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Celebrating 30 years since the premiere of Martin Scorsese's signature film, this chronicle of the making and afterlife of the film that introduced America to the real modern gangster features interviews with the film's major players.
"When Goodfellas hit the theatres in 1990, few could anticipate the unparalleled influence it would have on pop culture: that it would inspire future filmmakers and redefine the gangster picture as we know it today....
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"With the release of his first memoir, Not My Father's Son, Alan Cumming felt the power that came with sharing his truth. Shocking fans and readers with the reality of his childhood trauma, Not My Father's Son was a #1 New York Times bestseller and universally landed for its searing honesty and the way in which Alan relentlessly sought answers to questions about his family and his past. And, as an added and perhaps unexpected benefit, he inspired...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 12.8 - AR Pts: 23
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"No better introduction to William Shakespeare's dramatic masterpieces exists than the delightful prose adaptations of Charles and Mary Lamb. Charles Lamb, perhaps the preeminent essayist in English lierature, and his gifted sister selected twenty of Shakespeare's best-known plays and set out to make them accessible to children and to pay enthusiastic homage to the original works." -- Book jacket.
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"A charming, poignant, unfiltered, laugh-out-loud memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn't"--
Writing with charm and candor, Driver chronicles her childhood and her unconventional career path. Throughout she explores navigating the depths of failure, fighting for success, discovering the wonder and challenge of motherhood, and wading through immeasurable...
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Three Sisters (1900) is a drama in four acts by Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Aleksandr Ignatyevich Vershinin, a philosophizing artillery officer in love with middle Prozorov sister Masha. Reviews were mixed at first, but as the play continued to run, Three Sisters became a popular success,...
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Esta obra busca que la investigación teatral y la investigación teórica se liguen íntimamente a los procesos creativos y de producción. Cuestiona los términos usados de manera indistinta, como si fueran intercambiables, en la práctica cotidiana del teatro. Alaciel Molas González revisa el lenguaje profesional utilizado con la intención de que se tome conciencia de las imprecisiones y sus consecuencias. Propone un acercamiento integral o totalizador...
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Joseph Epstein takes on that most enchanting (and, alas, increasingly rare) of human gifts, charm. "Almost everyone will recognize when he or she is in the presence of charm," he writes. "Charm is magic of a kind; it casts a spell. In the presence of charm the world seems lighter and lovelier. A charming person can cause you to forget your problems, at least temporarily, to hold the world's dreariness at bay. Charm is a reminder that the world is...
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On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm. The Catholic activists involved in this protest against the war included Daniel and Philip Berrigan; all were found guilty of destroying government property and sentenced to three years in jail. Dan Berrigan fled but later turned himself in....
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Regarded as one of the foremost playwrights of the nineteenth century, Ibsen tells the story of the idealist Doctor Thomas Stockmann, the medical officer of a recently opened spa in a small town in southern Norway, who finds that the water is seriously contaminated. He notifies members of the community and initially receives support and thanks for the discovery. Threatened by the possible impact of such a revelation, his brother, the town mayor, conspires...
11) Poetics
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Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, lived in the 4th century B.C. and is thought of as one of the most important figures from classical antiquity. Aristotle was probably the most famous member of Plato's Academy in Athens, whose writings would ultimately form the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. His writings were not constrained to simply one field of inquiry but covered such various subjects as physics, biology, metaphysics,...
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La comedia de situación es el formato cómico por excelencia en la ficción televisiva anglosajona debido a que su estructura no ha cambiado apenas nada desde su creación en los años cincuenta. Con este formato hemos disfrutado de grandes series como Cheers, Frasier, Seinfeld, Friends o The Big Bang Theory. Pero, a finales del siglo pasado fue emergiendo poco a poco una comedia diferente, tanto en el fondo como en la forma, una comedia que, obviando...
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La obra de ficción de Guillermo Jiménez es prácticamente imposible de conseguir, el lector común o el estudioso de la literatura se enfrenta a esta carencia que ni la panacea de internet puede solucionar. Exceptuando un volumen que publicó la UNAM, otro par a cargo del Archivo Histórico de Zapotlán el Grande, por cierto con escasa o nula distribución en las librerías, y una novela corta en la web, sólo se puede constatar la existencia de...
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Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.
Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropes—such as the
...15) Le Roi s'amuse
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Une édition de référence du Roi s'amuse de Victor Hugo, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Elle se retourne, voit le roi à ses genoux, et s'arrête, pétrifiée.
LE ROI, lui tendant les bras.
Je t'aime !
Achève ! achève ! — oh ! dis : je t'aime ! Ne crains rien.
Dans une telle bouche un tel mot va si bien !
BLANCHE, effrayée, cherche des yeux dame Bérarde qui a disparu.
Bérarde ! — Plus personne,...
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Extrait : "- Allons, voyons, Augustin, ne fais donc pas comme cela le Bobèche ! Telle fut l'apostrophe que ma bonne mère me lança, un jour que je me signalais, devant elle, par toutes sortes d'extravagances, en gestes et en paroles. J'étais niais au suprême degré. J'avais alors onze ans, l'âge o l'on a déjà la prétention de se compter parmi les personnages..."
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A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman illustrated with the striking four-color artwork of Chris Riddell.
"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."-Neil Gaiman. Drawn from Gaiman's trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, Art Matters is an embodiment of this remarkable multi-media artist's vision-an exploration of...
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People Live Here is a collection of three exciting new plays by George F. Walker, Canada's king of black comedy and a winner of two Governor General's Literary Awards for Drama.
The Chance is a funny, quirky, and suspenseful play portraying three aspiring but economically deprived women living in a working-class neighbourhood of Toronto. The serendipitous discovery of a $300,000 cheque left behind by one of Jo's one-night stands sends Jo's mother...
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Billy Wilder, reportero reúne una selección de más de cincuenta artículos que Wilder (entonces conocido como "Billie") publicó durante aquellos años en revistas y periódicos. Desde el relato humorístico de sus experiencias como compañero de baile contratado en un elegante hotel de Berlín y sus artículos sobre el panorama inematográfico internacional, hasta sus agudos perfiles de escritores, artistas y políticos; la selección nos ofrece...
20) Wilde on Love
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Oscar Wilde was a legendary wit, a poetic provocateur, and one of England's greatest playwrights who became a martyr for free love, a scapegoat for repressive society, and a myth onto himself. Shimmering beneath the dazzling witticisms and delicious irony is Wilde's profound, serious, and unshakeable commitment to love. Love is the experience that can unmoor us from the habits, conventions, and expectations of our lives in both thrilling and unsettling...
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