Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Author: Ronald J. Fields

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780735200562

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As the 21st century looms and business cynicism increases, W.C. Fields holds up a mirror for readers that uncannily reflects the state of the late 20th-century business world. Photos.


Fields for President

Fields for President

Author: W.C. Fields

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1630761737

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In this wonderful parody from 1940, W.C. Fields announces his candidacy for America's highest office. He offers sound advice on a number of topics in classic Fields-style humor in his attempt to win votes. "Campaign resolutions are no better than New Year's resolutions," he writes. "They are thrown together hastily at the last minute, with never a thought as to how they may be gracefully broken. Now, I am a candidate with years of experience breaking New Year's resolutions, and what I can accomplish with those, I can certainly accomplish with campaign resolutions."


W. C. Fields by Himself

W. C. Fields by Himself

Author: William Claude Fields

Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J : Prentice-Hall

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13:

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At his death in 1946, W.C. Fields left behind a vast assortment of notes, outlines, scrapbooks, letters, scripts, scenarios, and photographs. His grandson, Ronald J. Fields, has edited and woven this wealth of hitherto unpublished material into a unique new portrait of the great one--in his own words.


A River Runs through It and Other Stories

A River Runs through It and Other Stories

Author: Norman MacLean

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2017-05-03

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 022647223X

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The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation


100 Best Films of the Century

100 Best Films of the Century

Author: Barry Norman

Publisher: Orion Publishing Company

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780752817774

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Barry Norman is Britain's best known film critic. This is his personal choice of the ' best ever' films. This is a new revised edition Barry Norman's personal selection of his best 100 films of the century. As he says in his intro ' There is 1 thing of which I am quite sure: you will not agree with all o it. You will agree with some of it; there are films included which would undoubtedly be on everybody's list but equally there are several, maybe many, which would appeae on any but mine...' Each of his hundred films are reviewed in his inimitable style: Witty, incisive, controversial. Accompanying the reviews are the main film credits, running times, Oscar nominations and awards, and video availability. In addition to his selection, Barry Norman has written a perceptive brief history of the cinema: My purpose being to pick out the most sinificant developments and thereby give some kind of context to my choice of the best 100 films of this century. This new hardback edition has been completely updated and revised with colour photographs, where appropriate , throughout.


W.C. Fields

W.C. Fields

Author: James Curtis

Publisher: Back Stage Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 9780823084425

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Curtis penned the critically acclaimed and award-winning biography of one of the most highly recognizable motion picture stars of all time who rose to fame during the early days of Hollywood.