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Sam Peckinpah is by his own admission and that of almost everyone else in this richly entertaining book a director who needs adversity to get the juices flowing. As shooting goes on complications multiply and tensions increase. The wild man fortified by booze and shots of vitamin B12 rides the whirlwind he creates firing the incompetents beneath him baiting the ones over him and bullying and testing and goading the rest...âThis book givesã a nuts and bolts account of the...complex interplay of power and art or movie and myth-making as practiced by an idiosyncratic but skillfull manipulator. ä ÊNew York TimesÊ Book Review

The Third and most recent edition of The Vampire Film featuring a new chapter, "The Vampire at the Millennium " was released in October 1996 to coincide with the centennial of Stoker''s novel Dracula. More vampire films have been produced since the First Edition of The Vampire Film appeared in 1974 than in the entire history of motion pictures prior to that year. The first completely revised and updated edition was published in 1993. The Third Edition insures that what began as the first book-length study of the subject in 1974 remains the most comprehensive available.

AND THE SHOW GOES ON

This is the bittersweet life story of a beloved bandleader who rose to fame and fortune, then spent the last 20 years of his life working to pay $1.6 million in back taxes. Written with Troup, jazz critic for New York Newsday, the book is a straightforward account of a successful career gone awry because of bad business judgment and misplaced trust. Long passages in which friends and band members reminisce about Herman add another dimension, for he was a humorous and compassionate man who helped a great number of musicians in their careers. - Publishers Weekly

"...his economical writing style ... manages to pack lots of information - and opinion - into a few carefully chosen words ... Besides detail work well-grounded in scholarship...the author isn''t afraid to interpolate such generalizations and speculations as he sees fit; he may be the Stephen Hawking of jazz criticism." - Bob Tarte, The Beat

"Reading like a who''s who of Broadway and Hollywood...âthisã is a valuable piece of theatrical history...Lloyd is a self-effacing, articulate actor-director-producer whose stories are as insightful as they are warm and often humorous." -Choice

Written between the late '30s and the early '90s, these pieces by John Cage here acquire the permanence they deserve. Some have never been published before. Many appeared only in magazines, journals, and catalogues; others in concert programs and on record covers. Also included are the texts of lectures and - of crucial importance to the appreciation of his music - Cage's notes on the performance of his compositions, courtesy of his music publisher, C.F. Peters.

Screenplay to John Lahr''s successful dramatization of The Orton Diaries that chronicles the last eight months of Joe Orton''s life, his growing theatrical celebrity, and the corresponding punishing effect it had on his relationship with his friend and mentor Kenneth Halliwell, who murdered him on August 9, 1967, and then took his own life.

Written with a rare combination of an informed film background and a sophisticated knowledge of literature... a valuable contribution of both literary and film history. - Variety

This chatty biography written with the cooperation of the late actor''s family is crammed with anecdotes personal opinions and warm humor said our reviewer (LJ 2/15/76) of this portrait of the horror star who played every baddie from Frankenstein''s monster to Dr. Seuss''s Grinch. The text is buttressed with 150 photos and a complete filmography. This should still be popular in public library collections. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information Inc.

This collection of hilarious plays from the 15th - 20th centuries is brimming with all the venerable ingredients of French farce. Distinguished drama scholar Bermel has gathered some of the best in the genre, and the merriment, ribaldry, and wit of the works dance through his translations brilliantly.

In this incandescent autobiographical collage, lyricist, playwright and performer Betty Comden takes an exuberant and rueful look back on a lifetime of celebrated triumphs and private sorrow. With her lifelong collaborator Adolph Green, she has achieved glorious success on stage in such musical milestones as On the Town, Wonderful Town and Bells Are Ringing and on screen in the unforgettable Singing in the Rain and The Band Wagon. But this very intimate memoir takes us behind her experiences in theatre and film to her childhood in Brooklyn, her determined exodus to Manhattan and Broadway, her courtship and marriage and the lessons she has learned as a wife and mother. Off Stage is, then, not only of special interest to theatre and movie buffs. It is also the poignant and inspirational story of a woman of many talents and interests who tried to have it all - and very nearly succeeded.

FROMENTMAL HALEVY HIS LIFE

A founder of the Atlantic Theater Company where she now teaches and an acclaimed director Karen Kohlhaas exposes what auditors are looking for in ÊThe Monologue AuditionÊ the first book of its kind to show actors how to stage monologues using specific step-by-step directing and acting techniques. Applicable to auditions for theaters agents casting directors and training programs this is an indispensable guide for any actor looking to master their audition approach.

The ultimate guide to stage fighting technique and basic swordplay this book covers everything an actor must do to give a dynamic and convincing performance as a stage combatant. âThis bookã is more than a manual... A necessity! Richard Lane''s concepts are vital...''Why'' and ''When'' are explained and make ''How'' easier to understand and execute...Read this pay heed and you will avoid sin and suffering...I raise my sword on high and salute you Richard. Well done! äOscar F. Kolombatovich former Fencing Master Metropolitan Opera New York and Executive Secretary Historical Fencing Society

THE FILM COMEDY READER

LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT

In two acts that consider what the theatre is and what it does, a star-studded cast of intellects, wits and wags here take center stage to enlighten, provoke, and amuse. A collection of close to 1000 distinctive anecdotes, aphorisms, adages and assaults written and spoken by actors, directors, composers, producers, critics and other observers - everyone from Sophocles to David Mamet, from Buddha to Brando.

"Mitchum's tales include beatings, hanging producers by their shoelaces, killings in Mexican bars and slapping Teutonic helmer Otto Preminger. And there are classic observations, such as his quip to Variety that 'the best producer is an absent one.' Mitchum editor Jerry Roberts...conducted one of the interviews, and has done a terrific job piecing together vintage conversations with David Frost, Dick Lochte, Richard Schickel and Charles Champlin, as well as collecting a wonderful array of prize quotes by and about Mitchum." - Steven Gaydos, Variety

ORSON WELLES W/ NEW EPILOGUE

A follow-up to Nigel Douglas's popular and succesful Legendary Voices, this volume boasts twelve more singers, their private lives and public careers, plus critical comment on their recorded works. Once again his pantheon covers the full range of voices and the whole repertoire from Tosca to TannhÄuser, from Lieder to light operetta. Artists include Maria Callas, Feodor Chaliapin, Kathleen Ferrier, Beniamino Gigli, Maria Jeritza, John McCormack, Lauritz Melchior, Claudia Muzio, Titta Ruffo, Elisabeth Schumann, Conchita Supervia, and Richard Tauber.

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