He Was a Quiet Man [Blu-ray]
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Every office has one â" a Go-Getter Girl â" someone who seems to just know certain stuff about how to get the plum jobs/lifestyle she wants and damn, always looks great while she's at it. Magic? No, itâs about strategizing--and The Go-Getter Girlâs Guide shows you how.
Born out of interviews with hundreds of successful, stylish young women--including award-winning journalist Soledad OâBrien, Spanx founder Sara Blakely, and bestselling novelist Emily Giffin--The Go-Getter Girlâs Guide provides a no-excuses, big-picture way of thinking! about your life and career, as well as day-to-day strategies for how to:
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When still under 18, he lied about his age and enlisted in the U.S. Infantry, serv! ing in the Philippines from 1898-1899. The Spanish-American Wa! r provid ed background for many of Kyne's later stories. During World War I, he served as a captain in the artillery.
He was born and died in San Francisco, California.
THE GO GETTER is the story of a war veteran with few prospects but making good. It's about overcoming great obstacles in the financial world to "make it" and become successful with what you want to achieve, finding the positive energy and business smarts to get where you want to be in a career. This book has been a popular and lasting inspiration to employees and employers alike since its first publication.This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
Every office has one â" a Go-Getter Girl â" someone who seems to just know certain stuff about how to get the plum jobs/lifestyle she wants and damn, always looks great while she's at it. Magic? No, itâs about strategizing--and The Go-Getter Girlâs Guide shows you how.
Born out of interviews with hundreds of successful, stylish young women--including award-winning journalist Soledad OâBrien, Spanx founder Sara Blakely, and bestselling novelist Emily Giffin--The Go-Getter Girlâs Guide provides a no-excuses, big-picture way of thinking about your life and career, as well as day-to-day strategies for how to:
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Every office has one â" a Go-Getter Girl â" someone who seems to just know certain stuff about how to get the plum jobs/lifestyle she wants and damn, always looks great while she's at it. Magic? No, itâs about strategizing--and The Go-Getter Girlâs Guide shows you how.
Born out of interviews with hundreds of successful, stylish young women--including award-winning journalist Soledad OâBrien, Spanx founder Sara Blakely, and bestselling novelist Emily Giffin--! The Go-Getter Girlâs Guide provides a no-excuses, big-picture way of thinking about your life and career, as well as day-to-day strategies for how to:
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Hello everybody out there in the whirly old world. Itâs me Henrietta. Thereâs something going on, and it isnât even Christmas. Itâs a DILEMMA. The Rietta is sad because itâs lost. ! And we absolutely have to find the Rietta a home because the sadder the Rietta becomes the more its spots fade.
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At bathtime, the very imaginative Henrietta sails away to do some serious explorification along with her friends Olive Higgie, Albert, and the RiettaÂwhich Henrietta explains is "a particular kind of creature who helps you clown around." They head for the Wide Wide Long Cool Coast of the Lost Socks, having heard that there just might be a small colony of Riettas living there. They talk to the lost socks and have no choice but to trust a tennis sock, and their journey becomes more frightening from there. Will Henrietta make it to her destination? Will she find a new home for the fading Rietta? Will she find Olive Higgie and Albert again?
Initially set in a war-ravaged Berlin, Bent is directed by Sean Mathias, who first directed Jude Law in Indiscretions, and he has crafted a film that reminds on! e of Ian McKellen's Richard III with its spare, stylized, and stark world bombed into rubble and chic theatrical disarray. There are many poignant as well as harrowing scenes, and the result is a somber work that stands as a reminder that intolerance cannot overtake individualism and love. While Bent received an NC-17 rating for depicting Berlin's decadent, anything-goes-for-a-price nightlife, MGM opted not to edit out the tone-setting prelude and pushed to preserve the film's integrity despite a rating that is itself a kind of death for any film that bears it. --Paula NechakMartin Sherman's worldwide hit play Bent took London by storm in 1979 when it was first performed by the Royal Court Theatre, with Ian McKellen as Max (a character written with the actor in mind). The play itself caused an uproar. "It educated the world," Sherman explains. "People knew about how the Third Reich treated Jews and, to some extent, gypsies and political prisoners. But ver! y little had come out about their treatment of homosexuals." Gays were arrested and interned at work camps prior to the genocide of Jews, gypsies, and handicapped, and continued to be imprisoned even after the fall of the Third Reich and liberation of the camps. The play Bent highlights the reason why - a largely ignored German law, Paragraph 175, making homosexuality a criminal offense, which Hitler reactivated and strengthened during his rise to power.
Murphy plays an enlighten! ed eccen tric named "G" (for "guru" or "God"?) who rises to national celebrity when he's enlisted to host a TV shopping network. Jeff Goldblum and Kelly Preston play the show's producer and marketer, respectively, and their formulaic romance provides the movie's lackluster subplot. With skyrocketing ratings and a flurry of cameos by celebrity hucksters (Morgan Fairchild, Florence Henderson, Dan Marino, and even James Brown), G delivers preachy platitudes urging America to stop buying and embrace the finer values of life and love (a hollow message coming from Disney, the most conspicuously commercial of all major Hollywood studios). To its credit, Holy Man occasionally achieves a delicate balance of comedy and commentary, and receptive viewers will be grateful, at a time when crude comedies rule the box office, that someone bothered to try. For that reason, this flawed movie deserves to be seen. --Jeff Shannon
! Though Dan is brilliant, dynamic, and in control in the classroom, he spends his time outside school on the edge of consciousness. His disappointments and disillusionment have led to a serious drug habit. He juggles his hangovers and his homework, keeping his lives separated, until one of his troubled students, Drey (Shareeka Epps), catches him getting high after school.
From this awkward beginning, Dan and Drey stumble into an unexpected friendship. Despite the differences in their ages and situations, they are both at an important intersection. Depending on which way they turn ' and which choices they make ' their lives will change.
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Sometimes people are attrac! ted to e ach other because of their differences. When there's a nebulous attraction between a teacher and a young teenage child--as in the superb Half Nelson--the relationship has all the makings of confused disaster. Though there are a few uncomfortable moments when it's not obvious whether Dan (Ryan Gosling) and Drey (Shareeka Epps) might cross the line, the attraction between the pair is culled less from sexual tension than desperation. Dan is an idealistic history teacher in an inner-city school. Drey is one of his brightest students. For both, drugs represent something that may help them escape their worlds. He takes drugs to dull his dissatisfaction with himself. She views drugs as a possible way to better her life, even though she knows her brother's foray into that trade landed him in jail. Bleakly filmed and well told, Half Nelson soars because of the immaculate acting by Gosling and Epps. With his impish smile, Gosling provides a character that is at once disa! rming, alluring, and pitiful. As the young girl who's already seen too much hardship in her life, Epps plays her part with just the right amount of hardened raw emotion. While the ambiguous ending may not please fans weaned on happy Hollywood finales, it's a fitting and believable close to a thought-provoking film. --Jae-Ha Kim
Stills from Half Nelson (click for larger image)
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