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| risky business outfit tom cruise: Revenge of the Nerd Curtis Armstrong, 2017-07-11 Risky Business. Revenge of the Nerds. Better Off Dead. Moonlighting. Supernatural. American Dad. New Girl. What do all of these movies and television shows have in common? Curtis Armstrong. A legendary comedic second banana to a litany of major stars, Curtis is forever cemented in the public imagination as Booger from Revenge of the Nerds. A classically trained actor, Curtis began his incredible 40-year career on stage but progressed rapidly to film and television. He was typecast early and it proved to be the best thing that could have happened. But there’s more to Curtis’ story than that. Born and bred a nerd, he spent his early years between Detroit, a city so nerdy that the word was coined there in 1951, and, improbably, Geneva, Switzerland. His adolescence and early adulthood was spent primarily between the covers of a book and indulging his nerdy obsessions. It was only when he found his true calling, as an actor and unintentional nerd icon, that he found true happiness. With whip-smart, self-effacing humor, Armstrong takes us on a most unlikely journey—one nerd’s hilarious, often touching rise to the middle. He started his life as an outcast and matured into...well, an older, slightly paunchier, hopefully wiser outcast. In Hollywood, as in life, that counts as winning the game. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Cruise Control Jim Nelson, 2003-12 Despite dancing in his underwear in Risky Business, Tom Cruise now goes to greater and greater lengths to shield his private life from the public eye. Hollywood's Top Gun has protected the truth about his marriages, his divorces and his affairs - relentlessly defending himself against rumors that follow him to this day. Now Cruise Control puts you in the driver's seat and exposes the real man and untold stories behind the carefully crafted golden boy image. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Problematic Movies of the 80's Don Hall, 2020-08-15 After Brett Kavanaugh referenced Fast Times at Ridgemont High as a cultural landmark in his sexual assaulting youth and the realization that I am exactly the same age as the SCOTUS justice, it was time to go back and revisit fourteen comedies from the 1980's to see which hold up in the cultural shift of 2020.Includes breakdowns of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Stripes, Revenge of the Nerds, and Weird Science plus ten more you might remember. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Tom Cruise Iain Johnstone, 2006 Tom Cruise is one of Hollywood's biggest stars and one of the most powerful actors of his generation. Iain Johnstone presents an entertaining and insightful biography of this iconic star. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Tom Cruise Andrew Morton, 2009-02-03 Everyone knows Tom Cruise—or at least what he wants us to know. We know that the man behind the smile overcame a tough childhood to star in astonishing array of blockbusters: Top Gun, Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of July, A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, three Mission: Impossible movies, and more. We know he has taken artistic chances, too, earning him three Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. But beyond that, the picture becomes a bit less clear… We know that Tom is a devoted follower of the Church of Scientology. We know that, despite persistent rumors about his sexuality, he has been married to Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, and Katie Holmes. But it was not until he jumped on Oprah’s couch to proclaim his love for Katie and denounced Brooke Shields for turning to the “Nazi science” of psychiatry that we began to realize how much we did not know about the charming, hardworking star. For all the headlines and the rumors, the real Tom Cruise has remained surprisingly hidden—until now. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Powerhouse James Andrew Miller, 2016-08-09 “Magisterial. ... A must read for anyone who wants to work in Hollywood or just know how Hollywood works.” — The Hollywood Reporter A New York Times bestseller, now updated with an afterword and exclusive new material From the #1 bestselling author behind acclaimed oral histories of Saturday Night Live and ESPN comes the most hotly anticipated book [in decades] (Variety): James Andrew Miller's irresistible insider chronicle of the modern entertainment industry, told through the epic story of Creative Artists Agency (CAA)—the ultimate power player that has represented the world's biggest stars and shaped the landscape of film, television, comedy, music, and sports. Started in 1975, when five bright and brash upstarts left creaky William Morris to form their own innovative talent agency, CAA would come to revolutionize Hollywood, representing everyone from Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, and Steven Spielberg to Jennifer Lawrence, J.J. Abrams, Will Smith, and Brad Pitt. Over the next decades its tentacles would spread aggressively into sports, advertising, and digital media. Powerhouse is the fascinating, no-holds-barred saga of that ascent. Drawing on unprecedented and exclusive access to the men and women who built and battled with CAA—including co-founders Michael Ovitz and Ron Meyer and rivals like Ari Emanuel of William Morris Endeavor—as well as the stars themselves, Miller spins a unique and unforgettable tale of brilliance, ambition, betrayal, and outrageous success. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: The Actress Amy Sohn, 2015-06-09 Winning a prize for her role in an indie film, Maddy Freed is cast in an Oscar-worthy role opposite Steven Weller, a Hollywood heartthrob whom she marries after a whirlwind affair in spite of rumors that he is gay. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor Amy Nicholson, 2014-07-28 The Anatomy of an Actor series takes ten roles by a single actor, each studied in a dedicated chapter, and identifies the key elements that made the performances exceptional - carefully examining the actor's craft for both a professional audience and movie fans alike. Tom Cruise (born 1962), first cast by Francis Ford Coppola in The Outsiders (1983), gained international notoriety in the mid-1980s thanks to Tony Scott's Top Gun (1986). One of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood, Cruise has oriented his career to blockbusters, starring in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005) and the Mission: Impossible series (1996, 2000, 2006, 2011) An accessible text combines both a narrative and analytical dimension and is illustrated by 300 film stills, set photographs and film sequences. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Flipped Wendelin Van Draanen, 2003-05-13 A classic he-said-she-said romantic comedy! This updated anniversary edition offers story-behind-the-story revelations from author Wendelin Van Draanen. The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. Juli says: “My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss.” He says: “It’s been six years of strategic avoidance and social discomfort.” But in the eighth grade everything gets turned upside down: just as Bryce is thinking that there’s maybe more to Juli than meets the eye, she’s thinking that he’s not quite all he seemed. This is a classic romantic comedy of errors told in alternating chapters by two fresh, funny voices. The updated anniversary edition contains 32 pages of extra backmatter: essays from Wendelin Van Draanen on her sources of inspiration, on the making of the movie of Flipped, on why she’ll never write a sequel, and a selection of the amazing fan mail she’s received. Awards and accolades for Flipped: SLJ Top 100 Children’s Novels of all time IRA-CBC Children’s Choice IRA Teacher’s Choice Honor winner, Judy Lopez Memorial Award/WNBA Winner of the California Young Reader Medal “We flipped over this fantastic book, its gutsy girl Juli and its wise, wonderful ending.” — The Chicago Tribune “Van Draanen has another winner in this eighth-grade ‘he-said, she-said’ romance. A fast, funny, egg-cellent winner.” — SLJ, Starred review “With a charismatic leading lady kids will flip over, a compelling dynamic between the two narrators and a resonant ending, this novel is a great deal larger than the sum of its parts.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred review |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Still Here Alexandra Jacobs, 2019-10-22 A New Yorker Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year: A “genuinely irresistible” biography of Broadway legend Elaine Stritch (Buffalo News). A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Still Here is the first full telling of Elaine Stritch’s life. Rollicking but intimate, it tracks one of Broadway’s great personalities from her upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression to her fateful move to New York City, where she studied alongside Marlon Brando, Bea Arthur, and Harry Belafonte. We accompany Elaine through her jagged rise to fame, to Hollywood and London, and across her later years, when she enjoyed a stunning renaissance, punctuated by a turn on the popular television show 30 Rock. We explore the influential—and often fraught—collaborations she developed with Noël Coward, Tennessee Williams, and above all Stephen Sondheim, as well as her courageous yet flawed attempts to control a serious drinking problem. And we see the entertainer triumphing over personal turmoil with the development of her Tony Award–winning one-woman show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, which established her as an emblem of spiky independence and Manhattan life for an entirely new generation of admirers. Following years of meticulous research and interviews, Alexandra Jacobs conveys the full force of Stritch’s sardonic wit and brassy charm while acknowledging her many dark complexities—and creates a portrait of a powerful, vulnerable, honest, and humorous star of stage and screen. “Studded with juicy anecdotes.” —The Washington Post “Provides a marvelous trip back in time to a Broadway that’s gone forever . . . compulsively readable.” —The Wall Street Journal “A chronicle of one impossible brilliant actor and the community around her, this biography provides a thoroughly entertaining and vividly drawn picture of show business in the 20th century.” —The New York Times Book Review Includes photographs |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Phyllis and Dolly Take a Stand Mark Houston, 2020-10-30 Criminals are targeting the older people of Stoke Newington in London. News spreads in the community of muggings, robberies and scams. The police fail to act, not having a clue as to what is going on right under their noses. Phyllis Nettle is at a loose end, her working life ended and her husband dead. She would kill for a shot of excitement. Looking after her friends and sorting out their problems is all well and good, but there has to be more to life than living it through others or watching it go by. She is fired up by the crime wave against her community and friends. Not least because she fancies herself and her friend Dolly as a pair of sleuths, Nettle & Makepeace. Big on duty and a stickler for fair play, Phyllis is determined to bring the criminals to justice. Dolly is bulldozed into helping her longtime friend. Only one problem. Neither Phyllis nor Dolly has a clue about how to investigate. They make it up as they go along, adopting a guard dog, dressing up in disguises, and hunting the villains wherever they loiter--lonely cemeteries, seaside towns, country music jamborees. They rope in anyone who will help them. The villains may have finally met their match. Or have Nettle & Makepeace bitten off more than they can chew? |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Back to the Fifties Michael D. Dwyer, 2015 Through close attention to films like Back to the Future and popular music of artists like Michael Jackson, Back to the Fifties explores how Fifties nostalgia was shaped for a generation of teenagers trained by popular culture to rewind, record, recycle and replay. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: True Colors K.R. Raye, 2014-03-24 “K.R. Raye definitely captured the flavor of the New Adult genre and has solidly planted her worthy contribution in the field.” – USA Today “I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It’s well-written with very realistic, strong characters. The storyline, with both suspense and romance, keeps you intrigued and you’re left wanting more in the end. It touches on some very sensitive issues that we see in real life, especially in the college environment. The friendship the three share is heart-warming and one worth reading about.” – Author Alliance Book Review Team They are supposed to be there through thick and thin. However, when tragedy strikes, can you depend on your friends? Imani Cabrette, strong and proud, never asks for help. But when an accident changes her world forever, can she overcome her stubborn pride? Sweet, dependable Melody Wilkins owes her life to Imani. Now that the tables are turned will she step up to the plate? The last time Lance Dunn saw Imani, she chose another man over him. Can he forget their convoluted past and help her when she needs him the most? Through it all, life eventually shows your…True Colors. |
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| risky business outfit tom cruise: Bared Souls Ellie Wade, 2020-09-14 Bared Souls by the USA TODAY Bestselling Author Ellie Wade is an emotionally gripping love story that will leave you breathless. Experience the raw power of an extraordinary love that has the potential to both heal and destroy in this captivating tale. From innocent beginnings to unexpected twists, this novel takes you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions, challenging the very concept of love and its limits. Alma Weber He told me that he’d destroy me. I knew he wasn’t lying, and I loved him anyway. I believed in love—in him. I just wasn’t prepared to carry the weight of his demons. I wanted forever with him, but life showed me love was temporary, and forever was a dream. Despite everything that happened, even now, I wouldn’t change any of it. For a love to have the capacity to destroy you, it has to be extraordinarily powerful—and that kind of love is impossible to walk away from. Leo Harding I warned her that I’d ruin her. I knew that I’d taint her innocence with my bad intentions. I was weak. She was perfection. I was nothing. The truth is that I loved her, and I selfishly wanted to hold on—to her, to the man she had made me, to the life we could have. I wanted to dance with her in the light despite knowing that the darkness would find me anyway. Heartbreak was inevitable. Yet I held on to the sliver of hope that I was wrong, that love really was enough. Destiny isn’t something I buy into, but she makes me want to believe. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Screen Interiors Pat Kirkham, Sarah A. Lichtman, 2021-03-11 Covering everything from Hollywood films to Soviet cinema, London's queer spaces to spaceships, horror architecture and action scenes, Screen Interiors presents an array of innovative perspectives on film design. Essays address questions related to interiors and objects in film and television from the early 1900s up until the present day. Authors explore how interior film design can facilitate action and amplify tensions, how rooms are employed as structural devices and how designed spaces can contribute to the construction of identities. Case studies look at disjunctions between interior and exterior design and the inter-relationship of production design and narrative. With a lens on class, sexuality and identity across a range of films including Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913), The Servant (1963), Caravaggio (1986), and Passengers (2016), and illustrated with film stills throughout, Screen Interiors showcases an array of methodological approaches for the study of film and design history. |
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| risky business outfit tom cruise: Product Placement in Hollywood Films Kerry Segrave, 2014-11-18 This is the history of advertising in motion pictures from the slide ads of the 1890s to the common practice of product placement in the present. Initially, product placement was seen as a somewhat sleazy practice and also faced opposition from the film industry itself; it has grown dramatically in the past 25 years. From Maillard's Chocolates advertising with a shot of Cardinal Richelieu enjoying a hot cup of cocoa in 1895, to product placements in 2002's Minority Report, for which advertisers were rumored to have paid $25 million, this book explores the developing union of corporate America and Hollywood. This work addresses such topics as television's conditioning of filmgoers to accept commercials, companies' donation of props, the debate about advertising such activities as smoking and drinking in films, and product displacement, or demands by companies to keep their products absent from unpopular or controversial films. Film stills and a bibliography complete the book. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant Alex Pappademas, 2022-05-03 A tribute to and exploration of the magic behind one of Hollywood's most legendary and unknowable stars, Keanu Reeves, and the profound lessons we can learn from his success There can be no doubt: Keanu Reeves is a phenomenon. He’s at once a badass action star, a hunky dreamboat who People magazine has called “the Internet’s boyfriend,” a vintage motorcycle enthusiast, a niche art book publisher, a living meme, and a legend. He seems to upend every rule governing celebrity in the 21st century. But how? In Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant, cultural critic Alex Pappademas attempts to address Keanu’s unmatched eternality and the other big questions raised by his career arc. Sharp, funny, deeply researched, and fully celebratory of the enigmatic actor, this is the first book to take Keanu’s whole deal as seriously as it deserves. Yes, even Johnny Mnemonic, where Keanu mind melds with a dolphin. Along the way, Pappademas reveals the lessons we can learn from Keanu about Hollywood, our broader culture, and even life itself. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: How to Accessorize Micaela Erlanger, 2018-04-03 Micaela Erlanger has dressed and accessorized many celebrities for the red carpet, now she's sharing her hottest fashion tips for finishing any outfit with you. It's chock-full of tips on what you really want to know: Do your bag and shoes need to match? Can you mix metals? What’s the most flattering way to tie a scarf? Whether you’re dressing for your birthday party, date night, a job interview, or just a trip to the supermarket, this book will help you look—and feel—confident and chic. You don’t need a red carpet budget to benefit from her advice. You’ll learn: · The Sunnies Algorithm: Identify your face shape and the perfect sunglasses for you. · A Flick of the Wrist: Learn to layer cuffs, bangles, chain bracelets, and charms. · Your Accessory Recipe: Avoid overaccessorizing in a few simple steps. · Steady Incline: How to choose a heel you can walk in. · Make It Up: Select a statement lip or a smoky eye. · The Rules of Seasonality: Know which fabrics work for which seasons, and which ones work all year round. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Murder in Concrete Arthur Coburn, 2024-03-11 High school gossip...a death glare from a rival girl? Charlie takes them in stride. But her mother’s murder and her dad’s disappearance send her off the rails. Therapy sessions get her to college, where she spots her missing dad in a film and races to Los Angeles to find him. A lead takes her to a low budget zombie movie production in the desert. The crew say her dad died, but Charlie keeps investigating. Could the aging film star or the creepy man who writes in Russian Cyrillic script help lead her to her father? Or will Charlie find another truth, one she doesn’t want to hear? |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: The Cemetery is Full Mark Antony Rossi, 2018-06-22 Award-winning American short fiction writer Mark Antony Rossi has a lifetime of selected fiction ready for examination. With a highly specialized poetic style and the invention of concrete short fiction Rossi will bring the gritty urban experience to an intellectual plateau. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Practical Judgments Mark Kingwell, 2004-01-01 This collection of essays and reviews reveals the sources and developments of popular Toronto philosopher and cultural theorist Mark Kingwell's thought and examines the nature and limits of intellectual engagement. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: All I Could Bare Craig Seymour, 2008-06-17 A FRANK, FUNNY, EXPLICIT, AND INSPIRING MEMOIR ABOUT HOW DANCING NAKED IN GAY CLUBS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL HELPED A COLLEGE PROFESSOR DISCOVER HIS TRUE SELF. I felt that I'd made a transformation as surely as Superman slipping out of a phone booth or Wonder Woman doing a sunburst spin. I was bare-ass in a room of paying strangers, a stripper. After years of wondering what it would be like, I had done it -- faced a fear, defied expectation, embraced a taboo self. It was only the beginning.... All I Could Bare is the story of a mild-mannered graduate student who took the road less clothed -- a decision that was life changing. Seymour embarked on his journey in the 1990s, when Washington, D.C.'s gay club scene was notoriously no-holds-barred, all the while trying to keep his newfound vocation a secret from his parents and maintain a relation-ship with his boyfriend, Seth. Along the way he met some unforgettable characters -- the fifty-year-old divorcé who's obsessed with a twenty-one-year-old dancer, the celebrated drag diva who hailed from a small town in rural Virginia, and the many straight guys who were gay for pay. Seymour gives us both the highs (money, adoration, camaraderie) and the lows (an ill-fated attempt at prostitution, a humiliating porn audition). Ultimately coming clean about his secret identity, Seymour breaks through taboos and makes his way from booty-baring stripper to Ph.D.-bearing academic, taking a detour into celebrity journalism and memorably crossing paths with Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, and Mary J. Blige along the way. Hilarious, insight-ful, and touching, All I Could Bare proves that sometimes the wrong decision can lead to the right place. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: 50 Favs of the '60S '70S '80S Fred John Del Bianco Jr., 2012-05-01 The author, a latter-stage baby boomer, presents a look back at fifty of the essential subjects from each of the exciting and uncanny decades of change... the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s! Fifty Favs offers a detailed, while straightforward summary of the leading people, music, sports, movies, and events of that fabulous thirty-year span that many of us fondly remember. Available in electronic book or paperback. To order, please visit the publishers bookstore at www.authorhouse.com. Available also through Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and other online retailers. Please visit the authors website at www.50Favs.com |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible Tim Gunn, 2013-09-03 A meticulously researched history of Western fashion shares authoritative insights into everything from suits and sportswear to high heels and blue jeans while assessing the contributions of revolutionary designers. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: I Followed The Rules Joanna Bolouri, 2016-01-05 From the bestselling author of THE LIST and RELIGHT MY FIRE, comes a hilarious novel about how to find true love by the book... I'm not joking when I say this is the funniest, down to earth and yet crazily sexy & romantic book I've read in this genre! --5-Star Reviewer This made me laugh my head off quietly on the train --5-Star Reviewer Catriona Buchanan, a thirty-six-year-old journalist and single mother, lives a quiet life in Glasgow with her daughter Grace. Single for six years but for a handful of failed relationships with all the wrong men and a string of one-night stands, Cat decides she's had enough of her homegrown efforts to find love. Instead, she purchases the infamous dating bible The Ten Rules of Enticement, and vows to obey its advice to the letter and chronicle her experiences. We follow Cat as she tries to discount everything she thought she knew about the dating world in her quest to become the kind of woman men desire to be with. Eventually, as her efforts are rewarded and she nets not one but two viable new love interests, Cat must decide whether pretending to be someone she's not is worth the payoff of having a man in love with her for all the wrong reasons. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Latte Trouble Cleo Coyle, 2005-08-02 When one of her baristas unwittingly serves a poisonous latte to a prominent figure on the fashion scene, Clare Cosi must uncover some jolting secrets to save her shop. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: 87 Ways to Throw a Killer Party Melissa Daly, 2011-01-01 Want an excuse to get friends together? Or are you looking for an idea for a party your friends will never forget? This ultimate party-planning book for teens includes eighty-seven original ideas (and original takes on classic ideas) for great bashes. Inside you'll find parties of all kinds, such as an Anti-Valentine's Day soiree, a haunted house party, and a season finale get-together. Also includes party-planning tips, hosting etiquette, and how to avoid typical party pitfalls. Each idea contains historical background information, a description of what you'll need, and guidelines of how to set it up. Fun illustrations, safety, and money-saving tips are included. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Rated F Todd C. Noker, 2006-05-08 Noker's fictional satire not only pokes fun at censored videos, but also lampoons current issues and turns political pundits into punch lines. -Kelsey Blackwell, Salt Lake Magazine When the entrepreneurial owner of a struggling video rental store in Provo, Utah, offers R- and PG-rated movies with the sex, violence, and profanity edited out-earning a new rating of F (for Family)-his profits skyrocket. Things take a dangerous turn when a customer known as Twitchy Guy brings in a box of old family movies, demanding that his estranged wife be edited out. The proposal seems extremely odd, but the offered payment is too generous to refuse. After much of the editing is done, Twitchy Guy decides to delete his wife from his life-literally. Managing a video store swiftly leads to violence, murder, and too many people posing for too many cameras. Rated F is an entertaining satire about political correctness gone too far. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: The Night Trade Vanessa Mullings, 2010-03-17 THE NIGHT TRADE is the emotionally-charged story of five strong-willed, ambitious and intelligent young women whose paths may have varied, yet led them all to one common destination-the glamorous , lucrative and sometimes dangerous world of exotic dancing. THE NIGHT TRADE was written to demonstrate the camaraderie, love, struggles, and plight of those women who resort to using the art of seductive entertainment in order to overcome their adversities, improve their lives or merely feel a sense of belonging and self-worth. It s time to stop judging a book by its cover and actually open the book. The table of contents just may interest you. And if you are not careful, you may even learn something. This gripping depiction of life in the Adult Entertainment Industry will speak to anyone who has ever felt alone while in a crowded room; neglected while being adored; or abandoned while being embraced. THE NIGHT TRADE acknowledges the seedy side of its persona while it introduces its audience to the various differences within one similarity. The five women each represent someone you may know for they come from all walks of life. While this book targets women of all ages, it will strike a nerve with those women who are single parents struggling to feed their children...with those women who are doing what they have to do to pay for their college educations... with those women who seek personal fulfillment as they feel their lives are empty, unchallenging and without purpose. As it can be argued that professional exotic dancers are the victims of exploitation, there is also the counterpoint that these individuals have benefited from and capitalized on this business. This fictional scroll is a reflection of these women, as they are depicted in a realistic light and not stereotyped as home wreckers, sexual objects, or groupies. The women are real...their stories, unfortunately, are even more real. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: The World's Greatest Brands Nick Kochan, 1996-11-11 The magic of brands is as old as Coke and as young as Tango. But getting beneath the packaging to understand a brand's winning technique is tough. Why do Kellogg's or Barbie still remain the consumer's friend? Why should a computer name or a sporting logo win favour with consumers worldwide? The World's Greatest Brands asks such key questions of over 350 of the world's leading brands. Explanations of a brand's history, its management and exploitation will appeal to the expert and the consumer. Anecdotes and analysis are combined to explain the science and art that have contributed to great branding case histories. Also included here is branding consultancy Interbrand's ranking of the world's 100 most powerful brands along with their assessment of brand owners' skills and winning techniques. This is a unique compilation on a subject with a fascination for all consumers. No-one who enjoys the benefits of great brands can fail to enjoy and profit from this book. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Vision Aids in America Kerry Segrave, 2014-01-10 This text examines the eyewear industry in America from 1900 to 2008, a period which mirrors an increased demand for eyewear. Eyeglasses, sunglasses and contacts are discussed. Topics covered include the marketing and selling of eyewear with particular attention paid to advertising strategies and the internal structures of the industry and its regulations, which have sometimes helped and sometimes hurt consumers. This critical examination reveals how a relatively simple and functional item such as corrective eyewear could be transformed through marketing into a fashion accessory and a personal statement. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Virtuoso Murray Pomerance, 2019-05-16 Elizabeth Taylor's electrifying performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood. Leonardo DiCaprio's turn as Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? What makes these performances so special? Eloquently written and engagingly laid out, Murray Pomerance answers the tough question as to what makes an exceptional, or virtuosic performance. Pomerance intensively explores virtuosic performance in film, ranging from classical works through to contemporary production, and gives serious consideration to structural problems of dramatization and production, actorial methods and tricks, and contingencies that befall performers giving stand-out moments. Looking at more than 40 aspects of the virtuosic act, and using an approach based in careful meditation and discursion, Virtuoso moves through such themes as showing off, effacement, self-consciousness, performative collapse, spontaneity, acting as dream, acting and femininity, virtuosity and torture, secrecy, improvisation, virtuosic silence, and others; giving special attention to the labors of such figures as Fred Astaire, Johnny Depp, Marlene Dietrich, Basil Rathbone, Christopher Plummer, Leonardo DiCaprio, Alice Brady, Ethel Waters, James Mason, and dozens more. Numerous scenic virtuosities are examined in depth, from films as far-ranging as Singin' in the Rain and The Bridge on the River Kwai, and My Man Godfrey. As the first book about virtuosity in film performance, Virtuoso offers exciting new angles from which to view film both classical and contemporary. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: New York Magazine , 1986-06-16 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. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: LIFE Movies of the 1980s The Editors of LIFE, 2017-10-27 Travel back to the future with dozens of 1980s favorites Before the internet, in the days of Rubik's Cubes, the Iran-Contra scandal, and Wall Street's booms and busts, movies captured the spirit of our times. Now you can revisit those great films with LIFE Movies of the 1980s, packed with glowing photos and behind-the-scenes stories from the pages of Life magazine. |
| risky business outfit tom cruise: Monster Kids Daniel Dockery, 2022-10-04 The definitive, behind-the-scenes look at why Pokémon's evolution from a single Japanese video game to global powerhouse captured the world's attention, and how the gotta catch 'em all mentality of its fanbase shaped pop culture—and continues to do so today. More than just a simple journey through the history of Pokémon, Daniel Dockery offers an in-depth look at the franchise’s many branches of impact and influence. With dozens of firsthand interviews, Monster Kids covers its beginnings as a Japanese video game created to recapture one man's love of bug-collecting as a child before diving into the decisions and conditions that would ultimately lead to that game's global domination. With its continued growth as television shows, spin-off video games, blockbuster movies, trading cards, and toys, Pokémon is a unique and special brand that manages to continue to capture the attention and adoration of its eager fanbase 25 years after its initial release. Whether it was new animated shows like Digimon, Cardcaptors, and Yu-Gi-Oh!; the rise of monster-catching video games and trading card games; and more, Pikachu, the king of pop culture in the '90s, opened the doors in America to those hoping to capture some of Pokémon's dedicated fans. In Monster Kids, Dockery combines the personal stories of the people who helped bring Pokémon to the global stage with affection and humor, making this book the ultimate look at the rise of the franchise in Japan and then North America, but also the generation of kids whose passion for catching them all created a unique cultural phenomenon that continues to make a profound impact today. |
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