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Shiksa Goddess

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375413502
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Shiksa Goddess written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York’s cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essays–all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor. The full range of Wasserstein’s mid-life obsessions are covered in this eclectic collection: everything from Chekhov, politics, and celebrity, to family, fashion, and real estate. Whether fretting over her figure, discovering her gentile roots, proclaiming her love for ordered-in breakfasts, lobbying for affordable theater, or writing tenderly about her very Jewish mother and her own daughter, born when she was forty-eight and single, Wasserstein reveals the full, dizzying life of a shiksa goddess with unabashed candor and inimitable style.

The Last Five Years

Author :
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 145843270X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book The Last Five Years written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Selections). Jason Robert Brown, the creator of Parade and Songs for a New World , has written a distinctive new Off-Broadway musical. The Last Five Years tells the story of a failed marriage of 20-somethings: he a successful novelist, she a struggling actress. Her story is told in reverse, his conventionally moving forward. They meet in the middle at the point of their wedding. Brown's strong writing has found a solid following among musical theatre fans. Our songbook features piano/vocal arrangements of 12 songs: Goodbye Until Tomorrow * I Can Do Better Than That * If I Didn't Believe in You * Moving Too Fast * The Next Ten Minutes * Nobody Needs to Know * A Part of That * The Schmuel Song * Shiksa Goddess * Still Hurting * A Summer in Ohio * When You Come Home to Me. "Short, bittersweet and nearly perfect, Brown has come up with a winning combination of music and book." Variety

The Myth of the Shiksa and Other Essays

Author : Edwin H. Friedman
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596270772
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Shiksa and Other Essays written by Edwin H. Friedman and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why did I give advice to Eve instead of going directly to Adam? I knew I would never be able to stop the Creator's overall plan, but I thought I might really be able to frustrate it if I could screw up some relationships." So speaks Satan as The First Family Counselor in this new collection of Edwin Friedman's most popular essays, edited by his daughter, Shira Friedman Bogart. Friedman's signature wit and playfulness goes straight to the heart of human relationships from one generation to another.Throughout his life, Friedman eloquently applied the insights of family therapy to churches and synagogues, rectors and rabbis, politicians and teachers, and his humor, sense of paradox, and unique style of storytelling were trademarks of his teaching style.

The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's

Author : Steven Lee Beeber
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569762287
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's written by Steven Lee Beeber and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based in part on the recent interviews with more than 125 people —among them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hilly Kristal (CBGBs owner), and John Zorn—this book focuses on punk's beginnings in New York City to show that punk was the most Jewish of rock movements, in both makeup and attitude. As it originated in Manhattan's Lower East Side in the early 1970s, punk rock was the apotheosis of a Jewish cultural tradition that found its ultimate expression in the generation born after the Holocaust. Beginning with Lenny Bruce, &“the patron saint of punk,&” and following pre-punk progenitors such as Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman, Suicide, and the Dictators, this fascinating mixture of biography, cultural studies, and musical analysis delves into the lives of these and other Jewish punks—including Richard Hell and Joey Ramone—to create a fascinating historical overview of the scene. Reflecting the irony, romanticism, and, above all, the humor of the Jewish experience, this tale of changing Jewish identity in America reveals the conscious and unconscious forces that drove New York Jewish rockers to reinvent themselves—and popular music.

Secrets of Shiksa Appeal

Author : Avi Roseman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450290000
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Shiksa Appeal written by Avi Roseman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any nice Jewish girl who follows Ms. Avis advice can catch the Jewish stallion (or near-sighted miniature horse) of her dreams and have a (matzoh) ball doing it. This is a must read for Jewish single gals. Lori Uscher-Pines, PhD,, author of the Get Your Man to Marry You Plan Secrets of Shiksa Appeal is the sultry, no-holds barred guide to Jewish dating in a post-shtetl society. Ms. Avi, the ultimate yenta, will show her naughty tactics to attract your shul-mate before that chick with no knowledge of a kugel gets him first. This sassy guide reveals the secrets to: Dressing like the girl his mother never wanted him to date Piquing the interest of Jewish men in any setting Challenging him more than World of Warcraft Choosing the perfect shiksa gift Keeping him hooked after a good shtup Letting him think he controls the relationship, even though he doesnt Using her no-BS approach, Ms. Avi provides techniques you can use to coerce Jewish men to date within their kind. Discover the dirty secrets to what Jewish men really want...hell never crave Christmas ham again. .

Life isn't everything

Author : Ash Carter
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250112869
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Life isn't everything written by Ash Carter and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts—from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels. The work of Mike Nichols pervades American cultural consciousness—from The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Angels in America, The Birdcage, Working Girl, and Primary Colors, not to mention his string of hit plays, including Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple. If that weren’t enough, he was also one half of the timelessly funny duo Nichols & May, as well as a founding member of the original improv troupe. Over a career that spanned half a century, Mike Nichols changed Hollywood, Broadway, and comedy forever. Most fans, however, know very little of the person behind it all. Since he never wrote his memoirs, and seldom appeared on television, they have very little sense of his searching intellect or his devastating wit. They don't know that Nichols, the great American director, was born Mikail Igor Peschkowsky, in Berlin, and came to this country, speaking no English, to escape the Nazis. They don't know that Nichols was at one time a solitary psychology student, or that a childhood illness caused permanent, life-altering side effects. They don't know that he withdrew into a debilitating depression before he "finally got it right," in his words, by marrying Diane Sawyer. Here, for the first time, Ash Carter and Sam Kashner offer an intimate look behind the scenes of Nichols' life, as told by the stars, moguls, playwrights, producers, comics and crewmembers who stayed loyal to Nichols for years. Life Isn't Everything is a mosaic portrait of a brilliant and original director known for his uncommon charm, wit, vitality, and genius for friendship, this volume is also a snapshot of what it meant to be living, loving, and making art in the 20th century.

Shtick Shift

Author : Simcha Weinstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shtick Shift written by Simcha Weinstein and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Simcha Weinstein grew up in England. As a short fellow, he waited for his growth spurt. That never happened, so to avoid the anti-Semitism he confronted, he became funny. He later turned that humour into his own stand-up and wrote a book describing how Jewish humour has changed in the 21st century and how comedians like Sacha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman and Jon Stewart now use the old taboos to get lots of laughs.

Leggy Blonde

Author : Aviva Drescher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476722110
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Leggy Blonde written by Aviva Drescher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir from the Real Housewife of New York City.

Elements of Style

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307265544
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Style written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elements of Style, the Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein’s first novel, is a scathing comedy about New York's high society facing the post—9/11 world. Francesca Weissman, an Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by Manhattan magazine, floats on the fringes of the upper strata of privilege and aspiration. Through her bemused eyes we meet the thoroughbred socialite Samantha Acton; relentless social climber Judy Tremont; Barry Santorini, an Oscar-winning moviemaker accustomed to having his way; his supermarket heiress wife, Clarice; and more, tossed together in a frothy stew of outrageous conspicuous consumption and adulterous affairs that play out on Page Six. But when Wasserstein’s madcap tour of the social lives and mores of twenty-first-century Manhattan veers into tragedy, we finally see the true cost of her characters’ choices, and the beating heart of this dazzling novel.

Wendy and the Lost Boys

Author : Julie Salamon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110151776X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Wendy and the Lost Boys written by Julie Salamon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authorized biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein. In Wendy and the Lost Boys bestselling author Julie Salamon explores the life of playwright Wendy Wasserstein's most expertly crafted character: herself. The first woman playwright to win a Tony Award, Wendy Wasserstein was a Broadway titan. But with her high- pitched giggle and unkempt curls, she projected an image of warmth and familiarity. Everyone knew Wendy Wasserstein. Or thought they did. Born on October 18, 1950, in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, Wendy was the youngest of Lola and Morris Wasserstein's five children. Lola had big dreams for her children. They didn't disappoint: Sandra, Wendy's glamorous sister, became a high- ranking corporate executive at a time when Fortune 500 companies were an impenetrable boys club. Their brother Bruce became a billionaire superstar of the investment banking world. Yet behind the family's remarkable success was a fiercely guarded world of private tragedies. Wendy perfected the family art of secrecy while cultivating a densely populated inner circle. Her friends included theater elite such as playwright Christopher Durang, Lincoln Center Artistic Director André Bishop, former New York Times theater critic Frank Rich, and countless others. And still almost no one knew that Wendy was pregnant when, at age forty-eight, she was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital to deliver Lucy Jane three months premature. The paternity of her daughter remains a mystery. At the time of Wendy's tragically early death less than six years later, very few were aware that she was gravely ill. The cherished confidante to so many, Wendy privately endured her greatest heartbreaks alone. In Wendy and the Lost Boys, Salamon assembles the fractured pieces, revealing Wendy in full. Though she lived an uncommon life, she spoke to a generation of women during an era of vast change. Revisiting Wendy's works-The Heidi Chronicles and others-we see Wendy in the free space of the theater, where her many selves all found voice. Here Wendy spoke in the most intimate of terms about everything that matters most: family and love, dreams and devastation. And that is the Wendy of Neverland, the Wendy who will never grow old.

Old Money

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573627934
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Old Money written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dinner party in an ornate mansion on the fashionable Upper East Side of Manhattan provides the scene for this witty and incisive play. Set in two eras--the early 1900s and our own Gilded Age--the characters move effortlessly from one period to the other. The host, a contemporary master of high-risk arbitrage, steps in and out of character as a robber baron of an earlier time. His guests of today include a Hollywood director, a not-so-cutting-edge sculptor, an online lingerie designer, an aggressive publicist, and an aging historian. Their counterparts from the past are the great man's rebellious son, a grand dame of New York society, the architect who built the mansion originally, and the maids and servants who maintain it. In this dance of rich storytelling and social commentary, it becomes strikingly clear that while old money has become new, little else has changed over the years. Children still rebel against their controlling parents, women still hope for love, and greed, snobbery, and angst persist.

Woody on Rye

Author : Vincent Brook
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611684811
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Woody on Rye written by Vincent Brook and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Woody AllenÕs films have received extensive attention from scholars and critics, no book has focused exclusively on Jewishness in his work, particularly that of the late 1990s and beyond. In this anthology, a distinguished group of contributorsÑwhose work is richly contextualized in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, theater, and comedyÑexamine the schlemiel, Allen and women, the Jewish take on the Òmorality of murder,Ó AllenÕs take on Hebrew scripture and Greek tragedy, his stage work, his cinematic treatment of food and dining, and what happens to ÒJew YorkÓ when Woody takes his films out of New York City. Considered together, these essays delineate the intellectual, artistic, and moral development of one of cinemaÕs most durable and controversial directors.

Whiskey in a Teacup

Author : Reese Witherspoon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150116628X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Whiskey in a Teacup written by Reese Witherspoon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academy Award–winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm. Reese Witherspoon’s grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty and strength made southern women “whiskey in a teacup.” We may be delicate and ornamental on the outside, she said, but inside we’re strong and fiery. Reese’s southern heritage informs her whole life, and she loves sharing the joys of southern living with practically everyone she meets. She takes the South wherever she goes with bluegrass, big holiday parties, and plenty of Dorothea’s fried chicken. It’s reflected in how she entertains, decorates her home, and makes holidays special for her kids—not to mention how she talks, dances, and does her hair (in these pages, you will learn Reese’s fail-proof, only slightly insane hot-roller technique). Reese loves sharing Dorothea’s most delicious recipes as well as her favorite southern traditions, from midnight barn parties to backyard bridal showers, magical Christmas mornings to rollicking honky-tonks. It’s easy to bring a little bit of Reese’s world into your home, no matter where you live. After all, there’s a southern side to every place in the world, right?

Bachelor Girls

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bachelor Girls written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991-07-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delicious book of essays, Wendy Wasserstein perfects the urbane, wacky and compassionate sensibility that informed plays like her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles.

The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613292542
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying to decide whether to pattern themselves after Katharine Hepburn or Emily Dickinson. Two young women besieged by the demands of mothers, lovers, and careers--not to mention a highly persistent telephone answering machine--as they struggle to have it all. A brilliant feminist art historian trying to keep her bearings and her sense of humor on the elevator ride from the radical sixties to the heartless eighties.

A Simple Story

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815606185
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book A Simple Story written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A small town in southern Poland is the scene of this bittersweet romance set at the turn of the century. Celebrated Israeli novelist S.Y. Agnon draws on techniques perfected by Gustave Flaubert and Thomas Mann to contrast the hero's romantic longings with the interest of bourgeois society."--Back cover.

Isn't it Romantic

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822205777
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Isn't it Romantic written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1985 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The play deals with the post-college careers (and dilemmas) of two former classmates, a short, slightly plump would-be writer named Janie Blumberg, and her tall, thin gorgeous WASP friend, Harriet Cornwall. Both are struggling to escape