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Great Hollywood Wit: A Glorious Cavalcade of Hollywood Wisecracks, Zingers, Japes, Quips, Slings, Jests, Snappers, & Sass from the Stars

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"I DRINK TO MAKE OTHER PEOPLE INTERESTING"

Great Hollywood Wit: A Glorious Cavalcade of Hollywood Wisecracks, Zingers, Japes, Quips, Slings, Jests, Snappers, & Sass from the Stars
Gene Shalit
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0312282737

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Hollywood high priest Gene Shalit gathers humor from more than thirty years in the entertainment industry as the insightful guide on this jocular trip through the land of the stars. Bringing together zinging lines from movie personas and the stars who play them, as well as backstage humor and off-screen snipes, Great Hollywood Wit is a treasure trove of celebrity humor and movie history.

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"I DRINK TO MAKE OTHER PEOPLE INTERESTING".......2003-01-02

You will have heard some of these quips before but there are enough little known comments here to make you laugh out loud many times. If you like comments such as: "I'm not upset about my divorce from Tom Arnold. I'm only upset I'm not a widow" (Rosanne Barr about her former husband) or "They didn't release the movie; it escaped" (Sam Goldwyn) or "The T is silent, as in Harlow" said by Margot Asquith, wife of the British Prime Minister, when Jean Harlow mispernounced Asquith's first name or Oscar Levant on Phyllis Diller "I treasure every moment I do not see her" you will like this slim but amusing book.
Equally amusing is Groucho Marx's series of letters to Warner Brother (producers of the movie Casablanca) attorneys regarding his intent to name a movie A Night In Casablanca.

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Very informative fishing guide!
Snapper & Grouper on DVD

Snapper & Grouper with DVD

Manufacturer: Wickstrom Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0936240318

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Very informative fishing guide!.......2007-05-26

New to saltwater fishing in Miami, FL, this book gave me everything necessary to target snapper and grouper. It is filled with tons of full color photos. It includes sections on identifying different fish species. The CD is a bonus! Very good book and highly recommened for rookie snapper and grouper fisherman.

Snapper & Grouper on DVD.......2006-11-03

Outstanding book giving particulars on these fish. The DVD is excellent and explains everything in detail. Love it!

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"We all do stupid things when we're drunk, don't we?"
5stars for Sharon's Snapper
It gets better with every page
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The Snapper
Roddy Doyle
Manufacturer: Mandarin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Van
Commitments
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ASIN: 0749391251

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Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family is forced to rally together and discover the strangeness of intimacy. But the question remains: which friend of the family is the father of Sharon's child?

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ALL-OVER-IRELAND.......2007-05-20

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958 and saw his first novel, "The Commitments", published in 1987. It was later adapted for the big screen, a version that saw Star Trek's Colm Meaney and a very young Andrea Corr among the cast. "The Snapper" was firs published in 1990 and is the second book in his "Barrytown Trilogy".

Where "The Commitments" followed Jimmy Rabbite's attempts to bring soul "back" to Dublin, he takes a back seat in "The Snapper". (He now hopes to be a famous DJ, rather than a manager or a drummer - an ambition that quickly earns him the nickname "Larry Gogan". You'll probably need to have spent little time in Ireland to catch that one... ). Instead, the starring roles go to his sister, Sharon, and his father, Jimmy Senior. The book opens with Sharon in a horrible situation : twenty years old, still living at home and three months pregnant, she's breaking the 'bad' news to her parents. She's decided not to name the father - though, there's plenty of speculation, suggestion and rumour over the following six months. Some of it is embarrassingly close to the mark, and causes her no end of trouble. While Sharon's pregnancy obviously isn't easy for her, it also puts Jimmy Snr through the mill - shock, concern, embarrassment and anger. He even, briefly, casts himself as her champion in defending her honour.

A very enjoyable and easily book - it's also a good deal better than "The Commitments". While the language is (authentically) 'colourful', it's generally a good-natured book and there's plenty of humour. (However, some of the humour may be lost if you're not familiar with the Irish dialect). Well worth reading.

"We all do stupid things when we're drunk, don't we?".......2006-07-08

Soon after a wild night at the pub, twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte of north Dublin finds herself expecting a little "snapper" by an older man she loathes. Her refusal to name the father sets in motion a family drama involving her three brothers, two sisters, and her parents, along with her employers and all her friends. Though Sharon is often coarse and earthy, she is still a remarkably sensible young woman, and she soon discovers who her friends really are. Some people tease and torment her, some make remarks to her siblings, some force her father to take direct action in her defense, and all spread gossip.

Sharon's father reveals an emotional range from outrage toward Sharon for embarrassing the family to tender concern as her time draws near. As the eight-member family trips all over each other emotionally (ironically symbolized in their battles for the one bathroom, often occupied by Sharon), the tensions within the family grow more intense. Widespread speculation about who the father is disrupts the neighborhood, with some hotheads visiting their own brand of justice on the family. The arrival of the baby offers a chance at resolution.

The second (after The Commitments) in Roddy Doyle's The Barrytown Trilogy, this novel also focuses on the Rabbitte family and is set in the working class tenements of rowdy north Dublin, where humor and family togetherness are often the qualities which enable the characters to survive. In this novel, the action focuses on a single member of this family and the chain of action set in motion by her pregnancy. More intimate, more personal, and more emotionally moving, than The Commitments, this novel shows admiration for Sharon's stalwart behavior under the pressures of family, friends, and neighborhood.

Dialogue is spot-on, with Doyle's use of dialect controlling the pace and giving vibrancy to the story, so much so that this resembles a play as much as a novel. His focus on one Catholic family of eight people reveals the strengths which enable them to survive and even thrive. With the pub as family's social center, we see the characters' attitudes toward sex and childbirth, their "escapes" from the workday, their daily amusements and sense of humor, and their lack of concern with the dogma of the church. Both humorous and touching, the novel shows Doyle's growth from a writer who depends on neighborhood atmosphere, quirky dialogue, and fast-paced humor for effects to a writer who is willing to convey warmth and build sincere feeling for his characters. n Mary Whipple

5stars for Sharon's Snapper.......2004-11-03

After watching the film "The Snapper" over 100 times in my life time I figured it was time to read the book. The film is great ... the book is excellent.

Sharon gets herself "up the pole" at 19. She is too embarrassed to tell anyone who the father is so she tell's everyone, including her own family it is a "Spanish Sailor". However, rumor has it that her "Spanish Sailor" is more than likely the fat, ugly short man from across the street!

The story highlights the local gossip surrounding Sharons pregnancy, how her family & friends try to suss out who she's "having it for" and how Sharon herself deals with it all.
The script is mostly dialogue, it is a refreshing change!

Every page guarentees you to laugh out load. I couldnt put it down. The storyline is excellent, the frequent vulgar language making it more and more realistic. I love the whole "tell it as it is" attitude. This book is hilarius and I would highly recommend it to anyone

It gets better with every page.......2003-01-09

When I started reading the book, the beginning seemed a little boring to me and I asked myself if I would be able to finish the novel. But I kept reading and it got better with every page. If you have once involved yourself in the story, it is interesting to see how things will develop.
The book is about 20year old Sharon who is pregnant after she was raped by the father of one of her best friends. This sounds very serious but author Roddy Doyle manages to keep a certain humour in the novel. It isn't dark and sad. It is funny and interesting. The reader can follow the development of Sharon's pregnancy and the following changes. You can easily identify with her and her situation and that also makes the development so interesting. There are of course also serious moments when Sharon is afraid and doesn't know how to go on. But then there are also the funny moments for example when her father, who normally is a hard man, starts to read a book about pregnancies and is finally interested in this after having become a father six times.
The story is sometimes predictable but it also has it's surprising changes. The end appears a little abrupt. It ends at the point where Sharon finally has her baby and that leaves some open questions.
But all in all it was really worth reading it, because it is an interesting story and you also learn something about the lives of working class people in Dublin.

Hysterical.......2001-09-20

Doyle is fabulous. Writes in dialect, though, so not for everyone. If you like Irish humor, get the Barrytown Trilogy instead (which includes The Commitments and The Van, in addition).

The Nature of Florida's Waterways Including Dragonflies, Cattails and Mangrove Snapper

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The Nature of Florida's Waterways Including Dragonflies, Cattails and Mangrove Snapper
Cathie Katz
Manufacturer: Great Outdoors Publishing Co.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0820012025

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Florida's waterways are host to thousands of land, air and water species. This book describes some of the things you'll "see, smell, taste, hear and feel" around Florida's waterways. It includes aquatic life most visible from bridges, shorelines, piers and boats, and celebrates the interconnectedness of all water creatures--menhaden to moonflowers, 'gators to green herons, and cicadas to cattails. The book is illustrated throughout with marvelously detailed pen-and-ink drawings by the author.

Saratoga Snapper (Charlie Bradshaw Mystery)

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Saratoga Snapper (Charlie Bradshaw Mystery)
Stephen Dobyns
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0670810592

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With his detective agency facing hard times, Charlie Bradshaw moonlights as night manager at a Saratoga Springs hotel. Victor, his partner, snaps pictures of the happy tourists. But not all the tourists are happy with this self-styled Saratoga Snapper.

When one "candid" subject runs Victor down and steals his camera, Charlie gets caught up in a dangerous scheme worthy of Saratoga's colorful past. It proves that passions still roil in this quiet resort town.

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