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61) The Double
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Inspired by Dostoyevsky's short story, The Double tells the story of Simon, a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon's exact physical double and his opposite-confident, charismatic and good...
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The screenplay is accompanied by Kramer's reflections on the history of the production, sure to be of interest to any student of film. This volume also includes several early plays, Sissies' Scrapbook, A Minor Dark Age, and the political farce Just Say No, illuminating the development of one of our most important literary figures.
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Diana's letter" explores tranquility, weaving a serene tapestry up to certain ideas. It delves into history, an ever-flowing river without a fixed point in time but with a known destination, anchored by vivid depictions of an alternate realm revolving around Princess Diana. Although the concept at play may evoke reminiscences of Philip K. Dick's opus, "The Man in the High Castle", the 'letter' does not venture into such magnitude. It adheres to a...
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Plays Worth Remembering is a two-volume set of 14 plays and two silent film screenplays by celebrated turn-of-the-20th century American playwright George Ade. Many of these works have never been published before and some do not exist in complete form anywhere else. Ade's plays offer a valuable and funny commentary on politics, community and social norms in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
This set also contains Ade's brief autobiography, a description...
68) Wilde on Love
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Oscar Wilde was a legendary wit, a poetic provocateur, and one of England's greatest playwrights who became a martyr for free love, a scapegoat for repressive society, and a myth onto himself. Shimmering beneath the dazzling witticisms and delicious irony is Wilde's profound, serious, and unshakeable commitment to love. Love is the experience that can unmoor us from the habits, conventions, and expectations of our lives in both thrilling and unsettling...
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The minute that your urologist tells you that your biopsy is positive for prostate cancer, don't panic.
I have been there and that is why this book is written.
Here are ten facts:
1. Identifying cancerous cells in a biopsy of prostate gland is more difficult than identifying any other cancerous cells in biopsies of any other organs.
2. Laboratories often make mistakes, especially the laboratory that determined I had prostate cancer when...
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The Savior, the Flood, and the Beast, are three different plays all with various themes.
The Savior, or The Carpenter, is about a young Carpenter, working in the porn industry for his brother, who ends up falling for the lead porn star, but his brother becomes secretly jealous of their affair. To the point that he won't let her quit the industry, either.
The Flood, or The Parable of Defeat, is about a young girl whose life is destroyed by a rape...
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Diecinueve años después, el reencuentro de una pareja se lleva a cabo en Lima para concretar una separación. Marcados por el desamor y asuntos del pasado, aún sin resolver, Laura y Ramón son protagonistas de una historia de violencia. Entre la confrontación de las memorias y su reconciliación, el director y guionista Joel Calero relata con "La última tarde" una lectura alternativa sobre el olvido y el perdón en una sociedad en busca de respuestas.
Esta...
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ARE YOU STRUGGLING TO WRITE GREAT SCREENPLAY DIALOGUE? Don't worry, we know how you feel, as learning how to write good dialogue can be one of the hardest aspects of screenwriting to master.
This is the first book on writing dialogue of its kind: full of theory hacks, practical exercises and resources that will get your script's dialogue up where it needs to be.
Theory Hacks. This book contains a set of three theory hacks that dispel many of the...
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Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in LA, he takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar. One day, the Lady Herself comes downstairs to play. It feels like real bonding in the basement-but will their relationship ever make it upstairs? A winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show, Buyer & Cellar is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs.
74) Le Week-End
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In Le Weekend, a couple-married for 30 years-spend their wedding anniversary in Paris. However, the romantic city soon becomes a backdrop to their increasingly bitter disputes about the state of their marriage-and their lives.
But, as they gradually become part of the rhythm of the city-its cafes and monuments-the tension that has burdened them fades as they re-discover the playfulness and anarchy of their youth.
Their melancholy dissolves in a...
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The acclaimed National Theatre actor Robert Stephens said to the star of Granada TV's Sherlock Holmes; Jeremy Brett; "Do not undertake the role of Sherlock Holmes. He will be your undoing". "You must drop it Mr. Holmes, you really must. It will be your undoing" said Professor James Moriarty upon his first encounter with Sherlock Holmes. Somewhere between the fact and fiction Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's greatest creation stole the soul of Jeremy Brett,...
76) Supermodels!
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Chloe, Max, Francesca, and Tania are successful supermodels. Despite promising careers, paranoia about their future plagues them as they age.
To counter the effects of aging, Van Swoon Cosmetics is, developing a new cosmetic line, Superheroine, an advanced formula that uses nanobots carrying alpha particles that manipulate the wearer's DNA. Bowing to corporate pressures, development of Superheroine is rushed. When the four models are, exposed to...
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Write Your Screenplay with the Help of Top Screenwriters! It's like taking a Master Class in screenwriting... all in one book! Discover the pitfalls of writing to fit a budget from screenwriters who have successfully navigated these waters already. Learn from their mistakes and improve your script with their expert advice.
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The theme of the play is an unorthodox imaginary family compound of heretical characters which many of them, if combined by twos, are the ends of a conscience and a lesson about life to excess of.
Agatha, the chatelaine invites her family in England to celebrate her birthday and tell them who will inherit her huge mansion.
Her brother and her sister, her lifelong friend and physician are some guests of the list. Carl (a psychiatrist), Lou (a linguist...
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In the second edition of this popular guide, actors learn to use their skills to write monologues, performance art pieces, and one-person plays. Updated to include exclusive interviews and tips on marketing, this guide helps actors create their own exciting performance opportunities and follow in the footsteps of Elaine Stritch, Billy Crystal, John Leguizamo, and other stunningly successful writer-performers of one-person shows. The author, an award-winning...
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Philip K. Dick is the author of science-fiction classics that have inspired movies like “Bladerunner”, “Total Recall” and “Minority Report”. Sadly, Dick did not live enough to see how his suspicion of reality and his search for the human essence in an artificial world became mainstream concerns and pop culture icons.
Based on a careful review of biographical materials and his personal acquaintance with some of Dick's closest friends and...
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