Amy Wright has appeared in a 1979 film based on a memoir titled what?
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Amy Wright Amy Wright (born April 15, 1950 in Chicago) is an American actress and former model. She has appeared in such films as "The Deer Hunter", "Breaking Away", "The Amityville Horror", "Heartland", "Wise Blood", "Stardust Memories", "The Accidental Tourist", "Hard Promises", "Crossing Delancey" and "Miss Firecracker".
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Heartland (film) Heartland is a 1979 American film, directed by Richard Pearce, starring Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell. The film is a stark depiction of early homestead life in the American West. It is based on a memoir by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, titled "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" (1914).
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Amy (2015 film) Amy is a 2015 British documentary film about the life and death of British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse. Directed by Asif Kapadia and produced by James Gay-Rees, George Pank, and Paul Bell and co-produced by Krishwerkz Entertainment, On The Corner Films, Playmaker Films, and Universal Music, in association with Film 4. The film covers Winehouse's life and her struggle with substance abuse, both before and after her career blossomed, and which eventually caused her death.
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Home: A Memoir of My Early Years Home: A Memoir of My Early Years is a best-selling memoir written by Julie Andrews. It was published on April 1, 2008 by Hyperion.
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Son of Man (1980 film) Son of Man () is an award-winning 1980 South Korean film directed by Yu Hyun-mok. It is based on the same titled 1979 novel written by Yi Munyol.
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Midnight Express (film) Midnight Express is a 1978 American-British-Turkish prison drama film directed by Alan Parker, produced by David Puttnam and starring Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul L. Smith, Randy Quaid, Norbert Weisser, Peter Jeffrey and John Hurt. It is based on Billy Hayes' 1977 non-fiction book "Midnight Express" and was adapted into the screenplay by Oliver Stone.
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Inside Moves Inside Moves is a 1980 American drama film directed by Richard Donner. The film is based on the book of the same name by Todd Walton, with a script by then writing duo Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson.
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21 and a Wake-Up 21 and Wake-Up is a 2009 American war film starring Amy Acker, Danica McKellar, Faye Dunaway, and was directed and written by producer, director, and writer Chris McIntyre.
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Where the Buffalo Roam Where the Buffalo Roam is a 1980 American semi-biographical comedy film which loosely depicts author Hunter S. Thompson's rise to fame in the 1970s and his relationship with Chicano attorney and activist Oscar "Zeta" Acosta. Art Linson directed the picture, while Bill Murray portrayed the author and Peter Boyle portrayed Acosta, who is referred to in the film as Carl Lazlo, Esq. A number of other names, places, and details of Thompson's life are also changed.
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Autobiography An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-"autos" self + βίος-"bios" life + γράφειν-"graphein" to write) is a self-written account of the life of a person. The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical "The Monthly Review", when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as "pedantic". However, its next recorded use was in its present sense, by Robert Southey in 1809. Despite only being named early in the nineteenth century, first-person autobiographical writing originates in antiquity. Roy Pascal differentiates autobiography from the periodic self-reflective mode of journal or diary writing by noting that "[autobiography] is a review of a life from a particular moment in time, while the diary, however reflective it may be, moves through a series of moments in time". Autobiography thus takes stock of the autobiographer's life from the moment of composition. While biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents and viewpoints, autobiography may be based entirely on the writer's memory. The memoir form is closely associated with autobiography but it tends, as Pascal claims, to focus less on the self and more on others during the autobiographer's review of his or her life.
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo is a humorous autobiographical book by American stand-up comedian and actress Amy Schumer. It topped "The New York Times" Best Seller list shortly after its release in 2016.
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My Own Two Feet My Own Two Feet: A Memoir (1995) is Beverly Cleary's second memoir after "A Girl from Yamhill" (1988). It is a "New York Times" Notable Book.
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My Soul Looks Back My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir is a memoir by cookbook author and food historian Jessica B. Harris. Harris published the 255-page book with Scribner on March 9, 2017. "Publisher's Weekly" described the book as "a lively, entertaining, and informative recounting of a time and place that shaped and greatly enriched American culture," namely Harris's life as a young person in New York City in the 1970s amid black luminaries including James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison; Harris was introduced to this circle through her romantic relationship with Sam Floyd, Baldwin's best friend. Reviewing the book for "The New York Times", critic Dwight Garner described it as having a "simmering warmth" and "was never, to this reader, uninteresting" even if it also had a "softness of focus", suggesting at times the book fails to "recall the best lines and jokes" from the literati Harris describes.
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Joyce Dyer Joyce Dyer (born July 20, 1947) is a U.S. writer of nonfiction and memoirs whose most recent memoir, "Goosetown: Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood", tells the story of the author's attempt to remember the first five years of her life growing up in an ethnic neighborhood in Akron called Old Wolf Ledge (known to residents as "Goosetown"), famous for its glacial formations, breweries, and cereal mills. "Goosetown" is the prequel to "Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town", her book about the decades when Akron was the Rubber Capital of the World. In it Dyer provides a loving but complicated portrait of her father and a view of the relationships among Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, its employees, and the city of Akron, Ohio. Earlier memoirs were "In a Tangled Wood: An Alzheimer's Journey" and "Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town." She has also edited two collections of essays, "Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers" and "From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines." Her first book, "The Awakening: A Novel of Beginnings", was a scholarly study of Kate Chopin, a turn-of-the-century American writer. Joyce Dyer is Professor Emerita of English at Hiram College, where she continues to teach occasional courses in creative writing. Her teaching and writing specialties are essay and hybrid nonfiction. Dyer's biography is included in "Contemporary Authors", volume 146, and in the New Revision Series, volume 91.
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Hair (film) Hair is a 1979 musical war drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. The hippies introduce him to their environment of marijuana, LSD, unorthodox relationships and draft evasion.
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The Short-Timers The Short-Timers is a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by U.S. Marine Corps veteran Gustav Hasford, about his experience in the Vietnam War. It was later adapted into the film "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) by Hasford, Michael Herr, and Stanley Kubrick. Hasford's novel "The Phantom Blooper" (1990) is a sequel to "The Short-Timers". The book was supposed to be the first of a trilogy, but Hasford died soon after completing its sequel and before writing the third installment.
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Impossible Motherhood Impossible Motherhood (full title: Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict) is a memoir by Irene Vilar. It is the second memoir published by Vilar, the first being "The Ladies’ Gallery".
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Memoirs of a Survivor (film) Memoirs of a Survivor is a 1981 British science fiction film directed by David Gladwell, with some scenes filmed at the location of Argyle Street, Norwich. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the novel of the same name by Doris Lessing. The film was scheduled to be released on DVD in June 2014 by Network Distributing.
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Last Embrace Last Embrace is a 1979 thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme. Based on the novel "The 13th Man" by Murray Teigh Bloom, it stars Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin and Christopher Walken, telling the story of a woman who takes the role similar to the biblical avenger Goel and killing the descendants of the Lower East Side Zwi Migdal, who enslaved her grandmother.
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Amy Sewell Amy Sewell (born 1963) is an American author and filmmaker, best known for "Mad Hot Ballroom" (Paramount, 2005), in which she debuted as a film writer and producer.
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One More Time (book) One More Time is a memoir by comedian Carol Burnett. It was published by Random House in 1986 and became a "New York Times" non-fiction bestseller.
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The Soloist The Soloist is a 2009 British-American drama film directed by Joe Wright, and starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr.. It is based on the true story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who developed schizophrenia and became homeless. The screenplay by Susannah Grant is based on the book, "The Soloist" by Steve Lopez.