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Download or read book Hollywood Clown written by Jason Lassen and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grand Prize Winner - 2014 Hollywood Book Festival. Every year, thousands of people from all over the world move to Hollywood, with nothing more than their hopes and an irrational sense of romanticism and fairness, to pursue their dreams of fame and fortune. Rather than wait tables, struggling actor Jason Lassen opted to perform at children's birthday parties and quickly found out how competitive and political they are. One moment finding himself at Steven Spielberg's house, hoping against hope to be discovered while sweating through a Teletubbies costume, and the next dressed as a faux-Honey Bear with a gun to his head in Compton. During his wildly event-filled journey, he discovers it doesn't matter how much money or fame you have, true happiness comes from within.
Book Synopsis Clown Prince of Hollywood by : Bob Thomas
Download or read book Clown Prince of Hollywood written by Bob Thomas and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1990 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and career of the influential producer, shares the impressions of those who worked with him, and surveys Warner Brothers films.
Download or read book Lou's on First written by Chris Costello and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate portrait of Lou Costello (1906-1959) offers a rare look at one of the most talented comedians of all time. Starting in the 1930s, Costello attained enormous fame touring the burlesque circuits with straight man Bud Abbott (1895-1974). Their live skits (including "Who's on First?"), radio programs, and films such as One Night in the Tropics, Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and In the Navy made comic history. Behind the scenes, however, Costello faced numerous crises: a bout with rheumatic fever that left him bedridden for months, the drowning death of his young son, and constant haggles with Universal Studios over its reluctance to adequately finance productions of Abbott and Costello films. Lou's on First goes beyond Costello's clownish persona to explore his Pagliacci nature: the private demons behind the happy public face, the heartbreaking moments in an otherwise storybook marriage, the business ventures soured by unscrupulous managers, and the true nature of the breakup of his twenty-one-year partnership with Bud Abbott.
Book Synopsis Hollywood's Man Who Worried for the Stars by : Carolyn Roos Olsen
Download or read book Hollywood's Man Who Worried for the Stars written by Carolyn Roos Olsen and published by Author House. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt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or years people said someone should write a book about B Roos, but nobody will believe it. Now his daughter Carolyn has written the book, and it is believeable as it captures Hollywoods Golden Age and B Rooss unique part in it as one of Hollywoods most powerful and successful business managers. Its an amazing piece of Hollywood history that hasnt been covered before. Ben Newman, Attorney If you enjoy the classic "Golden Age" of movies and the great "stars" of that era, THIS IS YOUR BOOK...filled with more than 100 pictures, including John Wayne, FredMacMurray, Peter Lawford,Red Skelton and many more. Because of his flamboyant, high powered and hectic way of life, B (pronounced Boo) Roos could have been the model for the movie sterotype of the Hollywood business manager. The New York Times B Roos life story is a saga that would top the Horatio Alger novels of yesteryear. The Foreign Friends of Acapulco newsletter B Roos was a man of outsize personality and zest. Ballerina Margot Fonteyn B Roos not only keeps (his clients) on an allowance he eats, drinks, and even weeps with them. Saturday Evening Post B invested and took risks right alongside his clients claiming more conservative managers were guys going through life with nothing on their chests. Working with him was always full of excitement and the unexpected. Carolyns captured his story well. Al Marsella, CPA
Download or read book Clowns written by Ezra LeBank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clowns: In Conversation with Modern Masters is a groundbreaking collection of conversations with 20 of the greatest clowns on earth. In discussion with clown aficionados Ezra LeBank and David Bridel, these legends of comedy reveal the origins, inspirations, techniques, and philosophies that underpin their remarkable odysseys. Featuring incomparable artists, including Slava Polunin, Bill Irwin, David Shiner, Oleg Popov, Dimitri, Nola Rae, and many more, Clowns is a unique and definitive study on the art of clowning. In Clowns, these 20 master artists speak candidly about their first encounters with clowning and circus, the crucial decisions that carved out the foundations of their style, and the role of teachers and mentors who shaped their development. Follow the twists and turns that changed the direction of their art and careers, explore the role of failure and originality in their lives and performances, and examine the development and evolution of the signature routines that became each clown’s trademark. The discussions culminate in meditations on the role of clowning in the modern world, as these great practitioners share their perspectives on the mysterious, elusive art of the clown.
Book Synopsis Fighting Clowns of Hollywood by : David Ossman
Download or read book Fighting Clowns of Hollywood written by David Ossman and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-hand account of the behind the screams story of one of the greatest comedy teams America has ever produced.
Book Synopsis Fighting Clowns of Hollywood by : David Ossman
Download or read book Fighting Clowns of Hollywood written by David Ossman and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir from one of the original members of The Firesign Theatre traces their earliest years to their last hurrah as a foursome.
Book Synopsis Hollywood on the Hudson by : Richard Koszarski
Download or read book Hollywood on the Hudson written by Richard Koszarski and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Edison invented his motion picture system in New Jersey in the 1890s, and within a few years most American filmmakers could be found within a mile or two of the Hudson River. They planted themselves here because they needed the artistic and entrepreneurial energy that D. W. Griffith realized New York had in abundance. But as the going rate for land and labor skyrocketed and their business grew more industrialized, most of them moved out. The way most historians explain it, the role of New York in the development of American film ends here. In Hollywood on the Hudson, Richard Koszarski rewrites an important part of the history of American cinema. During the 1920s and 1930s, film industry executives had centralized the mass production of feature pictures in a series of gigantic film factories scattered across Southern California, while maintaining New York as the economic and administrative center. But as Koszarski reveals, many writers, producers, and directors also continued to work here, especially if their independent vision was too big for the Hollywood production line. East Coast filmmakers-Oscar Micheaux, Rudolph Valentino, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Paul Robeson, Gloria Swanson, Max Fleischer, and others-quietly created a studio system without back-lots, long-term contracts or seasonal production slates. They substituted "newsreel photography" for Hollywood glamour, targeted niche audiences instead of middle-American families, ignored accepted dramatic conventions, and pushed the boundaries of motion picture censorship. Rebellious and unconventional, they saw the New York studios as laboratories, not factories-and used them to pioneer the development of new technologies (from talkies to television), new genres, new talent, and ultimately, an entirely new vision of commercial cinema.
Book Synopsis Fighting Clowns of Hollywood by : David Ossman
Download or read book Fighting Clowns of Hollywood written by David Ossman and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-hand account of the behind the screams story of one of the greatest comedy teams America has ever produced.
Download or read book Clowns written by David Bridel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clowns: In Conversation is a groundbreaking collection of interviews expanded in this second edition to include over 30 of the greatest clowns on earth. In discussion with clown aficionados Ezra LeBank and David Bridel, these legends of comedy reveal the origins, inspirations, techniques, and philosophies that underpin their remarkable odysseys. These artists speak candidly about their first encounters with clowning and circus, the crucial decisions that carved out the foundations of their style, and the role of teachers and mentors who shaped their development. Follow the twists and turns that changed the direction of their art and careers, as they explore the role of failure and originality in their lives and performances, and examine the development and evolution of the signature routines that became each clown’s trademark. This new edition has been fully updated and expanded, bringing in Lila Monti, Cristina Marti, Leo Bassi, Danise Payne, Bernice Collins, Ketch, Robert Dunn, Nina Conti, Hélène Gustin and Tanja Simma, Michelle Matlock, Shannan Calcutt, and Gardi Hutter. Clowns is a unique and definitive study on the art of the clown, exploring their role in the modern world – a fascinating series of discussions for students, scholars, and teachers of clowning.
Book Synopsis Hollywood's All-Time Greatest Stars by : Andrew J. Rausch
Download or read book Hollywood's All-Time Greatest Stars written by Andrew J. Rausch and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both academic and entertaining, this quiz book will introduce a whole new generation of film buffs to America's classic movies. Each of the 100 individual star entries opens with a quote and follows with a biography and filmography. With more than 100 quizzes, one for each star and additional master' quizzes on general knowledge and quotes, this guide covers every aspect of each work, from the plot and the star's character to its production and reception.'
Book Synopsis The Holden Age of Hollywood by : Phil Brody
Download or read book The Holden Age of Hollywood written by Phil Brody and published by Medallion Media Group. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood died on me as soon as I got here. Welles said that, not me, but damn if he didn’t nail it, you know? Sam Bateman came to Hollywood to settle a score, but amidst the sunny and 75, his plans went astray. Everything changed the day he drank in the intoxicating legend of Meyer Holden, the greatest screenwriter Hollywood has ever known, the one who pulled a Salinger and walked away. Holden now tacks pseudonyms onto his works and buries them in the bottomless sea of spec that is Hollywood’s development process. They’re out there for anyone to find—but at what cost? In his quest, Bateman severs all ties and sinks into a maddening world of bad writing and flawed screenplays. Paranoid and obsessive, the belligerent savant encounters an eccentric cast of characters—each with an agenda—in his search for the one writer in Hollywood who does not want to be found. Phil Brody’s The Holden Age of Hollywood is at once a detective novel, an unexpected love story, and a provocative exposé of a broken industry. With dark humor and incisive commentary, the novel immerses readers in a neo-noir quest to attain the Hollywood dream, integrity intact.
Book Synopsis Hollywood by Hollywood by : Steven Cohan
Download or read book Hollywood by Hollywood written by Steven Cohan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their coherence as a distinctive genre, Steven Cohan argues in Hollywood by Hollywood, is their fascination with the mystique of Hollywood as a geographic place, a self-contained industry, and a fantasy of fame, leisure, sexual freedom, and modernity. Yet by the same token, if backstudio pictures have rarely achieved blockbuster box-office success, what accounts for the film industry's interest in continuing to produce them? The backstudio picture has been an enduring genre because, aside from offering a director or writer a chance to settle old scores, in branding filmmaking with the Hollywood mystique, the genre solicits consumers' strong investment in the movies. Whether inspiring the "movie crazy" fan girls of the early teens and twenties or the wannabe filmmakers of this century heading to the West Coast after their college graduations, backstudios have given emotional weight and cultural heft to filmmaking as the quintessential American success story. But more than that, a backstudio picture is concerned with shaping perceptions of how the film industry works, with masking how its product depends upon an industrial labor force, including stardom, and with determining how that work's value accrues from the Hollywood brand stamped onto the product. Cohan supports his well theorized and well researched claims with nuanced discussions of over fifty backstudios, some canonical and well-known, and others obscure and rarely seen. Covering the hundred-year timespan of feature length film production, Hollywood by Hollywood offers an illuminating perspective for considering anew the history of American movies.
Book Synopsis The Great Parade by : Pierre Théberge
Download or read book The Great Parade written by Pierre Théberge and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful book that showcases how circus figures and artifacts have been portrayed in art over the past two centuries The circus is a dazzling world filled with acrobats and harlequins, tumblers and riders, monsters and celestial creatures. Now this engaging book sets that world in a new light, examining how painters, sculptors, and photographers from the eighteenth century to the present have used the circus as a springboard for their imaginative expression and have envisioned the clown as a metaphor for the modern artist. The book presents more than 175 works by such artists as Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rouault, Picasso, Chagall, and Léger. Some of these are masterful works shown for the first time; these range from the 18-meter stage curtain Picasso designed in 1917 for Erik Satie's ballet Parade to more intimate works such as Nadar and Tournachon's photographs of Pierrot as played by celebrated mime Charles Debureau.
Book Synopsis Hollywood's Hellfire Club by : Gregory William Mank
Download or read book Hollywood's Hellfire Club written by Gregory William Mank and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were the Bundy Drive Boys: hard-drinking, brilliantly talented, world-famous men of golden-age Hollywood - John Barrymore, Errol Flynn and W.C. Fields. Heroes with Hangovers tells the uncensored and ultimately moving story of these lost-soul geniuses. The partying and antics of the Rat Pack seem tame in comparison, but beneath the boozy bravado was a devoted mutual affection. Illustrated with dozens of never-before-seen photos and illustrations, this is the sozzled side of Hollywood's great era.
Download or read book Clown Bar 2 written by Adam Szymkowicz and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's been a murder at the Clown Bar. It's a place where underground clown crime syndicates battle for top billing, and a gunshot ends in a bleeding stream of confetti. The rules are strict, the jokes are dark, and the best way to serve a cocktail is to "make it funny." It's a year later and the Clown Bar is in disrepair. Happy has gone missing. Has he been offed by clown cowboy Brigham Bill or was it an inside job? Two cops who knew Happy when he was on the force go undercover as clowns in the Clown Bar to find out what happened. Knowledge of the preceding show is not required to enjoy this sequel. In the words of the playwright, "look, if you didn't see/read the original Clown Bar, that's fine. You'll still understand the play."
Book Synopsis Discovering the Clown, Or the Funny Book of Good Acting by : Christopher Bayes
Download or read book Discovering the Clown, Or the Funny Book of Good Acting written by Christopher Bayes and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have guide for actors both young and old.
