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All I did was ask : conversations with writers, actors, musicians, and artists Terry Gross
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks NX 511.5 .G76 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gross, Terry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--United States--Interviews.
- Artists.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 353 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hyperion, 2004.
- Summary:
- The award-winning host of National Public Radio's Fresh Air presents a selection of her interviews with some of the most celebrated actors, musicians, writers, artists, and comics of the day.
- Contents:
- Don't do it / Nicolas Cage
- Like a skinny boxer / Chris Rock
- Being square / John Updike
- A man's voice / Johnny Cash
- Lift everything up / Charlie Haden
- Erotic cheese and crackers / Mary Karr
- A new gift / Andre Dubus and Andre Dubus III
- The craft itself / Uta Hagen
- Use the disadvantage / Michael Caine
- Right in the gut / Mickey Spillane
- You will not find the word "lesbian" / Ann Bannon
- We all die / Walter Mosley
- A family courtesy / Mario Puzo
- Make sense of it later / George Clinton
- Bootzilla twenty-seven hours a day / Bootsy Collins
- Dissonance / Nick Hornby
- In the junkyard / Grandmaster Flash
- Alive in a coffin / Paul Schrader
- A difficult place to grow up / Jodie Foster
- I never told jokes / Albert Brooks
- Beauty gone berserk / Divine
- Kissing and licking boots / Mary Woronov
- To iron a shirt / Joyce Johnson
- So what? / Larry Rivers
- Not to think / Sonny Rollins
- Send the salami / Hal David
- Like raw meat / Isabella Rossellini
- A little out of whack / Dennis Hopper
- The way people look / Chuck Close
- It gets harder / Frank Stella
- Mom, Dad, I want to be a tap dancer / Conan O'Brien
- Nothing else would matter / Eric Clapton
- A large feminine side / Steven Tyler and Joe Perry
- Too much for you to take / Gene Simmons
- Dramatic beats / Samuel L. Jackson
- Stop acting / Dustin Hoffman
- In that hurricane / James Baldwin
- A place of protection / Carol Shields
- A fraudulent angel / Maurice Sendak.
- ISBN:
- 1401300103
- 9781401300104
- 9780786888207
- 0786888202
- OCLC:
- 54459942
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