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  How Do Rumors Get Started - The...

  Marcus A. Thompson

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  In the summer of 1986, the song "Rumors" by Timex Social Club dominated the radio airwaves, topping all Billboard magazine urban charts with the number position for Hot 100 Black Singles, Hot Black Singles - Sales, Hot Black Singles-Airplay, Hot Dance/Disco-Club Play, and Hot Dance/Disco-12 inch singles sales. 
  This was no small feat for four young men from Berkeley California (Marcus Thompson, Alex Hill, Michael Marshall, and Kevin Moore) who were unknown songwriters at the time. 
  Along with instant stardom came a treacherous ride through the music business. A journey filled with greed, broken friendships, and culminating with the group break up less than one year later. 
  How Do Rumors Get Started is a powerful, edgy, and amusing look behind the scenes of rap music in the mid-80s.

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  Out On Stage - How to Make Queer...

  Martin Lewton

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  This is a book of queer ideas, queer questions and queer inspiration.
  It provides hands-on advice and guidance on all aspects of creating and staging your own piece of queer theatre, including:
  
  - Identifying the queer story you want to tell, generating your material, and developing your own voice as a queer theatre maker
  - Choosing the best form to express your ideas, from a scripted drama or solo show to musical theatre, cabaret or live art
  - Deciding on your creative approach, whether it's writing an original play, devising, adapting the lived experiences of yourself or others, or queering existing material
  - Considering key aspects of queer performance, including drag, alter egos, solo performance, and using the body to tell queer stories and express queer identity
  - Putting your show on, from securing a venue and applying for funding, to working with a producer, building partnerships, and attracting an audience
  - Overcoming the challenges you'll face, being brave, and tapping into queer theatre's power as a catalyst for change 
  It's packed with inspiring examples drawn from the vast span of queer theatre – from coming-out stories, lesbian dramas and plays about trans identity, to autobiographical pieces and hidden queer histories – as well as creative activities to help you put your ideas into practice.
  Also included are insightful contributions from leading queer theatre makers including Travis Alabanza, Neil Bartlett, Jo Clifford, Nathaniel J Hall, Jonathan Harvey, Ursula Martinez, Martin O'Brien and Iman Qureshi.
  Whatever stage you're at in your theatre-making journey, this book will guide and empower you to find your own distinctive way of working – and make the work that only you can make.
  Martin Lewton is an actor, director and writer with more than forty plays professionally staged. He is Artistic Director of Theatre North and teaches acting and writing at the Institute of the Arts Barcelona.

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  A Rare Recording of Film Icon...

  Gene Hackman

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  Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 - February 17, 2025), a former US Marine, was an American actor with a career that spanned over four decades, winning two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. Hackman's two Oscars were for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's action thriller The French Connection (1971) and for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a villainous sheriff in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven (1992). He was also Oscar-nominated for three other roles:  Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a college professor in I Never Sang for My Father (1970), and an FBI agent in Mississippi Burning (1988). The following recordings are of his two Academy Award acceptance speeches.

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  A History of American Movies - A...

  Paul Monaco

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  In A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft and Business of Cinema, Paul Monaco provides a survey of the narrative feature film from the 1920s to the present. The book focuses on 170 of the most highly regarded and recognized feature films selected by the Hollywood establishment: each Oscar winner for Best Picture, as well as those voted the greatest by members of the American Film Institute.  By focusing on a select group of films that represent the epitome of these collaborations, Monaco provides an essential history of one of the modern world's most complex and successful cultural institutions: Hollywood. Divided into three sections, "Classic Hollywood, 1927-1948," "Hollywood In Transition, 1949-1974," and "The New Hollywood, 1975 To The Present," Monaco examines some of the most memorable works in cinematic history, including The General, Wings, Bringing Up Baby, Gone with the Wind, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, On the Waterfront, The Searchers, Psycho, West Side Story, The Godfat

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  Logos From Planet Blip - An...

  Claire L. Evans, Jona Bechtolt

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  This comprehensive design sourcebook provides a behind-the-scenes peek into the making of the Panic-produced video game Blippo+. Every logo and graphic element used in the game is reproduced faithfully, alongside notes from Blippo+ writer Claire L. Evans about the wide-ranging references that inspired the visual world of Planet Blip. 
  With never-before-seen designs for graphics that didn't make the final cut, technical details, iterations of familiar logos, anecdotes about the history of broadcast television, and tidbits of Blippian lore, this is a concise and vital reference for any serious Blippohead.

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  Women Holding Things & Still...

  Maira Kalman

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  From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a collection of moving meditations on the beauty and complexity of women’s lives and roles, revealed in the things they hold, and on remorse, joy, ancestry, and memory. 
  Women Holding Things includes thoughtful and intimate anecdotes, recollections, and ruminations about portraits of women, both ordinary and famous. These women hold a range of objects, from the mundane—balloons, a cup, a whisk, a chicken, a hat—to the abstract—dreams and disappointments, sorrow and regret, joy and love. Kalman considers the many things that fit physically and metaphorically between women’s hands: We see a woman hold a book, hold shears, hold children, hold a grudge, hold up, hold her own. In telling their stories, Kalman lays bare the essence of women’s lives—their tenacity, courage, vulnerability, hope, and pain. Ultimately, she reveals that many of the things we hold dear—as well as those that burden or haunt us—remain constant and connect us from generation to generation.  
  Maira Kalman’s most autobiographical and intimate work to date, Still Life with Remorse is a beautiful collection of deeply personal stories. Tracing her family’s story from her grandfather’s birth in Belarus and emigration to Tel Aviv—where she was born—Maira considers her unique family history, illuminating the complex relationship between recollection, regret, happiness, and heritage. In addition to vignettes exploring her Israeli and Jewish roots, Kalman includes short stories about other great artists, writers, and composers. Through these narratives, Kalman uses her signature wit and tenderness to reveal how family history plays an influential role in all of our work, lives, and perspectives. A feat of storytelling and vulnerability, Still Life with Remorse explores the profound hidden in the quotidian, and illuminates the powerful universal truths in our most personal family stories.

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