Sean Penn

Author : Sean Penn
Publisher : Washington Square Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501189050

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Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff by Sean Penn Pdf

“An incredibly interesting work.” —Jane Smiley “A straight up masterwork.” —Sarah Silverman “Blisteringly funny.” —Corey Seymour “A transcendent apocalyptic satire.” —Michael Silverblatt “Crackling with life.” —Paul Theroux “Great fun.” —Salman Rushdie “A provocative debut.” —Kirkus Reviews From legendary actor and activist Sean Penn comes a scorching, “charmingly weird” (Booklist, starred review) novel about Bob Honey—a modern American man, entrepreneur, and part-time assassin. Bob Honey has a hard time connecting with other people, especially since his divorce. He’s tired of being marketed to every moment, sick of a world where even an orgasm isn’t real until it is turned into a tweet. A paragon of old-fashioned American entrepreneurship, Bob sells septic tanks to Jehovah’s Witnesses and arranges pyrotechnic displays for foreign dictators. He’s also a contract killer for an off-the-books program run by a branch of United States intelligence that targets the elderly, the infirm, and others who drain society of its resources. When a nosy journalist starts asking questions, Bob can’t decide if it’s a chance to form some sort of new friendship or the beginning of the end for him. With treason on everyone’s lips, terrorism in everyone’s sights, and American political life sinking to ever-lower standards, Bob decides it’s time to make a change—if he doesn’t get killed by his mysterious controllers or exposed in the rapacious media first. A thunderbolt of startling images and painted “with a broadly satirical, Vonnegut-ian brush” (Kirkus Reviews), Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff is one of the year's most controversial and talked about literary works.

Author : Deane Williams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850858

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The Cinema of Sean Penn by Deane Williams Pdf

Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Sean Penn's directorial works The Indian Runner (1991), The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into the Wild (2007), consist of some of the most interesting and singular films made in the United States over the past twenty years. Each of Penn's directorial films and much of the cinema he has acted in are set in an immediate past in which a "stalled" time and a restricted locale apply narrative constraints. At the same time, these films all feature a sophisticated web of intertextual relations, involving actors, songs, books, films, and directors, and the political lineage to which Penn belongs, which reveal the deep cultural structures that concern each particular film.

Author : Richard Kelly
Publisher : Canongate Us
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-12
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 1841957399

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Sean Penn by Richard Kelly Pdf

Drawing on exclusive interviews with "the best actor of his generation" and his family, friends, and colleagues, Kelly creates a richly detailed and multifaceted portrait of an uncompromising American artist. Includes more than 75 black-and-white photographs.

Author : Nick Johnstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 0711978840

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Sean Penn by Nick Johnstone Pdf

This book features some of Sean's acting highlights, including his roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Dead Man Walking, Hurly Burly, The Thin Red Line and most recently, his Oscar-nominated performance in The Sweet and Lowdown. Includes personal insight into the life, mystery and aura surrounding this legendary actor.

Author : J.D. Rockefeller
Publisher : J.D. Rockefeller
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Chapo Guzman, Sean Penn and Kate del Castillo by J.D. Rockefeller Pdf

“El Chapo” Guzman was planning to get Hollywood to produce a film about his life. A famous actress in Mexico, Kate del Castillo, persuaded him that Sean Penn had connections and experience to realize his dream. Learn the whole story of El Chapo, Sean Penn, and Kate del Castillo.

Author : Matt Green
Publisher : Matt Green
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life Of Sean Penn - Famous Actors by Matt Green Pdf

Ever wondered how Sean Penn rose to stardom? A little, but he imitates his favorite actor - Marlon Brando. The same rebel, like his idol had, in life and on a screen. He has a quarter of Russian and a quarter of Lithuanian on his father’s side, and he has Italian-Irish blood in his veins on his mother’s side. This ‘mechanism’ probably contributed his stormy temperament which is shown in the workplace and everyday life. There are three whales of a celebrity Sean Penn, such as stormy personal life in 80s and 90s, emotional expression of political views and irresistible manner of acting. For more interesting facts you must read his biography. Grab your biography book now!

Author : Sean Penn
Publisher : Bob Honey
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1644280582

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Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn by Sean Penn Pdf

"Bob Honey, the disillusioned divorcé with a penchant for murder by mallet, weaves his way toward Washington, DC, for the ultimate showdown with a certain nefarious 'landlord,' but nothing is as it seems, and Bob will have more than just the government working against him"--Publisher marketing.

Author : Norman Ollestad
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443402750

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Crazy For The Storm by Norman Ollestad Pdf

Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing at a very young age by the father he idolized. Often paralyzed by fear, young Norman resented losing his childhood to his father’s reckless and demanding adventures, even as he began to reap the rewards of his training. Then, in February 1979, a chartered Cessna carrying eleven-year-old Norman, his father, his father’s girlfriend Sandra and the pilot, crashed into the San Gabriel Mountains. Norman’s father -- a man who was both his son’s coach and hero -- was dead, along with the pilot; Sandra was clinging to life. Suspended at over 8,000 feet and engulfed in a blizzard, grief-stricken Norman descended the icy mountain alone. Putting his father’s passionate lessons to work, he defied the elements and made it down alive -- the sole survivor of the crash. A compulsive, page-turning read, at times nostalgic and heart-wrenching, Crazy for the Storm illuminates the complicated bond between an extraordinary father and his son, and offers remarkable insight to us all.

Author : Richard T Kelly
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571274919

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Sean Penn His Life & Times by Richard T Kelly Pdf

Author : Jennifer Vogel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439131459

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Flim-Flam Man by Jennifer Vogel Pdf

Major motion picture Flag Day starring Sean Penn and his daughter Dylan Penn is based on this father-daughter story of a charming criminal—told by the daughter who loved him. One frosty winter morning in 1995, Jennifer Vogel opened the newspaper and read that her father had gone on the run. John Vogel, fifty-two, had been arrested for single-handedly counterfeiting nearly $20 million in U.S. currency—the fourth-largest sum ever seized by federal agents—and then released pending trial. Though Jennifer hadn't spoken to her father in more than four years, the police suspected he might turn up at her Minneapolis apartment. She examined the shadows outside her building, thought she spotted him at the grocery store and the bus stop. He had simply vanished. Framed around the six months her father eluded authorities, Jennifer's memoir documents the police chase—stakeouts, lie detector tests, even a segment on Unsolved Mysteries—and vividly chronicles her tumultuous childhood while examining her father's legacy. A lifelong criminal who robbed banks, burned down buildings, scammed investors, and even plotted murder, John Vogel was also a hapless dreamer who wrote a novel, baked lemon meringue pies, and took his ten-year-old daughter to see Rocky in an empty theater on Christmas Eve. When it came time to pass his counterfeit bills, he spent them at Wal-Mart for political reasons. Culling from memories, photo albums, public documents, and interviews with the handful of people who knew the real John Vogel, this is an intimate and intensely moving psychological portrait of a charismatic, larger-than-life figure—as told by the daughter who nearly followed in his footsteps.

Author : Andy Borowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781439129494

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The Borowitz Report by Andy Borowitz Pdf

Prepare to be shocked. From the man The Wall Street Journal hailed as a "Swiftean satirist" comes the most shocking book ever written! The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers, by award-winning fake journalist Andy Borowitz, contains page after page of "news stories" too hot, too controversial, too -- yes, shocking -- for the mainstream press to handle. Sample the groundbreaking reporting from the news organization whose motto is "Give us thirty minutes -- we'll waste it."

Author : Lisa Ann Richey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317521235

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Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations by Lisa Ann Richey Pdf

Discussion over celebrity engagement is often limited to theoretical critique or normative name-calling, without much grounded research into what it is that celebrities are doing, the same or differently throughout the world. Crucially, little attention has been paid to the Global South, either as a place where celebrities intervene into existing politics and social processes, or as the generator of Southern celebrities engaged in ‘do-gooding’. This book examines what the diverse roster of celebrity humanitarians are actually doing in and across North and South contexts. Celebrity humanitarianism is an effective lens for viewing the multiple and diverse relationships that constitute the links between North and South. New empirical findings on celebrity humanitarianism on the ground in Thailand, Malawi, Bangladesh, South Africa, China, Haiti, Congo, US, Denmark and Australia illustrate the impact of celebrity humanitarianism in the Global South and celebritization, participation and democratization in the donor North. By investigating one of the most mediatized and distant representations of humanitarianism (the celebrity intervention) from a perspective of contextualization, the book underscores the importance of context in international development. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of development studies, celebrity studies, anthropology, political science, geography, and related disciplines. It is also of great relevance to development practitioners, humanitarian NGOs, and professionals in business (CSR, fair trade) who work in the increasingly celebritized field.

Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307476869

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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Friends by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harry Crews
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780671797867

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Scar Lover by Harry Crews Pdf

In a dozen novels and his non-fiction books and articles, Harry Crews has shown himself to be a true American original. With Scar Lovers he returns to the familiar, unmistakable "Crews territory"--a Southern landscape peopled by quirky, odd, and oddly appealing individuals--to explore the realities of redemption and the power of love without boundries of fear.