Famous People I Have Known

Author : Ed McClanahan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813190693
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous People I Have Known written by Ed McClanahan and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed McClanahan's hilarious classic introduces us to writers and revolutionaries, hippies and honkies, gurus and go-go girls, barkeeps and barflies, as well as Carlos Toadvine, aka Little Enis, the All-American Left-Handed Upside-down Guitar Player, among the characters he has encountered in thirty peripatetic years of wandering the fringes of the academic and literary worlds from his native Kentucky to the West Coast (where his compatriots included Ken Kesey and Tom Wolfe) and back again.

Author : Justin Kuritzkes
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250309034
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous People written by Justin Kuritzkes and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh, smart novel in the guise of a celebrity memoir probes the inner life of a mega-famous pop star Honestly, what amazes me the most with a lot of the people I meet is that they think they’re so big. They think, ultimately, that the universe revolves around them. And I’m beginning to think that it’s only when you live a life like mine—it’s only when you’re in a position where you don’t even really own yourself, when you can’t even really say that you’re a citizen of any particular country—that you realize that we’re all just tiny pieces of cosmic dust floating through the void until we disappear forever and we’re never heard from again. So begins the life story of our uber famous twenty-two year old narrator. A teen idol since he was twelve, when a video of him singing went viral, his star has only risen since. Now, haunted by the suicide of his manager-father, unsettled by the very different paths he and his teenage love (and girl pop-star counterpart) “Mandy” have taken, and increasingly aware that he has signed on to something he has little control over, he begins to parse the divide that separates him from the “normal people” of the world. Sneakily philosophical, earnest and funny, Justin Kuritzkes's Famous People is a rollicking, unforgettable look at the clash between fame and the human condition.

Author : Tomás Tůma
Publisher : Albatros Media
ISBN 13 : 9788000059228
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhoods of Famous People written by Tomás Tůma and published by Albatros Media. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have all heard of famous people like Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Cleopatra, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and William Shakespeare. But what do we know about their childhoods? Play a game and guess which celebrity is hidden on each spread. Clues from their childhood will help you to discover them! There are twenty-five celebrities waiting for you to uncover them. Rulers, inventors, scientists, musicians, and many others lead you through their childhoods and show you what life was like back then, what they liked to play with, and what their interests were--but they will keep their names to themselves. Each character gives hints to help you figure out who they are. Then lift the flap and find out whether you guessed correctly.

Author : Owen Husney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945436208
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous People Who've Met Me written by Owen Husney and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Famous People Who've Met Me" is an outrageous collection of true stories starring oddball characters, behind the scenes gurus, and brilliant superstars in the music business straight out of Minnesota. This unique memoir is a true in-depth character study as told through the eyes of musician, agent, concert promoter, and manager Owen Husney.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199105991
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Children's Book of Famous People written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a guide to the people who matter. It contains the stories of 1000 women and men whose lives have influenced the course of history. Learn about the famous and the infamous - leaders from Genghis Khan to Bill Clinton.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753407691
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1000 Years of Famous People written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive look at the famous and the notorious, their achievements and the legacies they have left humankind. Organized by theme - explorers, inventors, leaders, artists, sportspeople, musicians, politicians, scientists, writers, reformers etc - each chapter looks at the famous figures pre-1000 AD to put the rest of the chapter in its historical context.

Author : Rich Little
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457544393
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little by Little written by Rich Little and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “How did I become an impersonator? Perhaps my mother was conceived by a Zerox machine!” So, how did a kid from Ottawa, Canada, growing up in the ’50s become an impressionist? No one in our family had ever been in show business. No one ever had “show biz” yearnings. My father was a doctor. My mother was a housewife. So where did my desire to become an impressionist come from? I’ve often asked myself this question. I didn’t know the answer, but I did love the movies. As a boy, I would go every weekend, sometimes staying to see the show twice. Just going to the movies and getting so involved in the storytelling and the characters made me want to be that person up on the screen, never dreaming that I could turn it into a career. The glory days of Hollywood and their icons, like no other, have remained as indelible images in our hearts and minds for decades. I, like many, idolized these giants of the screen and comedy, but was so fortunate to have had the opportunity to meet, work with, and get to know many of them along the way during my career. From the genius of Jack Benny, the unmatched humor of George Burns, the debonair, handsome Cary Grant, the unforgettable John Wayne, the king of late night hosts Johnny Carson, and the former actor-turned-president Ronald Reagan to name a few. In this gem of a book are insights into the likes of many of these great people I’ve had the privilege and fortune to meet and imitate, shining new light on our beloved stars. This is really not a biography, but more of a humorous glimpse of the people I’ve impersonated and some of the funny stories that happened along the way.

Author : Shayne Carter
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776562534
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead People I Have Known written by Shayne Carter and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we crashed over the line two and a half minutes later, there was a short, disbelieving silence and I could feel my knee trembling behind its sarcastic &‘Disco' patch. A song I'd written had just been played to the finish, and what's more, it hadn't sounded weak, or delusional—it had, in fact, kicked.I backed down from the mic. Here was a new world of sound. Its sky was borderless, and its horizon curled off a previously flat earth. I'd been given a virtual super power and a flame to shoot from my fingers.In Dead People I Have Known, the legendary New Zealand musician Shayne Carter tells the story of a life in music, taking us deep behind the scenes and songs of his riotous teenage bands Bored Games and the Doublehappys and his best-known bands Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer. He traces an intimate history of the Dunedin Sound—that distinctive jangly indie sound that emerged in the seventies, heavily influenced by punk—and the record label Flying Nun.As well as the pop culture of the seventies, eighties and nineties, Carter writes candidly of the bleak and violent aspects of Dunedin, the city where he grew up and would later return. His childhood was shaped by violence and addiction, as well as love and music. Alongside the fellow musicians, friends and family who appear so vividly here, this book is peopled by neighbours, kids at school, people on the street, and the other passing characters who have stayed on in his memory.We also learn of the other major force in Carter's life: sport. Harness racing, wrestling, basketball and football have provided him with a similar solace, even escape, as music.Dead People I Have Known is a frank, moving, often incredibly funny autobiography; the story of making a life as a musician over the last forty years in New Zealand, and a work of art in its own right.

Author : Andy McSmith
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785908081
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange People I Have Known written by Andy McSmith and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As well as being one of the leading political journalists of his generation, Andy McSmith's varied life has brought him into contact with a huge variety of people, high and low, whom he describes with an acute eye for character. His book Strange People I Have Known is a fast-paced and entertaining read that brings deep insight into British political life." – Bill Browder "A fascinating memoir which gives a revelatory insider's account of the biggest political names from the past few decades, interwoven with evocative reflections on the many colourful characters who have peppered McSmith's own life." – Pippa Crerar "An addictive memoir that fizzes with anecdotes. If you like top-level political gossip and insights written with panache, look no further." – Gary Gibbon *** Westminster and Whitehall are secret worlds, hidden to most. But working as a lobby journalist, former Labour Party staffer Andy McSmith has had exclusive access to our top politicians for decades. Here, he shares his personal encounters with the great and the good of the British political landscape, revealing what they are really like behind the scenes. With witty and perceptive flair, he describes encounters such as flying to Tokyo with Margaret Thatcher, the last Prime Minister who would walk fearlessly into a room full of journalists, unprotected by special advisers; dining with Sir Edward Heath, a man who knew how to hold a grudge, in his home in Salisbury; observing Gordon Brown and Tony Blair as new MPs, sharing a cramped office in Parliament and collaborating like brothers; and working with Boris Johnson back when he had an ambition to be something more than just a journalist. Filled with vivid portraits of those at the heart of British politics over the past forty years, Strange People I Have Known is a memoir of a life well lived and an insider's account of the inner workings of government.

Author : Karen Hardy Bystedt
Publisher : Stoddart
ISBN 13 : 9781575440071
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before They Were Famous written by Karen Hardy Bystedt and published by Stoddart. This book was released on 1996 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents photographs and interviews taken between 1987 and 1993 of unknown actors and actresses including Johnny Depp, Keanu Reeves, Melanie Griffith, and David Duchovny