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If it’s true that we’re known by the company we keep, then Texas humorist, First Amendment Advocate, “Hee Haw’s homespun philosopher, and 1950s media blacklist buster, John Henry Faulk’s character was first quality. His story intersects some of America’s best and brightest: Eugene Victor Debs, the “Texas Triumvirate,” Edward R. Murrow, Mark Goodson, Louis Nizer, Myrna Loy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Joe Papp, and host of others. Consciously risking a lucrative television career, he seized “the buzzards of repression” during the McCarthy era, and “rung their sorry necks.” However, living up to his father’s admonition to “do something for the people,” he kissed his big time media career goodbye, and people still ask what made him do what he did. Perhaps this biography will help explain. John Henry Faulk’s reputation runs an extraordinary gamut from blue collared everymen who wonder why a man throws away a future on television and millions of dollars, to intellectuals who couldn’t imagine why a groundbreaking folklorist with his gifts, skills, and reputation would associate himself with such lowbrow entertainments as “Hee Haw.” Permanently identified by his precedent breaking lawsuit as, “the man who broke the blacklist,” John Henry spent a life baffling those who tried to pigeonhole him.
"John Henry Faulk, from Austin, Texas was a storyteller and radio show host. His successful lawsuit against blacklisters of the entertainment industry helped to bring an end to the Hollywood blacklist"--Wikipedia.
DIVDIVA fascinating and revealing look inside the lives of umpires, from the godfather of creative nonfiction/divDIV In 1974, Lee Gutkind walked into Shea Stadium, then home of the New York Mets, with an unusual proposal. He wanted to chronicle one of the least celebrated cadres in professional baseball: the umpires. Gutkind spent one exhilarating season traveling with the officiating crew he found that day—Doug Harvey, Nick Colosi, Harry Wendelstedt, and Art Williams, the first African American umpire in National League history. Gutkind’s narrative reveals much about the peculiarities of the men charged with the “thankless and impossible task of invoking order”—their work ethic, fallibility, and perhaps most strikingly, their pride./divDIV As resonant today as when it was first published, The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand! is an engrossing story of the men who work on one of the nation’s biggest stages, their victories and their failures, and their inner worlds that are rarely—if ever—explored./divDIV/div/div
A lively and lyrical picture book jaunt from actor and author John Lithgow! Oh, children! Remember! Whatever you may do, Never play music right next to the zoo. They’ll burst from their cages, each beast and each bird, Desperate to play all the music they’ve heard. A concert gets out of hand when the animals at the neighboring zoo storm the stage and play the instruments themselves in this hilarious picture book based on one of John Lithgow’s best-loved tunes.
A collection of six short stories with a travel theme; a perfect companion for the train, the plane or road trip. Road Games happen on the road, in the air, the open sea and in the uncharted territory where the twilight meets the horizon.Odd & sensual occurrences, Sociopaths & surreal happenings.1. Vanishing Point: leads the way as an old and eccentric couple drive to the end of the road.2. Instruments of Torture: takes us to the Caribbean where two mobsters thrill in creative ways of torturing captors that include garage tools, cooking condiments and deep sea predators. Will Brad give in to the torture and tell them where the sexy Kate is with the stolen money? Does he even know where she is?3. The Back in the Back: Nine year old Brian teases and torments other travelers of the road, until one day he is tormented to trauma as the sole witness to a psychopath's rampage of murder with a carpooling fetish. 4. Skyline: Dynamic, in love and enveloped in their own secret world we walk the canals of Naples but in Long Beach CA! This ethereal duo talk about life and mystery; an entertaining and well crafted anecdote not really about anything at all. A bit of long form poetry with an enigma: are these two immortal beings? Extraterrestrials? Phantoms from another dimension? Readers enjoy the dimensional feeling of this pleasant, romantic episode.5. Over Your Shoulder: reminds us to never look back as a man escapes harrowing disaster at 35,000 feet on his flight home, only to have the terror truly begin upon landing. 6. Luzia Blanco: A Sensual adventure of vacation in Mexico. Mishaps on a cruise ship, high speed driving, exotic dancers and a shoot out at the tavern.7. Country Killer: Ben and Melanie are sweet newlyweds with an adorable young son, Benny Jr. and a baby on the way. Ben takes a cross-country trucker job to provide for his new family, bonding with a fellow trucker as they try to stay one mile ahead of the Country Killer. 8. Another Perspective: The old and peculiar couple from Vanishing Point close the collection with another surreal experience in Another Perspective.
Transcribed from the audio tapes of the feature film The Anna Cabrini Chronicles, writer and director Tawd b. Dorenfeld creatively takes you through the minds of those suffering from Mental Illness, Social Anxieties, Depression, and Suicidal Tendencies. The Chronicles voice the inner chaos of four troubled characters, ultimately ending in their own personal demise. Brooke Caldner (age 22) battles with theological dichotomies and body image. Unable to accept his homosexuality, Jonathan, (age 50), succumbs to a fragmentation of his sexual desires and his own person. Venice Beach skater Merrick (age 12), decides the only escape from his hopeless family life and the testing of prepubescent societal is to end his own. Part Play, Part Poetry, Part Narrative, The Anna Cabrini Chronicles - Printed Journals is as unique a read as the film is to watch.
Jim and Peg Rule were living active lives when without warning, back pain signaled the onset of cancer and in less than nine months, Jim's life partner of thirty-seven years was gone. Like many others who have lost a loved one to premature death, Jim faced the difficult challenge of going on with his life. As folded socks, toothbrushes, and shampoo became near-sacred objects, Jim wondered why God had not prevented Peg's death. In this collection of poignant essays, Jim not only shares the thoughts and feelings that express his sorrow as he walked through the journey of grief, but also provides insight and sensitivity into the workings of God and how He provides assurance and courage, even in the face of great tragedy. Written in two parts aftermath and individuation Jim details the beginning of his solitary life, how he muddled through the holidays and other firsts, and how he learned to establish his individuality, separate and distinct from whom he had become with his wife. For anyone traveling through the darkness after the shadow of death, Letting Go of Forever touches the soul, inspires a broken heart, and encourages the belief that better days will come.
'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald Tribune The Glendale P.D. have their hands full again. What with an epidemic of motel hold-ups, a rapist with a fixation on hospital nurses, a teenager's suicide, an art gallery theft and a killing that leads to a zoo, there is no time for respite for Vic Varallo and co. Delia Riordan is troubled by a very unusual mystery indeed, that of an old lady who dies suddenly of a most unexpected heart attack. Or does she? Riordan makes this her own special case, pursuing it beyond the call of duty and coming up with a most surprising answer.
Now available in paperback! No movie has ever been made, or made well, without the character who toils just outside the spotlight. He arranged for the spotlight, hired the spotlight operator, and even made sure that it was trained correctly on the stars. At the end of the day, there would be no blinking movie screens, no blinking Oscar winners, no finished films, good or bad, without the Assistant Director. Jerry Ziesmer was an assistant director for over thirty years, working on countless films before his retirement in the middle-nineties. He has worked with some of Hollywood's biggest directors, and its biggest stars. In this memoir, he recounts his time in Hollywood including his work on the sets of Apocalypse Now, Close Encounters, and Jerry Maguire. Written with the craft and humor that made Jerry Ziesmer one of the most sought-after assistant directors in Hollywood, this book will be a treasure for students and fans of twentieth-century Hollywood. Cloth edition previously published in 2000.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) remains one of the best examples of a labor union that traces its origins to radical anti-racist principles. Today, very few mainstream unions remain that were founded on militant, radical, and “anti-racist” principles. The ILWU remains the strongest port union in the United States, and its members are among the highest paid blue-collar union workers in the world. Drawing on in-depth interviews, archival oral histories research, and ethnographic observation, Solidarity Forever? highlights the struggle of a key group of Black and women leaders who fought for racial and gender equality in the ports of Southern California. The book argues that institutional and cultural forms of racial and gender inequality are embedded within US trade union locals leading to the following deleterious consequences for unions: (1) a proliferation of internal discrimination lawsuits within unions, which can cost the union International, or union local, potentially millions of dollars in legal fees and financial settlements thereby redistributing precious financial resources that could be spent on key activities related to making unions stronger from outside attacks; (2) an erosion of trust and solidarity among workers, the key values of any successful union, which ultimately undermines the radical democratic potential of unions and rank-and-file participation in union politics; and (3) the undermining of workers of color and women workers as full and equal participants in the labor movement. The future of organized labor in the United States could very well be determined by the ability of the labor movement, and labor unions in particular, to listen to those workers who have been relegated to the margins of the global economy—workers of color, immigrant workers, women workers, and all workers in the Global South.