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Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture
Peter BiskindHere is Hollywood over the last three decades - the superfreaks, lowlifes, charlatans, and the occasional geniuses who have left their bite marks on American culture, as refracted through the trajectory of Peter Biskind's career.
The Eve of Destruction: Adventures in Extreme Culture
Peter BiskindIn The Eve of Destruction Peter Biskind reveals the ideological battles behind the violent and seemingly mindless escapism of 21st century popular culture Wondering why we're constantly inundated with zombies, vampires, witches, aliens from ...
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of ...
Peter BiskindIn Down and Dirty Pictures, Peter Biskind tells the incredible story of these filmmakers, the growth of Sundance into the premier showcase of independent film, and the meteoric rise of the controversial Weinstein brothers who left a trail ...
My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom ...
Peter BiskindThis is as close as we will get to the real Welles—if such a creature ever existed.
My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom ...
Peter BiskindThis is as close as we will get to the real Welles—if such a creature ever existed.
Seeing is Believing
Peter BiskindSeeing is Believing is a provocative, shrewd and witty look at the Hollywood fifties movies we all love - or love to hate - and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Peter BiskindBased on hundreds of interviews with directors such as Coppola, Scorsese, Hopper and Spielberg, as well as producers, stars, studio executives, writers, spouses, ex-spouses, and girlfriends, this is the story of the crazy world that the ...
Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America
Peter BiskindDrawing on interviews with Warren Beatty's colleagues and intimates, as well as the star himself, the best-selling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls offers a tell-all biography of the Hollywood legend responsible for such classics as ...
The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror
PreviewP. Telotte, Scott Bukatman, Peter Biskind, Steve Neale, Mark Jancovich, Henry Jenkins III, Warren Buckland, Linda Ruth Williams, Mary Ann Doane and Donna J . Haraway, this wide-ranging collection includes classic texts on key aspects of ...
Star: The Life and Wild Times of Warren Beatty
Peter Biskind211 “There are some things”: Corie Brown, AI, 12/19/94. 211 “Begelman fucked us” and following: AI, 11/6/97. 212 “Towne talking about”: AI, 3/6/95. 212 “Bob thought he had”: AI, 1/95. 212 “Bob always said”: AI, 4/18/96; Corie Brown, “No Love ...
Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll ...
Peter BiskindCrowley introduced Friedkin to Kitty Hawks, daughter of Howard Hawks and Slim Keith. Keith had been married briefly to Leland Hayward, which made Kitty Brooke Hayward's half-sister for a Hollywood moment. Kitty was a stylish, beautiful, ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977
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Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Laurence J. PeterFrom the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Dr. Laurence J. PeterFrom the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter
Robert SteinerSixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel
Lisa JewellPeter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
Dr. Laurence J. PeterWith the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...
Paul Dickson280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
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Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis
Peter TurchinMany people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
Peter's Almanac
Laurence J. PeterProviding support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time
Willie M. GrahamPeter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...
Jack J. GibsonJohn Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective
Peter HujarPeter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...
Josh FrankMaybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and ...
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions
PreviewThe author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...
South Asia: An Environmental History
Christopher V. Hill... I hope they all know how much their support and assistance has meant to me: Daud Ali, Rich Barnett, Peter Brumlik, ... Jim and Becky Menlove, Rila Muckerjee, Pashendra Satyal Pravat, Peter Robb, Pushkar Sahoni, Peter Schmitthenner, ...
The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics
PreviewBoettke, Peter J., and Rosolino Candela. 2014. “Hayek, Leoni, and Law as the Fifth Factor of Production.” Atlantic Economic Journal 42, no. 2: 123–131. Boettke , Peter J., Christopher J. Coyne, and Peter T. Leeson. 2008. “Institutional ...
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