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...Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part expose on the motion picture industry. In it, he shares his observations from his extended stay in Los Angeles, and gives us an intimate look at the s...

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... These stories grew more and more popular as the public became increasingly fascinated with the movies, the film industry, and the odd inhabitants of Hollywood. These stories reflect and often respond to the public's fascination with the movies; at the same time, they also reveal their fears and anxieties about the new medium. The first volume of this anthology collects 16...

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...It is a well known fact that Holywood is leaning towards socialism. However the financing of this Hollywood socialist propaganda is rarely discussed. The last few years saw some socialist movies like “The Wolf of Wall Street”, “The Promised Land”, “The Big Short” becoming major box office success stories. The question is ...

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...Tensión crítica: Dashiell Hammett 5 Malas Pulgas: La novela negra o la dejación de funciones del escritor 12 Hammett en Hollywood 15 Dashiell Hammett: Redactor publicitario 41 Claves del origen de la novela policial 75 Sólo te ahorcan una vez, de Dashiel Hammett 101 Dando tumbos 112 Crónica de un desengaño 121 La persistencia del género ...

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...ir house. Slipperen had noticeably fewer students than the others. The way everything was staged reminded me of this place my dad once took me to in Hollywood called The Magic Castle. They had secret doors that opened when you said the magic words and all sorts of tricks and illusions everywhere. But it was tiny compared to Hogworts. I'd never heard of anything on this s...

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...Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to Hollywood to become a serious actor. How could Merton fail in attaining his dreams after finishing a correspondence course from the General Film Production Company of Stebbinsville, Arkansas, certifying him to be a competent ...

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... William S. Hart... as narrated by his horse! This is a fascinating (if fictionalized) behind-the-scenes look into the wild, action-packed world of a Hollywood cowboy and stuntman. TOLD UNDER A WHITE OAK TREE is a charming children's book that not only gives us a fanciful account of Hart's career as Hollywood's premier western hero, but also tells a rousing adventure story...

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...ipedia] Captain Blood was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated swashbuckling film that rocketed Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland to stardom in Hollywood. The fast-paced historical fiction of Rafael Sabatini is often compared with that of Robert Louis Stevenson and Alexandre Dumas. [DSayers]...

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...Celebrated playwright Nicholas Martin didn’t read the small print in his Hollywood options contract. Now he’s facing five years of servitude to a conceited director named Raoul St. Cyr, who’s taken a thoughtful play about Portuguese fishermen and added dancing mermaids. When it seems the plot has ...

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... on a South Pacific island. This beautiful story of adventure and innocent love was H.D. Stacpoole’s most popular work. Parents who may have seen the Hollywood film need not be anxious about the book's suitability for kids -- the author's treatment of adolescent sexuality is almost mystical and very mild. The story of The Blue Lagoon (1908) continues in The Garden of God (...

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... towns and villages across the archipelago, who could not afford to watch a Hollywood movie and needed cheap entertainment. Today, a decade later... ...in the ‘big durian’ prefer showing local produced movies, then some latest Hollywood offerings, with theatre queues longer for local comedies like,... ...ching the hearts of millions of new movie goers that started snubbing rival Hollywood movies- making theatre owners gain a new respect for home prod... ...nesian style horror movies, are more popular than the same ones produced in Hollywood. Both types of movies now compete with each other, for the mil... ...old each other in fear during the midnight show. So watch out Bollywood and Hollywood-a new rival has arrived, Indowood. City of Dreams Mini ebook ...

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...Famous Amos Chocolate-Chip Cookie could succeed as a stand-alone shop on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, I became the Little Cookie-Maker That Could.... ...ays to give. Many years ago, back when I had my Famous Amos 39 store in Hollywood, I linked the activity of making cookies with the activity of im... ...y credo precisely. I used to bake chocolate-chip cookies and give them to Hollywood celebrities who really ate them up. I began to imagine what migh... ...ate them up. I began to imagine what might happen if I opened a store on Hollywood's Sunset Strip that sold homemade-style chocolate-chip cookies? ...

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...ue to do more than a million dollars a year in sales. His first cookie store in Hollywood brought Wally fame and fortune but not the happiness and ...

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...e in 1976, just a year after I opened the first (Name­ less) Amos store in Hollywood. Christine, a fabric collage artist and printmaker, embroidered ... ...ed me with a whole new feeling of enthu­ siasm. We lived in a house in the Hollywood Hills with two bed­ rooms and a nice little backyard-quite a chan... .... I also used my cookies as a calling card in meetings with producers and Hollywood executives. My chocolate chip treats were a sure way to make peo... ...se have been closed to me. I would sometimes find myself in meetings with Hollywood I also used my cookies as a calling card in meetings with produ... ... I also used my cookies as a calling card in meetings with producers and Hollywood executives. My chocolate chip treats were a sure way to make peo... ...sioned with my choice of career. I decided to reinvent myself completely. Hollywood was al­ ready addicted to my cookies. And by this time I was well... ...d declared that date "Chocolate Chip Cookie Day" in Los Angeles. It was a Hollywood splash with all the glamour and excitement meant for the best o... ... declared that date" Chocolate Chip Cookie Day" in Los Angeles. It was a Hollywood splash with all the glamour and excitement meant for the best of... ...ext decade, (Nameless) Amos cookies developed from a fashionable trend in Hollywood to a supermarket basic and fa­ vorite all over the country and in...

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...snorting cocaine. Celebrities from Thomas Edison to Sarah Bernhart – not to mention Hollywood – extolled the drug’s virtues. Cocaine was banned in t... ...t Schultze (1911-2002), a collaborator with the Hitler regime. But contrary to what Hollywood would have us believe, it was not an exclusively Nazi ... ...on the panel of judges in 1923. Campbell died in 1990. She declined offers from Hollywood and Broadway, married, and led a staid life to her dea...

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... acele clipe. Nu vreau sã fiu o pacoste nimãnui. Nici frumoasã de dus la Hollywood nu e! Asfaltul frige ca plita. O grãmadã de bani! Cã te ºi duc...

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...ical appearance. I wanted to look like the TV and movie star images that Hollywood and advertisers had created, even though they were all white and... ...oon I used when I baked cookies at home, as the center of interest in the Hollywood store. Sure enough, when you walk into Famous Amos on Sunset Bo... ...life long before the Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie made its debut in Hollywood, March 9, 1975. It was faith in myself that helped me overcome n...

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... do maremoto nas Filipinas para a entrega do Oscar na Academia de Artes de Hollywood. Sobre a mesa leu,num relance, uma ordem de serviço do Chefe da...

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...nkoraŭ povos verki ilin, mi estas Ame via, L. FRANK BAUM, “Reĝa Historiisto de Oz.” “OZCOT” ĉe HOLLYWOOD en KALIFORNIO 1919 LISTO DE ĈAPITROJ ...