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Right Here on Our Stage Tonight! : Ed Sullivan's America /

Before the advent of cable and its hundreds of channels, before iPods and the Internet, three television networks ruled America's evenings. And for twenty-three years, Ed Sullivan, the Broadway gossip columnist turned awkward emcee, ruled Sunday nights. It was Sullivan's genius to take a w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nachman, Gerald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Out of the Paley-ozoic ooze
  • Battle of the Videoville titans-Berle, Godfrey, and Sullivan
  • A live Broadway column every Sunday night
  • The $375 extravaganza
  • Very critical condition
  • The magic of sullivision
  • From small-town sportswriter to Manhattan sport
  • He's just an ink-stained Broadway baby
  • Toast of the nation
  • It's the world, on line one
  • Sacred Sunday rite
  • Not quite all in the family
  • Extended family
  • Herding comedians
  • Backstage life (and death)
  • Give my regards to La Scala
  • Elvis has entered the building
  • Newspaper wads at fifty paces-a few off-camera feuds
  • Embracing Blacks, caving in to McCarthyism
  • The son-in-law also rises
  • "And now-the Beatles!"
  • The showman without a country
  • Echoes and afterimages.