When Mike O'Neil's Aunt Idy dies leaving him her estate in Ireland, Mike and his teammate Beau look forward to a quiet Irish vacation of fishing and whiskey. So the two retired NFL football players jump on a jet and head for Brannock-A-Bend. The two rednecks have barely set foot on the Emerald Isle when their vacation goes off the rails. It turns out Aunt Idy was a closet moonshiner (with an excellent recipe!). Oh, and her property is haunted by the drunken ghost of a pirate moonshine smuggler. It gets worse. It turns out ALL of Brannock-A-Bend is involved in the underground moonshine economy... and Mayor O'Malley, who rules Brannock-A-Bend with an iron fist, doesn't appreciate the two Yanks trespassing on his territory. Before they know it, Beau and O'Neil are swept into the moonshining business and cutthroat local politics, all while trying to keep the alcoholic apparition under control. And maybe-if they can gain the trust of the locals, overthrow the Mayor, win the moonshine contest, and keep the sloshed specter sober-they might even survive it all!

When Mike O'Neil's Aunt Idy dies leaving him her estate in Ireland, Mike and his teammate Beau look forward to a quiet Irish vacation of fishing and whiskey. So the two retired NFL football players jump on a jet and head for Brannock-A-Bend.The two rednecks have barely set foot on the Emerald Isle when their vacation goes off the rails. It turns out Aunt Idy was a closet moonshiner (with an excellent recipe!). Oh, and her property is haunted by the drunken ghost of a pirate moonshine smuggler. It gets worse. It turns out ALL of Brannock-A-Bend is involved in the underground moonshine economy... and Mayor O'Malley, who rules Brannock-A-Bend with an iron fist, doesn't appreciate the two Yanks trespassing on his territory.Before they know it, Beau and O'Neil are swept into the moonshining business and cutthroat local politics, all while trying to keep the alcoholic apparition under control. And maybe—if they can gain the trust of the locals, overthrow the Mayor, win the moonshine contest, and keep the sloshed specter sober—they might even survive it all!

"This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.

Bud Osborn's point of reference is the street of the disenfranchised – literally, the street corners bordered by Main and Hastings on Vancouver's notorious East Side, known as "Hundred Block Rock"--the poorest neighbourhood in Canada. While this area is well-known for its drug users, criminals, and prostitutes, it is also home to recovering addicts, single mothers, and those whom society has cast aside. As a poet who has known the nightmare of addiction and poverty himself, Bud Osborn sheds light on the unforgiving darkness of Hundred Block Rock, putting faces and names to those who somehow find ways and means to survive there. These poems are direct confessionals that speak valiantly and movingly of the community of the street: from detox centres and the wail of ambulance sirens to the poignant instances of junkies dancing in alleys, or the sound of jazz after midnight. They bring to life the squalid intensity of Hundred Block Rock, while at the same time articulating the redemptive spirit of survival that nurtures and sustains its habitués. Many of the poems in Hundred Block Rock are also featured on a CD available from Festival Distribution.

Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.

Intoxicated Heart is a blend of happiness and heartbreak transformed into poetry. Whether you are in love, going through a period of darkness, or need comfort, this book is for you.The poetry and heartfelt words are written to ignite memories from within.