Brynner, Rock 1946-

Dark remedy : the impact of thalidomide and its revival as a vital medicine by Trent D Stephens( Book )

14 editions published between 2001 and 2009 in English and held by 1,882 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Describes how thalidomide, a sedative that killed thousands and caused untold birth defects during the 1950s, has made a dramatic comeback to provide successful treatment for millions of people with arthritis, lupus, brain tumors, cancer, tuberculosis, and AIDS

The doomsday report : a novel by Rock Brynner( Book )

2 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A satire on the publishing industry in which an editor accepts a manuscript prophesying an ecological doomsday. The book is a bestseller, eco-terrorists go to work, then someone discovers it is all fiction

Yul : the man who would by king : a memoir by Rock Brynner( Book )

1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 79 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Yul : the man who would be king : a memoir of father and son by Rock Brynner( Book )

13 editions published between 1989 and 2017 in English and held by 48 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Here is a dazzling biographical memoir of one of the most charismatic figures of stage and screen--Yul Brynner--by Yul's only son.Yul Brynner was Hollywood's ultimate enigma, easily the entertainment industry's most exotic male star. He built a career on the lie that he was born of a gypsy woman and cut his teeth in the wilds of the Siberian taiga. The truth was even more remarkable than that. Here at last, is the man behind the legend--the half-Swiss, half-Tatar boy who grew up in China and Paris, smoked opium with Jean Cocteau, caroused with gypsies, worked as a trapeze artist, emigrated to America, married a starlet, and embarked on one of the most dynamic double careers Broadway and Hollywood would ever know.Yul Brynner electrified audiences with his portrayal of the tragic and despotic King ofSiam, a role he performed more than 4,000 times over a period of thirty years.It was a role that eventually became indistinguishable from the man, for YulBrynner was as much in love with power--and as much a victim of its illusions--as the king he played so brilliantly on stage. He was also every bit as mesmerizing and just as flawed.Yul's fame and riches transformed him. The year 1957 marked his Academy Award triumph as best actor in The King and I. It also marked the start of a torrential megalomania. Yul began to go through friends, wives, lovers, deals and associates with the rapacity of a Mongol chieftain.Yul is the moving tale of a man who became king, and a king who became slave to his own extravagance. But it is also a spellbinding book about a star-studded era. The cast includes such greats as Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Sinatra, Muhammad Ali, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, and Elizabeth Taylor. And then there are Yul's women: Virginia Gilmore, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Ingrid Bergman, Marlene Dietrich, and Joan Crawford, among many others.Rock Brynner was the most attentive witness to Yul's astonishing life. In this deeply personal and loving memoir of a man who could be anything but lovable, Rock finally comes to terms with the tyrannical star, Rabelaisian womanizer, extravagant egoist, and self-inventor that was his father.A powerful and haunting book, Yul sets straight the record in Yul Brynner, and pays a tribute of truth to a magical actor, a difficult father, and an extraordinary man

"Fire beneath our feet" ; Shay's rebellion and its constitutional impact by Rock Brynner( )

5 editions published between 1993 and 1995 in English and held by 21 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Alex North : el viajero impenitente by Frederic Torres( Book )

2 editions published in 2016 in Spanish and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Se realiza un análisis de la obra del compositor norteamericano que, a mitad del pasado siglo XX, abrió las puertas de la modernidad a la música cinematográfica con la introducción del jazz en la estructura dramática de las partituras con su trabajo para Un tranvía llamado deseo. Su aproximación introspectiva a la psicología de los personajes le convirtió en el mejor ilustrador de las adaptaciones cinematográficas de autores como Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, Malcom Lowry, Flannery O'Connor, Howard Fast, Victor Hugo, William Faulkner o James Joyce. Pero también supo aportar esa misma complejidad emocional a las grandes películas épicas en las que trabajó, revolucionando asimismo el género histórico con partituras de la talla de Espartaco, Cleopatra, El tormento y el éxtasis y The passover plot, así como creando otras para todo tipo de géneros entre los que destacó el western, con Más allá de Río Grande, El gran combate y Muerde la bala; el bélico, con La brigada del diablo; e, incluso, el fantástico, con El dragón del lago de fuego. Un recalcitrante viajero del espacio y el tiempo, de sólida formación musical, que jamás temió enfrentarse a temática alguna. A los 25 años de su muerte, Frederic Torres reivindica la modernidad de su obra con un pormenorizado análisis en el que se aborda toda su filmografía, así como también sus obras extracinematográficas, escénicas y televisivas. (Editor)

Kami to akuma no kusuri saridomaido( Book )

2 editions published in 2001 in Japanese and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Yul : Man Who Would be King by Rock Brynner( Book )

1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Natural power : the New York Power Authority's origins and path to clean energy by Rock Brynner( Book )

1 edition published in 2016 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Empire & odyssey : the Brynners in Far East Russia and beyond by Rock Brynner( Book )

3 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Yul Brynner, the mysterious and exotic Hollywood star, was one of four generations in his family to bear that name. His Swiss-born grandfather, Jules, arrived in Shanghai almost by accident about 1865, but within twenty years had become a leading industrialist in the Far East. His business association with Tsar Nicholas II built Vladivostok and the Trans-Siberian Railway, then triggered the Russo-Japanese War, contributing to the fall of the Romanoffs. Jules' son Boris regained control of the family's mines, but his experiences in China, Manchuria, and North Korea rivaled the ordeals of Dr. Zhivago. Yul's childhood took him to China and then to France, where, as a teenager, he performed in nightclubs with Russian Gypsies while becoming a trapeze acrobat in the circus. He moved to America before he spoke English and within five years was starring on Broadway. His son, with a colorful life of his own, has written the family's history.--From publisher description