Author: Charles Elton Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 1683359925 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 473
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The first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided filmmaker Michael Cimino—and a reevaluation of the infamous film that destroyed his career The director Michael Cimino (1939–2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam movie The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1979 and also won Cimino Best Director, and Heaven’s Gate, the most notorious bomb of all time. Originally budgeted at $11 million, Cimino’s sprawling western went off the rails in Montana. The picture grew longer and longer, and the budget ballooned to over $40 million. When it was finally released, Heaven’s Gate failed so completely with reviewers and at the box office that it put legendary studio United Artists out of business and marked the end of Hollywood's auteur era. Or so the conventional wisdom goes. Charles Elton delves deeply into the making and aftermath of the movie and presents a surprisingly different view to that of Steven Bach, one of the executives responsible for Heaven’s Gate, who wrote a scathing book about the film and solidified the widely held view that Cimino wounded the movie industry beyond repair. Elton’s Cimino is a richly detailed biography that offers a revisionist history of a lightning rod filmmaker. Based on extensive interviews with Cimino’s peers and collaborators and enemies and friends, most of whom have never spoken before, it unravels the enigmas and falsehoods, many perpetrated by the director himself, which surround his life, and sheds new light on his extraordinary career. This is a story of the making of art, the business of Hollywood, and the costs of ambition, both financial and personal.
Author: T. Rafael Cimino Publisher: Akula Media Group ISBN: 9780615305738 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 422
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Mid Ocean is a Novel of fiction by Author T. Rafael Cimino and is about the war on drugs as it occurs in South Florida in the year 1984.Joel Kenyon has lived in his father's shadow for most of his life. Even after his Dad's death, the man's powerful legacy still haunts him at every turn. As he graduates from the U. S. Custom's Academy, Joel is assigned strategic duty in the 'bad-lands' of U. S. drug enforcement, the Florida Keys. Set in 1984, Mid Ocean shows the lives of the sometimes violent drug smugglers and the men and women sworn to uphold the law in this Caribbean 'wild west'. In the end, Joel Kenyon will question everyone, including himself in a quest for what's right and true. It is here that he will find out the sea holds many secrets.
Author: Al Cimino Publisher: Arcturus Publishing ISBN: 1784281123 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 212
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The ramifications of the Manhattan Project are still with us to this day. The atomic bombs that came out of it brought an end to the war in the Pacific, but at a heavy loss of life in Japan and the opening of a Pandora's box that has tested international relations. This book traces the history of the Manhattan Project, from the first glimmerings of the possibility of such a catastrophic weapon to the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It profiles the architects of the bomb and how they tried to reconcile their personal feelings with their ambition as scientists. It looks at the role of the politicians and it includes first-hand accounts of those who experienced the effects of the bombings.
Author: Edward H. Shortliffe Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0387362789 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 1038
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This book focuses on the role of computers in the provision of medical services. It provides both a conceptual framework and a practical approach for the implementation and management of IT used to improve the delivery of health care. Inspired by a Stanford University training program, it fills the need for a high quality text in computers and medicine. It meets the growing demand by practitioners, researchers, and students for a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the field. Completely revised and expanded, this work includes several new chapters filled with brand new material.
Author: Scott Cimino Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781074170028 Category : Languages : en Pages : 255
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Dr. Cimino utilized the power of hormones to lose 116 pounds in 6 months. No calorie counting. No exercise. Just pure fat-melting power. On the Dr. Cimino Weight Loss Solution: Eat Rich and Delicious Foods Without Calorie Counting or Macronutrient Counting Learn Which Foods Directly Lead to Obesity and How to Avoid Them Learn to Harness the Power of Insulin and Glucagon to Lose Weight Effortlessly Retake Control of Your Natural Hormonal Weight Loss Mechanisms Decrease Hunger Levels Like Never Before Fix Blood Glucose Levels and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes From the Author: Greetings! My name is Dr. Scott Cimino. I am a physician and type 1 diabetic. At age 34, I weighed 302 pounds. After 15 years of obesity, I had tried every diet and exercise program known to man. Each worked for a while, but then my weight loss slowed down, and ultimately, I failed. After watching the same cycle happen to my patients, I decided to attack the problem of obesity from a different direction. What is the actual science of obesity? What if obesity is not caused by too much food and too little exercise? What if the problem stems from something Americans have changed in our diet? After all, almost no one was obese in the 1960s. Today, nearly half of us are obese. If obesity can be traced to a cause, then it can also present a cure! Inside you will find the hormonal key to effortless fat-burning. This program will cause you to lose weight like nothing you have experienced before. I know, because I did it! If you have pounds to shed, and would like to understand the scientific reasons behind your weight, then welcome to the Dr. Cimino Weight Loss Solution. I can't wait for you to get started!
Author: Al Cimino Publisher: Arcturus Publishing ISBN: 1788284178 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 190
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Organized crime is perhaps the most fascinating phenomenon of our time. From Al Capone, who boldly claimed his bootlegging activities were a public service, to the flamboyant Teflon Don, the criminals of the underworld have garnered headlines and captured our imagination with their violent and extravagant lifestyles. Mafia Crimes is an absorbing introduction to the mob's most influential personalities - their lives, loves and terrible crimes. It also provides and in-depth history of the role of the Mob in Sicily and America. For anyone who wants to know the truth about organized crime and understand the violent forces that have shaped it over the last century, this book is an indispensable guide.
Author: Luciana Cimino Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 1647001013 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 154
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A visual biography of the groundbreaking investigative journalist Born in 1864, Nellie Bly was a woman who did not allow herself to be defined by the time she lived in, she rewrote the narrative and made her own way. Luciana Cimino’s meticulously researched graphic-novel biography tells Bly’s story through Miriam, a fictionalized female student at the Columbia School of Journalism in 1921. While interviewing the famous journalist, Miriam learns not only about Bly's more sensational adventures, but also about her focus on self-reliance from an early age, the scathing letter to the editor that jump-started her career as a newspaper columnist, and her dedication to the empowerment of women. In fact, in 1884, Bly was one of the few journalists who interviewed Belva Ann Lockwood, who was the first woman candidate for a presidential election—a contest that was ultimately won by Grover Cleveland—and Bly predicted correctly that women would not get the vote until 1920. Of course Bly’s most well-known exploits are also covered—how she pretended to be mad in order to get institutionalized so she could carry out an undercover investigation in an insane asylum, and Bly's greatest feat of all, her journey around the world in 72 days—alone—which was unthinkable for a woman in the late 19th century. As Miriam learns more of Bly's story, she realizes that the most important stories are necessarily the ones with the most dramatic headlines, but the ones that, in Nellie’s words, “come from a deep feeling.” This beautifully executed graphic novel paints a portrait of a woman who defied societal expectations—not only with her investigative journalism, but with her keen mind for industry, and her original inventions.
Author: Al Cimino Publisher: Arcturus Publishing ISBN: 1839409185 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 290
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The FBI estimate that there are between 25 and 50 serial killers at large in the USA at any given time. But the truth is few people kill. We occasionally say we could kill someone, but that is usually hyperbole. Most of us can imagine what it might be like to be driven to a senseless act of violence in an unendurable situation. To kill once is one thing; to kill over and over again is quite another. What drives these people who kill and kill again? Are they evil or are they mad? Serial killing is a worldwide phenomenon and no two killers are alike. Each one comes with a grisly though compelling tale that takes the reader to the darkest reaches of the human psyche.
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