Faces In The Crowd Musicians, Writers, Actors, And Filmmakers

, by Giddins, Gary

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ISBN: 9780306807053 | 030680705X
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Copyright: 8/22/1996

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Thirty-seven profiles of major figures in the culture of our century.

Gary Giddins is a columnist for the Village Voice and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Visions of Jazz. He is also the author of a biography of Bing Crosby. His work has won numerous prizes, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, five ASCAP-Deems Taylor awards, and an American Book Award. He lives in New York City.

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"This Guy Wouldn't Give You the Parsley off His Fish" [Jack Benny]	p. 3
The 100 Years of Irving Berlin	p. 14
Sometimes He Wondered [Hoagy Carmichael]	p. 25
Prince Charmless [Samuel Goldwyn]	p. 29
Perfect [Myrna Loy]	p. 34
Birdman of Hollywood [Clint Eastwood]	p. 39
Spiked Jazz [Spike Lee]	p. 52
Buffalo Bob and the Van Goghs [Robert Altman]	p. 59
Divas
Lady Gets Her Due [Billie Holiday]	p. 65
First Lady [Ella Fitzgerald]	p. 71
A Starr Is Reborn [Kay Starr]	p. 77
The Once and Future Queen [Dinah Washington]	p. 87
Divine [Sarah Vaughan]	p. 93
Players
Satchmo's Nursery [Louis Armstrong]	p. 103
King of the Savoy [Chick Webb]	p. 111
The Mirror of Swing [Benny Goodman]	p. 117
Ghost Stories [Larry Adler]	p. 126
The Wizard of Bop [Frank Morgan]	p. 135
Of Thad and Mel [Thad Jones and Mel Lewis]	p. 141
Juilliard Dropout Makes Good [Miles Davis]	p. 151
Giant Walks the Earth [Sonny Rollins]	p. 164
Dizzy like a Fox [Dizzy Gillespie]	p. 176
Writers
Hard-boiled [James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Elmore Leonard]	p. 191
The Jilting of Katherine Anne Porter	p. 211
Vald the Impaler [Vladimir Nabokov]	p. 218
A Face in the Crowd [Elias Canetti]	p. 224
Scat Song [Kurt Vonnegut]	p. 232
Zuckerman Strikes Back [Philip Roth]	p. 237
Senses and Sensibility [Eudora Welty]	p. 245
Appendectomy [William Faulkner]	p. 249
Fathers and Son [Martin Williams, Whitney Balliett, Gunther Schuller]	p. 256
Index	p. 267
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