The Drop Dead Funny 70s

Author : Dan Lalande
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476692548

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The Drop Dead Funny '70s by Dan Lalande Pdf

This work offers a critical examination of 130 commercially-released film comedies of the 1970s. It considers the socio-political circumstances of each year of the decade, then critiques each film released that year with a focus on its effect on the film industry and the art of big screen comedy, as well as the emergence of talents whose work influenced (or was influenced by) the zeitgeist of the decade. Covering popular titles like M*A*S*H, Blazing Saddles, American Graffiti, The Bad News Bears, Smokey and the Bandit and many more, it argues that the 1970s may rightly be considered the last golden age of film comedy.

Author : Dan Lalande
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476649740

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The Drop Dead Funny '70s by Dan Lalande Pdf

This work offers a critical examination of 130 commercially-released film comedies of the 1970s. It considers the socio-political circumstances of each year of the decade, then critiques each film released that year with a focus on its effect on the film industry and the art of big screen comedy, as well as the emergence of talents whose work influenced (or was influenced by) the zeitgeist of the decade. Covering popular titles like M*A*S*H, Blazing Saddles, American Graffiti, The Bad News Bears, Smokey and the Bandit and many more, it argues that the 1970s may rightly be considered the last golden age of film comedy.

Author : Tom Danyluk
Publisher : Mad Uke Pub
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780977038305

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The Super '70s by Tom Danyluk Pdf

Set in an easy-to-read Q&A format, this volume is full of the stories and firsthand accounts from many of the men who helped shape the 1970s into one of the most exciting and memorable eras in National Football League history.

Author : Hal Kanter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015046888163

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So Far, So Funny by Hal Kanter Pdf

At 18, Hal Kanter first came to Hollywood to work as the ghost writer for a comic strip for the princely sum of $10 per week-before he was fired. It was then he heard an Eddie Cantor radio show and realized that he could write better jokes than the famed comedian's writers were providing him. Interestingly enough, Cantor's writers agreed with him, at least to some degree, and hired the brash young man to work with them on the Jack Oakie radio show. Thus was born one of the more interesting and varied careers in Hollywood. Kanter's writing career went from radio shows to screenplays to television series. Along the way he worked with such luminaries as Bob Hope, Frank Capra, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and a host of others. Awarded an Emmy for writing The George Gobel Show, he was the creator of Julia, the ground-breaking television series. Though he went on to enjoy great success as a producer and director, Kanter always considered himself, first and foremost, a writer. And just how many scripts has he written? "More than I can lift," he says.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121682905

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The Hollywood Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mike Sacks
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781101613276

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Poking a Dead Frog by Mike Sacks Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR Amy Poehler, Mel Brooks, Adam McKay, George Saunders, Bill Hader, Patton Oswalt, and many more take us deep inside the mysterious world of comedy in this fascinating, laugh-out-loud-funny book. Packed with behind-the-scenes stories—from a day in the writers’ room at The Onion to why a sketch does or doesn’t make it onto Saturday Night Live to how the BBC nearly erased the entire first season of Monty Python’s Flying Circus—Poking a Dead Frog is a must-read for comedy buffs, writers and pop culture junkies alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Fashion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133500640

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Vanity Fair by Anonim Pdf

Author : The Editor of Ben Is Dead Magazine,Darby Romeo
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0316102822

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Retro Hell by The Editor of Ben Is Dead Magazine,Darby Romeo Pdf

An alphabetical encyclopedia of 1970s and 1980s pop culture is at once a send up and celebration of the icons of the times, offering nearly one thousand entries that range from eight-tracks and Farrah Fawcett to Valley Girls and break dancing. Original.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Advertising
ISBN : CORNELL:31924083430391

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Adweek by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Chicago tribune
ISBN : UOM:39015066388581

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Chicago Tribune Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Buehlman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698146327

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The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman Pdf

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S BEST HORROR NOVEL OF THE YEAR “As much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs), Christopher Buehlman excels in twisting the familiar into newfound dread in his “genre-bending” (California Literary Review) novels. Now the acclaimed author of Those Across the River delivers his most disquieting tale yet... The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I’m stealing from you what is most truly yours and I’m not sorry... New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody—he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city’s sidewalks. The subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It’s almost too easy. Until one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him…or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were. And neither are the rest of us.

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Pdf

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : California, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133607601

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Los Angeles Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Verongos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798218221997

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My Dad is Dead by George Verongos Pdf

With one foot in memoir and the other in fiction, My Dad is Dead recounts the experiences of the author as a young boy (I always wanted to say that) growing up as the last of four children and the only boy to Greek-American parents.

Author : Rick Meyerowitz
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781683357674

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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead by Rick Meyerowitz Pdf

Reprints and reminiscences from the magazine’s first decade: “Fun to flip through . . . Where would American humor be without the National Lampoon?”—The New Yorker From its first issue in April 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors of its first electrifying decade to gather their most revealing and outrageous stories. The result is a mind-boggling tour through the early days of an institution whose alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture: Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living Color, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons—even Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its ranks. This is the story of a band of young talents who “irrevocably rewrote the landscape of American humor” (Publishers Weekly). “A vivid picture of a tight-knit family of twentysomething humorists at the dawn of their careers.” —Newsweek "The other night I started laughing so hard I had to leave the room . . . And then I realized that I hadn’t laughed so hard in 35 years, since I was a teenager, reading National Lampoon.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you grew up with the Lampoon, this book is a trip down memory lane like no other; if not, it will demonstrate that the much maligned 70s could produce humor that has never been surpassed.” —Vanity Fair