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I Only Know Who I Am When I Am Somebody Else: My Life on the Street, on the Stage, and in the Movies

I Only Know Who I Am When I Am Somebody Else: My Life on the Street, on the Stage, and in the Movies

Danny Aiello

Gallery Books
2015
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Beloved stage and screen actor Danny Aiello's big-hearted memoir reveals a man of passion, integrity, and guts--and lays bare one of the most unlikely success stories ever told. Danny Aiello admits that he backed into his acting career by mistake. That's easy to see when you begin at the beginning: raised by his loving and fiercely resilient mother in the tenements of Manhattan and the South Bronx, and forever haunted by the death of his infant brother, Danny struggled early on to define who he was and who he could be. It wasn't until he took to the stage in the wee hours to belt out standards that Danny Aiello found his voice and his purpose: he was born to act. Performing in converted churches and touring companies led to supporting roles in such films as The Godfather: Part II and Moonstruck, and an Oscar nomination for his role as the embattled Salvatore in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. For a guy who had never set foot in an acting class, this was supreme validation for being an outsider who followed his heart. In a raw and real chronicle of his gritty urban past, Danny Aiello looks back with appreciation, amusement, and frank disbelief at his unconventional road to success. He offers candid observations on working with luminary directors Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, and Robert Altman, among others, and a vast roster of actors, including Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Madonna, Cher, and Lauren Bacall. He opens up about friends he loved, friends he lost, and the professional relationships that weren't meant to be. Above all, Danny Aiello imparts a life lesson straight out of his own experience to anyone who's ever felt like an outsider: It's never too late to become who you want to be, to find happiness and fulfillment, and to embrace the winding road to get there.
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Seeing Quantumly: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else

Seeing Quantumly: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else

Virginia Holmes Hall

Virginia Milhouse
2015
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When Virginia first asked me to write a description for her book, I admit to being a bit hesitate. It's 500 plus pages long. But when I started reading it I couldn't stop. When I did stop I couldn't wait to get back to it. This book, Seeing quantumly: How everything is connected to everything else, if not on The New York Times Best Seller's list already, will be by the time it's published. Using a mytho-poetic style, the author demonstrates how quantum physics connects with Plato's Mystical Science of Wandering and Joseph Campbell's Call to Adventure and how the Mitochondrial Genome wanders the human body like the Mind of God. As the author writes on the back cover, she wrote this book because she wanted others to see what she saw. I, for one, am glad she did. We should all write, even if we don't, because we want others to see what we see? And she is right. This is why Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne wrote the song "Do you see what I see"? They wanted the people of Manhattan to look beyond the shadows and images of an impending Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1960's and see what they saw: "A star dancing in the sky with a tail as big as a kite". You will also see in this magnificent work of quantum entanglement, a symbiotic link between Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Dick Arndt's Tilting at Myth and a synchronicity between Virginia Milhouse's story and Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country. Both writers', though never having met, write passionately about images of the good, the bad and the ugly juxtaposing a land and a people seared with racial injustices up until the 1990's. Milhouse saw that Paton's beloved country consisted of two parallel worlds. One, a world of the "sublime"; that is, a world of indescribable natural beauty, oneness with nature and spiritual transcendence and the other the "ordinary" world of "man's inhumanity to himself". The author tells us she wrote this sequel so that others could see the difference between an illusionary world and the real world and how everything in the 'real world' is quantumly connected. Although I am not Saul Bellow, I can say 'this is not a book of a professor but that of a thinker who is willing to take risks more frequently taken by quantum writers'. Prof. A. S. Sangam
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Born in 1939? What else happened?

Born in 1939? What else happened?

Ron Williams

Boom Books
2017
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ABOUT THESE SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense.I could have talked to them a lot about their lives. I could have found out about the times they lived in. But I did not. I know almost nothing about them really. Their courtship? Working in the pits? The Lock-out in the Depression? Losing their second child? Being dusted as a miner? The shootings at Rothbury? My uncles killed in the War? Love on the dole? There were hundreds, thousands of questions that I would now like to ask them. But, alas, I can't. It's too late.Thus, prompted by my guilt, I resolved to write these books. They describe happenings that affected people, real people. The whole series is, to coin a modern phrase, designed to push your buttons, to make you remember and wonder at things forgotten. The books might just let nostalgia see the light of day, so that oldies and youngies will talk about the past and re-discover a heritage otherwise forgotten. Hopefully, they will spark discussions between generations, and foster the asking and answering of questions that should not remain unanswered.
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