Contingency;: Life... Love... Sex... Youtube Review
The ambitious first play by Vermont playwright Eric R. Hill about a day in the life of four ordinary college students where everything that could possibly go wrong goes wrong. It's Chuck Palahniuk - meets - Kevin Smith in a musky basement apartment.
A Lady's Heart and Soul: My Life as a Colored Review
A MADNESS: Tales of a Scandalous Life Review
This romance novel, although fiction, is based on the true life adventures of the author. It is about real life, but a life few people know exists, and even fewer get to experience. The narrator is a brother-in-arms and brother-in-spirit of the protagonist, Nick Malenko, who sets out to tell these scandalous tales for Nick would never do so himself, disdaining publicity and public acclaim. Nick is a young man who happens to be smart, good-looking, a rebel at heart, and self-disciplined because of his upbringing. He is an athlete but also a voracious reader, loves learning and worships at the altar of Venus. He goes to the best schools but he rebels early. He marries a woman of color against the convention of the day. He has decided that his goal in life is to become the commander of a parachute infantry battalion in the Regular Army of the United States, a goal he exceeds in time. He graduates as a distinguished military graduate and is commissioned in the regular army. Because he is quadrilingual and his educaton and training, the three letter agencies become interested in him. He enters the shadowy world of intelligence. And then his troubles begin. He is bright but lacks the experience to be wise. So he mistakes sex and passion for love, learning for wisdom and in order to gain a measure of immortality he plunges into one adventure after another thinking that thumbing his nose at fate will bring him immortality. In both war-time and cold-war settings he plunges from one adventure to another, from one romance to another. The settings are bedrooms and battlefields and the corridors of power in Vietnam: Korea; Washington, D.C.; Germany; San Antonio, Texas; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Los Angeles, California. Many years after he started on his journey he realizes that all he was searching for he has had at home. He finds that he had love all along, and immortality through his loving family and finally, finally, wisdom comes. His long-suffering wife used to say to him
Life! It Must Be A Comedy: An Autobiography by Robert Florio Review
A man is known for the strength in his hands. I lost the ability to use my hands after injuring my spinal cord in a fateful diving injury when I was fourteen years old. The year was 1996 and I was no ordinary young man. So, this is no ordinary story or ordinary struggle, because in my fight for life I overcome depression, transformation, loss of my sense of touch and complete disconnection from my body, struggles with faith, and a longing for a woman again. When all is lost in my life I choose to be happy and laugh in spite of the daily challenges. My artistic ability emerged when I learned I could paint amazing lifelike and imaginative creations with my mouth. This ability becomes a sword, with my positive attitude a shield against negativity. I was a star athlete but after my injury and paralysis I had to learn how to live life a whole new way. I was a young, adventurous, spontaneous daredevil of a young boy, but after the injury my life changed totally. I inspire professional athletes like MLB legend and Hall of Famer Baltimore Orioles Cal Ripken Jr. former NFL Baltimore Ravens and Indianapolis Colts record breaking, Super Bowl field-goal kicker Matt Stover, MLB Baltimore Orioles former right fielder MVP Jay Gibbons, and Baltimore Blast All-Star, MISL Cup and MVP winner Denison Cabral. I even reach revolutionary videogame designer and developer David Perry through a fateful twist. I hope to infuse and inspire everyone I share my story with. My story will make you laugh and cry at the same time. Every hero has a villain and I'm both. "Robert is an amazing young guy who redefines what it means to overcome adversity. I consider myself lucky to have met him. His life, as told through this book, is inspiring and teaches valuable lessons for all of us." Cal Ripken Jr. Emmy Nominated and Associated Press Award Winning story 2005 for WBAL television and radio. For more information about Robert's artwork, comedy and appearances please go to RobertFlorio.com
I Pornographer: The Life & Times of Britain's Veteran Pornographer (Volume 1) Review
The life and times of Britain's first Modern trail blazing pornographer. Read about the making of porn in the Sixties: The sex mad models who did it for kicks. Orgies of sex and drugs. The Kray Twins who fed their victims to pigs and pythons., Violence, corruption and murder in the London Underworld. The hard and degrading British Prisons.where law and order stopped at the prison gates. The Swinging Sixties, marijuana and LSD.trips. An exciting and iconoclastic book that you won't be able to stop reading.that will change your view of "British Justice" forever! And most of all the "perverse" sexual games played by the Pornographer.
A Gift in Wolf's Clothing: Life With Diabetes Review
Rachel Gifford, nationally renowned diabetes educator and speaker, shares her story of living with diabetes from both sides of the exam table. A Gift in Wolf's Clothing begins when she diagnoses herself with her older sister's diabetes urine testing kit, and her initial reaction of, "Death makes more sense than trying to live with this disease." Over time she arrives at the conclusion that if she cannot kill herself to escape diabetes, she'll have to learn how to live with it! Living with diabetes takes her into a career of helping people with diabetes to hopefully, have an easier time of it than she did. This is a story of adventurous learning, that will bring you to tears, make you laugh out loud, and help you find your own spirit of tenacity in dealing with the "Wolves" life may have brought your way. "Reading A Gift in Wolf's Clothing has made me a better doctor..." Charles Reasner M.D, Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the Texas Diabetes Institute, University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio
Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille Review
BEST KNOWN AS THE DIRECTOR of such spectacular films as The Ten Commandments and King of Kings, Cecil B. DeMille lived a life as epic as any of his cinematic masterpieces. As a child DeMille learned the Bible from his father, a theology student and playwright who introduced Cecil and his older brother, William, to the theater. Tutored by impresario David Belasco, DeMille discovered how audiences responded to showmanship: sets, lights, costumes, etc. He took this knowledge with him to Los Angeles in 1913, where he became one of the movie pioneers, in partnership with Jesse Lasky and Lasky’s brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn). Working out of a barn on streets fragrant with orange blossom and pepper trees, the Lasky company turned out a string of successful silents, most of them directed by DeMille, who became one of the biggest names of the silent era. With films such as The Squaw Man, Brewster’s Millions, Joan the Woman, and Don’t Change Your Husband, he was the creative backbone of what would become Paramount Studios. In 1923 he filmed his first version of The Ten Commandments and later a second biblical epic, King of Kings, both enormous box-office successes. Although his reputation rests largely on the biblical epics he made, DeMille’s personal life was no morality tale. He remained married to his wife, Constance, for more than fifty years, but for most of the marriage he had three mistresses simultaneously, all of whom worked for him. He showed great loyalty to a small group of actors who knew his style, but he also discovered some major stars, among them Gloria Swanson, Claudette Colbert, and later, Charlton Heston.
DeMille was one of the few silent-era directors who made a completely successful transition to sound. In 1952 he won the Academy Award for Best Picture with The Greatest Show on Earth. When he remade The Ten Commandments in 1956, it was an even bigger hit than the silent version. He could act, too: in Billy Wilder’s classic film Sunset Boulevard, DeMille memorably played himself. In the 1930s and 1940s DeMille became a household name thanks to the Lux Radio Theater, which he hosted. But after falling out with a union, he gave up the program, and his politics shifted to the right as he championed loyalty oaths and Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist witch hunts.
As Scott Eyman brilliantly demonstrates in this superbly researched biography, which draws on a massive cache of DeMille family papers not available to previous biographers, DeMille was much more than his clichéd image. A gifted director who worked in many genres; a devoted family man and loyal friend with a highly unconventional personal life; a pioneering filmmaker: DeMille comes alive in these pages, a legend whose spectacular career defined an era.
On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History Review
How do Holocaust survivors find words and voice for their memories of terror and loss? This landmark book presents striking new insights into the process of recounting the Holocaust. While other studies have been based, typically, on single interviews with survivors, this work summarizes twenty years of the author's interviews and reinterviews with the same core group. In this book, therefore, survivors' recounting is approached--not as one-time "testimony"--but as an ongoing, deepening conversation. Listening to survivors so intensively, we hear much that we have not heard before. We learn, for example, how survivors perceive us, their listeners, and the impact of listeners on what survivors do, in fact, retell. We meet the survivors themselves as distinct individuals, each with his or her specific style and voice. As we directly follow their efforts to recount, we see how Holocaust memories challenge their words even now--burdening survivors' speech, distorting it, and sometimes fully consuming it. "It is not a story," insisted one survivor about his memories. "It has to be made a story." On Listening to Holocaust Survivors shows us both the ways survivors can "make stories" for the "not-story" they remember and--just as important--the ways they are not able to do so.
Hard Times: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Nathan "The King Cobra" Washingt Review
When Gladiator Magazine editor and chief, Bob Goldstein needs a big story to save his company, he enlists the services of new writer Max Newcomb to find the Holy Grail of boxing— finding the heavyweight champion, who disappeared 50 years ago, after it was discovered that he was an escapee from a Georgia chain gang...
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage Review
