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I Am Spartacus
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Author : Kirk Douglas
language : fr
Publisher: Capricci Editions
Release Date : 2013-06-06
I Am Spartacus written by Kirk Douglas and has been published by Capricci Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with categories.
En 1959, Kirk Douglas met en chantier, en tant que producteur, un projet considérable : l'adaptation de Spartacus, best-seller d'Howard Fast. Stanley Kubrick sera le réalisateur, Douglas jouera le célèbre esclave rebelle, Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Charles Laughton tiendront des rôles secondaires. Pour l'adaptation, Douglas engage le grand scénariste Dalton Trumbo. Or celui-ci, inscrit sur la liste noire de Joseph McCarthy, vient de passer un an en prison. Il doit donc travailler sous pseudonyme. Dans ce livre publié aux Etats-Unis en 2012, l'acteur décrit la mise en place d'un projet de grande envergure ; les relations orageuses avec Kubrick, avec qui il venait de tourner - et de produire - Les Sentiers de la gloire ; les caprices des acteurs, notamment la rivalité entre Ustinov et Laughton ; les difficultés pour parvenir à un montage définitif. Livre à la fois au passé et au présent, mémoires et prise de parole d'un acteur soucieux depuis toujours de la chose politique, I am Spartacus raconte l'épopée du film qui permit à Hollywood de tourner enfin la page de la liste noire.
I Am Spartacus
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Author : Kirk Douglas
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2012-06-12
I Am Spartacus written by Kirk Douglas and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-12 with Performing Arts categories.
A “lively” memoir by the Hollywood legend about the making of Spartacus, with a foreword by George Clooney (Los Angeles Times). One of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished himself as a producer, philanthropist, and author of ten works of fiction and memoir. Now, more than fifty years after the release of his enduring epic Spartacus, Douglas reveals the riveting drama behind the making of the legendary gladiator film. Douglas began producing the movie in the midst of the politically charged era when Hollywood’s moguls refused to hire anyone accused of Communist sympathies. In a risky move, Douglas chose Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted screenwriter, to write Spartacus. Trumbo was one of the “Unfriendly Ten,” men who had gone to prison rather than testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about their political affiliations. Douglas’s source material was already a hot property, as the novel Spartacus was written by Howard Fast while he was in jail for defying HUAC. With the financial future of his young family at stake, Douglas plunged into a tumultuous production both on- and off-screen. As both producer and star of the film, he faced explosive moments with young director Stanley Kubrick, struggles with a leading lady, and negotiations with giant personalities, including Sir Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, and Lew Wasserman. Writing from his heart and from his own meticulously researched archives, Kirk Douglas, at ninety-five, looks back at his audacious decisions. He made the most expensive film of its era—but more importantly, his moral courage in giving public credit to Trumbo effectively ended the notorious Hollywood blacklist. A master storyteller, Douglas paints a vivid and often humorous portrait in I Am Spartacus! The book is enhanced by newly discovered period photography of the stars and filmmakers both on and off the set.
I Am Spartacus
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Author : WS Boykin
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2016-02-12
I Am Spartacus written by WS Boykin and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-12 with Business & Economics categories.
The book is meant to be a guide for the neophyte as well as a training manual that a seasoned executive can use for weeks on end to train his team about fundamentals they will use their entire working life. Many actual life experience stories and or actual meetings you might perform are interwoven into the metaphors of Gladiatorial ages and sports in general.
I Am Spartacus
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Author : Dan Wickline
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
I Am Spartacus written by Dan Wickline and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
The heads of a corporation are sent reeling after several attacks of corporate espionage; but when it escalates to the murder of a vice president, they must turn to someone outside of the inner circle for help. Tiffany Munday, former police detective and now head of Hallotech security, begins investigating. But the only clue that ties the crimes together is a tag line left at the scenes: I Am Spartacus.
Spartacus
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Author : Howard Fast
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-04-15
Spartacus written by Howard Fast and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-15 with Political Science categories.
The best-selling novel about a slave revolt in ancient Rome and the basis for the popular motion picture.
Spartacus
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Author : M. J. Trow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-15
Spartacus written by M. J. Trow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-15 with categories.
'I am Spartacus' ranks among the most famous lines in Hollywood, with its image of the man's comrades prepared to die in his place in the Kirk Douglas film. And die they did; not the actors but the real army of Spartacus, crucified in their thousands along the Appian Way that leads to Rome. M. J. Trow has now revised his gripping biography, the first to be written in English, of this legend who has become all things to all men. He was the focus of a ballet and an opera. Karl Marx called him 'the finest fellow in ancient history' and a Communist group in 1920s Germany tried to topple the Weimar government in his name. This link to the left made it difficult for Douglas to make the film, but he persevered and created one of Hollywood's greatest epics. The humble slave from Thrace (today's Bulgaria) became a gladiator, led a revolt and took on the greatest military system in history - Rome. The Romans were understandably anxious to air-brush him from history, so hard facts about the man are hard to come by. What we do know is that he fought not one, but six Roman armies and beat them all before his final defeat. Not many men in history have achieved victories like that.
Black Spartacus
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Author : Sudhir Hazareesingh
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2020-09-03
Black Spartacus written by Sudhir Hazareesingh and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former slave, became the leader of the colony's black population, the commander of its republican army and eventually its governor. During the course of his extraordinary life he confronted some of the dominant forces of his age - slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism and racial hierarchy. Treacherously seized by Napoleon's invading army in 1802, this charismatic figure ended his days, in Wordsworth's phrase, 'the most unhappy man of men', imprisoned in a fortress in France. Black Spartacus draws on a wealth of archival material, much of it overlooked by previous biographers, to follow every step of Louverture's singular journey, from his triumphs against French, Spanish and British troops to his skilful regional diplomacy, his Machiavellian dealings with successive French colonial administrators and his bold promulgation of an autonomous Constitution. Sudhir Hazareesingh shows that Louverture developed his unique vision and leadership not solely in response to imported Enlightenment ideals and revolutionary events in Europe and the Americas, but through a hybrid heritage of fraternal slave organisations, Caribbean mysticism and African political traditions. Above all, Hazareesingh retrieves Louverture's rousing voice and force of personality, making this the most engaging, as well as the most complete, biography to date. After his death in the French fortress, Louverture became a figure of legend, a beacon for slaves across the Atlantic and for generations of European republicans and progressive figures in the Americas. He inspired the anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass, the most eminent nineteenth-century African-American; his emancipatory struggle was hailed by those who defied imperial and colonial rule well into the twentieth. In the modern era, his life informed the French poet Aimé Césaire's seminal idea of négritude and has been celebrated in a remarkable range of plays, songs, novels and statues. Here, in all its drama, is the epic story of the world's first black superhero.
Spartacus The Gladiator
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Author : Ben Kane
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-01-19
Spartacus The Gladiator written by Ben Kane and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-19 with Fiction categories.
The first of two epic novels which tell the story of one of the most charismatic heroes history has ever known - Spartacus, the gladiator slave who took on and nearly defeated the might of Rome, during the years 73-71 BC. Historically very little is known about Spartacus. We know that he came from Thrace, a land north of Greece, that he once fought in the Roman legions and that, during two fateful years, he led a slave army which nearly brought Rome to its knees. In Ben Kane's brilliant novel, we meet Spartacus as he returns to Thrace, ready to settle down after a decade away. But a new king has usurped the throne. Treacherous and violent, he immediately seizes Spartacus and sells him to a Roman slave trader looking for new gladiators. The odyssey has begun which will see Spartacus become one of the greatest legends of history, the hero of revolutionaries from Karl Marx to Che Guevara, immortalised on screen, and now brought to life in Ben Kane's great bestseller - a novel which takes the story to its halfway point and is continued in Spartacus: Rebellion. Ben Kane was born in Kenya and raised there and in Ireland. He studied veterinary medicine and University College, Dublin, but after that he travelled the world extensively, indulging in his passion for ancient history. He lives in North Somerset with his wife and two young children.
The Ragman S Son
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Author : Kirk Douglas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Ragman S Son written by Kirk Douglas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Motion picture actors and actresses categories.
Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky, the son of an illiterate immigrant Russian-Jewish ragpicker and junkman, Kirk Douglas makes clear in this powerful, angry, and passionate book the ways in which his difficult childhood dominated his life as an actor, father, and man. 16 pages of photographs.
The Spartacus War
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Author : Barry Strauss
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-07-23
The Spartacus War written by Barry Strauss and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-23 with History categories.
The story of the most famous revolt of the ancient world, and its legendary leader, Spartacus the Gladiator. Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who started a prison breakout with 74 men, armed with kitchen knives. It grew into a full scale rebellion against Rome, the most famous slave revolt in history. With an army of gladiators, ex-slaves and other desperadoes, he managed to defeat a succession of Roman armies and bring the Republic to its knees.