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Tony Scott got his start as a film director when he joined his brother at the lucrative commercial directing company Ridley Scott Associates. After directing Top Gun--his second film, which changed not only the trajectory of his own life but of the entire action-movie industry--Scott's career would be a roller coaster of blockbuster hits, personal films and confounding failures. With extensive research and original interviews with actors, cinematographers and writers, this book documents Tony Scott's larger-than-life persona from his early days to his untimely death, which left a hole in genre filmmaking yet to be filled.
Ever wondered how Steven Spielberg and Tony Scott rose to stardom? Steve Allen Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a young film maker, Spielberg made his first feature entitled Fire Light when he was still in high school. When he was 10 years old, he objected to the way his dad was taking family movies. The incredible life of Tony Scott began when Tony Scott was born to Francis Scott{dad} and Elizabeth Jean Scott[mom] in North Shields, Northumberland. At the age of sixteen, he performed in Boy and Bicycle, a petite movie underlining the directorial entrance of his then twenty three year old brother Ridley. What made him change his ways? Was it his wife? Was it his mom or his brother Ridley? For more interesting facts you must read the biographies. Grab your biography books now!
Ever wondered how Tony Scott rose to stardom? Well-known English movie director Tony or Anthony David Scott was born on June 21, 1944, in North Shields, Northumberland, England. He beheld and tracked in the footprints of his big brother, Ridley Scott, who also became a renowned film director and producer. Ridley was twenty-three years of age when he cast Tony in the short film BOY and BICYCLE, when the latter was sixteen years old in 1960. He later joined London's Royal College of Art, as did his brother, and continued to experience the work behind the camera, initially by directing TV advertisements for his brother's production company Ridley Scott Associates. For more interesting facts you must read his biography. Grab your biography book now!
A study of the iconic and influential film director's life and work, from the author of Stanley Kubrick: A Biography. With celebrated works such as Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, and Gladiator, Ridley Scott has secured his place in Hollywood. This legendary director and filmmaker has had an undeniable influence on art and the culture of filmmaking, but is also a respected media businessman. In Ridley Scott: A Biography, Vincent LoBrutto delves into Ridley Scott's oeuvre in a way that allows readers to understand the yin and yang of his exceptional career, offering a unique crosscut between the biographical facts of Scott's personal life—his birth and early days in northeast England,...
In Rhythm Is My Beat: Jazz Guitar Great Freddie Green and the Count Basie Sound, Alfred Green tells the story of his father, rhythm guitarist Freddie Green, whose guitar work served as the pulse of the Count Basie Band. A quiet but key figure in big band jazz, Freddie Green took a distinct pride in his role as Basie’s rhythm guitarist, redefining the outer limits of acoustic rhythm guitar and morphing it into an art form. So distinct was Green’s style that it would eventually give birth to notations on guitar charts that read: “Play in the style of Freddie Green.” This American jazz icon, much like his inimitable sound, achieved stardom as a sideman, both in and out of Basie’s band...
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A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon “A book written as only one artist could view another, with insight and sincere compassion.” —Sandra Cisneros, best-selling author of Woman Without Shame In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger—gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer. He shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life—with relevant flashbacks to provide context—to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of Holiday’s artistry when it was supposed to have declined, in the wake of...
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