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Alexander Payne
Since 1996, Alexander Payne (b. 1961) has made seven feature films and a short segment of an omnibus movie. Although his body of work is quantitatively small, it is qualitatively impressive. His movies have garnered numerous accolades and awards, including two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay. As more than one interviewer in this volume points out, he maintains an impressive and unbroken winning streak. Payne's stories of human strivings and follies, alongside his mastery of the craft of filmmaking, mark him as a contemporary auteur of uncommon accomplishment. In this first compilation of his interviews, Payne reveals himself as a captivating conversationalist as well. The discussi...
Goin' Back to Sweet Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee, is a major crossroads for blues musicians, songs, and styles. Memphis is where the blues first "came to town" and established itself as a cosmopolitan performance genre, and the city has long been a center of synthesis and evolution in blues recording. This volume tells the story of the blues in Memphis through previously unpublished interviews with nine performers who helped create and sustain the music from the days before its commercial success through the early 1970s. Their attitudes, experiences, and insights impart a deeper understanding of the blues aesthetic and philosophy. The performers' backgrounds range across the blues genres, from classic blues (Lillie Mae G...
Nothing to Gain
Secret Billionaire - Friends to Lovers Romance Oh, who's even surprised? I spilled my drink on his fancy chinos, yes. They call it an accident for a reason. Is it happenstance or fate? This guy's new to the area. He and his boyfriend just moved in across the street from my coffee place. Well, not my coffee place, I don't own it or anything. I just go there every day. Now Alex does too. I wasn't in the market for a new BFF, but Alex is attentive, smart, the kind of guy any woman would want in her life. Yes, he also happens to be yummy hot. Just my luck he's… Except it's not true. For weeks, he's lied to me. There's no boyfriend. The one-bed apartment is a prop. He isn't Alex Payne, regular Joe, he's Xander Gauge, secret billionaire. It was all a con. Our whole friendship. Everything was fiction. It should be over. Done. Except… he says he loves me. Can it be true? I don't know if I can get over this. Do I forgive him or forget him? **HEA STANDALONE**
Another Ladies' Night
On New Year Eve 2013, Pittsburgh Cobras co-coaches Annie Vaughn and Karen Gettinger were just two girls sitting in a reconstructed bar at Pittsburgh's South Side reflecting on the 2013 season of the American Little Ladies Basketball League. The ALLBL, a professional basketball league for 12-year-old girls, was still popular, completing its third season with four new teams. Over 200 girls were living the dream as professional basketball players, making money, traveling all around the country and playing games at 8 o'clock at night and shooting for a trip to the Ladies Cup at Knoxville, Tennessee. While counting down to the New Year, Annie and Karen talked about stories that include Hannah Sto...
Programming Scala
Get up to speed on Scala, the JVM language that offers all the benefits of a modern object model, functional programming, and an advanced type system. Packed with code examples, this comprehensive book shows you how to be productive with the language and ecosystem right away, and explains why Scala is ideal for today's highly scalable, data-centric applications that support concurrency and distribution. This second edition covers recent language features, with new chapters on pattern matching, comprehensions, and advanced functional programming. You’ll also learn about Scala’s command-line tools, third-party tools, libraries, and language-aware plugins for editors and IDEs. This book is ...
Not Hollywood
The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner combines her trademark ethnographic expertise with critical film interpretation to explore the independent film scene in New York and Los Angeles since the late 1980s. Not Hollywood is both a study of the lived experience of that scene and a critical examination of America as seen through the lenses of independent filmmakers. Based on interviews with scores of directors and producers, Ortner reveals the culture and practices of indie filmmaking, including the conviction of those involved that their films, unlike Hollywood movies, are "telling the truth" about American life. These films often illuminate the dark side of American society through narratives about the family, the economy, and politics in today's neoliberal era. Offering insightful interpretations of many of these films, Ortner argues that during the past three decades independent American cinema has functioned as a vital form of cultural critique.
The Lincoln Assassination - The Rewards Files
After the trial of the conspirators was over, the Govt. called for claims to the rewards for the apprehension of John Wilkes Booth, Jefferson Davis, and other members of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Many of the Detectives, Soldiers and citizens involved wrote detailed descriptions and sometimes submitted original reports to support their claims. This book is a summarization of the four reels of NARA microfilm of all submitted claims and official documents.
Twitter API
This work helps new and casual programmers understand how the Twitter application programming interface (API) works, so they can build practical and fun Web applications.
Antisocial Media
Introduction -- Anxiety and the antisocial -- Playing -- Automating -- Sharing -- Epilogue: immaterial world
