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  • Poisoned Chalice
    Aubrey Malone
    Richard Burton was born 100 years ago this year. Poisoned Chalice studies the manner in which his rise to movie fame from the world of the theater impacted negatively on his talent.They also made many movies together which made a fortune at the box office, many of them forgettable.The twelfth of thirteen children born to a poverty-stricken family in Wales, Burton was saved from...
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    33,17 €

  • IRISH ECCENTRICS
    Aubrey Malone
    Did you know that Brendan Behan once taught his cat to do an IRA salute? Or that he went into town one day to buy an electric toaster and came home with a pub instead? Or that Gerry Adams kept the ring pull of a hand grenade thrown at him so he could use it to hang keys off?Were you aware that Samuel Beckett refused interviews because he had 'no views to inter'? Or that Ed Byrn...
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    12,60 €

  • HOLLYWOOD WIT
    Aubrey Malone
    Tom Hanks once said he couldn’t give a speech to save his life. Bereft of the fed line, his confidence crumbled. As against that, the effusions in the book you’re now holding manifest a natural wit in most of the speakers. Indeed, if the lines in most of their films were half as good, they might have had even more thriving careers. One is reminded of Sydney Chaplin’s comment...
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    16,63 €

  • THEY SAID IT
    Aubrey Malone
    The French have an expression called l’esprit de l’escalier - the spirit of the staircase. It refers to the remark you thought of on the staircase from the room you were in, where all the witty rejoinders were flying and you stood mute and uninspired in the melee.This book should give you enough verbal ammunition to prevent such scenarios unfolding in the future. It contains th...
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    12,67 €

  • A Writing Life
    Aubrey Malone
    Aubrey Malone grew up in Teeling Street - then Arthur Street - in Ballina in the fifties. He attended St. Muredach’s College from 1964 to 1969. That was the year his father retired. The house was sold and the family moved to Dublin. Afterwards he attended UCD, studying English and Philosophy there. He was a Primary School teacher for ten years from the late seventies. From then...
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    45,18 €

  • Queer Cinema in America
    Aubrey Malone
    This reference helps readers navigate the perilous odyssey those of an LGBTQ orientation had to face in an age less enlightened than our own, when an attraction to members of the same gender could lead to horrendous abuse.Just as American society has changed dramatically from decade to decade, so has queer cinema. Taking us from a time when LGBTQ characters were often represent...
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    52,92 €

  • Brando - The Fun Side
    Aubrey Malone
    There have been more biographies of Marlon Brando than you can shake a stick at. One thing they all ignore - except in passing - is his humor. Brando - The Funny Side reverses that trend in no uncertain terms.From childhood, it points out, he was an inveterate prankster and practical joker. A nightmare to all and sundry, he seemed to have an ambition from childhood to wrongfoot...
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    41,29 €

  • She Married the Boss! - Actresses Who Wed Directors
    Aubrey Malone
    When an actress marries her director, does it improve the quality of her work? Or his? Or the quality of their marriage? That’s the question posed by this book, which features over thirty such couples.Some of them worked together before they married, some during and some after. Some of them even worked together after their relationship collapsed, like Rita Hayworth and Orson We...
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    35,32 €

  • The Misfits
    Aubrey Malone
    John Huston’s ’eastern Western’ signaled the end of the careers of three major Hollywood figures. It was Marilyn Monroe’s last completed film. Clark Gable died a fortnight after shooting ended. Montgomery Clift rumbled on for a few years but without doing much of note.  It also signaled the end of Monroe’s marriage to Arthur Miller. Miller wrote the screenplay as a ’gift’ to hi...
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    27,98 €

  • Shane - Paramount’s Classic Western
    Aubrey Malone
    Shane has often been described as the most perfect sagebrush exemplification of Hollywood’s Golden Age. A masterpiece of tone and technique, it was George Stevens’ atmospheric valentine to an era if not a genre. Alan Ladd gave an emblematic performance in it. Jean Arthur excelled as the woman he falls in love with but cannot have. Van Heflin was pitch perfect as her decent, rou...
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    24,54 €

  • LAST OF NINE
    Aubrey Malone
    Aubrey Malone’s memoir begins with him entering life as the youngest of nine children born to Hugh Dillon-Malone, a colourful solicitor, in Ballina in 1953. His life is a hubbub with lots of activity both inside and outside his family home of Norfolk. There are also his various ‘homes from home’ – the Estoria cinema, the soccer grounds of Belleek, the beach at the nearby town ...
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    53,04 €

  • LOSERS
    Aubrey Malone
    ’We’re all losers in life in some way,’ Aubrey Malone contends in this memoir, ’but that’s what makes us interesting.’ It documents his college years in Ballina, County Mayo, where he suffered under an oppressive regime and eventually found closure on it.The book also features a court action taken by his father after he retired from being a solicitor and his own life as a teach...
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    21,77 €

  • BALLINA AND BEYOND
    Aubrey Malone
    This is the final part of Aubrey Malone’s Ballina trilogy. It sees him expanding his orbit from his native town to Dublin and foreign countries. What hasn’t changed is the yearning for home, conveyed through poetry and prose, fact and fiction, present and past. ...
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    32,35 €

  • Sidney Lumet
    Aubrey Malone
     Punctilious to a fault, Sidney Lumet favored intense rehearsal, which enabled him to bring in most of his films under budget and under schedule. An energized director who captured the heart of New York like no other, he created a vast canon of work that stands as a testament to his passionate concern for justice and his great empathy for the hundreds of people with whom he ...
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    58,53 €

  • After This Our Exile
    Aubrey Malone
    Brian Kilcoyne finds it difficult to cope with the death of his mother. His father is an alcoholic and he doesn’t get on with his brother. He leaves his farm in Loughrea to go to college in Dublin, splitting up with his childhood sweetheart as he does so. They leave their relationship open with the possibility of continuing it in the future. He travels to Europe and America wh...
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    23,68 €

  • A Nursing Life
    Aubrey Malone
    Spanning no less than five generations, this is the story of a Midleton-born nurse who rises to the top of her profession in the 1960s before marriage to a carpet salesman in Clery’s sees her having to leave her job and become a fulltime mother. Tragedy mixes with comedy as tales of marital breakdown and a bullying matron mix with nights on the town and days on ever-chang...
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    31,03 €

  • Ballina Stories and Poems
    Aubrey Malone
    Aubrey Malone was born in Ballina and lived there until his father, the well-known solicitor Hugh Dillon-Malone, retired in 1969 and the family moved to Dublin. Ballina Stories and Poems is a mixture of fact and fiction in which he reminisces on the people and places he encountered during his formative years. ...
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    18,60 €

  • Bukowski
    Aubrey Malone
     Charles Bukowski is one of the most widely read authors in the world in everywhere from prisons to universities to drying-out clinics. Since his death in 1994 there’s been a flood of books by and about him, culminating in a 2017 novel that deals with a relationship he might have had with, of all people, Jane Austen.     Aubrey Malone joins the threads on all of these in his up...
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    26,10 €

  • Writing Under the Influence
    Aubrey Malone
    Writers and alcohol have long been associated--for some, the association becomes unmanageable. Drawing on rare sources, this collection of brief biographies traces the lives of 13 well known literary drinkers, examining how their relationship with alcohol developed and how it affected their work, for better or worse. Focusing on examples like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest He...
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    57,42 €

  • You Don’t Say! Tongue Twisters, Perverse Proverbs and Foot-in-Mouth Disease
    Aubrey Malone
    Many wise words are spoken in jest but many more stupid ones are said in earnest, as this book demonstrates. How about this comment on a football match from Cristiano Ronaldo, for instance: ’The reason we lost is because we didn’t win.’ Or Ian Wright’s, ’It took a lot of bottle for Tony Adams to admit he was an alcoholic.’ Or Dave Woods’ remark, ’The silence is getting louder.’...
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    6,54 €

  • The Best Advice You’ll Ever Get! An A-Z Guide
    Aubrey Malone
    Tired of receiving the same old advice from everyone you know? Anxious to change yourself in ways that will surprise even yourself? If so, you need to sample this riveting collection of quotes. It offers you a bevy of helpful suggestions, like...Don’t moon a werewolf,Don’t play leapfrog with a unicorn,and, even more importantly, Never trust anyone who, if he’s alone in a room ...
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    10,74 €

  • Hollywood’s Second Sex
    Aubrey Malone
    'Women stars in Hollywood were invariably in two categories,' said director Otto Preminger. 'One group was of women who were exploited by men, and the other, much smaller group was of women who survived by acting like men.' Beginning with silent film vamp Theda Bara and continuing with icons like Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch, this study of film industry mis...
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    51,39 €

  • The Defiant One
    Aubrey Malone
    This new biography contains excerpts from interviews and articles by and about Curtis all the way from his teens in the Bronx to his death at 85 in 2010. Many of these are little known and provide insights into his complex relationship with fame, family and females, the three obsessions of his life. The book also documents his many struggles with substance abuse, his disench...
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    51,46 €

  • The Foggy Ruins of Time
    Aubrey Malone
    Aubrey Malone is the youngest of nine children born to Hugh Dillon-Malone, a solicitor from Ballina, a town in the West of Ireland, in 1953.In this detailed memoir he documents his father’s problems with alcohol, many of which were transmitted to himself, causing feelings of depression, lack of self-esteem, and on one notable occasion, a night in jail after a drink-induced car ...
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    26,55 €

  • Censoring Hollywood
    Aubrey Malone
    Censorship has been an ongoing issue from the early days of filmmaking. One hundred years of film censorship, encompassing the entire 20th century, are chronicled in this work. The freewheeling nature of films in the early decades was profoundly affected by Prohibition, the Depression and the formation of the Legion of Decency--culminating in a new age of restrictiveness in ...
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    42,86 €