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In a Glamourous Fashion: The Fabulous Years of Hollywood Costume Design (Routledge Revivals)
by W. Robert LaVineFirst published in 1981, In A Glamourous Fashion is not only a fascinating look at film fashion portraying the glamour and glitter of Hollywood’s heyday; but is also an invaluable reference source for any student of the film, of costume, or of the social history. It documents some of the best work of the designers – names like Adrian, Cecil Beaton, Edith Head – but tells the often-dramatic story of their careers and their relationships with legendary stars such as Garbo, Dietrich, Monroe and many more. Here are the stories behind the screen’s most famous costumes: Walter Plunkett’s ‘curtain dress’ for Scarlett O’Hara; the red Jezebel gown Orry-Kelly designed for Bette Davis; the slinky back satin sheath Rita Hayworth wore in Gilda; and the extravagant gown – ₤ 15, 000 worth of mink – worn by Ginger Rogers in Lady in the Dark. The photographs and original sketches are an essential and decorative complement to the text; there is an index, bibliography, and a full list of Academy Award winners for costume design.
Laid Back in Washington
by Art Buchwald"Who is that man in the white hat on the palomino horse riding down Pennsylvania Avenue?" the lady asked. "That's Art Buchwald, who's come to town to help rid President Reagan of fraud, waste and corruption in the government." "What's that on his hip?" "That's a Smith-Remington typewriter. Buchwald has the reputation for being the fastest hunt-and-peck man in the East. I've seen him hit three congressmen with one paragraph, at 100 yards." "He sure looks laid back in the saddle." "Don't let that trick you. He's picked up the California style ever since the Reagans moved into the White House. Nobody messes with him when he's looking for a column. He's taken on six Presidents, eight Vice Presidents, the FBI, the CIA, and the entire Department of Energy in his time." "He looks awfully fat for a gunslinger." "That's what fools most people. Under that soft underbelly is a thin hostile man screaming to get out." "Where's he going now?" "Heaven only knows, but I would hate to be anywhere near him when he pulls out his Smith-Remington and starts shooting up the town." "How can he tell the bad guys from the good guys?" "He works under the assumption that there( are no bad guys in Washington-only good guys doing bad things." "I guess we can all sleep better knowing he's here." "You can say that again. He's the only one who can save us from ourselves." "Oh my God, he just fell off his horse." "That's just a trick of his so no one in Washington will take him seriously." Following in the profoundly unserious spirit of Down the Seine and Up the Potomac and The Buchzvald Stops Here, Laid Back in Washington leaves no turn unstoned, but no feelings hurt for long. In this dazzling yet dizzy portrait of the new Washington, Art Buchwald not only reveals himself as the master chronicler of our leaders' foibles, but as a sophisticated wit in the elegant tradition of Oscar Wilde and Snoopy.
LIFE Movies of the 1980s: A Look Back at the Decade's Best Films
by The Editors of LIFETravel back to the future with dozens of 1980s favoritesBefore the internet, in the days of Rubik's Cubes, the Iran-Contra scandal, and Wall Street's booms and busts, movies captured the spirit of our times. Now you can revisit those great films with LIFE Movies of the 1980s, packed with glowing photos and behind-the-scenes stories from the pages of Life magazine.
Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend
by Arianna StassinopoulosLegendary soprano Maria Callas, whose singing was as sensational as her life, is the subject of this biography. The author tells of Callas' transformation from a shy, chubby girl into one of the greatest opera singers.
Materials for Learning: How to Teach Adults at a Distance (Routledge Library Editions: Broadcasting #26)
by Janet JenkinsMaterials for Learning (1981) examines the ability of books and broadcasts to change lives. The combination of print, radio, television and group meetings – distance teaching – can transform education in developing countries. Effective distance teaching requires effective teaching materials, and up to now there has been a lack of guidance about how to produce such materials and how to do so for different cultures. Materials for Learning aims to supply this need by suggesting guidelines for action and, where evidence is mixed or lacking, defining questions that still require answers. It is a practical book aimed at people actively involved in nonformal education and will be particularly useful for the developing world educators. The book looks first at how distance teaching can help with educational problems, considers how adults learn, and surveys problems of language and culture. It then considers the planning of distance teaching and looks in detail at the use of different media. There were also chapters on teaching numeracy and science at a distance, and a discussion of the kind of support that can be provided for people studying at a distance.
Move the Crowd: A Children's Picture Book (LyricPop #0)
by Eric Barrier William GriffinInnovative illustrator Kirk Parrish brings the iconic song "Move the Crowd" to life for the first time as a children's picture book. With knowledge of self, there's nothing I can't solve At 360 degrees I revolve This is actual fact, i
Movie Trivia Quiz Book
by The Editors at Ventura BooksHundreds of questions (and answers) about movies made before 1981.
Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince
by Budd SchulbergThe Oscar-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront recounts his life, his career, and &“how Hollywood became the dream factory it still is today&” (Kirkus Reviews). When Seymour Wilson &“Budd&” Schulberg moved from New York to Los Angeles as a child, Hollywood&’s filmmaking industry was just getting started. To some, the region was still more famous for its citrus farms than its movie studios. In this iconic memoir, Schulberg, the son of one of Tinseltown&’s most influential producers, recounts the rise of the studios, the machinations of the studio heads, and the lives of some of cinema&’s earliest and greatest stars. Even as Hollywood grew to become one of the country&’s most powerful cultural and economic engines, it retained the feel of a company town for decades. Schulberg&’s sparkling recollections offer a unique insider view of both the glitter and dark side of the dream factory&’s early years. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s estate.
Nine Plays Of The Modern Theater: The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Waiting For Godot - The Visit - The Balcony - The Birthday Party - Rhinoceros - Tango - Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead - American Buffalo
by Harold ClurmanVladimir, the more “philosophical” of the two vagrants in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, stiffens their morale by asking, “. . . what’s the good of losing heart now? We should have thought of it a million years ago, in the nineties!” What does this mean in the play’s context? What were the nineties that these bewildered blighters should recall them with regret? It was perhaps a time when they had not yet entered upon their agony. It was a time of certainty, a beautiful time-or so it seemed to them and to most of their contemporaries.
Only When I Laugh, Doctor (The Dr Clifford Chronicles)
by Dr Robert CliffordAn omnibus edition of Oh Dear, Doctor!, Look Out Doctor! and Surely Not, Doctor!, this volume follows the further exploits of Dr Bob Clifford in his country practice on the Somerset coast.Small though the town of Tadchester may be, nobody could accuse it of being sleepy. Not when stream of patients flocking to the surgery include Mrs. Short with her secret addiction, the absent-minded, incontinent vicar of St Peter's, the little greengrocer for whom an operation could restore marital duties with his huge bowler- hatted wife . . . not forgetting the entire rugby team from Drake's College who develop a mysterious and embarrassing ailment after an away match at a London night club . . .And even off-duty, life of Dr Bob is far from dull. Especially when it involves ailments at a writers' summer school, a camping holiday in France with his elderly, eccentric father-in-law and, ironically, a spell in hospital . . .
Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
by Stanley CavellDuring the 30's and 40's, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after divorce or separation. And the female protagonists were strong, independent, and sophisticated. Here, Stanley Cavell examines seven of those classic movies for their cinematic techniques, and for such varied themes as feminism, liberty and interdependence. Included are Adam's Rib, Bringing Up Baby, and The Philadelphia Story.
Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams (Music in American Life)
by Roger M. WilliamsFrom the book's Preface... Although he has been dead for twenty years, Hank Williams and his music live on in a manner unparalleled in American popular culture. His own recordings, reissued time and again, continue to sell to a body of fans and followers that has swelled to an estimated fifteen million. His songs, which Mitch Miller describes as "so indelible, so timeless they can take any kind of musical treatment," continue to take every kind, including jazz and soul. His popularity is so enduring and his influence so pronounced that many people express surprise when told Hank Williams is no longer living. The life, intertwined with the music, has become legend.
Speaking of Pianists... (3rd edition)
by Abram ChasinsBiographies of many noted pianists, and essays on interpretation, concert management, recording, and the formidable demands of a career as a concert pianist.
Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs
by Stanley Appelbaum James Camner361 portraits, from 1860s to 1950 of over 400 stars. Informative captions. An illustrious collection, long overdue.
Symphonies and Other Orchestral Works
by Donald Francis ToveyOver 100 critical essays about symphonies and other orchestral works from the author.
Theatre and Performing Arts Collections
by Lee AshHere is an exciting book that provides detailed descriptions of dozens of the most important and unique collections of “theatricana” in the United States and Canada. In Theatre and Performing Arts Collections, distinguished theatre specialists, librarians, and curators describe the unique possessions of the best and largest collections in theatre and performing arts. Each chapter provides detailed descriptions of the collections, as well as important notes about their history--information that is not available in any other source!
Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850-1910 (Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Theatre #3)
by Michael R. BoothOriginally published in 1981. This study concentrates on one aspect of Victorian theatre production in the second half of the nineteenth century – the spectacular, which came to dominate certain kinds of production during that period. A remarkably consistent style, it was used for a variety of dramatic forms, although surrounded by critical controversy. The book considers the theories and practice of spectacle production as well as the cultural and artistic movements that created the favourable conditions in which spectacle could dominate such large areas of theatre for so many years. It also discusses the growth of spectacle and the taste of the public for it, examining the influence of painting, archaeology, history, and the trend towards realism in stage production. An explanation of the working of spectacle in Shakespeare, pantomime and melodrama is followed by detailed reconstructions of the spectacle productions of Irving’s Faust and Beerbohm Tree’s King Henry VIII.
We Got the Beat: A Children's Picture Book (LyricPop #0)
by Charlotte Caffey Kaitlyn Shea O'ConnorAn exuberant celebration of dance and play in picture book form, based on Charlotte Caffey's joyful classic made famous by the Go-Go's. See the people walking down the street Fall in line just watching all their feet They don't know w
WYXIE Wonderland: An Unauthorized 50-Year Diary of WXYZ Detroit
by Dick OsgoodWYXIE WONDERLAND, by Dick Osgood, is a good time and more than that. Here is possibly the first comprehensive exploration into the inner workings of a broadcasting enterprise. It is as broad as it is deep, revealing the secrets of top management as completely as--perhaps even more fully than--it does the vagaries of performing talent. It is not a purely local story. Fifty years of national radio and television history--1925-1975--are reflected in the fundamental and accidental specifics of a single station--WXYZ, Detroit-AM, FM and TV. This is the diary of that station, unauthorized and independently written. WYXIE WONDERLAND was much more than the birthplace of The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. It was the starting point of SOUPY SALES and MIKE WALLACE, of DOUGLAS EDWARDS and JOHN HODIAK, of GEORGE SEATON, MARTHA SCOTT and DANNY THOMAS. Here are the hilarious fluffs, minor on-the-air disasters and a phantom broadcast. This extraordinary book traces the beginnings of five networks; it follows the rise and decline of radio network programming. It sees the radio actor replaced by--the disc jockey. There are record hops with FABIAN, CHUCK BERRY and STEVIE WONDER. WYXIE WONDERLAND explains how the scandal of radio payola grew out of the discovery of rigged TV quiz programs. It tells of a sound created in Texas that revolutionized radio, and how the Top 40 format emerged from a bar in Omaha. The confusion of early television is in it as well as of early radio, and the nefarious underground beginnings of FM. Alcoholism is discovered to be something of an occupational disease. The infighting among stations and executives for ratings, accounts and position gets tough. Personalities clash. There are victories and surprising defeats.
5600 Jokes for All Occasions
by Mildred Meiers Jack KnapFrom the Book jacket: What's better than Dial-A-Joke? File-A-Joke. This is the book you've been looking for. The one that takes the worry out of wisecracks, the book that proves there is such a thing as easy humor (providing somebody else does the work!) This book does all the work. Now all you have to do is leaf through and enjoy. Or, better yet, pick a victim and look him up in the index. Your unsuspecting mailman, for instance: "Say, Charlie, why is this letter wet?" (Your postman gives a puzzled look.) "Must be postage dew." (Then duck, quickly.) And there's no need to stop there. Is your postman rather hefty? Then just flip to the back of the book and look under "Fat People" (no beating around the bush with this book). You'll find high-level intelligence quotients under "Smartness," conceit under "Stuck Up," and unmarried ladies under "Old Maids." Want a crazy excuse for being late for work? Try #3212. Or for never having learned to spell? #4923. And #4378 is great to try on ex-cons and football lovers. If you want to impress a literary snob who asks you if you know Shakespeare, quote #4595 and say, "Sure, I read his stuff as soon as it comes out." Search these pages to find out why Ireland is the richest country in the world (#5480), how we know Washington had a great memory (#4007), and who went two thousand miles on a galleon [sic] (#5025). In its unusual Introduction, 5600 Jokes for All Occasions supplies us with a valuable guide to making the most of the material. The Introduction gives hints on How to Select Material, Write and Tell Jokes, Adapt Jokes, and Write Sketches and Continuities. The humorous situations are broadly classified into Individuals and Institutions, and these are neatly subdivided so that every subject is related to the subjects before and after it. The most comprehensive collection of humor on the market today, 5600 Jokes is a laugh-makers dream.
Bittersweet
by Susan StrasbergSusan in her autobiography Bittersweet, which detailed her brief marriage to actor Christopher Jones, the heart defect that long, imperiled the life of her daughter Jennifer, and the debilitating burden of being too famous too soon.
Body Movement: Coping with the Environment
by Irmgard Bartenieff Dori Lewis"'Irmgard Bartenieff has a profound knowledge of the human body and how it moves. I am delighted that this will now be made available to many more people.'." -- George Balanchine of Director, New York City Ballet"'Irmgard Bartenieff's pioneering work in the multiple applications of Labananalysis has had a transforming influence on many areas of movement training. Her careful and detailed development of the spatial principles into active corrective work has illuminated and altered the training of people as varied as dancers, choreographers, physical therapists, movement and dance therapists, and psychotherapists. Anthropologists and non-verbal communication researchers have found their world view necessarily altered by her fundamental innovations. The field of body/mind work will need to adapt to include her clear working through of basic principles.'." -- Kayla Kazahn Zalk of President, American Dance Guild
The Bremen Town Musicians
by Ilse PlumeThe book is all about the four aged animal friends trying to make living for them as they were escaped from their cruel masters.
Chekov's Enterprise: A Personal Journal of the Making of Star Trek--The Motion Picture
by Walter KoenigWalter Koenig's (Classic Star Trek's Pavel Chekov) journal of the making of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture. His moods swing wildly between elation at reuniting with the original Star Trek cast to bleak insecurity that his character is being overlooked, and that the movie won't be the hit the fans expect. Here is a look behind the scenes of filming a movie detailing highly technical explanations of camera set ups, scene composition and a multitude of script rewrites to accommodate the special effects, the actor's expectations, and time allotted for the completed movie. There are anecdotes illuminating the tensions and camaraderie between actors and technicians and the big brass. During the four months of filming the actors mingle, gossip, and fill long periods of time between shots where they are needed. When they are in front of the cameras they work feverishly shooting take after take, often under difficult, exhausting conditions. there is a wealth of information here about the trades of actors, directors, and many types of technicians who must cooperate to create a movie. Sometimes the actors are gregarious and the atmosphere electric with optimism. Sometimes they are lonely, self-absorbed and anxious in their dressing rooms or in the midst of frenetic activity. Through it all, Mr. Koenig's very personable humor, honesty, fair mindedness and sharp observation make this a fascinating book.