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Spalona Żywcem Wyd. Kieszonkowe - Souad
Książki & Multimedia > Książki
Opis - Pierwsze na świecie świadectwo ofiary zbrodni honorowej. Miała siedemnaście lat i zakochała się: zhańbiła rodzinę. Więc rodzina wydała na nią wyrok śmierci... Pokochała go pierwszą miłością. Myślała, że się z nią ożeni. Ale ukochany zniknął, a ona odkryła, że jest w ciąży. A w jej świecie to najcięższa zbrodnia... W zapomnianej przez Boga wiosce w Cisjordanii kobiety są warte mniej niż zwierzęta domowe. Tu mężczyzna jest panem życia i śmierci żony, córki, siostry. Brat może bezkarnie zabić siostrę, matka - córkę, kolejną bezużyteczną dziewczynkę, jaka się urodzi. Tu kobiecie odbiera się godność, a nawet życie zgodnie z odwiecznym obyczajem i uświęconą tradycją. A śmierć jest karą dla dziewczyny, która zhańbi rodzinę. Tak jak Souad. Wyrok wydaje jej ojciec. Szwagier dokonuje egzekucji. Oblewa Souad benzyną i podpala... SOUAD przeżyła - cudem, ale rodzina usiłowała zabić ją nawet w szpitalu. Na zawsze jednak pozostanie straszliwie okaleczona - na ciele i duszy. I wciąż musi się ukrywać; dopóki żyje, jej rodzinę okrywa hańba. Spalona żywcem, opublikowana pod pseudonimem szokująca opowieść o piekle, jakim było jej dzieciństwo i młodość, stała się międzynarodowym bestsellerem. Wydana w 37 w krajach książka przerywa tabu milczenia wobec istniejącej nadal w krajach muzułmańskich barbarzyńskiej tradycji. Nieludzkiego obyczaju, prawa mężczyzn, na mocy którego co najmniej pięć tysięcy kobiet pada co roku ofiarą zbrodni honorowej. Nazwa - Spalona Żywcem Wyd. Kieszonkowe Autor - Souad Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Amber Kod ISBN - 9788324159406 Kod EAN - 9788324159406 Wydanie - 1 Rok wydania - 2016 Tłumacz - 31182,maria rostworowska; Format - 110 x 175 x 14 Ilość stron - 224 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2016-06-23
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72,65 zł
Wings of Shadow Margaret K. McElderry
Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna
In the heart-stopping finale to the Crown of Feathers trilogy, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake calls "absolutely unforgettable," Veronyka must face her most devastating enemy yet: her own sister.I had a sister, once... Veronyka is no longer an orphaned stable boy or a nameless Phoenix Rider apprentice: she is the daughter of Pheronia Ashfire, the last queen of the Golden Empire...and the niece of Avalkyra Ashfire, the resurrected rebel queen who tore the empire apart. We shone brightly, burned fiercely. Now that the secret is out, everyone at the Eyrie treats Veronyka differently, and with Tristan still a hostage of the scheming Lord Rolan-and Sev with him as a spy-Veronyka feels very much alone. Except for her beloved phoenix, Xephyra, of course, and her new friend, Kade, who has his own reasons for wanting to save Tristan. Was it always going to come down to this? Sister against sister? Darkness against light? Veronyka is determined to do whatever it takes to get Tristan back, even if that means revealing her identity to the world and inheriting a throne she's not sure she wants. But when she discovers that Avalkyra has bonded with a strix-a legendary creature of darkness that feeds off the life force of others-Veronyka realizes she has more to deal with than an encroaching war with the empire. Val is willing to destroy everything to get her revenge on a world that rejected her, and if Veronyka wants to bring peace to the empire and Pyra alike, she must face down her sister once and for all. The world began with Ashfire queens...perhaps they will also be its destruction.
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45,80 zł
Consolations of Philosophy Penguin
Nauki humanistyczne
Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all; lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety, the fear of failure and the pressure to conform.
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152,87 zł
DORRIS DAY 10 CD 23 ORIGINALS ALBUM I WANT TO VE HAPPY WYDAWCA
Muzyka > Płyty kompaktowe > Jazz, Swing
DORRIS DAY 10 CD 23 ORIGINALS ALBUM I WANT TO VE HAPPY 1. You're My Thrill - Doris Day 2. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Doris Day 3. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) - Doris Day 4. Sometimes I'm Happy - Doris Day 5. You Go to My Head - Doris Day 6. I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Doris Day 7. When Your Lover Has Gone - Doris Day 8. That Old Feeling - Doris Day 9. Crazy Rhythm - Doris Day 10. Here in My Arms - Doris Day 11. I Know That You Know - Doris Day 12. I Want To Be Happy - Doris Day 13. Do Do Do - Doris Day 14. I Only Have Eyes for You - Doris Day 15. Oh Me! Oh My! Oh You! - Doris Day 16. Tea for Two - Doris Day 17. I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful) - Doris Day 18. Get Happy - Doris Day 19. The Man I Love - Doris Day 20. Too Marvelous For Words - Doris Day 21. The Very Thought Of You - Doris Day 22. Limehouse Blues - Doris Day 23. Melancholy Rhapsody - Doris Day 24. With a Song In My Heart - Doris Day 25. Canadian Capers (Cuttin' Capers) - Doris Day 26. (Why Did I Tell You I Was Going To) Shanghai - Doris Day 27. Lullaby of Broadway - Doris Day 28. Fine and Dandy - Doris Day 29. In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town - Doris Day 30. Somebody Loves Me - Doris Day 31. Just One of Those Things - Doris Day 32. You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me - Doris Day 33. I Love the Way You Say Goodnight - Doris Day 34. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - Doris Day 35. Moonlight Bay - Doris Day 36. Till We Meet Again - Doris Day 37. Love Ya - Doris Day 38. Christmas Story - Doris Day 39. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles - Doris Day 40. Cuddle up a Little Closer - Doris Day 41. Every Little Moment (Has a Meaning of It's Own) - Doris Day 42. Tell Me - Doris Day 43. Ain't We Got Fun - Doris Day 44. The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) - Doris Day 45. I Wish I Had a Girl - Doris Day 46. It Had to Be You - Doris Day 47. Nobody's Sweetheart - Doris Day 48. My Buddy - Doris Day 49. Makin' Whoopee - Doris Day 50. I'll See You in My Dreams - Doris Day 51. Sentimental Journey - Doris Day 52. It's Magic - Doris Day 53. By the Light of the Silvery Moon - Doris Day 54. Your Eyes Have Told Me So - Doris Day 55. Just One Girl - Doris Day 56. Ain't We Got Fun - Doris Day 57. If You Were the Only Girl - Doris Day 58. Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee - Doris Day 59. I'll Forget You - Doris Day 60. King Chanticleer - Doris Day 61. The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away) - Doris Day 62. I Can Do Without You - Doris Day 63. The Black Hills of Dakota - Doris Day 64. Just Flew In From the Windy City - Doris Day 65. A Woman's Touch - Doris Day 66. Higher Than a Hawk (Deeper Than a Well) - Doris Day 67. Tis Harry I'm Plannin' to Marry - Doris Day 68. Secret Love - Doris Day 69. Till My Love Comes to Me - Doris Day 70. Ready, Willing and Able - Doris Day 71. Hold Me in Your Arms - Doris Day 72. You Can Take My Word for It Baby - Doris Day 73. There's a Rising Moon - Doris Day 74. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) - Doris Day 75. You, My Love - Doris Day 76. I'm Glad There Is You - Doris Day 77. Bewitched - Doris Day 78. Hoop De Doo - Doris Day 79. It All Depends On You - Doris Day 80. You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) - Doris Day 81. Stay on the Right Side, Sister - Doris Day 82. Mean to Me - Doris Day 83. Everybody Loves My Baby (But My Baby Don't Love Nobody But Me) - Doris Day 84. Sam, the Old Accordion Man - Doris Day 85. Shaking the Blues Away - Doris Day 86. Ten Cents a Dance - Doris Day 87. I'll Never Stop Loving You - Doris Day 88. Never Look Back - Doris Day 89. At Sundown - Doris Day 90. Love Me or Leave Me - Doris Day 91. The Song Is You - Doris Day 92. Hello, My Lover, Goodbye - Doris Day 93. But Not For Me - Doris Day 94. I Remember You - Doris Day 95. I Hadn't Anyone Till You - Doris Day 96. But Beautiful - Doris Day 97. Autumn Leaves - Doris Day 98. Don't Take Your Love from Me - Doris Day 99. There'll Never Be another You - Doris Day 100. Gone With the Wind - Doris Day 101. The Gypsy in My Soul - Doris Day 102. Day By Day - Doris Day 103. A Guy Is a Guy - Doris Day 104. Sugarbush - Doris Day 105. The Pajama Game (Opening)/Racing with the Clock] - Doris Day 106. I'm Not At All in Love - Doris Day 107. I Never Be Jealous Again - Doris Day 108. Hey There - Doris Day 109. Once a Year Day! - Doris Day 110. Small Talk - Doris Day 111. There Once Was a Man - Doris Day 112. Steam Heat - Doris Day 113. Hernando's Hideaway - Doris Day 114. Seven and a Half Cents - Doris Day 115. Finale - Doris Day 116. I See Your Face before Me - Doris Day 117. Close Your Eyes - Doris Day 118. The Night We Called It a Day - Doris Day 119. Dream a Little Dream of Me - Doris Day 120. Under a Blanket of Blue - Doris Day 121. You Do Something to Me - Doris Day 122. Stars Fell On Alabama - Doris Day 123. Moon Song - Doris Day 124. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) - Doris Day 125. Soft as the Starlight - Doris Day 126. Moonglow - Doris Day 127. The Lamp Is Low - Doris Day 128. Hooray for Hollywood - Doris Day 129. Cheek to Cheek - Doris Day 130. It's Easy to Remember - Doris Day 131. The Way You Look Tonight - Doris Day 132. I'll Remember April - Doris Day 133. Blues in the Night - Doris Day 134. Over the Rainbow - Doris Day 135. Our Love Is Here To Stay - Doris Day 136. In the Still of the Night - Doris Day 137. Night and Day - Doris Day 138. Easy to Love - Doris Day 139. I Had the Craziest Dream - Doris Day 140. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Doris Day 141. Soon - Doris Day 142. That Old Black Magic - Doris Day 143. You'll Never Know - Doris Day 144. A Foggy Day - Doris Day 145. It Might As Well Be Spring - Doris Day 146. Nice Work If You Can Get It - Doris Day 147. Three Coins in the Fountain - Doris Day 148. Let's Face the Music and Dance - Doris Day 149. Pennies from Heaven - Doris Day 150. Oh, But I Do - Doris Day 151. Cuttin' Capers - Doris Day 152. Steppin' Out With My Baby - Doris Day 153. Makin' Whoopee - Doris Day 154. The Lady's in Love with You - Doris Day 155. Why Don't We Do This More Often - Doris Day 156. Let's Take a Walk around the Block - Doris Day 157. I'm Sitting on Top of the World - Doris Day 158. Get Out and Get Under the Moon - Doris Day 159. Fit as a Fiddle (And Ready for Love) - Doris Day 160. Me Too (Ho-Ho! Ha-Ha!) - Doris Day 161. I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze - Doris Day 162. Let's Fly Away - Doris Day 163. Show Time (Part One) - Doris Day 164. I Got the Sun in the Morning - Doris Day 165. Ohio - Doris Day 166. I Love Paris - Doris Day 167. When I'm Not Near the Boy I Love - Doris Day 168. People Will Say We're in Love - Doris Day 169. I've Grown Accustomed To His Face - Doris Day 170. The Surrey with the Fringe on Top - Doris Day 171. They Say It's Wonderful - Doris Day 172. Wonderful Guy - Doris Day 173. On the Street Where You Live - Doris Day 174. Medley: the Sound of Music/Show Time (Part Two) - Doris Day 175. Mister Tap Toe - Doris Day 176. I Give My Heart To You - Doris Day 177. Pillow Talk - Doris Day 178. Heart Full of Love - Doris Day 179. Anyway the Wind Blows - Doris Day 180. Oh! What a Lover You'll Be - Doris Day 181. No - Doris Day 182. Love Me in the Daytime - Doris Day 183. I Enjoy Being a Girl - Doris Day 184. Tunnel of Love - Doris Day 185. He's So Married - Doris Day 186. Roly Poly - Doris Day 187. Possess Me - Doris Day 188. Inspiration - Doris Day 189. What Every Girl Should Know - Doris Day 190. Mood Indigo - Doris Day 191. When You're Smiling - Doris Day 192. A Fellow Needs a Girl - Doris Day 193. My Kinda Love - Doris Day 194. What's the Use of Wondrin' - Doris Day 195. Something Wonderful - Doris Day 196. A Hundred Years from Today - Doris Day 197. You Can't Have Everything - Doris Day 198. Not Only Should You Love Him - Doris Day 199. What Does a Woman Do - Doris Day 200. The Everlasting Arms - Doris Day 201. When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' along - Doris Day 202. Choo-Choo Train - Doris Day 203. Bright and Shiny - Doris Day 204. I Want to Be Happy - Doris Day 205. Keep Smilin', Keep Laughin', Be Happy - Doris Day 206. Singin' in the Rain - Doris Day 207. Gotta Feelin' - Doris Day 208. Happy Talk - Doris Day 209. Make Someone Happy - Doris Day 210. Ridin' High - Doris Day 211. On the Sunny Side of the Street - Doris Day 212. Clap Yo' Hands - Doris Day 213. Stay with the Happy People - Doris Day 214. Twinkle and Shine - Doris Day 215. I Believe in Dreams - Doris Day 216. I'll Buy That Dream - Doris Day 217. My Ship - Doris Day 218. All I Do Is Dream of You - Doris Day 219. When I Grow Too Old To Dream - Doris Day 220. We'll Love Again - Doris Day 221. I Have Dreamed - Doris Day 222. Periwinkle Blue - Doris Day 223. Someday I'll Find You - Doris Day 224. You Stepped Out of a Dream - Doris Day 225. O What a Beautiful Dream - Doris Day 226. Time to Say Goodnight - Doris Day 227. Everybody Loves a Lover - Doris Day 228. Teacher's Pet - Doris Day 229. The Circus on Parade - Doris Day 230. Over and Over Again - Doris Day 231. Why Can't I? - Doris Day 232. This Can't Be Love - Doris Day 233. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World - Doris Day 234. My Romance - Doris Day 235. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Reprise) - Doris Day 236. Little Girl Blue - Doris Day 237. Sawdust Spangles and Dreams (Finale) - Doris Day 238. If I Can Help Somebody - Doris Day 239. Nearer My God to Thee - Doris Day 240. The Prodigal Son - Doris Day 241. Abide With Me - Doris Day 242. Bless This House - Doris Day 243. You'll Never Walk Alone - Doris Day 244. In the Garden - Doris Day 245. Walk with Him - Doris Day 246. Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) - Doris Day 247. Be Still and Know - Doris Day 248. I Need Thee Every Hour - Doris Day 249. The Lord's Prayer - Doris Day 250. Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) - Doris Day 251. Secret Love - Doris Day
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36,60 zł
Under the Duvet Penguin
Powieści i opowiadania
'When people ask me what I do for a crust and I tell them that I'm a novelist, they immediately assume that my life is a non-stop carousel of limos, television appearances, hair-dos, devoted fans, stalkers and all the glitzy paraphernalia of being a public figure. It's time to set the record straight. I write alone, in a darkened bedroom, wearing my PJs, eating bananas, my laptop on a pillow in front of me ...' Her novels are adored by millions around the world
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40,80 zł
Shadow of the Sun Penguin
Literatura faktu
'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. It is both a sustained meditation on the mosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination, from the intoxications of freedom, from war and from politics as theft. The Beginning: Collision, Ghana 1958 More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun. Just yesterday, an autumnal London was drenched in rain. The airplane drenched in rain. A cold, wind, darkness. But here, from the morning
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Talking As Fast As I Can Little, Brown Book Group
Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: with a new bonus chapterIn this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood-along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again.In Talking As Fast As I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as an actress, and, years later, sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asking herself, "Did you, um, make it?" She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood ("Strangers were worried about me; that's how long I was single!"), the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role, and her experience being a judge onProject Runway ("It's like I had a fashion-induced blackout").In "What It Was Like, Part One," Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon and reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay "What It Was Like, Part Two" reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later, and what doing so has meant to her.Some more things you will learn about Lauren: She once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen DeGeneres, she's aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls ("If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high"), and she's a card-carrying REI shopper ("My bungee cords now earn points!").Including photos and excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, this book is like a cozy night in, catching up with your best friend, laughing and swapping stories, and-of course-talking as fast as you can.
Sklep: Libristo.pl
190,00 zł
10 Euro, Opowieści i legendy Austrii - Ach, kochany Augustynie, 2011 Austrian Mint
Kategorie > Srebrne i złote monety Euro
Seria: "Opowieści i legendy Austrii" Kraj: Austria Emitent: Narodowy Bank Austrii Producent: Mennica Austrii (Austrian Mint) Stan zachowania monety: I (menniczy) Nominał: 10 Euro (10
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123,92 zł
The Duke That I Marry: A Spinster Heiresses Novel AVON BOOKS
Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna
Once upon a time there were three young ladies who, despite their fortunes, had been on the marriage mart a bit too long. They were known as "the Spinster Heiresses" . . .Is it wrong for a woman to want more?Not if she is
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16,79 zł
Legendy śląskie - Sylwia Chmiel
Książki & Multimedia > Książki
Opis - Książka ta powstała z myślą o spopularyzowaniu wśród dzieci legend, gawęd i podań powtarzanych na terenie Górnego Śląska od wieków. Opowieści te odzwierciedlają ludową mądrość Ślązaków, uczą morałem, pokazują ważne w życiu wartości. Współczesne opracowane literackie i piękne ilustracje sprawiają, że Legendy śląskie zainteresują każde dziecko. Nazwa - Legendy śląskie Autor - Sylwia Chmiel Oprawa - Twarda Wydawca - Damidos Kod ISBN - 9788378554479 Kod EAN - 9788378554479 Wydanie - 1 Rok wydania - 2014 Język - polski Seria wydawnicza - Damidos bajki Format - 23.5x30.0cm Ilość stron - 64 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2014-04-29
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36,60 zł
Globalization & its Discontents Penguin
Biznes
Our world is changing. Globalization is not working. It is hurting those it was meant to help. And now, the tide is turning
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20,80 zł
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Penguin
Inne 1
'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen. This book is a Penguin Red Classic. To see other Penguin Reds, visit the minisite by clicking here. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it,
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40,80 zł
Letter from America Penguin
Powieści i opowiadania
When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued uninterrupted every week until early 2004, kept the world in touch with what was happening in Cooke's wry, liberal and humane style. This selection, made largely by Cooke himself and supplemented by his literary executor, gives us the very best of these legendary broadcasts. Over half have never appeared in print before. It is a remarkable portrait of a continent - and a man. Fred Astaire 26 June 1987 Movie stars don't make it. Nor statesmen. Not Prime Ministers, or dictators unless they die in office. Not even a world-famous rock star, unless he's assassinated. But last Monday, none of the three national television networks hesitated about the story that would lead the evening news. On millions of little screens in this country and I don't doubt in many other countries around the world, the first shots were of an imp, a graceful wraith, a firefly in impeccable white tie and tails. And for much longer than the lead story usually runs, for a full five minutes on NBC, we were given a loving retrospective of the dead man, ending with the firm declaration by Nureyev that 'He was not just the best ballroom dancer, or tap dancer, he was simply the greatest, most imaginative, dancer of our time.' And the newsmen were right to remind us of the immortal comment of the Hollywood mogul, who, with the no-nonsense directness of an expert, reported on Fred Astaire's first film test: 'Has enormous ears, can't act, can't sing, dances a little.' That Hollywood mogul, long gone, spent his life ducking round corners, to avoid being identified as the oaf who looked in the sky and never saw the brightest star. However, that expert opinion was, as the lawyers say, controlling at the time and in Astaire's first movies, there was no thought of allowing him to act or sing. But not for long. And thanks to the invention of television, and the need to fill vast stretches of the afternoon and night with old movies, it has been possible for my daughter, for instance, to claim Fred Astaire as her favourite film star from the evidence of all the movies he made fifteen, ten, five, three years before she was born. When I got the news on Monday evening here, and realized with immediate professional satisfaction that the BBC had smartly on hand a musical obituary tribute to him I put together eight years ago, I couldn't help recalling the casual, comic way this and similar radio obituaries came about. I was in London at the end of 1979, and Richard Rodgers - one of the two or three greatest of American songwriters - had just died, I believe on New Year's Eve or the night before. Britons, by then, were getting accustomed, without pain, to making what used to be a two-day Christmas holiday into a ten-day much-needed rest. For all laborious research purposes, the BBC was shut up. And there was no retrospective programme on the life and music of Richard Rodgers in the BBC's archives. Of course, in a gramophone library that looks like an annex to the Pentagon, there were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of recordings of his songs. The SOS went out to a writer, a producer, and - I presume - a man who had the key to the gramophone library. The silent place was unlocked, and the three of them laboured through the day to put together an hour's tribute to Richard Rodgers. It was done. It was competent enough, but rushed to an impossible deadline. This hasty improvisation happened just when my own music producer and I, who had enjoyed working together for six years or so on American popular music, were wondering what we could offer next. We'd done a sketch history of jazz, through individuals. We'd gone through all the popular music of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, and were stumped for a new series, at which point I asked if we mightn't go and talk to the head of the channel, network or whatever. We went in, and the genial boss asked me what we had in mind. 'A morgue,' I said. A what? 'Where', I asked, 'is your morgue?' He was not familiar with the word, a newspaper term. 'Well,' I said, 'all newspapers have them.' 'How d'you mean?' 'If, I explained, 'Mrs Thatcher died tonight and you woke up and read a two-sentence obituary, you'd be rightly outraged. But if you saw a two-page obituary, you'd take it for granted. When d'you suppose it was written?' 'That's right,' he said thoughtfully. What I was proposing was a morgue of the Americans eminent in popular music and jazz, so they'd not get caught short again. A splendid idea, the man said; pick your stars. We made a list and were commissioned to return to America and finish all of them. Naturally, we looked at a calendar, and birthdates of Hoagy Carmichael, Earl Hines, Harold Arlen, Ethel Merman, Stephane Grappelli, Ella Fitzgerald. But then, in a spasm of panic, we thought of two giants - if the word can be used about two comparative midgets: Irving Berlin and Fred Astaire. Berlin was then 91. And Fred Astaire was just crowding 80. The boss man, to whom the idea of a morgue had been, only a few minutes before, quaint if not morbid, wondered what we were waiting for. Better get busy, at once, on Berlin and then on Astaire. I remember doing the Astaire obit, then and there, while I was still in London. Meanwhile, we'd simply pray every night that the Lord would keep Irving Berlin breathing till I could get home and get busy. I remember being picked up in a car by a charming young girl to get to the BBC and record my Astaire narration - there wasn't a moment to lose. She asked me, in the car, what the script was that I was clutching. 'It's an obituary', I said, 'of Fred Astaire.' 'Fred Astaire,' she shrieked, 'dead?' and almost swerved into a bus. 'Of course, he's not dead,' I said, 'but he's going to be one day.' She, too, was new to the institution of a morgue. I recalled that when I was a correspondent for a British paper in the United States, and when for example. Dean Acheson was appointed Secretary of State, the first cable I had from my editor said, 'Welcome Acheson obituary soonest.' How ghoulish, she said. I imagine that to two generations at least, it's assumed that Fred Astaire, this slim, pop-eyed newcomer to Hollywood who couldn't act, couldn't sing, danced a little, only made a fool of the mogul through the movies he made, with Ginger Rogers, in the mid- and late 1930s. But long before then, from the mid-1920s on, he was already an incomparable star - as a dancer - to theatre audiences both in New York and in London. Perhaps more in London than anywhere, certainly in the 1920s, with the early Gershwin hits, Funny Face and Lady Be Good, and lastly, in 1933, in Cole Porter's Gay Divorce (which was the title of the theatre show; Hollywood would not then allow so shocking a title and called the movie version, The Gay Divorcee). Of all the thousands of words that have been written this week, and will be written, there is a passage I went back to on Tuesday night which, I think, as well as anything I know, sums up Astaire's overall appeal - the appeal that takes in but transcends one's admiration for his dancing and for his inimitably intimate singing style. This was written in November 1933, by a theatre critic who had so little feel for dancing that he marvelled why London should go on about 'Mr Astaire's doing well enough what the Tiller Girls at Blackpool do superbly'. The critic, the writer, was James Agate, the irascible, dogmatic, opinionated but brilliant journalist, and I believe the best critic of acting we have had this century. He is writing his review of Gay Divorce, after declaring yet again his contempt for musical comedy as an entertainment for idiots, deploring the play's plot and the acting and hoping 'Micawberishly, for something to turn up'. 'Presently,' he wrote, 'Mr Fred Astaire obliged, and there is really no more to be said.' Except
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