![]() ![]() Using long neglected information from public records, the personal files of key players, and recent revelations from Soviet archives, Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley uncovers the Communist Party's strategic plan for taking control of the movie industry during its golden age, a plan that came perilously close to success. In Hollywood Party the complete story finally emerges, backdropped by the great upheavals of our time and with all the elements of a thriller?wrenching plot twists, intrigue, betrayal, violence, corruption, misguided passion, and lost idealism. "The best exploration I've seen of the Hollywood blacklist and the Communist Party's role in that conflict." Left untold that night, and ignored in books and films for more than half a century, was a story not so politically correct but vastly more complex and dramatic. ![]() In song, film, and live performances by stars such as Billy Crystal, Kevin Spacey, and John Lithgow, the audience relived a time some fifty years before, when, as the story has always been told, courageous writers and actors stood firm against a witch-hunt and blacklist that wrecked lives and destroyed careers. In the fall of 1997 some of the biggest names in show business filled the Motion Picture Academy theater in Beverly Hills for Hollywood Remembers the Blacklist, a lavish production worthy of an Oscar telecast. ![]()
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One of my all time favorite books is called, “The Cellar,” by Natasha Preston. ![]() Although reading isn’t my favorite thing to do, once I start a really good book, I can’t stop. ![]() ![]() ![]() The above-mentioned novel is set in the fantasy genre and was a tremendous hit. ![]() While Brandon Sanderson had been writing since his college days, his first novel, “Elantris,” only became a bestseller in 2005. His relationship history indicates that he is a one-woman man who is also straight. ![]() Aside than that, there’s no information about his previous relationships. He has three sons with Emily Bushman, with whom he has been married since 2006. Is Brandon Sanderson a homosexual?īrandon Sanderson has a straight sexual orientation, meaning he is neither gay nor bisexual. ![]() Apart from that, little is known about his previous relationship(s), if any at all. Emily is his business manager as well as an instructor. Personal life: Dating, girlfriends, wife, and kidsīrandon Sanderson married Emily Bushman in 2006, and the couple has been together since then. in English with an emphasis in creative writing from the same university in 2004. He changed his major to English literature when he returned to BYU. He subsequently went to Brigham Young University (BYU) to study biochemistry, but from 1995 to 1997 he took a two-year break to serve as a voluntary missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Korea. A post shared by Brandon Sanderson Sanderson attended Lincoln East High School in Lincoln, Nebraska, and graduated in 1994. ![]() ![]() With a wide-ranging perspective that takes in prehistoric art, ancient history, linguistics, mythology and folklore, evolutionary theory, reproductive biology and medicine, Catherine Blackledge unveils the hidden marvels of the female form. The result is nothing less than a vaginal revolution. In the past, medicine may have misrepresented female sexual anatomy, reducing its remarkable complexities to the notion of a passive vessel, but, as this book shows, science is at last beginning to reveal the true structure and function of female genitalia and the dynamic nature of the vagina’s role in both sexual pleasure and reproduction. More than two millennia of misinformation has resulted in a Western culture where we refrain from mentioning or showing the vagina where this organ, when seen publicly, is most commonly viewed as pornographic and where, of all the organs of the human body, the vagina remains the most clouded in mystery, myth, and biased, out-dated beliefs. ![]() The Story of V explores how female genitalia have been and continue to be conceived and misconceived. In this dazzling smorgasbord of facts about female genitalia, Catherine Blackledge explores how the vagina has been conceived and misconceived over the centuries. Yet why is it that we know less about the vagina-its structure and function-than we do about any other organ of the human body? It is also a potent arouser of sexuality. It is the seat of female sexual pleasure, the site of the creation of humankind, and the channel for its birth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The darkness didn’t descend only in America. “American Midnight” is one of several fresh looks at a period that had previously received little widespread attention. “My hope,” Hochschild writes at the opening, “is that by examining closely an overlooked period in which they engulfed the country, we can understand them more deeply and better defend against them in the future.” Here are the threats, all of them crammed into the years 1917 to 1921: violence, repression, racism, paranoia, intolerance, hatred, rampant propaganda, capricious imprisonments, political polarization, government surveillance, and vigilante activity. The purpose here is prevention, so that, in this particularly perilous passage in our national narrative, we might guard against the cliché, and the danger, of history repeating itself, or even rhyming. This is, to be sure, history with a purpose, not a search for a “usable history” that seeks a past that provides comfort and moral elevation for the present. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. “Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Politicians can’t make everybody happy we’ve seen this time and time again in our lifetimes, especially throughout the coronavirus pandemic. ![]() It is inevitable, however, that pleasing some constituents comes at the price of disappointing others, since not everybody has the same goals or values. Their job is to care about other people’s opinions, since their role is to represent their constituents and vouch for what they want. The problem, today, is that too often, our worries about other people’s approval and their feelings towards us hinder our ability to make decisions that best suit ourselves-or in a politician’s case, our countries. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop."Īs a politician, Churchill’s most outrageous idea was not allowing appeasement to stand in the way of his country.Īs human beings, we are hardwired to care what other people think, since our survival used to-and sometimes still can-depend on other people’s opinions of us. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. ![]() “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. ![]() ![]() Buying a drink for a stranger turns into what should be an uncomplicated, amazing one-night stand. When Cassie Klein goes to an off-campus bar to escape her school's Family Weekend, she isn't looking for a hookup - it just happens. " Wilsner writes] erotic yearning in a class all their own." - Entertainment Weeklyįrom Meryl Wilsner, the acclaimed author of Something to Talk About, comes Mistakes Were Made, a sharp and sexy rom-com about a college senior who accidentally hooks up with her best friend's mom. This reader hopes Wilsner keeps these scorchers coming." - The Washington Post ![]() ![]() Cassie and Erin's romance is by turns delightfully raunchy and deeply emotional. ![]() "This blazing-hot forbidden romance manages to sensibly, and compassionately, capture the complexities of starting adult life after college and finding love and your identity in middle age. ![]() ![]() ![]() Within the fissure rears a massive stone construction, provenance unknown, that reportedly contains something of immense value. In his first tale, set in the 18th century, the Demeter is a sloop searching for an unmarked fissure in the cliffs along the north Norwegian coast, based on alleged intelligence from the Europa. Silas, the Demeter’s doctor, narrates the story in a series of first-person episodes. To say more would be to give spoilers, but I will tell you the reveals are well-timed and powerful, the novel’s conclusion both satisfying and thought-provoking. ![]() Ingeniously, Reynolds also evokes “eversion” in the novel’s structure, a nested set of fictions that led me far from my initial understanding of what was happening to the protagonists. The titular “eversion” refers to both the topological paradox of a sphere being turned inside out without tears or creases and the physical situation of the knowledge-sucking mind-spider lurking at the heart of the edifice. In Eversion, his twentieth novel, Alastair Reynolds interleaves reflections on selfhood, agency, and the possibilities of narrative within a cracking yarn of nautical adventure and a mysterious edifice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Luke Ransom, Tran's ex-lover, who is dying of AIDS and who intends to wreak ultimate havoc before leaving this world, Exquisite Corpse unfolds into a labyrinth of murder and love. Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London's Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, and punctuated by rants from radio talk show host Lush Rimbaud, a.k.a. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his "art" to limits even Compton hadn't previously imagined. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights. To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jenna Rainey recommends expensive paints, paper and brushes and one wonders if these are really so essential for a novice or a beginner. ![]() Unfortunately, for this reviewer, that was a spoiler that came too early in the book. She adds immediately…'and something changed for me'. The introductory chapter has a few details on how the author became a 'self-taught artist' because, at a certain stage of life, she 'came across the right watercolor supplies'. Jenna Rainey's Everyday Watercolor: Learn to Paint Watercolor in 30 Days is another addition to those illustrated 'how to paint' books. So there is intense competition in this field and any new volume will have to provide the learners with something absolutely special to justify its price. Even if you want to buy a book on how to paint with water colour, 'Teach Yourself' books are a dime a dozen. If you have access to the internet and You Tube videos, there is no dearth of water colour painting tutorials. ![]() |