Download or read book MADISON AVENUE OHIO 1970 written by Wallace J. Gordon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the best ads and commercials are written in high-powered advertising agencies in New York City, right? In fancy offices perched high on the gleaming towers of Manhattan, right? By mythical creatures just returning from three martini lunches, right? Wrong, wrong, wrong. And once more, just for good measure. Once upon a time I was fired. Again. I’d been writing ads for agencies in Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis and New York. For almost twenty years. Then one day I found myself writing them in the sometimes sleepy, sometimes far from sleepy little city of Marion, Ohio. How I got there, what I did there, and all the rest of it makes a rather interesting story. At least to me. Although Gertrude Stein famously said, “There’s no there there,” don’t believe it for a minute. She sure wasn’t talking about Marion, Ohio. Read on, gentle reader, read on...
Download or read book Milt Marty written by Tom Leopold and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mockumentary in book form, by comedy writers Tom leopold and bob Sand, tells the story of how Milt Wagonman and his writing partner, Marty The X is Silent Sloyxne, finagled and stalked their way into the lives of america's greatest comics--from Milton berle to christopher guest. Milt & Marty, now in their 90s, have stopped at nothing on their quest for success. In the 1950s, they were so hard up for attention that they tried--unsuccessfully-- to get blacklisted as Communists. These days, they can be found sneaking onto movie sets to pitch their latest scripts and score free baklava. Most recently, Milt nailed Marty to one of the L's in the Hollywood sign in order to catch the eye (successfully) of Harry Shearer. A hybrid of truth and fiction, this story charts Milt & Marty's journey as seen through the eyes of real-life comedy writers Tom Leopold and Bob Sand, whose credits include Seinfeld and Cheers. Leopold & Sand tell the story of fictional Milt & Marty in a style similar to mockumentaries, like the film This Is Spinal Tap, even stepping into the tale themselves as characters. During lunch hour on their first day in show business, baby writers Leopold & Sand are spirited away from Paramount Studios by Milt & Marty--in the upholstery- less back seat of Marty's apple red Ford Falcon--to Milton Berle's home for an unforgettable initiation rite. But once Leopold & Sand start to make it themselves, the tables are turned and Milt & Marty begin to stalk them, going so far as to park in Sand's driveway until the younger pair takes pity and gives them work. The line between truth and fiction becomes even more hilariously blurred as some of the authors' real-life friends--such asHarry Shearer, Paul Shaffer, Martin Mull, Martin Short, and Catherine O'Hara--reveal why, despite having no great works to their names, Milt & Marty may well deserve their own stars on Hollywood Boulevard.
Download or read book I Wrote That One Too written by Steve Dorff and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). One of the most successful songwriters and composers of the last 25 years, Steve Dorff has penned over 20 Top 10 hits for pop and country artists around the world, including Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Blake Shelton, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Ray Charles, Anne Murray, Whitney Houston, George Strait, Dolly Parton, Judy Collins, Cher, Dusty Springfield, Ringo Starr, and Garth Brooks. He has scored for television shows, including Growing Pains , Major Dad , Murder She Wrote , Reba , and several films, including Any Which Way but Loose for which he penned the titular song, and more recently, he has embarked on Broadway (forthcoming musical Josephine ). Chronicling his four decades behind the music, Steve Dorff gives anecdotes, advice, and insights into his journey. The book follows Steve from his childhood in Queens to Manhattan to Nashville and to his eventual arrival in Los Angeles, California. Oftentimes, songs are attributed to the singers who perform them, but it is the songwriter who really knows the story behind the story from conception to execution. Full of heartfelt stories, hard-earned wisdom, and delightful wit, I Wrote That One, Too . . . is a great read for musicians, music fans, and whoever has chased their dreams and survived the surprising but often serendipitous turns in the road.
Download or read book The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz written by the late Leonard Feather and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to know when Duke Ellington was king of The Cotton Club? Have you ever wondered how old Miles Davis was when he got his first trumpet? From birth dates to gig dates and from recordings to television specials, Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler have left no stone unturned in their quest for accurate, detailed information on the careers of 3.300 jazz musicians from around the world. We learn that Duke Ellington worked his magic at The Cotton Club from 1927 to 1931, and that on Miles Davis's thirteenth birthday, his father gave him his first trumpet. Jazz is fast moving, and this edition clearly and concisely maps out an often dizzying web of professional associations. We find, for instance, that when Miles Davis was a St. Louis teenager he encountered Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie for the first time. This meeting proved fateful, and by 1945 a nineteen-year-old Davis had left Juilliard to play with Parker on 52nd Street. Knowledge of these professional alliances, along with the countless others chronicled in this book, are central to tracing the development of significant jazz movements, such as the "cool jazz" that became one of Miles Davis's hallmarks. Arranged alphabetically according to last name, each entry of this book chronologically lists the highlights of every jazz musician's career. Highly accessible and vigorously researched, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz is, quite simply, the most comprehensive jazz encyclopedia available.
Download or read book Too Soon written by Drew Friedman and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Too Soon? Drew Friedman finally (none “too soon,” in fact) gets his due with this fat, beautiful collection that showcases his wide-ranging skills as a portraitist and caricaturist. Subjects (or targets, depending on how you look at it) for Friedman’s pen on the political side include Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John McCain, and George W. Bush (with an iconic “W. as Strangelove” image) and his gang. Entertainers include Tiny Tim, Barney Fife, Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Lewis, the Three Stooges, Ellen DeGeneres, and Conan O’Brien. And falling somewhere in the gray area between entertainers and political players (you make the call!) Rush Limbaugh (who blasted Friedman’s George W. Bush image as being of “low artistic quality”), Sarah Palin, and Michael Moore.
Download or read book Television Specials written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete revision of the author's 1993 McFarland book Television Specials that not only updates entries contained within that edition, but adds numerous programs not previously covered, including beauty pageants, parades, awards programs, Broadway and opera adaptations, musicals produced especially for television, holiday specials (e.g., Christmas and New Year's Eve), the early 1936-1947 experimental specials, honors specials. In short, this is a reference work to 5,336 programs--the most complete source for television specials ever published.
Download or read book John Milton written by Cedric C. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-10-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in an approachable, affordable volume this study treats the whole literary career of England's most distinguished protestant-republican poet and writer, considering the miscellaneous output in the light of contexts and political functions. It highlights self-presentational and persuasive characteristics, pays attention to the sense of vocation and also describes Milton's distinctive achievement in social genres. Milton's competitive humanist training is seen to accomodate uneasily to the specific demands of some public works. The book features unfamiliar texts, whilst canonical texts are set in the story of his long endeavours during a turbulent period in English history.
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Download or read book Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton written by Arthur S. P. Woodhouse and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Milton s Italy written by Catherine Martin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions that have diminished the international dimensions of his life and work, it broadly surveys Milton’s Italianate studies, travels, poetics, politics, and religious convictions. While his debts to Machiavelli and other classical republicans are often noted, few contemporary critics have explored the Italian sources of his anti-papal, anti-episcopal, and anti-formalist religious outlook. Relying on Milton’s own testimony, this book explores its roots in Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, and that great "Venetian enemy of the pope," Paolo Sarpi, thereby correcting a recent tendency to make native English contexts dominate his development. This tendency is partly due to a mistaken belief that Italy was in steep decline during and after Milton’s travels of 1638-1639, the period immediately before he produced his prose critiques of the English Church, its canon law, and its censorship. Yet these were also fundamentally "Italian" issues that he skillfully adapted to meet contemporary English needs, a practice enabled by his extraordinarily positive experience of the Italian language, cities, academies, and music, the latter of which ultimately influenced Milton’s "operatic" drama, Samson Agonistes. Besides republicanism and theology (radical doctrines of free grace and free will), equally strong influences treated here include Italian Neoplatonism, cosmology, and romance epic. By making these traditions his own, Milton became what John Steadman once described as an "Italianate Englishman" whose classical "literary tastes and critical orientation...were...to a considerable extent" molded by Italian critics (1976), a view that is fully credited and updated here.
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Download or read book Milton s Elements written by Cordelia Strube and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Milton Across Borders and Media written by Islam Issa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume explores the combination of cultural phenomena that have established and canonized the work of John Milton in a global context, from interlingual translations to representations of Milton's work in verbal media, painting, stained glass, dance, opera, and symphony.
Download or read book Milton Memorial Lectures 1908 written by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1964 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of ten lectures delivered before the Royal Society of Literature to commemorate the Tercentenary of the birth of Milton (1908).
Download or read book Milton Memorial Lectures 1908 written by Percy W. Ames and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1964 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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