5 comments about Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor.

1. I've not seen many Liz Taylor's movies before, but since I read the book, I became highly interested to see her films, just to be able to check what I read in this book with how she performs/appears in a particular movie as mentioned in the book. In the beginning of my reading, the book gives me a mix feeling towards Liz Taylor, more negative than positive. But after I finished reading I really felt for her. In short, the story reveals her complicated life in the most open manner. It tells everything you want to know about Liz Taylor, from birth up to the latest marriage (and divorce). It also exposes her severe addiction to drugs and alcohol which is very shocking. What a life story! I enjoy reading the book because it flows smoothly, it is insightful and it gives detail information for every occassion in the story. It is a great book to read.



2. The pictures of beautiful child-star Liz Taylor to the Liz of the 90's are fabulous. Beautifully written book of a Hollywood legend. Absorbing and juicy. Intimate look at her glamourous and turbulent life. Her many romances with famous men, her movie career, weight swings, battles with drug and alcohol dependence, humanitarian work. Really gives you the feeling of knowing her.



3. If he did such great research, which it doesn't seem like, why did he call the book "Liz"? It is well known that she does not like to be called "Liz"



4. With her eight marriages, long-running drug problems and lingering medical ailments, Elizabeth Taylor is a perfect candidate for trashy tabloidy biographies. While C. David Heymann's "Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor" is not the worst of the bunch, his obvious disdain makes for sour reading.
   
   For some time, Elizabeth Taylor was the image of the child star -- talented, gutsy and willing to do almost anything (even try to speed up physical growth) to get a part. But after a failed marriage to hotel heir Nicky Hilton and an increasingly sultry image, Elizabeth began to change radically. Suddenly she was the Cleopatra of the times.
   
   She went through several marriages, to Michael Wilding, the tragic Mike Todd, a scandalous affair and marriage to Eddie Fisher (who was married), and finally spent many long years with the tempestuous Richard Burton (who was also married), whom she married twice. Her once red-hot career went into decline, as her last two forgettable marriages tanked. But Elizabeth Taylor remains a towering movie legend even today.
   
   Since she was the J.Lo of her day -- bling, lots of husbands and opulence all around -- Taylor is a pretty juicy subject for a biographer... IF the biographer can repress his inner tabloid journalist. Heymann keeps himself restrained much of the time, focusing a lot of Elizabeth's career and the impact of the people around her.
   
   It's death to a biography if the author has no respect, let alone liking, for his subject. And Heymann shows nothing but disdain not only for Elizabeth, but for her husbands and lovers. He emphasizes Taylor's yoyoing obesity, her sometimes immaturity, her gaudy dress/makeup/jewelry styles, and her lack of education. Her husbands are all caricatures. For example, Richard Burton is portrayed merely as a weak sot, and little mention is made of his intelligence, his eloquence, or his astounding acting ability.
   
   Aside from the superficiality and occasional sexual anecdotes, Heymann does a pretty good job of chronicling not only Taylor's career, but that of the people around her such as her good friends Rock Hudson and Montgomery Clift, as well as her tireless crusading for AIDS victims and her forays into the world of... perfume. Whatever. Nothing new is revealed, but it's a passable look at her life.
   
   However, the obvious dislike Heymann has for Taylor and her assorted amours makes "Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor" a pain to read.



5. So she doesn't like to be called, Liz. Elizabeth is too long of a name to keep pronouncing repeatedly. I was interested in the author's portrayal of Dame Elizabeth Taylor. This book was written only a few years before she became Dame Elizabeth Rosamunde Taylor for her services to charity worldwide for her tireless efforts in the fight against AIDS. Speaking of which, today is AIDS day. I think the author does an admirable job in explaining Taylor's parents who had a major influence on their daughter becoming a star and an icon more importantly. She is far more complicated than we know about her. I will probably never meet the living legend. She has not worked much and continues with AmFar. Her father, Francis Taylor, became a colorful character who was probably homosexual while her mother Sara had affairs with director Michael Curtiz. Liz dotes on her four children and eight grandchildren but there is not enough of Liz to go around for everybody including her eight husbands. She loves them all just as she loves Michael Jackson. Liz could be tolerable and intolerable but she is a lovely person. She tries to much to please everybody around her. Maybe the title should have been Violet Eyes. This book is not enough to tell the story of Elizabeth Taylor but her life could be written in volumes.

5 comments about The Lil' Bow Wow Scrapbook.

1. THE BOOK WAS GREAT. I THINK HE SHOULD HAVE ANOTHER ONE COME OUT VERY SOON. I LIKE BOWWOW SO I KNOW WHEN HE DOES THINGS YOU SHOULD ALWAYS EXPECT THE BEST.YOU SHOULD EPECT THE BEST CAUSE HE REALLY LOVES WHAT HE DO. THE BOOK REALLY GIVES YOU HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT HE IS LIKE IF YOU DONT ALREADY KNOW SO I THINK ITS REALLY GREAT FOR FAN WHO CANT REALLY GET OUT TO SHOWS AND STUFF. I MAKE IT TO ALL OF THEM SO THIS BOOK IR REALLY LIKE A REVIEW FOR ME AND I KNOW AS WELL AS TO OTHERS.



2. I think that Lil Bow Wow scrapbook is great book. It saws you pictures and tells you about him. In this scrapbook you can find and learn a lot of things about him and how he came in to the rapping bussiness.His scapbook is amazing. If you are just one of his fans who don't know nothing about him but just likes him becuase his cute well you can find out things about him.I advice you to get this book it tells you and shows you every thing that you need to know.Everything you need to know is right in his scarpbook.This is a wonderful book.I will give this book five stars. I think that it is one of the best books. For all of Lil Bow Wow's fans I think that yall should get this book it is so good.



3. The Lil'BowWow Scrap Book is siimply Off Tha Chainz" It has exclusive information avaliable only to you! From letting the fans know what type of gurls he like to bangin pics and pin ups; the Lil'BowWow Scrap Book should be the first thing you should cop. Start of your year 02' right and support this multi-talented pup. You will definitley need to get the second edition to this 'Hangin With Lil'BowWow' Scrap Book! Support BowWow 4 sho!



4. Lil Bow Wow is hot from is Cornrolls down to his Air 1's. No one can deny his talent for music and Basketball. And now that is first book dropped his reputation has gone sky high. If you like the book you will love "Beware of Dog" and "Doggy Bag" Also Bow Wow will be staring in a movie called "Like Mike". The book is blazing. IF there's something you don't know about Shad Moss you can find it in the book...



5. Bowwow is so cute if i ever meet him i will fate right in frot of him.And i would like to know him better.

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1 comments about Transit.

1. It is a combination of graphics and photos. It has very eye catching and impressive graphics. Full of photos on airport environment, with 'industrial design' architecture and parts. If you like 'stainless steel' furniture, you will like this book.

   The appearance of the 'MB' suitcase can be interpreted as sort of artistic performance. At 21 century, our living becomes more and more mobile. This book is a documentary for frequent flyers.

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1 comments about Icons: 200 Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference.

1. Icons: 200 Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference by Barbara Cady (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishing) A dramatic, distinguished record, Icons is a powerful and provocative look at the giants of our time-the groundbreakers, thought-provokers, visionaries, tyrants, trendsetters, and style-makers who have left an indelible mark on our world. The culmination of ten years' research on the part of author Barbara Cady and photo editor jean-Jacques Naudet, it features two hundred of our century's most recognizable faces-individuals who have helped form our modern sensibilities, for better or worse: men like John F. Kennedy, Albert Einstein, Elvis Presley, Mao Zedong, and Pablo Picasso; women like Marilyn Monroe, Margaret Thatcher, Aretha Franklin, Amelia Earhart, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

   A lavish album, Icons presents an extraordinarily wide selection of people chosen by a panel of more than sixty international leaders in the arts, sciences, politics, fashion, and technology. Barbara Cady's lively and probing biographies tell the fascinating stories behind these individuals' great accomplishments, exploring the views, personal backgrounds, and dramatic contributions each "icon" has made. Through Cady's treatment, the politician, philosopher, scientist, artist, athlete, and entertainer is presented in his or her unique greatness-or infamy.

   The rare black-and-white photographs in Icons establish the book's unparalleled visual impact. They are by turns elegiac and haunting, celebratory and enchanting-all are arresting portraits of the century's most familiar faces caught in unfamiliar and revealing lights. Culled from archives around the world, the images in Icons represent the best of modern photography, with works by such masters as Henri Cartier-Bresson himself one of the icons), Helmut Newton, Cecil Beaton, and Robert Capa.

   Powerful, intriguing, and informative, Icons is a visually stunning, historically sweeping work, destined to become a collector's item.
   The two hundred individuals included in Icons of the Twentieth Century were chosen with the help of a multi-national Board of Advisors, respected leaders in the arts and sciences, in politics, publishing, education, fashion, entertainment and technology. Asked to base their deletions, nominations and rankings on their following definition of an icon: "Individuals whose names and faces have impacted us all and whose deeds-for good or ill-have literally shaped the course of modern history." When the ballots were tallied, about fifteen percent of the 200-name list-the nominations which garnered only a few votes each-fell at the thin end of the statistical bell curve. It was here that the combined efforts of the author, the publisher and the project's editors and researchers were called into service.
   No grouping, of course, can ever be complete, nor can there be any objective criteria for hierarchical importance-not even for who is included and who is not. Questions will immediately arise: Why Nasser and not Khomeni? Why not Idi Amin, whose face came to symbolize the destruction of Africa in the post-colonial period, or Kwame Nkuma, whose independent Ghana initially offered a better hope for a continent in turmoil? Why not Konrad Adenauer, who out of the ruins of the Third Reich established the beginnings of post-World War democracy in Germany? And why Emperor Hirohito and not Tojo whose leadership of Japan may have had more to do with World War II in Asia than the imperial family? In the end, it would have been impossible to include every famous political leader of the century without eliminating key individuals in, say, music or literature.
   Acknowledging that in this century government leaders-whether mass executioners or sun-kings-ipso facto dominated the world stage, it was decided they would not overrun Icons.
   There were many others who made us think differently about our world-originals like Alfred Kinsey, Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan-who were not included. In some cases, it was because heir faces were simply not as recognizable as others, an important consideration because of the book's defining concept of eikon, or image. A similar point can be made for many of the century's innovators, individuals whose inventions-the television, the computer, the jet engine, the Pill, penicillin-are much more well known than they are. But Icons was about people not things.
   Given that the major categories of human endeavor were to be represented, choice was difficult when there were too many candidates in one category, which was often the case. Why Nureyev and not also Nijinsky or Balanchine? Why Billie Holiday and not also Bessie Smith and Ella Fitzgerald? Marcel Proust and not also Thomas Mann and William Faulkner? Why Babe Ruth and not Joe DiMaggio? Why not dozens of other high profile sports stars and performers, all iconic in their way due to the development of mass media in our century? Behind each inclusion and exclusion lie endless arguments. But the selection made at the end of the day is at best a selection.

5 comments about The Gift of Jazzy (New Millennium Audio).

1. Gift of Jazzy is really two books in one. The first one talks, with startling tenderness (which you wouldn't expect from Cindy Adams) about the cruelty of old age and sickness and the thoughtless stupidity of bystanders to it. After 40 years of marriage Adams's husband, Joey was physically breaking down and dying piece by piece it was incredibly sad. When her husband finally is gone the void was huge and friends decided to cheer her up by handing her a tiny Yorkie puppy-- Jazzy.
   
   It shouldn't have worked out. Adams was depressed and cranky and brand new puppies need lots of attention but somehow it did and page by page the old Cindy Adams comes roaring back to life. I really enjoyed this book. The stories about Jazzy, life and work in New York and the foibles of celebrities are fun. If you love dog stories this one should be on your bookshelf.



2. Great book for dog lovers. Cindy Adams tells the story of losing a loved one and how a very small dog came into her life and captured her heart forever.



3. I'am sorry I bought this book, it is not a good read



4. I found that this book was very entertaining and heart-warming. Cindy Adams wrote this story from her personal experiences. The funny antics of Jazzy, all the way to the celebrities mentioned, is her story. It is, what it is. If you like it, it's because it's a good re-telling of life going on after a loved-one passes, and how a little dog helped in the healing process. If you didn't like it, at least give Cindy Adams the respect and acknowledgement that she has the ambition to write a book, of which many people wouldn't even know where to begin with. At the very least, it doesn't deserve the nasty negative comments.



5. Cindy Adams has a hit here. She is very good at writing a memoir, while incorporating the story of her dog. Cindy is the writer of a gossip column for the New York Post. Hobnobbing with celebrities and their quirks is nothing compared to the quirky dog that has come into her life and stollen her heart.
   
   Because of the dog, Cindy, dressed in her nightgown and Amilda Marcos, dressed to the nines, spent Christmas locked out of her apartment, sitting on the floor eating McDonald's hamburgers and fries.
   
   Taking her dog to a dinner party ended in disaster, with Cindy drenched in wine and worried that the white carpet would be permanently ruined.
   
   While on vaccation, Cindy had to sneak into the hotel room of a stanger, to excavate Jazzy from the suitcase of a Japanese tourist, before he hitched a ride back to Japan.
   
   Cindy was on the phone speaking to a client, when Jazzy took a flying leap off her apartment balcony. Cindy threw down the phone, and caught him in mid air.
   
   Jazzy and Cindy took a trip to the counry. She found that Jazzy was a New York dog, who was more accustomed to the sound of the garbage truck, then the sound of crickets with insomnia.
   
   I found The Gift of Jazzy to be both heart warming and entertaining. I really enjoyed Cindy Adams sense of humor and finding out that many celebrities prefer their dogs over any other relationship.
   
   Jill Vanderwood
   Author of two fictional dog books
   Through the Rug[[ASIN:0979845548
   Through The Rug 2: Follow That Dog (Through the Rug)]]

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