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Chapters: Ian Mckellen, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Salman Rushdie, Susan Blackmore, Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, Daniel Radcliffe, W. D. Hamilton, Emma Thompson, Arthur Koestler, Michèle Renouf, Alan Sugar, Ingrid Newkirk, Johann Hari, Clare Short, Stewart Lee, Richard E. Grant, Ben Croshaw, Douglas Murray, Ludovic Kennedy, Matthew Parris, Quentin Skinner, Tariq Ali, Oliver Kamm, Colin Mcginn, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, George Griffith, Eric Ambler, Paul Nurse, James Hemming, Josie Long, Bernard Mayes, Chloe Smith, Lewis Wolpert, Mike Mendoza, Richard J. Roberts, Denis Cobell, Simon Winchester, Eric Sams, Claud Cockburn, Will Wyatt, Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, Tony Parker, Edmund Penning-Rowsell, Anwar Shaikh, Norman Geras, John Russell, Viscount Amberley, H. J. Blackham, Peter White, Julia Pascal, Daryl Bamonte, Deborah Orr, William Mcilroy, Redmond O'hanlon, Nick Halling, Hugh Mellor, Jonathan Derbyshire. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 342. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arthur Koestler CBE (5 September 1905, Budapest 1 March 1983, London) was an author of essays, novels and autobiographies. Koestler was born in Budapest but, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. His early career was in journalism. In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Germany but, disillusioned, he resigned from it in 1938 and in 1940 published a devastating anti-totalitarian novel, Darkness at Noon, which propelled him to international fame. Over the next 43 years, Koestler espoused many political causes and wrote novels, biographies, and numerous essays. In 1968 he was awarded the prestigious Sonning Prize "for outstanding contribution to European culture", and in 1972 he was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE). In 1976 Koestler ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18950939 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ian Mckellen, Derek Jacobi, Michael Gambon, Mark Rylance, Jerusalem. Excerpt:Derek Jacobi Sir Derek George Jacobi , CBE (pronounced / d æk bi/ ; born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and film director . A "forceful, commanding stage presence", Jacobi has enjoyed a highly successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet , Uncle Vanya , Oedipus the King , and received a Tony Award for his performance in Much Ado About Nothing . His stage work also includes playing notable historical figures such as Edward II , Octavius Caesar , Richard III of England , and Cyrano de Bergerac . As well as holding the distinction of being a founder member of the Royal National Theatre and winning several prestigious theatre awards, Jacobi has also enjoyed a successful television career, appearing in the critically praised adaptation I, Claudius for which he won a BAFTA , the titular role in the acclaimed medieval drama series Brother Cadfael , Stanley Baldwin in The Gathering Storm . Despite principally being a stage actor, Jacobi has appeared in a diverse number of films such as Henry V , Gladiator , Gosford Park , The Golden Compass and Hippie Hippie Shake . Like Laurence Olivier , he bears the distinction of holding two knighthoods, Danish and British. Early life Jacobi, an only child, was born in Leytonstone , London, England, the son of Daisy Gertrude (née Masters), a secretary who worked in a drapery store in Leyton High Road, and Alfred George Jacobi, who ran a sweet shop and was a tobacconist in Chingford . His great-grandfather emigrated to England from Germany during the 19th century. His family was working class . Although a war baby, he claims a happy childhood. In his teens he went to the Leyton County High School and became an integral part of the drama club... ... Read more

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Chapters: Ian Mckellen, Robin Williams, Stephen Fry, Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mike Myers, Sandra Bullock, Gene Hackman, Albert Finney, Kevin Bacon, Judi Dench, Michael Douglas, Thora Birch, Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sean Astin, Maggie Smith, Hank Azaria, Ludacris, Joseph Fiennes, Elijah Wood, Lucy Liu, Alan Bates, Billy Boyd, Viggo Mortensen, Derek Jacobi, Cate Blanchett, Paul Giamatti, Queen Latifah, Hugo Weaving, Alan Arkin, Michael Gambon, Ian Holm, Bernard Hill, Woody Harrelson, Colin Firth, Simon Callow, Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Tom Wilkinson, Liv Tyler, Helen Mirren, Mýa, Sean Bean, Dev Patel, Renée Zellweger, Eli Roth, Benicio Del Toro, Orlando Bloom, Don Cheadle, Imelda Staunton, Abigail Breslin, Miranda Otto, Steve Carell, Nathan Lane, John Rhys-Davies, Emily Watson, Anil Kapoor, Terrence Howard, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise, Tommy Lee Jones, Andy Serkis, Richard E. Grant, Clive Owen, James Brolin, Toni Collette, Brad Dourif, Sandra Oh, Christine Baranski, Thandie Newton, Allison Janney, Brendan Fraser, Dennis Quaid, Ryan Phillippe, Dianne Wiest, Virginia Madsen, Annette Bening, Josh Brolin, Freida Pinto, B. J. Novak, Lesley Sharp, John C. Reilly, Topher Grace, Thomas Haden Church, Chris Cooper, Amy Irving, Martin Clunes, Michael Fassbender, Greg Kinnear, Benjamin Bratt, Dominic Monaghan, Taye Diggs, Robert Carlyle, Irrfan Khan, Steven Bauer, Colm Feore, Mélanie Laurent, David Wenham, Bill Paxton, Charles Dance, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Dominic West, Mena Suvari, Diane Kruger, Karl Urban, Christoph Waltz, Miguel Ferrer, Kelly Macdonald, William Fichtner, Tom Hollander, Daniel Brühl, Eileen Atkins, Tomás Milián, Antony Sher, Paul Dano, Dan Futterman, Rubina Ali, Rod Taylor, Luis Guzmán, Kathleen Quinlan, Bruce Jones, Bob Balaban, Mark Williams, Clifton Collins, Jr., Sophie Thompson, Garret Dillahunt, Jennifer Esposito, Peter Gallagher, Jeremy N...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=44849 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ian Mckellen, Mick Jagger, Ramesh Kallidai, Heather Small, Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, Howard Goodall, Floella Benjamin, Autism Awareness Campaign Uk, Tony Hawks, Dj Nihal, Jude Kelly. Excerpt:The Autism Awareness Campaign United Kingdom was launched in 2000 by Ivan and Charika Corea in response to the autism diagnosis of their son, Charin. Objectives According to their website, Autism Awareness Campaign United Kingdom was started in 2000 "to campaign on behalf of parents, carers, children and adults with autism and Asperger's syndrome , for better public services in health, education, specialist speech therapy and respite care; for independent research into the causes of autism; for greater public awareness on Autism and Asperger's Syndrome", as well as other areas where they believe there is a shortfall in public-service provision. They have lobbied for greater awareness of the condition and for independent research on the causes of autism . Events 2002 United Kingdom Autism Awareness Year The Autism Awareness Campaign of 2002 initiated debates in the Parliament of the UK and the Scottish Parliament for Autism Awareness Year, supported by organisations including the British Institute of Brain Injured Children, The Disabilities Trust, and the National Autistic Society . A major conference on autism was held at the King's Fund in London and a service for autism was held at St Paul's Cathedral . 2007 House of Commons autism debate and meeting with Prime Minister The Autism Awareness Campaign helped raise awareness about the condition in 2007 in the British House of Commons when Lee Scott , MP for Ilford North, brought a debate on autistic children. Ivan Corea met with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , Tony Blair and Lee Scott MP in April 2007. He presented th... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ian Mckellen, John Rhys-Davies, Keeley Hawes, Blake Ritson, Rupert Evans, Shelley Blond. Excerpt:Blake Ritson Blake Ritson (born 14 June 1980) is an English actor and director. Early life Ritson attended the Dolphin School in Reading, Berkshire until 1993, before going to St Paul's Boys on an academic scholarship, and then to Cambridge University , where he studied English and Medieval Italian. While a student he acted on both stage and screen , playing the juvenile lead in 1996 in Tom Stoppard s Arcadia in London's West End . Career Ritson is best known for portraying Edmund Bertram in the 2007 ITV adaptation of Mansfield Park , Giles Vicary in the BBC series Red Cap and for playing sidekick Robert Presley in A Touch of Frost . He also played the part of Justin in The League of Gentlemen and was most recently seen as Idek in God on Trial and as Mr. Elton in the new BBC production of Emma. Ritson directed the short film Out of Time with his older brother, Dylan Ritson. Starring Mark Heap and Raquel Cassidy , the film won the Global Audience Award at the first CON-CAN Movie Festival and was runner up at Minimalen and the Berlin Film Festival. It also screened at the London, San Paulo and Dresden film festivals. The Ritson brothers' second short film, More More More , starring The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss , was a runner-up in the Turner Classic Movies Competition. Their third short film, Love Hate starring Ben Whishaw and Hayley Atwell was completed in May 2009 and has just been selected for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Palm Springs Film Festival. They have also shot a fourth short film, Good Boy , starring Jessica Hynes (née Stevenson), Reece Shearsmith , Nicholas Burns , Joanna Page and Ritson's fiancee Hattie Morahan . The Ritson Brothers were select... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ian Mckellen, David Schwimmer, Carol Burnett, Back Stage Garland Awards, David Anders, Jacqueline Kim, Charles Hallahan, Camille Saviola, Patrick Bristow, Salome Jens, Eric Anderson. Excerpt:Back Stage Garland Awards The Back Stage Garland Awards also referred to simply as the Garland Awards , and known as the Back Stage West Garland Awards from 1998 to 2008 are bestowed by the entertainment-industry newspaper Back Stage , honoring excellence in Southern California theatre . The awards recognize many different types of contributors to theatre, including actors , directors , producers , prop makers , set designers , costume designers , and choreographers . Selection process Award winners are selected through a process voted on by theatre critics in the industry. Each Garland winner has appeared on at least three critics' "Best of" lists for the previous year. Critics are each allowed to name "up to five nominees for each category except performance, up to 10 nominees for performance in a musical production and up to 10 in straight productions." Each winner is presented with a "Garland statuette" in the year following their recognized production. History The first awards were presented on January 12, 1998, with eighty individuals recognized, and the next year's ceremony recognized one hundred and fifty people. The first ceremony was held at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles, California , and awards in the following two years were presented in a ceremony at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood, Los Angeles, California . Two hundred and seventy stage artists and theatre supporters attended the first annual awards. Awards categories in the first year included production, performance, ensemble cast, sound design, costume, lighting design, set design, musical score, and choreography. Pa... ... Read more

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Chapters: George Gershwin, Ian Mckellen, Ira Gershwin, Richard Burton, Alan Jay Lerner, Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Julie Andrews, George C. Scott, Eubie Blake, Jerry Herman, George Abbott, Raymond Massey, Frank Loesser, Gregory Hines, Len Cariou, Robert Brustein, John Lithgow, Michael Bennett, Carol Channing, Maureen Stapleton, Cy Coleman, Rosemary Harris, Julie Harris, Morris Carnovsky, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Dorothy Loudon, Marian Seldes, Estelle Parsons, Eric Bentley, George Grizzard, William Gibson, Sada Thompson, A. R. Gurney. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 243. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award (without success) and was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. He remains closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor; the couple's turbulent relationship was rarely out of the news. Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village of Pontrhydyfen, near Port Talbot in Wales. He grew up in a working-class, Welsh-speaking household, the twelfth of thirteen children. His father, Richard Walter Jenkins, was a short, robust coal miner, a twelve-pints a-day man who sometimes went off on drinking and gambling sprees for weeks. Burton later claimed, by family telling, that He looked very much like me...That is, he was pockmarked, devious, and smiled a great deal when he was in trouble. He was, also, a man of extraordinary eloquence, tremendous passion, great violence. Burton was less than two years old in 1927 when his mother, Edith Maude (née Thomas), died after giving birth to her 13th child. His sister Cecilia and her husband Elfed took him into their Presbyterian mining family in nearby Port Talbot (an...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=45967 ... Read more

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Chapters: George Gershwin, Ian Mckellen, Ira Gershwin, Richard Burton, Alan Jay Lerner, Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Julie Andrews, George C. Scott, Eubie Blake, Jerry Herman, George Abbott, Raymond Massey, Frank Loesser, Gregory Hines, Len Cariou, Robert Brustein, John Lithgow, Michael Bennett, Carol Channing, Maureen Stapleton, Cy Coleman, Rosemary Harris, Julie Harris, Morris Carnovsky, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Dorothy Loudon, Marian Seldes, Estelle Parsons, Eric Bentley, George Grizzard, William Gibson, Sada Thompson, A. R. Gurney. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 243. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award (without success) and was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. He remains closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor; the couple's turbulent relationship was rarely out of the news. Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village of Pontrhydyfen, near Port Talbot in Wales. He grew up in a working-class, Welsh-speaking household, the twelfth of thirteen children. His father, Richard Walter Jenkins, was a short, robust coal miner, a twelve-pints a-day man who sometimes went off on drinking and gambling sprees for weeks. Burton later claimed, by family telling, that He looked very much like me...That is, he was pockmarked, devious, and smiled a great deal when he was in trouble. He was, also, a man of extraordinary eloquence, tremendous passion, great violence. Burton was less than two years old in 1927 when his mother, Edith Maude (née Thomas), died after giving birth to her 13th child. His sister Cecilia and her husband Elfed took him into their Presbyterian mining family in nearby Port Talbot (an...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=45967 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ian Mckellen, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Hopkins, Peter O'toole, Alan Rickman, Albert Finney, Judi Dench, Paul Scofield, Miranda Richardson, Wendy Hiller, Nigel Hawthorne, Maureen Lipman, Maggie Smith, Joseph Fiennes, Alan Bates, Michael Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Angela Lansbury, Jeremy Brett, John Gielgud, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Ian Holm, Celia Johnson, Simon Callow, Michael Hordern, Edward Hardwicke, Julie Walters, David Tennant, David Morrissey, John Barrowman, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Helen Mirren, Brenda Blethyn, Catherine Tate, Ian Charleson, Daniel Craig, Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy, Edward Woodward, Emily Watson, Russell Tovey, Tamsin Greig, Lynn Redgrave, Daniel Evans, Gina Mckee, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams, Mark Rylance, Marc Sinden, Terence Knapp, Emily Blunt, Shirley Henderson, Anna Maxwell Martin, Lesley Sharp, Douglas Hodge, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Damian Lewis, Diana Rigg, Rufus Sewell, Anne-Marie Duff, James Purefoy, Juliet Stevenson, Simon Russell Beale, Irene Worth, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Frank Finlay, Dominic Cooper, Tom Hollander, Hattie Morahan, Eileen Atkins, Rosemary Harris, Peggy Ashcroft, Helen Mccrory, Ruth Wilson, Mairead Mckinley, Antony Sher, Frances de La Tour, Rupert Penry-Jones, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ken Stott, Paterson Joseph, Anne Reid, Kelly Reilly, Janet Mcteer, Lesley Manville, Stephen Campbell Moore, Stanley Townsend, Edith Evans, Billie Whitelaw, Sally Hawkins, Catherine Mccormack, Steven Webb, Gareth Hunt, Jonathan Cullen, Andrew Garfield, Ashley Jensen, Harriet Walter, Joan Plowright, Jack Shepherd, Patricia Routledge, Lyndsey Marshal, Indira Varma, Lindsay Duncan, Geraldine Mcewan, Bryan Dick, Ben Whishaw, Jasper Britton, Steven Mackintosh, Noma Dumezweni, Stuart Mcquarrie, Kate Ashfield, Adrian Lester, Lisa Dillon, Dominic Rowan, Imogen Stubbs, Laura Michelle Kelly, Mark Hadfield, Cyril Cusack, Hayley Atwell, Jeremy Northam, Lee Ingleby, Sinéad Cusack, Elliot Cowan, Kevin Mc...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1672146 ... Read more

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Title: Rasputín. (película por Uli Edel, con actores Alan Rickman, Greta Scacchi y Ian McKellen)(TT: Rasputin) (TA: film by Uli Edel, with actors Alan Rickman, Greta Scacchi and Ian McKellen)
Author: Pedro Crespo
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 21, 1997
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Issue: n634Page: p74(1)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Keep is a 1983 horror film directed by Michael Mann and starring Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne, Jürgen Prochnow and Ian McKellen. It was released by Paramount Pictures. The story is based on the F. Paul Wilson novel of the same name, published in 1981 (1982 in the United Kingdom). Wilson has expressed his distaste for the film version publicly, writing in the short story collection The Barren (and Others) that it is, "Visually intriguing, but otherwise utterly incomprehensible." Despite being a critical and commercial failure, it retained a cult following, mostly due to the film's music score by Tangerine Dream and the film's mixture of Gothic horror and WWII elements. ... Read more

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Queers in History is the first comprehensive biographical compendium of important historical and contemporary figures who were/are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. From Egyptian pharaohs, Catholic popes and Abraham Lincoln to Bishop Gene Robinson, Neil Patrick Harris and Angelina Jolie, Queers in History brings these figures, from their work to their sexuality, to life.

The hundreds of people whose stories appear in this book are some of the most intriguing personalities of their times: actors and actresses, writers and musicians, businessmen and politicians, scientists and soldiers. But this irresistibly readable encyclopedia intended for gays and straights alike doesn't just report those details that get left out of the standard biographies; it reveals a fascinating picture of queer society and culture throughout recorded history, from the homosexual shudō tradition practiced by samurai in Japan to the modern struggles for equal rights in America. Sir Ian McKellen offers a foreword. ... Read more

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Questionable Credibility
Queers in History is best described as the hybrid of an encyclopedia and a gossip column. It's certainly entertaining in places, but I'm not convinced that all of the claims are credible. I wish there were more discussion of the sources that led to the author's conclusions. Also, the book contains many individuals who had just a single homosexual experience; I don't know if that necessarily qualifies them as queer.

Who? What?WOW!
I could not put this book down, it's like a bag of potato chips; once you start, you can't stop. The importance of this book is in the title "Queers in History", what made them famous, infamous, was not just their sexuality but their sense of purpose. But did their sexuality play an important part in it? Most likely because what drives gay, straight, bi people are their goals in life, and their decisions in life are made emotionally, what they feel, what they need, what fuels their passions.

Keith Stern's book is not just a historical look at homosexuality but it brings to the forefront what is the common denominator of us all, the search for our own "place in the world". I highly recommend this book as a gift to all your straight, gay, bi, transexual friends and as a book to place on the coffee table to start lively conversations at any social gathering.

Pulls History out of the closet
Fascinating book. Well written. Stern pulls History out of the closet. This is an interesting and informative read whether you are gay or straight.

Everything You Need To Know
Stern, Keith. "Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders", Benbella Books, 2009.

Everything You Need to Know

Amos Lassen

Keith Stern has done an admirable job compiling his encyclopedia and his lists are comprehensive even if his suggestions for further reading are no where near comprehensive and even a bit far from elementary. I do not consider the Alyson Almanac to qualify as a good source. Nor do I think that if you want to know more about Tennessee Williams that Maria St. Just's "Five O'Clock Angel" is the place to look--Williams did write his memoirs and there are several other biographies about him around. Otherwise I have no real complaints. The book is exhaustive and somewhat picante but it is not by any means definitive or scholarly. For what it is, it isn't bad and more than 500 pages about gay people can never be a bad thing.
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The wronged duke raises a tempest to shipwreck his old opponents on his island so that he can ensure justice is done. With Emilia Fox as Miranda, Scott Handy in the pivotal role of the sprite Ariel and Ben Owukwe as Caliban, this production is directed by John Tydeman, which also has music playing a key role. ... Read more