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David Merrick - The Abominable Showman (Hardcover)
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David Merrick - The Abominable Showman (Hardcover)
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(Applause Books). David Merrick is the most astonishing showman of
our time, and perhaps of all time. No other producer, not even
Florenz Ziegfeld nor the combined lights of the Shubert brothers,
has equalled his percentage of hits or his demonic flair for
publicity. In this first-ever biography, Howard Kissel from his
decade-long investigation reveals the man, the mask, and the myth
of David Merrick. The charismatic and reclusive mogul emerges as a
Broadway version of Howard Hughes, with his own panoply of
eccentricities, genius and neuroses. Merrick's much publicized and
oftentimes staged battles and feuds are re-ignited here full force
with such major personalities as Barbra Streisand, Jackie Gleason,
Ethel Merman, Lena Horne, Woody Allen, Peter Ustinov, Andy
Griffith, Anthony Newley, Peter Brook, and Carol Channing. Over a
hundred interviews with the major players in Merrick's drama from
his pre-Merrick St. Louis childhood as David Margoulies to his
latest divorce has yielded the first serious interrogation of a
life that until now has been the sole creation of Merrick's own
invention and press wizardry.
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