Bright Light City

Author : Larry Gragg
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700619038
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bright Light City written by Larry Gragg and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Elvis crooned "Bright light city . . . gonna set my soul on fire," he voiced and embraced the siren call of a glittering urban utopia that continues to mesmerize millions. Call it Sin City or Lost Wages, Las Vegas definitely deserves its rapturous "Viva!" Larry Gragg, however, invites readers to view Las Vegas in an entirely new way. While countless other authors have focused on its history or gaming industry or entertainment ties, Gragg considers how popular culture has depicted the city and its powerful allure over its first century. Drawing on hundreds of films, television programs, novels, and articles, Gragg identifies changing trends in the city's portraits. Until the 1940s, boosters promoted it as the "last frontier town," a place where prospectors and cowboys enjoyed liquor, women, and wide-open gambling. Then in the early 1950s commentators increasingly characterized Las Vegas as a sophisticated resort city in the desert, and ever since then journalists, filmmakers, and novelists have depicted a city largely built by organized crime and featuring non-stop entertainment, gambling, luxury, and, of course, beautiful-and available-women. In Gragg's narrative, these images form a kaleidoscope of lights, sounds, characters, and ultimately amazement about this neon oasis. In these pages, readers will meet gangsters like Bugsy Siegel, Tony Spilotro, and Lefty Rosenthal, as well as Las Vegas's most popular entertainers: Elvis Presley, Sinatra's Rat Pack, Liberace, and Wayne Newton, not to mention the Folies Bergere showgirls. And Gragg's skillful interweaving of fictional and journalistic accounts of organized crime shows just how mutually reinforcing they have become over the years. Vegas will always make people's eyes light up as bright as the Strip, witness the new TV show Vegas or the recent film The Hangover. For everyone entranced by its glitter and glamour, Bright Light City is a must read boasting color photos and bursting with insider details: an eclectic blend of stories, people, sights, and sounds that together make up this desert city's extraordinary appeal.

Author : Jay McInerney
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408854511
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bright Lights, Big City written by Jay McInerney and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again, it might not... So begins our nameless hero's trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrow's hangover may be caused by more than simple excess. Bright Lights, Big City is an acclaimed classic which marked Jay McInerney as one of the major writers of our time.

Author : Michael Hodjera
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595394590
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bright Light City written by Michael Hodjera and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visitor from beyond the solar system is planet shopping. A member of a dying species, he is looking for new real estate to annex. He finds it on planet earth. The task of preventing the total annihilation of the human species falls to two unlikely people-- an entertainer and a recovering vampiress. The entertainer is none other than the King himself, Elvis Presley, who is alive and well and currently living incognito on the Big Island of Hawaii. The vampire is his sultry and mysterious longtime girlfriend, Desdemona.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bright lights, big city written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fred E Woods
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1647790727
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bright Lights in the Desert written by Fred E Woods and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bright Lights in the Desert explores the history of how members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Las Vegas have improved the regions’ neighborhoods, inspired educational institutions, brought integrity to the marketplace, and provided wholesome entertainment and cultural refinement. The LDS influence has helped shape the metropolitan city because of its members’ focus on family values and community service. Woods discusses how, through their beliefs and work ethics, they have impacted the growth of the area from the time of their first efforts to establish a mission in 1855 through the present day. Bright Lights in the Desert reveals Las Vegas as more than just a tourist destination and shows the LDS community’s commitment to making it a place of deep religious faith and devotion to family.

Author : Nathan Holic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941681084
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bright Lights, Medium-sized City written by Nathan Holic and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bookended by a choose-your-own-adventure story and a final exam, Bright Lights, Medium-sized City is a formally inventive city novel in the tradition of The Bonfire of the Vanities.

Author : Nathan Holic
Publisher : Burrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9781941681619
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bright Lights, Medium-Sized City written by Nathan Holic and published by Burrow Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orlando, Florida. Summer of 2009. The Magic are steamrolling through the NBA playoffs, but your life is falling apart. For years you were told that Orlando was the city of the future. Every new high-rise condo and sparkling subdivision confirmed this. Now the boom years are over, and your fianc is gone. Your house-flipping partner emptied the bank account, sold off the staging furniture, and skipped town. You're an abandoned man with an empty McMansion you can't afford, and a dozen properties you can't sell. What's your next move, big guy?

Author : Randall Rutledge
Publisher : Randall Rutledge.
ISBN 13 : 0982149603
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Movie City to Music City, USA written by Randall Rutledge and published by Randall Rutledge.. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're interested in working in movies or making music and you were not privileged to be born the son or daughter of an already established named actor, writer, or musician that can open the door for you, then this book is your guide. Should you decide to take that leap from the normal to what everyone else considers the abnormal career choice the advice in this book can not only save you months and years of getting that first background artist job, but can also save you hundreds and thousands of dollars that you do not need to spend in pursuit of the entertainment industry as a career. Consider this book a basic training manual, a no punches pulled guide to the obstacles that you are guaranteed to face while pursuing entertainment as the industry of your choice. The main focus of this book is to educate those that wish to pursue show business regardless of one's area of interest within the performing arts, whether one wants to be an actor, or writer, producer or director, songwriter or recording artist. They all have one ugly thing in common and that is the con-artist. They will promise you the world just to empty the contents of your wallet and bank account. They will prey upon your dreams so that their gain is your nightmare. Let this book be your shield for those that will use unscrupulous and unethical tactics against you. While pursuing the entertainment industry as a career, you will also be confronted with more obstacles, walls, and closed doors, that will be just as disappointing as getting ripped off. One thing you will find is that if you can't handle rejection and do not have thick skin then the entertainment industry definitely isn't for you. However if you can keepgetting back on that horse no matter how many times it throws you then this book will help you keep dusting yourself off and staying in the saddle. Consider me as your wagon master guiding you through dangerous territory, with all of its unpleasantness and uncertainties, although I can't guarantee the success of your journey through show business, as can no one, I can at least point you in the right direction so you won't be lured off the beaten path by the bandits that hide and wait for you. There will be those that will tell you that you will not succeed, but in my opinion if your only goal is to work in movies and you only work as a movie extra then you have succeeded, as success itself has many levels and one has to start somewhere. Trust me some of today's big names were also once told, go home you'll never make it and now they have a net worth of over $600,000,000.00. You may never become the $600,000,000.00 man or woman but no matter, follow your heart do what you love and love what you do.

Author : Jay McInerney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bright Lights, Big City (screenplay) written by Jay McInerney and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jay McInerney
Publisher : Contemporary French Fiction
ISBN 13 : 9782757808467
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bright Lights, Big City written by Jay McInerney and published by Contemporary French Fiction. This book was released on 2008 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une jeune homme déambule dans le New York des années 1980, ce New York flamboyant qui semble ne vivre que la nuit. Il est vérificateur dans un journal prestigieux et son travail l'ennuie, l'amour de sa vie vient de le quitter. Dans le dédale de Manhattan, dans la chaleur des clubs, dans l'ivresse des drogues et des excès en tout genre, il cherche une issue qui ressemble à l'oubli.