Georgia - on My Mind

Georgia - on My Mind
Author: Georgia Lee
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2019-11-11
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1982236280

GEORGIA – on my mind defies classification. More than a collection of personal essays and photography, this book is a reflection, confession, and commentary on the bittersweet adventure of life. Georgia Lee’s unique voice is witty and self-deprecating; perceptive and astute. Her stories, illustrated by her poignant photography, combine humor and pathos in equal measure. MEET THE BEATLES!!! speaks to her rabid pre-teen hysteria at The Beatles’ 1965 Atlanta concert that led her mother to administer a post-show sedative. Accompanying photographs include her prized framed ticket with its $5.50 cost of admission. LICE LESSONS transforms every mother’s nightmare – a child’s lice infestation, during her own suicidal depression into a love story of mother-daughter togetherness, illustrated with a de-lousing photo from Atlanta’s Lice Ladies emporium. BIOLOGICAL CLOCK speaks to cultural impositions on women. Georgia Lee’s brave recounting of her reproductive battles is painful, yet compelling. Under a so-called “biological clock,” to have a baby, she endures horrific medical negligence and months of hospitalization that lead to the stillborn delivery of a son, followed by a bitter separation and divorce. In post-traumatic shock, as a working single parent of a four-year-old toddler, the tragedy is redeemed by a miraculous pregnancy and delivery, at 40 years old, of a beautiful, healthy daughter. An unexpected memorial, 20 years later, links a time to mourn and a time to heal. A tale of longing and loss, torment and joy, Biological Clock addresses the painful issues so many women endure, often in silence. Through every story and image, Georgia Lee is unflinchingly honest and authentic. On My Mind is one woman’s journey of joy and pain. Though all paths vary, the journey is universal.

The Star Machine

The Star Machine
Author: Jeanine Basinger
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2009-01-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0307388751

ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how the studios worked to manufacture stars. With revelatory insights and delightful asides, Jeanine Basinger shows us how the studio “star machine” worked when it worked, how it failed when it didn't, and how irrelevant it could sometimes be. She gives us case studies focusing on big stars groomed into the system: the “awesomely beautiful” (and disillusioned) Tyrone Power; the seductive, disobedient Lana Turner; and a dazzling cast of others. She anatomizes their careers, showing how their fame happened, and what happened to them as a result. Deeply engrossing, full of energy, wit, and wisdom, The Star Machine is destined to become an classic of the film canon.

Signatures of the Stars

Signatures of the Stars
Author: Kevin Martin
Publisher: Antique Trader
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1998
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780930625931

An alphabetical listing of Hollywood stars, collectible television casts and rock and roll stars with a sample autograph, very brief biography, range of prices and scarcity index.

Letters to his Parents

Letters to his Parents
Author: Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0745695027

'My dears: this is but a brief note to welcome you to the new world, where you are now no longer all too far away from us. ‘ So begins Adorno’s letter to his parents in May 1939, welcoming them to Cuba where they had just arrived after fleeing from Nazi Germany at the last minute. At the end of 1939 his parents moved again to Florida and then to New York, where they lived from August 1940 until the end of their lives. It is only with Adorno’s move to California at the end of 1941 that his letters to his parents start arriving once more, reporting on work and living conditions as well as on friends, acquaintances and the Hollywood stars of his time. One finds reports of his collaborations with Max Horkheimer, Thomas Mann and Hanns Eisler alongside accounts of parties, clowning around with Charlie Chaplin, and ill-fated love affairs. But the letters also show his constant longing for Europe: Adorno already began to think about his return as soon as the USA entered the war. Adorno’s letters to his parents – surely the most open and direct letters he ever wrote – not only afford the reader a glimpse of the experiences that gave rise to the famous Minima Moralia, but also show Adorno from a previously unknown, very personal side. They end with the first reports from the ravaged Frankfurt to his mother – who remained in New York – and from Amorbach, Adorno’s childhood paradise

The Constant Heart

The Constant Heart
Author: M. Aline Bethke
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2012-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1477240063

The Constant Heart is the story of Nancy Miller. Follow this attractive, popular, bright effervescent young lady as she experiences love in the strict social mores of the 40s and 50s. Endure the pressures imposed on her; revel in her successes in overcoming adversities; share her joys in trusting God in all things and feel her satisfaction in making prudent decisions.

LIFE

LIFE
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1940-12-16
Genre:
ISBN:

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch
Author: Scott Eyman
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2000-11-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801865589

When movie lovers speak of the "Lubitsch touch," they refer to a singular sense of style and taste, humor and humanity, that suffused the films of one of Hollywood's greatest directors. In this first ever full-length biography of Ernst Lubitsch, Scott Eyman takes readers behind the scenes of such classic films as Trouble in Paradise (1932), The Merry Widow (1934), Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop around the Corner (1940), To Be or Not to Be (1942), and Heaven Can Wait (1943), which together constitute one of the most important and influential bodies of work in Hollywood. Eyman examines both the films Lubitsch crafted and the life he lived—his great successes and his overwhelming anxieties—to create an indelible portrait of Hollywood's Golden Age and one of its most respected artists.