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    Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe during production of THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH, 1955

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    Writer-director Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe during production of THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH, 1955. 8x10 b&w photographic print

    Big Mon

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    Fiddle tune written by Bill Monroe, played by Billy Baker and recorded by Barbara Kunkle in Wise County, Virginia [1974]

    Jere Nash Interview with Billy Powell

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    Interview conducted by author Jere Nash with former Mississippi Republican Party chair Billy Powell in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Powell\u27s background; Billy Mounger; Mississippi Republican Party; involvement in a bond issue campaign for Rankin County in the early 1970s; working on Larry Swells for Rankin County supervisor; working on Kirk Fordice gubernatorial campaign and Phil Bryant\u27s state legislature campaign; organizing a county Republican precinct; the kitchen cabinet that meets regularly with Governor Fordice; Evelyn Gandy; Haley Barbour; Powell\u27s election as chair of the state Republican Party; getting politicians to switch to the Republican Party; battle over state party leadership; Eddie Briggs; Roger Wicker\u27s first congressional race; Chip Pickering\u27s first congressional race; Mike Parker switching parties; Ronnie Musgrove; various Republican candidates for state offices in the 1990s; and Amy Tuck and others switching parties

    Linsey, Billy

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    See entry in Monroe County, volume 1, page 14: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voter1867/id/247

    Billy Heckford

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    Billy Heckford is pictured in front.https://repository.ulm.edu/people/1741/thumbnail.jp

    Billy Gartin with Johnny of Philip Morris

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    Inscribed: To my friend, Billy Gartin, from Johnnyhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/gartin_photo/1071/thumbnail.jp

    Billy Collins

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    Billy Collins visited The College at Brockport in March 2000. He is a critically-acclaimed poet and professor.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Author Photo

    A Riff on Billy the Kid

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    In this essay the author discusses Billy Joel’s recording of Billy the Kid and that song\u27s history

    My Elvis Blackout and Neverland: Truth, Fiction and Celebrity in the Postmodernist Heterobiographical Composite Novel

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    A PhD by publication comprising two of my books, My Elvis Blackout and Neverland, accompanied by a reflective and critical exegesis, which examines notions of truth, fiction and celebrity in the composite novel through a broadly analytical and practice-based methodology. The exegesis begins by exploring the links between the methodology of the fine artist and the new creative writer. It then demonstrates that My Elvis Blackout and Neverland represent an original contribution to knowledge in the way that they explore and develop literary form (the ‘composite’ novel), and, in their exploration of celebrity, myth-making and fictional hagiography, and that the two books function as performative critiques which probe the boundaries between fiction and the fabricated reality of celebrity culture. My exegesis analyses Linda Boldrini’s term ‘heterobiography’ (2012) with particular reference to Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy The Kid (1981), which as a bricolage relies upon the reader’s pre-conceived recognition of the historicity of its protagonist and continually tests the boundaries between fact and fiction. In this section of the exegesis, I propose that what sets My Elvis Blackout and Neverland apart from Billy The Kid is that whilst Ondaatje’s book certainly does exploit the confusions between fact, fiction, autobiography and history, it remains firmly set within the timeframe that its historical protagonist inhabits. My Elvis Blackout and Neverland remain grounded within their readers’ expectations of American settings contemporary to their nominative protagonists, but both books also feature dilations in both historical and geographical setting. Through analysis I have come to perceive ‘the celebrity persona’ as an identikit image assembled by thousands of witnesses. A photo fit photomontage tiered with impressions of subjective provenance, each layered transparency filtered through the fears and desires of fans and critics. Whereas other historiographic metafictions use historical figures as singular characters, My Elvis Blackout and Neverland can be seen to be utilising an ‘identikit’ concept to present their respective protagonists as manyheaded Hydras, or multiple probability ‘versions’ from parallel universes. By a conflation of terms, Hutcheon’s ‘historiographic metafiction’ (1988) and Boldrini’s ‘heterobiography’ (2012), My Elvis Blackout and Neverland are in fact historiobiographic metafictions. The exegesis concludes by establishing my own works’ live impact on the overarching celebrity metanarratives, and their inevitable organic status

    Life International - May 25, 1959 (Marilyn Monroe cover)

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    This issue of Life International features Marilyn Monroe on the cover in an article promoting 'Some Like it Hot', released in 1959, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. This periodical also features topical issues in 1959 including 'Spy's Tale of Terror', 'Callas Explains Rows' - soprano Maria Callas, 'Iran's Golden Heirloom', 'Heavens' True Colors', and 'God-King's Flight' - the Dalai Lama
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