Spaghetti with a Sawed-Off Shotgun

Spaghetti with a Sawed-Off Shotgun
Author: R. R. Vigorelli
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0578110725

This is a book about what everyone goes through...life. This is a book about spirituality, family, love, friendship, education and society. It is about how to get out of being trapped by yourself and the world around you. It is a book about learning who you really are and becoming okay with that.

Hollywood Said No!

Hollywood Said No!
Author: David Cross
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1455526312

Mr. Show fans rejoice! After all these years, Bob and David are finally back together with a collection of hilarious, never-before-seen scripts, sketches, and ideas that may have just been too good for Hollywood. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, creators of HBO's classic sketch comedy show Mr. Show, present to you this collection of never-before-seen scripts and ideas that Hollywood couldn't find the gumption to green-light. Simply put... Hollywood Said No! Since Mr. Show closed up shop, Bob and David have kept busy with many projects--acting in fun, successful, movies and TV shows, directing things, and complaining about stuff that didn't turn out well to anyone who would listen, and even alone, in silence, inside their own heads. Hollywood Said No! reveals the full-length, never-before-seen scripts for Bob and David Make a Movie (fleshed out with brand-new storyboards by acclaimed artist Mike Mitchell) and Hooray For America!: a satirical power-house indictment of all that you hold dear. This tome also includes a bonus section of orphaned sketch ideas from the Mr. Show days and beyond, suitable for performance by church groups that aren't all koo-koo about religion. What you are looking at online, and are about to buy, is chock-full of comic twists, turns, and maybe a few hard truths. We said "maybe," but what we mean was "probably not." Now, for the first time, take a peek at the scripts that didn't get the go-ahead and ponder a world we can only dream about...and beyond!

Fragments against My Ruin

Fragments against My Ruin
Author: Farrukh Dhondy
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2024-07-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1804295272

Born in Poona, India, Farrukh Dhondy came to England in 1964 and immersed himself in radical politics and the counterculture. He kicked off a career in journalism interviewing Pink Floyd and Allen Ginsberg and covering the first meeting between the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Dhondy was soon drawn into political activism. He joined the Indian Workers Association and the British Black Panther Movement. Within the radical activist collective Race Today, he worked alongside Darcus Howe and C. L. R. James. An award-winning writer, he co-wrote the ground-breaking sit-com Tandoori Nights. In 1984 he became Channel 4's Commissioning Editor for multicultural programming and was a driving force behind Desmond's, Salaam Bombay!, and the trailblazing Bandung File. In Fragments against My Ruin, Dhondy explores a life to salvage precious moments against the inevitable decay of age. The result is a fascinating social and historical document of the late twentieth century, addressing politics, culture, friendship, and the determination to break down boundaries. It is an autobiography packed with compelling anecdotes, such as an insightful take on Jeffrey Archer's conviction, as well as portraits of Richard Attenborough, Arundhati Roy, V. S. Naipaul, Charles Sobhraj, and many others.

The Pretender One the Intender

The Pretender One the Intender
Author: Ignaziano Lafluer Garnier
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2020-10-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1664136932

“The Pretender Series’ of fictional books are a book series of characters and the book has CIA trained government killers’ who themselves’ are assets to the United States Government, Military, and law enforcement. They help with population downsizing in The United States and other countries’ by helping to eliminate, eradicate, and exterminate, sex-offenders from society and are America’s and The World’s first globally celebrated, and embraced avengers of violent crimes. I, Lafluer Garnier, want to also take a moment to say thank you to our United States of America’s Military, and all our veterans, especially those of foreign and domestic wars for their brave, courageous, and valorous acts, and the blanket of freedoms’ that we are afforded by those brave, courageous, and valorous acts. Also, I’d also like to thank the brave men, and women, women, and men, of law enforcement for protecting and serving day in, and day out, and the sacrifices they make on the job for the safety of all our citizens’. Total Truth!”

Outer Limits

Outer Limits
Author: Howard Hughes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0857723936

HOWARD HUGHES'S NEW FILMGOERS' GUIDE TO SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS DELVES DEEP INTO THE LANDMARK MOVIES OF THIS EVERPOPULAR GENRE, FROM METROPOLIS TO AVATAR AND BEYOND, AND COVERS OVER 250 MORE Outer Limits explores science-fiction cinema through 26 great films, from the silent classic Metropolis to today. It reviews the galaxy of stars and directors who have created some of the most popular films of all time, including George Lucas's 'Star Wars' films, Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Minority Report, James Cameron's 'Terminator' films and Ridley Scott's milestones Alien and Blade Runner. It also discusses everything from A-listers 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes, to Japanese monster movies, 1950s B-movies, creature features and cult favourites, depicting time travel, distant planets or alien invasions. Films featured include The War of the Worlds, Independence Day, Tarantula, Godzilla, The Thing, Forbidden Planet, Barbarella, Galaxy Quest, Mad Max 2, Back to the Future, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Star Trek, Apollo 13, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Matrix, and many, many more. Illustrated with original posters, Outer Limits is an informative, entertaining tour of the sci-fi universe.

The Prince

The Prince
Author: Vito Bruschini
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451687206

Prince Ferdinando Licata is a wealthy Sicilian landowner who uses his personal power and charm to placate Sicilian peasants and fight off Mussolini's fascists. As tensions rise in Italy during the 1930s, with increasingly violent consequences, Licata attracts many friends and far more enemies. Eventually implicated in a grisly murder, the prince flees to America, where he ends up navigating a turf war between Irish and Italian gangs of the Lower East Side. Violence explodes in unexpected ways as Licata gains dominance over New York, with the help of a loyal townsman with blood ties to the prince who is forced to abandon his fiancée in Sicily. The two men return to their native land at the height of World War II in an outrageously bold maneuver engineered by Licata and mobster Lucky Luciano. Both the prince and his kinsman assist US naval intelligence during the invasion of Sicily and, once they are back on their native soil, they proceed to settle unfinished business with their enemies and unravel old secrets in a stunning and sinister finale.

Scotland Yard's History of Crime in 100 Objects

Scotland Yard's History of Crime in 100 Objects
Author: Alan Moss
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0750966556

Explore Britain’s dark criminal history through the fascinating objects that have been hidden away in the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard, a collection that, although world-famous, is so sensitive it is not open to public view.Each object tells its own story: the briefcase with a concealed syringe owned by the notorious Kray twins; the gun Ruth Ellis used to murder her lover David Blakely; a burnt-out computer from the Glasgow airport car bomb; a picture from the property of Dennis Nilsen of the grisly drain that was blocked with human body parts; and the gun that Edward Oxford fired at Queen Victoria that failed to assassinate her. Updated to feature new objects that have entered the collection since 2015, Scotland Yard’s History of Crime in 100 Objects is an absorbing, sometimes shocking and often disturbing journey through criminal history. Peer within to experience a unique insight into the crimes and criminals dealt with by Scotland Yard.

Always Running

Always Running
Author: Luis J. Rodriguez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2005-09-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0743276914

This award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member is now updated with a new Introduction and reading group guide.