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The celebrated and controversial actress shares the story of her career on the stage and in films, life in a distinguished theatrical family, political activism and commitment to social justice, and marriages and love affairs. 25,000 first printing. ... Read more

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The Balancing act between Politics and Performing
I'm not really sure what I expected when I purchased a used copy of Vanessa Redgrave's autobiography.Maybe, it was to get a glimpse of an artist's perspective on acting.That certainly was not however what I ended up taking away from this bio.Rather, a wealth of information about politics and the Redgrave family is quickly thrust upon you within the first few pages. Once you sort out who everyone is, then you must go and cross-reference the political background of the times. This is where things started to get rough.Redgrave's writing is peripatetic and disjoiunted in style making it a difficult read.Once you get beyond the first few chapters however, her passion for politics and acting overwhelms you (in a good way) and you become caught up in the formation of her performing and political conscious.

The best part of the bio are the early letters she includes --written to both her father and various cousins-- which are witty, passionate, and illustrate perfectly the young Redgrave's thirst for knowledge and understanding.A warning to the potential reader: if you are not well-versed in the history of England, or the political parties or politics of the East, I urge you to consider some background reading in conjunction with this book as it is necessary to have a handle on some aspect of her writing before you attempt to follow her political path. ... Read more

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A tribute to actor Ian Charleson, best known for his portrayal of Eric Liddell in the film, Chariots of Fire. He died of AIDS at age forty in 1990. The book includes contributions from Ewen Maclachlan, Alan Bates, David Puttnam, Hilton McRae, Di Trevis, Hugh Hudson, Elizabeth Charleson, David Rintoul, Ruby Wax, Sharman Macdonald, Richard Warwick, Johanna Kirby, Peter Eyre, John Whitworth, Sean Mathias, Catriona Craig, Suzanne Bertish, Kenneth Charleson, Richard Eyre, and Ian McKellen. ... Read more

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Ian Charleson:A Great Talent, A Genuine Human Being
Ian Charleson aimed at excellence and hit his mark time, and time again.This is a performer who live his life quietly, and remained grounded.He took his acting seriously, but not himself.He walked with humility despite his successes.Charleson was a rare individual, an absolute contrast for a world filled with narcissists and egomaniacs.I am deeply saddened that I was unaware of him, and his work, while he was alive.When he passed away in 1990 before his time, the entertainment world lost a performer who raised the bar high (HIGH)!Society lost an incredible human being who possessed character, and bravery.

Oh my, Ian is gone....
Chariots of Fire was a very inspirational work in my life.Ian Charleson as the role of Eric Liddel was especially so.I just viewed the movie again on a video iPod while I was flying from Tucson to DC.What a wonderful movie.Even more so was Charleson's portrayal of Eric Liddel -- God fearing, disciplined, and when he ran you could see the light of God in him...

I am crushed by the fact that Ian Charleson passed away almost 16 years ago.I had no idea.I was hoping to find him.

Long live Ian.

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I regret never meeting Ian Charleson but have a feeling I knew him from his work.It's too bad he didn't live longer for more to be aware of his outstanding talents and the almost effortless ability to portray just about any emotion he wished on command whether on stage or behind the camera.

I'm glad this tribute has been created so he can be remembered by those who miss him.


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The "Actors on Shakespeare" series draws on the contemporary relevance of, and enjoyment to be found in, Shakespeare. Each book provides an introduction to a particular play from an individual actor's perspective; here Vanessa Redgrave offers her view of Cleopatra and "Antony and Cleopatra". ... Read more

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Chapters: Halle Berry, Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Queen Latifah, Stockard Channing, Angelina Jolie, Helen Mirren, Kathy Bates, Judy Davis, Laura Linney, Joanne Woodward, Alfre Woodard, S. Epatha Merkerson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 167. 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: Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as one of the world's most attractive people, as well as the world's "most beautiful" woman, titles for which she has received substantial media attention. Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie achieved wider fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established herself as one of the best-known and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She has had her biggest commercial successes with the action-comedy Mr. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Vanessa Redgrave, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1488 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an Academy Award-winning English actress of stage, screen and television. A member of the Redgrave family of actors, she is the daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave, sister of Lynn Redgrave and is the mother of Hollywood actresses Joely Richardson and the late Natasha Richardson. She rose to stardom in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning both the Tony and Olivier Awards. On screen, she has starred in more than 80 films; including Mary, Queen of Scots, Isadora, Mission: Impossible and Mrs Dalloway. ... Read more

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Chapters: Laurence Olivier, Harold Pinter, Vanessa Redgrave, Tony Robinson, Zoë Wanamaker, Judi Dench, Jennifer Saunders, Julie Christie, Jeremy Brett, James Nesbitt, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Jason Isaacs, Jon Lord, Christopher Eccleston, Catherine Tate, Dawn French, Carrie Fisher, Sebastian Doggart, Kathleen Turner, Aoife Mulholland, Natasha Richardson, Rupert Everett, Suzanna Hamilton, Colin Mccormack, Fern Britton, Lynn Redgrave, Gael García Bernal, Joss Ackland, Rufus Sewell, James Purefoy, Peter Davison, Cherie Lunghi, Irene Worth, Jamie Glover, Alice Krige, Claire Bloom, William Fox, Peggy Ashcroft, Michael Elphick, Jennifer Ehle, Frances de La Tour, Lucy Cohu, Martin Freeman, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Jane Kelly, Lalla Ward, Virginia Mckenna, Ben Browder, Barry Foster, Andrew Garfield, Rodney Ackland, Kate Nelligan, James Bolam, Jack Shepherd, George Rose, Lindsay Duncan, Michael Grandage, Abi Finley, Kim Medcalf, Kevin Whately, Dominic Rowan, Amy Manson, George Coulouris, Phoebe Nicholls, Pauline Collins, Mihalis Kakogiannis, Shane Cortese, John Laurie, Julian Sands, Heather Craney, Angus Macfadyen, Jonathan Kent, Mary Wimbush, Trevor Griffiths, Bruce Robinson, Neil Pearson, Philip Glenister, Ben Price, David Nicholls, Ann Jellicoe, Jeffery Dench, Shaun Dingwall, Jake Harders, Sara Stewart, James Frain, James Alexandrou, Barry Evans, Stephen Tompkinson, Lynda Bellingham, Sonia Friedman, Pat Keysell, Amanda Donohoe, Rae Baker, Anna Madeley, Kim Thomson, Ann Todd, Mary Ure, Sally Bretton, Victoria Tennant, Phyllis Calvert, Dorothy Bromiley, Timothy Brinton, Stephen Moore, Michael Beck, John Bennett, John Owen-Jones, Jane Menelaus, Cush Jumbo, Robert Evans, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Caroline John, Zoe Tapper, Deepak Verma, Tom Payne, Claudie Blakley, Josette Simon, James Bree, Wendy Craig, Ben Boyd, Pamela Salem, Paul Bailey, Jill Balcon, Robin Nedwell, Ewan Bailey, Dave Brinson, Oliver Chris, Jonathan Firth, Rosemary Nicols, Emma Stansfie...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=89530 ... 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: Workers Revolutionary Party Members, Vanessa Redgrave, Workers' Revolutionary Party, Brian Pearce, Tom Paulin, Gerry Healy, Sean Matgamna, John Lawrence, Bernie Grant, Peter Fryer, Matthew Kelly, Brian Behan, Maurice Brinton, Corin Redgrave, Cliff Slaughter, Betty Hamilton, Al Richardson, Movement for Socialism, Alan Thornett, Roger Protz, Jim Higgins, Gary Younge, Bill Hunter, the News Line. Excerpt:The Movement for Socialism is a socialist group in the United Kingdom , led by Cliff Slaughter . It originated as one half of the major split in the Workers Revolutionary Party of 1985, following allegations about Gerry Healey 's sexual activities. Initially, both halves continued under the WRP name and both published a newspaper named News Line , but Slaughter's group later renamed the publication Workers Press . As a result, the group was known as the WRP (Slaughter) or WRP (Workers Press).Workers Revolutionary Party (Workers Press) The group was initially led by Slaughter and Michael Banda, but Banda left in 1986 to form the Communist Forum . . Another early split was the International Communist Party, which later became the Socialist Equality Party (UK) . The group entered into a period in which its press became the focus of debate on the history of the WRP/ICFI for the members of the WRP and other Trotskyists in Britain and abroad. It was also very active in the Workers' Aid for Bosnia movement and had close links with Searchlight South Africa. Important members included Peter Fryer , Cyril Smith and Charlie Pottins .Moves were made to organise an Open Conference of Trotskyists throughout the world, but this miscarried and in the end a minority of the WRP around veteran Bill Hunter and Martin Ralph were to form the Bolshevik Faction in August 1987. This split in February 1988... ... 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: Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Pearce, Tom Paulin, Gerry Healy, Sean Matgamna, John Lawrence, Bernie Grant, Peter Fryer, Matthew Kelly, Brian Behan, Maurice Brinton, Corin Redgrave, Cliff Slaughter, Betty Hamilton, Al Richardson, Alan Thornett, Roger Protz, Jim Higgins, Gary Younge, Bill Hunter. Excerpt:To see the football player see Al Richardson (American football) Al Richardson (20 December 1941 - 22 November 2003) was a British Trotskyist historian and activist. Born in Woolley Colliery , a pit village near Barnsley , Richardson studied theology at the University of Hull before becoming a lecturer at the University of Exeter . He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain , but left after reading Isaac Deutscher 's biography of Leon Trotsky . Convinced of Trotskyism , he joined the Socialist Labour League (SLL), and resigned from the faculty at Exeter to become a history teacher in Forest Hill , South London . He soon quit the SLL to join the rival International Marxist Group (IMG), and became prominent in the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign . Despite hitchiking to Paris to join the events of May 1968, Richardson was part of a small group which rejected the IMG's turn away from trade unions and the labour movement to work in the student movement . He became a founder member of the break-away Revolutionary Communist League , and was elected to its leadership, but in 1973 he left the League. From the mid-1970s, Richardson focussed his attention on recording the history of Trotskyism in Britain. He began interviewing veterans of the movement, and with Sam Bornstein , published three books on the topic through their "Socialist Platform" publishing house . In 1988 they founded the journal Revolutionary History , dedicated to the history of the anti-Stalinist left . Richardson worked with... ... Read more

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Chapters: Faye Dunaway, Claudette Colbert, Vanessa Redgrave, Barbara Stanwyck, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Olivia de Havilland, Miranda Richardson, Angelina Jolie, Chloë Sevigny, Kathy Bates, Mary-Louise Parker, Kim Cattrall, Samantha Morton, Anjelica Huston, Sandra Oh, Ellen Corby, Betty Garrett, Laura Dern, Emily Blunt, Sylvia Sidney, Shelley Long, Ruth Buzzi, Rachel Griffiths, Valerie Bertinelli, Diane Ladd, Piper Laurie, Joan Plowright, Camryn Manheim, Gail Fisher, Amy Madigan, Nancy Marchand, Shirley Knight, Amanda Donohoe, Hermione Baddeley, Polly Holliday, Katherine Helmond, Sue Ane Langdon, Josette Banzet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 290. 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: Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as one of the world's most attractive people, as well as the world's "most beautiful" woman, titles for which she has received substantial media attention. Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie achieved wider fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and si...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5792809 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Roman Rosdolsky, Leo Trotzki, Emily Rosdolsky, Ernest Mandel, Chen Duxiu, Vanessa Redgrave, Ted Grant, Christian Georgijewitsch Rakowski, Jakow Grigorjewitsch Bljumkin, Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht, Tariq Ali, Henk Sneevliet, Lucy Redler, Max Théret, Olivier Besancenot, Walter Held, Arlette Laguiller, James P. Cannon, Cyril Lionel Robert James, Pierre Naville, Oskar Hippe, Christine Buchholz, Daniel Bensaïd, Jean Van Heijenoort, Heinz Leidersdorf, Michel Pablo, Gerry Healy, Alan Woods, Michael Löwy, Marie Nielsen, Anton Grylewicz, Joe Higgins, Norbert Nelte, Perry Anderson, Livio Maitan, Janine Wißler, Alain Krivine, Raya Dunayevskaya, Juan Posadas, Hal Draper, Hilde Berger, Duncan Hallas, Lew Lwowitsch Sedow, Francisco Louçã, Wang Fanxi, Pierre Broué, Max Shachtman, Hans Berger, Tony Cliff, Farrell Dobbs, Otto Schüssler, Søren Søndergaard, Peter Taaffe, Natalja Iwanowna Sedowa, Abraham Léon, Tạ Thu Thâu, David North, Ulrich Rippert, Felix Morrow. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Leon Trotsky (Russian: ·), Ukrainian: (Lev Davidovich Trotsky, also transliterated Lyev, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij and Trotzky) 7 November 1879 - 21 August 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Russian: ), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Vladimir Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War. He was also among the first members of the Politburo. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and deported from the Soviet Union. An early advocate of Red Army intervention against European fascism, Trotsky also opposed Stalin's pea...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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When Classic FM conducted a poll of the nation's 100 favourite poems in June 1997, they were overwhelmed by the response. These compact disks contains all 100 poems, each with an introduction by Mike Read, who conducted the poll on his breakfast show. ... Read more

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From FM listeners in London
This is a review of the book edition.This selection from an FM station in London has a distinct British flavor.Arranged alphabetically by author, we stroll from "Dover Beach" (Matthew Arnold), to "When you are old" (Yeats).Along the way are various fun animals: Macavity the mystery cat, Blake's Tiger, Chesterton's Donkey, and Lawrence's Snake. Perhaps some of the longer poems are not to my taste (e.g. Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"). Each poet is introduced with a short, useful biography.The most popular poem of these listeners is Wordsworth "The Daffodils". ... Read more