The Confessions Of Robin Askwith

The Confessions Of Robin Askwith
Author: Robin Askwith
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2012-08-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1448118689

Of all the actors and personalities thrown up by that strangest of periods. The 1970s, surely Robin Askwith was one of the most 'of his time'? As star of the infamous CONFESSIONS films, as well as over 25 other movies, Askwith was huge. His cheeky, innocent face, his Mick Jagger lips and more often than not his bare arse -- he, possibly more than anyone else sums up a bygone era remembered fondly by millions. Today, Askwith is a cult figure. The CONFESSIONS films are still regular staples on British TV and around the world, especially in the Commonwealth countries. They are just as funny as they ever were -- classic camp British humour in the same language as the Carry On films. In this brilliant autobiography, the self-deprecating Askwith cuts straight to the chase, starting in the `70s as he auditions for CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANER, moving on to CONFESSIONS OF A POP STAR and DRIVING INSTRUCTOR. His career was truly amazing and varied beyond belief. From IF. . . to NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDEF From CONFESSIONS to Zefferelli`s BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON and Pasolini CANTERBURY TALES. He was also great friends with the late Lindsay Anderson. In the end, Robin is most famous for his sex comedies and isn't embarrassed about it one jot. It`s a rollicking ride. Hold On Tight!

Keeping the British End Up

Keeping the British End Up
Author: Simon Sheridan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781905287543

Simon Sheridan traces the history of the British sex film from its beginnings in such coy nudist camp films as 'Some Like It Cool' (1960), through to its boom years with the Confessions films and their many imitators, to its demise following censorship clampdowns and the arrival of home video in the 1980s.

British Low Culture

British Low Culture
Author: Leon Hunt Unpr Chq
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136189432

Identifying 'permissive populism', the trickle down of permissiveness into mass consumption, as a key feature of the 1970s, Leon Hunt considers the values of an ostensibly 'bad' decade and analyses the implications of the 1970s for issues of taste and cultural capital. Hunt explores how the British cultural landscape of the 1970s coincided with moral panics, the troubled Heath government, the three day week and the fragmentation of British society by nationalism, class conflict, race, gender and sexuality.

Confessions of a Physical Wrac (Rosie Dixon, Book 6)

Confessions of a Physical Wrac (Rosie Dixon, Book 6)
Author: Rosie Dixon
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2014-01-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007544553

Rosie tries her hand in the Armed Forces... and wow, does she look good in uniform... The CONFESSIONS series, the brilliant sex comedies from the 70s, available for the first time in eBook.

Foxfire

Foxfire
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1994-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0452272319

New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates’s strongest and most unsparing novel yet—an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls join a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them. Here is the secret history of a sisterhood of blood, a haven from a world of male oppressors, marked by a liberating fury that burns too hot to last. Above all, it is the story of Legs Sadovsky, with her lean, on-the-edge, icy beauty, whose nerve, muscle, hate, and hurt make her the spark of Foxfire: its guiding spirit, its burning core. At once brutal and lyrical, this is a careening joyride of a novel—charged with outlaw energy and lit by intense emotion. Amid scenes of violence and vengeance lies this novel’s greatest power: the exquisite, astonishing rendering of the bonds that link the Foxfire girls together. Foxfire reaffirms Joyce Carol Oates’s place at the very summit of American writing.

Keeping the British End Up

Keeping the British End Up
Author: Simon Sheridan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Erotic films
ISBN: 9781903111215

Simon Sheridan traces the history of the British sex film from the coy 60s nudist camp films as in Some Like It Cool, through to its boom years with the Confessions films, and their many imitators, to its demise in the 80s when home video arrived.

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Author: Neil Simon
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2011-02
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573611438

Neil Simon Full Length, Comedy Characters: 1 male, 3 female Interior Set Middle-aged and married, overworked and overweight, Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late and arranges three seductions: the first, Elaine Navazio proves to be a foul-mouthed bundle of neuroses; Bobbi Michele is next, a 20-ish actress who's too kooky by half; finally comes September and Jeanette Fisher, a gloomy, depressed housewife who happens to be ma

Shout Her Lovely Name

Shout Her Lovely Name
Author: Natalie Serber
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547634528

A collection of stories about the complicated and powerful ties between mothers and daughters.