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"Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn't "look" autistic. But, as he's quick to point out in this memoir, autism "looks" different for just about everyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Diagnosed with ASD at age five, McCreary got hit with the performance bug not much later. During a difficult time in junior high, he started journaling,...
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First performed in 1895, "An Ideal Husband" is Oscar Wilde's classic and much-loved comedic drama. The play tells the story of an up-and-coming politician, Sir Robert Chiltern, who tries to hide his secret past from his judgmental wife and the blackmail scheme he is forced to participate in to keep that secret quiet. Lady Chiltern has a very particular idea of what makes the "ideal husband" which leaves her with little tolerance for Sir Robert's all...
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All's Well That Ends Well (1607) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. All's Well That Ends Well was likely inspired by the tale of Giletta di Narbona from Boccaccio's Decameron. Unpopular during Shakespeare's lifetime, the play remains one of his least staged works to this day. Despite this, scholars praise All's Well That Ends Well for its moral ambiguity. "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together, our virtues would be proud...
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There has never been a show business book quite like The Show Won't Go On, the first comprehensive study of a bizarre phenomenon: performers who died onstage. From the comedy magician who dropped dead on live television to the amateur thespian who expired during a play called The Art of Murder, the book is a celebration of lives both famous and obscure, as well as a dramatic and accurate recounting of events leading to the moments they died "doing...
6) Cymbeline
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Performed as early as 1611 and published in the "First Folio" in 1623, Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" weaves an elaborate tale of palatial envy and power in Ancient Britain. Cymbeline, King of Britain, commands that his lovely young daughter Imogen marry Cloten, the violent and callous son of the current Queen by her former husband. With her heart already promised to the poor yet heroic Posthumus, Imogen refuses. Disgusted at the prospect of his daughter...
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The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabeled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics consider it to be one of Shakespeare's "problem plays", because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comedic and supply a happy ending.
The play has been...
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The Taming of the Shrew (1592) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. Written between 1590 and 1592, The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest works. Frequently critiqued by scholars for its demeaning portrayal of Katherina and for Petruchio's violence, the play has also been considered as an ironic treatment of the inequality experienced by women in marriage. The Taming of the Shrew has served as source material for countless film and...
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Sistemas de películas para el hogar. Hola y gracias por comprar mi libro electrónico llamado 'Home Movie Systems'. Espero que encuentre la información útil, útil y rentable. La información en este libro electrónico sobre sistemas de películas caseras y temas relacionados es organizado en 17 capítulos de aproximadamente 500-600 palabras cada uno. Le ayudará a configurar un sistema de cine en casa, e incluso puede ayudarlo a aventurarse en...
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Mind-reading, fortune telling, uncanny predictions and other paranormal activities continue to baffle audiences throughout the world Marc LeMezma, a member of the Magic Circle, opens up the world of psychic magic and shows just how easy it is to "trick" your audience into thinking that you can read their minds, predict their futures and control their thoughts. This book contains 17 tricks that anyone with a little guile and patter can perform, it...
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Get the Summary of Kyle Scheele's How to Host a Viking Funeral in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How to Host a Viking Funeral" by Kyle Scheele is a narrative about the author's personal journey of self-discovery and letting go of the past. Scheele decides to mark the end of his twenties with a Viking funeral, constructing a massive cardboard ship to symbolize the transition. Despite initial skepticism from his...
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While 1980s action cinema may have been a time of shaggy mullets, big biceps, and one-liners for the heroes, it was a always the villains that stuck in our minds once the credits rolled. Whether they were smuggling cocaine, bearer bonds, Krugerrands, attempting world domination or some good old-fashioned kidnapping, the villains were always the best part of the film!
In this book, action film fan, Timon Singh, sets out to talk to the actors behind...
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Mad About Movies
Number 7
including these articles:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Mad About Movies Editorial
by Gary J. Svehla
From Rio Bravo to El Dorado:
Journey from Light to Darkness
by Nick Anez
John Ford and Two Rode Together
by Anthony Ambrogio
Mad About DVDs Reviews
by Gary J. Svehla.
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The love of Penelope and Ulysses is undying.
Penelope and Ulysses explores the historical and yet contemporary journey into the life and struggles of Penelope, a woman who refuses to be dispirited or defeated. Hers is a strange, complex, and multifaceted world. Her life, surrounded by war, is inextricably shaped by the decisions that men have made for her.
Even so, Penelope refuses to be a spectator a pawn in men’s schemes. She rides the waves...
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The first general interest book by a blogger edited collaboratively by his readers, Darknet reveals how Hollywood's fear of digital piracy is leading to escalating clashes between copyright holders and their customers, who love their TiVo digital video recorders, iPod music players, digital televisions, computers, and other cutting-edge devices. Drawing on unprecedented access to entertainment insiders, technology innovators, and digital provocateurs-including...
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Sukumara Natana Thathwa, began with random thoughts, observations, reactions, being noted down for me alone, and then, very soon, it took on an existence of its own, dragging me along with it, tightly chained, so that I was pulled back to the subject in spite of the numerous deviations, where I was forced to play various roles, that of a wife, a mother, a teacher, even a performer! In every role I played, I felt insufficient, incomplete, except a...
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This book Key Chess Puzzles, Sacrificial Chess consists of 60 chess puzzles. Of these 20 can be solved in 2 moves; 28 can be solved in 3 moves; 8 can be solved in 4 moves and finally 4 puzzles are swap down puzzles. To simplify the search for a Solution in many of the puzzles the Player playing the Black pieces does not have a first move. White must provide such a move. This book is intended to be Instructional as well as entertaining. Each puzzle...
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Upon publication of this 1913 account of the Irish Literary Revival, the New York Times called it "the record of an enthusiasm...almost like finding one's self in a fairy tale." Yeats, Synge, and other luminaries of the Irish literary fundament appear in Lady Gregory's detailed history.
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This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history.
The essays cover a broad range of topics: the character and consequences of manufacturing...
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