Unbearable Lightness / Portia de Rossi

Public ISBD 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 autobiographies Résumé : "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 autobiographies Résumé : "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.

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Times Two / Kristen Henderson

Public ISBD Titre : Times Two : Two Women in Love and the Happy Family They Made Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Kristen Henderson, Auteur ; Sarah Ellis, Auteur Editeur : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 2011 Importance : 229 pages ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4391-7640-5 Langues : Anglais Catégories : Documentaire Documentaire:Biographies, Témoignages, Mémoires Documentaire:Biographies, Témoignages, Mémoires:Mémoires et autobiographies Documentaire:Famille Documentaire:Famille:Homoparentalité Résumé : This is a tender and touching story of two talented women falling in love and forming a beautifully unconventional family. Readers will be fascinated by their simultaneous pregnancies and dual journeys into motherhood. Times Two offers wonderful perspectives on the joys and challenges of contemporary lesbian life. --Nanette Gartrell, MD, author of My Answer is NO…if that's okay with you: How Women Can Say No With Confidence.Principal Investigator, US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study “Kristen Henderson and Sarah Kate Ellis have written a book so disarmingly funny, touching and readable, that you almost forget it is about all the important issues of our time—women's rights, civil rights, and family rights. The journey of Kristen and her partner, Sarah, in their quest to have a child, seems like Nora Ephron's idea of a script—hilarious at times, frustrating, maddening and, finally, a Hollywood style happy ending. This book captures the political zeitgeist of all the modern families in the country, and shows that, whatever your beliefs and affiliations, the most important component in the make-up of a family is love.” --Cherie Currie, Lead singer of The Runaways and author of Neon Angel "What was it Tolstoy said? Happy families are all alike? This book proves the great Russian writer was absolutely wrong. Happy families come in all varieties. This funny and touching book is Exhibit A." -- A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of My Life as an Experiment and The Year of Living Biblically “Kristen and Sarah somehow make a "slice of life" story of love, career and family into an entertaining page turner… This book helps to carry a movement, a shift in paradigm, that has been a long time coming. I hope Times Two reaches a wide and varied audience of readers so that this truth becomes our new norm: society needs healthy, loving, functioning families regardless of how they are made or how they look.” --Kathy Valentine, bass player and member of The Go-Go's "A spirited portrait of an unconventional family." --Kirkus Reviews "Henderson and Ellis present, without breaking a sweat, a compelling case that the kids are alright, and so are the moms. " --Library Journal Times Two : Two Women in Love and the Happy Family They Made [texte imprimé] / Kristen Henderson, Auteur ; Sarah Ellis, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Simon & Schuster, 2011 . - 229 pages. ISBN : 978-1-4391-7640-5 Langues : Anglais Catégories : Documentaire Documentaire:Biographies, Témoignages, Mémoires Documentaire:Biographies, Témoignages, Mémoires:Mémoires et autobiographies Documentaire:Famille Documentaire:Famille:Homoparentalité Résumé : This is a tender and touching story of two talented women falling in love and forming a beautifully unconventional family. Readers will be fascinated by their simultaneous pregnancies and dual journeys into motherhood. Times Two offers wonderful perspectives on the joys and challenges of contemporary lesbian life. --Nanette Gartrell, MD, author of My Answer is NO…if that's okay with you: How Women Can Say No With Confidence.Principal Investigator, US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study “Kristen Henderson and Sarah Kate Ellis have written a book so disarmingly funny, touching and readable, that you almost forget it is about all the important issues of our time—women's rights, civil rights, and family rights. The journey of Kristen and her partner, Sarah, in their quest to have a child, seems like Nora Ephron's idea of a script—hilarious at times, frustrating, maddening and, finally, a Hollywood style happy ending. This book captures the political zeitgeist of all the modern families in the country, and shows that, whatever your beliefs and affiliations, the most important component in the make-up of a family is love.” --Cherie Currie, Lead singer of The Runaways and author of Neon Angel "What was it Tolstoy said? Happy families are all alike? This book proves the great Russian writer was absolutely wrong. Happy families come in all varieties. This funny and touching book is Exhibit A." -- A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of My Life as an Experiment and The Year of Living Biblically “Kristen and Sarah somehow make a "slice of life" story of love, career and family into an entertaining page turner… This book helps to carry a movement, a shift in paradigm, that has been a long time coming. I hope Times Two reaches a wide and varied audience of readers so that this truth becomes our new norm: society needs healthy, loving, functioning families regardless of how they are made or how they look.” --Kathy Valentine, bass player and member of The Go-Go's "A spirited portrait of an unconventional family." --Kirkus Reviews "Henderson and Ellis present, without breaking a sweat, a compelling case that the kids are alright, and so are the moms. " --Library Journal

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Disco Bloodbath / James St. James

Public ISBD Titre : Disco Bloodbath : A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : James St. James, Auteur Editeur : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 1999 Importance : 286 pages ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-684-85764-0 Langues : Anglais Catégories : Genres:Humour Genres:Policier et thriller Littérature Littérature:- Roman Résumé : The author reveals the New York Club scene at its worst as he relates his involvement with Michael Alig, a Midwest nerd who became a leading club promoter and eventually found trouble after killing a drug dealer. Disco Bloodbath : A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland [texte imprimé] / James St. James, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Simon & Schuster, 1999 . - 286 pages. ISBN : 978-0-684-85764-0 Langues : Anglais Catégories : Genres:Humour Genres:Policier et thriller Littérature Littérature:- Roman Résumé : The author reveals the New York Club scene at its worst as he relates his involvement with Michael Alig, a Midwest nerd who became a leading club promoter and eventually found trouble after killing a drug dealer.

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Is your cat gay ? / Charles Kreloff

Public ISBD Titre : Is your cat gay ? Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Charles Kreloff, Auteur ; Patty Brown, Auteur ; Victoria Roberts, Illustrateur Editeur : Simon & Schuster Année de publication : 2004 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7432-6408-2 Langues : Français Catégories : Bande dessinée:Humour Représentation:Gay Mots-clés : 'chat", "humour', 'satire' Résumé : Have you ever found yourself pondering your cat's sexual preference? Perhaps the answer lies within these pages. Is your cat gay ? [texte imprimé] / Charles Kreloff, Auteur ; Patty Brown, Auteur ; Victoria Roberts, Illustrateur . - [S.l.] : Simon & Schuster, 2004. ISBN : 978-0-7432-6408-2 Langues : Français Catégories : Bande dessinée:Humour Représentation:Gay Mots-clés : 'chat", "humour', 'satire' Résumé : Have you ever found yourself pondering your cat's sexual preference? Perhaps the answer lies within these pages.

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