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Hope - Entertainer of the Century (Paperback)
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Hope - Entertainer of the Century (Paperback)
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List price R582
Loot Price R548
Discovery Miles 5 480
You Save R34 (6%)
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With his topical jokes and his all-American, brash-but-cowardly
screen character, Bob Hope was the only entertainer to achieve
top-rated success in every major mass-entertainment medium of the
century, from vaudeville in the 1920s all the way to television in
the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He virtually invented modern stand-up
comedy. Above all, he helped redefine the very notion of what it
means to be a star: a savvy businessman, an enterprising builder of
his own brand, and a public-spirited entertainer whose Christmas
military tours and unflagging work for charity set the standard for
public service in Hollywood. As Richard Zoglin shows in this
"entertaining and important book" (The Wall Street Journal), there
is still much to be learned about this most public of figures, from
his secret first marriage and his stint in reform school, to his
indiscriminate womanizing and his ambivalent relationships with
Bing Crosby and Johnny Carson. Hope could be cold, self-centered,
tight with a buck, and perhaps the least introspective man in
Hollywood. But he was also a tireless worker, devoted to his fans,
and generous with friends. "Scrupulously researched, likely
definitive, and as entertaining and as important (to an
understanding of twentieth- and twenty-first-century pop culture)
as its subject once genuinely was" (Vanity Fair), Hope is both a
celebration of the entertainer and a complex portrait of a gifted
but flawed man. "A wonderful biography," says Woody Allen. "For me,
it's a feast."
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