Showing results for "The Making" in Literature & Fiction

“Outlandish fun. . . . Making Money balances satire, knockabout farce and close observation of human—and non-human—foibles with impressive dexterity and deceptive ease. The result is another ingenious entertainment from the preeminent comic fantasist of our time.”—Washington Post The...

Ferdinand Mount’s stinging satire plunges into the dubious world of London PR firms, the back rooms of Westminster and the campaign trail in Africa and America. We follow the hapless Dickie Pentecost, redundant diplomatic correspondent for a foundering national newspaper, together with his stern oncologist wife, Jane, and their daughters, Flo, an aspiring ballerina, and the quizzical teenager Lucy.

'A revealing account of the tricky reality behind TV's glamorous image' Daily Mail In the summer of 1992, Jason Salkey was cast in a role that would change his life forever. Sharpe’s Rifles, a Napoleonic war drama, was to be shot in the Crimean Peninsula. Little did the producers know that...

Mac's Restaurant - nobody calls it MacFarland's - is a mystery. It is off the beaten track. It is not smart. It does not advertise. It provides nothing nearer to an orchestra than a solitary piano, yet, with all these things against it, it is a success. In theatrical circles especially it holds a position which might turn the white lights of many a supper-palace green with envy.

Mocking the national debt proved deadly for the entertainer.

The Christmas Wish meets Groundhog Day in this hilarious Christmas rom com readers are calling ‘festive’, ‘feel good’ and ‘so funny’! 🎄 ‘Absolutely joyous – everything you want in a Christmas book and more! Five sparkly festive stars’ Reader review...

"Stories of Making a Fortune" collects dozens of stories about making a fortune, allowing more listeners to enjoy good stories, read good stories, appreciate good stories, cherish good stories, and spread good stories.

Updated with more on the real race in 2000! First came Theodore White's The Making of the President, 1960. Then All the President's Men. Now the searing chronicle that will forever change the way we view the man and the office... Why Not Me? ...chronicles the dramatic rise and dizzying fall of...

Em um dos programas, Lucas resolve debochar de uma astróloga, Dandara. Acontece que ela não é uma astróloga comum e, como punição, joga uma maldição no apresentador: pelos próximos doze dias, daquele até o dia do aniversário de Lucas, ele despertará com as piores características de cada um dos signos. Se não conseguir se tornar uma pessoa empática até lá, o ciclo da maldição se repetirá para sempre.

The boys are trying to get guest Dorothy Lamour to appear in their new picture. Dorothy reads one of her lines as "Bing Hope and Bob Crosby". Abbott and Costello rescue Dorothy from a desert Sheik.

Daddy shows Baby Snooks his newly invented coffee pouring robot. Fanny Brice and Hanley Stafford appear as Baby Snooks and Daddy.

Abbott and Costello make a movie with the Andrews Sisters.

[Contains explicit content] The couple says there is no reason to pay for something they can do themselves.