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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Vivien (Paperback)
Alexander Walker
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R517
R450
Discovery Miles 4 500
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"My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn
themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part
prude and part non-conformist. I say what I think and I don't
pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my
actions."--Vivien Leigh When Vivien Leigh died in 1967, headlines
around the world proclaimed, "Scarlett O'Hara is Dead!" Perhaps
more than any of her contemporaries, Vivien Leigh became the very
embodiment of the roles she made famous, from Gone With the Wind's
immortal heroine to her harrowing portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A
Streetcar Named Desire. Vivien's beauty, determination, and
enormous charisma were her triumph, whether it was a matter of
charming George Bernard Shaw in order to become his personal choice
for the part of Scarlett--or winning the then-married Laurence
Olivier as her husband. Her twenty-years' partnership with Olivier,
both onstage and off, made them the "royal couple" of the theater,
and garnered unparalleled critical and popular acclaim. But the
achievement had its darker side, for Vivien became so immersed in
her roles that she began to take on their characteristics in real
life--often at enormous cost: playing Blanche DuBois actually
"tipped her into madness"; and while filming Ship of Fools, she
found herself hammering co-star Lee Marvin's face with very
real--and painful--blows of her spiked heel. The public glamour of
her fairy tale marriage to Olivier--so desperately important to
them both--hid a private nightmare of violence and frequent
infidelity. She was consumed by devastating battles against
tuberculosis, to which she finally succumbed, and manic-depression,
which she sought to keep at bay through a voracious sexual
appetite, having affair after affair--sometimes serious, as with
Peter Finch, sometimes with whichever taxi driver happened to bring
her home. Based on previously unpublished interviews with her
friends, family, and colleagues, as well as with Vivien Leigh
herself, Vivien is an extraordinary picture of a unique and complex
woman, as willful as she was beautiful, who knew what she
wanted--whether the coveted role of Scarlett or that, equally
coveted, of Lady Olivier--and got it. With its telling anecdotes,
fascinating insights, and unforgettable glimpses into Hollywood's
heyday, it is sure to stand as the definitive portrait of one of
the most talented and tormented actresses of all time.
The definitive guide to a Hollywood legend. Few stars are as loved
as Audrey Hepburn, today as much as ever. Beautiful, delicate,
graceful - but always warm and natural - she stole our hearts. She
was also brave, working tirelessly for UNICEF in the face of her
own failing health. in this moving and heartwarming biography
Alexander Walker traces the extraordinary combination of luck and
talent that allowed a fragile little girl,who nearly died in
Hitler's occupied Europe, to conquer, in just one year, the New
York stage and the Hollywood screen. Walker analyses her ascent to
power and world fame and reveals the sadness of her life: two
failed marriages, a broken engagement, and the crushing
disappointment that occupied her triumph in My Fair Lady. Most
importantly of all, this biography reveals what no one has known
until now: the truly terrifying family secret that tore Audrey's
childhood apart and kept her forever silent about her parents.
A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description
of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker
in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken
in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of
California. Before European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples
spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are
scattered across several present-day reservations. These
descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the
language. The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded
in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the
many different species of oak trees and their different acorns,
which were the people's staple cuisine. The kinship system is
unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms
marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs
similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their
land with more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating
specific paths of movement. A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new
light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech
community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses
phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language
and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech
communities can create and pass on to children and the degree to
which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.
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