Download or read book Die Mommy Die written by Charles Busch and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic melodrama. Little Theatre. Characters: 3 male. 3 female. Interior set. Newly revised! This comic melodrama evokes the 1960's movie thrillers that featured such aging cinematic icons as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner and Susan Hayward. Faded pop singer, Angela Andrews, is trapped in a corrosive marriage to film producer, Sol Sussman. In her attempt to find happiness with her younger lover, an out of work TV star, Angela murd
Download or read book Die Mommie Die written by and published by Alyson Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete screenplays of the cult favourite films from the legendary Charles Busch. Originally written as plays for the stage, Psycho Beach Party and Die Mommie Die successfully translated to the big screen, providing people everywhere with the opportunity to appreciate the brilliance of Charles Busch.
Download or read book The Tale of the Allergist s Wife written by Charles Busch and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mommie Dearest written by and published by Paramount Pictures. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the tormented and glamorous star, Joan Crawford, struggling to survive in a cutthroat world, succumbing to a rage leading to alcoholism and child abuse.
Download or read book The Tale of the Allergist s Wife and Other Plays written by Charles Busch and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psycho beach party: Cast gender - mixed; number - 5 males, 6 females (total 11); size - medium; length - 10 scenes. Parody of the 1960s beach party movies. Surfing teenagers go crazy in Malibu.
Download or read book Roger Ebert s Movie Yearbook 2005 written by Roger Ebert and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing reviews written from January 2002 to mid-June 2004, including the films "Seabiscuit, The Passion of the Christ," and "Finding Nemo," the best (and the worst) films of this period undergo Ebert's trademark scrutiny. It also contains the year's interviews and essays, as well as highlights from Ebert's film festival coverage from Cannes.
Download or read book The Divine Sister written by Charles Busch and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Divine Sister is an outrageous comic homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns. Evoking such films as 'The Song of Bernadette,' 'The Bells of St. Mary's,' 'The Singing Nun' and 'Agnes of God,' The Divine Sister tells the story of St. Veronica's indomitable Mother Superior who is determined to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. Along the way, she has to deal with a young postulant who is experiencing "visions," sexual hysteria among her nuns, a sensitive schoolboy in need of mentoring, a mysterious nun visiting from the Mother House in Berlin, and a former suitor intent on luring her away from her vows."--P. [4] of cove
Download or read book Psycho Beach Party written by and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Third Story written by Charles Busch and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy / Characters: 4m, 2f / Unit set A faded screenwriter in the 1940's woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on a screen play. The gangster/sci fi B-movie in their imagination unfolds before us, involving a chic crime czarina, a beautiful but icy lady scientist and her failed and understandly bitter human cloning experiment. A third story is the Russian fairy tale the screenwriter told her son as a child about a painfully shy princess who forges a diabolical pact with a terrifying but surprisingly vulnerable old witch. The fairy tale inspires the movie which inspires the mother and son screenwriters to mend their fractured relationship. "Plays-within-plays require such intricate tailoring. So it's a pleasure to report that with The Third Story, the ever-captivating Charles Busch proves equally deft as both performer and seamstress." -Theatermania. "The main joy of The Third Story is that its foolery embodies something substantive...No wonder The Third Story feels like such an energizing event." -Village Voice.
Download or read book Death by Sunshine written by Allison Burnett and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like Truman Capote, Allison Burnett knows how to pull up a chair and whisper a juicy story into his lucky reader's ear. Death By Sunshine is a quickly-paced tale inhabited by fascinating and funny creatures." - Nell Scovell, Vanity Fair "In this age when the genuine comic novel seems to be an extinct species, Allison Burnett gives us reason to rejoice. Death By Sunshine is a return trip to the world of B.K. Troop, one of the most appealing characters ever put on a page." - Charles Busch, author of The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and Die, Mommie, Die! "Death by Sunshine is classic Burnett: hilarious, gut-wrenching, and entirely entertaining. He takes us on a journey across the country into the darkest recesses of the human psyche - with a few detours into the excesses of the human flesh along the way. A terrific read!" - Claire LaZebnik, author of Epic Fail and Families and Other Non-Returnable Gifts "B.K. Troop is that rarest find: an unexpected and entirely engaging new character." - Seduced by a Literary Original by Robin Russin, Los Angeles Times B.K. Troop is an aging, erudite, chemically imbalanced, gay, alcoholic novelist living in Manhattan. His life is turned upside down when he is invited to Los Angeles to adapt one of his novels into a screenplay. Soon after his arrival, B.K. is thrust into the heart of a mystery that only he can solve. With the help of his trusty Mexican chauffeur, B.K. penetrates the lower depths of Hollywood with hilarious and surprisingly poignant results.
Download or read book Charles Walters written by Brent Phillips and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “lively biography” of the director who choreographed Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds and more: “a real backstager” on the making of Hollywood musicals (Wall Street Journal). From the trolley scene in Meet Me in St. Louis to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's last dance on the silver screen to Judy Garland's tuxedo-clad performance of "Get Happy", Charles Walters staged the iconic musical sequences of Hollywood's golden age. The Academy Award-nominated director and choreographer showcased the talents of stars such as Gene Kelly, Doris Day, and Frank Sinatra—yet Walters's name often goes unrecognized today. In the first full-length biography of Walters, Brent Phillips chronicles the artist's career from his days as a Broadway performer to his successes at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Phillips takes readers behind the scenes of beloved musicals including Easter Parade, Lili, and High Society. He also examines the director's uncredited work on films like Gigi, and discusses his contributions to musical theater and American popular culture. This revealing book also considers Walters's personal life and explores how he navigated the industry as an openly gay man. Drawing on unpublished oral histories, correspondence, and new interviews, this biography offers an entertaining and important new look at an exciting era in Hollywood history.
Download or read book The Lady in Question written by Charles Busch and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vampire Lesbians of Sodom And Sleeping Beauty Or Coma written by Charles Busch and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Not the Girl Next Door written by Charlotte Chandler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Charlotte Chandler did so well in her previous biographies, she will again draw on the recorded words of Joan Crawford and those who knew her well to paint a rich portrait of the woman and the star. Joan Crawford was born Lucille LeSueur in Texas in 1908. She became a chorus girl in silent films before finding her voice in Possessed(1931) with Clark Gable. Their affair would continue, on and off screen, for many years. Throughout the thirties, Joan continued to earn critical acclaim for her forte of playing career women who never gave up. Her Oscar-winning film Mildred Piercein 1945 began the long-running feud between Joan and Bette Davis, which reached its height with Whatever Happened to Baby Janein 1962. Joan was married four times including once to Douglas Fairbanks Jr, who spoke extensively to Charlotte Chandler for this book. Following her death, Joan's decision to cut her eldest children out of her will prompted her daughter Christina to write the damning bookMommie Dearest which changed Joan's image forever. Charlotte Chandler spent many hours recording interviews with Joan and also those closest to her. What emerges is a subtle portrait of a complex women and a new insight into the legendary actress.
Download or read book Red Scare on Sunset written by Charles Busch and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hollywood, film star Mary Dale discovers her husband has succumbed to the power of the local Communist party by way of a method acting class. She further discovers a left-wing plot to abolish the star system. Mary wages a private war not only to save her husband, but to hopefully save her country, turning the McCarthy era on its head.
Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-10-28 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
Download or read book Charles Busch s The Tribute Artist written by Charles Busch and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new play by the reigning king (or queen) of Off Broadway comedy, Charles Busch, is about an out-of-work female impersonator who, when his elderly landlady dies in her sleep, takes on her identity in order to hang on to her valuable Greenwich Village townhouse. This "perfect" scheme goes awry and leads to a wild path of twists and reversals plotted by an eccentric rogues gallery of outrageous schemers. Expert Busch's signature blend of quick-witted banter and gender-bending hijinks in this new play from the master of Off-Broadway farce.
