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Unbearable Lightness / Portia de Rossi
Titre : Unbearable Lightness : A Story of Loss and Gain Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Portia de Rossi, Auteur Editeur : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 309 pages ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-85720-411-0 Langues : Anglais Catégories : Documentaire
Documentaire:Biographies, Témoignages, Mémoires
Documentaire:Biographies, Témoignages, Mémoires:Mémoires et autobiographiesRésumé : "I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier . . ."
Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood film in which she was playing her first leading role. This should have been the culmination of all her years of hard work—first as a child model in Australia, then as a cast member of one of the hottest shows on American television. On the outside she was thin and blond, glamorous and successful. On the inside, she was literally dying.
In this searing, unflinchingly honest book, Portia de Rossi captures the complex emotional truth of what it is like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. She recounts the elaborate rituals around eating that came to dominate hours of every day, from keeping her daily calorie intake below 300 to eating precisely measured amounts of food out of specific bowls and only with certain utensils. When this wasn't enough, she resorted to purging and compulsive physical exercise, driving her body and spirit to the breaking point.
Even as she rose to fame as a cast member of the hit television shows Ally McBeal and Arrested Development, Portia alternately starved herself and binged, all the while terrified that the truth of her sexuality would be exposed in the tabloids. She reveals the heartache and fear that accompany a life lived in the closet, a sense of isolation that was only magnified by her unrelenting desire to be ever thinner. With the storytelling skills of a great novelist and the eye for detail of a poet, Portia makes transparent as never before the behaviors and emotions of someone living with an eating disorder.
From her lowest point, Portia began the painful climb back to a life of health and honesty, falling in love with and eventually marrying Ellen DeGeneres, and emerging as an outspoken and articulate advocate for gay rights and women's health issues.
In this remarkable and beautifully written work, Portia shines a bright light on a dark subject. A crucial book for all those who might sometimes feel at war with themselves or their bodies, Unbearable Lightness is a story that inspires hope and nourishes the spirit.Unbearable Lightness : A Story of Loss and Gain [texte imprimé] / Portia de Rossi, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Simon & Schuster, 2011 . - 309 pages.
ISBN : 978-0-85720-411-0
Langues : Anglais
Catégories : Documentaire
Documentaire:Biographies, Témoignages, Mémoires
Documentaire:Biographies, Témoignages, Mémoires:Mémoires et autobiographiesRésumé : "I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier . . ."
Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood film in which she was playing her first leading role. This should have been the culmination of all her years of hard work—first as a child model in Australia, then as a cast member of one of the hottest shows on American television. On the outside she was thin and blond, glamorous and successful. On the inside, she was literally dying.
In this searing, unflinchingly honest book, Portia de Rossi captures the complex emotional truth of what it is like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. She recounts the elaborate rituals around eating that came to dominate hours of every day, from keeping her daily calorie intake below 300 to eating precisely measured amounts of food out of specific bowls and only with certain utensils. When this wasn't enough, she resorted to purging and compulsive physical exercise, driving her body and spirit to the breaking point.
Even as she rose to fame as a cast member of the hit television shows Ally McBeal and Arrested Development, Portia alternately starved herself and binged, all the while terrified that the truth of her sexuality would be exposed in the tabloids. She reveals the heartache and fear that accompany a life lived in the closet, a sense of isolation that was only magnified by her unrelenting desire to be ever thinner. With the storytelling skills of a great novelist and the eye for detail of a poet, Portia makes transparent as never before the behaviors and emotions of someone living with an eating disorder.
From her lowest point, Portia began the painful climb back to a life of health and honesty, falling in love with and eventually marrying Ellen DeGeneres, and emerging as an outspoken and articulate advocate for gay rights and women's health issues.
In this remarkable and beautifully written work, Portia shines a bright light on a dark subject. A crucial book for all those who might sometimes feel at war with themselves or their bodies, Unbearable Lightness is a story that inspires hope and nourishes the spirit.Réservation
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Les vues animées / Michel Tremblay
Titre : Les vues animées Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Michel Tremblay (1942-....), Auteur Editeur : Arles : Actes Sud Année de publication : 1999 Autre Editeur : Montréal : Leméac Collection : Babel num. 389 Importance : 229 p. Présentation : couv. ill. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-2-7427-2461-1 Prix : 39 F Langues : Français Catégories : Documentaire
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Documentaire:Biographies, Témoignages, Mémoires:Mémoires et autobiographiesRésumé : A Montréal, dans les années cinquante, le cinéma ne s'appelait pas cinéma.
On disait plutôt les " vues animées ", comme un écho aux motion pictures américaines. En douze récits autobiographiques et initiatiques, Michel Tremblay raconte ainsi sa découverte, enfant, des cinémas français, américain et québécois. Les Vues animées, c'est douze temps forts dans la formation d'une identité d'écrivain, douze scènes attachantes où la vie quotidienne d'un petit garçon du Plateau Mont-Royal s'alimente à la vie merveilleuse que déploient sous ses yeux Bambi, La fille des marais, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, Cendrillon, Blanche-Neige et les sept nains, Coeur de maman, Les visiteurs du soir.Les vues animées [texte imprimé] / Michel Tremblay (1942-....), Auteur . - Arles : Actes Sud : Montréal : Leméac, 1999 . - 229 p. : couv. ill. ; 18 cm. - (Babel; 389) .
ISBN : 978-2-7427-2461-1 : 39 F
Langues : Français
Catégories : Documentaire
Documentaire:Biographies, Témoignages, Mémoires
Documentaire:Biographies, Témoignages, Mémoires:Mémoires et autobiographiesRésumé : A Montréal, dans les années cinquante, le cinéma ne s'appelait pas cinéma.
On disait plutôt les " vues animées ", comme un écho aux motion pictures américaines. En douze récits autobiographiques et initiatiques, Michel Tremblay raconte ainsi sa découverte, enfant, des cinémas français, américain et québécois. Les Vues animées, c'est douze temps forts dans la formation d'une identité d'écrivain, douze scènes attachantes où la vie quotidienne d'un petit garçon du Plateau Mont-Royal s'alimente à la vie merveilleuse que déploient sous ses yeux Bambi, La fille des marais, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, Cendrillon, Blanche-Neige et les sept nains, Coeur de maman, Les visiteurs du soir.Réservation
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Winter's Light / John. Preston
Titre : Winter's Light : Reflections of a Yankee Queer Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : John. Preston, Auteur Editeur : UPNE Année de publication : 1995 Importance : 199 pages ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-87451-781-1 Langues : Anglais Catégories : Documentaire
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Documentaire:Santé, Bien-être, Psychologie
Documentaire:Santé, Bien-être, Psychologie:VIH-Sida et ISTRésumé : In these stirring autobiographical essays and social commentaries, a prolific writer and gay rights pioneer--whose voice was stilled by AIDS in 1994--tells of the search for a place to belong. Preston's voice is as brave, honest, and clear-sighted as ever, which makes us miss it all the more sorely.--Anne Rice. Winter's Light : Reflections of a Yankee Queer [texte imprimé] / John. Preston, Auteur . - [S.l.] : UPNE, 1995 . - 199 pages.
ISBN : 978-0-87451-781-1
Langues : Anglais
Catégories : Documentaire
Documentaire:Biographies, Témoignages, Mémoires
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Documentaire:Santé, Bien-être, Psychologie
Documentaire:Santé, Bien-être, Psychologie:VIH-Sida et ISTRésumé : In these stirring autobiographical essays and social commentaries, a prolific writer and gay rights pioneer--whose voice was stilled by AIDS in 1994--tells of the search for a place to belong. Preston's voice is as brave, honest, and clear-sighted as ever, which makes us miss it all the more sorely.--Anne Rice. Réservation
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