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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nachman, Gerald
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 worn-out stage genre-vaudeville-and transform it into the TV variety show, a format that was to dominate for decades. Right Here on Our Stage Tonight! tells the complete saga of The Ed Sullivan Show and, through the voices of some 60 stars interviewed for the book, brings to life the most beloved, diverse, mul.
Physical Description:1 online resource (472 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780520944862