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Lee Server (1953–2021)

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24 verk 999 medlemmar 9 recensioner 4 favoritmärkta

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Lee Server is the author of the critically acclaimed Danger Is My Business, Sam Fuller: Film Is a Battleground, Over My Dead Body, and other works on cinema history and popular culture
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Födelsedag
1953
Avled
2021-12-28
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80 illustrations. The largest of all the cats, the tiger's reputation is that of a fearsome predator, and occasionally, a man eater. Once numerous and covering a vast range, the tiger population today numbers little more than 6,000. In this volume, stunning action-photographs vividly portray the tiger as it stalks, chases, and attacks its prey. Gentler moments, such as the playful antics of young cubs under the watchful protection of their mother are also included. Here the life cycle of these magnificent cats is presented as they live their daily lives and fight for survival in the wild. This book includes 80 full-color photographs on tigers in action in their natural habitat.… (mer)
 
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Alhickey1 | Jun 8, 2021 |
Robert Mitchum was a fascinating and iconoclastic figure in 50s and 60s Hollywood, but he often gets lost in this bloated biography and is absent for pages at a time while author Server wanders off to discuss American politics, styles of the day, and miscellaneous bit players in the actor’s life.

The scope narrows down considerably about midway through the book, as Mitchum gets out from under the onerous contract with Howard Hughes’ RKO Pictures and moves away from B-movie parts into the varied and notable mid-career films for which he is best known today. Unfortunately, things begin to drag again in the final chapters of the book as Mitchum’s drawing power begins to fade and the hard-living years take their toll on his health.

Overall, it’s a fascinating look at a powerful actor who too often took (or was forced into) crap parts, an articulate and intelligent man who could also be incredibly crude, an alcoholic drug abuser who was either – depending on which co-workers you asked – a thoughtful and supportive performer or a raging, set-destroying maniac, and a philandering skirt-chaser who nonetheless stayed married to his one and only wife until his death. One simply wishes Server had left many of the 500+ pages on the cutting-room floor.
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LyndaInOregon | 2 andra recensioner | Jul 19, 2020 |
This book celebrates the pulp paperbacks of the 1940s and 50s, mostly the art of the covers, which is totally an art form itself. A good starter book on this subject. Lots of photos of covers and it covers all genres, mysteries, romance, jouvenile delinquents, etc. Fun and a fast read.
 
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EdGoldberg | Mar 23, 2020 |
Most of the authors who should be in this book are already in it. A few of those who are not in it should be in it -- in my opinion. But everything and everybody that goes in one of these encyclopedic references is somebody's opinion. We can either agree with what we find or bite it, as the case may be.

I like "The Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers" because it praises some people I like and introduces me to some people I never heard of but may pay attention to in the future -- if I want to or if I don't. It's a learning tool and learning is always a good thing.… (mer)
 
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NathanielPoe | Feb 17, 2019 |

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Verk
24
Medlemmar
999
Popularitet
#25,804
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
9
ISBN
77
Språk
4
Favoritmärkt
4

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