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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1427616132
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (276 download)
Download or read book The Tragic Clowns-An Analysis of the Short Lives of John Belushi, Lenny Bruce, and Chris Farley. written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Guse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781449550684
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Tragic Clowns written by Joe Guse and published by . This book was released on 2009-10-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a psychological profile of John Belushi, Lenny Bruce, and Chris Farley, and attempts to examine the pathos that exists in the inner worlds of comedians.
Author : Tom Farley, Jr.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440636036
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Chris Farley Show written by Tom Farley, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling biography of an American comedy legend After three years of sobriety, Chris Farley's life was at its creative peak until a string of professional disappointments chased him back to drugs and alcohol. He fought hard against them, but it was a fight he would lose in December 1997. Farley's fans immediately drew parallels between his death and that of his idol, John Belushi. Without looking deeper, however, many failed to see that Farley was much more than just another Hollywood drug overdose. In this officially authorized oral history, Farley's friends and family remember his work and life. Along the way, they tell a remarkable story of boundless energy, determination, and laughter that could only keep the demons at bay for so long.
Author : Joe Guse
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546568728
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (687 download)
Download or read book The Tragic Clowns Part II- Robin Williams, Bernie Mac, and Phil Hartman written by Joe Guse and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 11th, 2014, the world was stunned to learn that Robin Williams had taken his own life. He was a beloved funnyman, and his movies and comedy had touched people around the globe. His suicide made people once again wonder about the link between comedy and tragedy, and why it is that so many comedians meet tragic ends. In this book the author (a psychologist and former comedian) explores this question, and analyzes Robin's life as well as Bernie Mac's and Phil Hartman's to try and provide further clarity regarding why it is so many people who make us laugh meet such sad and tragic endings.
Author : Bob Woodward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451665989
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Wired written by Bob Woodward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reissue of Bob Woodword’s classic book about John Belushi—one of the most interesting performers and personalities in show business history—“is told with the same narrative style that Woodward employed so effectively in All the President’s Men and The Final Days” (Chicago Tribune). John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose March 5, 1982, in a seedy hotel bungalow off Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Belushi’s death was the beginning of a trail that led Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward on an investigation that examines the dark side of American show business—TV, rock and roll, and the movie industry. From on-the-record interviews with 217 people, including Belushi's widow, his former partner Dan Aykroyd, Belushi’s movie directors including Jack Nicholson and Steven Spielberg, actors Chevy Chase, Robin Williams, and Carrie Fisher, the movie executives, the agents, Belushi’s drug dealers, and those who live in the show business underground, the author has written a close portrait of a great American comic talent, and of his struggle to succeed and to survive that ended in tragedy. Using diaries, accountants’ records, phone bills, travel records, medical records, and interviews with firsthand witnesses, Woodward has followed Belushi’s life from childhood in a small town outside Chicago to his meteoric rise to fame. Bob Woodward has written a spellbinding account of rise and fall, a cautionary tale for our times, and a poignant and gentle portrait of a young man who had so much, gave so much, and lost so much.
Author : Brandon R. Burdette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792625251
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (252 download)
Download or read book I'm a Clown, But I Cry written by Brandon R. Burdette and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandon R. Burdette is a 32-year-old poet and essayist from CA, USA. "I'm a Clown, but I Cry: A Study of Chris Farley" is a critical essay which examines the striking contrast between Chris Farley the clown, and Chris Farley the man. Cover art: Edward Middleton Manigault, "The Clown" (1912).
Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986417198
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (171 download)
Download or read book American Legends written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes Belushi's quotes about his life and career *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away." - John Belushi A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Years before comedians like Chris Farley made their reputations with a particularly physical form of humor, there was John Belushi, the legendary comedian known for iconic performances in Animal House, The Blues Brothers, and as one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live. Not surprisingly, posters of Belushi as Bluto Blutarsky wearing a shirt that simply says "College" still adorn the walls of countless dorm rooms over 35 years after Animal House came out, and The Blues Brothers is still a cult classic. Belushi made people keel over in laughter in different roles, but there was always a question of how much of the performances was an act, because Belushi's behavior both on and off the set amazed friends and strangers alike, whether it was through hilarious routines or bizarre antics like walking into a stranger's house asking for food and drinks. Indeed, Belushi's escapades in real life actually provided material for Saturday Night Live skits, including an extended spoof called "The Thing That Wouldn't Leave." At the same time, however, his abuse of drugs and alcohol made him unreliable to work with, and he quickly forged a reputation for causing headaches on the set. That reputation already preceded him by the time he began working on Animal House in the late '70s, and the delays he caused on The Blues Brothers contributed to making it one of the most expensive comedies ever produced at the time. As is often the case for people with such hectic lifestyles, it's hard to maintain a grip, and Belushi himself claimed he believed he'd be dead by the age of 30. He wasn't far off, thanks to a controversial overdose on a mixture of heroin and cocaine, a speedball that was given to him by Cathy Smith, a rock groupie who also dealt drugs during the era. Smith was later imprisoned 15 months for involuntary manslaughter as a result. American Legends: The Life of John Belushi explores the turbulent life and career of one of America's most notorious comedians of the late 20th century. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about John Belushi like never before, in no time at all.
Author : Ronald K. L. Collins
Publisher : Top Five Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 1938938003
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)
Download or read book The Trials of Lenny Bruce written by Ronald K. L. Collins and published by Top Five Books LLC. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I thought I knew his story pretty well, but I learned a great deal from this book. It is a major contribution…" —George Carlin "The book is indispensable." —Booklist "Detailed, objective, and valuable." —Kirkus Reviews 10th Anniversary Edition—With a New Preface by the Authors When it first came out in 2002, The Trials of Lenny Bruce quickly established itself as the definitive work on Lenny Bruce’s free speech battles over his provocative comedy. The Trials of Lenny Bruce takes the reader on a wild and tragicomic ride, as the renegade comedian is arrested and tried in city after city—San Francisco, L.A., Chicago, and New York—for the words he spoke onstage. The charge was obscenity. The actual offense was blasphemy. This book is an essential documentation of the free speech struggles of an icon of American comedy who, by speaking his mind and fighting for the right to speak his mind, paved the way for every standup comedian, satirist, and social critic who followed him. Not only did The Trials of Lenny Bruce set the record straight on Lenny—being named one of the best books of the year by the L.A. Times—the authors led the successful push for the late comedian’s posthumous pardon in 2003 for his 1964 conviction on obscenity charges in New York.
Author : Marilyn D. Anderson
Publisher : Chelsea House Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780791058602
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Chris Farley written by Marilyn D. Anderson and published by Chelsea House Pub. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the comedian who got his start on "Saturday Night Live" and starred in such movies as "Tommy Boy" and "Beverly Hills Ninja," before dying of a drug overdose.
Author : Ron Riekki
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476680914
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Many Lives of Scary Clowns written by Ron Riekki and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frightening yet comic clown is one of the best and most enduring characters in literature, theater, television, and film. Across the centuries, from Shakespeare's Porter in Macbeth to Edgar Allan Poe's "Hop-Frog," or Stephen King's Pennywise, horror and comedy have blended to create the perfect recipe for entertainment. This volume gives an in-depth analysis of the clown horror genre, including essays by revered horror scholars such as Kevin Wetmore, Dale Bailey, Kim Hester Williams, Jennifer K. Cox, and Joanna Parypinski. Their essays cover topics such as nostalgia, race, class, and new portrayals of the scary clown as zombies or phantoms. It also offers interviews with actors and directors working in the clown horror genre: Eoghan McQuinn (Stitches), Kevin Kangas (Fear of Clowns), and Jaysen Buterin (Kill Giggles). Some of fiction's most terrifying creations--like the Killer Klowns, Captain Spaulding, Art the Clown, Krusty, Frowny, the Joker, and Twisty--jig through these pages of analysis and deconstruction, asking what these many iterations of scary clowns have to say about our society and its fears.
Author : Barry Lubin
Publisher : AuthorMike Ink
ISBN 13 : 0991033027
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tall Tales of A Short Clown written by Barry Lubin and published by AuthorMike Ink. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tall Tales of a Short Clown is the story of Barry Lubin, whose alter ego, Grandma, became one of the most successful clowns in American history, and was named "The World's Funniest Grandma" in Germany. Barry has entertained well over a hundred million people in circus rings, stadiums, arenas, on stage, in festivals, in films, and on television as the funny little carpetbagger with a mischievous view of the world. Barry is undoubtedly the only person to have achieved the combination of performing a running headstand onto a whoopee cushion on stage at Carnegie Hall, eating well over 10,000 bagels, and managing to piss off Ringo Starr, Meryl Streep, Gene Kelly, and Bruce Springstein as well as being inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame. Tall Tales of a Short Clown follows Barry's journey from Emerson College dropout to Clown College graduate, from his early failures on the Greatest Show on Earth to his induction into the Ring of Fame, the highest honor in clowning and in circus. He reveals his struggles with drug abuse and alcoholism and his journey into sobriety, his bout with thyroid cancer and his triumphant return to the ring, and his love affair with audiences on six continents over five decades, to earn his place as one of the most beloved clowns in history.
Author : Frank Kofsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lenny Bruce written by Frank Kofsky and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Peter Neil Issacs collection.
Author : Kitty Bruce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Almost Unpublished Lenny Bruce written by Kitty Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob Woodward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571135967
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Wired written by Bob Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1985-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Belushi" The outrageous talent, addicted to life, with a huge appetite for drugs, food, and pleasure. "Belushi" The star who plummeted over the edge. And the friends, wife, agents, and groupies who couldn't stop him.
Author : Albert Goldman
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ladies and Gentlemen--Lenny Bruce!! written by Albert Goldman and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1991 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the bestselling biographies The Lives of John Lennon and Elvis explores the tumultuous life of one of the most controversial comics who ever lived. Lenny Bruce's life is reconstructed in dazzling sequences that capture his genius in the same lingo and rhythm, shtick comedy and junkie surrealism that characterized his imagination. 8 pages of photos.
Author : William Karl Thomas
Publisher : Media Maestro Book Division
ISBN 13 : 9781627680035
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Lenny Bruce written by William Karl Thomas and published by Media Maestro Book Division. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lenny Bruce was the most controversial comedian of the 20th century, and William Karl Thomas was his only writing collaborator, a collaboration that lasted ten years from before Bruce's rise to international fame until the night he died. Together they crafted the milestone comedy material in Bruce's pioneering first three comedy albums, wrote three screenplays too controversial to ever make it to the screen, and fought the good fight for First Amendment Rights in which Bruce's trials have become milestone court cases. Before there was a George Carlin or a Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce paved the way for a performer to tell the truth about sex, politics, and religion, but he did so at the cost of political, religious, and police harassment, and he did so with his mother, Sally Marr, his manager who was the first to recognize his talents, Frank Ray Perelli, and his collaborator, William Karl Thomas as his only allies who hung in from beginning to end. Thomas' poignant memoir of their story (in the words of The Manchester Guardian) "reads like a Bogart script" and is illustrated by his photography from Bruce's album covers and stills from his cinematography of their film pilots. If you love Hollywood's Golden Era and how creative and courageous minds work, you gotta love this torrid twisted tale of "Lenny Bruce: The Making of a Prophet." In addition to this memoir, Thomas' biographical works include "The Genteel Poor," a childhood memoir of growing up in the Gulf Coast town that Tennessee Williams lived in and wrote about and which Hurricane Katrina almost obliterated in 2005. Also a biography, "A Place For Us," the inspiring story of Wendy Wolf, a polio survivor whose life illustrates the challenges of opportunity and acceptance people with disabilities face and the triumphs and successes this extraordinary woman achieved. Thomas' work spans the high points of the 20th century, even his fiction which is noted for its historical accuracy and includes "The Josan and the Jee," a Korean war novel; "Cleo," a civil rights era novel; The Piano Man, about a colorful collection of entertainers and hedonistic fun lovers in New Orleans French Quarter during the 1950's; and "Hollywood Tales from the Outer Fringe," an anthology of 12 short stories about the little people in 1950's Hollywood who serve the 'A' list celebrities. His latest work, "Immortal," is a science fiction trilogy laid a millennium into the future when three alien archeologists attempt to determine how humanity self destructed themselves and their planet and review the turning points of human evolution and earth's civilizations. Details and excerpts of all his work can be found on Amazon.com and the publisher's website; http: //www.mediamaestro.net/books.htm.
Author : Julian Barry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Lenny written by Julian Barry and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
