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« La seule compétition que Vanessa ait jamais vécue, d’une certaine manière, était avec sa sœur Virginia. Pas avec moi. Elle m’aimait. J’étais ce qui lui manquait. Elle me complétait. À nous deux, nous faisions un être entier. Voilà pourquoi nous n’avons peut-être pas été capables...

Simon Cowell is a British music executive and television producer. After a smattering of odd jobs in his youth, Simon went to work for his father, Eric Philip Cowell, who was an executive at EMI Music Publishing.   Initially starting out in the mail room, Simon worked his way...

Questa è la storia di un uomo che ha vissuto tre vite: Félix Candela Outeriño, uno dei progettisti/costruttori di strutture più importanti del XX secolo. Le sue numerose opere, prevalentemente coperture leggerissime (i cosiddetti “cascarones” in cemento armato), realizzate nei venti...

THIS IS A TRANSCRIPTION OF THE AUDIOBOOK "MORE CUTE STORIES, VOL.2: ANIMATORS AND IMAGINEERS". Rolly Crump is back, and this time he spills the beans on his fellow co-workers in Disney Animation and WED! Bawdy jokes, off-color pranks, and trippy tales of "smoking" fill this...

For ten years before the creation of Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney struggled with, failed at, and eventually mastered the art and business of animation. Most biographies of his career begin in 1928, when Steamboat Willie was released. That first Disney Studio cartoon with synchronized sound made its main...

George Stubbs was marvellous English animal painter and anatomical draftsman, famous for his paintings of horses. Stubbs also painted a wide range of other animals, including the lion, tiger, giraffe, monkey, and rhinoceros, which he was able to observe in private menageries. According to the Ozias...

LeRoy Neiman was arguably the world’s most recognizable contemporary artist until his passing in June 2012. He broke the barrier between fine art and popular art while creating indelible images that helped define the twentieth century. But it is the life he lived and the people he knew that make...

Blonder Strubbelkopf, aus den Augen blickt der Schalk, Lebensspuren im hellwachen, klugen Gesicht. Von dieser Frau lässt man sich gern etwas erzählen über das Leben und über die Kunst, der sie sich mit Haut und Haar verschrieben hat. Als Elfjährige wurde sie fürs Fernsehen entdeckt, trat in...

Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century....

John Ruskin (1819–1900) was the most prominent art and architecture critic of his time. Yet his reputation has been overshadowed by his personal life, especially his failed marriage to Effie Gray, which has cast him in the history books as little more than a Victorian prude. In this book, Andrew...

Jadis « Littérature », voici le Poète gascon véritable « Patrimoine » tant sa place est forte dans « l’inconscient collectif » des Agenais. Pour chaque commémoration, la sempiternelle question se pose à ceux qui l’aiment : « Connaissons-nous le Poète ? », et chaque fois en répondant...

Journal - Eugène Delacroix   Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863) est un peintre majeur du romantisme en peinture, mouvement arrivé en France au début du XIXe siècle.   Journal :   - Extrait :   Le Journal d’Eugène Delacroix...

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth Vol. I (of II) By Dorothy Wordsworth

Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician especially famous for Reggae music. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers and Bob Marley & The Wailers. Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae...