspeakable evil one must battle themselves... Danger lurks behind every tree, every whisper. The veil is eroding while teammates remain lost. For Truddie Mae, abandoning safety for answers will soon find her plunging deeper into the magical darkness. As panic and desperation collide, will her magic find a way? Sinister players are finally revealed, and the truth is earth-shattering. The battle to save our reality is reaching its darkest hour. Will they be able to stop a doomed future, or will they all become jagged remains of a broken past? Frayed Endings (Book 5): For every start, an end. With every dusk, a new dawn. As old friends offer help and plans unfold to keep two worlds apart, Truddie Mae will soon find that stopping the coming storm may be a losing battle for them all. As the Keepers battle to prevent a universe-ending disaster, they'll learn that the coils of their supernatural lives are frayed on both ends and that sometimes the simplest of cuts are the deadliest. |
| hit the floor full cast: Goodwin's Weekly , 1914 |
| hit the floor full cast: Jet , 1991-10-28 The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news. |
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哈尔滨工业大学
哈尔滨工业大学（Harbin Institute of Technology），简称“哈工大（HIT）”，坐落于中国北方冰城哈尔滨市，中华人民共和国工业和信息化部直属重点大学，首批“211工程”、“985工程”重点建设院校，“九校联 …
学校简介 - 哈尔滨工业大学
哈尔滨工业大学（Harbin Institute of Technology），简称“哈工大（HIT）”，坐落于中国北方冰城哈尔滨市，中华人民共和国工业和信息化部直属重点大学，首批“211工程”、“985工程”重点建设院校，“九校联 …
Harbin Institute of Technology
On the afternoon of June 7th, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Harbin Institute of Technology, a foundation laying ceremony of Sino-Russian joint campus of HIT was …
研究生系统 - 哈尔滨工业大学
哈尔滨工业大学（Harbin Institute of Technology），简称“哈工大（HIT）”，坐落于中国北方冰城哈尔滨市，中华人民共和国工业和信息化部直属重点大学，首批“211工程”、“985工程”重点建设院校，“九校联 …
Harbin Institute of Technology
Online application(http://studyathit.hit.edu.cn/); Notarized High School Certificate in English or Chinese (If applicants are high school students, they should …
哈尔滨工业大学
哈尔滨工业大学（Harbin Institute of Technology），简称“哈工大（HIT）”，坐落于中国北方冰城哈尔滨市，中华人民共和国工业和信息化部直属重点大学，首批“211工程”、“985工程”重点建设院校，“九校 …
学校简介 - 哈尔滨工业大学
哈尔滨工业大学（Harbin Institute of Technology），简称“哈工大（HIT）”，坐落于中国北方冰城哈尔滨市，中华人民共和国工业和信息化部直属重点大学，首批“211工程”、“985工程”重点建设院校，“九校 …
Harbin Institute of Technology
On the afternoon of June 7th, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Harbin Institute of Technology, a foundation laying ceremony of Sino-Russian joint campus of HIT was …
研究生系统 - 哈尔滨工业大学
哈尔滨工业大学（Harbin Institute of Technology），简称“哈工大（HIT）”，坐落于中国北方冰城哈尔滨市，中华人民共和国工业和信息化部直属重点大学，首批“211工程”、“985工程”重点建设院校，“九校 …
Harbin Institute of Technology
Online application(http://studyathit.hit.edu.cn/); Notarized High School Certificate in English or Chinese (If applicants are high school students, they should provide original notarized …
