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"Fifty years after hearing Sidney Bechet (1897--1959) in 1923, Duke Ellington recalled, "I have never forgotten the power and imagination with which he played." The first great jazz soloist, Bechet was"

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On the surface it may seem slightly surprising that a master of verbal humour should also be a devotee of silent comedy, but Paul Merton is completely passionate about the early days of Hollywood comedy and the comic geniuses who dominated it.

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Other children had imaginary friends; I had a fictional mother, a siren from the southern hemisphere.

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Susan Hayward charts the career of Simone Signoret, one of the great French actresses of the 20th century.

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In this next Simply Seeing book we are encouraging those to write down their own thoughts and ideas that come to mind as they enjoy the photos and inspirational words.

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The Simpsons is the world's most popular entertainment phenomenon, regularly voted on both sides of the Atlantic as the best TV show ever made.

Simpsons Confidential is the uncensored, unauthorised oral history of the show from the people who made it happen.

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Military culture and sheet music writers understood music to have the power to help create a strong military and community in the face of conflict. This study of sheet music and military singing practices critically situates them in the context of the war and in social discourses, including issues of social change, segregation, and suffrage.

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Military culture and sheet music writers understood music to have the power to help create a strong military and community in the face of conflict. This study of sheet music and military singing practices critically situates them in the context of the war and in social discourses, including issues of social change, segregation, and suffrage.

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Features the uncensored life story of John Singleton: his mates, his women, and his larrikin ways. Kerry Packer calls him one of the few men who he would trust with a handshake. Four of his ex-wives still think of him as the most charming, romantic man they will ever meet. Yet, he is also a figure of controversy. This work presents his biography.

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Sir Henry Irving was the greatest actor of the Victorian age and was thought of by Gladstone as his greatest contemporary. He transformed the theatre, in Britain and America, from a disreputable and marginal entertainment into a respected and uplifting art form. This work gives an account of Irving and his impact on the Victorian theatre and life.

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This is a collection of interviews with writers, creators, and show runners of some of the greatest sitcoms of all time, including The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Cheers, Seinfeld, Frasier, and The Simpsons. The writers discuss their experiences working on some of the most popularnot to mention funniestshows ever.

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Deadheads--the passionate, million-strong followers of The Grateful Dead--have their own language. Skeleton Key is the first-ever overview of that language, a guide to more than 1,000 fantastical terms coined during the life of a band still going strong after almost 30 years.

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Vanessa Bell, artist, sister of Virginia Woolf, wife of Clive Bell and lover of Duncan Grant, is one of the most fascinating and modern figures of the Bloomsbury set, but unlike most of them she rarely put pen to writing paper.

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Sketches of Places is a collection of drawings and sketches that have been completed over the past 50 years. The sketches are arranged by Places.... sketches that were completed in a particular city, state or country.

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Sling Blade won the 1997 Academy Award for best original screenplay

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"The only plan right now is to kill everybody" Joey Jordison, drummerIgnoring every rule in the book and more besides, Slipknot are a notoriously controversial band who combine a talent for outrage with their music.

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Using his trademark wit, insight and verve, icon Henry Rollins shares journals from his gruelling world tours of 1997 and 1998, as well as a record of the fulfilment of his longstanding dream to journey through Africa.

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SNAKE HIPS follows an Arab-American woman's life as she shimmies her way from getting dumped by her tattoo-artist boyfriend to coming to grips with being single, ample, and 30.