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ONE...TWO...FREDDY'S COMING FOR YOU....

You've seen him in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series -- and in your darkest dreams. The sadistic killer with the flame-charred face. The knife-blade claws. The razor-sharp wit. Freddy...But you've never seen him like this. Unflinching. Uncensored. Unmasked.

Meet Robert Englund, the award-winning actor best known for his role as Freddy Krueger -- the legendary horror icon featured on the American Film Institute's "100 Greatest Heroes and Villains" roster -- a character as unforgettable and enduring as Bela Lugosi's Dracula and Boris Karloff's Frankenstein. Now, for the first time, the man behind the latex mask tells his story in this captivating new memoir, published to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first A Nightmare on Elm Street film.

You see, Robert Englund is no monster at all, but a deeply funny, charming Hollywood veteran. Packed with Robert's hilarious stories, playful self-deprecation, and a generous helping of never-before-revealed A Nightmare on Elm Street trivia, Hollywood Monster offers an unparalleled look at the beloved film icon. With insider savvy and gallows humor, Robert recounts his audition for Wes Craven, the inspiration for Freddy's character, the grueling makeup sessions, his soon-to-be-famous costars, the often disastrous on-set blunders, and the wave of popularity that propelled this humble California surfer kid all the way to the top.

Of course, fame and fortune as Freddy came years after the young actor shared a trailer with screen legend Henry Fonda, was punched in the face by Richard Gere, took down Burt Reynolds, and muscled his way between Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sally Field, and Jeff Bridges.

But soon after his high-profile stint in the groundbreaking TV miniseries V, Robert Englund took on the most celebrated role of his career -- the macabre and wisecracking killer who quickly became a household name. From the moment Freddy Krueger dragged his claws across a rusty pipe in the opening dream sequence, a legend had been unleashed -- and a star was born. This is his story.

"Welcome to prime time, bitch."
-- Frederick Charles Krueger, bastard son of a hundred maniacs ... Read more

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Interesting but brief
This book is a very quick read.There is not as much information as I hoped.If you are looking for revealing information about the Nightmare on Elm Street movies you would enjoy the DVD documentary Never Sleep Again much more.This is an interesting book but is brief.

Such a fun book to read
I LOVED this book! I'm a huge nightmare/robert englund fan so I just knew I had to have this book. I was so interested in learning about everything that Robert has experienced throughout his life. His stories about frightening people on and off set of the nightmare movies are hilarious. I also loved how before each chapter, he talked about a nightmare he's had. This is just a fantastic book for anyone wanting to know more about the real freddy krueger. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is because I finished it in about 5 hours and I was so upset when I finished it. I just wanted to keep reading!

Hollywood monester's wonderful!
Robert Englund is always a pleasure to watch on camera, but turns out he's wonderful in print to! this book is surprising, but majorly captivating. my only complaint is i would like to hear more in depth about the freddy role. over all great book, if ou love Robert Englund you'll love his book!

Disappointing
This would be a fantastic biography if it felt like it were written by the actor, instead you get 250 odd rambling anecdotes jotted down seemingly by a fan, which ultimately portrays the facts as whitewashed and Mr. Englund as obtuse. In terms of entertainment industry biographies it's not criminal fabrication such as Robert Evans' The Kid Stays In The Picture but in no way is it the caliber of Bruce Campbell's If Chins Could Kill or even Doug Bradley's meditation on transformative acting Sacred Monsters (Behind The Mask Of The Horror Actor). Great moments in Englund's life such as the argument with his father that caused him to leave home, or discovering Freddy Krueger's core value, or the first kiss with his second wife are spoken of glibly. The nine years of his life between Mangler and Freddy VS Jason aren't even mentioned and both events and people seem to fade in and out of the narrative. It's unfortunate that he was only approached to write a biography when the twenty fifth anniversary of A Nightmare On Elm Street loomed because he's a fantastic actor and deserving of an infinitely more fleshed out and candid biography.

Great read.
I finished it in one sitting, but that's mainly because I couldn't put it down.I love Robert Englund and I had a great time remembering the '80s and '90s as he recounts filming the Nightmare movies.I also learned a few things I didn't know but should've: Englund directed 976-EVIL?I love that movie, but didn't know that.Nostalgic fans are in for a treat with this book. ... Read more

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Archaic Bookkeeping brings together the most current scholarship on the earliest true writing system in human history.Invented by the Babylonians at the end of the fourth millennium B.C., this script, called proto-cuneiform, survives in the form of clay tablets that have until now posed formidable barriers to interpretation.Many tablets, excavated in fragments from ancient dump sites, lack a clear context.In addition, the purpose of the earliest tablets was not to record language but to monitor the administration of local economies by means of a numerical system.

Using the latest philological research and new methods of computer analysis, the authors have for the first time deciphered much of the numerical information.In reconstructing both the social context and the function of the notation, they consider how the development of our earliest written records affected patterns of thought, the concept of number, and the administration of household economies.Complete with computer-generated graphics keyed to the discussion and reproductions of all documents referred to in the text, Archaic Bookkeeping will interest specialists in Near Eastern civilizations, ancient history, the history of science and mathematics, and cognitive psychology. ... Read more

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Narrowly focused but excellent
"Archaic Bookkeeping" is an edited translation of the catalog that accompanied the sale of 82 proto-cuneiform tablets from the Swiss Erlenmeyer collection by Christie's in 1988 in London.These tablets hadbeen purchased in late 1950s, but had not been subjected to any detailedstudy.Personally I am not opposed to individual ownership of antiquities,but I do believe that preventing these valuable texts from being studied byscholars for decades is inexcusable.The tablets analyzed are mainly fromUruk, and date to the Archaic period in Sumerian history, circa 3000 BC.

The casual observer might think that the study of ancient cultures mightbe a field without much in the way of rapid change, but this would befalse.The advent of powerful computer programs have recently allowed theprocessing of large amounts non-numerical data and graphic information.Aresearcher is therefore able to instantly access an entire body of textwhen testing an hypothesis.The authors of "Archaic Bookkeeping"made use of this powerful technique, which is becoming more useful all thetime.This is made clear by the fact that as of 1993 (the date"Archaic Bookkeeping" was published), only 600 of the 5000archaic tablets from Uruk had been sufficiently published.

I am aninterested student of Sumerology, and my purchase of this book was anattempt not so much to understand archaic bookkeeping but to see examplesof the actual translation process, and, to the degree that I could, followalong.There is currently very little of this sort of material availablefor the interested amateur.In general it seems that this information isboth too difficult to have much amateur appeal, and too rudimentary forspecialists in the field.For those looking for a good introduction toSumeria, I highly recommend "The Sumerians" by Samuel Kramer.

Ifound the prose in this book to be very clear and well-constructed, with notrace of the fact that it had been translated from German.I found itsurprisingly free of philological and linguist jargon; its main purpose wasthe practical communication of how the authors used the tablets to extractinformation about Sumerian field administration, labor organization, andanimal husbandry.The book's area of focus is quite narrow, but it needsto be to cover the subject fairly.I found the tablet photographs anddiagrams to be a highlight of the book and uniformly excellent.Thebibliography was arranged by chapter and was very useful. ... Read more

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This comprehensive study of the Proto-Elamite language (ca. 3000 B.C.) is based on a small archive recovered from the site of Tepe Yahya in southeastern Iran. The authors, two of the leading specialists on the most ancient written texts of the Near East, illuminate the structure of the texts, the numerical sign systems used, and the relation of Proto-Elamite to other protocuneiform writing systems. A computer-generated sign list compares the written archive from Tepe Yahya with those of other archaeological sites from which Proto-Elamite texts have been recovered.

The volume offers a new understanding of the language and culture of the Proto-Elamites as well as important insights into the economic structure of the earliest literate civilizations. With a new preface by the authors.

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Creating the Project Office is written for managers who are searching for ways to transform their organizations into more effective and efficient project-based workplaces. As this important book reveals, there is no more effective way to make that change than to create a project office tailored to the needs of the organization. While a project office model leads to better products from projects, it is also a vehicle for generating overall organizational change— by transforming the organization from function-based to project-based. This model incorporates projects into the very fabric of the organizational strategy and revitalizes organizations, creates competitive advantage, and increases shareholder value. ... Read more

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Great guide for PMO builders
Hello,

I have read about 50% of the book and it's helping me a lot with the building of the PMO in my site.

It helps you on how to face this process focusing on the intagibles, not on the process.

PMO and change management
You can feel the great experience the three authors have on this topic! They focus on the how (change management within the organization) rather than the what (scope of PMO functions).
I found the following particularly interesting: the Project Environment Assessment Tool and the L²M² model for change management.
Unfortunately, I could not implement any of the ideas in the book.

Don't have metric for start the PMO
I belive, if the book would have metrics and templates for the process start, it is very usefull.

Creating the Project Office : A Manager's Guide to Leading Organizational Change
Excellent service

Common sense applied to change management, wrapped in a bow!
I purchased this book on recommendation from a previous reviewer and was amazed by the breadth, depth, and more importantly pace of the book. The book moves quickly and does not spend a lot of time on theory, more time on examples (drawn mainly from Englund's work at HP).

The high level process applies as a general change management agenda, but applied through the lense of a PMO or project office. The annecdotes and lessons learnt provide an excellent framework for either internal "change agents" or external consultants to structure a successful organizational change and increase in proejct delivery quality.

The examples and frameworks in the book are easily understood and presented in a way that they can be reused or applied to many different project management challenges. I highly recommend this book to program managers or IT consultants who are intereste in affecting change in any organization. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Captain Beefheart, Robert Englund, Paul Walker, Brandon Mccarthy, Edward Furlong, Wayne Allwine, Dennis Muren, Scott Gorham, Jimmy Davies, Erika Eleniak, Mark Allen, Elvin Bishop, Doug Davidson, Richie Hearn. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Don Van Vliet, né Don Glen Vliet le 15 janvier 1941, est un musicien et artiste visuel américain, mieux connu sous le pseudonyme de Captain Beefheart. Son œuvre musicale fut principalement réalisée avec un ensemble fluctuant de musiciens nommé le Magic Band, actif depuis le milieu des années 1960 jusqu'au début des années 1980. Van Vliet est l'inventeur d'une musique révolutionnaire, sorte de blues-rock déconstruit à la manière du free jazz, qu'il accompagnait de sa voix inquiétante et saugrenue (elle s'étalait sur cinq octaves), mais aussi à l'harmonica ou, plus rarement, au saxophone et au clavier. Ses compositions sont caractérisées par un assortiment singulier de signatures rythmiques mouvantes et de paroles surréalistes. Figure excentrique de la scène underground américaine, sa démarche exerça une influence inestimable sur les musiques déviantes à venir, comme le punk rock ou la new wave, en dépit de sa maigre réussite commerciale. Van Vliet se joignit au Magic Band en 1965 et s'imposa vite en leader autoritaire. Ses premières productions étaient ancrées dans le blues et le rock, mais Captain Beefheart ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947) is an American actor and voice-actor, best known for playing the fictional serial killer Freddy Krueger, in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors in 1987 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master in 1988. Despite his reputation for appearing in horror films, Englund is a classically trained actor. Englund was born in Glendale, California on June 6, 1947, the son of Janis (née MacDonald) and Clyde Kent Englund, an aeronautics engineer who helped develop the Lockheed U-2 aircraft. He has Swedish ancestry. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Freddy : Les Griffes de La Nuit, Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger, Freddy, le Cauchemar de Vos Nuits, Freddy Contre Jason, La Fin de Freddy : L'ultime Cauchemar, Freddy Sort de La Nuit, Les Griffes Du Cauchemar, L'enfant Du Cauchemar, le Cauchemar de Freddy, La Revanche de Freddy. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Les Griffes de la nuit, (A Nightmare on Elm Street), est un film d'horreur (« slasher ») américain sorti en 2010, réalisé par Samuel Bayer et écrit par Wesley Strick et Eric Heisserer. C'est le remake du film-homonyme de Wes Craven sorti en 1984 ; produit par Michael Bay et Platinum Dunes, il est conçu pour réamorcer la saga. Le film se concentre autour d'un groupe d'adolescents étant traqués et assassinés dans leurs rêves par un homme nommé Freddy Krueger, découvrant en fin de compte qu'ils partagent tous une liaison commune depuis leur enfance qui les fait des cibles pour Freddy. Les Griffes de la nuit allait à l'origine suivre la même conception que l'autre remake de Platinum Dunes, Vendredi 13, avec les scénaristes prenant les meilleurs éléments de chacun des films et de la création de l'histoire avec eux. Finalement, ils ont décidé d'utiliser l'histoire original de Craven et essayer de créer un film plus effrayant. C'étant, ils ont décidé d'enlever Freddy raillant d'une seule ligne, qui était devenu moins effrayant et plus comique au cours des années et en le rendant à une nature plus sombre; cela inclus le développement du personnage comme un vrai violeur d'enfants, quelque chose que Craven voulu faire à l'origine en 1984, mais en le changeant à un tueur d'enfant simple. La décision a été aussi faite pour rapprocher l'apparence physique de Freddy que celui de la brûlure réelle de l...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Title: The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer.(Book review)
Author: Robert K. Englund
Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 125Issue: 1Page: 113(4)

Article Type: Book review

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The Journal was in its 108th year in 1991. The articles in this issue include The Prayers of Wakh-ankh-Antef-Aa, Labor Management in Ur III Mesopotamia, The Civic and Temple Community of Persian Period Judea: Neglected Insights from Eastern Europe, From Zanzibar to agros: A Copal Pendant from Eshnunna, and Book Reviews. ... Read more

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Five stories by new authors, Bureau of Lost Souls story, Steve Miner, Swamp Thing, Patrick McGrath, George C. Scott in Exorcist 1990, more ... Read more