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Informative book yet outdated.
Wonderful, informative book about a very good British actor.Since this is I believe the only biography on him his theater work was something new to me.Also the chronicle of the making of the Long Good Friday was a delight to read since it took so long to be released.Good choice of pictures though the book needs to be updated badly. ... Read more

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Geroge Ella Lyon, poet, author and story teller, gives insight into the poetic process. Number two in the Auhors and Young Author's Series. Listed as one of the Best Books for Teenage, New York Public Library, 2000. It was short listed for the 2000 Howard Prinz award from American Library Association. ... Read more

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Support for budding poets!
George Ella Lyon's, "Where I'm From," is a wonderful gem for giving teachers of young poets an accessible link to how a writer thinks, imagines, and prepares to write a poem.The collection is perfect for teachers that want to launch a new year with an opportunity for students to do some writing.The signature poem, "Where I'm From," can be used to model student writing that invites everyone to share something about themselves and begin the process of building community in the classroom.Ms. Lyons has a very down-to-earth way of expressing her encouragement to budding writers.There is a poet in all of us, and this book will help students find their writing "voice."

Good for teachers
This book teaches about writing poetry and is suggestive of things teachers could do with their students.

Clear, inspiring, usable book for writers and teachers.
George Ella Lyon has been inspiring writers and teachers for years.Her writing exercises and her lyrical way of talking about writing keep her indemand as a workshop leader and speaker at schools.At last we have thisbook!I have used her exercises for years in my writing workshops, alwayswith results that far exceed the writing that students have have done up tothat point. Those same exercises have led me into writing poems I didn'tknow were waiting to be written. No one is better at evoking the voices ofreal people or helping a new writer really see what she is trying to get onpaper than Lyon. The exercises in this book are wonderful, but a closereading of Lyon's poems is perhaps the most rewarding part of Where I'mFrom for writers and teachers alike.Highly recommended. ... Read more

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Rabbit Ears Treasury of World Tales Volume 3 features mystical stories from around the globe--read by your favorite stars and featuring original music by some of today's greatest artists.

The Bremen Town Musicians
Read by Bob Hoskins
Original Music by Eugene Friesen

The Brother Grimm present the story of four over-the-hill yet spunky animals who decide it's never too late to start over. Join the dog, cat, rooster, and donkey in their comedic escapades as they decide to begin new lives as traveling musicians.


Koi and the Kola Nuts
Read by Whoopi Goldberg
Original Music by Herbie Hancock

This humorous African folktale tells the story of Koi, the son of a chief who wants the villagers to honor him in a manner befitting his heritage. But unless he can accomplish three impossibl3e tasks he'll end up in the cooking pot instead. Will his new friends--a snake, an ant, and an alligator--be able to save his life and help him find his place in the world? ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bob Hoskins, Iva Bittová, Sandro de América, Joaquín Cortés, Nikolai Slichenko, Rosario Flores, Jean Constantin, Lolita Flores, Ştefan Bănică, Sr., Katarina Taikon, Rosa Taikon. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. (born 26 October 1942) is an English actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds, psychopaths and gangsters, in films such as The Long Good Friday (1980), and Mona Lisa (1986), and lighter roles in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Hook (1991). Hoskins was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, the son of Elsie Lillian (née Hopkins), a cook and nursery-school teacher, and Robert William Hoskins, Sr., a bookkeeper and lorry (truck) driver. One of Hoskins's grandmothers was a Romani. His father, a Communist, brought up Hoskins as an atheist, and he now describes himself as an agnostic. In 1967, aged 25, Hoskins spent a short period in kibbutz Zikim in Israel (though he is not Jewish). According to the production notes on the Special Edition of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, his acting career started when he was sitting in a pub enjoying a beer when someone came up to him and told him to go upstairs to audition for a play. So he did and actually got the role. Before that day a career in acting was the last thing he ever thought he'd have. After beginning his acting career on the London stage in the late 1960s, Hoskins first gained wide attention in the original BBC television serial version of Dennis Potter's Pennies from Heaven as sheet music salesman Arthur Parker and On the Move (both 1978), an educational series intended to tackle adult illiteracy. Later, he played Iago in Jonathan Miller's BBC Television Shakespeare production of Othello. Hoskins's performances in British films such as The Long Good Fr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=164228 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ouida, Humphry Repton, Charles James Blomfield, Bob Hoskins, Chrissie Wellington, James Moore, Stephen Gardiner, Richard Aungerville, William Symonds, Nick Burton, Guy Simonds, Peter Hall, Ian Pearce, James Scowcroft, Bob Blizzard, Matthew Vaughn, Hiram Codd, Richard Logan, Becky Jago, Sue Ryder, John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, Kate Jackson, Jon Rigby, Joseph Payne, Alban Roe, Harrison Oxley, James Krause, Charles Valentine le Grice, Richard Gwyn, James George Deck, Freddie Sore, Jimmy Neil, Jocelyn de Brakelond, Kate Peyton, Honor Tracy, Frank Smith, Ed Upson, Michael Maloney, Francis Dunnell, Greg Mcdonald, Henry Crabb Robinson, Jon Ridgeon, Heather Deeley, Jo Jennings, Sharon Hunt, Tom Youngs, James Lowe, James Adams, Nicholas Battely, Percy Greg, Justin Bishop. Excerpt: Christine Ann Wellington (born 18 February 1977), also known as Chrissie Wellington, is an English triathlete who is the world record holder for ironman-distance triathlon races. She is the current and three-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion, having won the World Championship consecutively in 2007, 2008 and 2009. She is noted for having won the World Championship less than a year after turning professional, an achievement which has been described as "a remarkable feat, deemed to be a near impossible task for any athlete racing as a rookie at their first Ironman World Championships." She is also the first British athlete to hold the Ironman Triathlon World Championship, and remains undefeated over the Ironman distance. In addition to the Ironman titles, she was also the 2006 ITU Age Group World Champion and the 2008 ITU long-distance World Champion. Christine Wellington was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and grew up in Feltwell, a small village in Norfolk. She wa... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13719954 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alfred Edward Housman, Bob Hoskins, Sway Dasafo, Lindsay Cooper, Sidney William Wooldridge, Lilian Harvey, Chris Bart-Williams, Bridget Dowling, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Charles James Mott, James Alleyn, John Hickson, Charles Summersby, Klashnekoff, Mary Forbes, Judy Fryd. Excerpt:Alfred Edward Housman Alfred Edward Housman (pronounced / ha sm n/ ; 26 March 1859 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman , was an English classical scholar and poet , best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad . Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early twentieth century English composers (beginning with Arthur Somervell ) both before and after the First World War . Through its song-setting the poetry became closely associated with that era, and with Shropshire itself. Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time. He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and later, at Cambridge . His editions of Juvenal , Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative. Life Housman was born in Fockbury, a hamlet on the outskirts of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire , the eldest of seven children of a country solicitor . His mother died on his twelfth birthday, and subsequently her place was taken by his stepmother Lucy, an elder cousin of his father's whom he later married in 1873. His brother Laurence Housman and sister Clemence Housman also became writers. Ho... ... Read more

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Chapters: Donald Sutherland, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Roy Dupuis, Jeremy Irons, Christopher Plummer, Maury Chaykin, Gordon Pinsent, Brendan Fletcher, Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Nick Mancuso, Roshan Seth, William Hutt, Elias Koteas, Lothaire Bluteau, Jacques Godin, Alan Scarfe, Tom Mccamus, Natar Ungalaaq, Tony Nardi, Rémy Girard, John Wildman, Gabriel Arcand, Thomas Peacocke, David La Haye, Luc Picard, Eric Fryer, Roger Lebel. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 143. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Roy Dupuis (born 21 April 1963) is a Canadian actor best known for his role as counterterrorism operative Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita. He is one of the most famous actors throughout French-speaking Canada, while throughout English-speaking Canada he has become known for portraying hockey legend Maurice Richard on television and in film, as well as Roméo Dallaire in the 2007 film Shake Hands with the Devil. Dupuis was born Roy Michel Joseph Dupuis in New Liskeard, Ontario to parents of French-Canadian descent. From early infancy until he was eleven years old, Dupuis lived in Amos, Abitibi, Quebec. The next three years he lived in Kapuskasing, Ontario, where he learned to speak English. His father was a traveling salesman for Canada Packers; his mother was a piano teacher. He has a younger brother and an older sister. When he was fourteen, after his parents divorced, his mother moved the family to Sainte-Rose, Laval, Quebec, where he finished high school. After high school, he studied acting in Montreal, at the National Theatre School of Canada (L'École nationale de théâtre du Canada), from which he graduated in 1986. He lives southeast of Montreal, in an 1840 farmhouse located on 50 acres (200,000 m²) of land which he bought ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1206525 ... Read more

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Chapters: British Romani People, Charlie Chaplin, Adam Ant, Bob Hoskins, Romanichal, Freddy Eastwood, Martin Taylor, Ian Hancock, Rodney "Gipsy" Smith, Jackie Leven, Xavier Petulengro, Jentina, Jem Mace, George Bramwell Evens, Raby Howell, Kale, Louise Doughty, Joe Longthorne, Gordon Boswell Romany Museum, Sylvia Dunn. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 129. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor and film director of the silent film era who became one of the best-known film stars in the world before the end of the First World War. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing, and from 1918 composing the music. With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919. Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent movie comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian stage and the Music Hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, until close to his death at the age of 88. His high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy. Chaplin's identification with the left ultimately forced him to resettle in Europe during the McCarthy era in the early 195...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5142 ... Read more

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Chapters: Abbots of Bury St. Edmunds, Ouida, Humphry Repton, Charles James Blomfield, Bob Hoskins, Chrissie Wellington, James Moore, Stephen Gardiner, Richard Aungerville, William Symonds, Nick Burton, Guy Simonds, Peter Hall, Ian Pearce, James Scowcroft, Bob Blizzard, Matthew Vaughn, Hiram Codd, Richard Logan, Hugh of Northwold, Becky Jago, Sue Ryder, John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, Kate Jackson, Jon Rigby, Joseph Payne, Alban Roe, Harrison Oxley, James Krause, Charles Valentine le Grice, Richard Gwyn, James George Deck, Freddie Sore, Jimmy Neil, Jocelyn de Brakelond, Kate Peyton, Honor Tracy, Frank Smith, Ed Upson, Michael Maloney, Francis Dunnell, Greg Mcdonald, Henry Crabb Robinson, Jon Ridgeon, Heather Deeley, Jo Jennings, Sharon Hunt, Tom Youngs, James Lowe, James Adams, Abbot of Bury St Edmunds, Nicholas Battely, Percy Greg, Justin Bishop. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 198. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds was the title used by the head of the Benedictine monastery Bury St. Edmunds Abbey in the county of Suffolk , England . The following table lists the abbots from the foundation of the abbey in 1020 until 1216. Name: Dates: Notes References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Hugh of Northwold Hugh of Northwold was a medieval Bishop of Ely .Life Hugh was born in the parish of Northwold in Norfolk, the son of Peter and Emma. He became a monk at Abbey of Bury St Edmunds in 1202. He was elected Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds on 7 August 1213. King John of England , however, contested the election, and for three years it was contested until on 10 June 1215, when the king finally accepted Hugh's election. He was elected to the see of Ely about 3 February 1229. He was consecrated on 19 June 1229 at Canterbury . While bishop, he built extensively, was sent on diplomat... ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Super Mario Bros. is a 1993 science fiction adventure film loosely based on the video game of the same name and its entire franchise. The film follows the exploits of Mario (Bob Hoskins) and his brother Luigi (John Leguizamo) in a comical dystopia ruled by King Koopa (Dennis Hopper). Super Mario Bros. was originally a critical and commercial failure upon its release in the United States. Harsh criticism was aimed at the film's darker atmosphere and its inaccuracies compared to the game's franchise. The film was also largely disliked by Hoskins, Leguizamo and Hopper themselves due to the very notorious production problems they faced and having negative opinions about the film's nature similar to critics. ... Read more