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In Show and Tell, John Lahr reinvents the celebrity profile to get at the essence of performance. Lahr's utterly winning and incisive profiles probe some of the most compelling, elusive, and irresistible public personas of our time, including Woody Allen, David Mamet, Ingmar Bergman, Frank Sinatra, Roseanne, Irving Berlin, Bob Hope, Mike Nichols, Wallace Shawn, Arthur Miller, and Neil LaBute. In these, and in the moving autobiographical portraits of his father, Bert Lahr, and his mother, a former Ziegfeld girl, Lahr charts the geography of fame.
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"What a talented, wonderful, and complete writer."—Mel Brooks
"By far the best thing about my stuff I've ever read."—Arthur Miller
"These are wonderful portraits."—Edna O'Brien
"The high-water mark of theatrical reportage. Exhilarating! Smart! Lahr gives as much thunderous pleasure as the great entertainers he writes about."—Richard Avedon
"There's never been an American critic like John Lahr. His writing exalts, honors, and dignifies the profession and, more importantly, the art."—Tony Kushner
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"By far the best thing about my stuff I've ever read."—Arthur Miller
"These are wonderful portraits."—Edna O'Brien
"The high-water mark of theatrical reportage. Exhilarating! Smart! Lahr gives as much thunderous pleasure as the great entertainers he writes about."—Richard Avedon
"There's never been an American critic like John Lahr. His writing exalts, honors, and dignifies the profession and, more importantly, the art."—Tony Kushner
Praised by the New York Times Book Review as "probably the most intelligent and insightful writer on the theater today," John Lahr has twice won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, most recently for his work at The New Yorker, where he has written about theater and popular culture since 1992. Mr. Lahr has written sixteen books, among them the novels The Autograph Hound (1973) and Hot to Trot (1974); Light Fantastic: Adventures in Theater (1996); The Orton Diaries (editor, 1996); Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr (California, 2000); Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation (California, 2000); and Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton (California, 2000).
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- PublisherBloomsbury
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0747554137
- ISBN 13 9780747554134
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages344
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