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Two-movie collection featuring Disney's classic
live-action/animation and the 2016 remake. In 'Pete's Dragon'
(1977) lonely orphan Pete (Sean Marshall) finds a new friend in a
surprising form: Elliott (voice of Charlie Callas), a 12-foot tall
dragon that has the power to make itself invisible. Together they
innocently cause chaos in their sleepy home town, but their
partnership is put in jeopardy when visiting medicine seller Dr
Terminus (Jim Dale) tries to kidnap Elliott. In 'Pete's Dragon'
(2016) young boy Pete (Oakes Fegley) is found by forest ranger
Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) after having lived in a forest for the
last six years alongside his best friend, a dragon called Elliot
(voice of John Kassir). After taking him home to try and find his
family, Grace is shocked to learn of the dragon's existence.
However, when Elliot comes under threat from a hunter (Karl Urban),
Pete, Grace, her father Meacham (Robert Redford) and lumber mill
owner Jack (Wes Bentley)'s daughter Natalie (Oona Laurence) set out
to protect him.
A Disney production mixing animation with live action. Lonely
orphan boy Pete (Sean Marshall) finds a new friend in a surprising
form: Elliott, a 12-foot tall dragon that has the power to make
itself invisible. Together they innocently cause chaos in their
sleepy hometown, but their partnership is put in jeopardy when a
visiting medicine seller (Jim Dale) tries to kidnap Elliott.
How did a Jewish teacher, healer, sage and mystic become the
vehicle for so much hatred and harm directed against his own
people?
Dialogue is demanding and difficult. It is often painful. It
entails deep listening, letting others define themselves and being
willing to confront and transform deep-rooted prejudices in
ourselves. It requires the courage to re-envision absolutely
everything we tend to cherish and protect, and to relinquish our
entrenched vainglorious ego attachments, our inflated sense of I,
me and mine. This challenge to grow beyond tribalism, to approach
others in a fair and reasonable way, is an essential step in our
human evolution. from the Invitation to the Reader
Judaism and Christianity have had a volatile relationship in
their two-thousand-year history. Anger, rivalry, insensitivity,
bloodshed and murder have marred the special connection these two
Abrahamic faiths share. In the last several decades, scholars,
activists, laypeople and clergy have attempted to expose and
eliminate the struggles between Jews and Christians.
This collaborative effort brings together the voices of
Christian scholar Ron Miller and Jewish scholar Laura Bernstein to
further explore the roots of anti-Semitism in Christian faith and
scripture. In a probing interfaith dialogue, Miller and Bernstein
trace the Jewish-Christian schism to its very source in the first
book of the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew. Illuminating the
often misunderstood context of Matthew s gospel a persecuted
Christian minority writing some sixty years after Jesus s death
this examination of a foundational Christian text discerns the ways
in which the Jewishness of Jesus was forgotten and Jews and Judaism
became Christianity s foil. More important, it takes a renewed look
at Matthew with contemporary retellings that present a new and
better future of conciliation and compassion between the two faith
traditions.
For decades, James Bawden and Ron Miller have established
themselves as maestros of provocative interviews, giving fans
unmatched insights into the lives of Hollywood A-listers. In their
fourth collection, the authors pay tribute to film pioneers who lit
up Tinseltown from the 1930s through the 1960s. They Made the
Movies features conversations with legendary directors who created
many of film's all-time classics, including Frank Capra (It's A
Wonderful Life, 1946), Richard Fleischer (20,000 Leagues Under the
Sea, 1954), Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, 1960), Ralph Nelson (Lilies
of the Field, 1963), Robert Wise (The Sound of Music, 1965), and
Chuck Jones (How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 1966). Tantalizing
firsthand details about many acclaimed films are revealed, such as
the revelation of Mervyn LeRoy's first-choice of lead actress for
The Wizard of Oz ("Shirley Temple... but Shirley couldn't sing like
Judy [Garland]"), Billy Wilder's insights on directing ("You have
to be a sycophant, a sadist, a nurse, a philosopher"), and how
megaproducer Hal B. Wallis purchased an unproduced play titled
Everyone Comes to Rick's and transformed it into Casablanca ("The
part [of Sam] almost went to Lena Horne, but I thought she was too
beautiful"). The authors also celebrate the contributions of
marginalized filmmakers such as Ida Lupino, James Wong Howe, Oscar
Micheaux, and Luis Valdez, who prevailed in Hollywood despite the
discrimination they faced throughout their careers. They Made the
Movies appeals to film and television enthusiasts of all ages.
During television's first fifty years -- long before cable
networks, Hulu, Netflix, and the like -- families would gather
around their television sets nightly to watch entertaining shows
such as I Love Lucy, Gunsmoke, M*A*S*H, The Beverly Hillbillies,
Fantasy Island, and The Rockford Files. Many of the stars of these
beloved shows have passed away, but their presence remains intact
-- not only through their television show performances, which are
still viewed and appreciated today, but also through stories they
told in interviews over the years. Seasoned journalists and authors
James Bawden and Ron Miller have captured provocative and
entertaining interviews with important figures from TV's first
fifty years. These thirty-nine interviews, selected from
conversations conducted from 1971--1998, present a fascinating
glimpse of some of television's most influential performers.
Featured are exclusive interviews with major stars (including Donna
Reed, James Garner, and Ricardo Montalban), icons of comedy
(including Lucille Ball, George Burns, and Milton Berle), TV hosts
(including Dick Clark and Ed Sullivan), and notable musical
entertainers (such as Glen Campbell, Mary Martin, and Lawrence
Welk). Each chapter of this volume explores the subject's
television work -- with detailed behind-the-scenes disclosures --
and includes additional information about the subject's
performances in film and on stage.
Long before humans wrote, we painted. From mud and ash to acrylic
and computers, artists across the centuries have found countless
inventive ways to explore and express some of life's biggest
mysteries. Enter space art, a genre of artistic expression that
strives to capture the wonders of our universe. This lavishly
illustrated book chronicles the remarkable development of space art
from a fledgling theme to a modern movement. In Part I, we traverse
the history of art and astronomy from ancient times, through the
Industrial Revolution, and into the 20th-century Space Age. Part II
delves into the diverse techniques and subgenres of space art,
where you will learn about things like rocks and balls, hardware
art, and cosmic expressionism. Along the way, we'll stop at places
where neither humans nor spacecraft can easily go, from the
scorching surface of Venus and the radiation-soaked volcanoes of Io
to the alien terrain of exoplanets and the depths of distant
galaxies. Featuring hundreds of original color images from space
artists and astronomers alike, this book is a vivid visual story
about the power of art, astronomy, and human curiosity. A heavily
revised edition of the original Beauty of Space, it will entertain,
educate, and inspire anybody who yearns to make sense of the
strange and surreal sights in our universe.
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Open Ends (Paperback)
Doug Martin; Illustrated by Ron Miller; Michael Holzhauser-Alberti
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David is not mentioned in the scripture until the last part of the
last chapter of Ruth. However, there are 968 verses in the entire
Bible in which David is mentioned. This compared to the 784 verses
that mention Moses, the 230 verses that mention Abraham, and the
159 verses that mention the Apostle Paul, tends to give us an idea
of the significance of David's life. Even Jesus' name is mentioned
in fewer verses (942), although God is mentioned in 3894 verses.
There are also hundreds of verses that do not mention David by name
but refer to him as king. From the sheer fact that David is
mentioned and referred to so many times in the scripture, we can
see that such a study that we hereby embark on is certainly
legitimate. David was the king that excelled beyond all others in
the three Kingdom dimensions God instituted before man was ever
created -- worship, word, and warfare. The Lord had even set an
angelic leader over these three dimensions. Michael was over
warfare; Gabriel was over word, or messages; Lucifer was over
worship. David was the passionate worshipper whose zeal for worship
has never been matched by mortal man. There was no greater warrior
than King David. He never lost a military conflict. David delivered
the Word of the Lord with accuracy and messianic insight. His
messianic prophecies number more than any of the Major Prophets. So
in all three Kingdom dimensions, David excelled above all others.
No wonder that David will be the vice king of all the earth during
the millennium. As amazing as his life was, his failures were
almost unfathomable. David's failures were indeed paramount and
certainly were of a great cost to him and his family. Yet no one
exemplifies true repentance and Godly sorrow more than David.
Again, the study of David's life is worthy of a genuine effort to
look intently at every verse that mentions his name. We believe in
so doing we will clearly see the entire life and legacy of this one
whom God said is "a man after mine own heart" (Acts 13:22).
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