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| all my best friends george burns: All My Best Friends George Burns, David Fisher, 1989 The story of show business and its legendary stars as told by George Burns' story of friendship and love, both onstage and off. |
| all my best friends george burns: Gracie , 2008 New Jersey 1978. 15 year old Gracie Bowen is still reeling from the death in a car accident of her brother Johnny, a star player on the high school soccer team. When Gracie defies nearly everyone's wishes by vowing to replace Johnny under the aegis of cantankerous Coach Colasanti, it irritates many including her parents and her best friend, Jena. Gracie persists and wins the hearts of her most strident detractors, surmounting one obstacle after another and racing toward certain victory. |
| all my best friends george burns: I Love Her, That's Why! an Autobiography George Burns, Cynthia Hobart Lindsay, 2021-02 I Love Her, That's Why! first published in 1955, is an entertaining look at the earlier life and career of comedian George Burns and his wife Gracie Allen. From humble beginnings in New York, Burns and Allen went on to become much-loved stars of stage, radio, television, and the big-screen, one of the few entertainers to be successful in each venue. The book begins with Burns' childhood and early struggles in vaudeville before he meets Gracie Allen. Burns then details his efforts to win her affections; their marriage and adoptions of two children; radio, film, and TV productions (including the script for their television series). Included are 16 pages of illustrations. |
| all my best friends george burns: George Burns and the Hundred-year Dash George Burns, Martin Gottfried, 1996 A tribute to America's favorite centenarian provides an in-depth look at the personal and professional life of his nearly 100 years of show business. |
| all my best friends george burns: Wisdom of the `90s George Burns, Hal Goldman, 1992 With all the crackling wit and humor that have been the trademark of the longest-running career in show business history, George Burns tells what he's learned about getting ahead, about dealing with others, about life, and about himself. A gem of a book, sparkling with wise observations, sharp insights, and sage advice. Photographs. |
| all my best friends george burns: Say Good Night, Gracie! Cheryl Blythe, Susan Sackett, 1989 |
| all my best friends george burns: George Burns Lawrence J. Epstein, 2011-09-07 Having entered the world in 1896 as a poverty-stricken child named Naftaly (Nathan) Birnbaum, George Burns rose from New York's Lower East Side to the uppermost heights of celebrity in the entertainment industry. His storied romance with Gracie Allen led to their success in vaudeville, films, radio and television as one of the greatest comedy teams in history. Burns experienced both tragedy and triumph during his 100-year lifespan, ultimately recovering from the death of his beloved Gracie in 1964 to re-emerge as a solo performer and an Oscar-winning actor. This all-inclusive biography explores George Burns's career against the backdrop of American entertainment history in the 20th century. His loves, his close friendship with Jack Benny, his rivalry with Groucho Marx, and his latter-day success in films are all carefully detailed. |
| all my best friends george burns: The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds: Volume 1 David Bruce, 2007-04-01 The doing of good deeds is important. As a free person, you can choose to live your life as a good person or as a bad person. To be a good person, do good deeds. To be a bad person, do bad deeds. If you do good deeds, you will become good. If you do bad deeds, you will become bad. To become the person you want to be, act as if you already are that kind of person. Each of us chooses what kind of person we will become. To become a hero, do the things a hero does. To become a coward, do the things a coward does. The opportunity to take action to become the kind of person you want to be is yours. ; ;This book collects 250 stories of good deeds from the arts, from religion, and from life. |
| all my best friends george burns: Hollywood Stories Stephen Schochet, 2010 Just when you thought you've heard everything about Hollywood comes a totally original new book - a special blend of biography, history and lore. Hollywood Stories is packed with wild, wonderful short tales about famous stars, movies, directors and many others who have been part of the world's most fascinating, unpredictable industry! Full of funny moments and twist endings, Hollywood Stories features an amazing, icons and will keep you totally entertained! |
| all my best friends george burns: Vaudeville old & new Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly, 2007 |
| all my best friends george burns: A Life of Barbara Stanwyck Victoria Wilson, 2015-11-24 “860 glittering pages” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times): The first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses—her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century. Frank Capra called her, “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Now Victoria Wilson gives us the first volume of the rich, complex life of Barbara Stanwyck, an actress whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sound (eighty-eight motion pictures) and lasted in television from its infancy in the 1950s through the 1980s. Here is Stanwyck, revealed as the quintessential Brooklyn girl whose family was in fact of old New England stock; her years in New York as a dancer and Broadway star; her fraught marriage to Frank Fay, Broadway genius; the adoption of a son, embattled from the outset; her partnership with Zeppo Marx (the “unfunny Marx brother”) who altered the course of Stanwyck’s movie career and with her created one of the finest horse breeding farms in the west; and her fairytale romance and marriage to the younger Robert Taylor, America’s most sought-after male star. Here is the shaping of her career through 1940 with many of Hollywood's most important directors, among them Frank Capra, “Wild Bill” William Wellman, George Stevens, John Ford, King Vidor, Cecil B. Demille, Preston Sturges, set against the times—the Depression, the New Deal, the rise of the unions, the advent of World War II, and a fast-changing, coming-of-age motion picture industry. And at the heart of the book, Stanwyck herself—her strengths, her fears, her frailties, losses, and desires—how she made use of the darkness in her soul, transforming herself from shunned outsider into one of Hollywood’s most revered screen actresses. Fifteen years in the making—and written with full access to Stanwyck’s family, friends, colleagues and never-before-seen letters, journals, and photographs. Wilson’s one-of-a-kind biography—“large, thrilling, and sensitive” (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country)—is an “epic Hollywood narrative” (USA TODAY), “so readable, and as direct as its subject” (The New York Times). With 274 photographs, many published for the first time. |
| all my best friends george burns: The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville Anthony Slide, 2012-03-12 The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, samplings of routines and, often, commentary by the performers. Many former vaudevillians were interviewed for the book, including Milton Berle, Block and Sully, Kitty Doner, Fifi D'Orsay, Nick Lucas, Ken Murray, Fayard Nicholas, Olga Petrova, Rose Marie, Arthur Tracy, and Rudy Vallee. Where appropriate, entries also include bibliographies. The volume concludes with a guide to vaudeville resources and a general bibliography. Aside from its reference value, with its more than five hundred entries, The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville discusses the careers of the famous and the forgotten. Many of the vaudevillians here, including Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jimmy Durante, W. C. Fields, Bert Lahr, and Mae West, are familiar names today, thanks to their continuing careers on screen. At the same time, and given equal coverage, are forgotten acts: legendary female impersonators Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan, the vulgar Eva Tanguay with her billing as “The I Don't Care Girl,” male impersonator Kitty Doner, and a host of “freak” acts. |
| all my best friends george burns: The Haunted Smile Lawrence J. Epstein, 2008-08-05 Lawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile tackles a subject both poignant and delightful: the story of Jewish comedians in America. For the past century and more, American comedy has drawn its strength and soul from the comic genius of Jewish performers and writers. An incomplete listing of names makes the point: The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Fanny Brice, George Burns, Milton Berle, Jackie Mason, Joan Rivers, Rodney Dangerfield, Mel Brooks, Alan King, Mort Sahl, Buddy Hackett, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Andy Kaufman, Richard Belzer, Jerry Seinfeld. These men and women, among others, form the canon of Jewish-American comedy. In the words of the Detroit Jewish News, The Haunted Smile offers us a deep and subtle understanding of how Jewish culture and American openness gave birth to a new style of entertainment. Often the best way to illuminate a point is to recount some of these comedians' own brilliant routines, and Epstein uses the comedian's work to great effect, making for a book that is both a thoughtful work of history and a great deal of fun. |
| all my best friends george burns: First Lady of Laughs Grace Kessler Overbeke, 2024-09-17 Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it all First Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand-up comedy. Though rarely mentioned among the pantheon of early stand-up comics such as Henny Youngman and Lenny Bruce, Jean Carroll rivaled or even outshone the male counterparts of her heyday, playing more major theaters than any other comedian of her period. In addition to releasing a hit comedy album, Girl in a Hot Steam Bath, and briefly starring in her own sitcom on ABC, she also made twenty-nine appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. Carroll made enduring changes to the genre of stand-up comedy, carving space for women and modeling a new form of Jewish femininity with her glamorous, acculturated, but still recognizably Jewish persona. She innovated a newly conversational, intimate style of stand-up, which is now recognized in comics like Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman, and Tiffany Haddish. When Carroll was ninety-five she was honored at the Friars Club in New York City, where celebrities like Joy Behar and Lily Tomlin praised her influence on their craft. But her celebrated career began as an impoverished immigrant child, scrounging for talent show prize money to support her family. Drawing on archival footage, press clippings, and Jean Carroll’s personal scrapbook, First Lady of Laughs restores Jean Carroll’s remarkable story to its rightful place in the lineage of comedy history and Jewish American performance. |
| all my best friends george burns: Musical Theatre John Kenrick, 2017-07-27 Musical Theatre: A History is a new revised edition of a proven core text for college and secondary school students – and an insightful and accessible celebration of twenty-five centuries of great theatrical entertainment. As an educator with extensive experience in professional theatre production, author John Kenrick approaches the subject with a unique appreciation of musicals as both an art form and a business. Using anecdotes, biographical profiles, clear definitions, sample scenes and select illustrations, Kenrick focuses on landmark musicals, and on the extraordinary talents and business innovators who have helped musical theatre evolve from its roots in the dramas of ancient Athens all the way to the latest hits on Broadway and London's West End. Key improvements to the second edition: · A new foreword by Oscar Hammerstein III, a critically acclaimed historian and member of a family with deep ties to the musical theatre, is included · The 28 chapters are reformatted for the typical 14 week, 28 session academic course, as well as for a two semester, once-weekly format, making it easy for educators to plan a syllabus and reading assignments. · To make the book more interactive, each chapter includes suggested listening and reading lists, designed to help readers step beyond the printed page to experience great musicals and performers for themselves. A comprehensive guide to musical theatre as an international phenomenon, Musical Theatre: A History is an ideal textbook for university and secondary school students. |
| all my best friends george burns: Raised on Radio Gerald Nachman, 2012-10-17 For everybody raised on radio—and that's everybody brought up in the thirties, forties, and early fifties—this is the ultimate book, combining nostalgia, history, judgment, and fun, as it reminds us of just how wonderful (and sometimes just how silly) this vanished medium was. Of course, radio still exists—but not the radio of The Lone Ranger and One Man's Family, of Our Gal Sunday and Life Can Be Beautiful, of The Goldbergs and Amos 'n' Andy, of Easy Aces, Vic and Sade, and Bob and Ray, of The Shadow and The Green Hornet, of Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, and Baby Snooks, of the great comics, announcers, sound-effects men, sponsors, and tycoons. In the late 1920s radio exploded almost overnight into being America's dominant entertainment, just as television would do twenty-five years later. Gerald Nachman, himself a product of the radio years—as a boy he did his homework to the sound of Jack Benny and Our Miss Brooks—takes us back to the heyday of radio, bringing to life the great performers and shows, as well as the not-so-great and not-great-at-all. Nachman analyzes the many genres that radio deployed or invented, from the soap opera to the sitcom to the quiz show, zooming in to study closely key performers like Benny, Bob Hope, and Fred Allen, while pulling back to an overview that manages to be both comprehensive and seductively specific. Here is a book that is generous, instructive, and sinfully readable—and that brings an era alive as it salutes an extraordinary American phenomenon. |
| all my best friends george burns: The Funniest People in Comedy and Relationships: 500 Anecdotes David Bruce, 2006-09-01 This book contains such anecdotes as these: 1) In his Answer Man column, film critic Roger Ebert answered a question by Matt Sandler about who was the world's most beautiful woman by saying that she was Indian actress Aishwarya Rai. In a later Answer Man column, a reader stated that Mr. Ebert should have answered the question by saying, My wife. However, Mr. Ebert had a good reason for not answering the question that way: Matt Sandler asked about women, not goddesses. 2) To advertise its Razzles candy, Mars Candy decided to use a Cleveland, Ohio, show in which comedian Ron Sweed, aka The Ghoul, hosted several mostly bad horror movies. The Ghoul criticized the candy for weeks, and the more he criticized it, the more its sales went up. In gratitude, Mars Candy delivered a case of Razzles to The Ghoul. The case of candy remained on the set of The Ghoul's show for year--unopened. |
| all my best friends george burns: Jimmy Durante David Bakish, 2007-03-07 From his humble beginnings as a Coney Island piano player, Jimmy Durante was one of America’s best-loved entertainers for nearly seven decades. Known for his distinctive “schnozzle” and raspy voice, the multitalented performer became a stage, screen and recording star. Every aspect of Jimmy Durante’s career is covered here: his early vaudeville and Broadway days; the 38 movies he made; his radio appearances; the mixture of new and old material he brought to television in the late 1950s; and his work as a singer and composer. |
| all my best friends george burns: Funny You Should Say That Andrew Martin, 2006-11-30 'A fool and his words are soon parted' wrote William Shenstone in 1764; one might add that 'A wit and his words are rarely collected'. Here is the antidote: a dazzling survey of the funniest remarks, quips and observations from Ancient Rome, the Bible and Chaucer right up to The Simpsons and Little Britain. Over 5,000 of the very funniest remarks to have appeared on paper since, well, paper was invented. The quotations are arranged thematically and cover all aspects of life: from the world we inhabit to the things we eat, smoke and drink; from the way we move around to what and how we learn - oh, and the pointlessness of football. There is a short biography of all of the authors in the book, a brief contextual note for each quotation and an index of keywords to help you find you chosen witticism quickly. But do not be over-hasty when you use this book: it is a browser's delight, and should be enjoyed at leisure. |
| all my best friends george burns: Film's First Family Terry Chester Shulman, 2019-11-12 Scandal, adultery, secret marriages, divorce, custody battles, suicide attempts, and alcoholism—the trials and tribulations of the Costellos were as riveting as any Hollywood feature film. This eccentric and talented clan was one of the twentieth century's most famous families of actors, until their achievements were eclipsed by their own immutable penchant for self-destruction. Patriarch Maurice Costello was considered the first screen idol until his career, marked by accusations of spousal abuse, drunkenness, and physical assault, abruptly ended. Costello's daughter, Helene, was the first actress to star in an all-talking picture, but her career was ruined by a very public divorce from Lowell Sherman, who testified that his wife was a drunk and an avid reader of pornography. And though the original members of this family may be gone, the legacy lives on—most notably through actress Drew Barrymore. Written with unprecedented access to the family's personal documents and artifacts, as well as interviews with several family members, Film's First Family explores the dramatic history of the Costellos and their extraordinary significance to the stage and screen. |
| all my best friends george burns: Fanny Brice Herbert G. Goldman, 1993-10-07 I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man, Fanny Brice once boasted. I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in the rows at the Palace. I've doubled as an alligator; I've worked for the Shuberts; and I've been joined to Billy Rose in the holy bonds. I've painted the house boards and I've sold tickets and I've been fired by George M. Cohan. I've played in London before the king and in Oil City before miners with lanterns in their caps. Fanny Brice was indeed show business personified, and in this luminous volume, Herbert G. Goldman, acclaimed biographer of Al Jolson, illuminates the life of the woman who inspired the spectacularly successful Broadway show and movie Funny Girl, the vehicle that catapulted Barbra Streisand to super stardom. In a work that is both glorious biography and captivating theatre history, Goldman illuminates both Fanny's remarkable career on stage and radio--ranging from her first triumph as Sadie Salome to her long run as radio's Baby Snooks--and her less-than-triumphant personal life. He reveals a woman who was a curious mix of elegance and earthiness, of high and low class, a lady who lived like a duchess but cursed like a sailor. She was probably the greatest comedienne the American stage has ever known as well as our first truly great torch singer, the star of some of the most memorable Ziegfeld Follies in the 1910s and 1920s, and Goldman covers her theatrical career and theatre world in vivid detail. But her personal life, as Goldman shows, was less successful. The great love of her life, the gangster Nick Arnstein, was dashing, handsome, sophisticated, but at bottom, a loser who failed at everything from running a shirt hospital to manufacturing fire extinguishers, and who spent a good part of their marriage either hiding out, awaiting trial, or in prison. Her first marriage was over almost as soon as it was consummated, and her third and last marriage, to Billy Rose, the Bantam Barnum, ended acrimoniously when Rose left her for swimmer Eleanor Holm. As she herself remarked, I never liked the men I loved, and I never loved the men I liked. Through it all, she remained unaffected, intelligent, independent, and, above all, honest. Goldman's biography of Al Jolson has been hailed by critics, fellow biographers, and entertainers alike. Steve Allen called it an amazing job of research and added Goldman's book brings Jolson back to life indeed. The Philadelphia Inquirer said it was the most comprehensive biography to date, and Ronald J. Fields wrote that Goldman has captured not only the wonderful feel of Al Jolson but the heartbeat of his time. Now, with Fanny Brice, Goldman provides an equally accomplished portrait of the greatest woman entertainer of that illustrious era, a volume that will delight every lover of the stage. |
| all my best friends george burns: The Great Radio Sitcoms Jim Cox, 2024-10-17 On January 12, 1926, radio audiences heard the first exchanges of wit and wisdom between Sam 'n' Henry--the verbal jousters who would evolve into Amos 'n' Andy and whose broadcasts launched the radio sitcom. Here is a detailed look at 20 of the most popular such sitcoms that aired between the mid-1920s and early 1950s, the three-decade heyday of radio. Each series is discussed from an artistic standpoint, with attention to the program's character development and style of comedy as well as its influence on other shows. The book provides complete biographical profiles of each sitcom's stars as well as several actors whose careers consisted primarily of supporting roles. Appendices include an abbreviated summary of 13 sitcoms beyond those discussed in the main body of the book, and a comprehensive list of 170 radio sitcoms. Notes, bibliography, index. |
| all my best friends george burns: Lorenz Hart Frederick Nolan, 1995-11-02 Lorenz Hart singlehandedly changed the craft of lyric writing. When Larry Hart first met Dick Rodgers in 1919, the commercial song lyric consisted of tired cliches and cloying Victorian sentimentality. Hart changed all that, always avoiding the obvious, aiming for the unexpected phrase that would twang the nerve or touch the heart. Endowed with both a buoyant wit and a tender, almost raw sincerity, Hart brought a poetic complexity to his art, capturing the everyday way people talk and weaving it into his lyrics. Songs had never been written like that before, and afterwards it seemed impossible that songs would ever be written any other way. Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway presents the public triumphs of a true genius of the American musical theatre, and the personal tragedies of a man his friend the singer Mabel Mercer described as the saddest man I ever knew. Author Frederick Nolan began researching this definitive biography in 1968, tracking down and interviewing Hart's friends and collaborators one by one, including a remarkable conversation with Richard Rodgers himself. A veritable who's who of Broadway's golden age, including Joshua Logan, Gene Kelly, George Abbott and many more, recall their uncensored and often hilarious, sometimes poignant memories of the cigar-chomping wordsmith who composed some of the best lyrics ever concocted for the Broadway stage, but who remained forever lost and lonely in the crowds of hangers-on he attracted. A portrait of Hart emerges as a Renaissance and endearing bon vivant conflicted by his homosexuality and ultimately torn apart by alcoholism. Nolan skillfully pulls together the chaotic details of Hart's remarkable life, beginning with his bohemian upbringing in turn of the century Harlem. Here are his first ventures into show business, and the 24-year-old Hart's first meeting with the 16-year-old Richard Rodgers. Neither of us mentioned it, Rodgers later recalled, but we evidently knew we would work together, and I left Hart's house having acquired in one afternoon a career, a best friend, and a source of permanent irritation. Nolan captures it all: the team's early setbacks, the spectacular hour long standing ovation for their hit song, Manhattan, the Hollywood years (which inspired Hart to utter the undying line, Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you), and the unforgettable string of hit shows that included On Your Toes, The Boys from Syracuse, and their masterpiece, Pal Joey. But while success made Rodgers more confident, more musically daring, and more disciplined, for Hart the rounds of parties, wisecracks, and most of all drinking began to take more and more of a toll on his work. When Hart's unreliability forced Rodgers to reluctantly seek out another lyricist, Oscar Hammerstein II, and their collaboration resulted in the unprecedented artistic and commercial success of Oklahoma, Hart never truly recovered. Meticulously researched and rich with anecdotes that capture the excitement, the hilarity, the dizzying heights, and the crushing lows of a life on Broadway, Lorenz Hart is the story of an American original. |
| all my best friends george burns: The Genesis of Mass Culture J. Springhall, 2008-04-14 A thorough survey of the origins and development of the major distinct American commercial entertainments that emerged between over the course of the 19th century and into the 20th, including P.T. Barnum_s American Museum, freak show, and circus, as well as blackface minstrelry, Buffalo Bill_s Wild West Show, and vaudeville. |
| all my best friends george burns: Encyclopedia of Television Horace Newcomb, 2014-02-03 The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website. |
| all my best friends george burns: Cary Grant Scott Eyman, 2020 Film historian and acclaimed bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished actors of his generation. |
| all my best friends george burns: At the Edge of a Dream Lawrence J Epstein, 2007-08-17 A Lower East Side Tenement Museum book. |
| all my best friends george burns: Glasgow Road Robert Israel, 2006-12 |
| all my best friends george burns: The Agency Frank Rose, 1996 The story of the William Morris Agency is the stoyr of show business itself. Founded at the turn of the century, it stood as the premier agency in Hollywood for 80 years. With unvarnished descriptions of the board that runs William Morris and the needy and demanding stars they represent, The Agency is a compelling tale that lifts the curtain on the most intriguing business in Americ today. Photos. |
| all my best friends george burns: The Reader's Digest DeWitt Wallace, Lila Acheson Wallace, 1991 |
| all my best friends george burns: The Moth Catherine Burns, The Moth, 2014-08-07 With an introduction by Neil Gaiman Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The storytellers knew their craft and bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. The Moth is a non-profit group that is trying to recapture this lost art, helping storytellers - old hands and novices alike - hone their stories before playing to packed crowds at sold-out live events. The very best of these stories are collected here: whether it's Bill Clinton's hell-raising press secretary or a leading geneticist with a family secret; a doctor whisked away by nuns to Mother Teresa's bedside or a film director saving her father's Chinatown store from money-grabbing developers; the Sultan of Brunei's concubine or a friend of Hemingway's who accidentally talks himself into a role as a substitute bullfighter, these eccentric, pitch-perfect stories - all, amazingly, true - range from the poignant to the downright hilarious. |
| all my best friends george burns: How to Live to be 100--or More George Burns, 1983 The noted comedian shares his tips on longevity and includes provocative anecdotes about his personal life, friends, career, and Gracie. |
| all my best friends george burns: Yes, You Can!!! Janis Dietz, Janis Dietz, PhD, 2000-10 This excellent little book deals with how to take the lemon life has dealt you and make lemonade. Dietz shows us how to make the most of life, how to weather all the challenges life brings, and how to enjoy life despite adversity. |
| all my best friends george burns: The Guide to United States Popular Culture Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne, 2001 To understand the history and spirit of America, one must know its wars, its laws, and its presidents. To really understand it, however, one must also know its cheeseburgers, its love songs, and its lawn ornaments. The long-awaited Guide to the United States Popular Culture provides a single-volume guide to the landscape of everyday life in the United States. Scholars, students, and researchers will find in it a valuable tool with which to fill in the gaps left by traditional history. All American readers will find in it, one entry at a time, the story of their lives.--Robert Thompson, President, Popular Culture Association. At long last popular culture may indeed be given its due within the humanities with the publication of The Guide to United States Popular Culture. With its nearly 1600 entries, it promises to be the most comprehensive single-volume source of information about popular culture. The range of subjects and diversity of opinions represented will make this an almost indispensable resource for humanities and popular culture scholars and enthusiasts alike.--Timothy E. Scheurer, President, American Culture Association The popular culture of the United States is as free-wheeling and complex as the society it animates. To understand it, one needs assistance. Now that explanatory road map is provided in this Guide which charts the movements and people involved and provides a light at the end of the rainbow of dreams and expectations.--Marshall W. Fishwick, Past President, Popular Culture Association Features of The Guide to United States Popular Culture: 1,010 pages 1,600 entries 500 contributors Alphabetic entries Entries range from general topics (golf, film) to specific individuals, items, and events Articles are supplemented by bibliographies and cross references Comprehensive index |
| all my best friends george burns: Diary of a Player Brad Paisley, David Wild, 2012-06-05 The country music superstar shares what the guitar has meant to him as a means of finding his own voice, who inspired his love of music, and memorable stories about the great guitar players he has encountered over the years. |
| all my best friends george burns: Bibliographic Guide to Theatre Arts New York Public Library. Research Libraries, 1990 |
| all my best friends george burns: Roman Candle David Evanier, 2010-08-01 A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever. |
| all my best friends george burns: Focus On: 100 Most Popular Vaudeville Performers Wikipedia contributors, |
| all my best friends george burns: Encyclopedia of Radio 3-Volume Set Christopher H. Sterling, 2004-03 Produced in association with the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, the Encyclopedia of Radio includes more than 600 entries covering major countries and regions of the world as well as specific programs and people, networks and organizations, regulation and policies, audience research, and radio's technology. This encyclopedic work will be the first broadly conceived reference source on a medium that is now nearly eighty years old, with essays that provide essential information on the subject as well as comment on the significance of the particular person, organization, or topic being examined. |
| all my best friends george burns: American Jewish Year Book 1997 David Singer, Ruth R. Seldin, 1997 The Library owns the volumes of the American Jewish Yearbook from 1899 - current. |
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As a contribution from Robert Burns, Farewell to Ayrshire – a recitation on the beauties of the country and a homage to friendship – may appeal to some. Scenes of woe and scenes of …
FRIENDS 4 LIFE - Theatre Fresh
There are no royalties for performances, and directors may make photocopies for their students; however, it is strictly forbidden to share copies of this script with other individuals or schools …
Healing with Stories
Author George W. Burns examines the healing value of metaphors in therapy and provides 101 inspirational story ideas that you can adapt to share with clients for affecting change.
ALPHABETICAL TO LISTEN TO GEORGE JONE'S 50,000 NAMES …
TO LISTEN TO GEORGE JONE'S 50,000 NAMES ON THE WALL MACV-SOG I feel very privileged to have been associated with these brave men, some my friends and all my brother, …
George Jones and Leona Williams I know you've been down …
So cry on my shoulder and let's both get over the bad. Let's chalk it up to just one more bad memory we have. Friendship's the one thing that keeps love from driving us mad.
To a Mouse on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough
This, of course, is reflected in the lives of George and Lennie, two innocent souls who were blocked from their modest dream. Events out of the men’s control ruin both of them.
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All My Best Friends is the story of a long, loving life in show business, told with the same joy and laughter that made Gracie a national bestseller. The incredible George Burns, America's most …
An Interview with George Burns - JSTOR
George Burns now making guest appearances on television and giving concerts. He has recently. starred in the film The Sunshine Boys. He is the author of I Love Her, That's. Why!, published …
2000 Years with Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks - Library of Congress
By the time the album first arrived, Reiner and Brooks, ultimately best pals for another half-century and then some, were already fast friends.
CD 7B: “George Is Jealous” - 03/03/1941 BURNS & ALLEN …
May 13, 2021 · Burns and Allen had been sponsored by Campbell Soup, Liggett & Myers Tobacco (below), and General Foods. When Lehn & Fink handed them their notice, it made for …
101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens - download.e …
George Burns takes the reader on a wonderful journey, balancing metaphor, good therapeutic technique, and empirical foundations during the trip.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you
George Burns The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. George Burns I would go out with women my …
All My Best Friends - ecosystem.openminds.com
Tommy, two tiny black kittens who have something to teach us all . . . In Best Friends, you’ll fall in love with the animals and the people who share a special bond, whose enchanting adventures …
George Burns 100 Years Of Comedy (2024) - old.sun-tech.org
George Burns 100 Years Of Comedy: George Burns and the Hundred-year Dash George Burns,Martin Gottfried,1996 A tribute to America s favorite centenarian provides an in depth …
George Burns 100 Years Of Comedy
Traces the careers of Burns and Allen from their days in vaudeville to their successful television series and includes plot summaries for all 299 episodes of their TV show Dr. Burns' …
THE FIRST 100 YEARS - World Radio History
George Burns life began as Nathan Birnbaum in New York on January 20, 1896. they dreamed of a better life awaiting them in America. Finally, Louis made the journey across the Atlantic on …
OUR TOWN - AUDITION MONOLOGUES (Choose 1-2)
you didn't. And George, it's a fact---ever since you've been elected Captain, you've got awful stuck up and conceited, and all the girls say so. And it hurts me to hear them say it; but I got to …
Nathan Fielder All My Friends (Download Only) …
All My Best Friends George Burns 1991 Savannah Lee U. L. Devereaux 2023-03-04 The first in a series of stories about the colorful, imaginary, friends of a young girl, living on the...
REMINDER LIST OF PRODUCTIONS ELIGIBLE FOR THE 95TH …
GOODBYE, DON GLEES! HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL. IS THAT BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?!? MR. HARRIGAN'S PHONE. MR. MALCOLM'S LIST. MRS. HARRIS GOES TO …
George Burns Movies And Tv Shows , George Burns Full PDF …
100 Years, 100 Stories George Burns,1996 The incredible George Burns celebrates his one hundredth birthday with a priceless gift to his fans - a collection of the stories that have made …
A Sad and Last Adieu: Poems for Funerals - Scots Language
As a contribution from Robert Burns, Farewell to Ayrshire – a recitation on the beauties of the country and a homage to friendship – may appeal to some. Scenes of woe and scenes of …
FRIENDS 4 LIFE - Theatre Fresh
There are no royalties for performances, and directors may make photocopies for their students; however, it is strictly forbidden to share copies of this script with other individuals or schools …
Healing with Stories
Author George W. Burns examines the healing value of metaphors in therapy and provides 101 inspirational story ideas that you can adapt to share with clients for affecting change.
ALPHABETICAL TO LISTEN TO GEORGE JONE'S 50,000 NAMES …
TO LISTEN TO GEORGE JONE'S 50,000 NAMES ON THE WALL MACV-SOG I feel very privileged to have been associated with these brave men, some my friends and all my brother, …
George Jones and Leona Williams I know you've been down …
So cry on my shoulder and let's both get over the bad. Let's chalk it up to just one more bad memory we have. Friendship's the one thing that keeps love from driving us mad.
To a Mouse on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough
This, of course, is reflected in the lives of George and Lennie, two innocent souls who were blocked from their modest dream. Events out of the men’s control ruin both of them.
