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Winona Ryder has established herself as a popular actress. From her movie debut at the age of 13 to starring alongside Sigourney Weaver in "Alien Resurrection", this biography traces the events and circumstances that have shaped Winona's career and propelled her from teen star to cultural icon. ... Read more

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Top rate, should still be in print!
Well, I read this book and read it again, and I think it is more than adequate as a source of all info Winona. I would not describe it as superficial, but perhaps a little limited;not due to the author, but due to the restraints put on him by Winona's guard dogs, i.e. publicist and so on.


I have actually had a chance to meet the author, andI find him to be someone who is deeply passionate about his work, and who respects his subjects, but still tells a good story, and a factual one. It may be said that a Winona bio was a bit too early, but considering her vast career at the time, it was likely a good time to have one. I think the author should come out with a Winona Bio II, when the actress finally throws in the towel and becomes a private citizen, but I am biased that way, being a BIG admirer of the lovely young woman. I reccomend this book to anyone wanting to know who the woman is behind the scenes, and you will be glad you did!

A GOOD LOOK AT A GOOD ACTRESS
THIS IS ABOUT WINONA RYDER, ONE OF THE BETTER ACTRESSES IN HOLLYWOOD. A SOMEWHAT LIMITED BUT CANDID LOOK AT HER LIFE AND FILMS. THE BOOK MOSTLY IS FOCUSED ON HER MOVIES AND HAS SOME INTERESTING TIDBITS ABOUT HER. HER BOUTS WITH INSOMNIA, RELATIONSHIP WITH JOHNNY DEPP, AND UPBRINGING BY HIPPIE PARENTS MAKE THIS A WORTH WHILE READ. TOO BAD THERE WASN'T MORE DETAILS ABOUT HER PRIVATE LIFE. STILL A NICE READ AND RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF THIS TALENTED BIG SCREEN STAR.

Not much in-depth information, bit superficial.
I expected much more information on how Winona Ryder really is, her hobbies, likes and dislikes etc. If I am correct, the author of this book didn't even have contact with ms. Ryder herself. Still, it gives a summaryof her movies, which is nice.

Beautiful.
This book gives a good synopsis of the life of the beautiful and talented actress Winona Ryder.It goes through her years, telling of the influences her 60's-ish family had on her, her aspiration to be an actress, and, inone instance, when she was beaten up in school for "looking like aboy." This book is also beautifully illustrated.The photographshighlight her life well, and allow a lot of reader inflection.A journeythrough someone else's shoes which you will truly enjoy. ... Read more

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A pictorial celebration of the life and career of one of today's hottest actresses, The Winona Ryder Scrapbook features an extensive biography of the star plus more than 100 photos, many in full color. ... Read more

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Winona is the best
Winona is the best, hottest most perfect woman to walk the Earth since Eve and this book shows her off really really well! The end. ... Read more

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A child star who literally grew up in front of the camera, Winona Ryder is the first American actress since Natalie Wood to successfully maintain a career from adolescence to adulthood. This long-overdue biography looks at Ryder's life from her unconventional childhood on a commune to her relationship with Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp. Includes behind-the-scenes information from the sets of Winona's movies, past and present. 85 photos. ... Read more

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There is some thing missing.
Over all I thought this book was very good.The one thing that disapointed me was not enough information on Winona her self.I mean by this her likes and dislikes and also the things she likes to do in her spare time when she is not so caught up in her career.This book does have plenty of in depth detail on her acting career and plenty of detail on her 60ish parents.maybe I just want to see Winona write her own biography,something similar to Frank McCourts Angelas Ashes.So for now this book is the best out there until Winona gives her authorization to someone to write that book with the in depth detail for which I would like to read.

There is some thing missing.
Over all I thought this book was very good.The one thing that disapointed me was not enough information on Winona her self.I mean by this her likes and dislikes and also the things she likes to do in her spare time when she is not so caught up in her career.This book does have plenty of in depth detail on her acting career and plenty of detail on her 60ish parents.maybe I just want to see Winona write her own biography,something similar to Frank McCourts Angelas Ashes.So for now this book is the best out there until Winona gives her authorization to someone to write that book with the in depth detail for which I would like to read.

One fantastic actress, one fantastic book!
If your a die-hard Winona Ryder fan, this book is a must have! ... Read more

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From magazine covers and her film career to her relationships and the tabloids, this documentary of generational icon Winona Ryder is packed with pictures by famous magazine photographers, profiles, movies reviews, and interviews." ... Read more

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Pretty good, could use more info
I picked this up since it seems to be the only good Winona Ryder book out there.Some good pictures are in here, as well as some interesting articles.But this is no biography.It's more like a scrap book of articles from the past.However, it's still quite interesting.I only wish there was more articles about the woman herself, and not her movies.

The Greatest Book about Winona Ryder
There are lots of books about Winona Ryder. But this book is the best... Lots of pics and information in it let You buy this greatest book. ... Read more

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A minibook provides readers with inside information on one of Hollywood's hottest actors, describing Ryder's vital statistics, favorite music, favorite snack, and other important information, and features black-&-white photographs. ... Read more

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A memorial volume to one of this century's most colorfuland pioneering figures in the consciousness movement.

* A wide array of individuals from all stages of Leary's life provides* a comprehensive view of the man and his impact on American culture.

One of the most influential and controversial people of the 20thcentury, Timothy Leary inspired profound feelings--both pro andcon--from everyone with whom he came into contact. He was extravagant,grandiose, enthusiastic, erratic, and an unrelenting proponent ofexpanding consciousness and challenging authority. His experimentswith psilocybin and LSD at Harvard University and Millbrook, New York,were instrumental in propelling the nation into the psychedelic era ofthe 1960s. From the 1980s until his death in 1996 he fully embracedthe possibilities of freedom offered by the developments in computertechnology and the instant communication made possible by theInternet.

The essence of Leary's life has often been reduced to the celebratedformula of Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out.The wider implications ofthis esoteric call to communion have been lost, just as themultifaceted nature of Leary's personality was obscured by thesuperficial spin put on his life and ideas. In this book a wide arrayof individuals from all stages of Leary's life, friends and foesalike, provides a more complete view of the man and his impact onAmerican culture.

It is still too early to know how posterity will judge the man and hisideas, but Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In shows that Leary wasoften so far ahead of his time that few could follow the extensiverange of his thought. ... Read more

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The battle against drug hypocrisy
Regardless of one's personal opinions about Timothy Leary, one cannot really deny the fact that he was a great man; great in the sense that his thoughts and ideas influenced an entire generation (and continues to do so), and that A LOT of people had - and still have - A LOT of strong feelings about everything he stood for. Perhaps it's too early to figure out how extensive his influence actually was. Everything he talked about didn't revolve around LSD, even though many tend to think just that. What many don't know, for instance, is that he contributed greatly to the field of psychology and developed different tests that are still in use today.

Robert Forte has edited a book, not about Leary's life, but more about people who met him, were familiar with him, were close to him, were affected and influenced by him, and all in all had some sort of relation to him. Some of these people are Winona Ryder (to whom Leary was godfather), Hunter S. Thompson, Albert Hofmann (the chemist who synthesized LSD in 1938), Ken Kesey (another "psychedelic pioneer"), Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, and many more.

Some of the contributions consist of Forte simply interviewing the individual in question, while in other cases the contributor has written the piece him/herself. But it's not all about Leary all the time. Timothy Leary is more a book about the psychedelic revolution itself than about one of its leading advocates. Richard Nixon referred to him as "the most dangerous man in the world", and sure, a great deal of the content is about him, what he accomplished, different incidents in his life, and so on. However, another great deal is about the use and abuse of psychedelic drugs, how they shaped and changed society and individual consciousness, how dangers (or harmless) they actually are, what happens to people who choose to try them, and how these now criminalized drugs could be used beneficially in different sorts of therapies.

It's not the best book on the market if you want to learn more about Timothy Leary's opinions and messages, but on the other hand, it's a great book if you want to know some of the influence and the affect he had on his surroundings. Furthermore, through its use of sensible discussions by and with well-informed and rational people, the book offers great knowledge about the absurd American "War on Drugs" and all the hypocrisy this futile and senseless war is built upon.

important and revealing
This is a rich and revealing book that I always recommend to anyone trying to grasp the contradictory figure that was Timothy Leary - not least because many of its subjects are still struggling to grasp exactly what hit them when Leary entered their lives.Highlights for me include the essays by Ram Dass, Robert Anton Wilson and Ralph Metzner, as well as William Burroughs' ability to use a few brief words so well.Winona Ryder's eulogy is also terrific -- it has since been included in Copeland's book on the greatest eulogies of our time, and I liked it so much I used it as the foreword to my own biography on Leary, 'I Have America Surrounded'.

As Forte writes in his introduction, this is "not a biography of Leary, nor an in-depth study of his ideas", and as such the critical review on this page by R. Goldstein seems to have missed the point of the book.Forte is not attempting to be a 'cheerleader' or promote his 'thesis', as is claimed, but instead provides a forum where those who knew Leary could record their memories and reminiscences.True, the majority are positive and loving, but this is no reason to criticize the book.The fact is Leary was deeply loved by many - which is something that those who condemn his character find it convenient to overlook.For this reason the book is an important record, but perhaps more importantly it is those who knew him best who often have the most revealing insights - and this is why the book is so valuable.

A little rain on the celebration
This book is a source of comfort to anyone disgruntled by Robert Greenfield's less than appreciative bio of Timothy Leary. Editor Robert Forte calls his project a "festschrift," which, if my rusty German holds up, loosely means "celebration of writing." It is by no means balanced; its cover promises castigations but delivers only one, ironically from former outlaw chemist Owsley Stanley.There are polite rebukes of Leary's methods from Huston Smith and Myron Stolaroff, but the rest of the book is mainly a chorus of paeans, a love fest that gets sloppy in places.

Part of Forte's thesis is that Leary will come to be vindicated and revered as another Socrates or Galileo.Inevitably the uptight world will recognize the transformational power of psychedelics and, grasping the keys to the missing link in evolution, start popping them like vitamin supplements.Why millions of grateful acid veterans haven't united to demand a change in the drug laws goes unexplained.Like a lot of other issues the book grazes.Why was Eldridge Cleaver not more supportive of Leary in Algeria?Why was Art Linkletter hostile to Leary?What happened to Leary's children?What was "The Brotherhood" that Forte cryptically refers to a couple of times? What about the charges that Leary betrayed friends, including the lawyers who helped him avoid lengthier prison time?Although Forte concedes that Leary failed "to confront his shadow," the negative aspects of his life, he left the shadowy particulars for Robert Greenfield to detail.

There are other shortcomings.The correspondence between Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard is vacuous, discussing where and when they plan to meet next. Albert Hofman's contribution is brief.Hunter Thompson's more caustic criticisms of Leary are absent, replaced by a short, all-is-forgiven comment.Some of the respondents use a pretentious argot prevalent in the `60s, reflecting the mindless blather of the drug-addled.And there are outrageous claims that transcendentalist philosophers Emerson and Thoreau took drugs, that psychedelics brought forth the computer revolution and the Internet.At least Forte didn't suggest that psychedelics are "the only visible hope for a race tottering on the brink of extinction."That claim was in a recent letter of complaint from the Leary estate to The New Yorker over the favorable review its critic gave to the Greenfield book.

I don't blame Forte for being a cheerleader.He was only 11 years old during the '67 Summer of Love, so he didn't see the zombies walking down Haight Street and other hippie enclaves ingesting not only psychedelics but other wares sold by hierarchical criminal outfits (such as the Brotherhood?) engaged in the "democratization" of drug distribution.Gosh and golly, why would law enforcement ever consider LSD a gateway to heroin, methamphetamine and crack?Set and setting indeed.

I thought I'd had enough of Leary after reading the Greenfield book, but I picked this one up after browsing its table of contents.It has limited appeal, so I give it three stars:one for the interview with Huston Smith, one for the interviews with Metzner & Stolaroff, and one for likening Leary to Huck Finn.Greenfield mistakenly linked him to Tom Sawyer.

Multiperspective View of Leary
Timothy Leary is a mythological figure.Almost everyone has an opinion of him, even if they have never read a word he wrote.
Often opinions are second-hand filtered through this or that media source.

The editor for this book, Robert Forte, one
of Mircea Eliade's last students at the University of Chicago,
does not provide us with second-hand information that he has digested, but instead, gathers an anthology of viewpoints from those who knew Timothy Leary.Not all are positive, and I was surprized to read the negative remarks of Owlsley Stanley in regards to Leary.Thanks to this compendium, we are allowed past the veil of the myth and get a glimpse of the human Timothy Leary.

Robert Forte knew Timothy Leary personally and has edited another book, Entheogens and the Future of religion, that I highly recommend.

Thomas Seay

a refreshingly honest multi-angled profile of Leary
Robert Forte is one of the most important living documentarians of psychedelic history and phenomonology. In this book, he's gathered a myriad voices of people who were really "there" when Leary was influencing people and who therefore have valuable commentary worth hearing -- both positive and negative. The folksy, chatty style of this book make it a pleasure to read. Along with his other book "Entheogens and the Future of Religion," Forte is performing an important informational and documentary service toward a fair assessment of the role that drugs have in society and also of the real-life figures who have affected this. This book is a must read for anyone interested in what Tim Leary (and for that matter, ...) were really like. ... Read more

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Title: Winona's Search for Sanity.(Winona Ryder)(Brief Article)
Author: Jennet Conant
Publication: New York Times Upfront (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 13, 1999
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Volume: 132Issue: 8Page: 22

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 144 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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Chapters: Prince, Judy Garland, Winona Ryder, Jesse Ventura, Jessica Lange, Mike Farrell, Kevin Sorbo, Lew Ayres, Richard Dix, Al Franken, Richard Dean Anderson, Tippi Hedren, Eddie Albert, Josh Hartnett, Jessica Biel, Don Lafontaine, Jane Russell, Richard Widmark, Vince Vaughn, Lea Thompson, Jason Behr, Ed Flanders, Peter Graves, Rachael Leigh Cook, T. R. Knight, Joan Davis, Muriel Evans, Melissa Peterman, Bridget Hanley, Steve Zahn, Bill Cody, Seann William Scott, Richard Carlson, Kimberly Elise, Michael Blodgett, Dennis Banks, Breckin Meyer, Scott Adsit, Scarlet Salem, James Hong, Virginia Bruce, Loni Anderson, E. G. Marshall, Kelly Carlson, Daniele Gaither, Vincent Kartheiser, Ethan Erickson, Arlene Dahl, Dorothy Arnold, Joel Gretsch, Nick Swardson, Marion Ross, Sofia Vassilieva, Jane Frazee, Noel Neill, Julia Duffy, Marguerite de La Motte, Stephanie Edwards, Wayne Wilderson, Walter Abel, John Towey, Emory Parnell, Maureen Teefy, Peter Krause, Garrett Hedlund, Larry Anderson, Lynsey Bartilson, Joan Barclay, Peggy Knudsen, Jake Stormoen, Chris Pratt, Shantel Vansanten, Dorothy Lyman, Beverly Bayne, Carol Dempster, James Arness, Belle Bennett, John Aasen, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Jill Larson, James Legros, Greg Baker, Kelly Lynch, Patrick Flueger, Marisa Coughlan, Alexandra Holden, Gena Lee Nolin, Kelli Maroney, Hy Averback, Joey Pollari, Lisa K. Wyatt, John Lutz, Susan Blu, Kane Richmond, Benjamin Salisbury, Jackson Bond, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Alan Dinehart, Margaret Morris, Kate Lang Johnson, Kathryn Adams Doty, Frank Albertson, Bridget Jones Nelson, Edward Van Sloan, Dorothy Peterson, Nate Richert, Nancy Parsons, Cedric Yarbrough, Melissa Keller, Joel Mckinnon Miller, Charles Kimbrough, Bee Vang, Rob Labelle, Julia Dean, Charles Borland, R. Brandon Johnson, Ian Anthony Dale, Jamie Foss, Leonard Kibrick, Brianna Brown, Tony Denman, Walter Greaza, Gloria Fonda, Brooke Elliott, Loyola O'connor, June Elvidge, Tony Papenfuss, Ivar...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=57317 ... Read more

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Chapters: Theft, Winona Ryder, Marc Dutroux, John Edward Robinson, Fritz Haarmann, John Christie, Malcolm Hardee, Charles Sobhraj, Fred West, Charles Ray Hatcher, Gary Evans, Art Schlichter, Thomas Noe, Michael Registe, Ghino Di Tacco, Donald Henry Gaskins, Martin Grossman, Frank de Stefano, Neddy Smith, Marshall Applewhite, Brendon Fearon, Forbes Smiley, Leonard Lake, Nikita Fouganthine, Dinner Set Gang, John Peter Galanis, Vincenzo Peruggia, Charles Ng, Lawrence Singleton, Bandali Debs, Mark Ingram, Sr., Jack Lee Harelson, Michael Sams, Dennis P., Pedro Medina, Giacomo Medici, Anna Catharina Von Bärfelt, Nezumi Kozō, Charles Reiser, Jack Kennedy, Boise Kimber, Colton Simpson, Seven Robbers, Stephen Blumberg, Donato Bilancia, Paul Wasserman, William Nesbit, Brian Molony. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 243. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29, 1971), better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She made her film debut in the 1986 comedy Lucas. Ryder's first significant role came in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) as a goth teenager, which won her critical and commercial recognition. After making various appearances in film and television, Ryder continued her career with the cult film Heathers (1989), a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life, which drew Ryder further critical and commercial attention. After playing diverse roles in numerous well-received films, Ryder won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award nomination in the same category for her role in The Age of Innocence in 1993, as well as another Academy Award nomination for Little Women the following year for Best Actress. In 2000, Ryder received a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. Ryder's p...http://booksllc.net/?id=34078 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Elie Wiesel, Naomi Wolf, Art Garfunkel, Winona Ryder, Solomon Schechter, Harvey Keitel, Vladimir Tismăneanu, Kevin Youkilis, Stan Lee, Abraham Goldfaden, Daniel Goldhagen, Romany Marie, Lauren Bacall, Necro, Liviu Librescu, Joseph M. Juran, John Houseman, Tony Alamo, Edward G. Robinson, Sylvia Sidney, Kid Cann, Benjamin B. Ferencz, Samuel Leibowitz, Ernie Grunfeld, Andrei Codrescu, Edward Luttwak, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Emil Grosswald, Delmore Schwartz, Saul Steinberg, Michael Lerner, Henry Moskowitz, Harry Donenfeld, Moses Horowitz, David Freedman, Mordkhe Schaechter, Lya Stern, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Martin Abern, I. A. L. Diamond, Vladimir Socor, Maurice Samuel, Marcus Eli Ravage, Marcia Davenport, Alexander Bickel, Ill Bill, David Wechsler, Pascal Covici, David Twersky, Nathan H. Juran, Yehuda Yannay, Irving Caesar, Chaim Zanvl Abramowitz, Norman Manea, Fred Lebow, Andrei Katz, Robert Austerlitz, Valery Oişteanu, George Lusztig, Konrad Bercovici, Joseph Rosenzweig, Alma Gluck, David Kessler, Christian Calson, Elly Gross, Stephen Negoesco, Abba Schoengold, Gideon Rodan, Abe Aronovitz, Arthur Caesar, Joseph Lateiner, Edna Friedman. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Vladimir Tismneanu (Romanian pronunciation: ; born July 4, 1951) is a Romanian and American political scientist, political analyst, sociologist, and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. A specialist in political systems and comparative politics, he is director of the University of Maryland's Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, having served as chair of the editorial committee (2004-2008) and editor (1998-2004) of the East European Politics and Societies academic review. Tismneanu is a contributor to several periodicals, including Journal of Democracy, Studia...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4096055 ... Read more

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WINONA RYDER Starting Over at 35 ... Read more

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Fashion magazine featuring Winona Ryder, The Age Issue, What to Wear from 19 to 91, Looking Better Than Ever from conquering your first winkle at 26 to the perfect yoga body at 52, and much more. ... Read more