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- Biz Product Spotlight: Biography
- The Biz Interview: William B. Davis
- New Play: Armed at Pacific Theatre
- The Biz Interview: Darren Boquist & Ky Scott from Armed
| | BIZ PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: | | Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life by Peter Conrad  Author Peter Conrad examines the mercurial life and work of Orson Welles the enigmatic maestro who made Citizen Kane, remembered to this day as the greatest of all motion pictures. In death, Orson Welles remains a legendary, outsized, and ambiguous figure. Peter Conrad's study is a critical biography of Orson Welles, viewing the man through the optic of his sprawling and yet utterly singular body of work. This is not a debunking of the well-aired Welles-as-Genius myth so much as an attempt to identify and examine the wellsprings of his polymorphous gifts. At times (and fittingly, given his well-known fondness for magic) Orson Welles seemed to be capable of anything; and yet finally he achieved only a fraction of what he had hoped to. Peter Conrad goes in search of the man through expert examination of the many and varied personae that Welles adopted — from Faust to Falstaff, The Shadow to Harry Lime — in a life lived at large across stage, screen, and airwaves. Our Price: $49.00 Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist by Mike Farrell  The world-renowned actor Mike Farrell offers inspirational reflections on his path from fame to progressive activism in his best-selling memoir Just Call Me Mike. From its opening pages, Mike Farrell's memoir Just Call Me Mike reveals the distinctive voice of a man for whom life is an ongoing odyssey of self-discovery, personal commitment, and uncompromising social engagement. With deep insight and disarming candour, Mike Farrell describes his early years as a timid but restless teenager in West Hollywood, delivering groceries to the homes of Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, Jimmy Stewart, and countless other celebrities, while dreaming of having his own career as an actor. In stark but riveting language, he relates his formative years as a Marine recruit, confused, conflicted, and eager to prove himself as a man. Mike Farrell humorously portrays his professional development from a young soap opera player on Days of Our Lives to the amiable star of two popular television series, M*A*S*H and Providence, to the respected producer of successful motion pictures like Dominick and Eugene and Patch Adams. At the heart of his story, Mike Farrell narrates his public struggle to be a responsible citizen of the world. From his first-hand accounts of the ravages of war and oppression in Cambodia, El Salvador, Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and the Gaza Strip, to his tireless advocacy against capital punishment, to his deep commitment to environmental causes, Farrell portrays each of these experiences with passion, outrage, and stubborn optimism. Our Price: $26.95 Elia Kazan: A Life by Elia Kazan  In his autobiography Elia Kazan, the distinguished director of stage and screen, told his life story with candour and fury. Often called the most brilliant and revealing of all Hollywood memoirs, Elia Kazan revealed his working relationships with his many collaborators, including Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, James Dean, John Steinbeck and Darryl Zanuck, and described his directing style as he saw it, in terms of position, movement, pace, rhythm and his own limitations. Kazan also retraced his own decision to inform for the House Un-American Activities Committee, illuminating much of what may be obscured in McCarthy literature. Our Price: $34.95 | | THE BIZ INTERVIEW: | | The Biz Interview: William B. Davis  Canadian actor William B. Davis is best-known in pop culture circles for his fabled role on The X-Files as Cigarette Smoking Man. Representing just one of many distinguished experiences for him during his prosperous acting career, he chose this year as the appropriate time to reflect on his life and career by penning a memoir. We spoke with William B. Davis to get his insights into Where There's Smoke … Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man and the various musings that we can expect to see. Click here to read the interview! | | NEW PLAY: | | Armed at Pacific Theatre
 BizBooks.net is pleased to support Xua Xua Productions for the new play, Armed by Andrea Loewen and Dani Bryant at Pacific Theatre. What makes a man? Is it a job? A relationship? Or maybe it's a couple of small but vital bits of anatomy. When Joe loses everything that made him a Real Man there is only one thing left to do: compensate. Thus begins his epic quest to find something – anything – that will give him undeniable strength and power. Something that will never wither, grow flaccid, or die. The time-honoured tradition of a luxury car won't do the trick, so what will? Read more about the play here!
| | THE BIZ INTERVIEW: | | The Biz Interview: Darren Boquist and Ky Scott of Armed  Darren Boquist and Ky Scott find themselves Armed and extremely hilarious in the newest theatre production from Xua Xua Productions. We spoke to them to learn more about how they become involved in the new play and their individual creative processes. Click here to read the interview! |
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