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The spectator : talk about movies and plays with the people who make them / Studs Terkel.
LIBRA - Special PN1583 .T39 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Entertainers--Interviews.
- Entertainers.
- Entertainers--Biography.
- Dramatists--Interviews.
- Dramatists.
- Dramatists--Biography.
- Interviews.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 364 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., [1999]
- Summary:
- This major new work includes more than 40 never-before-published interviews in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian elicits frank, funny, and surprising conversations about the past half century of dramatic arts.
- Contents:
- 1 Beginnings 27
- In the Wings (with Francois Truffaut) 27
- Buster Keaton 31
- Lillian Gish 37
- King Vidor 40
- Vittorio De Sica 45
- 2 Say It with Music 51
- Eubie Blake 51
- Agnes DeMille 55
- Carol Channing (and Tallulah Bankhead) 65
- 3 Hard Times 76
- Arthur Miller 76
- Eva Le Gallienne 83
- Hiram (Chub) Sherman 91
- E. Y. (Yip) Harburg 94
- Harold Clurman 97
- 4 Chicago Boom-Boom 105
- James Cagney 105
- 5 War 115
- War Movies 115
- On Seeing The Deer Hunter 120
- Pauline Kael 125
- 6 O Death 129
- Lila Kedrova 130
- Reflections on The Last Mile and Watch on the Rhine 131
- John Randolph on Alfred Lunt 132
- 7 Kindness of Strangers 136
- Tennessee Williams (and Claudia Cassidy) 136
- Geraldine Page 148
- Marlon Brando 151
- 1 Ways of Seeing 163
- Federico Fellini (and Marcello Mastroianni and Alain Cuny) 163
- Rene Clair 167
- Satyajit Ray (and Ravi Shankar) 171
- 2 Ways of Doing 178
- Francoise Rosay 178
- Ruth Gordon 186
- Simone Signoret 191
- 3 Ways of Seeing II 196
- Ian McKellen 196
- Jonathan Miller 200
- 4 A Touch of Shaw 211
- Sybil Thorndike 211
- Robert Morley 215
- 5 Bert and Sam: Brecht and Beckett 223
- Kenneth Tynan (and Peter Hall) 223
- Lotte Lenya (and Arnold Sundgaard) 233
- Joan Littlewood 239
- Alan Schneider 243
- Gilbert Moses (and Joe Lattimore) 251
- Rick Cluchey 255
- E. G. Marshall 256
- 1 Solo Flight 261
- Ruth Draper 261
- Emlyn Williams 265
- Hal Holbrook 271
- 2 Out of the Shadows 276
- Moms Mabley 276
- Lorraine Hansberry 282
- James Baldwin 287
- August Wilson (and Clifford Burke) 288
- 3 Success 296
- Arnold Schwarzenegger 296
- Uta Hagen 298
- 4 Winners and Losers 306
- William Saroyan (and Bill Veeck) 306
- Jose Quintero 311
- Jose Quintero and Jason Robards 314
- E. G. Marshall 319
- Edward Albee 320
- 5 The Clowns 332
- Marcel Marceau 332
- Jacques Tati 337
- Zero Mostel (and Eugene Ionesco) 341
- Burr Tillstrom 357.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1565845536
- OCLC:
- 40683723
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