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Maggie Smith

Autor: Michael Coveney

Número de Páginas: 464

'Coveney is the only writer who could get under Smith's skin, capturing her steeliness and vulnerability' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY From her days as a star of West End comedy and revue, Dame Maggie's path has led to international renown and numerous accolades including two Academy Awards. Recently she has been as prominent on our screens as ever, with high-profile roles as the formidable Dowager Countess of Grantham in DOWNTON ABBEY, as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the HARRY POTTER movie franchise and as the eccentric Miss Shepherd in the film version of THE LADY IN THE VAN by Alan Bennett. Paradoxically she remains an enigmatic figure, rarely appearing in public and carefully guarding her considerable talent. Drawing on personal archives, interviews and encounters with the actress, as well as conversations with immediate family and dear friends, Michael Coveney's biography is a captivating portrait of the real Maggie Smith.

Maggie Smith

Autor: Caroline Fevrier

Número de Páginas: 346

Dame Maggie Smith stands as a remarkable example of the concomitance – in a performer’s career – of typecasting and characterisation, that is the ability to impersonate ‘against type’ infinitely various screen or stage characters. This book of appreciation essentially aims at correcting the preconceived image that the general public has of Dame Maggie Smith. Focusing on the last twenty-five years, it examines, through the many parts she has played since the early 1990s, her ability to go beyond typecasting and give, thanks to her chameleon skills, nuanced and convincing portrays of infinitely diverse characters. From The Importance of Being Earnest to Gosford Park and Becoming Jane, to Downton Abbey and Sister Act, to The Last September and the Harry Potter saga, Dame Maggie Smith has had a wide spanning career in TV and Film. Not to mention her theatrical work on the stage. Author Caroline Fevrier lives in Paris, France and has a passion for theatre and performing. Caroline holds a PhD in Literature and Humanities and an MA in Literature and Drama. She was also trained as a professional performer and has been involved in several stage productions and short movies....

LIFE

Número de Páginas: 80

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.

Kiki Smith

Autor: Wendy Weitman , Kiki Smith , Museum Of Modern Art (new York, N.y.)

Número de Páginas: 172

This work is published to accompany an exhibition at MoMA QNS devoted to an under-acknowledged but crucial area of Kiki Smith's art, December 5th, 2003 - March 8th, 2004.

Focus On: 100 Most Popular Tony Award Winners

Autor: Wikipedia Contributors

Número de Páginas: 1199

Focus On: 100 Most Popular 21St-century English Actresses

Autor: Wikipedia Contributors

Número de Páginas: 876

British Television Drama in the 1980s

Autor: George W. Brandt

Número de Páginas: 308

On British television drama in the 1980's

Focus On: 100 Most Popular Drama Films Based on Actual Events

Autor: Wikipedia Contributors

Número de Páginas: 1072

Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist

Autor: Dean Allemang , James Hendler

Número de Páginas: 369

Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL, Second Edition, discusses the capabilities of Semantic Web modeling languages, such as RDFS (Resource Description Framework Schema) and OWL (Web Ontology Language). Organized into 16 chapters, the book provides examples to illustrate the use of Semantic Web technologies in solving common modeling problems. It uses the life and works of William Shakespeare to demonstrate some of the most basic capabilities of the Semantic Web. The book first provides an overview of the Semantic Web and aspects of the Web. It then discusses semantic modeling and how it can support the development from chaotic information gathering to one characterized by information sharing, cooperation, and collaboration. It also explains the use of RDF to implement the Semantic Web by allowing information to be distributed over the Web, along with the use of SPARQL to access RDF data. Moreover, the reader is introduced to components that make up a Semantic Web deployment and how they fit together, the concept of inferencing in the Semantic Web, and how RDFS differs from other schema languages. Finally, the book considers the use of SKOS...

Retratos y Biografías de Actores de Hollywood

Autor: María José Fernández H.

Número de Páginas: 491

Existe un misterio en aquella capacidad de reproducir y producir emociones por parte de los actores, así como participar en situaciones y ser capaces de representarlas de modo que tengan el efecto de entenderse o traducirse al espectador de un modo certero, según el sentimiento que se quiera expresar. Lo que es sin duda un arte. También lo es este libro. En este volumen se encuentran reunidas las biografías y retratos de los 83 actores más relevantes de la historia del cine, dividido en : “Más Premiados y con Más Candidaturas”, agregando unas secciones por parte de la autora llamadas : “Actores Clásicos” y “Actores Populares Destacados”. Así gozará de una memorable selección, retratados de una novedosa manera con una técnica que la artista llama: “Grabados Digitales”. Estos retratos buscan retratar el temple y versatilidad gestual de los actores elegidos, no igualando al actor, sino buscando el parecido esencial, sin caricaturizarlos, pero sí exagerando algunos rasgos o disminuyéndolos para atrapar la efigie más relevante de su rostro. Siguiendo con la línea de la saga “Retratos y Biografías...” la autora busca crear nuevamente un libro para...

Piratas y Cabezas Encurtidas

Autor: Helen Susan Swift

Número de Páginas: 256

Una colección de valientes veleros y famosos capitanes de mar del pasado, Piratas and Pickled Heads es una mirada ecléctica a algunas de las más inusuales historias marinas de Escocia. En cuatro secciones que abarcan personalidades, barcos, lugares y piratas de Escocia, descubrirá una historia náutica intrigante enclavada entre vistas panorámicas al mar y exuberantes paisajes costeros. Desde historias de señores guerreros y corsarios hasta el misterio de Maggie Smith y la extraña leyenda de la remota isla de Rona, explorarás la historia marítima única de Escocia..

The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas

Autor: Davy Rothbart

Número de Páginas: 178

In The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, Davy Rothbart's stories grow out of road trips and small towns and are populated by questionable heroes and gold-hearted thugs. Full of loneliness and hope, heartbreak and humor, Rothbart's tales blaze their way from midwestern farm fields to state prisons and border-town brothels. Much like the lost, tossed, and forgotten items Rothbart collected in his acclaimed book, Found, the stories in The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas capture the oddity, poetry, and dignity of everyday life.

The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals

Autor: Dan Dietz

Número de Páginas: 479

The Broadway musical came of age in the 1950s, a period in which some of the greatest productions made their debuts. Shows produced on Broadway during this decade include such classics as Damn Yankees, Fiorello!, Guys and Dolls, The King and I, Kismet, The Most Happy Fella, My Fair Lady, The Pajama Game, Peter Pan, The Sound of Music, and West Side Story. Among the performers who made their marks were Julie Andrews, Bob Fosse, Carol Lawrence, and Gwen Verdon, while other talents who contributed to shows include Leonard Bernstein, Oscar Hammerstein II, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Cole Porter, Jerome Robbins, Richard Rodgers, and Stephen Sondheim. In The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz examines in detail every musical and revue which opened on Broadway during the 1950s. In addition to providing details on every hit and flop that debuted during the decade, this book includes revivals, and one-man and one-woman shows. Each entry contains the following information: Opening and closing datesPlot summaryCast membersNumber of performancesNames of all important personnel including writers, composers, directors, choreographers, producers, and musical...

Hollywood's 100 Leading Actresses

Autor: Hseham Amrahs

Número de Páginas: 524

The Hollywood 100 is a carefully curated list that spans generations, genres, and the ever-evolving landscape of the film industry. Each actress selected for this collection has not only graced the screen but has also left an indelible mark on the cultural zeitgeist. From the luminosity of the Golden Age to the dynamism of contemporary cinema, these women have transcended the screen, becoming beacons of inspiration for aspiring actors and audiences alike. Behind the glamour and glitz, each actress's journey is a tale of passion, perseverance, and the pursuit of excellence. Whether they emerged from humble beginnings or were born into the limelight, their stories are threaded with the common theme of dedication to their craft. From auditions that tested their mettle to roles that defined careers, these narratives unfold like a script, revealing the raw, unfiltered reality that exists behind the scenes.

LIFE

Número de Páginas: 80

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.

Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist

Autor: James Hendler , Fabien Gandon , Dean Allemang

Número de Páginas: 512

Enterprises have made amazing advances by taking advantage of data about their business to provide predictions and understanding of their customers, markets, and products. But as the world of business becomes more interconnected and global, enterprise data is no long a monolith; it is just a part of a vast web of data. Managing data on a world-wide scale is a key capability for any business today. The Semantic Web treats data as a distributed resource on the scale of the World Wide Web, and incorporates features to address the challenges of massive data distribution as part of its basic design. The aim of the first two editions was to motivate the Semantic Web technology stack from end-to-end; to describe not only what the Semantic Web standards are and how they work, but also what their goals are and why they were designed as they are. It tells a coherent story from beginning to end of how the standards work to manage a world-wide distributed web of knowledge in a meaningful way. The third edition builds on this foundation to bring Semantic Web practice to enterprise. Fabien Gandon joins Dean Allemang and Jim Hendler, bringing with him years of experience in global linked data,...

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

Autor: David Thomson

Número de Páginas: 1169

For almost thirty years, David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film has been not merely “the finest reference book ever written about movies” (Graham Fuller, Interview), not merely the “desert island book” of art critic David Sylvester, not merely “a great, crazy masterpiece” (Geoff Dyer, The Guardian), but also “fiendishly seductive” (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone). This new edition updates the older entries and adds 30 new ones: Darren Aronofsky, Emmanuelle Beart, Jerry Bruckheimer, Larry Clark, Jennifer Connelly, Chris Cooper, Sofia Coppola, Alfonso Cuaron, Richard Curtis, Sir Richard Eyre, Sir Michael Gambon, Christopher Guest, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Spike Jonze, Wong Kar-Wai, Laura Linney, Tobey Maguire, Michael Moore, Samantha Morton, Mike Myers, Christopher Nolan, Dennis Price, Adam Sandler, Kevin Smith, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlize Theron, Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski, Lew Wasserman, Naomi Watts, and Ray Winstone. In all, the book includes more than 1300 entries, some of them just a pungent paragraph, some of them several thousand words long. In addition to the new “musts,” Thomson has added key figures from film history–lively...

Campaign Expenditures Committee

Autor: United States. Congress. House. Special Committee To Investigate Campaign Expenditures

Número de Páginas: 320

The Kemmerlin Family of South Carolina

Autor: Pamela Kemmerlin Johnson

Número de Páginas: 382

A genealogy of those of the family Kemmerlin who settled in South Carolina. The author hopes that Kemmerlin family members as well as others will find in this book something meaningful to them, and genealogists, will find the information of use in constructing many other connected family trees.

Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004

Autor: John Stewart

Número de Páginas: 6404

On March 31, 1943, the musical Oklahoma! premiered and the modern era of the Broadway musical was born. Since that time, the theatres of Broadway have staged hundreds of musicals--some more noteworthy than others, but all in their own way a part of American theatre history. With more than 750 entries, this comprehensive reference work provides information on every musical produced on Broadway since Oklahoma's 1943 debut. Each entry begins with a brief synopsis of the show, followed by a three-part history: first, the pre-Broadway story of the show, including out-of-town try-outs and Broadway previews; next, the Broadway run itself, with dates, theatres, and cast and crew, including replacements, chorus and understudies, songs, gossip, and notes on reviews and awards; and finally, post-Broadway information with a detailed list of later notable productions, along with important reviews and awards.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Autor: Christopher Durang

Número de Páginas: 87

Tony Award Winner, Best Play: “Hugely entertaining...deliciously madcap...offers some keen insights into the challenges and agonies of 21st-century life.”—USA Today Nominated for six Tony Awards, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is one of the most lauded and beloved Broadway plays of recent years. Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up, but their peace is disturbed when their movie star sister, Masha, returns unannounced with her twenty-something boy toy, Spike—and a weekend of rivalry, regret, and raucousness begins... Winner of the Outer Circle Critics Award for Best Play Winner of the Drama League Award for Best Production of a Play Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Best Play Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production Winner of the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play

Merchant Vessels of the United States ...

Autor: United States. Bureau Of Customs

Número de Páginas: 458

Record of American and Foreign Shipping

Autor: American Bureau Of Shipping

Número de Páginas: 1162

Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada

Autor: Canada. Parliament

Número de Páginas: 1080

"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.

The City Record

Autor: New York (n.y.)

Número de Páginas: 642

Includes Official canvas of votes (varies slightly) 1878-1943.

The Clydesdale Stud-book. ...

Autor: Clydesdale Horse Society Of Great Britain And Ireland

Número de Páginas: 724

Harry Potter: Characters of the Wizarding World

Autor: Jody Revenson

Número de Páginas: 264

Learn the secrets and stories of more than 60 characters from the wizarding world, including all eight Harry Potter and three Fantastic Beasts films, in this official guide exploring how the beloved characters were adapted for the films. Harry Potter: The Characters of the Wizarding World is an official exploration of the wizarding world’s spellbinding citizens and how they were brought to life on the silver screen. This lavishly illustrated book chronicles how these beloved characters were brought to life for the big screen, with detailed profiles of Harry Potter, Voldemort, Newt Scamander, and dozens more. Filled with cast and crew interviews, behind-the-scenes photographs, concept art, and film facts, this in-depth volume delivers a fascinating look into the onscreen history of all the characters, from Hogwarts students and faculty to Dark wizards, Ministry bureaucrats, and beyond. 11 FEATURED FILMS: Comprehensive and detailed profiles of the beloved characters from every Wizarding World films, including all eight Harry Potter films and the Fantastic Beasts franchise. MORE THAN 60 CHARACTERS PROFILED: Learn about the creative process behind bringing your favorite characters...

Proceedings of the County Legislature of the County of Herkimer

Autor: Herkimer Co. (n.y.) County Legislature

Número de Páginas: 992

History of the Harrison Revival at the First M.E. Church, Springfield, Illinois

Número de Páginas: 92

Fifty Classic British Films, 1932-1982

Autor: Anthony Slide

Número de Páginas: 162

200 striking photographs, in-depth commentaries, plot synposes, contemporary reviews, and more — about 50 British classics from yesterday and today. Preface. Text. Alphabetical list of films. Bibliography.

The Scottish Law Review and Sheriff Court Reports

Número de Páginas: 780

Vols. 29-47, 1913-1931 and v. 72-79, 1956-1963 include Scottish Land Court reports, v. 1-19 and v. 44-51.

Clydesdale Stud Book

Autor: Clydesdale Horse Society Of The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland

Número de Páginas: 956

Best Actress

Autor: Stephen Tapert

Número de Páginas: 517

Showcasing a dazzling collection of 200 photographs, many of which have never before been seen, this lavishly illustrated book offers a captivating historical, social, and political examination of the first 75 women--from Janet Gaynor to Emma Stone--to have won the coveted and legendary Academy Award for Best Actress.t Actress.

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