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Bernadette Peters and Liz Murphy the terrific team behind the New York Times best-selling Broadway Barks are back with a story about Stella, a pup who would rather be a graceful pig ballerina than what she really is: a dog no one seems to like.

Bernadette Peters' lovable Stella learns the lessons of self-acceptance, following her heart's desires and, most important, that it's okay just to be herself. The book includes a CD with an original song written and performed by Bernadette Peters. ... Read more

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Stella
Cute book!Arrived quickly and was all I expected. Heard about it on Broadway and liked the theme and the art.

Great
I love this book,I will read it to my new Grandaughter when she is a little older.I have a loving pit bull terrier.

Sweet Book
I loved this book. Bought it for my neice for her birthday and haven't heard back from her yet but I always read the books I give as gifts and I read this to my dog (lol) who "seemed" interested and I loved it. Thought it was very sweet with a good message. Didn't check out the CD that came with but am waiting to hear what my little 7 yr old neice thinks. I bought both of the books.

Stella is a Star
Excellent narrative and accompanying CD. A wonderful lesson embedded for children to build self esteem.

Loved the message
I have always admired Bernadette Peter's talent on the stage and now I admire her talent in writing books for children.Stella is a Star has a wonderful message.The illustrations are quite beautiful.Those are two things I look for in a book for a child.Oh yes, it has to be fun for the adult to read, as well.The companion CD with the book is an added bonus.I gave this book to a friend who has a 3 year old and a 5 year old.They have really loved the book.Mom and the 5 year old are learning to sing the song, while the 3 year old dances.How many books encourage that much interaction? ... Read more

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In a park in New York City lives a lonely little dog. He remembers when he used to get taken for walks, fed dinner every night, and told he was a good dog. Now, he's all alone and must fend for himself. But everything changes one day when he sees a lady reading in the park and decides to follow her—all the way to a place where he might become a star!

With a story by actress Bernadette Peters and mixed-media collage illustrations by Liz Murphy, Broadway Barks is a warm and appealing story of loss, reunion, and nurturing, complete with a happy ending.

This beautiful package includes a jacket with foil touches as well as an exclusive CD featuring a reading of the story and an original song written and sung by Bernadette Peters. ... Read more

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Perfect book with the perfect cause !!
my nieces and nephews loved this book and so did I.
And its for a great cause and at a great price.
All around can't beat it!!
And who doesn't love Bernadette Peters.

Wonderful
We saw Bernadette Peters in concert & she tols us the story behind the book. All proceeds go to animal shelters, then she sang the lullabye. I bought (2) books one for my 3 year old granddaughter & one for my great nephew's 1st birthday. My granddaughter & I read the book everytime she comes over & before going to sleep she listens to the CD we love it! I also heard that FAO Schwartz has the Kramer dog. Young & old alike will enjoy this!

Broadway Barks
A great story about caring for the homeless animals in cities and how one very pretty lady, with red curly hair and party shoes, brings a dog to a place where he can be hooked up with a new pet owner! I bought the book because the lady looked so much like my daughter, Jill, who passed away in January at the age of 46, a victim of Mesothelioma (a deadly cancer). She loved animals and when I saw the pictures in the book I knew I had to have the book. Then I promptly bought the book as a present for Jill's voice teacher, Judith Farris, who adopted Jill's little "therapy" pomeranian, Chloe (who had been a rescue animal to begin with), when Jill died. The pictures make us smile when our hearts feel sad.

Sweet, sad & totally charming
Oh this ia abeautifullywritten book by a beautiful, caring lady. No I don't know her personally but I wish I did. Also the art work by Liz Murphy is stunning. A great gift for any child & I haven't even played the CD that comes with it yet.

Broadway Beauty!
Providing a moral lesson and a combination of warmth and passion, Broadway Barks will certainly entertain those children possessing a love for animals. Simplicity and humor intertwine to amuse children as they page through the jungle of dazzling collage work, capturing the lively scene in such a way that children adore. Kids will roar with laughter and have a swingin' good time while rooting for the lonely little pup that strives to overcome a dog-eat-dog world in pursuit of real love.

Visit www.readingjungle.com for the full review! ... Read more

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Playboy Magazine, December 1981 Gala Christmas Issue. Bernadette Peters pictorial. Henry Fonda Interview. Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson confessions. Sex Stars of 1981 (Bo, Brooke, etc). Patricia Farinelli centerfold. ... Read more

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Bernadette Peters (born February 28, 1948) is an American actress and singer from New York City. Over the course of a career that has already spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings. She is one of the most critically-acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two, and eight Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards. Peters first performed on the stage as a child and then a teenage actor in the 1960s, and in film and television in the 1970s. She was praised for this early work and for appearances on The Muppet Show, The Carol Burnett Show and in other television work, and for her roles in films like Silent Movie, The Jerk, Pennies from Heaven and Annie. In the 1980s she returned to the theatre, where she became one of the best-known Broadway stars over the next three decades. She also has recorded six solo albums and several singles, as well as many cast albums, and performs regularly in her own solo concert act. ... Read more

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All this book came from Wikipedia.To see this, Google...
...Bernadette Peters (born February 28, 1948) is an American actress and singer from New York City. Over the course of a career that has already spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings. She is one of the most critically-acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two, and eight Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards. Peters first performed on the stage as a child and then a teenage actor in the 1960s, and in film and television in the 1970s. She was praised for this early work and for appearances on The Muppet Show, The Carol Burnett Show and in other television work, and for her roles in films like Silent Movie, The Jerk, Pennies from Heaven and Annie. In the 1980s she returned to the theatre, where she became one of the best-known Broadway stars over the next three decades. She also has recorded six solo albums and several singles, as well as many cast albums, and performs regularly in her own solo concert act...

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Playboy Magazine, December 1981 Gala Christmas Issue. Bernadette Peters pictorial. Henry Fonda Interview. Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson confessions. Sex Stars of 1981 (Bo, Brooke, etc). Patricia Farinelli centerfold. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 187 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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Americans at Work... What Are You Doing With the Rest of Your Life?... Steven Jobs... Debra Winger... William Styron... Bernadette Peters... ... Read more

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Our Vocal Selections songbook is a great collector's edition celebrating the latest Broadway revival of Gypsy, starring Bernadette Peters. In addition to piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of 11 fantastic songs, you get a history of the past stage and screen incarnations the show, listing opening dates and locations, as well as principal cast members, directors and choreographers. Songs: All I Need Is the Girl * Everything's Coming Up Roses * If Momma Was Married * Let Me Entertain You * Little Lamb * Rose's Turn * Small World * Some People * Together Wherever We Go * You Gotta Have a Gimmick * You'll Never Get Away from Me. ... Read more

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Gypsy Vocal Selections [piano-vocal score]
The book does not contain all of the songs from the show or allof the verses to the songs it does include. It is easy to read and includes pictures.

Full Vocal Score
As the title says, this is the full vocal score to Gypsy by Styne and Sondheim.Like most show scores it isn't a partitur, but a piano reduction with instrumental cues.All the vocal lines and lyrics are present as is all underscoring and dance music.What the score doesn't contain is a breakdown of the orchestration, but that is accessed easily enough by visiting Tams-Witmark online. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from American Drama, published by American Drama Institute on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2577 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bernadette Peters on Gypsy.
Author: Gabriel Miller
Publication: American Drama (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: American Drama Institute
Page: 175(10)

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Great movie
This movie is hysterical. Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters - I'm picking out a thermos for you!

He hates these cans!
Great movie in my "opinion". The picture quality is better than dvd, but your not going to drop your jaw and have tears coming from your eyes due to the cinematography.More than likely if your into this movie, you make fun of people who use the term cinematography. I bought this because I have an HD player and it was just as cheap as the DVD. The quality beats regular DVD so I got a bargain.

Embarrassing and stupid
Good parts: That really is Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry playing music at the beginning and the end of the movie.Seriously awesome.

Bad parts: Pretty much everything else.Silly and surreal, yes, but funny, no.Moronic and embarrassing, and clearly a vehicle intended to show Steve Martin at his most frenetic.He's much better in his later, toned-down movies that actually rely on humor and not just stupidity, trawling for cheap laughs.

Its all I need
That's all I need is this video.That's all I need, is this video and these phone books, that's all I need.

DVD- The Jerk
Ihad the tape - and wanted a more permanent copy!
Love it ! ... Read more

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The latest publication to celebrate Richard Rodgers' 2002 centenary, our matching folio to the CD by the talented Bernadette Peters features 13 of the best-loved songs from the dynamic duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Gentleman Is a Dope * I Haven't Got a Worry in the World * If I Loved You * It Might as Well Be Spring * It's a Grand Night for Singing * Mister Snow * Out of My Dreams * So Far * Some Enchanted Evening * Something Good * Something Wonderful * There Is Nothin' like a Dame * You'll Never Walk Alone. ... Read more

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Marquis Theatre program of Broadway premier performance with illustrated cover, large fold-out, and many colorful photos. ... Read more

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Love Between Women examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural sources, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women and establishes that condemnations of female homoerotic practices were based on widespread awareness of love between women.

"An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A definitive source for all future discussion of homoeroticism and the Bible."--Mary Rose D'Angelo, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review

"[Brooten's] convincing analysis . . . not only profoundly reshapes our understanding of the past, but it should also shape the way in which that past, particularly the early Christian texts with their immense normative weight, will be used for the future."--Anne L. Clark, Journal of Lesbian Studies

"Love Between Women gives contemporary debates on sexuality a carefully delineated past. It boldly insists upon a different future, one informed by history but not tyrannized by it."--Susan Ackerman, Lambda Book Report

"Fascinating, provocative and lucid. . . . Brooten has made a fundamental contribution to women's and gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, and classics."--Elizabeth A. Castelli, Women's Review of Books

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Studies Book, 1997Amazon.com Review
The last two decades have produced an enormous amount ofliterature about the role of male homosexuality in the classical andearly Christian world--but almost nothing about lesbianism. BernadetteBrooten's Love Between Women remedies that oversight with avengeance. Brooten's extraordinarily well-researched andbreathtakingly argued book proves that female homoeroticism waswell-established and thriving 2,000 years ago. Equally as important are heranalyses of 19th century and contemporary scholars who havere-closeted lesbianism through ignorance and prejudice. LoveBetween Women is a breakthrough book that radically changes how wethink about history and sexuality. ... Read more

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an important book with more strengths than weaknesses
This book, as one can tell from the title, explores "early Christian responses to" what Brooten calls "female homoeroticism." By "female homoeroticism" Brooten means women who were somehow sexually involved with other women, either in longer-term relationships, or simply in a sexual way independent of any long-term relationship. One of the most important things to say about this book is that it examines texts and brings together a large amount of research and analysis that has never been brought together before and, in that sense, it is ground breaking. Her work on Romans 1:26 is, I believe, some of the best out there. It is an important book for those interested in how female/female sexual interaction might have been understood in the time of early Christianity. This is not a book that most "everyday" readers might want to read from cover-to-cover.It is an academic book, and should be of interested to scholars of early Christianity/biblical scholars and those interested the history of sexuality.That said, "everyday" folks who might be interested in this could read parts of the book and find it very interesting and enlightening, while skipping over the translations of obscure documents or inscriptions and such.Although another reviewer noted that this shows that Christianity has been "anti-gay" from the beginning, I'm afraid that is not really what this book does. An important part of this book argues that what we today understand as "gay" or "lesbian" does not closely resemble what females being sexually involved with other females or males being sexually involved with other males looked like thousands of years ago. Brooten does show, however, that females being sexually involved with other females in antiquity was often looked down upon, although the reasons for that are different than the reasons lesbians are often discriminated against today. I would like to have seen Brooten differentiate between "love" between women and "sexual relationships" between women -- she seems to operate under the assumption that these automatically or almost always come together.I also would have preferred that she change the wording in her closing which suggests that "the idea of homosexuality" existed in antiquity.While she makes good arguments that particular sexual preferences and inclinations toward certain kinds of people existed in antiquity, to say that "homosexuality" or "the idea of homosexuality" existed in antiquity is to be too casual with the use of the 19th/20th/21st century construct of homosexuality.As for the review that gave this book only one star -- this book was reviewed in, at the least, a somewhat positive light in nearly all the academic journals which reviewed it.While there are, as with almost all books, some weaknesses, to give it just one star is to absurd.At the least, this book does some exciting and never-before-done work which is always valuable, even if it isn't perfect.

A Confused, Outdated Rehash of a Study
This book aptly demonstrates why biblical scholars are generally not yet ready to address the topic of ancient sexuality: They are clueless. I aim most of my invective against part one of Brooten's study: the ancient Greek and Roman background of female-female erotics. Brooten's main problem is that she does not understand (1) the nature of her primary texts or (2) the social construction of sexuality. The medical and astrological texts she attempts to analyze explain EVERYTHING via medicine and the stars; therefore, it is pointless to try and deduce very much about social constructionism from them. John Winkler makes this point well in _The Constraints of Desire_. Her essentializing conclusions are therefore invalid. The best book on female-female sex and erotics in Antiquity when I originally wrote this review was Juan Francisco Martos Montiel's _Desde Lesbos con amor_, a very strangely ignored study. I suppose Anglo and Germanic scholars consider Spanish beneath them. Now, the best book would have to be _Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World_, a collection of essays edited by Nancy Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger that actually does acknowledge Martos Montiel's book as one of the major previous studies in the field. The tirade of part two of Brooten's book does nothing but rehash the traditional view. She therefore repeats the error of anachronistically reading very late notions of "nature" and "natural law" into early Christian texts by confusing a mishmash of disparate texts and theories from several different cultures, subcultures, and historical periods into one miraculously unified and coherent "natural law." I tell you, she makes even the best magician look like an amateur. What she fails to do, however, is convince.Why are biblical scholars so bad at this type of research? I have observed that, even when they are familiar with a fair portion of the secondary literature, biblical scholars just don't understand the arguments. Why is that, then? It seems biblical scholars are still caught up in a long-outdated mode of scholarship, one ill-equipped to handle later forms of social and cultural history, especially when involving a good dose of theory, as LGBT historical studies inevitably do.

By the way, regarding the book's critical reception, David Halperin has had some very interesting things to say in his book, _How to Do the History of Homosexuality_.The controversy and shady dealings surrounding Brooten, as well as another scholar by the name of Amy Richlin, are also addressed in Halperin's _Saint Foucault_.I highly recommend a careful read of both texts.Brooten is hardly as "original" as she and her friends think that she is, nor is she above rhetorical name-calling to distract from the weakness of her arguments.Interestingly, although the authors of the essays in Rabinowitz and Auanger's book positively mention Brooten's book at every turn, they tend not to adopt its main conclusions--VERY interesting, if you ask me.

In short, there are far more weaknesses to Brooten's book and thinking than strengths--assuming there are any strengths worth noting, at all.I have severe doubts on that last point.

Is there life after Boswell?
According to John Boswell's book, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality, the Christian tradition was not anti-gay until the late middle ages. Professor Brooten's book makes us revisit that argument and rethink the hegemony of Boswell's thesis in gay circles. Her critique of Boswell's reading of Romans 1 is telling and accurate.

Brooten's book is a very tight and carefully argued presentation of Christian tradition as anti-gay and (especially) anti-lesbian from the outset. The wider context of this argument is fascinating. It includes translations of spells and other original material never seen before. No one interested in gay or lesbian history can neglect this study! ... Read more