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Hailed by The New York Times as "America's Aristophanes," Will Rogers was one of this century's most astute and beloved humorists. If as he often remarked, he never met a man he didn't like, it is also true that Rogers never met a man he didn't like to make fun of....
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Oxford University Press
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1996-04-25
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"I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man," Fanny Brice once boasted."I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in the rows at the Palace. I've doubled as an alligator; I've worked for the Shuberts; and I've been joined to Billy Rose in the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-10-07
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This is the story of a song. Yet, it is a song that binds nearly every strand of 20th-century American popular music. “Hey Joe” was written sometime in the early 1960s by a man named Billy Roberts, an obscure singer and guitarist from South Carolina who moved to New...
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Anvil Press
Parution :
2025-12-19
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Two of the Best in the Neighbourhood is a backstage account of the creation and continued life of the smash hit play 2 Pianos 4 Hands. (This volume also includes the full script of the play.) With contributions from the principal players of this story, including many...
Editeur :
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Parution :
2023-08-08
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Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction)One Sunday afternoon in a tiny postage-stamp garden, James Mullinger made the life-altering decision to give it all up: the London pubs, bustling city streets, and a flourishing comedy career. But where in the world would he...
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Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2022-05-10
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In this, her fourth book of poetry, one of Canada's best-loved poets takes on one of the most compelling divas of our time.In sixty-one audacious poems, Jeanette Lynes re-imagines and reanimates the peripatetic art, life, and times of Dusty Springfield.Alternating...
Editeur :
Freehand Books
Parution :
2008-09-01
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Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive. Leni’s reason to be there is clear: to make one last desperate pitch to direct her first feature film in fifty years. A thought-provoking contemplation on art,...
Editeur :
Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2007-05-01
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