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Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca : Bogart, Bergman, and World War II
Aljean Harmetz Manufacturer: Hyperion Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1562827618 |
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A Warm Survey of an Amazing Story.......2006-10-26
Great book on the best film of the 1940s.......2003-09-25
A Great Read on the Making and Success of Casablanca.......2003-01-07
It wonderfully describes the studio system, the differences between the studios and how "properties" were loaned out, and how WW II affected everybody in the movie business.
Two quotes had me laughing until I was in tears. It is a great book. Additionally, the hardcover with translucent dustjacket is most gorgeous. This is a winner and a keeper for movie history buffs.
The best MAKING OF A MOVIE book I have ever read!.......1998-08-28
A Miracle of Accidents.......1998-07-29
In "Round Up the Usual Suspects," Aljean Harmetz has brought the history of this film to glorious life, exploring its origins and dispelling its myths. (How seriously was Ronald Reagan considered for the lead? Did Ingrid Bergman know the ending?)
Her attention to detail would have been sufficient to make this a great book, but Harmetz does much more. Her greatest achievement (and it's great indeed) is to present the film as a miracle of accidents, the almost coincidental meeting of the forces of Hollywood with the forces of history.
"Round Up the Usual Suspects" is essential reading for anyone interes! ted in the story of how a great film is made.
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The Usual Suspects: Answering Anti-Catholic Fundamentalists
Karl Keating Manufacturer: Ignatius Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0898707730 |
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The author of the perennial best-seller, Catholicism and Fundamentalism, presents here, not so much a sequel, as a supplement to the first groundbreaking work. In the first book, Keating gave a panoramic view of the attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians", highlighting prominent anti-Catholic individuals and organizations and discussing at length controverted doctrines. Here he presents snapshots, individualized portraitssome larger, some smallerof arguments and people opposed to the Catholic faith.Customer Reviews:
Good information.......2007-04-26
Much ado and little substance.......2003-06-08
educational and funny.......2003-04-16
Good overview.......2002-05-08
Great Catholic Review!.......2001-12-07
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Counter Collection I: The Usual Suspects (Sword Sorcery (Paperback))
Todd Secord Manufacturer: Fiery Dragon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1588461726 |
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I cannot recommend.......2007-09-09
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The Usual Suspects (BFI Modern Classics)
Ernest Larsen Manufacturer: British Film Institute ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0851708692 |
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A heist thriller with a dazzling twist in the tail, The Usual Suspects captivated audiences when it appeared in 1995. Directed by Bryan Singer, the film won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (Christian MacQuarrie) and Best Supporting Actor (Kevin Spacey). Co-starring with Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Chazz Palminteri, and Pete Postlethwaite, Spacey plays Verbal Kint, one of a group of talented thieves whose high-stakes operation puts them in confrontation with a mastermind personification of evil--Kyser Soze.Customer Reviews:
The Usual Suspects.......2006-01-04
Take a Look Beyond...........2002-07-21
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Usual Suspects (Faber Reel Classics)
Christopher McQuarrie Manufacturer: Faber & Faber Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0571203256 |
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Alias Jack the Ripper: Beyond the Usual Whitechapel Suspects
R. Michael Gordon Manufacturer: McFarland & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0786408987 |
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Over a century ago, a depraved killer skillfully moved through the dark and filthy slums of London's East End. Despite the increasingly watchful eyes of investigators, the serial murderer-known as "Jack the Ripper" from a signature on a piece of correspondence that has been attributed to him-was never certainly identified. R. Michael Gordon provides a comprehensive look at the crimes and the case evidence, and then discusses the life of the man he believes was the actual killer, detailing the reasons why this person may have been driven to kill. Beginning with an overview of the terror created in the East End of 1888, the book describes the five major periods of the Ripper's deadly career: early life and schooling; a step-by-step view of the murders, including the Thames Torso Murders that authorities attempted to cover up; the Ripper's American connection; a return to London where his final victims were subjected to poison; and the capture and execution of the probable-but never proven-Ripper. To most people who worked closely on the Ripper and poisoning cases, justice was finally served.Customer Reviews:
George Chapman has the best chance of being Jack the Ripper!.......2003-04-02
Armchair Ripperology is not good Historical Research.......2003-01-30
This book would have gotten at least two stars if the information had been structured well. For example, every chapter is peppered with statements about "typical" serial killers. Why not put all these statements into a chapter about serial killers instead of wasting my time with filler? Also, I got sick of sentences like, "For him, killing was a business, and business was good." That's just plain dumb. And for goodness sake! Don't just stick a newspaper excerpt in the middle of a chapter without any warning!!!
In conclusion, don't read this book. I heard there are other good ones by Sudgen and Rumbelow.
Not a Solution but still reccomended.......2002-09-28
The central argument is that Chapman was in the area for all the killings (including the so called American Ripper killing of 'Old Shakespeare' and the Torso murders) and that this, added to fact that he was hanged for three murders, clearly establishes his guilt. Clearly (and perhaps unfortunately), it does not...
The author does acknowledge that the evidence is insufficient to result in a conviction, but he asserts without reservation that Chapman was the Ripper all along. To my mind, although the available evidence makes a great case for the *possibility* of this, there is absolutely no direct evidence of his actual involvment.
Having said this, I still reccomend this book as an essential for a serious collector of Ripperology. It provides good food for thought and (perhaps) avenues for further research.
GEROGE CHAPMAN = THE RIPPER !!! WELL, MAYBE..........2002-02-09
George the Ripper.......2001-04-22
This is the first extensive, integrated treatment of the life of George Chapman, and in this regard it appears to be well researched and is well written. On "Jack the Ripper" and the Whitechapel murders there has been a plethora of earlier books, but again the work is written in a captivating style which makes it one of the more readable accounts. Other murders, not generally reckoned as part of the "Jack the Ripper" series, are treated in extenso for the first time, especially the "Thames Torso Murders" of 1888-89, a series of killings of women whose bodies were disected and dumped in pieces in out-of-the-way places or in the Thames river. The police at the time did not consider these to be a single series, or to be connected with "Jack the Ripper", but Gordon poses the perfectly reasonable question "just how many sexual serial killers were working in the East End of London in 1888-89?" (p. 124). We may note that: (1) In the late 19th century the police were unused to handling cases of serial murder and probably thought that such a killer would not much vary his methods, whereas more recent cases show that radical variations by a single hand do in fact happen. (2) Though most of the cut-up victims remained unidentified (which probably accounts for the comparative lack of interest in these killings compared with the Whitechapel Murders, both at the time and now), one who was identified was Elizabeth Jackson, parts of whose body were found floating in the Thames in June 1889. Like the Ripper victims she was a prostitute, and clothing in which her remains were wrapped was tagged with the name "L.E. Fisher"; Elizabeth Fisher was the sister of Ripper-victim Catherine Eddowes, and the name "Lizzie Fisher" had also been given in one press report as the name of the Ripper's victim in Miller's Court, later identified as Mary Jane Kelly. (3) Just over three months after the murder of prostitute Carrie Brown in a New York hotel room (recounted on pp. 226 ff.), there was the discovery of another murder. Though not included in Gordon's account, it was reported in The Morning Journal of 3rd August 1891, under the headline "Is It Jack's Work". The body of the victim, a prostitute, was found floating in the East River; it had been mutilated in a way similar to that of Carrie Brown. This suggests to me that if the New York murders are to be attributed to "Jack the Ripper", whether he was Chapman or not, the dumping of a body in the river was a modus operandi of that individual.
How appropriately the various series of murders can be linked together in this biography depends, of course, on whether one accepts Chapman as a plausible candidate for "Jack the Ripper" - and as the Thames Torso Murderer, as the New York City murderer, and as responsible for a number of other killings. Gordon does not say that he did commit all of the murders he describes, just that he could have. But if Chapman were not responsible at least for the majority of the murders in Whitechapel, a main thesis of the book would fall.
To me Chapman stands as a quite plausible "Jack the Ripper", when compared with the myriad of other suspects that have been put forward since the murders, if only because, from an age when serial killers were still quite rare, we do know, at least, that he was one. Nor, in the light of subsequent cases, should the change from street-killer and mutilator of prostitutes to wife-poisoner necessarily seem incredible. Chapman has been taken seriously as a possible "Jack the Ripper" ever since the historian Philip Sugden favoured him in his methodically researched book The Complete History of Jack the Ripper. As Sugden there stated, however, the evidence against Chapman, though better than for other leading suspects, was not strong.
On the whole I feel that the account by Gordon makes the case against Chapman the more likely, though far from proved. Though he fails to connect him directly with any of the Ripper or other narrated murders, or even to demonstrate that he was definitely always close to the scene, he has shown that he could have been. Occasionally the time-line is, admittedly, a little tight, and the argument requires some special pleading, as with the case of Chapman's arrival in the U.S. in time to murder Carrie Brown.
There are also occasional examples of startling under-research, as, for example, the suggestion that George Chapman's common-law wife Annie Georgina Chapman, from whom he took his Anglo-Saxon name, was the daughter of Ripper-victim Annie Chapman, whom he may have met while attending his victim's funeral. A little genealogical research would have clarified whether such an identification were a possibility or not.
Nevertheless, the arguments are on the whole reasonable and sound, and even for those who cannot accept Chapman as the Ripper, the book will for some time remain the best biography of wife-poisoner George Chapman and a very readable account of the Whitechapel and other murders.
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Film: Usual Suspects *Tot Film*
McQuarrie C Manufacturer: Faber and Faber Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0571200400 |
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Large Print: Usual Suspects And Cliche
Betty Kirkpatrick Manufacturer: A&C Black ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0713676507 |
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Round Up the Usual Suspects (Switch)
Manufacturer: Berkley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000BW0T7Q |
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Round up the usual suspects: Nicky Kelly & the Cosgrave Coalition
Derek Dunne Manufacturer: Distributed in the UK by Turnaround Distributors ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0950765929 |
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Best Garden Plants for Kansas (Best Garden Plants For...)
Annie Calovich , and Laura Peters Manufacturer: Lone Pine Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9768200324 |
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From the Badlands and the Black Hills, around Mount Rushmore and along the Oregon Trail, eighty-eight cookbooks from all over North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas have contributed their favorite recipes to make up this impressive collection.Included within these pages are favorite recipes that will be made over and over again once you've tried the likes of Flint Ridge Pheasant, Cow Punching Chili and Dumplings, Orange Roughy Almondine, God's Country White Chocolate Cheesecake with Raspberry Sauce, Lollipop Cookies, or Walking Tacos.
Best of the Best from the Great Plains is the twenty-seventh volume in Quail Ridge Press' renowned "Best of the Best" State Cookbook Series.
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An impressive, highly recommended compendium.......2003-04-16
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The Best of Kansas
Kansas Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0793589576 |
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Note-for-note guitar transcriptions in standard notation and tab for 13 of their best: Carry on Wayward Son * Dust in the Wind * Fight Fire with Fire * Hold On * Icarus (Borne on Wings of Steel) * Journey from Mariabronn * On the Other Side * Paradox * Play the Game Tonight * Point of Know Return * Portrait (He Knew) * Song for America * What's on My Mind. Includes an introduction by Kansas guitarist Kerry Livgren, and a discography.
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Flower Gardening in Kansas City: Secrets and Tips From the Area's Best Gardeners
Craig Nienaber Manufacturer: Kansas City Star Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0974601217 |
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Flower Gardening in Kansas City : Secrets and Tips From the Area's Best Gardeners, is as useful as it is beautiful, illustrated with lush photographs and filled with helpful hints from Kansas Citians with the greenest thumbs, the book will surely inspire and inform your inner gardener. The Kansas City area poses more gardening challenges than almost anywhere else in the country - dry summers, cold winters and bad soil, to name a few. And yet our area also boasts hundreds of magnificent gardens. Author Craig Nienaber has gathered lots of tips from veteran gardeners with a lifetime of experience growing flowers in Kansas City.
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The Loudest, Fastest, Best Drummer in Kansas
Marguerite W. Davol Manufacturer: Orchard Books (NY) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding Similar Items: ASIN: 0531331911 |
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Incredible Illustrations Excite Little Readers.......2000-05-12
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Absolutely Kansas City: Recipes and Menus from the City's Best Restaurants
Manufacturer: Showcase Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0963222023 |
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Become an instant gourmet in the comfort of your own home! The publishers of KCH&G share recipes, menus and ambience from some of Kansas City's best restaurants. Explore Thai, Italian, French, traditional American fare and other delightful offerings from throughout the metropolitan area.
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The Best Little Coffee Shops in Kansas City
Manufacturer: Isaac Alongi, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 097738490X |
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The Best Little Coffee Shops in Kansas City takes a fun look inside some of my favorite locally owned coffee spots, at their unique character, atmosphere, and the people that run them. Whether you drink your coffee black or prefer a fancy coffee drink, you can find some interesting places in Kansas City that you will find nowhere else.
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The Best of Kansas Piano/Vocal/Chords
ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0898983185 |
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Carry on Wayward Son, Point of Know Return, Fight Fire with Fire, Dust in the Wind, Song for America, Perfect Lover, Hold On, No One Together, Play the Game Tonight, The Wall
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The Best of Reader's Recipes - The Kansas City Star
various ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: B000P4KM5Y |
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includes Platte County Pie
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The Best Recipes of The Culinary Center of Kansas City
Laura O'Rourke Manufacturer: The Culinary Center of Kansas City ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0970461607 |
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Housed in a beautifully restored turn-of-the-century buggy barn, The Culinary Center of Kansas City celebrates the culinary arts through contemporary classes and demonstrations, interactive private dining, a unique event space for private and corporate entertaining, special themed dinners and teambuilding events. This first cookbook is a compilation of some of the most delicious and most requested recipes from The Culinary Center of Kansas City's classes and culinary events as well as some practical tips. For the beginning and advanced chef alike, Best Recipes is a must for your kitchen library.Books:
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