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Dan Bessie

Dan Bessie

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Author, book editor and illustrator, screenplay coach, cartoonist, film director, sometime publisher. Since 06 my wife Jeanne and I (she's also a writer), have been living in rural France. 

Fatal Rivalry: Part Three of The Last Great Saxon Earls

Fatal Rivalry: Part Three of The Last Great Saxon Earls

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<p>In 1066, the rivalry between two brothers brought England to its knees. When Duke William of Normandy landed at Pevensey on September 28, 1066, no one was there to resist him. King Harold Godwineson was in the north, fighting his brother Tostig and a fierce Viking invasion. How could this have happened? Why would Tostig turn traitor to wreak revenge on his brother?<br />The Sons of Godwine were not always enemies. It took a massive Northumbrian uprising to tear them apart, making Tostig an exile and Harold his sworn enemy. And when 1066 came to an end, all the Godwinesons were dead except one: Wulfnoth, hostage in Normandy. For two generations, Godwine and his sons were a mighty force, but their power faded away as the Anglo-Saxon era came to a close.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;">&quot;Dan Bessie's book should be obligatory for anyone considering a creative life. The story is rich in detail, funny, and honest. Bessie has compromised no more than he had to, and reviews a rich and sometimes desperate life as a creative erson who sustained himself by wit and wile. I hope that I'll be able to say as much about my own. / from the forward by PETER COYOTE, Emmy-winning actor / ET, Erin Brocovich, etc.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:12px;"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><em><span style="font-size:12px;">&quot;Reeling Through Hollywood'</span></em></span><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-size:13px;"> is a storyteller's story. It was hard to put down. Reading it was like looking under the curtain and seeing the inside of the movie business. Dan Bessie has written a true description of a life in film. And it is a page-turner.&quot; / Robert Dalva, director and Oscar nominated film editor (The Black Stallion, October Sky, etc)</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:13px;"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;">&quot;If you've ever wondered what Jane Fonda, Spiderman, Clint Eastwood, Bertholt Brecht, Tom and Jerry and Ken and Barbie and Roy and Dale plus others including the Culligan Man and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee have in common, the answer is Dan Bessie. He encounters them all in his lively account of his struggles to make films his way. <em>'Reeling Through Hollywood</em></span><span style="font-size:12px;">' is both a delight and a powerful tutorial in independent filmmaking.&quot; / Tom Rickman, Oscar &amp; Emmy- nominated screenwriter (Coal Miner's Daughter, Truman)</span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span>            </span><span style="font-size:10px;">            </span></span></p>