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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2009.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.