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No wonder this sexy, shy-guy actor is landing the coolest roles in young Hollywood--from Dawson Leery on the WB's Dawson's Creek to quarterback John "Mox" Moxon in the hit movie Varsity Blues--he's got that aw-shucks, guy-next-door irresistibility (not to mention those baby blue eyes!).James also happens to be a talented actor who wowed the Dawson's Creek creators with his brilliant audition for the part of the sensitive, introspective Dawson.Now, in this revealing biography, you can get the low-down on this hot young celebrity, including:

--What life is like behind the scenes and off-camera
--How James got his start in acting
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--And much, much more!

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I'm in James Heaven!
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James Van Der Beek

Handsome, athletic scholar seeks down-to-earth girl who enjoys lazy, hazy days by the Creek. Loves baseball caps, spending quality time with friends, and playing practical jokes. If you love football, want to travel the world, and are looking for a guy you can bring home to Mom, James is the guy for you. ... Read more

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CREEK GOD

James Van Der Beek is a young actor on the verge of megastardom. Riding high on the huge success of his film Varsity Blues, and with his hit show Dawson's Creek about to enter its third season, James is poised to become one of the hottest commodities in Hollywood.

Just like the sensitive, soulful, and oh-so-sexy Dawson, James grew up in a small New England town, where he dreamed of big-time success. Teen People called him a "real-life Brandon Walsh." A Renaissance man who is gorgeous to boot, he excelled at everything he tried: sports, academics, music, and especially drama. In BOY NEXT DOOR, you'll find out how James first discovered acting and the hits and misses of his early career. And, of course, you'll get all the essentials--his passions and turn-offs, his hopes and aspirations, his dates and loves.

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Taylor Hanson, Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, Usher, and "Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek. Here are short stories starring ordinary girls and the stars they adore. ... Read more

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A postcard and mini book of James Van Der Beek all in one. It contains 10 postcards with color pictures plus facts on postcard stock. The best part is that even when you use the postcards, you get to keep the mini bookwhich has all the same great photos plus the facts about James.These aregreat! ... Read more

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Chapters: Olive Winchester, James Van Der Beek, Stephen Stetler, James E. Cheek, Deedee Corradini, Albert Baez, Fred Pierce Corson, Arturo Valenzuela, Michael L. Baird, Clint Bolick, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Floyd W. Nease, David B. Audretsch, John Lowden Knight, Raymond Leroy Archer, John Edward Robinson, Craig Stanford, Emerson Stephen Colaw, Edward J. Lynch, Roger H. Martin, Peter Verniero, Herbert George Welch, Soon-Yi Previn, John Wesley Lord, Teresa Ruiz, Woodrow Whidden. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. 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: Olive May Winchester (22 November 187915 February 1947) was an ordained American minister and a pioneer biblical scholar and theologian in the Church of the Nazarene, who was the first woman ordained by any Christian denomination in Scotland, and was also the first woman admitted into and graduated from the Bachelor of Divinity course at the University of Glasgow. Olive May Winchester was born on 22 November 1879 in Monson, Maine, the oldest daughter of lawyer Charles Winchester (born 8 August 1851 in Corinna, Maine; died 2 October 1892) and Sarah Blackstone Winchester (born. c. 1853). Winchester's parents were married on 22 February 1880..(Who's Who 848) Her younger sister, Edith E. Winchester (1883-1884), died in infancy.. Winchester became a Christian in 1895, and became an early member of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, a holiness denomination established in 1895, which subsequently merged with the Church of the Nazarene established by Phineas Bresee to form the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene in 1907. Winchester reported that she had been entirely sanctified in 1902 (Laird 94). Winchester was the great-niece of Oliver Fisher Winchester (30 November 1810 11 December 1880), the manufacturer and marketer of the W...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18147200 ... Read more

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Chapters: Amos Bronson Alcott, Frank Wuterich, Ernest F. Coe, James Van Der Beek, Bill Meek, John Carpenter, Henry B. Carrington, Tony Sparano, Dan Orlovsky, William Atherton, Lyman Hall, Diane Dimassa, Philemon Beecher, Spec Shea, August Geiger, Steven Mullins, Ken O'keefe, Samuel Woodworth, Ellen Muth, Lysander Button, Anthony Rossomando, Malcolm Macpherson, Edward Meyer, Grant Goodeve, Jennifer Westfeldt, Willis H. Downs, Rob Jackson, Joseph Barker, Henry Washington Benham, Gertrude Noone, F. Mark Modzelewski, Richard Davis Anderson, Erik Kuselias, John Mankey Riggs, Kevin Heffernan, Bates Cooke, Donald Thomas, Vicki Hearne, Timothy Sykes, Bernie Digris, Tarek Saleh, Thomas Douglas, Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, Matt Delguidice, Matt Generous, Bud Schultz, Tom Rychlec, Al Tinney, Al Magliochetti, Thomas Cooke, Anthony Manfreda, Jeff Davis. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 180. 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: Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer and philosopher who left a legacy of forward-thinking social ideas. His status as a well-publicized figure from the 1830s to the 1880s stemmed from his founding of two short-lived projects, an unconventional school and an utopian community known as "Fruitlands", as well as from his association with the philosophy of Transcendentalism and from the celebrity accruing to his daughter, Little Women author Louisa May Alcott. A native New Englander, Amos Bronson Alcott was born in the town of Wolcott in Connecticut's New Haven County His parents were Joseph Chatfield Alcott and Anna Alcott (née Bronson). The family home was in an area known as Spindle Hill, and his father, whose last name was spelt "Alcox" at birth, traced his ancestry to colonial-era settlers in eastern Massachusetts whose surname had...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1384 ... Read more

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Imagine becoming a best-selling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after American Psycho your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs.

Then imagine having a second chance ten years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety—only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late father’s, his stepdaughter’s doll violently “malfunctions,” and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connecting these aberrations to graver events—a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his son’s age—Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania.

Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward an astonishing resolution—about love and loss, fathers and sons—in what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career.

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Imagine becoming a bestselling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after American Psycho your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs.

Then imagine having a second chance ten years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety--only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late father's, his stepdaughter's doll violently "malfunctions," and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connecting these aberrations to graver events--a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his son’s age--Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania.

Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passingthrough comedy and mounting horror, both psychological andsupernatural, toward an astonishing resolution--about love and loss,fathers and sons--in what is surely the most powerfully original anddeeply moving novel of an extraordinary career.

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A Tale of Two Brets: An Amazon.comInterview with Bret Easton Ellis
In his novelLunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis takes first-person narrative toan extreme, inserting himself (and a host of real characters from thepublishing world) into the haunting story of a drugged-out famouswriter living in the suburbs trying to reconnect with his wife and sonand reconcile his damaged past. Ellis is at the top of his game inLunar Park, his first novel since 1999's Glamorama,delivering a disturbing and delirious novel about celebrity, writers,and fathers and sons (not to mention a cameo from notorious Elliscreation, Patrick Bateman). Amazon.com senior editor Brad ThomasParsons spoke with Ellis in a Seattle to Los Angeles phone call to talkabout the fact and fiction behind Lunar Park, New Yorkversus LA, '80s music, and the whole "American Psycho thing."

Readthe Amazon.com interview with Bret Easton Ellis

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Less Than Zero (1985)
Published whenEllis was a junior at Bennington, LessThan Zero is the mesmerizing first-person chronicle of Clay,our laconic, zoned-out guide to a subculture of over-privilegednihilism in early '80s Los Angeles. He travels back home from CamdenCollege (a thinly veiled Bennington) for Christmas break and re-entershis circle of jaded friends--including his ex-girlfriend Blair, andhis best friend Julian, who's now hustling to support his drughabit--and a parade of Porches, late-night parties, cocaine, andcasual destruction.

Ellis on Ellis: "I don't think it'sa perfect book by any means, but it's valid. I get where it comesfrom. I get what it is. There's a lot of it that I wish was slightlymore elegantly written. Overall, I was pretty shocked. It was prettygood writing for someone who was 19."

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The Rules of Attraction (1987)
A line-up of CamdenCollege students share the narrating duties in TheRules of Attraction, Ellis' sex-fueled, drug-baked secondnovel. There's Lauren (who's in the midst of losing her virginity asthe book opens), who longs for her boyfriend Victor, currentlytraveling through Europe; Lauren's ex, Paul, a bisexual party boy whohooks up with hard-drinking closet-case Sean (surname Bateman--that'sright, younger brother of Patrick), who also has the hots forLauren. Less than Zero's Clay makes a cameo appearance as wellas a passing glimpse of Ellis' Bennington classmate Donna Tartt'smurderous Classics majors from The SecretHistory.

Ellis on Ellis: "It might be myfavorite book of mine. I was writing that book while I was atcollege. Sort of like the best of times, the worst of times. There wasa lot of elation, there was a lot of despair. It was just a really funbook to write. I loved mimicking all the different voices. The streamof conscious does get a little out of hand. I kind of like that aboutthe book. It's kind of all over the place. It's casual. It'sscruffy. That's the one book of mine that I have a very, very softspot for."

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American Psycho (1991)
Shopaholicsociopath Patrick Bateman's killer grip drags readers into a bloody,brand-name, urban nightmare as the 26-year-old Wall Street yuppieexecutes his grooming habits and eviscerates strangers with equalélan. Simon & Schuster dropped the too-hot-to-handle AmericanPsycho which was then published as a paperback original byVintage Books. Ellis received death threats while the book wasboycotted, sliced up by reviewers, and went on to become abestseller. Mary Harron's 2000 film version starred then little-knownBritish actor Christian Bale, who would later suit up as the DarkKnight in 2005's Batman Begins.

Ellis on Ellis:"It was good. It was fun. It was not nearly as pretentious as Iremember I wanted it to be when I was writing it. I found it reallyfast-moving. I found it really funny. And I liked it a lot. Theviolence was... it made my toes curl. I really freaked out. I couldn'tbelieve how violent it was. It was truly upsetting. I had to steelmyself to re-read those passages."

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The Informers (1994)
Ellis returns toearly '80s Los Angeles ennui with TheInformers, a loosely connected collection of stories of thebored, rich, and morally depraved, written around the same time asLess than Zero. Sex, drugs, and gratuitous violence take centerstage, with characters including an aging, predatory anchorwoman, adebauched rock star tearing through Japan, and a pick-up artistvampire. While some of the vignettes echo better Ellis works,ultimately the stories don't add to much as a whole. Book critics areless than receptive to Ellis' post-American Psycho offering.

Ellis on Ellis: "Those were written while I was atBennington. I wrote a lot of short stories between 1981 or 1982 orso... The Informers more or less kind of represented probablythe best of those stories. I wrote a lot of really bad ones, but thoseare the ones that worked the best together."

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Glamorama (1999)
Actor-model VictorWard (who first made an appearance in the Ellis oeuvre in The Rulesof Attraction) is the narrator of Glamorama,Ellis longest novel yet. Ellis offers bold-faced names and celebrityskewering in the first half of the book as Victor tries to open aManhattan club while cheating on his supermodel girlfriend anddouble-crossing his partner, but the second half takes a violent,paranoid turn as Victor is sent to England and unwittingly lured intoa sadistic ring of international terrorists (posing as supermodels)leaving a bloody trail across the globe.

Ellis on Ellis:"[T]he book wasn't necessarily about terrorism to me. It was abouta whole bunch of other stuff. It's definitely the book that I cantell--I don't know if other people can tell but I can tell as awriter--is probably the most divisive that I've written. It has anequal number of detractors as it does fans. It doesn't really holdtrue with the other books. It was the one that took the longest towrite, and the one that seemed the most important at the time. It's anunwieldy book... I like it."

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Funny For All the Wrong Reasons
Really? A killer Turby? An apology for American Psycho? This autobiographical farce is impressive only in the number of way it manages to fall off target on so many levels.

If you're familiar with his earlier books, there are some nice continuity references and a few insights into how all the nonsense that is Brett's writing career started.

If you're not familiar with Ellis, this isn't a good book to start with. If you're a fan, you know what you're getting yourself in to when you start reading this garbage.....

Amazing Book
I thought this was Ellis' best book yet! Really captivating read. I would recommend it to anyone that is a fan of his work.

Personally, my FAVORITE Bret Easton Ellis novel
I have read every single book this man has had published.Less than Zero, the Informers, yes... American Psycho, Glamorama (he lost me there. totally, completely). I always forget about the rules of attraction.Meh.

Lunar Park is, by far, my favorite one.Even above American Psycho.I guess it's because I, too, have settled down a bit.Had a child, quit the coke. The soda, I mean. It really spoke to me. How it can be a little hard looking back at what you've been through and the habits that you've made and now, you must TRY. Family dynamics, drug therapy. lol, the DOG is on anti-depressants.THE DOG!

This is the funniest and most truthful I've ever seen Mr. Ellis be. After reading Glamorama, I knew he had to kick the dope habit.I mean, GEEZ! I felt like I was high.American Psycho is always going to be a classic, personally.There's nothing like it.But this novel is flippin' awesome!I laughed out loud in a couple of spots (which is VERY rare for me when it comes to a novel). So, buy it.Do WHATEVER you have to do to read it!

A very interesting mix of reality and fantasy -- gripping edge of your seat reading
This was my first introduction to Bret Easton Ellis and it won't be my last!Quick read.Definitely gets into your head and you may find yourself reading with all the lights on.A very interesting blend of truth and fantasy.Just how much of each is up for debate!

This was my first Ellis book and it touches on many of his other stories. I wish I would have read his other books prior to reading this so I wasn't as out of touch, however, most was explained and it didn't impact my enjoyment from this book at all. I only wished I had more of an insight into his mind!

Half of a Great Return/Progression
I've never been so divided by a book's first and second halves. A longtime Ellis fan who read Glamorama with one eye closed but came to appreciate it deeply long after it was finished, I can say that the same is not true of Lunar Park.

The first half is amazing. It's a great return to form for Ellis, but adds new layers of self-reference and pitch-black comedy that I found very refreshing and daring. Seriously, the first half is one of the funniest books I've ever read. He makes no bones about criticizing himself (via a hall-of-mirrors alter ego named Bret Easton Ellis) or his own reputation as a writer. It's great stuff.

And then it falls apart. I can't say he didn't take a big risk with the second-half descent into Stephen King-like internal torture, but it is neither enjoyable reading or revealing of anything at all. At least with Glamorama, I may not have ENJOYED it exactly, but I couldn't ignore its ability to reveal, re-contextualize and then distort its own world. In this book, I couldn't help feeling like the steps taken in the second half worked only to its detriment. It felt easy. Granted, great writers sometimes please (read: tease) their audience into thinking that their style is effortless, but that isn't the case here.

Not recommended. He's written far, far better books. ... Read more