Bøger af Charles Elton

The first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided filmmaker Michael CiminoΓÇöand a reevaluation of the infamous film that destroyed his careerThe director Michael Cimino (1939ΓÇô2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam movie The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1979 and also won Cimino Best Director, and HeavenΓÇÖs Gate, the most notorious bomb of all time. Originally budgeted at $11 million, CiminoΓÇÖs sprawling western went off the rails in Montana. The picture grew longer and longer, and the budget ballooned to over $40 million. When it was finally released, HeavenΓÇÖs Gate failed so completely with reviewers and at the box office that it put legendary studio United Artists out of business and marked the end of Hollywood''s auteur era.Or so the conventional wisdom goes. Charles Elton delves deeply into the making and aftermath of the movie and presents a surprisingly different view to that of Steven Bach, one of the executives responsible for HeavenΓÇÖs Gate, who wrote a scathing book about the film and solidified the widely held view that Cimino wounded the movie industry beyond repair. EltonΓÇÖs Cimino is a richly detailed biography that offers a revisionist history of a lightning rod filmmaker. Based on extensive interviews with CiminoΓÇÖs peers and collaborators and enemies and friends, most of whom have never spoken before, it unravels the enigmas and falsehoods, many perpetrated by the director himself, which surround his life, and sheds new light on his extraordinary career. This is a story of the making of art, the business of Hollywood, and the costs of ambition, both financial and personal.

Far out in the heavens a blue orb, with a split personality, found that one half of it had been cursed by the age old enemy of the wizarding realm. Earth's other half, the one that has no magic, had an uninvited phenomenon at the same time. As the realm of magic had vanished plateaus suddenly popped up out of nowhere in the realm of no magic.Life continued, for a while, then one dark star filled night a particular wizarding family of five kids had an unexpected swirl form over their home. One year later, Lorem Lee Lavle, was born and allergic to magic. To keep little Lorem safe from the magical ways of his family he was sent to an orphanage where he was educated among others like himself. Lorem, now a widower, approached his fortieth birthday where he suddenly found that he had been fired from his university, as an archeologist, had ten years old twins and inherited a plateau. It will be a fast trip from the east coast of America to Thousand Oaks, California where his inheritance awaits him. The key to Lorem growing into the magical ability, he had missed all his life, was going to be a wet one as the three Lavle's find themselves in the midst of a mall of magic surrounded by many oaks.

The bestselling, Richard and Judy Book Club Pick, Mr Toppit is a darkly comic, enthralling story of a family shaped by their father''s literary legacy, exploring fame, fandom and long-buried secrets''An extraordinary debut, not only for its confident storytelling but for its nerdish familiarity with such an eclectic range of subjects . Dark, funny . jangly with secrets'' Sunday TimesWhen Arthur Hayman, writer of The Hayseed Chronicles, dies, a bizarre chain of events conspires to make his series of children''s books world famous. But buried deep inside the books lie secrets that begin to shake the fragile Hayman family - Arthur''s son, Luke, reluctantly immortalized as the young hero of the series; his daughter, Rachel, for whom the books are a hole through which her life has fallen; and his enigmatic wife, Martha, who knows that secrets are best kept well-hidden.For the rest of us, The Hayseed Chronicles are a fascinating mystery. And at their heart is the twisted, unknowable Mr Toppit, who will let neither Luke nor Rachel nor Martha out of his grasp.