Out of print for more than 30 years, now available for the first time as an eBook, this is the controversial story of John Wooden's first 25 years and first 8 NCAA Championships as UCLA Head Basketball Coach. This is the only book that gives a true picture of the character of John Wooden and the influence of his assistant, Jerry Norman, whose contributions Wooden  ignored and tried to bury.

Compiled with more than 40 hours of interviews with Coach Wooden, learn about the man behind the coach. The players tell their stories in their own words.

Click the book to read the first chapter and for ordering information. Also available on Kindle.


Madeleine Collins (8/10)

by Tony Medley

113 minutes

NR

There have been movies before about people living double sexual lives with lovers in different cities, but they are always men. In this one, though, it's a woman, Judith/Margot (Virginie Efira in a sparkling performance) doing the splitting. In Switzerland she is Margot and lives with Abdel (Quim Gutierrez) and the little girl they are raising. In France, she is Judith and lives with famous orchestra conductor Melvil (Bruno Salomone) and their two older boys.

While in Switzerland she is a translator who has to travel a lot, explaining the time that she spends in France.

Of course, she lies constantly and as time progresses and she gets deeper and deeper into the mess, it becomes a thriller as she tries to hold her two lives together. As if that weren’t enough, she also gets involved with a forger on whom she uses her charm to manipulate. This is clearly a woman with a lot of problems, all of her own making.

Brilliantly directed by Antoine Barraud, this is a compelling tale that tracks her impossibly complex life as it slowly falls off the rails. In French.

 

 

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