Author : Ellie Janssen
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Actors
ISBN : 9780988777859
An intimate profile of the iconic Hollywood Actor, DAVID JANSSEN, by his first wife, ELLIE JANSSEN, as told to Michael Phelps.
Author : Michael Phelps
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Actors
ISBN : 9780988777828
Crime fiction author Michael Phelps, a longtime friend to actor David Janssen, shares conversations they had during the early years of their long friendship.
Author : Michael Phelps
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 2014-10-31
Category :
ISBN : 9780988777811
Despite their on-again, off-again courtship and his desire not to get married, David allowed Dani Greco to take control of his finances. In his professional life, he becomes Harry O - interjecting a lot of his own real-life eccentricities, endearing him to his fans even more. He went on to assume various roles in 12 Made-for-Television films and 6 Feature films between 1974-1979. We are introduced to Carol Connors, a singer and songwriter David met while collaborating on the song, 'My Sensitive, Passionate Man, ' during a lengthy separation from Dani. He seemed to have found true happiness and had no interest in hiding his relationship with Carol. However, Dani controlled his finances, causing him to feel trapped. Living alone in his Malibu Beach home, David quietly explored the cost of a divorce and learned he would not lose everything. At a time when he likely felt the greatest sense of inner peace, the huge hand of fate brought everything to an end. "DAVID JANSSEN Our Conversations is a heartfelt tribute to a beloved Star, still adored by millions of fans around the world today." Norma Budden, author
Author : J. M. Dillard
Publisher : Longman
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9780582417939
A one-armed man kills Dr Richard Kimble's wife, but the police believe Kimble killed her and arrest him. Kimble escapes and goes searching for the real killer, but Detective Gerard is hunting Kimble and wants him dead or alive.
Author : Mel Proctor
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2009-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781440179228
THE OFFICIAL FAN'S GUIDE TO THE FUGITIVE Here we go again! After three decades, Dr. Richard Kimble is still on the run! THE OFFICIAL FAN'S GUIDE TO THE FUGITIVE allows the reader to relive the magic that made The Fugitive one of the most popular television series in history. Each week millions of viewers tuned into to watch Dr. Richard Kimble attempt to locate the murderous one-armed man while still dodging the relentless pursuit of Lieutenant Gerard. Mel Proctor's detailed account of the history of The Fugitive, takes the reader on a nostalgic trip. The book includes: Roy Huggins' original treatment for the show, script development of all 120 episodes, behind the scenes tales about the show and its cast, and many anecdotes, interviews and gossip. It is the only book to carry a full endorsement by Worldvision, the owners of the TV show, by providing great vintage photos of David Janssen, Barry Morse and familiar faces of guest stars. Few episodes in popular culture are as fascinating as the hold The Fugitive had on the American public. Mel Proctor's look back illuminates those days, and today. George F. Will, political columnist and television commentator Proctor writes with clarity and shows the importance of this program as more than just a weekly action tale. For Fugitive buffs & more Enjoy, Enjoy! Larry King, television and radio celebrity This rich and informative history of The Fugitive will be a matchless treasure to Fugitive fans and an enormous pleasure to people who just like to read a remarkably entertaining book. Roy Huggins, creator of The Fugitive The book's a cornucopia of first-time facts, gossip and colorful, behind-the-scenes details about The Fugitive and its remarkable place in television history. I loved it! Alan A. Armer, producer of The Fugitive If Lieutenant Gerard was half as thorough as Mr. Proctor, Richard Kimble would have been back behind bars years ago. Ken Levine, television writer of M*A*S*H* and Frasier
Author : Michael Phelps
Publisher : Blue Line Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2009-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780578007274
Mike Walsh is a good cop, a deveoted husband, and a good friend to have. However, his life is about to turn upside down when he is promoted from the uniformed patrol division to the Robber & Homicide Division. He finds that being a detective is very different from patrol. The transition is made easier by old friend and mentor, Detective Sergeant Jack Lovell, and Mike soon finds that he's actually quite good at detective work. Mike's wife, however, sees a different side of things, and the marriage begins to suffer due to the dangers Mike now has to face and the long hours he has to put in. Can Mike hold it all together? Only time will tell. Tragedy is potentially around every Indianapolis corner; one day the luck will run out and someone is going to pay the ultimate price.Follow the young officer through ups and downs, good times and bad, which eventually lead to a decision that will change his life forever. There will be no turning back. And remember, all this is based on a true story.
Author : Allen Glover
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1683357574
The pioneering, incisive, lavishly illustrated survey of noir on television—the first of its kind Noir—as a style, movement, or sensibility—has its roots in hardboiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called “film noir” by French cineÌ?astes. But film isn’t the only medium with a taste for a dark story. Hundreds of noir dramas have been produced for television, featuring detectives and femmes fatales, gangsters, and dark deeds, continuing week after week, with a new disruption of the social order. In TV Noir, television historian Allen Glover presents the first complete study of the subject. Deconstructing its key elements with astute analysis, from NBC’s adaptation of Woolrich’s The Black Angel to the anthology programs of the ’40s and ’50s, from the classic period of Dragnet, M Squad, and 77 Sunset Strip to neo-noirs of the ’60s and ’70s including The Fugitive, Kolchak, and Harry O., this is the essential volume on TV noir.
Author : Stanley Fish
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 23,31 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0812242777
Fish (Florida International Univ.; emer., Univ. of Illinois, Chicago) "reads" The Fugitive, the mid-1960s television series, as a work of classic literature, teasing out moral and philosophical themes in various episodes. Examining such oppositions as inner truth versus outer appearance, individual independence versus community conformity, justice versus law, innocence versus justice, he depicts the series as capturing a shift in American culture. Fish defines the shift by quoting William Pfaff on the impact of shifting population and decline of the influence of churches. "Add to these developments," writes Fish, "the ideological efforts of liberals who contributed to the old America's demise by [to further quote Pfaff] attacking its values, despising its conformism and subordinating the demands of community to those of individual liberty." Fish argues that the series is similar to a theological text because of its "preoccupation with primary values," most primary among them freedom "in the moral sense ... freedom from attachments that own [one] and circumscribe [one's] will." The author contends that the "moral and philosophical significance" with which he has burdened The Fugitive was in fact intended by Roy Huggins, the creator of the series. This interesting, well-crafted interpretation of the series resonates with cultural significance. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by W. F. Williams.
Author : Roy Huggins
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1479453250
It seemed that a good many people wanted to find out the identity of Ralph Johnston’s wife. Among them was the woman’s own husband...
Author : Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 2003-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780142001745
The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings and The Book of Longings Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted Black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina—a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of Black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.
