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  Screenwriting Nightmare - What...

  Wise Wisecrack

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  Some movies miss the mark with audiences, but what goes on behind the scenes that makes it subpar? Is it the screenwriting? The casting and characters? Listen in as Wisecrack dives into what went wrong in popular movies like Suicide Squad, Finding Dory and Wonder Woman: 1984 in this curated collection available for the first time in audio.

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  Widening the Horizon - Exoticism...

  Philip Hayward

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  A deep dive into the history and retro appeal of musical exotica, including the Orientalism, Hawaiianesque, and Afro-tropicalism sub-sets. 
   
  Widening the Horizon is the first in-depth study of exoticism in Post-War popular music. The opening chapters analyze the work of Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Korla Pandit, Yma Sumac—the musicians who developed (and exemplified) the style known as Exotica in the 1950s and 1960s. Other chapters address more recent developments in musical exoticism which have revived and reinflected the form, such as Haruomi Hosono’s Soy Sauce Music trilogy; the works of Van Dyke Parks, on albums such as Tokyo Rose; and the career of New Age populist/exoticist Yanni. 
   
  Contributors to this anthology include writers and academics from Australia, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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  Pepsodent Show The - Volume 5 -...

  Staff Writer

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  The name Leslie Townes Hope is not the most familiar to us.  Born in Eltham, London on May 29th, 1903 he and his family emigrated to the United States aboard the SS Philadelphia before moving to Cleveland, Ohio. 
   
  Although he entered show business in the 1920s it was only in 1928 that he changed his name to the one and only Bob Hope. 
   
  Stints in Vaudeville and then Broadway were followed by his radio debut in 1932 and feature films in 1938.   
   
  1938 was a banner year for Bob Hope as it was also the debut season for the eventual decade running smash-hit radio show: The Pepsodent Show.  Despite the sponsors, name getting the billing this was Hope’s show.   
   
  His opening monologue was the result of his hiring from his own pocket – he had an extravagant salary from the sponsor - of a team of 8 writers to write top notch jokes and skits.  His comic timing turned him into a sensation.  The show was so popular that it had its pick of the best of show business stars. Everyone wanted in. 
   
  Now its time to cut the talk and get ready for laughs.  It’s time for Bob Hope and his guests.

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  Your Intuitive Mind Could Save...

  M.D. Claudio Naranjo

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  Claudio Naranjo shares stories from his lifelong journey, and the teachers who molded his mind and his spirit. He explains the origins of the patriarchal attitudes that led to the violence, oppression, and greed that plague the world today, and identifies the consequences of our dependence on reason at the expense of instinct.

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  Film Music - A Very Short...

  Kathryn Kalinak

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  Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world.Film Music: A Very Short Introduction is a compact, lucid, and thoroughly engaging overview written by one of the leading authorities on the subject. Kathryn Kalinak introduces listeners not only to important composers and musical styles but also to modern theoretical concepts about how and why film music works. Key collaborations between directors and composers come under scrutiny, as do the oft-neglected practices of the silent film era. She also explores differences between original film scores and compilation soundtracks that cull music from pre-existing sources.As Kalinak points out, film music can do many things, from establishing mood and setting to clarifying plot points and creating emotions that are only dimly realized in the images. This book illuminates the many ways it accomplishes those tasks and will have its listeners thinking a bit more deeply and critically the next time they sit in a darkened movie theater and music suddenly swells as the action unfolds onscreen.

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  So You Want To Be A Playwright?

  Tim Fountain

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  How to write a play and get it produced - a manual for playwrights.
  Playwright and former literary manager Tim Fountain guides the budding playwright over the many hurdles involved in getting a play on - from finding a story that only you know, through the detailed construction of the play, and on to the strategies you can use to get it on stage.
  
  - What kind of play do you want to write?
  - Where do you get your ideas from?
  - How much exposition do you need?
  - Where do you find your characters' voices?
  - What should you do when you get stuck?
  - Where should you send your play?The book also deals with the actual production: choosing directors, designers and actors, and coping with rehearsals, previews and press nights.
  Includes appendixes of vital websites, and contact details for new-writing theatres, agents and publishers.
  'A marvellous and invaluable guide... full of wisdom and no-nonsense practical advice on the tricky but thrilling business of making plays' (Willy Russell)

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