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Meet Derek! From Curtain Calls to Traffic Jams, Derek’s Driving DreamsMeet Derek! From Curtain Calls to Traffic Jams, Derek’s Driving Dreams

Author : Damian Delisser

Publisher : D Delisser Books

Page : 82 pages

File Size : 22,13 MB

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Category : Juvenile Fiction

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Have you ever felt like your dreams were just out of reach? Meet Derek, a struggling actor who has been chasing his Hollywood dream for years, only to land minor roles in B-grade movies. But what if the detour you dread is the path to your destiny? “Meet Derek! From Curtain Calls to Traffic Jams, Derek’s Driving Dreams” follows Derek’s hilarious and heartwarming journey as he stumbles upon an unexpected job as a British driving instructor after years of pursuing an acting career. Navigating nervous students, impatient drivers, and the chaos of maintaining a fake accent, Derek's life takes a wild turn. Just when he thinks his acting career is over, a chance encounter with a group of spunky elderly ladies sparks an idea that could change everything. Imagine turning your biggest struggles into your greatest triumphs. As Derek’s real-life lessons inspire a hit comedy show, he finds himself not only teaching people how to drive but also driving straight into stardom. With genuine humour and touching moments, this story showcases the power of persistence, the importance of community, and the surprising places inspiration can strike. This humourous and exciting book is about: Driving Dreams, Hollywood Journey, Comedy Star Memoir, Hollywood Hopeful, Celebrity Autobiography, Comedy Biography, Journey to Stardom, Comedian Life Story, Hollywood Dreams, Rise to Fame, Comedian Journey, Showbiz Memoir, Showbiz Dreams, Hollywood Success Story, Aspiring Actor Story, Comedian Autobiography, Life in Comedy, Comedy Success Story, From Hollywood Hopeful to Star and Comedy Career Journey. Don't miss “Meet Derek! From Curtain Calls to Traffic Jams, Derek’s Driving Dreams”. Dive into Derek’s uproarious and inspiring adventure, and discover how sometimes, the roadblocks we face are just the detours we need to reach our true destination. Join Derek on a ride filled with laughter, hope, and the pursuit of dreams!Have you ever felt like your dreams were just out of reach? Meet Derek, a struggling actor who has been chasing his Hollywood dream for years, only to land minor roles in B-grade movies. But what if the detour you dread is the path to your destiny? “Meet Derek! From Curtain Calls to Traffic Jams, Derek’s Driving Dreams” follows Derek’s hilarious and heartwarming journey as he stumbles upon an unexpected job as a British driving instructor after years of pursuing an acting career. Navigating nervous students, impatient drivers, and the chaos of maintaining a fake accent, Derek's life takes a wild turn. Just when he thinks his acting career is over, a chance encounter with a group of spunky elderly ladies sparks an idea that could change everything. Imagine turning your biggest struggles into your greatest triumphs. As Derek’s real-life lessons inspire a hit comedy show, he finds himself not only teaching people how to drive but also driving straight into stardom. With genuine humour and touching moments, this story showcases the power of persistence, the importance of community, and the surprising places inspiration can strike. This humourous and exciting book is about: Driving Dreams, Hollywood Journey, Comedy Star Memoir, Hollywood Hopeful, Celebrity Autobiography, Comedy Biography, Journey to Stardom, Comedian Life Story, Hollywood Dreams, Rise to Fame, Comedian Journey, Showbiz Memoir, Showbiz Dreams, Hollywood Success Story, Aspiring Actor Story, Comedian Autobiography, Life in Comedy, Comedy Success Story, From Hollywood Hopeful to Star and Comedy Career Journey. Don't miss “Meet Derek! From Curtain Calls to Traffic Jams, Derek’s Driving Dreams”. Dive into Derek’s uproarious and inspiring adventure, and discover how sometimes, the roadblocks we face are just the detours we need to reach our true destination. Join Derek on a ride filled with laughter, hope, and the pursuit of dreams!



Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism

Author : I. Gregson

Publisher : Springer

Page : 277 pages

File Size : 24,64 MB

Release : 1996-11-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0230379141

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Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism explores the fraught relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it. Mainstream poets like Paul Muldoon, James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy multiply voices and so draw on resources from the novel - Bakhtin's concept of the dialogic is therefore used to explain their techniques. By contrast, Shklovsky's concept of 'estrangement' is shown to be more useful in accounting for the radical experimentation of poets like Edwin Morgan, Christopher Middleton and Denise Riley. However, the book concludes by suggesting that - partly because of the influence of surrealism in women poets like Selima Hill and Jo Shapcott - the mainstream has recently been infiltrated by modernist and postmodernist estrangement effects.



Driving to Detroit

Author : Lesley Hazleton

Publisher :

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 22,62 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780684860114

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Leaving her home in Seattle in mid-summer to drive 'the long way round' to the Detroit auto show, Lesley Hazleton embarks on a journey to visit the holy places for cars - where they are raced, displayed, crashed, tested and made - as she seeks to understand our deep fascination with automobiles. Her quest takes her on a road trip that teaches her not only about cars and the peculiar passions of car lovers but also about herself. Halfway through this extraordinary adventure, Hazleton's father, the man who taught her to drive, dies suddenly, and her trip becomes a journey of grief and memory.



Launch!

Author : Jen Du Plessis

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 19,17 MB

Release : 2017-09-05

Category : Success

ISBN : 9781684012237

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For over 30 years, Jen Du Plessis has been at the top of the mortgage lending industry. She has been named in the Top 200 Loan Originators in the U.S. over 5 times, and is also the Founder and CEO of The Kirney Group, Inc., a commercial lending firm and Black Fox Investments, LLC, a real estate management company. Now she's ready to share her tools, advice, strategies, and inspiration to spark growth in your practice and help you excel. Told in Jen's signature down-to-earth, no-frills style, Launch! is full of tried-and-tested advice on systems, structures, implementation, and goal setting. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just getting into the business, Jen's expert knowledge will help you reach new heights that you haven't imagined before now. Stop waiting and talking about your future success. The time is now for you to launch!



The Heart of a Horse

Author : Candida Baker

Publisher : Allen & Unwin

Page : 349 pages

File Size : 40,24 MB

Release : 2021-01-05

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1761060953

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When Candida Baker left her city lifestyle and high-profile job to live in the hills behind Byron Bay, little did she realise this was the first step on a journey of self-discovery - through her natural horsemanship, photography and writing - to an enhanced sense of spiritual and psychic connection with the animal world. Told through a series of true stories, at its essence The Heart of a Horse is about learning to 'listen' with all our senses. Using her lifelong love of horses as the main conduit for bridging the gap between our thought processes and intuition, Candida describes the magic that happens when we keep an open mind about the idea of communication.



A Healthy Horse the Natural Way

Author : Catherine Bird

Publisher : Globe Pequot

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 28,84 MB

Release : 2006-04

Category : Medical

ISBN : 9781592289288

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Just as more and more people are embracing a natural approach to their health and well-being, many horse owners are turning to ways they can use natural therapies with their horses. This book discusses a complete approach and how to use a combination of the therapies in conjunction with veterinary treatment.



Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical

Author : Robert L. McLaughlin

Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi

Page : 284 pages

File Size : 33,9 MB

Release : 2016-08-11

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1496808568

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From West Side Story in 1957 to Road Show in 2008, the musicals of Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) and his collaborators have challenged the conventions of American musical theater and expanded the possibilities of what musical plays can do, how they work, and what they mean. Sondheim's brilliant array of work, including such musicals as Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods, established him as the preeminent composer/lyricist of his, if not all, time. Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical places Sondheim's work in two contexts: the exhaustion of the musical play and the postmodernism that, by the 1960s, deeply influenced all the American arts. Sondheim's musicals are central to the transition from the Rodgers and Hammerstein-style musical that had dominated Broadway stages for twenty years to a new postmodern musical. This new style reclaimed many of the self-aware, performative techniques of the 1930s musical comedy to develop its themes of the breakdown of narrative knowledge and the fragmentation of identity. In his most recent work, Sondheim, who was famously mentored by Oscar Hammerstein II, stretches toward a twenty-first-century musical that seeks to break out of the self-referring web of language. Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical offers close readings of all of Sondheim's musicals and finds in them critiques of the operation of power, questioning of conventional systems of knowledge, and explorations of contemporary identity.



How Sondheim Found His Sound

Author : Steve Swayne

Publisher : University of Michigan Press

Page : 340 pages

File Size : 29,41 MB

Release : 2007-05-08

Category : Music

ISBN : 9780472032297

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“Steve Swayne’s How Sondheim Found His Sound is a fascinating treatment and remarkable analysis of America’s greatest playwright in song. His marvelous text goes a long way toward placing Stephen Sondheim among the towering artists of the late twentieth century!” —Cornel West, Princeton University “Sondheim’s career and music have never been so skillfully dissected, examined, and put in context. With its focus on his work as composer, this book is surprising and welcome.” —Theodore S. Chapin, President and Executive Director, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization “. . . an intriguing ‘biography’ of the songwriter’s style. . . . Swayne is to be congratulated for taking the study of this unique composer/lyricist into hitherto unnavigated waters.” —Stage Directions “The research is voluminous, as are the artistry and perceptiveness. Swayne has lived richly within the world of Sondheim’s music.” —Richard Crawford, author of America’s Musical Life: A History “Amid the ever-more-crowded bookshelf of writings on Sondheim, Swayne’s analysis of Sondheim’s development as a composer stands up as a unique and worthy study. . . . For the Sondheim aficionados, there are new ideas and new information, and for others, Swayne’s How Sondheim Found His Sound will provide an intriguing introduction into the mind of arguably the greatest and most influential living Broadway composer.” —talkinbroadway.com “What a fascinating book, full of insights large and small. An impressive analysis and summary of Sondheim’s many sources of inspiration. All fans of the composer and lovers of Broadway in general will treasure and frequently refer to Swayne’s work.” —Tom Riis, Joseph Negler Professor of Musicology and Director of the American Music Research Center, University of Colorado Stephen Sondheim has made it clear that he considers himself a “playwright in song.” How he arrived at this unique appellation is the subject of How Sondheim Found His Sound—an absorbing study of the multitudinous influences on Sondheim’s work. Taking Sondheim’s own comments and music as a starting point, author Steve Swayne offers a biography of the artist’s style, pulling aside the curtain on Sondheim’s creative universe to reveal the many influences—from classical music to theater to film—that have established Sondheim as one of the greatest dramatic composers of the twentieth century.



The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical

Author : Raymond Knapp

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 481 pages

File Size : 23,38 MB

Release : 2011-11-04

Category : Music

ISBN : 0199874727

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The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen. The handbook offers a cross-section of essays written by leading experts in the field, organized within broad conceptual groups, which together capture the breadth, direction, and tone of musicals studies today. Each essay traces the genealogy of the term or issue it addresses, including related issues and controversies, positions and problematizes those issues within larger bodies of scholarship, and provides specific examples drawn from shows and films. Essays both re-examine traditional topics and introduce underexplored areas. Reflecting the concerns of scholars and students alike, the authors emphasize critical and accessible perspectives, and supplement theory with concrete examples that may be accessed through links to the handbook's website. Taking into account issues of composition, performance, and reception, the book's contributors bring a wide range of practical and theoretical perspectives to bear on their considerations of one of America's most lively, enduring artistic traditions. The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical will engage all readers interested in the form, from students to scholars to fans and aficionados, as it analyses the complex relationships among the creators, performers, and audiences who sustain the genre.



Getting Away with Murder

Author : Stephen Sondheim

Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 11,78 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Detective and mystery plays

ISBN : 9780822215653

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THE STORY: The esteemed and retired Dr. Conrad Bering has selected, out of countless applicants, several individuals for private as well as Group therapy. It seems this Pulitzer Prize- winning doctor might be writing another book and it further see