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Main Street (DVD)
Andrew McCarthy, Ellen Burstyn, Amber Tamblyn, Victoria Clark, Colin Firth, …
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R24
Discovery Miles 240
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Colin Firth and Orlando Bloom star in this American small town
drama directed by John Doyle. Firth stars as American businessman
Gus Leroy, who approaches the residents of Durham, North Carolina,
with proposals that he claims will help the community regain its
former glory as a centre for industry. How will the close-knit
community react to his seemingly optimistic proposals?
Fountain-Pens - The Super-Pen for Our Super-Men Ladies! Learn To
Drive! Your Country Needs Women Drivers! Do you drink German water?
When Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, companies wasted no
time in seizing the commercial opportunities presented by the
conflict. There was no radio or television. The only way in which
the British public could get war news was through newspapers and
magazines, many of which recorded rising readerships. Advertising
became a new science of sales, growing increasingly sophisticated
both in visual terms and in its psychological approach. This
collection of pictorial advertisements from the Great War reveals
how advertisers were given the opportunity to create new markets
for their products and how advertising reflected social change
during the course of the conflict. It covers a wide range of
products, including trench coats, motor-cycles, gramophones,
cigarettes and invalid carriages, all bringing an insight into the
preoccupations, aspirations and necessities of life between 1914
and 1918. Many advertisements were aimed at women, be it for
guard-dogs to protect them while their husbands were away, or soap
and skin cream for 'beauty on duty'. At the same time, men's
tailoring evolved to suit new conditions. Aquascutum advertised
'Officers' Waterproof Trench Coats' and one officer, writing in the
Times in December 1914, advised others to leave their swords behind
but to take their Burberry coat. Sandwiched between the formality
of the Victorian era and the hedonism of the 1920s, these charged
images provide unexpected sources of historical information,
affording an intimate glimpse into the emotional life of the nation
during the First World War.
"A soulful and searching book. Vibrant and elegant...McCarthy's
prose shines with intelligence and intimacy. One feels pulled
along...the book gaining momentum and meaning page by page" (Cheryl
Strayed, The New York Times Book Review).With absorbing honesty and
an irrepressible taste for adventure, award-winning travel writer
and actor Andrew McCarthy takes us on a deeply personal journey
played out amid some of the world's most evocative locales. Unable
to commit to his fiancee of nearly four years--and with no clear
understanding of what's holding him back--McCarthy finds himself at
a crossroads, plagued by doubts that have clung to him for a
lifetime. Though he ventures from the treacherous slopes of Mt.
Kilimanjaro to an Amazonian riverboat and the dense Costa Rican
rain forests, McCarthy's real journey is one of the spirit.
Disarmingly likable, McCarthy isn't afraid to bare his soul on the
page, and what emerges is an intimate memoir of self-discovery and
an unforgettable love song to the woman who would be his wife.
Eleven year-old Nick Vargas thinks his sucky life is being turned
upside down - his father has just remarried and moved his new wife
and her daughter into his home in the soon-to-be-completed,
Mangrove Hollow. And now, not only has Nick lost his bedroom to his
wacky new step-sister Laurie (who lugs around this huge book about
faeries) - if that wasn't bad enough - Nick's father actually wants
him to spend time with her! So when an "expedition" to a nearby
lake turns up a nixie with a giant problem - and by giant, we mean
the enormous, fire-breathing kind - it's up to Nick and Laurie
(with the help of Nick's older brother and a very familiar face
from the original Spiderwick Chronicles) to come up with a plan.
Will they be able to stop the rampaging beast before all of
Mangrove Hollow goes up in smoke?
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Brat (Paperback)
Andrew McCarthy
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R439
R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
Save R111 (25%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Fans of Patti Smith's Just Kids and Rob Lowe's StoriesI Only Tell
My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining, and
emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who
found his start as an 80s Brat pack member, now in paperback. Most
people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink,
St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero, and as a
charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of
ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio
Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of
film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir Brat: An '80s Story,
McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment in time. The
result is a revealing look at coming of age in a maelstrom,
reckoning with conflicted ambition, innocence, addiction, and
masculinity. New York City of the 1980s is brought to vivid life in
these pages, from scoring loose joints in Washington Square Park to
skipping school in favor of the dark revival houses of the Village
where he fell in love with the movies that would change his life.
Filled with personal revelations of innocence lost to heady days in
Hollywood with John Hughes and an iconic cast of characters, Brat
is a surprising and intimate story of an outsider caught up in a
most unwitting success.
Ryan O'Nan writes, directs and stars in his debut feature, a
musical road trip comedy following two young musician friends as
they set out to pursue their dreams. Alex (O'Nan) and Jim (Michael
Weston), aka The Brooklyn Brothers, head out for the West Coast
from their home city of New York in the hope of bringing their
music to a wider audience. As they travel across the country, they
play a series of gigs at random music venues in the build-up to a
'Battle of the Bands' event. Along the way they meet self-styled
music revolutionary Cassidy (Arielle Kebbel), who becomes their
road manager.
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