Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch
by Alexandra Jacobs
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"The ebullient, troubled life of a Broadway legend who became a heroine to a younger generation. Still Here is the first full telling of Elaine Stritch's life. Rollicking but intimate, it tracks one of Broadway's great personalities from her upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression to her fateful move to New York City, where she studied alongside Marlon Brando, Bea Arthur, and Harry Belafonte. We accompany Elaine through her jagged rise to fame, to Hollywood and London, and across show more her later years, when she enjoyed a stunning renaissance, punctuated by a turn on the popular television show 30 Rock. We explore the influential--and often fraught--collaborations she developed with Noël Coward, Tennessee Williams, and above all Stephen Sondheim, as well as her courageous yet flawed attempts to control a serious drinking problem. And we see the entertainer triumphing over personal turmoil with the development of her Tony Award-winning one-woman show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, which established her as an emblem of spiky independence and Manhattan life for an entirely new generation of admirers. In Still Here, Alexandra Jacobs conveys the full force of Stritch's sardonic wit and brassy charm while acknowledging her many dark complexities. Following years of meticulous research and interviews, this is a portrait of a powerful, vulnerable, honest, and humorous figure who continues to reverberate in the public consciousness."--Publisher's website. show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 2019
- Epigraph
- "I have come for my courage," announced the Lion, entering the room.
"Very well," answered the little man; "I will get it for you."
He went to a cupboard and reaching up to a high shelf took down a square green bottle, ... (show all)the contents of which he poured into a green-gold dish, beautifully carved. Placing this before the Cowardly Lion, who sniffed at it as if he did not like it, the Wizard said:
"Drink."
"What is it?" asked the Lion.
"Well," answered Oz, "if it were inside of you, it would be courage. You know, of course, that courage is always inside one; so that this really cannot be called courage until you have swallowed it. Therefore, I advise you to drink it as soon as possible."
The Lion hesitated no longer, but drank until the dish was empty.
"How do you feel now?" asked Oz.
"Full of courage," replied the Lion, who went joyfully back to his friends to tell them of his good fortune.
--L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
"This time for me! For me! For me! For me! For me! For me! For me!"
--Stephen Sondheim, Gypsy - Dedication
- In memory of Peter W. Kaplan, and my father
- First words
- On the afternoon of November 17, 2014, hundreds of people made their way through a dark rain toward the Al Hirschfeld Theater on West Forty-Fifth Street in New York City.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Honest to god, [sic] when I got into a play -- even a musical," she said, "that was where I lived."
- Blurbers
- Baldwin, Alec; Silverman, Sarah; Doonan, Simon; Weller, Sheila; Hagan, Joe
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- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, Music, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 792.02 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Theater: Plays, Ballet, Opera modified standard subdivisions Techniques, procedures, apparatus, equipment, materials, miscellany
- LCC
- PN2287 .S786 .J33 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Dramatic representation. The theater Special regions or countries
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- English
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