Cool Gifts Biography
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The Perfect Gift is a 2009 sequel to the 2005 Christian
Drama movie The Perfect Stranger, and its first sequel, Another Perfect
Stranger. It stars Christina Fougnie, Amy Hess, Matt Wallace, and once again,
Jefferson Moore as Jesus Christ. It was filmed almost entirely in Kentucky , where the
first and second films were shot. This goggle-eyed gargoyle was irresistible – to Italian
crowds, as the man who could save their national honour; and to women, who
stampeded to lose theirs. As one of his mistresses ruefully remarked: “In
heaven, dear poet, there will be reserved for you an enormous octopus with a
thousand women’s legs (but no head).” D’Annunzio was a man of letters – his
collected works run to 48 volumes – and was ranked by Joyce alongside Kipling
and Tolstoy; but he was also a frenzied demagogue for whom writing was a
martial art “to spark uprisings and to set nations ablaze”. Craving cataclysmic
violence, he helped to create the appetite for fascism, plus many of its
motifs. This biography is as well written as it is expertly structured. Its
author claims: “I have made nothing up, but I have freely made use of the
techniques commoner in fiction-writing than in biography.”
The American novelist Norman Mailer was another who knew
that politics is a performance art, and who shared D’Annunzio’s sexual energy,
diminutive height and assiduous self-promotion. Mailer was interviewed 700
times in his life – “surely a record for a writer,” calculates J Michael
Lennon, who interviewed him several times. Co-founder of the Mailer Society and
an obsessive biographer, he first met Mailer in 1972 and has been tracking him
since. Norman Mailer: a Double Life (Simon & Schuster, t £23) is a portrait
of a novelist who concurred with Hemingway (Mailer’s most obvious predecessor)
that “it was more important to be a man than to be a good writer”. Known at school as “that sidey little s--- Olivier”, Laurence Olivier, son of an Anglican priest, wanted to be “the greatest actor in the world”. Physically, he was unprepossessing (“My mouth is like a tortoise’s arse”). Sam Goldwyn practically had a hernia when he saw him play Heathcliff: “Thees actor es the ogliest actor in pictures. Thees actor will ruin me.” Philip Ziegler’s Born on Christmas, she only sees that day as a time for lavish and expensive gifts. Her overworked executive mother (Amy Hess) is struggling to provide "suitable" gifts for her young children. A disillusioned young minister (Matt Wallace) does not see Christmas as a minister should. Then one day a drifter ( Jefferson Moore) comes into town and changes these three people's lives impressive Olivier (Quercus, t £20) shows how he achieved his ambition through discipline and sheer grind. It follows his ascent from his first performance at Brighton, incorrectly billed as “Oliver”, when he tripped and fell flat on his face; to San Francisco where, playing Romeo, he missed his footing as he leapt blithely over the wall and clung floundering, unable to surmount it; to the Old Vic, where as Mr Puff he was left dangling 30 feet above the stage; to New Zealand, where, after an operation, he was carried aloft on a crane and lowered triumphantly on to a ship on a stretcher. According to Ziegler, Olivier was emotionally crippled: “Where he was extraordinary as a human being was in his lack of humanity”.
Maxine Noelle Westray (Christina Fougnie) is a beautiful and
wealthy girl, yet she is incredibly spoiled and bratty. Born on Christmas, she
only sees that day as a time for lavish and expensive gifts. Her overworked
executive mother (Amy Hess) is struggling to provide "suitable" gifts
for her young children. A disillusioned young minister (Matt Wallace) does not
see Christmas as a minister should. Then one day a drifter ( Jefferson Moore)
comes into town and changes these three people's lives forever by teaching them
the true meaning of Christmas and that the best gift of all doesn't come in
wrapping.
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