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Dear Readers,
I will never forget the morning that Meinhardt Raabe's agent called me and insisted on stopping by my office that very same day. "I've got a Wizard of Oz project that you have to see to believe." From the moment I looked at Mr. Raabe's charming memoir and his remarkable collection of Oz memorabilia, I knew this would be a book unlike any that I have published.
Memories of A Munchkin, written by Meinhardt Raabe with Daniel Kinske, almost feels like three books in one.
Part one is a memoir by Raabe who stepped into film history at the age of 23 when he played the Munchkin coroner in THE WIZARD OF OZ. It's a charming and inspiring story that begins on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, moves to his appearance in a special "Midget Village" exhibit at the 1934 World's Fair and on to Hollywood. Through an agent, Raabe was cast in THE WIZARD OF OZ and much of the memoir is devoted to his account of working on the most beloved film of all time - enduring tough auditions, watching as the glorious Munchkinland set was built, putting up with long days of rehearsal, being costumed by legendary MGM designer Adrian, hob-nobbing on the set with the stars, witnessing various mishaps during filming, being visited on the set by curious Hollywood royalty such as Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable, and much more. Here, too, is Raabe's life after THE WIZARD OF OZ: His career as an accomplished pilot with the Civil Air Patrol during World War II; more than 30 years as "Little Oscar," spokesman for the Oscar Mayer ompany; his charity work and his role as advocate and kindred spirit to Little People everywhere. Mr. Raabe's memoir is lavishly illustrated with the most incredible material such as! blueprints of the Munchkinland set, Adrian's costume sketches, MGM's original Oz matte paintings, and many rare, behind-the-scenes photos from director Victor Fleming's personal scrapbook.
Part two of the book is the most complete collection of OZ movie posters and lobby cards ever published. Included are a beautiful watercolor painted by the legendary Al Hirschfeld, and the jumbo window card that was originally displayed in Mr. Raabe's hometown theater of Watertown, WI!
Part three is a collection of specially commissioned Oz art from some of the world's best-known and best-loved illustrators - people like Al Hirschfeld, Frank Frazetta, Mort Drucker, Jack Davis and Frank Kelly Freas. I especially like Ron Dias' painting of what he imagines the interior of a Munchkin house would look like, and Philo Barnhart's piece that combines the main characters of Oz with those of Snow White. Duck Edwing's piece, Hearse of a Different Color, could not be more colorful or more charming. And you won't believe all the detail - and clever humor - in Tom Bunk's piece depicting the Kansas tornado at the beginning of THE WIZARD OF OZ.
Put it all together and you have a treasure trove of Oz stories and memorabilia. No fan of this beloved Hollywood classic will want to be without Memories of A Munchkin.
Mark Glubke Senior Editor Back Stage Books
Customer Reviews:
A very charming read.......2006-07-06
As an avid Wizard of Oz fan for almost 20 years now, I've read just about every book about the making of the movie. I was beginning to feel that there was nothing more for me to learn about this movie, until I read this book. Mr. Raabe's book gives a very interesting, fresh perspective about making the film, or at least the Munchkinland sequences. His writing style is conversational, so you feel as though he's sitting right there telling you all about what it was like to be on the beautiful Munchkinland set (describing details that I had missed in my many viewings of the movie), what it was like to meet Judy Garland, and other behind-the-scenes tid-bits. His Munchkin Coroner career aside, Mr. Raabe has had a fascinating life as the original Little Oscar mascot for Oscar Mayer, and as a flight instructor for the Civil Air Patrol. In addition, there are many photos from the making of the film, which I have never seen before, as well as original art that was commisioned for this book and shows many different artists' interpretations of Oz and Munchkinland. I very highly recommend this book for any Oz fan!
One Terrific Book and Author!.......2005-09-02
Our family met Meinhardt Raabe when our daughter was born with dwarfism 24 years ago. Meinhardt is an incredible person, and he speaks from his heart, in his daily life, as well as in this book, Memories of a Munchkin: An Illustrated Walk Down the Yellow Brick Road. He speaks openly and shares his life and experiences with you as if you were sitting down right next to him. You can't help but notice his genuine caring and sincerity coming through every page as he speaks candidly of his lifetime experiences. Our family highly recommends you buy this book. It will be a family treasure for many years to come.
Excellent Book. Well Done............2005-08-04
I think of myself as a big Oz/Judy Garland fan and I think this is the best book ever written about the Munchkins. I thought I had seen every behind the scene still but I was wrong. There are many in this book that are from Mr. Raabe's collection that are new to me. I'm so happy that someone that was actually there during the making of The Wizard of Oz wrote such a complete book. I enjoyed it immensely. I would tell anyone who likes The Wizard of Oz to make sure this book is part of your collection. Thanks Mr. Raabe!
What an Oz-some book!.......2005-07-21
This book is a must-have for all Oz fans! You get a Munchkin's eye view of the filming of The Wizard of Oz. Memories of a Munchkin is jam-packed with rare photographs. It's like a feast for the eyes.
You'll come away with a new-found respect for the always charming Meinhardt Raabe. With only 9 of the original 124 Munchkins still alive, this book is a treasure. I've talked to Meinhardt in person several times and he's always so sweet. After reading this book, you'll feel as though you've met him too!
Memories of a Munchkin is full of little known trivia and fascinating tid-bids, sure to please even the most casual Oz viewer.
If you only buy 1 book this year, make it Memories of a Munchkin!
Hats off to Meinhardt Raabe for such an Oz-some book!
Really Most Sincerly .... Wonderful!.......2005-05-13
This book is a must have for any die hard(like me) fan of the 1939 film THE WIZARD OF OZ. It is brimming with never before seen pictures of the movie set, munchkins, scene direction...not to mention other movie stars of the day & lots of Judy Garland!
Meinhardt's story is both intersting & compelling, he's a sweetheart!
Don't miss out...buy this book TODAY!
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This in-depth musicological and critical study examines how Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo plays a crucial role in the articulation and development of the film's narrative and how it affects readings of the film. Herrmann's collaboration with Hitchcock spanned eleven years and nine films, and Herrmann's film score for Vertigo is widely regarded as being one of his finest. Cooper considers the development of Herrmann's career up to 1958, providing a detailed discussion of his musical style. The explicit information about the structure of Herrmann's music is based on a study of Herrmann's autograph score. Cooper examines not only the context of the film's production, but also its reception and critical readings of the film. In addition, this study explores how the effects track co-operates with Herrmann's non-diegetic and diegetic score and concludes with a detailed musicological study. The author advances a new theory, in his discussion of signification, about the establishment of meaning in film music through association with images on the screen. This sophisticated musicological approach will appeal to film music and film communication scholars.
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This digital document is an article from Cineaste, published by Cineaste Publishers, Inc. on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1291 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo: A Film Score Handbook. (Book Reviews). (book review)
Author: Royal S. Brown
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Date: June 22, 2002
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Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo: A Film Score Handbook. (Book Reviews: Genre Studies). (book review): An article from: Notes
Robert Kosovsky
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Title: Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo: A Film Score Handbook. (Book Reviews: Genre Studies). (book review)
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BradyGames’ Dragon Quest VIII Official Strategy Guide includes the following:
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A walkthrough highlighting various aspects of the gameplay.
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Detailed maps of every region.
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Thorough coverage of all characters, spells, skills and items.
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Expert boss strategies to defeat even the toughest boss monster, and ultimately Dhoulmagus.
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In-depth bestiary of all monsters.
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Signature Series guide includes an exclusive poster, bonus content and more!
Platform: PlayStation 2
Genre: Role-Playing Game
This product is available for sale in North America only.
Customer Reviews:
Great Buy.......2007-09-22
As strategy guides go, this one couldn't have been done much better. Graphically, the paper and coloring is great, but if you're expecting a ton of colorful Toriyama concept art you might be disappointed. As a reference it's one of the most useful I've purchased, and because Dragon Quest VIII is such a huge game, it really came in handy. Upon the first day using it I had already received alot of useful information I would have otherwise missed. Although not necessary to complete the storyline, this is an extremely useful resource for anyone trying to get the most out of their game.
another brady junk.......2007-05-17
just as most of their strategy guides, they use "no spoilers" as an excuse to NOT give you a lot of information. If you go by the stragy guide only, you will end up missing a lot of interesting places. There are much better walkthrus online, and free, too.
I buy a stragy guide for every RPG I own. The sole reason is to collect the artwork.
It's all right.......2007-04-11
I like the maps in the book and the alchemy list, but I was hoping for more of a walk-through.
dungeon_maps_only.......2007-02-27
this book simply dosen't tell you what to do. It provides maps and alchemy formulas only. For instance, I was in the libray about 20 hrs into the game. The book should have simply said what book to examine but it dosen't. The maps are okay, but the dungeons are usually smaller. The alchemy formulas are handy, but finding the items needed to make them are tedious. Right, now I have the ship and instead of telling you where to go, it provides a synapsis of the next town. Cross refercing it with the map it is usefull. Just be prepared to be frustrated that there are gaps in the walkthrough.
Keyword: Strategy GUIDE.......2007-01-05
This is not the usual spoiler-ridden, hand-holding walkthrough people have come to expect. This guide is just that: a guide. It gives you the maps, the items, the alchemy lists, the weapons/armors but it doesn't tell you every little thing you need to do. It tells you where treasures are, but not what's in them. It shows you who you need to talk to to forward the story but not how to go about doing it. It says where the quest occurs, but not what you need to do to complete it (though it will give you hints). This is what more guides should be like: supplementary material to flesh out the quest, not a book that plays the game for you.
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"Save yourself ten years of hard work. Read Brian's powerful book and let him show you the shortcut to success. He'll show you the fastest way for you to get rich."
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"Millions of people start with nothing and become wealthy as the result of doing certain things in a certain way, over and over again. This book by Brian Tracy shows you how you can achieve all your financial goals, starting from wherever you are today."
-Jack Canfield coauthor, Chicken Soup for the Soul(r) series and The Success Principles
"This is the only book you need to read to become wealthy! It is loaded with practical ideas and strategies to propel you onwards and upwards."
-Nido Qubein Chairman, Great Harvest Bread Company, and founder, National Speakers Association Foundation
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"Brian Tracy shows you how unlimited wealth starts in the mind, and how anyone can focus their time and energy to earn millions. It's the readable, riveting primer for countless new American fortunes."
-Peter Montoya CEO, Peter Montoya Inc.
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How to get rich from the author of the BusinessWeek bestseller Create Your Own Future
The strategies, techniques, and methods for achieving financial independence practiced by more than 95 percent of Americans who go from rags to riches in one generation-from the author of the BusinessWeek bestseller Create Your Own Future.
Getting Rich Your Own Way shows you how to reach your financial goals, starting from wherever you are, and in any situation. This book outlines and explains practical, proven, fast-acting processes and principles that have been used by men and women throughout America and across the world to move from financial frustration to success and affluence.
This is the most complete and comprehensive approach to wealth building ever put down in a single book. Getting Rich Your Own Way starts at the beginning and shows people how to get out of debt and start building a financial account. The reader then learns how millions of affluent people have achieved their financial goals through entrepreneurship, real estate, stock market investing, successful careers and professions, and selling. The reader learns how to start wherever he/she is, move ahead more rapidly in his/her job, and begin accumulating the financial means necessary to springboard into wealth in one generation.
Brian Tracy (Solana Beach, CA) is the Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a consulting and training organization based in Solana Beach, California. He has made more than one million dollars in seven different industries, including sales, marketing, distribution, importation, training, real estate development, and the Internet. He addresses more than 250,000 people each year on subjects such as business and personal success, sales and sales management, leadership, creativity, and personal effectiveness. Tracy is also the author of the top selling Wiley books Create Your Own Future (0-471-25107-0) and Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life (0-471-44858-3).
Customer Reviews:
INSPIRING AND MOTIVATING! MUST READ!.......2007-05-02
Brian Tracy is a truly great teacher! He patiently teaches people how to think right, to start doing things right and to start forming habits that will make them a money magnet.
I read the book and listen to the audio tapes and I can relate to the experience from being poor and broke to being rich and significant that Brian Tracy shares in his book.
There are so many things that people who live in American take for granted. The United States is the land for the free and the brave, and for those people who are willing to change, take risks, and take courageous steps to change their financial life, financial freedom is something that most people can achieve if they are not lazy!
The principals and teachings that Brian Tracy teaches are must learned skills and principals that will help many Americans to make a difference in their financial life!
This book is a great investment to buy. Thank you Brian Tracy!
Old School Planning.......2007-02-26
This book is very well written and someone with a highschool education can use the money saving concepts in their current job, to secure their future tomorrow. It's all about taking you back to the basics of retirement planning! If you think about how your parents worked, saved, retired, this book gives you the "inspiration" that you can create a nest egg in todays world, and you can retire equal or better than you lived.
Brain talks about success stories and examples of how people achieved financial security while only holding mid to low paying jobs. If you make a middle to low income, it will show you how pennys today can secure your future tomorrow!
Never think that you are below others based on your occupation. You can read how a janitor or disabled person and retire without worry when they come of age.
I hope you enjoy it, I found it inspiring!
Helpful In It's Own Way.......2007-02-02
Brian Tracey is an incredible man who started off with nothing. Several of his tapes and books are very helpful and specific. In this book many of the topics, tips, and advice given in "Getting Rich Your Own Way" are known already by those who dabble into this genre of books from time to time. But this piece by Brian Tracey does shed light on proven points, and it's a good motivational book to remind us that we're in control of our lives and should be proactive. These concepts are worth remembering and implementing. This book is helpful, informative, and encouraging. Again however, for this field of books, there isn't a lot of new information for those who've read this stuff previously. And, like many American books covering investing, financial independence, and success topics, the word "rich" is often in the title. Also note the terms "easy" and "fast" in the titles of these books. Just look at the top 100 bestsellers.
Here is one example of the numerous pieces of advice: when buying raw land consider the transportation possibilities in the future. Expanding suburbs and edge cities, highway arteries, school districts, etc.) This is common sense and can be found on the internet doing a search in 4.9 seconds.
on the up-side one topic I like is Tracy's coverage of "time perception." Studies show that there is a difference of time perception (looking ahead) among different socio-economic and professional groups. Some groups of people tend to have time horizons of about two weeks. Planning for the future is more difficult for these groups and they usually end up in difficult and/or dire circumstances as a consequence of a myopic mentality.
"Getting Rich your own Way" at times focuses on the forest, not the trees. These tid-bits of common sense can embolden the attitudes of the working and middle class so they can attempt a change or two, as they run on the "treadmill of life." Many of the upbeat and optimistic themes can help these classes in debt and motivate some to make changes, or plan better.
This book can be helpful to those who want to do positive things. One idea to save and focus on the future is to find the cheaper paperback version. :) It's now available.
great book .......2006-08-13
This is one more great book of Brian and it open your mind .
Wealth Building advice from a man who knows........2005-11-21
If you really believe that you have to be born rich or that the rich have some special benefits unavailable to you or I, think again. Brian Tracy is a perfect example. Here is a man who started off dead broke, dropped out of high school, had no skills to speak off and still achieved incredible success.
Brian Tracy started off as a dishwasher! Then he went on to straight commission door to door sales barely getting by. And Brian Tracy is the first to tell you that if he could do it, so can you.
In this book, Tracy moves away from his usual sales and motivation and into wealth building. You will learn about precious metals and other investments. You will learn how to use Brians 100 homes strategy to become a successful real estate investor. You will learn how to profitably and successfully start your own business. You will learn how to use the internet. Brian even explains how a retarded boy could become a millionaire by simply investing in savings bonds.
My favorite chapter is chapter 4-How To Start With Nothing. I let my son read this chapter and he quickly devoured the rest of the book as well. He is now exploring his options when he graduates in 2006.
Geting Rich Your Own Way is probably the best wealth book since Charles Givens wrote Wealth Without Risk and Financial Self DeFense. There is something for everybody in here. Perhaps Brians best book to date. Also recommend Rich Dad Poor Dad and Cash Flow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki.
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Tired of losing... and suspecting YOU are your own worst enemy? This is what you've been looking for! This book is full of expert, pragmatic advice for unraveling and breaking through self-defeating behavior. It uses a combination of interactive questionnaires and exercises to help you turn around your career, your relationships, and even your very own personality. This book shows you 27 self-sabotaging characteristics, how your family background effects your career, how to escape negative patterns of the past, how to form positive personal and business relationships, the 9 rules for defining success, and the importance of "imagineering."
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This book provides a great blueprint for understanding what it takes to set and achieve any goal you desire! Achieving a goal is like opening a combination lock. You need the correct numbers in the correct right, left, right sequence. There are thousands of possible combinations. If you are aware of the settings but not the sequence, your efforts will prove futile. The Ten Commandments of Goal Setting is the combination that opens the lock of success. Each commandment is one piece of the combination; each seamlessly integrates with the other nine; each one counts! This book provides the goal-setting information you need in a straightforward and systematic manner. You will be hard pressed to find a goal that does not require each of these ten commandments. Commit to these commandments, and meet with success; violate them at your own risk!
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Great Book on Goal Setting.......2000-03-24
This book provided me with a great blueprint for understanding what it takes to set and achieve any goal I set. On the following lines I have written out one of the paragraphs that Gary Ryan Blair includes in the very first commandment that made all the sense in the world to me. I hope you enjoy it.
"You are born with great capabilities, but you will not achieve your potential until you call upon yourself to fulfill it. You will rise to the occasion when it presents itself. Yet, to assure self-fulfillment, you must provide occasions to rise to. Clearly defined goals allow you to travel toward another horizon that represents the end of one experience and the transition to a new and better existence. The objective is to choose the right goals, and then to create the necessary causes-the effects will follow!
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Bit on the Side: Work, Sex, Love, Loss and Own Goals
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Goals, No-Goals and Own Goals: A Debate on Goal-Directed and Intentional Behaviour
Alan Montefiore
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There is an urgent need to assess the impact of studies in neuroscience and animal behaviour on how we are to think about ourselves. In this book three scientists and three philosophers offer a response to this need by engaging in a stimulating debate that transcends the usual boundaries between scientific and philosophical enquiry. Originating from university seminars held in Oxford over many years, each author takes a highly developed position; the scientists argue with each other quite as much as with the philosophers, and vice versa. The result is a very unusual debate which is equally accessible to philosophers and scientists. The central theme is the significance and nature of goal-directed and intentional behaviour. At one extreme, David McFarland, Reader in Animal Behaviour at the University of Oxford, brings into radical question the need for either of these concepts, at least in the scientific study of animal behaviour. At the other extreme, the Oxford philosopher, Alan Montefiore, argues that such concepts are indispensable to any explication of the meaningful use of language and that we must therefore acknowledge their importance in understanding the nature of human behaviour.
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Own Goal
Sandy Jamieson
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