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  Dylan - The Biography

  Dennis McDougal

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  Bob Dylan is an internationally bestselling artist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and an Oscar winner for ""Things Have Changed."" His career is stronger and more influential than ever. How did this happen, given the road to oblivion he seemed to choose more than two decades ago? What transformed a heroin addict into one of the most astonishing literary and musical icons in American history?
  
  At 72 years of age, Dylan's final act of his career is more intriguing than ever―and classic biographies like Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades and even his own Chronicles: Volume One came too soon to cover this remarkable new chapter in his life.
  
  Through extensive interviews and conversations with Dylan's friends, family, sidemen, and fans, Los Angeles Times journalist Dennis McDougal crafts an unprecedented understanding of Dylan and the intricate story behind the myths. Was his romantic life, especially with Sara Dylan, much more complicated than it appears? Was his motorcycle accident a cover for drug rehab? What really happened to Dylan when his career crumbled, and how did he find his way back? To what does he attribute his astonishing success? McDougal's meticulous research and comprehensive interviews offer a revealing new understanding of these long-standing questions―and of the current chapter Dylan continually writes in his life and career.

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  California Suite

  Neil Simon

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  A four part comedy confection as only Neil Simon can write it!  Four couples arrive, in turn, from London, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York and separately inhabit a Beverly Hills hotel suite, bringing along their problems, anxieties, and comical marital dilemmas. Beverly Hills will never be the same.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Dennis Boutsikaris, Bruce Davison, Marsha Mason and Amy Pietz.“Visitor From New York”Marsha Mason as Hannah WarrenBruce Davison as William Warren“Visitor From Philadelphia”Dennis Boutsikaris as Marvin MichaelsAmy Pietz as Millie Michaels“Visitors From London”Marsha Mason as Sidney NicholsBruce Davison as Diana Nichols“Visitors From Chicago”Dennis Boutsikaris as Mort HollenderAmy Pietz as Beth HollenderBruce Davison as Stu FranklynMarsha Mason as Gert FranklynDirected by Gwenn Victor. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

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  Harrison Greenbaum: Live at...

  Harrison Greenbaum

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  Comedy Dynamics has teamed up with comedian and magician Harrison Greenbaum to release his audio-only magic based special, Live At Madison Square Garden. Only days before the global lockdown, Harrison Greenbaum became the first magician to ever sell out Madison Square Garden, performing the most expensive and over-the-top magic show in New York City history for more than 20,000 adoring fans. A true revolutionary, Harrison has taken the unprecedented step of preserving this history-making visual extravaganza by agreeing to record and release just the audio. You won't believe your ears! In his debut release with Comedy Dynamics, Harrison Greenbaum proves once and for all that the hand is quicker than the ear. Under the bright lights of the iconic Madison Square Garden, listen closely as Harrison performs impossible illusions, reads thousands of minds at the same time, and attempts the most dangerous and death-defying escape in the history of magic, all for an audience of dedicated fans, huge celebrities you’ll recognize immediately by voice, heads of state from several important and unimportant countries, and even Beyoncé! For the first time ever, enjoy magic the way it was clearly meant to be enjoyed: by listening only. Give yourself the gift of Magic in Stereo live from Madison Square Garden.Harrison Greenbaum is a comedian and magician who has been dubbed “the hardest-working man in comedy” by both TimeOut NY and NY Daily News. Harrison has received several awards over the years, including the Andy Kaufman Award for originality.

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  Alistair Cooke at the Movies

  Alistair Cooke

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  A wonderful entertainment that reflects Alistair Cooke’s love affair with cinema, from his early days as a film critic to his iconic role as the host of Masterpiece Theatre  Humphrey Bogart, Fred Astaire, Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, and Marilyn Monroe are just a few of the stars profiled, along with many directors, in this sparkling and comprehensive collection of reviews, interviews, and essays. Alistair Cooke’s first radio talk at the BBC was in October 1934, and the subject was cinema. He had begun reviewing films in the 1920s as a Cambridge undergraduate. This anthology of his best film criticism and essays includes his many favorite subjects. In “The Symbol Called Garbo,” Cooke reveals the woman behind the enigmatic screen goddess. James Cagney is identified as “one of the few technically perfect actors,” while Charlie Chaplin was “the funniest clown alive.” Shirley Temple’s multi-million-dollar appeal is explained, as is the subtlety underpinning the slapstick humor of the Marx Brothers. Directors such as Frank Capra, Fritz Lang, and Cecil B. DeMille meet with Cooke’s high praise, while Alfred Hitchcock evokes a more complicated reaction. Full of glamorous stars, provocative opinions, and fond memories, Alistair Cooke at the Movies is a very personal and captivating guide to the golden age of Hollywood and beyond.

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  Collection of Sand

  Italo Calvino

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  This “brilliant collection of essays” and travelogues by the celebrated author of Invisible Cities “may change the way you see the world around you” (The Guardian, UK).   Italo Calvino’s boundless curiosity and ingenious imagination are displayed in peak form in Collection of Sand, his last collection of new works published during his lifetime. Delving into the delights of the visual world—both in art and travel—the subjects of these 38 essays range from cuneiform and antique maps to Mexican temples and Japanese gardens. In Calvino’s words, this collection is “a diary of travels, of course, but also of feelings, states of mind, moods…The fascination of a collection lies just as much in what it reveals as in what it conceals of the secret urge that led to its creation” (from Collection of Sand).   Never before translated into English, Collection of Sand is an incisive and often surprising meditation on observation and knowledge, “beautifully translated by Martin McLaughlin” (The Guardian, UK).

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  Music Lessons

  Bob Wiseman

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  Bob Wiseman believes most things in life are universal or, as Lauryn Hill says, everything is everything. Bearing in mind that advice, Wiseman writes about finding the link between music and daily life, like what is common between Mary Margaret O’Hara, hiding around the corner with the lights turned off in order to record herself and his 5-year-old insisting he stop hurrying to her dance lesson and marvel at the fluff ball she is blowing toward the ceiling. Each entry is unique and compellingly written, but the themes throughout — on improvisational music, life lessons, and conflict — are ubiquitous.

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