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With her white beehive and Mondrian make-up, Jordan's look helped
shape a revolution on the King's Road and has become an iconic part
of pop culture. With commentary from key players, including
Vivienne Westwood, Paul Cook and her partner behind the SEX counter
Michael Collins, Defying Gravity is the revealing story of a life
at the eye of punk's storm. Deluxe signed box-set edition - Limited
to 500 copies - A copy of the book hand signed by Jordan - A
specially designed poster featuring Graham Humphreys' jacket design
- A T-shirt designed by Graham Humphreys - A certificate of
authenticity
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This Life At Play
- Memoirs
(Hardcover)
Girish Karnad; Translated by Srinath Perur; Commentary by Srinath Perur; Translated by Girish Karnad; Commentary by Girish Karnad
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Brian Blessed has a lifelong love of animals and over the years has
rescued cats and dogs, horses and ponies, and even a very
ungrateful fighting cock. All were characters in their own right,
such as Jessie, a dog left languishing for a year at the local
RSPCA, who ruled the entire household with a rod of iron, when she
wasn't out harassing the local vicar. Then there was Bodger, an
abused terrier cross breed, who was nursed back to health by Brian
and his wife, and Peppone, a stray cat and notorious thief, who was
responsible for a crime epidemic in the Bagshot area. Most of all
there was Misty, a soul mate and the first Jack Russell Brian met
who didn't take an instant dislike to him. Over the years Brian has
encountered more exotic animals too, from Kali the black panther
who had free run of his kitchen and the gentle boa constrictor Bo
Bo who went for walks with him in Richmond Park to the female
gorillas who found him incredibly attractive. Written with all of
Brian's ebullience, The Panther in My Kitchen is a laugh-out-loud,
life-affirming book about the joy animals bring and why we should
care for them.
An elegant, witty, frank, touching, and deeply personal account of
the loves both great and fleeting in the life of one of America's
most celebrated and fabled women.
Born to great wealth yet kept a virtual prisoner by the custody
battle that raged between her proper aunt and her self-absorbed,
beautiful mother, Gloria Vanderbilt grew up in a special world.
Stunningly beautiful herself, yet insecure and with a touch of
wildness, she set out at a very early age to find romance. And find
it she did. There were love affairs with Howard Hughes, Bill Paley,
and Frank Sinatra, to name a few, and one-night stands, which she
writes about with delicacy and humor, including one with the young
Marlon Brando. There were marriages to men as diverse as Pat De
Cicco, who abused her; the legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski,
who kept his innermost secrets from her; film director Sidney
Lumet; and finally writer Wyatt Cooper, the love of her life.
Now, in an irresistible memoir that is at once ruthlessly
forthright, supremely stylish, full of fascinating details, and
deeply touching, Gloria Vanderbilt writes at last about the subject
on which she has hitherto been silent: the men in her life, why she
loved them, and what each affair or marriage meant to her. This is
the candid and captivating account of a life that has kept gossip
writers speculating for years, as well as Gloria's own intimate
description of growing up, living, marrying, and loving in the
glare of the limelight and becoming, despite a family as famous and
wealthy as America has ever produced, not only her own person but
an artist, a designer, a businesswoman, and a writer of rare
distinction.
In Just One More Thing, Peter Falk -- award-winning actor -- takes
us behind-the-scenes into his professional and private life.
Starting in Hartford, where he worked as a management analyst for
the Connecticut State Budget Bureau, Falk was no more successful
than at an earlier attempt to work with the CIA. He then turned to
an old college interest: acting. Falk came to prominence in 1956 in
the successful Off-Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh. Although
he worked continuously for the next three years, a theatrical agent
advised him not to expect much work in motion pictures because of
his glass eye. Surgeons had removed his right eye, along with a
malignant tumor, when he was three years old. But in 1958, Falk
landed his first movie, Murder Incorporated, and was nominated for
an Oscar. A Pocketful of Miracles garnered his second Oscar
nomination, but it was through his collaboration with filmmaker
John Cassavetes that Falk entered into his most creative period in
1970 when movies such as A Woman Under the Influence helped launch
the independent film movement. Through television, however, Falk
reached his widest audience -- portraying the inimitable Lieutenant
Columbo throughout the 1970s and winning four Emmys.
From the iconic stylist and fashion provocateur whose designs
transformed culture - bringing the glitz of Studio 54 and the
sophistication of Sex and the City to the mainstream - comes a
playful yet intimate memoir of a life spent challenging
conventions. Carrie Bradshaw's pairing of a tutu with a tank top is
one of the most iconic outfits ever seen on television - and a look
that turned avant-garde New York designer and stylist Patricia
Field into a household name. But before she was crowned the fairy
godmother of haute couture, Field was the owner of the longtime
East Village emporium Pat Field, a haven for drag queens, club
kids, starving artists, NYU freshmen, and creative visionaries
alike. Presiding over downtown with her distinctive vermillion hair
and a constantly lit cigarette, Patricia was a rock 'n' roll den
mother to everyone from Amanda Lepore to Lady Bunny to Patti Smith,
with her store providing the city's eccentrics with a place to
discover a sense of family, home, and a rhinestone bedazzled
bustier or two. In Pat in the City, Patricia describes her journey
from scrappy Queens kid peddling men's pants to the fashion world's
most notorious renegade. As the daughter of immigrant parents,
Field learned the principles of glamour from her entrepreneurial
mother, and applied her NYU lessons on democracy to inform a
fashion ethos that would reach millions. From her Studio 54
disco-glam styling to her award-winning work in The Devil Wears
Prada and Sex and the City to today's buzzy costuming in Emily in
Paris, Field's inimitable styling has pushed the envelope and
created trends that have become the culture standard. Now in her
seventies, Patricia Field is ready to tell her story - not to take
a final bow, but to spread her credo of challenging convention and
filling the world with joy and dancing.
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