Mosquitoes and Tortoises (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

Description

Anybody can star in a motion picture, write a Tony-Award-winning play, gain fame as a great jazz pianist, promote a Sudanese rock singer, supply the words for one of America's greatest songwriters, and cause an international crisis among the United States, Soviet Union, and China. Well, ... maybe not anybody.

CONTENTS:

• Mosquitoes and Tortoises -- How to become 15-feet tall without leaving your orchestra seat.Blind Newsy Sees -- Running a newsstand can be show business, too.
• The Jazz Pianist and the Misanthrope -- Not every good boy does fine.
• The New Jugglers -- Ed Sullivan, Arthur Godfrey, and prime time modesty.
• On the Road to Big City Politics -- Jack Kerouac defeats Soviet tanks.
• Skin Deeper -- Naked nights with Ingmar Bergman.
• Balloon Man -- Sometimes short subjects aren't short enough.
• The Guy and the Doll -- Louie and Lorna put on a show.
• The Missing Times Square -- When the New York hub wasn't theater, porno houses, or Disneyland.
• At Sea -- Crossing the Atlantic for new anonymity.
• To Be and Not to Be -- Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, Sudanese rockers, and other swingers in Denmark.
• Bed and Board -- Waiting anxiously for Bette Davis.
• Provocative Sources -- All the non-news that's fit to print.
• CIA-The Secret Story -- Exposing Italy's foreign ties.
• Agents, Double Agents, and Just Double-crossers -- Expect nothing and you may be lucky enough to get it.
• Finding Direction -- When the play isn't the thing.