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Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Individual actors & performers
"Book of the Year." -- MOJO Magazine"Outstanding Book of the Year."
--The Herald (Glasgow) A Best Book of the Year by NPR, Pitchfork,
The Telegraph, and UncutA tender and intimate memoir by one of the
most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the
two-time Grammy Award-winning "premiere song-stylist and songwriter
of her generation" (Hilton Als), Rickie Lee Jones This troubadour
life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that
can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm
for a new song. Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever
no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner
Rickie Lee Jones in her own words. It is a tale of desperate
chances and impossible triumphs, an adventure story of a girl who
beat the odds and grew up to become one of the most legendary
artists of her time, turning adversity and hopelessness into
timeless music. With candor and lyricism, the "Duchess of
Coolsville" (Time) takes us on a singular journey through her
nomadic childhood, to her years as a teenage runaway, through her
legendary love affair with Tom Waits and ultimately her longevity
as the hardest working woman in rock and roll. Rickie Lee's stories
are rich with the infamous characters of her early songs -
"Chuck-E's in Love," "Weasel and the White Boys Cool," "Danny's
All-Star Joint," and "Easy Money"-- but long before her notoriety
in show business, there was a vaudevillian cast of hitchhikers,
bank robbers, jail breaks, drug mules, a pimp with a heart of gold
and tales of her fabled ancestors. In this tender and intimate
memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious
women in music are never-before-told stories of the girl in the
raspberry beret, a singer-songwriter whose music defied
categorization and inspired American pop culture for decades.
Delmer Daves (1904-1977) was an American screenwriter, director,
and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most
notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of
his films, there has been little serious examination of Daves's
work. Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has called Daves the most
forgotten of American directors, and to date no scholarly monograph
has focused on his work. In The Films of Delmer Daves: Visions of
Progress in Mid-Twentieth-Century America, author Douglas Horlock
contends that the director's work warrants sustained scholarly
attention. Examining all of Daves's films, as well as his
screenplays, scripts that were not filmed, and personal papers,
Horlock argues that Daves was a serious, distinctive, and
enlightened filmmaker whose work confronts the general conservatism
of Hollywood in the mid-twentieth century. Horlock considers
Daves's films through the lenses of political and social values,
race and civil rights, and gender and sexuality. Ultimately,
Horlock suggests that Daves's work-through its examination of
bigotry and irrational fear and depiction of institutional and
personal morality and freedom-presents a consistent, innovative,
and progressive vision of America.
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