| Description |
xv, 364 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published as The spectator"--T.p. verso. |
| Contents |
Overture -- Prologue: morning, noon, and night (with Jack Kirkland) -- Act One. Beginnings. In the wings (with Francois Truffaut). Buster Keaton. Lillian Gish. King Vidor. Vittorio De Sica -- Say it with music. Eubie Blake. Agnes DeMille. Carol Channing (and Talluah Bankhead) -- Hard Times. Arthur Miller. Eva LeGallienne. Hiram (Chub) Sherman. E.Y. (Yip) Harburg. Harold Clurman. -- Chicago Boom-Boom. James Cagney -- War. War movies. On seeing The Deer Hunter. Pauline Kael -- O Death. Lila Kedrova. Reflections on The Last Mile and Watch on the Rhine. John Randolph on Alfred Lunt --Kindness of strangers. Tennessee Williams (and Claudia Cassidy). Geraldine Page. Marlon Brando -- Act Two. Ways of seeing. Federico Fellini (and Marcello Mastroianni and Alain Cuny). Rene Clair. Satyajit Ray (and Ravi Shankar) -- Ways of doing. Francoise Rosay. Ruth Gordon. Simone Signoret -- Ways of seeing II. Ian McKellan. Jonathan Miller -- A touch of Shaw. Sybil Thorndike. Robert Morley -- Bert and Sam: Brecht and Beckett. Kenneth Tynan (and Peter Hall). Lotte Lenya (and Arnold Sundgaard). Joan Littlewood. Alan Schneider. Gilbert Moses (and Joe Lattimore). Rick Cluchey. E.G. Marshall -- Act Three. Solo flight. Ruth Draper. Emlyn Williams. Hal Holbrook -- Out of the shadows. Moms Mabley. Lorraine Hansberry. James Baldwin. August Wilson (and Clifford Burke) -- Success. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Uta Hagen -- Winners and losers. William Saroyan (and Bill Veeck). Jose Quintero. Jose Quintero and Jason Robards. E.G. Marshall. Edward Albee -- The Clowns. Marcel marceau. Jacques Tati. Zero Mostel (and Eugene Ionesco) -- Epilogue. Burr Tillstrom. |
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Entertainers -- Interviews.
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Entertainers -- Interviews. |
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Entertainers. |
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Entertainers -- Biography.
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Entertainers -- Biography. |
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Dramatists -- Interviews.
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Dramatists. |
| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Subject |
Dramatists -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Interviews.
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Motion picture producers and directors. |
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Theatrical producers and directors -- Interviews.
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Theatrical producers and directors. |
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Biographies.
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Interviews.
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| Added Title |
Spectator
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| ISBN |
9781595583598 paperback |
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1595583599 paperback |
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