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The Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays with the People Who Make Them
The Spectator Talk About Movies and Plays with the People Who Make Them Author:Studs Terkel, Garry Wills The Pulitzer Prize-winner talks to masters of stage and screen in "Terkel's latest richly entertaining oral history" (Publishers Weekly), now in paperback. The Spectator collects Studs Terkel's "knowledgeable and perceptive" (Library Journal) interviews with some of the greatest luminaries of film and theater. This "disarmin... more »g, invigorating look at show biz" (Publishers Weekly) presents the actors, directors, playwrights, dancers, lyricists, and others who have created the dramatic works of the past half-century. These include Buster Keaton, Francois Truffaut, Carol Channing, Tennessee Williams, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pauline Kael, and Ian McKellen. And, because Studs knows his subjects' work intimately, he asks precisely the questions that elicit the most revealing responses. These are frank, funny, often moving, always surprising dialogues. As Roger Ebert says, "No one else captures conversation the way Terkel does."« less