Joe Jackson
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English
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In 1987, when Richard Harris — the legendary star of “This Sporting Life”, “The Field” and “Harry Potter” and the “Philosopher's Stone” — was interviewed for the first time by Joe Jackson, they almost came to blows. Jackson was determined to unearth deeper truths about the actor than he usually disclosed during interviews. Harris had manipulated the media all his life, largely to keep people from getting to really know him. However,...
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Live Aid mastermind Bob Geldof once told his fellow Irishman and journalist Joe Jackson he would never update his 1986 autobiography 'Is That It'. Joe Jackson now suggests that "in ways the two interviews, each roughly 10,000 words long, and two thirds of which has never been previously published, from 1989 and 2001, that make up my book about Bob are, in ways an update of his autobiography. Certainly in the sense that they are psycho-sexual studies."Not...
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English
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Tori Amos: Soul Searching and Uncensored contains an new Back Story, also My Spirit Walk With Tori Amos, a 3,5000 word fragment of memoir about how meeting Tori Amos changed the author's life and it includes the complete unexpurgated, sometimes to to 8,000 word texts of four of the most in-depth and provocative and personal interviews ever given by Tori Amos. Published together they also form a narrative of, among other things, one woman's recovery...
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English
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From his earliest memories, Joe Jackson dreamed of playing in the National Football League and being somebody great-a champion. But, growing up in a family of seven in a Cincinnati suburb during the turbulent times of the 1960s didn't look promising. It took hard work, discipline, and good coaching to become a champion in the world's eyes in the NFL. But, the most significant change didn't take place on a football field, but in his heart when he gave...
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English
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David Norris: Trial By MediaDavid Norris was elected as in Irish Senator in 1987. In March 2011, he put himself forward as a nominee to become President of Ireland. Two months later, the Senator was mired in a controversy caused by the reappearance of two interviews, which he had given and that threatened to derail his presidential campaign."This is the cruellest thing that ever happened to me," Norris told Irish journalist Joe Jackson at the time...
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English
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"A fast-paced, dynamic account of the race to cross the Atlantic, and the larger-than-life personalities of the aviators who captured the world's attention In 1919, a prize of $25,000 was offered to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic in either direction between France and America. Although it was one of the most coveted prizes in the world, it sat unclaimed (not without efforts) for eight long years, until the spring of 1927. It was then, during...
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Manticore/Sony Classical
Pub. Date
℗2000
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Singer-songwriter Joe Jackson may have ridden the contentious nerve of late-1970s new wave to his first chart triumphs, but he quickly proved he was no slave to fashion. Even earlier than Elvis Costello, Jackson utilized his commercial clout to explore a diverse, idiosyncratic musical palette that ranged from swing through reggae, Tin Pan Alley, and classical. Having seemingly forsaken pop songs altogether in the '90s for larger classically themed...
11) Rain
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Publisher
Rykodisc, Inc
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD.
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None
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Paramount
Pub. Date
©2000
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Tucker is an engineer and showman who has a vision of the car of the future. Against formidable odds he raises the money and builds a fleet of them, only to have his factory shut down by Detroit's Big Three auto manufacturers.
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Koch
Pub. Date
2006
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Full screen.
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1 videodisc (68 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Part claymation and part live action, The Junky's Christmas, depicts a story by William S. Burroughs written in 1952. Danny the car wiper, a desperate character who has just been released from jail on the upper west side of Manhattan, searches for a fix on a cold Christmas day. His story ends in a revelation that even Danny could never have thought possible.
Ironbound is a 20-minute short about a boy who finds an old sailor and an ironbound submarine...
