Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles
by John Lahr
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In Show and Tell, John Lahr reinvents the celebrity profile to get at the essence of performance. Lahr's utterly winning and incisive profiles probe some of the most compelling, elusive, and irresistible public personas of our time, including Woody Allen, David Mamet, Ingmar Bergman, Frank Sinatra, Roseanne, Irving Berlin, Bob Hope, Mike Nichols, Wallace Shawn, Arthur Miller, and Neil LaBute. In these, and in the moving autobiographical portraits of his father, Bert Lahr, and his mother, a show more former Ziegfeld girl, Lahr charts the geography of fame. show lessTags
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John Lahr is a National Book Critics Circle Award Winner and Book Award Finalist. He is the author of eighteen books and was the senior drama critic of The New Yorker for over two decades. He lives in London.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Music, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 791.092 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
- LCC
- PN2285 .L34 — 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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