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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Daniel Day-Lewis, Pierce Brosnan, Gabriel Byrne, Herbert Wilcox, Peter O'toole, Ciarán Hinds, J.m. Kerrigan, Sam Neill, Brendan Gleeson, Arthur Shields, Michael Gambon, Cyril Cusack, Niall Macginnis, Richard Harris, Colin Farrell, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Michael Fassbender, Cillian Murphy, Dan O'herlihy, Patrick Mcgoohan, William Morgan Sheppard, Barry Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Patrick Magee, Glenn Quinn, Stuart Townsend, Norman Rodway, Dylan Moran, Stephen Gately, Dermot Walsh, Edward Mulhare, Jim Norton, Jim Sheridan, Devon Murray, Hugh O'conor, Joe Lynch, Brían F. O'byrne, Spike Milligan, Domhnall Gleeson, Hugh Leonard, Liam Cunningham, Frank Kelly, Jason Barry, Jonas Armstrong, Conor Mcpherson, Robert Sheehan, Ardal O'hanlon, Peter Caffrey, Aidan Gillen, Glen Hansard, Colin O'donoghue, Andrew Simpson, Ed Byrne, Nick Dunning, Sean Lawlor, Edward Olive, Dudley Digges, Jack Macgowran, Jamie Dornan, Derrick O'connor, Jason O'mara, Forrester Harvey, Tommy Duggan, Dave Allen, James Sheridan Knowles, Pat Shortt. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Daniel Day-Lewis est un acteur irlando-britannique né le 29 avril 1957 à Londres. Il est connu pour des interprétations marquantes et variées (aristocrate, petit voyou, marginal, homosexuel ou criminel) chez des réalisateurs tels que Martin Scorsese, Stephen Frears, Jim Sheridan ou encore James Ivory. Il est aussi réputé pour être l'un des acteurs les plus sélectifs de l'industrie, avec seulement cinq films depuis 2007. Son interprétation de Christy Brown dans My Left Foot (1989) lui a valu l'Oscar et le BAFTA du meilleur acteur, celle de Daniel Plainview dans There Will Be Blood (2007) l'Oscar, le BAFTA, le Golden Globe et le Screen Actors Guild Award. Cela en...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Night of the Generals is a 1967 suspense/thriller film set in World War II, adapted from the novel of the same name by Hans Hellmut Kirst. It stars Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet and Philippe Noiret. The film was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by Anatole Litvak, with a musical score by Maurice Jarre. The screenplay was written by Paul Dehn and Joseph Kessel. Gore Vidal also contributed to the screenplay but was uncredited. The murder of a prostitute in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1942 draws Abwehr Major Grau (Omar Sharif) into an investigation where the evidence points to the killer being one of three German general officers: General von Seydlitz-Gabler (Charles Gray), General Kahlenberg (Donald Pleasence), his chief of staff, and General Tanz (Peter O'Toole). Grau?s investigation is cut short by his summary transfer to Paris at the instigation of these officers. ... Read more

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Chapters: Pete Gillen, A. J. Wynder, Greg Francis, Ajou Deng, Deng Gai, Tim O'toole, Peter Guarasci, Robert Thomson, Larry Rafferty. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. 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: Pete Gillen (born June 20, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is a former American college basketball head coach of the NCAA Division I Xavier Musketeers, Providence Friars and Virginia Cavaliers and is a member of the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame. Coach Gillen is currently a college basketball analyst with the CBS College Sports Network. Gillen was two sport athlete in baseball and basketball at Fairfield University where he received his bachelors degree in English Literature in 1968. Coach Gillen began his coaching career at his high school alma mater Brooklyn Prep where he was an English teacher. He soon moved to the collegiate level when he joined the coaching staff of the University of Hawaii, with Rick Pitino as one of his fellow assistants. Gillen followed that with subsequent assistant coaching stints at the Virginia Military Institute; Villanova University under Rollie Massimino, and the University of Notre Dame under Digger Phelps from 1980 to 1985. He was head basketball coach at Xavier University from 1985 to 1994, Providence College from 1994 to 1998, and the University of Virginia from 1998 to 2005. At Xavier, Gillen compiled an impressive record, taking the Musketeers to the NCAA tournament seven times and to the NIT tournament once (1994). Gillen is still the most successful coach in school history at Xavier, having won 202 games in the third-longest tenure ever for a XU coach. Following his success at Xavier, Gillen was hired at Providence to replace Rick Barnes, who had left to coach Clemson University. He followed PC's 1994 Big East title with two trips to the ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3901739 ... Read more

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The highly entertaining biography of four charismatic and much-loved actors follows them through five decades of boozing, brawling and braggadocio.

“God put me on this earth to raise sheer hell.” Richard Burton

“I was a sinner. I slugged some people. I hurt many people. And it’s true, I never looked back to see the casualties.” Richard Harris

“Booze is the most outrageous of all drugs, which is why I chose it.” Peter O’Toole

“I don’t have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I’d like to think I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.” Oliver Reed

This is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked — or staggered — off a film set into a pub. It’s a story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and orgies, broken marriages, drugs, riots and wanton sexual conquests. And yet these piss-artists were seemingly immune from the law. They got away with it because of their extraordinary acting talent and because the public loved them. They were truly the last of a breed, the last of the movie hellraisers. ... Read more

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Hellraisers
An in-depth inside look at the chaotic, fantastic and hideously messy private lives of four legendary British actors of the latter 20th century: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed. Every page is filled with their amazing and almost unbelievable deeds of alcohol-fed insanity. Sharing much in common (including unique theatrical genius and a deep and abiding love of rugby), these men worked hard (citing numerous shudder-inducing stories of the horrors of location filming) and played even harder, suggesting that the downside of a life in the theater may be seriously overtaxing for some who tread the boards, and fueling the theory that the pain of coming out of a role may be far too great to endure without some form of anesthetic.

These men make today's tabloid faces seem pallid indeed: their tales trivialize any and all subsequent film stars' off-screen antics to the point of resembling kindergarten pranks. Three of them died as they lived, taking no prisoners (Reed fittingly passed on in a pub after a drunken evening arm-wrestling a group of Maltese sailors while filming "Gladiator", and Burton literally pickled himself to death--his autopsy found his spine to be completely encrusted with crystallized alcohol). However harrowing the results for the families of these wild men, none of the four expresses the least remorse at their lifelong excesses--to a man they vow they would do it all again in a heartbeat. And we believe them.They don't make 'em like this anymore.

Indeed they were!
This is sort of like reading a book-length version of England's tabloid newspapers, but it is fun. These four remarkable actors were indeed hellraisers! One is tempted to feel sad for the lives that ended too young and the (acting) work that didn't happen, but my god, they had a hell of a good time!

Hellraisers
Very entertaining book. Lots of juicy details about the hellraising antics of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed.Today's Hollywood's bad boys have got nothing on these guys!

Celebration of Lives
For fans of O'Toole, Harris, Burton and Reed, this book is a must.Well written and researched, it is a celebration of the lives of these incredible actors.It is never judgmental or mean-spirited-becausethese men were only having fun. Politically-correct will never apply to these men. How refreshing.Also how envious to live life on your terms! ... Read more