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Playing With Fire (Robinson Novel)
Playing with Fire may refer to: Film * ''Playing with Fire'' (1916 film), an American silent film * ''Playing with Fire'' (1921 German film), a silent comedy-drama film * ''Playing with Fire'' (1921 American film), a silent comedy film * ''Playing with Fire'' (1934 film), a German film * ''Playing with Fire'' (1975 film), a French-Italian film * ''Playing with Fire'' (1985 film), an American TV film starring Gary Coleman * ''Playing with Fire'' (2008 film), a film by David DeCoteau * ''Playing with Fire'' (2019 film), a film directed by Andy Fickman * ''Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind'', a 1980 Hong Kong film released in some regions as ''Playing with Fire'' Literature Fiction * ''Playing with Fire'' (Robinson novel), a 2004 Inspector Banks novel by Peter Robinson * ''Playing with Fire'' (Vailland novel), a 1945 novel by Roger Vailland * '' Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire'', a 2008 novel by Derek Landy * ''Playing with Fire'', a novel by Melody Carlson * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playing With Fire (1916 Film)
''Playing with Fire'' is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Francis J. Grandon, starring Olga Petrova, and released by Metro Pictures. It is now considered to be a lost film. Cast * Olga Petrova as Jean Serian (as Mme. Petrova) * Arthur Hoops as Geoffrey Vane * Evelyn Brent as Lucille Vane * Pierre LeMay as Philip Derblay * Catherine Doucet as Rosa Derblay (credited as Catherine Calhoun) * Philip Hahn Philip Hahn (1884-August 4, 1976) was an American actor. He was in silent films including the lead role in '' The Price He Paid'', an adaptation of an Ella Wheeler Wilcox poem, and '' The Dancer's Peril''. According to ''Motography'' he was a paint ... as Jacques Gobert References External links * * Playing with Fire(kinotv) 1916 films 1916 drama films 1916 lost films Silent American drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films directed by Francis J. Grandon Lost American drama films 1910s American films {{1910 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Lamb
Sheila Holland, née Sheila Ann Mary Coates ( in Dagenham, Essex, England – in Isle of Man) was best known under the pseudonym Charlotte Lamb as a prolific romantic novelist. She signed her novels with her married or maiden names – Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates – and under the pseudonyms Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. She was married to Richard Holland. They had five children, including a set of twins: – Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland. Biography Personal life Born Sheila Ann Mary Coates on 22 December 1937 at Dagenham, Essex, England. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. She attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls in Ilford, Essex. She worked as a typist-secretary at the Bank of England in London, from 1954 to 1956, and then as a junior researcher for the BBC at Broadcasting House from the 1956 to 1958. In 1959, she married Richard Holland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playing With Fire (Edgar Play)
''Playing with Fire'' is a 2005 play by the British playwright David Edgar, dealing with race relations and multiculturalism. It premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 2005, with a cast including David Troughton and Emma Fielding Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding (born 07 October 1964 in Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire) is an English actress. Biography The daughter of a British Army officer, Colonel Johnny Fielding, and Sheila Fielding, she was raised Catholic and .... References 2005 plays Plays by David Edgar {{2000s-play-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence Francis O'Donnell Jr. (born November 7, 1951) is an American television anchor, actor, liberal political commentator, and host of ''The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell'', an MSNBC opinion and news program that airs on weeknights. He was a writer and producer for the NBC series ''The West Wing'' (playing the role of President Bartlet's father in flashbacks) as well as creator and executive producer of the NBC series ''Mister Sterling''. He also appeared as a recurring character on the HBO series ''Big Love''. O'Donnell began his political career as an aide to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and was staff director for the Senate Finance Committee. He describes himself as a "practical European socialist". Early life O'Donnell was born in Boston on November 7, 1951, the son of Frances Marie (née Buckley), an office manager, and Lawrence Francis O'Donnell Sr., an attorney. He is of Irish descent and grew up Catholic. He attended St. Sebastian's School (class of 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasser Hussain
Nasser Hussain (born 28 March 1968) is a British cricket commentator and former cricketer who captained the England cricket team between 1999 and 2003, with his overall international career extending from 1990 to 2004. A pugnacious right-handed batsman, Hussain scored over 30,000 runs from more than 650 matches across all first-class and List-A cricket, including 62 centuries. His highest Test score of 207, scored in the first Test of the 1997 Ashes at Edgbaston, was described by ''Wisden'' as "touched by genius". He played 96 Test matches and 88 One Day International games in total. In Tests he scored 5,764 runs, and he took 67 catches, fielding predominantly in the second slip and gully. Born in Madras, Hussain was led into cricket by his father, and his family moved to England when Hussain was a young child. He joined Essex in 1987 after developing from a spin bowler to batsman while at school and playing for the various Essex youth teams, as the leg-spin of his youth d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queer Politics, Queer Theories
''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late 19th century. Beginning in the late 1980s, queer activists, such as the members of Queer Nation, began to reclaim the word as a deliberately provocative and politically radical alternative to the more assimilationist branches of the LGBT community. In the 21st century, ''queer'' became increasingly used to describe a broad spectrum of non- normative sexual and/or gender identities and politics. Academic disciplines such as queer theory and queer studies share a general opposition to binarism, normativity, and a perceived lack of intersectionality, some of them only tangentially connected to the LGBT movement. Queer arts, queer cultural groups, and queer political groups are examples of modern expressions of queer identities. Critics of the use of the term includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playing With Fire (Moody Press)
''Playing with Fire: Dungeons and Dragons, Tunnels and Trolls, Chivalry and Sorcery, and other Fantasy Games'' is a book written in 1984 by John Weldon and James Bjornstad and published by Moody Press that tries to show that fantasy role-playing games like '' Dungeons & Dragons'' are anti-Christian. Contents In the early 1980s, some religious groups accused TSR, the publisher of '' Dungeons & Dragons'', of encouraging sorcery and the veneration of demons. This was exacerbated in 1982, when Patricia Pulling Patricia A. Pulling (June 30, 1948 – September 18, 1997) was an anti-occult campaigner from Richmond, Virginia. She founded Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons (BADD), an advocacy group that was dedicated to the regulation of role-playing games s ...'s son killed himself. Pulling blamed ''D&D'' for her son's suicide, and formed an organization named B.A.D.D. (Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons) to attack the game and the company that produced it. In 1984, the Christian pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playing With Fire (Fleury Book)
''Playing with Fire'' is the best selling autobiography of former National Hockey League (NHL) player Theoren Fleury. Co-written with author Kirstie McLellan Day, Fleury documented how he became a star player, Stanley Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist despite battling drug and alcohol addictions that ultimately ended his NHL career and led him to contemplate suicide. In the book, he made allegations that he was sexually abused by his junior coach, Graham James, and subsequently filed a complaint with Winnipeg Police Service. Graham James was prosecuted and was sentenced to jail time. ''Playing with Fire'' was a 2010 Libris Award nominee for top non-fiction book of 2010 by the Canadian Booksellers Association. In the weeks prior to the book's October 16, 2009 release, Fleury attempted to return to the NHL with the team he first played for, the Calgary Flames, six years after his last NHL game. Some observers praised him as a role model for his attempt, while others critici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Conan Doyle Bibliography
Arthur Conan Doyle Venerable Order of Saint John, KStJ, Deputy Lieutenant, DL (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician. In addition to the Canon of Sherlock Holmes, series of stories chronicling the activities of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson, Dr John Watson for which he is well known, Doyle wrote on a wide range of topics, both fictional and non-fictional. In 1876 Doyle entered the University of Edinburgh Medical School, where he became a pupil of Joseph Bell, whose deductive processes impressed his pupil so much that the teacher became the chief model for Holmes. Doyle began writing while still a student, and in October 1879 he had his first work—"The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley"—published in ''Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Chambers's Journal''. He continued writing short works—both fictional and non-fictional—throughout his career, and had over 200 stories and articles published. In July 1891 Doyle published the short story "A Scandal in Bohemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Wilkinson
Kerry Wilkinson (born 4 November 1980) is a British author and sports journalist born in Bath, Somerset. In 2018, his book ''Ten Birthdays'' won the Romantic Novelists' Association award for Young Adult Novel of the Year. Along with Marius Gabriel, he was the first man to win a RoNA Award in the organisation's 58-year history. He is also an International Thriller Writers Awards winner, with Close To You, for best ebook original. Work Kerry Wilkinson is an author who has had bestselling ebooks in the UK, Canada, Australia and South Africa. In 2011, he became one of the United Kingdom's most-successful self-published authors, but has since worked with 'traditional' publishers. In the final quarter of 2011, Amazon UK announced he was their top-selling author for their Amazon Kindle chart - and that he had sold over 250,000 ebooks. His first novel, ''Locked In'', went to number one on the Amazon Kindle chart and Apple's iTunes crime books chart. At one point in November 2011, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gena Showalter
Gena Showalter (born 1975 in Oklahoma) is an American author in the genres of contemporary romance, paranormal romance, and young adult. Showalter sold her first book at the age of 27, and has published over 70 books. She has been named by ''The New York Times'' and ''USA Today'' as a bestselling author. Showalter has successfully published in the adult and young adult market. Awards ''Alice in Zombieland'' was the winner of the 2014 South Carolina Children's, Junior and Young Adult Book Award. Bibliography Adult Paranormal Romance Stand Alone Novels Imperia # ''The Stone Prince'', September 2003 # ''Prince of Forever'', February 2005 (formerly ''The Pleasure Slave'') Alien Huntress Atlantis Lords of the Underworld = Tales of an Extraordinary Girl = # ''Playing With Fire'', September 2006 # ''Twice as Hot'', February 2010 Royal House of Shadows A series of 4 books each by a different author # ''Lord of the Vampires'' by Gena Showalter (Aug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro is an American writer, the author of six novels including ''Family History'' (2003), ''Black & White'' (2007) and most recently ''Signal Fires'' (2022) and the best-selling memoirs ''Slow Motion'' (1998), ''Devotion'' (2010), ''Hourglass'' (2017), and ''Inheritance'' (2019). She has also written for magazines such as ''The New Yorker'', ''The Oprah Magazine'', ''Vogue'', and ''Elle''. In February 2019, she created an original podcast on iHeart Radio called ''Family Secrets.'' Early life and education Shapiro was born Daneile Shapiro on April 10, 1962, In New York City. She is the daughter of Paul Shapiro, from an Orthodox Jewish family (who, she later learned through a recreational DNA test, was not her biological father), and Irene Shapiro, from South Jersey. Shapiro attended a Solomon Schechter Jewish day school through 6th grade, after which she attended the Pingry School in New Jersey.Mindell, Cindy"Q & A: Author Dani Shapiro" ''Jewish Ledger'', January 12, 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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