Resultados para "The Festival" en Literatura y ficción

At turns funny and strangely sobering, this “found memoir” is a picaresque tale of inspired, heroic deceit, incompetence, and - just possibly - triumph. Follow the flailing escapades of maverick music manager Campbell Ouiniette at the Calgary Folk Festival, as he leaves a trail of empty liquor bottles, cigarette butts, bruised egos, and obliterated relationships behind him. His top headlining act has abandoned him for the Big Time. In a fit of self-delusion or pure genius (or perhaps a bit of both), Ouiniette devises an intricate scam....

It's 2006 in the fictional East London borough of Leytonstow. The UK’s pub smoking ban is about to happen, and 38-and-a-half year old John Torrington, a mopper and trolley collector at his local DIY store, is secretly in love with the stylish, beautiful, and middle-class barmaid Lois. John and his hapless, strange, and down-on-their-luck friends, Gabby Longfeather and Glyn Hopkins, live in Clements Markham House - a semi-derelict Edwardian villa divided into unsanitary bedsits, and (mis)managed by the shrewd, Dickensian business man, Mr Kapoor.

A Bud & Lou Festival is a hilarious collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the Abbott & Costello comedy team - written, produced, and performed by Joe Bev. Bonus tracks feature remastered episodes of their radio broadcasts.

A Jack Benny Festival is a hilariously historically apocryphal collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the world’s stingiest man—written, produced, and performed by Joe Bev. With Mary Livingston, Rochester, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Mel Blanc, Frank Nelson and the Sportsmen Quartet and special guest stars Paul Revere, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Jerry Colonna, Johnny Dollar, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Bonus tracks feature remastered recordings of Benny himself.

A Stan & Ollie Festival is a hilarious collection of tributes, parodies and rarities of the Laurel & Hardy comedy team-written, produced and performed by Joe Bev. Bonus tracks feature remastered clips of their classic performances on radio, stage and screen. Included in this set: "For the Freedom of the World", "Fatherland Security Officers", "A Pilgrim's Progress", "The Courtship of Miles Standish", "Ollie Ox and Stanley Frog", "For the Birds", "Deconstructing Laurel and Hardy", "Knuclear Knuckleheads", "Mr. Slater's Poultry Market", and more.

The man was worried the purple dot wouldn’t be enough.

One of The Washington Post’s 50 Best Works of Fiction of 2023 A New York Times Editors’ Choice One of Them’s Best Books of 2023 One of Crimereads Best Crime Novels of 2023 “Theranos but make it gay.” —Electric Literature Best friends (and occasional lovers) Ezra and Orson are...