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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: Scatman Crothers, Carole Lombard, Janet Jackson, James Baskett, Steve Mcqueen, Burl Ives, Michael Rosenbaum, Dolores Fuller, the Amazing Criswell, Brook Kerr, Clifton Webb, Louise Dresser, Phil Harris, James Dean, Lane Sisters, Karen Mcdougal, Red Skelton, Karl Malden, Jean Shepherd, Sydney Pollack, Irene Dunne, Avery Brooks, Brendan Fraser, Alex Karras, Anne Baxter, Marilyn Miller, Vivica A. Fox, Shelley Long, Dick York, Greg Kinnear, Doug Jones, Will Geer, Dee Bradley Baker, Fred Williamson, Florence Henderson, Patrick Mcvey, Jo Anne Worley, Embeth Davidtz, Richard Bennett, Marjorie Main, Lurene Tuttle, Jared Fogle, Anissa Jones, Forrest Tucker, Tom Harmon, Steve Burton, David Canary, Mike Epps, Strother Martin, Alice Terry, John Hubbard, Hoosier Hot Shots, Jim Gaffigan, Harry Benham, William Marshall, Chad Everett, Carly Schroeder, Charles Butterworth, Bill Thompson, Robert Paige, Valeska Surratt, Mary Jane Croft, Buck Jones, Tex Terry, Betsy Palmer, Dan Butler, Joyce Dewitt, Peter Reckell, Helen Holmes, Louise Fazenda, Paul Spicer, Abraham Benrubi, Victor Potel, Drake Hogestyn, Jake Lloyd, Dean Jagger, Peter Lupus, Anita King, Ann Christy, Andrew Duggan, Nicole Anderson, Philip Proctor, Jean Hagen, Denny Miller, Marilyn Maxwell, Kermit Maynard, Herb Shriner, Ken Maynard, James Sloyan, John Bromfield, Michael Warren, Tammy Lynn Michaels, Ron Glass, Vincent Ventresca, Harry Von Zell, Jill Bennett, John Bowers, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Timothy Brown, James Rebhorn, Elmo Lincoln, Joe Keaton, Dan Resin, Kate Bruce, Terry Lester, Allan Lane, Dreya Weber, Aj Alexander, Norman Foster, Anthony Montgomery, Leon Ames, Ken Kercheval, Kristina Wagner, Ann Hovey, Robert Keith, Gretchen Cryer, Monte Blue, Alvy Moore, Steve Talley, Robert Rusler, Michael Michele, Anthony Caruso, Max Terhune, Er... ... Read more

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Michael Owen Rosenbaum (born July 11, 1972) is anAmerican actor. He is best known for portraying LexLuthor on the Superman-inspired television seriesSmallville, and for portraying the Flash in the DCanimated universe. Rosenbaum has also done film andother voiceover work.Rosenbaum was born inOceanside, New York and raised in Newburgh, Indiana.He is Jewish and was "closer to religion" in NewYork than in Indiana. Rosenbaum graduated fromCastle High School in Indiana and from WesternKentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky,where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilonfraternity, with a degree in theatre arts.Immediately after, he moved to New York City topursue an acting career. ... Read more

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Chapters: People From Evansville, Indiana, People From New Harmony, Indiana, Don Mattingly, Michael Rosenbaum, Louise Dresser, John Hostettler, Robert Owen, Mike Warnke, Bob Griese, Alvin Peterson Hovey, Avery Brooks, George Rapp, Marilyn Miller, Brad Ellsworth, Josiah Warren, Henry S. Johnston, Sean Bennett, Scott Rolen, Roger Mobley, Suzanne Crouch, William Maclure, Conrad Baker, Belford Hendricks, Geno Washington, Elbert Frank Cox, Chic Anderson, Jay Buente, Kevin Hardy, Brad Brownell, Edwin Denby, Bob Hamilton, Thomas Say, George W. Mccrary, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Budd Boetticher, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Dax Riggs, John Henry Waddell, Leroy Charles Hodapp, Fred Rose, John B. Conaway, Scott Cannon, Jace Everett, Robert Dale Owen, George Washington Buckner, Chris Lowery, Halston, Rudy Charles, Josh Tudela, Dave Schellhase, Calbert Cheaney, Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr., Robert D. Orr, Gary R. Pfingston, Mary Fendrich Hulman, William A. Koch, Brother Jim, Jamey Carroll, Emmanuel Boleslaus Ledvina, Andy Benes, Patrick Clark, Boots Randolph, Matt Mauck, Ron Glass, Pete Fox, Deke Cooper, Cheryl Musgrave, Jack Weil, James Kisner, Jeff Overton, Steve Klein, Walter Mccarty, Charles Denby, Jr., Franklin Barlow Sexton, John W. Foster, John Roach Straton, Aj Alexander, Henry Babcock Veatch, Jami Stallings, Lafayette Lane, Allen Buchanan, Heath Phillips, Albion Fellows Bacon, Preston Mattingly, Ann Hovey, Gene Miller, Michael Michele, Paul Splittorff, Jay Riemersma, Luke Drone, Jeff Schulz, Timmy Thomas, Anthony Deydier, David Horsey, Scott Studwell, Marguerite Young, Karl Kae Knecht, Alan Benes, Linda L. M. Bennett, Barbara D. Underwood, Ray Ryan, Ruth Siems, Bob Kercher, Diane Drufenbrock, Sallie Wyatt Stewart, Joe Cook, Gerald Troost, Bob Hargrave, William Heilman, William F. Parrett, John W. Boehne, Jr., John Barnhill, Marcia Yockey, John H. Foster, Sid Catlett, George K. Denton, David Emge, Vaneta Becker, Dennis Avery, Nea...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6701696 ... Read more

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Chapters: People From Evansville, Indiana, Don Mattingly, Michael Rosenbaum, Louise Dresser, John Hostettler, Mike Warnke, Bob Griese, Avery Brooks, Marilyn Miller, Brad Ellsworth, Henry S. Johnston, Sean Bennett, Scott Rolen, Roger Mobley, Suzanne Crouch, Conrad Baker, Belford Hendricks, Geno Washington, Elbert Frank Cox, Chic Anderson, Jay Buente, Kevin Hardy, Brad Brownell, Edwin Denby, Bob Hamilton, George W. Mccrary, Budd Boetticher, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Dax Riggs, John Henry Waddell, Leroy Charles Hodapp, Fred Rose, John B. Conaway, Scott Cannon, Jace Everett, George Washington Buckner, Chris Lowery, Halston, Rudy Charles, Josh Tudela, Dave Schellhase, Calbert Cheaney, Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr., Robert D. Orr, Gary R. Pfingston, Mary Fendrich Hulman, William A. Koch, Brother Jim, Jamey Carroll, Emmanuel Boleslaus Ledvina, Andy Benes, Patrick Clark, Boots Randolph, Matt Mauck, Ron Glass, Pete Fox, Deke Cooper, Cheryl Musgrave, Jack Weil, James Kisner, Jeff Overton, Steve Klein, Walter Mccarty, Charles Denby, Jr., John W. Foster, John Roach Straton, Aj Alexander, Henry Babcock Veatch, Jami Stallings, Lafayette Lane, Allen Buchanan, Heath Phillips, Albion Fellows Bacon, Preston Mattingly, Gene Miller, Michael Michele, Paul Splittorff, Jay Riemersma, Billy Hillenbrand, Luke Drone, Jeff Schulz, Timmy Thomas, Anthony Deydier, David Horsey, Scott Studwell, Karl Kae Knecht, Alan Benes, Linda L. M. Bennett, Barbara D. Underwood, Ray Ryan, Ruth Siems, Bob Kercher, Diane Drufenbrock, Sallie Wyatt Stewart, Joe Cook, Bob Hargrave, William Heilman, William F. Parrett, John W. Boehne, Jr., John Barnhill, Marcia Yockey, John H. Foster, Sid Catlett, George K. Denton, David Emge, Vaneta Becker, Dennis Avery, Neal Doughty, Philip H. Hayes, Matt Williams, Trent Van Haaften, Quinton Gibson, Arad Mccutchan, Jean Garrigue, Phil Hoy, James Lockhart, Gail Riecken, Clark Kimberling, Paul Osborn, Bob Buck, James S. Harlan, Bob Deig, Wil...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6701696 ... Read more

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Jewish voices challenge the terms of the Israel/Palestine debate.In A Time to Speak Out, a collection of strong Jewish voices come together to explore some of the most challenging issues facing diaspora Jews. With articles on such topics as international law, the Holocaust, varieties of Zionism, self-hatred, the multiplicity of Jewish identities, and human rights, these essays provide powerful evidence of the vitality of independent Jewish opinion as well as demonstrating that criticism of Israel has a crucial role to play in the continuing history of a Jewish concern for social justice. At once sober and radical, A Time To Speak Out reclaims an often intemperate debate for those both inside and outside Israel who prefer to confront uncomfortable truths.

Nearly all contributors were associated with the Independent Jewish Voices declaration which, when launched in Britain in 2007, opened a floodgate of responses. Independent Jewish Voices is a group of Jews in Britain from diverse backgrounds, occupations and affiliations who have in common a strong commitment to social justice and universal human rights. ... Read more

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A courageous, important declaration
My own view is, 231 years on from the American Revolution, 219 years after the French Revolution and 218 years on from the death of Emperor Joseph II, the terms `Jew', `Jewish' and `Jewry' should be reserved for adherents to Judaism, as `Christians', `Muslims', `Hindus' and `Buddhists' are reserved for adherents to those faiths. However, few, if any, of the 21 contributors to this sparkling collection of essays would agree. Some are religious (one is a rabbi), most are secular, some are Zionists, many not, two are Americans, two South Africans, two Australians, one a Swede, one an Iraqi, the others British, but all are proudly, resolutely Jews. They belong to Independent Jewish Voices, launched by Harold Pinter, Mark Leigh, Stephen Fry, Zoe Wanamaker, Eric Hobsbawn, Geoffrey Bindman, Nicole Farhi and others on 5 February 2007, and these essays are their testimonials. As Jews, they feel compelled to reject theclaim of successive Israeli governments and self-appointed `community leaders' such as the Board of Deputies, American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee, American Jewish Committee, Council of Australian Jewry and World Jewish Conference to repre¬sent them.

They have been criticized for `acting to deprive Israel of its means of defence'. `Legitimate self-defence', counters Jeremy Montagu, sometime president of West Central Liberal Synagogue, `does not mean oppressing a whole community or people. It does not mean demolishing their houses. Nor does it mean uprooting their olive trees, something that is specifically forbidden in the Torah (Deuteronomy 20:19-20). It does not mean preventing them and their children from getting to hospitals or subjecting them to humiliation. When I, as a Jew, see such things happening, how can I not speak out?'

They are told that they should be `ashamed to be Jewish'. `If they are ashamed of anything,' Anthony Isaacs counters, `it is of what is being done purportedly in their name.' Labelling Israel's critics as `Jews for genocide', malshinim (informers), `anti-Semites' and `self-hating Jews', adds Richard Kuper, are attempts `to reframe the debate' by rendering criticism suspect before it is voiced. Criticism `should be evaluated on the basis of evidence put forward', not on the presumed motivation of the critics.

They believe that the `Israel right or wrong' polemic of Alan Dershowitz, Melanie Phillips and other `ideologues' of the Zionist right serves neither Israel's nor Jewry's interest. Conflating Israel and Jews `spill[s] over into unjustifiable attacks on Jews as a whole.' They `find themselves increasingly the object of scorn, or worse.' `Have we forgotten?' asks Jeremy Montagu?

The South African contributor Gillian Slovo perhaps best sums up the view of the brave Jews who have spoken out in this book. `The tradition of ethics in which I was brought up says that it is not enough for you, and the people you love, to be safe and comfortable. It says that you must not close your eyes to the pain of others just because they do not have the same colour of skin, or the same religion, or the same ethnic background as you. It says that to argue against the injustice of Palestinians being walled into enclaves, or against the way that circum¬stances of birth dictate which roads can be travelled and which passes carried, or to point to parallels with apartheid, is not knee-jerk antisemitism [sic] (or self-hatred). Rather it is the respon¬sibility we all have to make an effort to ensure equality and justice for everybody. It is for this reason that I am happy to be part of the Independent Jewish Voices initiative.'
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thoughtful and compassionate tale
The story is a novel one: THE BUDDHA IN NEW YORK, for a day, who moves around the island & beyond Manhattan with the people he meets and teaches along the way. The novel gets a little plotty sometimes, but then there will be a little epigram, a little teaching, an opening of the heart, that brings the book & reader back to center.
Read carefully: there is wisdom here.
& Bud's leave taking at the end of the day is so right.
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Boasting a veritable menagerie of characters, including dancing instructors, pies, and talking parrots, and written in the Franco-Italian storytelling tradition, The Three Fat Men is considered an absolute endorsement of the Communist regime. Revolution is brewing outside the palace walls, and the three fat men who rule the land with an iron fist are getting fatter as the news gets worse. Led by the tightrope walker Tibul, the revolutionary forces, made up of ordinary citizens and the palace guard, embark on a mission to rescue Prospero the gunsmith from his imprisonment in the tyrants’ zoo, and to save the life of brave young circus girl Suok, who has been unmasked from her disguise as the favorite doll of the childless men’s heir, Tutti.

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Magical, engaging, different
I read this book as a child, and found it memorable and engrossing, with wonderful illustrations. It was quite different from any of the other children's books available - the folk tales and fairy-tale, the Blytons and Nancy Drews. I picked up another copy years later - not nearly as attractively produced, but still a wonderful book. I'd strongly recommend this for boys and girls of 9 upward.

Stunning despite being part of the Soviet propaganda canon
Yes, this is an ideological piece written to glamorise the Soviet revolution etc etc, but in reality, it's a great book that can be enjoyed by anyone from children that are old enough to appreciate the idea of justice (quite early).

Set in a fictional, magical Italian-type world, the tale tells of a revolution in a country that is ruled by a greedy and immoral aristocracy (that indulges opulently while the populace starves) headed by the Three Fat Men. The men have a young boy Tutti who they are raising as their heir. To make him cruel they forbid contact with children allowing him only a doll for a companion and they build a zoo with wild animals so that he learns cruelty.

The book begins with the capture and encagement of the revolutionary Prospero and the breaking of Tutti's doll. Enter the elderly Dr Gaspar and a bunch of ordinary extraordinary people whose lives are brought together in this crucial moment in the life of the country.

An absurd and story with elements of the tragic, feels timeless and is a great read for all.

just fantastic
this is the most fantastic book i have ever read. i had read this book when i was just 10 and i used to read this book twice a month. the most important feaure of this book is that the reader is completely absorbed in this book from beginnin to end. dr. gasper is very interesting character. he can do anything. suok is so beatiful and adventurous. the struggle against three fat men is described in the best possible interesting manner.

this book is responsible for making me so adventurous. after reading this book i tried to walk on rope ( as suok does this with perfection) .

i recommend this book as the best birthday gift for any child.

A Revolutionary Fairy Tale
Many praise Olesha's "Envy", but I prefer "The Three Fat Men" to it, firstly, because it is better written and, secondly, because "Envy" deals with the reality of post-Revolution Russia, which is as rough as a piece of emery paper, whereas "The Three Fat Men" is a fairy tail describing a magical world. There is little magical, however, in "The Three Fat Men", the fairy tail is basically a revolutionary pathos about destruction of the old and creation of the new. It is written in a very cheerful spirit, mostly imitating old French and Italian tale-tellers. It is not for no reason that settings, names of characters seem French and Italian. Even though "The Three Fat Men" was written under the author's impression of the Soviet revolt of 1917, it bears no mark of pro-communism or any other political orientation. Therefore, it should be enjoyed by children of all countries. ... Read more