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August 1989: Jamie Kennedy arrives in Los Angeles from his home in suburban Pennsylvania with grand plans of becoming a professional extra. He's determined to make it in Hollywood even if it kills him - which it very nearly does. Soon he's caught up in the desperate underbelly of showbusiness: playing Bart Simpson at kids' birthday parties while they pelt him with apples; appearing as a Jerry Lewis strip-a-gram; and auditioning for the part of a dancing yolk in the California Fresh Eggs campaign. But there's even worse to come. After a disastrous stint at RADA (during which he is forced to steal food from the buttery), having his kidney removed, being mugged for his trousers and sharing a flat with a homicidal nutcase, Jamie winds up sleeping in his car. He's got two choices: quit and go back to Pennsylvania, or come up with a cunning plan. Ingeniously, Jamie invents fictional agent "Marty Power" in a last-ditch attempt to kickstart his acting career; Jamie plays the roles of agent, personal assistant and even courier, and incredibly the trick pays off. Soon, half the casting agents in Hollywood are claiming to be old friends of Marty's.His big break - a small role in Baz Luhrman's "Romeo + Juliet" - leads to a string of appearances in hit films such as "Scream", "As Good As It Gets" and "Three Kings". Now Jamie has producers knocking on his door, rather than the other way round, and he's commissioned to write and star in his own hidden camera show, "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment". He's made it at last - after ten long, painful years. "Wannabe" is the story of how he survived. ... Read more

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good read
This is a very interesting story about JK's path through the entertainment biz. It is very well written and fun to read. The stories ring true and JKs personality seems to come through. I've enjoyed the JK Experiment series a lot, so it's a treat to find out more about who he is. Definitely recommended for anyone who has seen his show.

WANNABE GREAT READ!!!!!!
i LOVED jAMIES BOOK WANNABE I COULDNT PUT IT DOWN. I HOPE HE WRITES ANOTHER BOOK TO CONTINUE WHERE HE LEFT OFF. I TOLD ALL MY FRIENDS THEY HAVE TO READ IT THATS HAVE MUCH I ENJOYED THE BOOK.

This is a very enjoyable read!
I watched his show JKX for a few seasons and my wife and I found the show to be VERY funny. The best bits are the folks who apply for the paper delivery job and the skit with the driving instructor. In my opinion the all time best was when he had the mexican day laborers over for his birthday party.
Anyway, this book shows the struggles and nonsense that he went through before getting on TV. It is well written and doesn't really gloss over the nonsense he had to put up with.And there is a message in here but you'll have to read the book

A fun book.
I really enjoyed reading about Jamie Kennedy trying to make it in Hollywood, it was years of humiliating jobs, and lots of money down the drain on get famous quick scams, but he clawed his way to the middle, and planted his flag.

I have to admit, I wonder how truthful some of his stories really are, but I'm sure he told it as he really remembered it. I really admire him for having a dream, and making it happen.

He also spins some funny stories about his encounters with celebrities, my favorite was when he was working at Red Lobster, and Arsenio Hall came in, at first he didn't recognize him, and told him there were no tables available, and then recognized him, and got really excited, and then Arsenio asked if he had a table for him now, and Jamie said, "no". Funny stuff, definately worth a read.

A must read!
Outstanding!What a life he has had so far.This book is not only hilarious, but it makes you believe that nothing is impossible no matter how many times you get knocked down. ... Read more

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Renowned Toronto chef Jamie Kennedy has been heralded as one of the forerunners of contemporary Canadian cuisine. In Jamie Kennedy's Seasons, he presents innovative recipes featuring seasonal ingredients that celebrate the produce of Canada and the food it inspires. From aspiring chef to sophisticated food aficionado, every cook will delight in preparing --and savouring-- dishes such as Piquant Grilled Salmon, Wild Leek Tartlet, and Orange Salad with Cocoa Sorbet.

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Absolutely Fantastic!!!
Jamie uses the four seasons to introduce us to all the wonderful and abundant produce we have in our diverse country. His cooking methods and tips will amaze you, and the results will satisfy even the most discerning foodie. I highly recommend this book for those who appreciate food and most of all Canadian food , especially fresh, local ingredients when in season. A must have for any cook's library and kitchen. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ani Phyo, Andrew George, Jr., Patrick Lin, Greg Brooks, Vanessa le Page, Luke Hayes Alexander, Jamie Kennedy, Guy Rubino, Sam Zien, Sarah Kramer, Stefan Kuhn, Lesley Stowe, Bronwen Weber. Excerpt: Ani Phyo (born July 17, 1968) is an organic eco chef, author, whole food and sustainable agriculture advocate and founder of SmartMonkey Foods. Phyos book, Anis Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Food Recipes published by Marlowe ... Read more

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Chapters: Craig Mackie, Shannon Kleibrink, Jeff Stoughton, Stefanie Lawton, Marc Kennedy, Jamie Korab, Sherry Middaugh, Dawn Askin, Cathy King, Marie-France Larouche, Lorraine Lang, Mark Nichols, Mark Dacey, Amy Nixon, Jill Officer, Susan O'connor, Kelley Law, Carter Rycroft, Mabel Deware, Ève Bélisle, Krista Mccarville, Kathy O'rourke, Craig Savill, Sherry Anderson, Rob Harris, Ernie Richardson, Charley Thomas, Melanie Robillard, Sandra Jenkins, Guy Hemmings, Richard Hart, Joan Mccusker, Mike Harris, Brent Laing, Chris Daw, Mike Adam, Bronwen Webster, Janet Harvey, Ryan Fry, Carol Whitaker, Jon Mead, Chelsey Bell, Nancy Bélanger, Suzanne Birt, Scott Patterson, Marco Berthelot, Glenys Bakker, Don Bartlett, Don Walchuk, Doug Maxwell, Scott Pfeifer, Robyn Macphee, Paul Flemming, Bruce Lohnes, Steve Gould, Marcel Rocque, Andrew Gibson, Maureen Bonar, Darrell Mckee, Don Duguid, Mary-Anne Arsenault, Marcia Gudereit, Greg Mcaulay, Pierre Charette, Anne Merklinger, Sonja Gaudet, Randy Dutiaume, Darryl Neighbour, Ken Watson, Janet Arnott, Shelley Nichols, Carrie Lindner, Jeanna Schraeder, Peter Gallant, Christine Keshen, Martin Ferland, Lynsay Ryan, Ed Lukowich, Joëlle Sabourin, Lana Vey, Hans Wuthrich, Meredith Harrison, Mark O'rourke, Steve Laycock, Cathy Gauthier, Sasha Carter, Stefanie Clark, Mike Wood, Jamie Koe, Ron Northcott, Orest Meleschuk, Nancy Delahunt, Garry Van Den Berghe, Renee Simons, Ina Forrest, Dean Joanisse, Kim Kelly, Rick Lang, Dave Nantes, Robert Campbell. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 235. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Craig Mackie (born December 18, 1950 in Toronto) is a senior Canadian curler and radio and television personality. Craig Mackie has been curling competitively since 1964. He has curled in Ontario, the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, Alberta, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3033164 ... Read more

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This collection features eighty-six amazing recipes from Sugar Snap Pea Soup with Stilton to Black Bean and Chipotle Soup with Lime. Simple and straightforward to make, the soups are as tasty as they are nourishing. From traditional favorites with a twist to contemporary concepts, these soups will find a lasting place in your recipe repertoire-and in your heart. ... Read more

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The fourth anthology in the series from The National Poetry Slam. This is the biggest and best collection yet. Poems from Christian Drake, Beverly Wilkinson, Stephen Meads, Todd Bannon, Aaron Enskat, Michael Cirelli, Ansel Appleton, Buddy Wakefield, Corbet Dean, Alvin Lau and many more. Fifty poems from 41 poets covering the widest range imaginable of performance poetry on a wide selection of topics and styles. Something for every performance poetry lover on the planet...a LOT of something! ... Read more

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Chapters: Vera Lynn, Donald Sinden, Jamie Theakston, Troy Kennedy Martin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dame Vera Lynn, DBE (born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917) is an English singer whose career flourished during World War II. Nicknamed "The Forces' Sweetheart", the songs most associated with her are "We'll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover". Lynn was born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917, in East Ham, then in Essex, now part of Greater London. Vera Lynn went to what is now called Brampton Primary School in East Ham. Her father was a plumber and Vera Welch grew up with her parents' Cockney accent, which can still be detected when she speaks. She began singing at the age of seven in a working men's club, and later adopted her grandmother's maiden name for her stage name. Lynn's first radio broadcast was in 1935 with the Joe Loss Orchestra. She was already being featured on the records of dance bands, including those led by Loss and Charlie Kunz. She made her first solo record on the Crown label in 1936, "Upon the Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire". (The label was soon bought out by Decca.) After a short time with Loss, she sang with Kunz. Lynn then joined the dance band of Bert Ambrose. In 1940, one year after the beginning of World War II, Lynn began her own radio programme, Sincerely Yours, sending messages to British troops serving abroad. She and her quartet would perform songs most requested by the soldiers. Lynn also visited hospitals to interview new mothers and send personal messages to their husbands overseas. During the war years she would tour Egypt, India, Burma, giving outdoor concerts for the troops. In 1942, Lynn recorded the Ross Parker/Hughie Charles song "We'll Meet Again", also appearing in the film of that n...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19359797 ... Read more

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Willy the Scrub triumphs on its own terms
WILLY THE SCRUB is just the book you have been waiting for to give to your son or daughter who is interested in sports but can't find good sports books that are accessible to them. Don't be fooled by the book's seemingly simple language or by its gentle humor. In a sophisticated and engaging way, McEwan presents the world of athletics as your children know it to be: a battlefield of egos and status, a minefield of insecurities and disappointment--and yet a place where good-hearted and hard-working friends can find success and happiness.You will love the book for the refreshing and hopeful message it sends to your children.Your children will love it because it shows the world as they know it to be. They will also love the witty and insightful dialogue. Especially recommended for late-elementary school children who are reading slightly under grade level. ... Read more

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Chapters: Jamie Durie, Eddie Mcguire, Graham Kennedy, Bert Newton, Kimberley Joseph, Rove Mcmanus, Bob Dyer, Adam Hills, Daryl Somers, Andrew Günsberg, Cornelia Frances, Ian Turpie, Larry Emdur, Gretel Killeen, Tony Barber, Sandra Sully, Tim Ferguson, Tania Zaetta, Ernie Sigley, Julia Zemiro, Gordon Elliott, Mark Beretta, Red Symons, Ugly Dave Gray, Mike Goldman, Andrew O'keefe, Bree Amer, Cameron Daddo, Jesse Tobin, Bruce Gyngell, Peter Berner, Jacki Macdonald, Ian Mcfadyen, Glenn Ridge, Rob Elliott, James Kerley, John Deeks, Suze Raymond, Ed Phillips, Mal Walden, Alyce Platt, Jules Lund, Greg Evans, Frank Wilson, Andrew Harwood, John Burgess, Simon Deering, Chrissy Bray, Katrina Conder, Brodie Young, Nathaniel Buzolic, Rob Brough, Michael Pope, Shura Taft. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 219. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO (15 February 1934 25 May 2005) was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called "Gra Gra" (pronounced "grah-grah") and "The King" of Australian television. Kennedy was born in Camden Street, Balaclava to Cyril William Kennedy and Mary Austen Kennedy (née Scott). His mother, who was 18 years old at the time of his birth, was employed at a local picture theatre. His father worked variously as an engineer and handyman, mowed lawns and washed cars, and in 1939 joined the RAAF as an air gunner.His first home was a "small, crowded duplex" at 32 Nelson Street, Balaclava. A 20 cm diameter plaque was placed on the property by the City of Port Phillip, coincidentally in the week of Kennedy's death. When Kennedy was two years old, his parents moved to Carlisle Street, St Kilda for two years. His parents divorced shortly before World War II, and Kennedy was largely raised by his grandparents, "Pop" Kennedy (who had been an e...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1620133 ... Read more

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Chapters: Jamie Dixon, Kurt Thomas, Lee Nailon, Scott Brooks, Corey Santee, Dennis Nutt, Goo Kennedy, Reggie Smith. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jamie Dixon (November 10, 1965, in Burbank, California) is an American basketball head coach. Dixon has served as the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh men's basketball team since 2003. In 2009 he was the head coach for the FIBA Under-19 2009 gold-medal winning United States national basketball team for which he was named the 2009 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year. Dixon was named Big East Coach of the Year in 2004, Naismith College Coach of the Year in 2009, and Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year in 2010. Dixon played college basketball at Texas Christian University, was selected by the Washington Bullets in the 1987 NBA Draft, and played professional basketball with the Continental Basketball Association's Lacrosse Catbirds and for Hawke's Bay Hawks of the New Zealand National Basketball League. Dixon began his coaching career in 1989 as the head coach at Te Aute College, a secondary school in New Zealand, before serving as an assistant at Los Angeles Valley College from 1989-1991. He then became an assistant coach at UC-Santa Barbara and then at the University of Hawaii. Dixon then became an assistant coach to Ben Howland at Northern Arizona University and later moved to Pittsburgh as part of Howland's staff when Howland accepted the Pitt head coaching job in 1999. Dixon was promoted as Pittsburgh's head coach when Howland left for UCLA following the 200203 season. Dixon became head coach at Pitt in 2003, the only head coaching position he has ever held, and has an overall NCAA Division I record of 18854. His current 188 career wins ties the NCAA Division I record for most wi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3780784 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Kevin Martin, Marc Kennedy, Ben Hebert, John Morris, Adam Enright, Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Brad Gushue, Jamie Korab, Mike Adam. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Kevin Martin, né le 31 juillet 1966 à Killam, est un curleur canadien. ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more