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Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Individual actors & performers
Put on a pot of your favorite coffee, perk up, and enjoy nostalgic
black-and-white photos that celebrate screen icons from the Silent
Era through the eighties, making and drinking their own cups of
joe, java, pour-overs, and percolated brews. Hollywood Cafe bridges
the vibrant coffee culture of right-now with the glamorous coffee
culture of the star-studded past. A dream cast of nearly 200
stars-Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly,
Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Clara Bow, Charlie
Chaplin, W. C. Fields, Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Bob Hope,
Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner, Jackie Gleason, Lucille
Ball, Elvis Presley, Jayne Mansfield, Sammy Davis Jr., William
Holden, Lauren Bacall, John Wayne, and many more-is captured on the
set, on the run, in costume and out, behind-the-scenes and at the
kitchen table, refilling and refueling, sipping and savoring,
drinking the good stuff, just like us.
The first book in twenty-five years from “one of our great comic minds” (The Washington Post) features Seinfeld’s best work across five decades in comedy.
Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. “Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage, in a conversation, or working it out on my preferred canvas, the big yellow legal pad, I kept it in one of those old school accordion folders,” Seinfeld writes. “So I have everything I thought was worth saving from forty-five years of hacking away at this for all I was worth.”
For this book, Jerry Seinfeld has selected his favorite material, organized decade by decade. In this “trove of laugh-out-loud one-liners” (Associated Press), you will witness the evolution of one of the great comedians of our time and gain new insights into the thrilling but unforgiving art of writing stand-up comedy.
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