The Dark Interval: Towards a Theology of Story

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From myth to parable, Crossan identifies five types of stories. Among these types it is parable that subverts the world and undercuts the safe shelter we build. Using literary theory, philosophy, theology and biblical studies, he demonstrates the subversive power of the parable.

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Excellent introduction to narrative theology.......2000-04-14

The Dark Interval: Towards a Theology of Story is one of the best introductions to narrative theology in print. Yes, this is the same Crossan associated with the search for the historical Jesus - but avoiding that strain of contemporary theology is no excuse to miss this gem.

Crossan is widely educated and very comfortably draws from a number of literary, philosophical and theological sources. His argument on the relationship between limit, game, and narrative is especially thought provoking. His analysis of parables as cross-expectations is one of the more interesting and thought-provoking studies of parables.

The net result of his line of thought is that the reader gains a pratical rather than strictly theorectical understanding of narrative theology ... and comes to see it as a natural tool of interpretation of life - one's own or Christ's/

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The Half-Hour Painter: Paint a Successful Landscape in 30 Minutes
Alwyn Crawshaw
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THE HALF-HOUR PAINTER: PAINT A SUCCESSFUL LANDSCAPE IN 30 MINUTES
ALWYN CRAWSHAW
Manufacturer: HARPER COLLINS
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Binding: Hardcover
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THE HALF-HOUR PAINTER: PAINT A SUCCESSFUL LANDSCAPE IN 30 MINUTES.

Manufacturer: BCA
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HGSTV4

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Disney desk calendar.......2007-02-02

We are huge fans of anything Disney, and the Disney Days Day-to-Day Calendar has been a favorite for over 10 years. It is a fun-filled calendar with a scene from a Disney movie on each page, with a comment about the movie or scene shown. And it has the neatest "quick flip" drawing at the bottom of the page. The calendar is "fanned" from bottom to top, as the animators do with their artwork, and a character comes to life. Fascinating!

Not good inside!.......2007-01-12

The cover say: "A Favorite Character on Every Page..."
Wel, yes, there a picture in every page, almost for every day of the year, but is not a Favorite Character picture, is a Movie Still from the Disney Movies, some times is only Bachgrounds, some times the character is so far, and some many days Scenes repet the same Character, as some Important Characters never appears.
I was expecting one diferent Disney Character for each day of the year.
I was Expecting Characters in dates with meaning abou hollydays or something. But Not good Inside, Sorry. Bad quality paper also.

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Fabulous, Darling!

Worthy Read

A fun read

Title Sums It All Up

FOR THE FANS....

All About All About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made!
Sam Staggs
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All About Eve

The Wisdom of Eve

Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)

ASIN: 0312273150

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Like the movie it celebrates, Sam Staggs's All About All About Eve is good, gossipy fun. The book is exhaustively researched, from behind-the-scenes anecdotes to a talk with the original, mysterious "Eve" who sparked the dinner party conversation that inspired the magazine story that eventually became one of the best movies ever made. The book spirals outward from the movie as well, chronicling the subsequent careers of the principals (and an ingenue newcomer named Marilyn Monroe), the life of writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and even the ill-fated romance of stars Bette Davis and Gary Merrill. It is, of course, the legendary on-set cattiness that is the focus of the book's first half (Celeste Holm claims that Bette Davis responded to her initial "Good morning" with a tart "Oh shit, good manners," and the two never spoke again; cast members dish about George Sanders's then-wife Zsa Zsa Gabor), but the overall tone of the book is one of affection and a deep fascination for even the smallest aspects of the film. A true fan, Staggs analyzes the position of All About Eve in its own time and in the camp culture of today, notes its influence on innumerable subsequent films, and even chronicles the somewhat manufactured "feud" between Bette Davis and Tallulah Bankhead that developed over Davis's characterization of Margo Channing. To keep it from getting too weighty, Staggs punctuates the book with sidebars, paying tribute to the career of Walter Hampden, the elderly actor who presents the Sarah Siddons award, and even working in a match-the-famous-quote-to-the-French-subtitle quiz. All About All About Eve succeeds best in its main purpose--making you want to watch the movie one more time. --Ali Davis

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To millions of fans, All About Eve represents all that's witty and wonderful in classic Hollywood movies.Its old-fashioned, larger-than-life stars--including Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Baxter, George Sanders and Celeste Holm--found their best roles in Eve and its sophisticated dialogue has entered the lexicon.But there's much more to know about All About Eve.Sam Staggs has written the definitive account of the making of this fascinating movie and its enormous influence both in film and in popular culture.Staggs reveals everything about the movie--from the famous European actress Margo Channing was based on to the hot blooded romance on-set between Bette Davis and co-star Gary Merrill, from the jump-start the movie gave Marilyn Monroe's career to the capstone it put on director's Joseph L. Mankeiwicz's.All About All About Eve is not only full of rich detail about the movie, the director and the stars, but also about the audience who loved it when it came out and adore it to this day.AUTHORBIO: Sam Staggs first book was MMII: The Return of Marilyn Monroe.He has also written for a number of magazines, including Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, and Art News. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

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Fabulous, Darling!.......2007-02-15

Sam Staggs' "All About All About Eve" is the most fun movie book I've ever read. If you are a movie fan and thinking of buying this book, you may as well stop reading this review right now, order the book, and begin anticipating the good time you'll have once it arrives.

Reading this book was an indulgence, like eating bon bons.

Staggs' maintains an effervescent tone throughout most of the text, even while sharing the darker side of "Eve" -- it *is* a "three suicide" movie, after all. (Three former cast members were, eventually, to commit suicide.)

Yes, there is a lot here, and for some it will all be TMI: too much information. I skimmed the chapters on Talullah Bankhead and the Broadway musical, "Applause," because they didn't interest me much. But I'd rather have too much than not enough.

I'm not a Marilyn Monroe follower and I have to wonder how many hardcore "Eve" fans are; for me, there was too much Monroe here.

I did want more in-depth gossip about Davis and Merrill, who fell in love during filming, and married, and more about that velvet voiced enigma, George Sanders.

But the outline is here, and dialogue, including excerpts from and references to autobiographies, biographies, interviews, etc.

If you need to know more about anyone involved with Eve, Staggs provides you with a bibliography that cites all the books he excerpts.

The book is fun enough, and intriguing enough, that you probably will want to know more.

Worthy Read.......2006-08-16

As a decent, god-fearing heterosexual male of family and property, let me say I loved this book. It gives us a look at the Hollywood that was, and a peak into the minds of creative people at the peak of their craft.

A fun read.......2005-11-09

I enjoyed this book, which delves into more details about the great movie "All About Eve" than you'd ever think to ask.

Other reviewers here have admirably covered the content and tone of the book. I'd like to go further and address those fans of the movie who are eager to read the original short story on which the film was based. That story, "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr, can be found in a book entitled "No, But I Saw the Movie: The Best Short Stories Ever Made into Film". That book, edited by David Wheeler, is out of print, but used copies are usually available here on Amazon. Mary Orr's original play, also called "The Wisdom of Eve" and based on the short story, is also available here on Amazon, for the fan who wants to leave no Eve stone unturned!

So, yes, do read this book, and then if you STILL are not quite sated with Eve, read the original story and play and see how it all began.

Title Sums It All Up.......2004-07-31

Sam Staggs does indeed cover All About "All About Eve". This is book is directly aimed at only those fans who cannot get enough and will seem too much for the casual fans (if such creatures exist) of the movie All About Eve. In other words, much of this book seems aimed at gay men who wallow in the high artistic camp of what All About Eve has become. In this respect, it is quite a thorough joy, as the history of the true story behind the movie is presented, the original short story, and then into the heart of the book, the filming of the movie (Celeste Holm comes in for perhaps too hard a time because of the author's personal feelings towards her and her attitude toward his book. Her actual celluloid performance was perfect.) The remainder of the book follows the growing legend of the film and the creation of the musical, Applause, based on it. It is a breezy, fun read without a single bumpy night in sight.

FOR THE FANS...........2003-01-17

Fans of "All About Eve" will enjoy this exploration of the making of a classic. It's hard to put down and consistently entertaining. A perfect companion piece for the film as the backstage story of a backstage story of life in the theater from a life in Hollywood viewpoint. Celeste Holm's remarks are particularly revealing. You could say this is a bitchy look at a bitchy movie and it's well worth the read. Don't miss this one.

All about All about Eve: The Complete Behind-The-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made

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All about All about Eve: The Complete Behind-The-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made
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Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001
The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, and More

Welcome to the latest volume in the series that celebrates the year's best writing about music and its culture, as edited by Nick Hornby, the creator of the most famously music-obsessed hero in contemporary fiction. Hornby has selected pieces on a dazzling array of topics from more than a hundred sources--remarkable essays by journalists and authors who are as serious about writing as they are about music. Featuring the smartest, edgiest, richest, funniest, and just plain best work of the year, it's required reading for anyone who loves either art.

Jonathan Lethem confesses his desire for the Go-Betweens
David Rakoff witnesses Barbra's farewell
Mike Doughty debunks the myth of dangerous rock
Rian Malan travels deep into "In the Jungle"
Lorraine Ali visits the Palestinian rappers of the West Bank
Greil Marcus raises the stakes with Sleater-Kinney
Richard Meltzer remembers Cameron Crowe
Robert Gordon remembers Jeff Buckley
Sarah Vowell compares Honest Abe and Earnest Al
Nick Tosches expounds on the bonds of hipsters and hoodlums
Anthony DeCurtis approaches Johnny Cash
William Gay celebrates MerleFest
Whitney Balliett considers Django Rheinhardt

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2001, a timeless odyssey.......2005-09-01

Nick Hornby opens his introductory essay to Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001 (Da Capo Press) with an admission. He was in his fifth decade before he got his first regular music-writing gig, for The New Yorker. His first fax from a major label was a press release saying that a leading female artist had signed an exclusive deal with a brand of shampoo. He wonders whether the fax should feature in this anthology: music writing should reflect what's happening, and "what's more representative of the zeitgeist than this sort of crap? Isn't this what they mean by synergy?"
Hornby has captured the spirit of the age with his selections of 2001's best (American) music journalism. There are pieces that couldn't have been written at any other time, on Napster, say, or Eminem. But he hasn't wasted space trying to be hipper than thou, and there's a timelessness to the best pieces: who they're writing about isn't as important as how they're written. One of the best isn't really about music at all: Robbie Fulks describing his tax audit (on the web at www.openletters.net/001002/fulks001005.html). There's Memphis writer Robert Gordon's sensitive report on the disintegration of Jeff Buckley, singer Mike Doughty debunking the myth of dangerous rock, and Rian Malan on the convoluted provenance of `The Lion Sleeps Tonight'. Hornby initially wanted to showcase a new, young group of writers (in fact, one piece examines the dilemma of the ageing music writer, a topic Hornby himself was sneered at for discussing in the NY Times of 23 May 2004). But he found the strongest work came not from pimply webzine writers but from veterans - and venerable outlets such as The New Yorker and the New York Times. Nick Tosches relishes the links between music hipsters and hoodlums, and Bill Buford's exemplary profile of Lucinda Williams perfectly captures a languid, literary, Southern tone. While Richard Meltzer's bitter diatribe about Almost Famous confirms music journalism's perennial-adolescent reputation, pieces such as Malan's - which sees the descendants of the composer of `Wimoweh' receiving thousands in unpaid royalties - show how useful the genre can be when it steps away from dealing in "product", hip or otherwise.

another enjoyable compilation from Da Capo.......2003-11-30

In this edition of Da Capo's "Best Music Writing" guest editor Nick Hornby has put the emphasis on relatively established writers tackling music-related themes though not necessarily the music per se. Two of the standout pieces from this mold are South African journalist Rian Malan (author of the incredible memoir "My Traitor's Heart") on the vicissitudes of the continuing legal wrangling over "Wimoweh" in which New York business sharks in essence defrauded its illiterate South African writer Solomon Lindo who died in poverty; and Nick Tosches funny piece on a group of now elderly wiseguys reminiscing on the underworld connections that made 1950s-1960s rock and roll. Granta editor Bill Buford contributes a very revealing portrait of alt-country singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. Three unusual and enjoyable pieces are alt.country singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks' encounter with the IRS (think low-rent Willie Nelson), the fan letter of Jonathan Lethem (editor of the subsequent 2002 collection) to the Go-Betweens, and Jim DeRogatis' acrimonious interview with Third Eye Blind singer Stephan Jenkins in which he invites Jenkins to give as good as he gets. A good compilation, would make a good gift for anyone interested in popular music.

Something Here For Everyone.......2003-02-07

Another collection on music writing.from Da Capo, this edition does not dissapoint admirers of the previous year's entry. Hornsby has chosen well, representing a broad spectrum of styles and artists (though it must be said that women and black artists are given relatively short shrift). The most interesting pieces seem to be, once again, those on the least mainstream artists, probably because so much has been said about the hitmakers before. Still, all the pieces are at least interesting (however, I don't understand why NPR editor Sarah Vowell's short essay on Al Gore is included). Standouts include terrific novelist Steve Erickson's attempt to capture the mercurial Neil Young on paper; a sad tribute of sorts to the forgotten South African Zulu, Solomon Linda, who improvised the melody to the song we know as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight;" a lengthy New York Times piece on the impact of hip-hop culture on whites and blacks, and how they in turn shape the culture; and Metal Mike Sauders making a surprisingly good case for Disney Radio being the ultimate independent station. More disappointing are a nostalgic homage to the gangsters that ran the early rock business by the usually powerful Nick Tosches, a prosaic account of a Barbra Streisand concert by a non-fan, and an uninformative tribute to Jeff Buckley by his neighbor. But, as I said, all of the material here is at least interesting, and there's much here that will inspire readers to listen as well.

music writing assembled by music fans' author of choice.......2001-10-17

A first-rate collection of music writing assembled by Nick Hornby. As excellent as I would expect from Mr. Hornby, author of the music obsessive's novel, "High Fidelity".

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Inside the intriguing world of poker lies a fascinating exercise in strategy and extreme concentration--many of the same principles that underpin the one-thousand-year-old philosophy of Zen spirituality. Zen and the Art of Poker is the first book to apply Zen theories to America's most popular card game, presenting tips that readers can use to enhance their game. Among the more than one hundred rules that comprise this book, readers will learn to:

* Make peace with folding

* Use inaction as a weapon

* Make patience a central pillar of their strategy

* Pick their times of confrontation

Using a concise and spare style, in the tradition of Zen practices and rituals, Zen and the Art of Poker traces a parallel track connecting the two disciplines by giving comments and inspirational examples from the ancient Zen masters to the poker masters of today.

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"Inside the intriguing world of poker lies a fascinating exercise in strategy and extreme concentration--many of the same principles that underpin the one-thousand-year-old philosophy of Zen spirituality. Zen and the Art of Poker is the first book to apply Zen theories to America's most popular card game, presenting tips that readers can use to enhance their game. Among the more than one hundred rules that comprise this book, readers will learn to: * Make peace with folding * Use inaction as a weapon * Make patience a central pillar of their strategy * Pick their times of confrontation Using a concise and spare style, in the tradition of Zen practices and rituals, Zen and the Art of Poker traces a parallel track connecting the two disciplines by giving comments and inspirational examples from the ancient Zen masters to the poker masters of today."

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A Fantastic, Game-Altering Book.......2007-07-10

This is not the best book to buy if you are just learning how to play poker (try Sklansky or Harrington), but if you are an advanced beginner or intermediate player, this book offers a whole new approach to the game that will radically improve your play. Most beginning players find themselves playing too many hands, and with disastrous results (hitting top pair with a weak kicker, or hitting second pair). This book's advice (Poker Rule #3) is that "If you've been folding a lot, for a long time in the game, and you're starting to think that maybe it's time you got in a played a few hands again... Keep folding." It counsels patience, emotional detachment, and selective confrontation. In a world of big egos, players on tilt, and WPT wannabees, this book will help you find a calmer, more profitable path.

For far more than poker..........2007-06-22

This is the one book that I can read time and time again, and always learn something new depending on where I'm at in my poker career and my life. It's not a poker instructional book by any means. It's about you and who you are at the poker table -- but really, it's about who you are in your every day existence.

If you like to look inside and make yourself a better person, then this book addresses core issues that can help you excel. Let's face it, life is poker and poker is life. Larry Phillips encapsulates this beautifully. It will help you play better and it will help you live better, if you are willing to do the work and look at yourself honestly.

It's a quick read with much thought provoking insights on just abou every page. It is written very well.

Zen and the Art of Poker.......2007-05-16

This is a great book for the beginner to middle player skill level. It starts off like it may be for advanced players but with its redundant reminders of how to play certain types of hands and what to do in case scenarios it drills it into the player. Making it much easier to retain the information.

Must Read!!!!!!!.......2007-05-13

I have been playing poker professionally for a little over a year now and have read all different kinds of poker books. But this was the first one that really took into the importance of your mental state. If you want to read a book that is going to give you statistics and odds this isn't it. If your looking for something that is going to make you think more about your innerself and others at and away from the table this is a must read. By the way- I have never written a review before but I felt that this was a must for the serious or even part time player!

Don't expect it to cover every base.........2007-02-27

This book drew my attention to a part of my game that had gone untouched for too long. It points out the emotional aspect of your game, and stresses that you be rid of it. I've yet to steam, seek revenge, or bitch over a bad beat since I've gone through this reading experience, and I can't believe the improvement I've seen in my play. The caliber of this book is small, but how far can strategy get you if you let people or occurrences at your table mess with you?

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