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Danny Dennison is een beroemde en gerespecteerde filmregisseur. Maar zijn leven in Hollywood is gebaseerd op een grote leugen. En ondannks zijn zakelijke succes moet Danny machteloos toezien hoe zijn echtgenote en zijn tienerdochter zichzelf te gronde richten. Dan komt Luba in zijn leven: een prachtige, jonge call-girl. Danny raakt geobsedeerd door de losbandige Luba, die de kunst van het liefdesspel leerde toen zij nog maar een kind was. Zij betovert hem. In haar armen kan hij zich verliezen als nooit tevoren. Luba dwingt Danny ten slotte het gruwelijke geheim van zijn verleden onder ogen te zien. En daarmee brengt zij hem to aan de rand van de ondergang - of is het zijn redding? "Leugens in de nacht" - Een fonkelende roman vol hartstocht en erotiek, spelend in de stad die de schrijver kent als geen andere. Een zeer verrassend boek dat bewijst dat een groot acteur ook een bijzonder lezenswaardig auteur kan zijn.

He was born Issur Danielovitch Dempsky, the son of an illiterate rag collector. From his brutal childhood to his acting triumphs to his many fabled love affairs, Douglas recalls his life, his loves and his forty years of Hollywood fame.

Roughly 68 million North American women currently grapple with the challenges of midlife, faced with a culture that tells them their "best-before date" has long passed. In Navigating the Messy Middle, Ann Douglas pushes back against this toxic narrative, providing a fierce and unapologetic book for and about midlife women. In this deeply validating and encouraging book, Douglas interviews well over one hundred women of different backgrounds and identities, sharing their diverse conversations about the complex and intertwined issues that women must grapple with at midlife: from family responsibilities to career pivots, health concerns to building community. Readers will find a book that offers practical, evidence-based strategies for thriving at midlife, coupled with compelling first-person stories. Offering purpose and meaning in a life stage that can otherwise feel out of control, Douglas pushes back against the message that women at midlife are no longer relevant and needed, highlighting the far-reaching economic, political and social impacts of these messages and providing a refreshing counter-narrative that maps out a path forward for women at midlife. Both a midlife love letter and a lament, Navigating the Messy Middle both celebrates the beauty and rages at the many injustices of this life stage and provides readers with the tools to chart their own course.

With the simple power and astonishing candor that made The Ragman's Son a great bestseller, Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas shares his quest for spirituality and Jewish identity -- and his heroic fight to overcome crippling injuries and a devastating stroke.On February 13, 1991, Kirk Douglas, star of such major Hollywood classics as Spartacus and Paths of Glory, was in a helicopter crash in which two people died and Douglas sustained severe back injuries. As he lay in the hospital recovering, haunted by the tragedy, he kept wondering -- Why had the two younger men died while he, who had lived his life fully, survived? The question drives this son of a Russian-Jewish ragman back to his roots and on a journey of self-discovery. Through the teachings of the celebrated Rabbi David Aaron he finds a new spirituality and purpose to life through Judaism. His new-found orthodox faith enables him to make peace with his son Michael, to listen to others, and, above all, to hear his own inner voice. Unsparing, frank, passionate, Climbing the Mountain is also an intimate account of the actor's courageous fight to recover first from his painful and crippling crash injuries and then from a stroke that left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak -- an inspirational struggle that culminates in his triumphant appearance at the 1996 Academy Awards "RM" ceremony to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 1995, Kirk Douglas suffered a debilitating stroke that changed his life. In this vivid and very personal reflection upon his extraordinary life as an actor, author, and legend in his own time, Douglas offers a candid and heartfelt memoir of where it all went right in his life -- even after the stroke. Revealing not only the incredible physical and emotional toll of his stroke but how it has changed his life for the better, Douglas shares the lessons that saved him and helped him to heal. Alongside his heartfelt advice and insight, he also recalls warm memories of some of the most famous figures of our time -- including Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Michael J. Fox, and Gary Cooper -- as well as others who have soared to greatness in the face of adversity. Charming, soulful, and filled with personal photographs, My Stroke of Luck is an intimate look at the real person behind the fabulous talent -- and at a life lived to its very fullest.

Príbeh dvoch ľudí, ktorí sa ocitli v nezvyčajných okolnostiach. Elen pracuje ako knihovníčka vo veľkej newyorskej nemocnici, ale jej osobný život ju neuspokojuje. Má vážnu známosť s Richardom, svetoznámym odborníkom na transplantácie srdca, no Richard je neverný. Ben vlastní malú posilňovňu, je oveľa starší ako Ellen, je to však vitálny muž a keď treba, ľahko si poradí s každým nespratným mladíkom. Nedávno ovdovel a súrne potrebuje nový byt. Elen Benovi prenajme izbu a z ich priateľstva sa čoskoro vyvinie čosi viac...

Biografie mapuje vzestupnou kariéru K.Douglase, který se stal hollywoodskou legendou.

Cinéma (1989) - Kirk DOUGLAS Le Fils du chiffonnier - Mémoires de Kirk Douglas - PRESSES DE LA RENAISSANCE - Grand livre broché

En 1959, Kirk Douglas met en chantier, en tant que producteur, un projet considérable : l'adaptation de Spartacus, best-seller d'Howard Fast. Stanley Kubrick sera le réalisateur, Douglas jouera le célèbre esclave rebelle, Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Charles Laughton tiendront des rôles secondaires. Pour l'adaptation, Douglas engage le grand scénariste Dalton Trumbo. Or celui-ci, inscrit sur la liste noire de Joseph McCarthy, vient de passer un an en prison. Il doit donc travailler sous pseudonyme. Dans ce livre publié aux Etats-Unis en 2012, l'acteur décrit la mise en place d'un projet de grande envergure ; les relations orageuses avec Kubrick, avec qui il venait de tourner - et de produire - Les Sentiers de la gloire ; les caprices des acteurs, notamment la rivalité entre Ustinov et Laughton ; les difficultés pour parvenir à un montage définitif. Livre à la fois au passé et au présent, mémoires et prise de parole d'un acteur soucieux depuis toujours de la chose politique, I am Spartacus raconte l'épopée du film qui permit à Hollywood de tourner enfin la page de la liste noire.