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There Goes Old Gomer
[...]performers on programs such as The Real McCoys, The Andy Griffith Show, and The Beverly Hillbillies often adopted aspects of their roles-usually naïve southern hicks-as part of their public personas, careful not to act like movie stars and destroy the illusion. Television producers had no reason to believe the same rule did not apply to their audiences.2 The trend of connecting rural comedy actors with their stage personas increased in the late 1950s. [...]that point, there were few situation comedies on television, and those that existed portrayed mostly white, middle class, suburban families.
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Mr. Know-It-All : the tarnished wisdom of a filth elder
\"The newest essay collection from the New York Times-bestselling John Waters, reflecting on how to overcome newfound responsibility and rebel in the autumn of your years\"-- Provided by publisher.
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LOVERS, FILMMAKERS, AND NAZIS: FRITZ LANG'S LAST TWO MOVIES AS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Fritz Lang's last two movies are autobiographies of a peculiar kind. He remakes two early films, transforming them into allegorical representations of the intense romantic and political triangle which shaped his early career—the triangle connecting the director Lang, the screenwriter Thea Von Harbou (who was also his wife), and the Nazi Party.
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Life isn't everything : Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends
\"An up-close and personal portrait of legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian Mike Nichols, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts-from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels\"-- Provided by publisher.
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WHY THE EXECUTION OF AN IDEA IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE IDEA ITSELF
Joe Sedelmaier, the renowned TV commercial director, believes the execution of an idea is more important than the idea itself. He is not a big fan of storyboards. His most famous commercials, the fast-talking man for FedEx and the Clara Peller \"Where's the Beef?\" spot for Wendy's, would never have happened if they stuck to storyboards. When the agency Ally & Gargano suggested John Moschitta for the fast-talking man, Joe found him very young and gregarious. But Joe saw the character as one of those guys who looks straight ahead and doesn't wait for anyone. So Joe put a mustache on him to make him look a little older, put a pencil in his hand and had him look straight ahead, and no movement, like a robot. And it worked great.
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The way it was : my life with Frank Sinatra
\"Eliot Weisman worked with Frank Sinatra from 1975 up until Sinatra's death in 1998, and became one of the singer's most trusted confidantes and advisers. In this book, Weisman tells the story of the final years of the iconic entertainer from within his exclusive inner circle--featuring original photos and filled with ... revelations that fans of all Sinatra stages--from the crooner to the Duets--will [appreciate]\"--littlebrown.co.uk.
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Learning and Laughing about Gender and Sexuality through Humor: The Woody Allen Case
Humor is a social phenomenon that tends to relieve stress on an individual level and collectively constitutes a powerful mechanism for disseminating both abstract and real-life knowledge about the human condition. Woody Allen attempts to captivate his audience by bringing both intellectual concepts and real-life scenarios into a comedic crucible utilizing the human instinctual drives for lust, love, and happiness as his major catalysts. Allen's films offer a dialectical approach to the study of human sexuality as good and bad, humorous and dramatic, lustful and emotional, fearful and fearless, fulfilling and frustrating. Although often accused of being an essentialist chauvinist male, Allen may be viewed as a moral social constructionist who deconstructs traditional gender arrangements and reconstructs a feminine and masculine sexual ethos utilizing sexual humor. Throughout the deconstruction and reconstruction process the audience is made aware of the historical, social, and cultural forces that influence human affairs as well as the vicissitudes, ambiguity, and melodramatic nature of human sexuality.
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On locations : lessons learned from my life on set with the Sopranos and in the film industry
\"An inside look at the film industry for fans, students, and aspiring professionals. This account of starting at the lowest rung on the production ladder among enormously famous & outrageously demanding people has interesting insights and gossip. Married and with a child, the author takes unpaid gigs to get a foot in the door, and eventually ends up working on all seasons of The Sopranos. The show's setting and its creator's insistence on accuracy placed the native New Jersey author in the right place at the right time to become part of television history, and to witness the effects of sudden fame and acclaim on the show's principal players. Includes many stories about guest stars, as well as the cast, including new tales of James Gandolfini. Woven in is a personal story of home life and strife, achievement and frustration, anxiety and accomplishment. The book's epilogue brings readers up to the moment as the author, after many more years as an anonymous everyman, eventually enjoys outsize professional success as executive producer of the HBO hit series created by Mike White, The White Lotus.
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