Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
The Biggest Thing In Show Business
Download The Biggest Thing In Show Business full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Biggest Thing In Show Business ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis The Biggest Thing in Show Business by : Murray Pomerance
Download or read book The Biggest Thing in Show Business written by Murray Pomerance and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1946 to 1956, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis provoked audiences into rollicking laughter as they shook up and delighted a culture they both mediated and made fun of. Using the duo's phenomenal popularity as a starting point, The Biggest Thing in Show Business looks askance at postwar America with a fast-moving sweep, jam-packed with unexpected connections, revealing details, and surprising insights. Aiming to be as unconventional as their subjects, Murray Pomerance and Matthew Solomon enact a highly spontaneous and up-to-the-minute approach to coauthorship that re-establishes the importance of Martin & Lewis in the cultural pantheon. As a result, the book's structure, methodology, and writing style are thoroughly dialogic and firmly opposed to stale convention.
Book Synopsis The Business of American Theatre by : William Grange
Download or read book The Business of American Theatre written by William Grange and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business of American Theatre is a research guide to the history of producing theatre in the United States. Covering a wide range of subjects, the book explores how traditions of investment, marketing, labor union contracts, advertising, leasing arrangements, ticket scalping, zoning ordinances, royalties, and numerous other financial transactions have influenced the art of theatre for the past three centuries. Yet the book is not a dry reiteration of hits and flops, bankruptcies and bamboozles. Nor does it cover "everything about it that's appealing, everything the traffic will allow" (as Irving Berlin did in the song "There's No Business Like Show Business"). It is instead a highly readable resource for anyone interested in how money, and how much money, is critical to the art and artists of theatre. Many of those artists make appearances in the book: Richard Rodgers and his keen eye for investment, Jacob Shubert and his construction of "the bridge of thighs" for his showgirls at the Winter Garden, the significance of the Disney Souvenir Shop near the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway, and the difference between a Broadway show losing millions of dollars or making billions in one night. Consider this book a go-to resource for readers, students, and scholars of the theatre business.
Book Synopsis American Idol by : Richard Rushfield
Download or read book American Idol written by Richard Rushfield and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The currency is fame, and it's bigger than money, more desired than power. Each season American Idol delivers on a promise whose epic scope is unparalleled in the annals of competition: to take an unknown dreamer from the middle of America and turn him or her into a genuine star. It has become not only the biggest show on television, but the biggest force in all of entertainment; its alumni dominate the recording charts and Broadway, win Academy Awards, and sweep up Grammys. In fact, American Idol has reshaped the very idea of celebrity. But it didn't start out that way. When the little singing contest debuted as a summer replacement on the U.S. airwaves, it was packed between reruns and low-cost filler. The promise that it would find America's next pop star produced a hearty round of guffaws from the country's media critics. Now, some ten years and millions of records later, no one is laughing. American Idol: The Untold Story chronicles the triumphs and travails, the harrowing backstage drama and the nail-biting onstage battles that built this revolutionary show. In this revealing book, veteran journalist Richard Rushfield goes deeper inside the circus than any reporter ever has. Candid interviews with Idol alumni, including Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell, shed new light on the show that changed the entertainment industry. And because Rushfield had full access to the people who created the show, starred in it, and kept it atop the pop culture pyramid, this book is the first to take Americans behind the curtain and tell what has really been happening on the world's most watched and speculated-about stage.
Download or read book Ocd written by Steven Diamond and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 in 50 Americans suffer from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. One man has found the secret and is now teaching the world. Steven Diamond, a world famous Las Vegas magician, who has performed in more than thirty nations and entertained millions of people, silently suffered with an undiagnosed illness that brought him to the brink of suicide. He was homeless, raped, and even found his best friends mother dead, hacked into pieces by someone he knew. It wasnâÂÂt until age 30, after seeing his 8th therapist, and a life-threatening breakdown while performing with the world famous Osmond brothers that he was finally diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. OCD is a vicious illness that leaves its suffering victims with a paralyzing fear, endless obsessions, and insatiable compulsions that torment the soul. Join him on an amazing journey as he reveals his most guarded secret for the first time. His emotional story will move you, inspire you and teach you lifeâÂÂs greatest lesson.
Download or read book Beatlemania written by André Millard and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refreshing and insightful, Beatlemania offers a deeper understanding the days of the Fab Four and the band's long-term effects on the business and culture of pop music.
Download or read book The Good Life written by Tony Bennett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Bennett is the man Frank Sinatra called 'the best singer in the business', and whose 1995 Grammy Awards for 'Album of the Year' and 'Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance' for MTV Unplugged moved the New York Times to say, 'Tony Bennett has not just bridged the generation gap, he has demolished it.' He has legions of fans over a staggeringly large age span and in a recording career spanning five decades he has made 40 albums. His autobiography is rich with the stories of his long career and of the personalities he has known and includes the highs and lows, the successes and excesses of what has ultimately been a blessed life.
Book Synopsis Live From New York by : James Andrew Miller
Download or read book Live From New York written by James Andrew Miller and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, a rollickingly updated edition of LIVE FROM NEW YORK with nearly 100 new pages covering the past decade. When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, LIVE FROM NEW YORK was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night show. In their own words, unfiltered and uncensored, a dazzling galaxy of trail-blazing talents recalled three turbulent decades of on-camera antics and off-camera escapades. Now a fourth decade has passed---and bestselling authors James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales have returned to Studio 8H. Over more than 100 pages of new material, they raucously and revealingly take the SNL story up to the present, adding a constellation of iconic new stars, surprises, and controversies.
Book Synopsis There Was Nothing You Could Do by : Steven Hyden
Download or read book There Was Nothing You Could Do written by Steven Hyden and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.—a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern America On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums of all time. An instant classic, Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. would prove itself to be a landmark not only for the man who made it, but rock music in general and even the larger American culture over the next 40 years. In There Was Nothing You Could Do, veteran rock critic Steven Hyden shows exactly how this record became such a pivotal part of the American tapestry. Alternating between insightful criticism, meticulous journalism, and personal anecdotes, Hyden delves into the songs that made—and didn’t make—the final cut, including the tracks that wound up on its sister album, 1982’s Nebraska. He also investigates the myriad reasons why Springsteen ran from and then embraced the success of his most popular (and most misunderstood) LP, as he carefully toed the line between balancing his commercial ambitions and being co-opted by the machine. But the book doesn’t stop there. Beyond Springsteen’s own career, Hyden explores the role the album played in a greater historical context, documenting not just where the country was in the tumultuous aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate, but offering a dream of what it might become—and a perceptive forecast of what it turned into decades later. As Springsteen himself reluctantly conceded, many of the working-class middle American progressives Springsteen wrote about in 1984 had turned into resentful and scorned Trump voters by the 2010s. And though it wasn’t the future he dreamed of, the cautionary warnings tucked within Springsteen’s heartfelt lyrics prove that the chaotic turmoil of our current moment has been a long time coming. How did we lose Springsteen’s heartland? And what can listening to this prescient album teach us about the decline of our country? In There Was Nothing You Could Do, Hyden takes readers on a journey to find out.
Book Synopsis Turn Me On, Dead Man by : Jerald Ford
Download or read book Turn Me On, Dead Man written by Jerald Ford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imposter written by Jim Whelan and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SEARING INDICTMENT OF THE ACTING PROFESSION, AN EXPLOSIVE EXPOS� OF THE SEEDY SIDE OF THE TV BUSINESS... is not what you will find here. More a glorious gallop through a fifty-year odyssey, telling how a scruffy kid from the backstreets of war-torn Salford chased (without ever really catching) his dream of becoming an actor. It?s a fascinating story told from a different perspective ? Jim Whelan?s. It is a story of not ever becoming a star nor being recognized, but working solidly whilst falling in love with Helen, watching his children grow, and eventually feeling the great joy of grandchildren.
Book Synopsis Movie Music, the Film Reader by : Kay Dickinson
Download or read book Movie Music, the Film Reader written by Kay Dickinson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader brings together a wide range of writings to examine the role of music in cinema. Articles by leading critics including Theodor Adorno, Lawrence Grossberg and Lisa A. Lewis explore the function of the soundtrack, the place of song in film, andlook at how cinema has represented music and the music industry.
Download or read book Sinatra written by James Kaplan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Best Books of the Year The Washington Post • Los Angeles Times • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The story of Frank Sinatra’s second act, Sinatra finds the Chairman on top of the world, riding high after an Oscar victory—and firmly reestablished as the top recording artist of his day. Following Sinatra from the mid-1950s to his death in 1998, Kaplan uncovers the man behind the myth, revealing by turns the peerless singer, the (sometimes) powerful actor, the business mogul, the tireless lover, and—of course—the close associate of the powerful and infamous. It was in these decades that the enduring legacy of Frank Sinatra was forged, and Kaplan vividly captures “Ol’ Blue Eyes” in his later years. The sequel to the New York Times best-selling Frank, here is the concluding volume of the definitive biography of "The Entertainer of the Century."
Download or read book Chris Rock written by Anne M. Todd and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acerbic comedian began his career on Saturday Night Live.
Book Synopsis The Trials and Triumphs of Les Dawson by : Louis Barfe
Download or read book The Trials and Triumphs of Les Dawson written by Louis Barfe and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STRONGThe first ever narrative biography of a towering figure in British comedy Les Dawson, more than any other comedian, spoke for the phlegmatic, pessimistic British way of life. A Northern lad who climbed out of the slums thanks to an uncommonly brilliant mind, he was always the underdog, but his bark was funnier and more incisive than many comics who claimed to bite. Married twice in real life, he had a third wife in his comic world—a fictional ogre built from spare parts left by fleeing Nazis at the end of World War II—and an equally frightening mother-in-law. He was down to earth, yet given to eloquent, absurd flights of fancy. He was endlessly generous with his time, but slow to buy a round of drinks. He was a mass of contradictions. In short, he was human, he was genuine, and that's why audiences loved him. This is his story.
Book Synopsis Andy Kaufman Revealed! by : Bob Zmuda
Download or read book Andy Kaufman Revealed! written by Bob Zmuda and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2000-01-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his sweet-natured character Latka on Taxi, Andy Kaufman was the most influential comic of the generation that produced David Letterman, John Belushi, and Robin Williams. A regular on the early days of Saturday Night Live (where he regularly disrupted planned skits), Kaufman quickly became known for his idiosyncratic roles and for performances that crossed the boundaries of comedy, challenging expectations and shocking audiences. Kaufman's death from lung cancer at age 35 (he'd never smoked) stunned his fans and the comic community that had come to look to him as its lightning rod and standard bearer. Bob Zmuda -- Kaufman's closest friend, producer, writer, and straight man -- breaks his twenty-year silence about Kaufman and unmasks the man he knew better than anyone. He chronicles Kaufman's meteoric rise, the development of his extraordinary personas, the private man behind the driven actor and comedian, and answers the question most often asked: Did Andy Kaufman fake his own death?
Book Synopsis Eight Days A Week by : Graham Hutchins
Download or read book Eight Days A Week written by Graham Hutchins and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a memorable week in June 1964, the Beatles toured New Zealand, giving concerts in the four main centres and changing life as we knew it for ever. For teenagers of the time, it was the most exciting week of their lives. Teachers were ignored and parents defied as thousands of young people devised ingenious ways of seeing their idols. For this book Graham Hutchins has interviewed dozens of people who were directly affected by the visit, from fans who attended the concerts and people who accompanied the Beatles on tour, to contemporary musicians and John Lennon’s Kiwi relations. The visit of the Fab Four is remembered through the reminiscences of these eyewitnesses, and through a mass of photographs and memorabilia that illustrate the text. The author also assesses the long-term impact the Beatles made on New Zealand music and on society at large. Full of memories and nostalgia, this is the ideal souvenir of one of the most remarkable weeks in New Zealand’s history.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1960-01-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
