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Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre
Six-time Emmy Award-winning funny man Tim Conway, best known for
his roles on "The Carol Burnett Show," offers a straight-shooting
and hilarious memoir about his life on stage and off as an actor
and comedian.
In the annals of TV history, few entertainers have captured as many
hearts, tickled as many funny bones, and brought as many families
together in living rooms across America as Tim Conway. In "What's
So Funny?" he brings his hilarious hijinks from the screen to the
page.
Conway's often-improvised humor, razor-sharp timing, and hilarious
characters have made him one of the funniest and most authentic
performers to grace the stage and studio. As Carol Burnett has
said, "there's no one funnier" than Tim Conway. Now, Conway takes
us on a seventy-year, rags-to-riches journey that is touchingly
comical and ultimately inspiring, from his pranks in small Ohio
classrooms during the Great Depression to his pitch-perfect
performances on national TV and in major motion pictures. Along the
way, Conway shares hilarious and often moving accounts of the glory
days of "The Carol Burnett Show"; his famous partnerships with
entertainment greats like Harvey Korman, Don Knotts, and Dick Van
Dyke; and his friendships with stars like Betty White, Bob Newhart,
and, of course, Carol Burnett, who also provides an intimate
foreword to the book.
As Conway continues to tour the country giving live comedy
performances that enchant his always eager audiences, "What's So
Funny?" brings his warmth, humor, and heart to delight and inspire
fans everywhere.
This memoir from the bestselling author of "Postcards from the
Edge" and "Wishful Drinking" gives you an intimate, gossip-filled
look at what it's like to be the daughter of Hollywood royalty.
Told with the same intimate style, brutal honesty, and uproarious
wisdom that locked "Wishful Drinking" on the "New York Times"
bestseller list for months, "Shockaholic" is the juicy account of
Carrie Fisher's life. Covering a broad range of topics--from
never-before-heard tales of Hollywood gossip to outrageous moments
of celebrity desperation; from alcoholism to illegal drug use; from
the familial relationships of Hollywood royalty to scandalous
run-ins with noteworthy politicians; from shock therapy to talk
therapy--Carrie Fisher gives an intimate portrait of herself, and
she's one of the most indelible and powerful forces in culture at
large today. Just as she has said of playing Princess Leia--"It
isn't all sweetness and light sabers"--Fisher takes readers on a
no-holds-barred narrative adventure, both laugh-out-loud funny and
poignant.
The music world has seen some of the most iconic partnerships of
all time the reader feels almost on a first-name acquaintance with
many of them: Sonny and Cher, Mick and Marianne, Elvis and
Priscilla, Ike and Tina...Rock n Roll Love Stories looks at 14 of
the best, taking us from the 1950s all the way up to the early
2000s. Along the way we see behind the public face of a whole range
of relationships, from the straightforwardly romantic to the
messily divided, and from the famous (and infamous) to the
relatively unknown. All are engaging, full of contemporary detail,
and come imbued with the energy and the spirit of the music world
over the last half century.
Best known by her stage name, La Goulue (the Glutton), Louise Weber
was one of the biggest stars of fin de siecle Paris, renowned as a
cancan dancer at the Moulin Rouge. The subject of numerous
paintings and photographs, she became an iconic figure of modern
art. Her life, however, has consistently been misrepresented and
reduced to a footnote in the stories of men such as Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec. Where most accounts dismiss her rise and fall as
brief and rapid, the truth is that her career as a performer
spanned five decades, during which La Goulue constantly reinvented
herself-as a dancer, animal tamer, sideshow performer, and muse of
photographers, painters, sculptors, and filmmakers. With Beyond the
Moulin Rouge, the first substantive English-language study of La
Goulue's career and posthumous influence, Will Visconti corrects
persistent myths. Despite a tumultuous personal life, La Goulue
overcame loss, abusive relationships, and poverty to become the
very embodiment of nineteenth-century Paris, feted by royalty and
followed as closely as any politician or monarch. Visconti draws on
previously overlooked materials, including medical records, media
reports across Europe and the United States, and surviving pages
from Louise Weber's diary, to trace the life and impact of a woman
whose cultural significance has been ignored in favor of the men
around her, and who spent her life upending assumptions about
gender, morality, and domesticity in France during the fin de
siecle and early twentieth century.
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