Daniel de Visé

Este ensayo reivindica el papel de las mujeres que han sido silenciadas o ignoradas en la historia oficial. Carolina Pecharromán, periodista especializada en igualdad, rescata figuras femeninas que marcaron hitos en la ciencia, el arte, la politica y el activismo, pero que no recibieron el reconocimiento merecido. A traves de una narrativa accesible y rigurosa, la autora propone una revolucion simbolica que visibilice a las invisibles y transforme el relato historico desde una perspectiva feminista.

"No van a pillarnos", arenga Dan Aykroyd, enfundado en el papel de Elwood Blues, a su hermano Jake, inmortalizado por John Belushi. "Esta es una misión del Altísimo, Dios lo quiere". Así arranca la comedia musical de accion The Blues Brothers [Granujas a todo ritmo] que llegaria a la gran pantalla el 20 de junio de 1980, si bien del nacimiento de ambos personajes (1974) se cumple ahora el cincuentenario.Su mision divina en el guion tenia inicialmente por objeto salvar de la ruina el orfanato de Chicago en el que crecieron los hermanos Elwood; pero Aykroyd, acaso el mas iluminado de tan ferviente pareja de conversos al rhythm & blues, y que escribio gran parte de la pelicula, concibe una mision para mayor gloria, si cabe: rendir tributo al, por aquel entonces, olvidado acervo del rhythm and blues, algunos de cuyos mas grandes artistas Aretha Franklin, James Brown, John Lee Hooker, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles convirtieron el largometraje, con sus actuaciones, en un extatico delirio tanto o mas inolvidable que las salvajes persecuciones encoche que jalonan la comedia. Con mas retraso del debido, puliendose un pastizal, y al filo del descalabro en mas de una ocasion, por las incesantes excentricidades de sus volubles estrellas el estreno cosecho la censura de una caterv

A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, this humorous, informative, and poignant book celebrates the powerful real-life friendship behind one of Americas most iconic television programs and shows how the magic was created (Library Journal).Andy Griffith and Don Knotts first met on Broadway in the 1950s. When Andy moved to Hollywood to film a TV pilot for a comedy about a small-town sheriff, Don called to ask if Andys sheriff could use a deputy. The friendship and comedy partnership between Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife ignited The Andy Griffith Show, elevating the folksy television sitcom into a timeless study of human friendship. Together, they created a program with a uniquely small-town dynamic that captured the hearts of Americans across the country who watched these two men rocking on the front porch, meditating about the pleasure of a bottle of pop.But behind this sleepy charm, de Vises exclusive reportingcaptures the complexity of both men and the intimacy of their friendship with extreme detail and sensitivity (Publishers Weekly), from unspoken rivalries, passionate affairs, unrequited loves, struggles with the temptations of fame, and friendships lost and regained. Although Andy and Don ended their Mayberry partnership in 1965, they remained best friends for the next half-century.Written by Don Knottss brother-in-law, Andy and Don is a rewarding dual biography that is also a lively look inside the entertainment industry in the latter half of the twentieth century (News & Observer). Entertaining and provocative, it captures a golden moment in modern Americana. Youll not only return again to Mayberry, youll feel as though youve never left (Tom Shales, Pulitzer Prizewinning television critic).

The courageous memoir of a woman who was robbed of all her memories by a traumatic brain injuryand her more than twenty-five-year struggle to reclaim her life: [A tale] of triumph in the search for identity (The New York Times Book Review).In 1988, Su Meck was twenty-two and married with two children when a ceiling fan fell and struck her on the head, erasing all her memories of her life. Although her body healed rapidly, her memories never returned. After just three weeks in the hospital, her physicians released Su and she returned home to take care of her two toddlers. What would you do if you lost your past?Adrift in a world about which she understood almost nothing, Su became an adept mimic, gradually creating routines and rituals that sheltered her and her family from the near-daily threat of disasteror so she thought. Though Su would eventually relearn to tie her shoes, cook a meal, read, and write, nearly twenty years would pass before a series of personally devastating events shattered the normal life she had worked so hard to build, and she realized that she would have to grow up all over again.In her own indelible voice, Su offers a unique view from the inside of a terrible injury as she recounts her grueling climb back to normalcyin this heart-wrenching true story (O, The Oprah Magazine). Piercing, heartbreaking, but finally uplifting, I Forgot to Remember is the story of a woman determined to live life on her own terms.

He aquí la más vibrante y completa semblanza del que fuera gran pionero —y el último en partir de toda una generación de profetas— del blues. Riley “Blues Boy” King (1925-2015), más conocido como B.B