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Woody’s Last Laugh

Author : James Christopher Haney
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803410051
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Woody’s Last Laugh written by James Christopher Haney and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woody’s Last Laugh explores a simmering controversy amid scientists, conservationists, birders and the media: the supposed “extinction” of American ivory-billed woodpecker. Among the first to identify rampant mental errors inside conservation and environmental professions, the book identifies 53 distinct kinds of cognitive blunders, psychological biases, and logical fallacies on both sides of the woodpecker controversy. Few species have ever provoked such social rancor. Why are rumors of its persistence so prevalent, unlike other near or recently extinct animals? Why are we so bad mannered with each other about a mere bird? How is it that we cannot agree even on whether a mere bird is alive or dead? Woody’s Last Laugh uncovers why such mysteries so mess with our heads. By exploring uncharted borders between conservation and mental perception, new ways of evaluating truth and accuracy are opened to everyone. Author Dr. J. Christopher Haney is a biologist, conservation scientist and lifelong birder. For 12 years he was Chief Scientist at Defenders of Wildlife. In 2010, following the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service invited him to lead the largest pelagic study of marine birds ever conducted in the Gulf of Mexico. Since 2013 he has been president of Terra Mar Applied Sciences, an independent public-interest conservation research firm which he founded. If there is one lesson Dr. Haney hopes his book delivers, it is to not overvalue our thinking skills. Human reason is fallible, even among scientists and technical experts. To improve our essential relationship with nature, conservation practices will need to devote as much attention to the unbridled thoughts as the unswerving sentiments. Dead or alive, however, the ivory-bill got the last laugh on us all.

The Last Laugh

Author : S. J. Perelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585741526
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Last Laugh written by S. J. Perelman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Last Laugh", as its name suggests, is the last of Perelman's 20 books and shows the humorist at his very best. Includes 17 pieces never before collected and the opening chapters of the author's uncompleted autobiography.

The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

Author : James T. Tanner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486148750
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker written by James T. Tanner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All who seek this elusive bird rely on this 1942 profile of the species' characteristics and habits including its original distribution patterns; history of its disappearance; feeding, nesting, breeding habits. 20 halftones, 17 tables, 22 other illustrations.

Make 'Em Laugh

Author : Michael Kantor
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 0446555754
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Make 'Em Laugh written by Michael Kantor and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the most popular routines and the most ingenious physical shtick to the snappiest wisecracks and the most biting satire of the last century, Make 'Em Laugh illuminates who we are as a nation by exploring what makes us laugh, and why. Authors Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor draw on countless sources to chronicle the past century of American comedy and the geniuses who created and performed it-melding biography, American history, and a lotta laughs into an exuberant, important book. Each of the six chapters focuses a different style or archetype of comedy, from the slapstick pratfalls of Buster Keaton and Lucille Ball through the wiseguy put-downs of Groucho Marx and Larry David, to the incendiary bombshells of Mae West and Richard Pryor . And at every turn the significance of these comedians-smashing social boundaries, challenging the definition of good taste, speaking the truth to the powerful-is vividly tangible. Make 'Em Laugh is more than a compendium of American comic genius; it is a window onto the way comedy both reflects the world and changes it-one laugh at a time. Starting from the groundbreaking PBS series, the authors have gone deeper into the works and lives of America's great comic artists, with biographical portraits, archival materials, cultural overviews, and rare photos. Brilliantly illustrated, with insights (and jokes) from comedians, writers and producers, along with film, radio, television, and theater historians, Make 'Em Laugh is an indispensible, definitive book about comedy in America.

Into the Mist

Author : Patrick Carman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0439899982
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Into the Mist written by Patrick Carman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Roland Warvold tells Alexa and Yipes about the adventures he shared with his brother Thomas in Elyon, before the wall went up and divided the world in two.

Laugh Lines

Author : Alan Zweibel
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683356837
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Laugh Lines written by Alan Zweibel and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his tender, funny memoir of four decades in the business, one of the first writers for Saturday Night Live traces the history of American comedy. Alan Zweibel started his comedy career selling jokes for seven dollars apiece to the last of the Borscht Belt standups. Then one night, despite bombing on stage, he caught the attention of Lorne Michaels and became one of the first writers at Saturday Night Live, where he penned classic material for Gilda Radner, John Belushi, and all of the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players. From SNL, he went on to have a hand in a series of landmark shows—from It’s Garry Shandling’s Show to Curb Your Enthusiasm. Throughout the pages of Laugh Lines Zweibel weaves together his own stories and interviews with his friends and contemporaries, including Richard Lewis, Eric Idle, Bob Saget, Mike Birbiglia, Sarah Silverman, Judd Apatow, Dave Barry, Carl Reiner, and more. The book also features a charming foreword from his friend of forty-five years Billy Crystal, with whom he co-wrote and co-produced the upcoming film Here Today that stars Crystal and Tiffany Haddish. Laugh Lines is a warmhearted cultural memoir of American comedy. “In Laugh Lines, Zweibel looks back, affectionately and informatively, at a career that began when he was a young deli worker grinding out jokes for old-school borscht belt comedians in his spare time, and that, after his “S.N.L.” years, included rewarding collaborations with, among others, Garry Shandling, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Larry David and Dave Barry. . . . Fascinating.” —New York Times “Any comedy fan will thrill to see the contemporary art's invention through the eyes of consummate funny man Alan Zweibel. He takes you behind the velvet rope and makes you weep for all those artists who made us laugh. Screamingly funny—also very moving. A classic.” —Mary Karr “Alan Zweibel is legendary among us comedians. He is the man who delivers comedy with an emotional clout that makes him respected and revered.” —Steve Martin

Little Woody Stories

Author : Woody Dykes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615997698
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Little Woody Stories written by Woody Dykes and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where should I start-maybe from the first time I was dropped on my head, or the last time? Let's start from the first time. The doctor didn't mean to let go of my leg or to hit me on my butt that hard in the delivery room. You see I was just swimming in my indoor pool when someone knocked a hole in the pool and I went out with the water. Some would say that there was a mix up at the hospital, and that little screaming swimmer didn't really belong to the Dykes tribe. I think my Dad and Mother got a deal from God on four children: you get three smart ones, but you have to take one of the idiots out of basket two. It was the only way God could empty basket two. But the ones in basket two could jump higher then any of them and that's what really counts in life. I have jumped about as high as anyone in this world, and got to do things most people could only dream about. It has been a really good life.

Bound for Glory

Author : Woody Guthrie
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0452264456
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Bound for Glory written by Woody Guthrie and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1983-09-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all. Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over—not by jet or motorcycle, but by boxcar, thumb, and foot. During the journey of discovery that was his life, he composed and sang words and music that have become a national heritage. His songs, however, are but part of his legacy. Behind him Woody Guthrie left a remarkable autobiography that vividly brings to life both his vibrant personality and a vision of America we cannot afford to let die. “Even readers who never heard Woody or his songs will understand the current esteem in which he’s held after reading just a few pages… Always shockingly immediate and real, as if Woody were telling it out loud… A book to make novelists and sociologists jealous.” —The Nation

The Last Laugh

Author : Phil Berger
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1461731992
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Last Laugh written by Phil Berger and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2000-11-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Laugh is the first and only book to take readers deep into the bizarre universe of the standup comic, from the classic years of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and Shecky Greene, to today's comedy superstars. Phil Berger shows how styles and trends in standup have changed over the past fifty years, but how taking the stage in a comedy club is as tough as it's always been. Performers profiled in the book include Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Elaine Boosler, Robert Klein, Bill Cosby, Billy Crystal, Dick Gregory, Andy Kaufman, Steve Martin, Cheech and Chong, Eddie Murphy, and a host of others. Filled with comics' hilarious routines and anecdotes, this substantially updated edition also chronicles the lives and careers of more recent artists, including Richard Lewis and Jay Leno.

In Black in White

Author : L. T. Woody
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781440130502
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book In Black in White written by L. T. Woody and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlem Park is the name of one of the bleakest, meanest neighborhoods on Baltimore's West-side. The nasty scourges of heroin, crack, and a host of other inner-city drug and criminal activity are as prolific in Harlem Park as they are in far too many other neighborhoods around Baltimore City (also known as Charm City), and many other American cities as well. Notable television dramas; HBO's, The Corner, NBC's, Homicide: Life on the Streets and 'The Wire' have explored and dramatized many of Baltimore City's societal ills. These television productions explored, in excruciating detail, the ravages of heroin and its attendant criminal activity on the daily lives of the citizens of Charm City where heroin is nothing less than an epidemic. There is also the frequent national news coverage of the more outrageous murders and assorted mayhem plaguing this relatively small metropolis. In Black In White looks at the lives of some of the people who have worked, played, loved and died on Baltimore's mean streets. It examines a time (1960's -70's) before the periods examined in the aforementioned television shows; a time when life was still dangerous and hard; but perhaps when the neighborhood still retained some of the charm for which Baltimore is sometimes noted. It was a time of great social upheaval and seeming great promise, despite the desperate circumstances of day-to-day life. This is Harlem Park as seen through the eyes of someone actually living squarely in the midst of the fray, someone determined to find another choice' through the impossible miracle of a scholarship to the all-boys St. Paul's Episcopal School in Concord, New Hampshire, an exclusive private boarding school; the same school attended by one-time presidential candidate Senator John Kerry, 'Doonesbury' cartoonist Garry Trudeau and numerous other elite American families and luminaries. Among several other themes, In Black In White looks at the idea of nature versus nurture. It's the story of the two educations' of a black youth; an education derived from attendance in the Baltimore City Public Schools and surviving that city's streets; and then an education acquired from time spent in the ivy-covered Halls of one of the finest boarding schools in America, living and learning daily among some of the most privileged youth in this country. The outcome is anything but certain. Both places have the potential for chewing a body to bits; both places inhabited by some good and not-so-good people. In Black In White is a story about coming of age, forging relationships, success and failure, life and death and moving on. It provides an intimate glimpse into two very different worlds; which in the final analysis may not be all that different.

Graphic Details

Author : Sarah Lightman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786465530
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Graphic Details written by Sarah Lightman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comics within capture in intimate, often awkward, but always relatable detail the tribulations and triumphs of life. In particular, the lives of 18 Jewish women artists who bare all in their work, which appeared in the internationally acclaimed exhibition "Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women." The comics are enhanced by original essays and interviews with the artists that provide further insight into the creation of autobiographical comics that resonate beyond self, beyond gender, and beyond ethnicity.

The Unruly Life of Woody Allen

Author : Marion Meade
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497631548
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Unruly Life of Woody Allen written by Marion Meade and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A psychologically nuanced, tough-minded portrait” of the New York filmmaker and his relationships with Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn (Publishers Weekly). Writer, director, actor, humorist. Woody Allen stands as one of our era’s most celebrated artists. Starting in the 1950s, Allen began crafting a larger‐than‐life neurotic persona that has since entertained and enlightened millions. In his films, widely thought to be autobiographical explorations of his own comic fears and fixations, Allen carefully controlled the public’s view of him as a lovable scamp. But that all came crashing down the day Mia Farrow found a Polaroid on her mantle. What followed was a flurry of sensational headlines and legal battles. His relationship with Soon‐Yi Previn, thirty-four years his junior and the step‐daughter of his longtime girlfriend, caused shockwaves in the public’s perception of the director, yet few biographers and journalists have explored what happened and why. In this, the first deep investigation of Allen’s life and the events surrounding his split with Farrow, biographer Marion Meade tracks down dozens of friends, actors, neighbors, and film historians. They open up with insights and details rare in the world of wealth and celebrity. What results is a fascinating portrait of a flawed genius, as adept at constructing his own image as he is at crafting films. Rereleased and updated, this is an unauthorized biography that neither Woody Allen’s fans nor his detractors will be able to put down. The revised and updated edition was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal in 2013 by Carl Rollyson, in a roundup of the five best Hollywood biographies.

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker

Author : Guy G Luneau
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Ivory-billed Woodpecker written by Guy G Luneau and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Campephilus principalis, survives on the North American continent in our modern era, two-plus decades into the 21st century. Its survival is a natural history miracle. The ivorybill was considered by many to have gone extinct on the North American continent as far back as the early 1900's. Yet it was "rediscovered". After a short while, many lost hope and again labeled it extinct. It was rediscovered again. Sightings of the species continued on through the decades. And encounters continue up into the present day, two-plus decades into the 21st century. How can this be? How can a large bird species, as large as a Wood Duck, continue surviving on the North American continent while living its life "under the radar" of the 330 million people residing in the USA in the 2020 A.D. time frame? This book, The Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Taunting Extinction, offers explanations of the various pathways by which this can occur -- and indeed it has occurred. The modern-day Ivory-billed Woodpecker population is no doubt low in number. But forest square mileage is much larger today, and the average age of the trees in those forests is much older today, in the eastern USA than it was in the mid 1900's when numerous species of forest animals' populations dipped to substantially reduced numbers, including such now-abundant animals as Whitetail Deer, Wild Turkey, Wood Duck, and Black Bear to name a few. Combining the ivorybill's low, but likely increasing, population with it being a quiet, skittish-of-man, retiring, long-distance-traveling, masterfully-wily, master-of-its-environment bird species, along with a modern-day humanity who largely does not spend much time in deep forest and swamp habitats, we then have the factors of the recipe - the equation - that permits the ivorybill to elude detection by humans.

Woody Allen

Author : Vittorio Hösle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Woody Allen written by Vittorio Hösle and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extended essay, Vittorio H sle develops a theory of the comical and applies it to interpret both the recurrent personae played by Woody Allen the actor and the philosophical issues addressed by Woody Allen the director in his films. Taking Henri Bergson's analysis of laughter as a starting point, H sle integrates aspects of other theories of laughter to construct his own more finely-articulated and expanded model. With this theory in hand, H sle discusses the incongruity in the characters played by Woody Allen and describes how these personae are realized in his work. H sle focuses on the philosophical issues in Allen's major films by exploring the identity problem in Play It Again, Sam and Zelig, the shortcomings of the positivist concept of reality in A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, the relation between reality and art in The Purple Rose of Cairo, the objective validity of morality in Crimes and Misdemeanors, the power of evil in Shadows and Fog, and the relation between art and morality in Bullets over Broadway. He cites Allen's virtuosic reinterpretation of older forms of expression and his integration of the fantastic into the comic universe--elements like the giant breasts, anxious sperm, extraterrestrials, ghosts, and magicians that populate his movies--as formal moves akin to those of Aristophanes. Both an overview of Allen's work and a philosophical analysis of laughter, H sle's study demonstrates why Allen's films have more to offer us--morally, philosophically, and artistically--than just a few laughs. "In Woody Allen, Vittorio H sle goes a long way toward explaining everything you wanted to know about Allen but were afraid to ask. Just why exactly is he funny, and why does his humor have a strong appeal for academics? In his comprehensive analysis of Allen's work, H sle outlines a workable theory of humor, illustrates his conclusions by referring to the films and prose, and points out several philosophic motifs underlying Allen's deceptively complex comedies. H sle's work elevates the enjoyment of Allen's films from guilty pleasure to satisfying intellectual engagement with an intriguing contemporary thinker and artist." --Richard A. Blake, S.J., Boston College "Vittorio H sle presents a compelling overview of Allen's work in which he discusses different theories of laughter and argues for the priority of the incongruity theory as the only one able to answer the normative question, what distinguises good from bad laughter? On this theoretical basis he goes on to delve into both the humor and the philosophical profundity of Allen's films." --Sander Lee, Keene State College

Long, Last, Happy

Author : Barry Hannah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802145505
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Long, Last, Happy written by Barry Hannah and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines the best from the author's four story collections as well as the final manuscript he left behind after his death.

911

Author : Richard Karrel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781450265508
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book 911 written by Richard Karrel and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatrist Woody Wood, America's love guru and renowned phobia specialist, persuaded his fiancée to wait until their wedding night to consummate their relationship, because unbeknownst to her and the millions who read his syndicated sexual advice column, Woody is still a virgin due to a debilitating performance anxiety. Further complicating matters is the sudden arrival of Woody's 72-year-old- mother, Happy, and her one-legged psychopathic boyfriend who escaped from a locked mental ward and appeared at Woody's doorstep just in time to brew a potpourri of unimaginable trouble for the two love birds. Happy's never-ending supply of laxatives, scathing truths, and a mysterious red shoebox wreak havoc on Rudd Waters, the fetching former beauty queen and fiancée of Woody, and Woody's three-legged incontinent and neurotic dog, Di. Woody's two million dollar mansion, not big enough for the four of them, becomes even smaller with the addition of Lucky, Happy's slutty daughter, Lucky's do-nothing husband, Jeep, and Ben, Lucky's rotund lawyer friend and married lover. Julian, a promiscuous chef, and Christian, a conflicted and closeted heart surgeon and former lover of Rudd, round out this crazy mix. Told from the point of view of thirteen characters, 911 is a dark comedy based on real people and an incredible chain of real events that ultimately threaten not only Woody's sanity, but his life! Happy, Jewish American Princess and marionette mistress extraordinaire, possesses the uncanny ability to control the destiny of misfits, embroiled in a Gordian knot, in the end unveiling unexpected acumen and cunning talent.

Reconstructing Woody

Author : Mary P. Nichols
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442207469
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Woody written by Mary P. Nichols and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-08-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking new book, Mary P. Nichols challenges this, arguing that Allen's work, from Play It Again, Sam to Deconstructing Harry, is actually an attempt to explore and reconcile the tension between art and life.