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From his first performance at age four, Willie Nelson was driven to make music and live life on his own terms. But though he is a songwriter of exceptional depth - “Crazy” was one of his early classics - Willie only found success after abandoning Nashville and moving to Austin, Texas.

Red Headed Stranger made country cool to a new generation of fans. Wanted: The Outlaws became the first country album to sell a million copies. And “On the Road Again” became the anthem for Americans on the move. A craggy-faced, pot-smoking philosopher, Willie Nelson is one of America’s great iconoclasts and idols.

Now Joe Nick Patoski draws on over 100 interviews with Willie and his family, band, and friends to tell Nelson’s story, from humble Depression-era roots, to his musical education in Texas honky-tonks and his flirtations with whiskey, women, and weed; from his triumph with #1 hit “Always On My Mind” to his nearly career-ending battles with debt and the IRS; and his ultimate redemption and ascension to American hero

• TV Scripts (TWIZTV): Description: ”TWIZ TV.COM - Free TV Scripts and Television Transcripts. Listing of more than 200 shows. Including Alias, Charmed, Gilmore Girls, The OC, One Tree Hill, Smallville and more.”
• Television Transcript Project : TVTP 1000 Description: “Transcripts to TV shows, commercials, and a few interviews. Has some links to more and background, including how-to.”
• Simply Scripts Descritption: “1000s of free, downloadable movie scripts and movie screenplays on the ’net. Searchable database of movie, television, radio, anime scripts, transcripts and plays. A screenwriter’s resource.”
• Movie-Page.com: Scripts A-M: Description: “The movie script section features new, old and rare movie scripts.”
• Drews Script O Rama: Description: ”#1 free screenplay site for movies and television”

These descriptions are provided by Infomine: Scholarly Internet Source Collections.

• “The Machinal Machine”
• “Machinal, the Snyder-Gray Trial and Russia”
• 80 Years Ago in News History: Sex! Crime! Sensationalism!
• Treadwell, Sophie, 1885-1970 (MVCC ID required from off campus)
• Plays by American women, 1900-1930  PS628.W6 P53 1985
• Twenty-five best plays of the modern American theatre. PS634 .G32
• Drama for Students, volume 22 p231-59  REF PN6112 .D7

Here is the blurb from the Moraine Valley Theater page:

• Machinal By Sophie Treadwell April 29-May 1Sunday, May 2John and Angeline Oremus TheaterDirected by Dr. Craig RosenA 1928 Broadway hit, Machinal is a modern age tragedy of isolation turned to murder. The play, Sophie Treadwell said, is about “a young woman, ready, eager for life, for love…but deadened, squeezed, crushed by the machine-like quality of the life surrounding.” Loosely based on the sensational 1927 murder trial of Ruth Snyder, Treadwell uses this scenario as a springboard for her own speculations about what circumstances might drive a seemingly harmless stenographer to commit murder.

• First off, the library owns a CD of the play: Private Lives by Noel Coward   PR6005.085 P75 2003
• We alos have some other works by Coward: Three Plays by Noel Coward PR6005.O85 A19 1979
• Looking for critical material?  Take a look at Noel Coward by Milton Levin   PR6005.O85 A68
• A biography of Coward is Remembered Laughter : The Life Of Noel Coward by Cole Lesley PR6005.O85 Z67
• In our reference collection take a look at Drama for Students, volume(s) 3:300-16    REF PN6112 .D7  v.3
• Or, see British Writers, Supplement II, pp.147-149 REF PR85 .B688 Suppl. 2
• Take a look at this article, “Theatrical revival production review” (MVCC required to view from off campus): This is a good overview of Coward and a current production a few years back– some excellent insights.

Here is the blurb from the MVCC Theater page:

• Private Lives By Noel CowardFeb. 25-27 and March 5-6 at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 28, at 3 p.m.John and Angeline Oremus Theater, Directed by Dr. Craig RosenElyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark and impulsively elope. After days of being reunited, they again find their fiery romance alternating between passions of love and anger. A unique play with four successful Broadway runs. 

• Evil Dead: The Musical: Be warned, this is a link to the Wikipedia entry on Evil Dead: The Musical, but, to be honest, this is one of the best sources we have found out there on the Web. Watch out for the typical Wikipedia pitfalls, but this is a good starting point to learn about the musical.
• “Musicals Glean Inspiration from films”: A short article from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television.
• “Music and Mayhem – Blood Trail Included”: The New York Times comparing Evil Deal to Rocky Horror.
• “A Bloody Good Time”: Entertainment Weekly asks, “Where did this musical come from?”
• “Might of the Living Dead – A ghoulish genre gets new life”: Publishers Weekly ask, “Are Zombies the new Vampires?”“What Some Ghosts Don’t Know: Spectral Incognizance and the Horror Film” (MVCC ID required to view off campus): An academic article about horror film.
• “Raising the Dead” (MVCC ID required to view off campus): Traditional zombie movies have no direct antecedent in the written word because of the monsters’ essentially visual nature; zombies don’t think or speak–they simply act. This unique embodiment of horror recalls Sigmund Freud’s concept of the uncanny, which finds itself better suited to filmic representations rather than prose renditions.

Here are a few books that you can pick up here in the library:

• The Horror Film: An Introduction by Rick Worland PN1995.9.H6 W64 2007
• The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal PN1995.9.H6 S57 2001
• Vampire legends in contemporary American culture : what becomes a legend most by William Patrick Day PS374.V35 D39 2002

Want to watch some films? Here are some DVDs:

• Dracula PN1995.9.D64 D733853 2006
• Carrie PN1997 .C367 1976
• The Ring PN1997 .R58 2005

Here is the blurb about the musical from the MVCC theater site:

• Evil Dead: The Musical, Nov. 5-7 at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 8 at 3 p.m.Dorothy Menker Theater, Directed by Tommy HenselBook & Lyrics By George Reinblatt, Music By Frank Cipolla/Christopher Bond/Melissa Morris/George Reinblatt: Based on Sam Raimi’s 1980s cult classic films, Evil Dead tells the tale of five college kids who travel to a cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force. And although it may sound like a horror, it’s not! The songs are hilariously campy, and the show is bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit. As musical mayhem descends upon this sleepover in the woods, “camp” takes on a whole new meaning with uproarious numbers like All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons, Look Who’s Evil Now and Do the Necronomicon.

• Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig — the new brand of “empowered woman” who embraces “raunch culture” wherever she finds it. In her groundbreaking book, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy argues that, if male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women — and of themselves. Irresistibly witty and wickedly intelligent, Female Chauvinist Pigs makes the case that the rise of raunch does not represent how far women have come; it only proves how far they have left to go.

This book is now available for check out in the library.